Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-16
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Aurora Mardlganlan III AUCTION
of Souls" the photodrama OF the ia.
nous book, "Ravished Armenia.
opened at the Boyd last evening, ap-
pearing i'll Omaha at popular prices
following its recent showing tor
charity's sake in the east at prices
ranging as high as $40 seat. Moth
ing has been omitted from this
screen epic to make the story of the
prosecutions of the Armenian people
a vivid and realistic picture and to
bring to the mind of all audience
the almost unbelievable actions OF
the Turks and Kurds in their treat
ment of hundreds of thousands OF
these people. More than 5000 peo-
pie were employed in the making OF
the picture.
The story of Aurora Mardiganian,
young Armenian girl OF great
beauty, is told as a vivid incident be-
fore the bloody background OF hor-
rors which has been the fate OF the
Armenian people, in Auction OF
Souls" She is taken from her own
home, after vain efforts to force her
to marry Turk, and driven into the
desert with the thousands who were
evicted from Armenia in 1915.
Her parents killed, her brothers
and sisters brutally treated by the
Turks, and her friends on every side
falling from fatigue, thirst, hunger
and the whip of the Mohammedan,
she marches on into the burning
sands befriended only by splendid
English girl, Miss Graham, and pro-
tected. when he is able, by an Ar
menian shepherd, who loves her.
She escapes and is recaptured re-
peatedly, spending almost two years
of fearful suffering, to be rescued
only after having been repeatedly
bartered and sold as a slave, and
kept for a time in a harem, or in
the iniquitous rendevouz of her lust
full masters, to. come to America and
tell her story.
Miss Mardiganian herself expert
enced two years of persecution and
slavery before escaping and coming
to America.
"Cowardice Court" is one of the
best known of George Barr Nc
Cutcheon's many books and the pho
toplay of the same name, which has
just been released by William Fox
is one of the best pictures Peggy
Hyland has done. 1t was shown last
night at the Sun theater to the very
evident delight of a capacity audi
ence.
The story concerns feud between
two well-to-do families which have
neighboring estates in the Adlron-
dacks! The fight reaches the shot
gun stage, and the hotter it becomes
the more closely together are
drawn a young man and young
woman, members of the rival fac
tons. Finally the young woman is
put out of her home because of
her lack of sympathy with her own
family The play is replete with
comedy and thrills.
Strand-"You're Fired" with Wal
lace Reid in the leading role, the
current attraction at the Strand for
the first three days of the week is
one of the cleanest comedies that
has shown at that theater in long
time. He takes the part of Billy
Deerig. who has so much money
that all he has time to do is to
make love to Helen Rogers, much
to the disgust of her crusty old ia
Their. The father finally agrees to
withdraw his objections providing
Billy can get job and hold it for
month. The fact that Helen is
not to know anything about the
agreement adds complications to the
matter. Billy gets several jobs, but
keeps his agreement by quitting each
one, and getting a signed state
ment from his employers just be-
fore he is due to get fired. The