her and make her her a legi- THE MOST PATHETIC -he auspices of the American Commit- r aarry t imate wife, if she would renounce AMBASSADRESS IN HISTORY -ee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, make its in all t he Christian religion and adopt that has wvill soon appearance time she All the world outside of Turkey he principal cities of the United c f Mohammed. For a long sympathy and it has varying degrees' States. eliberated, before answering. of wrath for one of the greatest The showing of this marvelous film "I cannot decide until I have talk- MAKING STYLE PRACI torture and me crimes in history-the s in w9h the work of the e d to mother. her to of! connection my Bring murder of hundreds of thousands ommittee and their attempt to save. nd let me talk to her. If she tells itself has N Kirschbaum has been Armenians-yet the tragedy rom starvation the 3,950,000 sufferers r ie it is right to renounce the Chris- styles,there a of our remained remote. n the Near East. It will visualize t ian religion, I will do so. If she willing observance govern- To bring nearer' a sense of its hor- For the people of America the story of s ays no, then I will not renounce it ment's rules for saving wool.... threat- rors to arouse, not merely indignation he tragic suffering of the people of a nd you may kill me as you But while the yardage is kept to a but active sympathy, a girl came to Armenia during these past years of,, n." minimum, there is not the slightest a of the help- film America, personification :he war. The first release of the The mother and the sister and the hint of skimping or pinching.... lessbeaeuty and innocence upon which xvill be made in connection with the: rothers of Aurora Mardiganian, with The fine talent of Kirschbaum de- the brutal Turk has been inflicting the ;ommittee's drive for $30,000,000 Jan. t hexcection of the older brother- has been to do a most terrible indignities, outrages, L2 to 19. ere brought to the little town where signers employed in do and suffering anywhere recorded "Ravished Armenia" is a film play .urora was a captive. The scene that patriotic and essential thing-to this 1man annals. hat was produced by masters in the c epicts the temporary uniting of it in a graceful and becoming way. Her name is Aurora Marignanian. ;creen from a scenario by Nora Wain. I art of the Mardiganian family is one She is one of the Christian girls who rhe cast includes some of the most t ense with emotion. lothes survived the massacres of the Ar-. Famous stars. The staging was per- When Aurora told her mother the g(Irschhaum mver iaps as elaborate as tha of any photo- roposition, of Kehmal Effendi, the $1541750-3Q UP TO $5O .Sil.,r- she is the most pathetic am- play in recent years. The story of iother shrieked her -answer: around bassadress in history. 'Ravished Armenia" is bulit "No! No! Do not give up your This girl is 1.7, who pleads for a :he story of Aurora Mardiganian, who eligion." I will not away it wonderful- nartyre people, go lays a part-and plays The words hardly had come from Its benevolent activi- because her role in his play empty-handed. Lywell, er mouth when the Turkish murder- D.V.WALKER & CO- ties will cover America. No "drive" s not acting; it is vividly re-living s, acting under orders from Kehmel ever more,thrillingly'touched the heart some of the tragic incidents of her beat the mother to death be- of a fendi, strings and the purse strings ife. ore Aurora's eyes. A younger broth- its real in the nation. The story has opening r of Aurora, witnessing the scene Behind the American Committee Little Armenian town of T- hmesh- nd made hysterical by the horror of for Armenian and relief Wvhich where Aurora Syrian jedzak, MaLUganian ,started to run away. A Turk with a movement she the is conducting nation-wide Nas born and where spent long bull whip swung it at the boy to raise a great fund are names of irst fourteen years of her life in com- rith merciless precision. The huge, former President Taft, former am- .arative happiness. Her father was harp lash cracked around the .head bassador to Turkey Morganthau, Chas. prosperous merchant in the little f the boy and fractured his skull. He E. Huges, Cardinal Gibbons, Bishop ity that had its origin 800 years be- Attered-then fell dead. Greer, Rabbi Wise, Cleveland H. i. ore the Christian era. The older sister of Aurora Mardi- Coyriht, 1918, A. B. irschbaum Co Dodge, and many other prominent Aurora, a remarkably pretty child, anian incurred the displeaesure of L. Barton is chair- into Americans. James ylossomed eaerly girlhood, and, he Turks and was thrown over a its as the man. The committee and helpers itthe age of 14, was regarded c liff and on That of the impaled bayonets. are working in full reclization >elle of the village. To every girl ras a form of torture occa- death-dealing stupendous calamity which has ;uch a distinction usually brings hap- rhich the Turks indulged in when and the dread dan-, But to Au- sioned its labors iness and armiration. andling "stubborn women-" a bit ger that lurks in the situation it is -ora Maridgination it brought misfor- f fiendishness that seemed to al- give seeking'to meet. ;une and eventual suffering that iem extreme pleasure. mittee. nost beggar description. "Ravished Armenian" then carries method of con-, A new and thrilling Passet Pacha, ruler of Techmesh- n to the time when Aurora Mardiga- Adrora Mar- one y 3edzak, saw Aurora Mardiganian ian was placed in prison. A shep- has been taken by the com- at onse there came: PCIA NOTICE digannian lay in 1915-and erd who came discovered her little along mittee. :ohim the desire to add this light and at the risk of his own life, Aurora's story, and that of the Ar-. 1hristian girl to his harem. He went berated her. Freed at last, Aurora menian massacres and deportations ;othe father of Aurora and made- to from Turkey,but have been elabor- ttempted escape which she witnesser, mown his base desire. The father, 'V -here could she go? ately filmed and the tremendous spec-' refused. On Jan.1,1919, were after ighast, The cities peopled by Turks; and will be in the tacle soon, presented "I want your daughter-and I shall t iey ruled in the villages; the Turks this leading cities of country. iave her" was the parting remark of ere e'verywhere-but in the vast Sy- of "Ravish- It is the complete story Paset Pacha. r ian desert. And into this arid waste ed Armenia." Just about this time the official edict t is little Christian girl wandered, we postively will not the scenes of the Linking stupend- vas published which ruled that evern ,ere to live for nearly a year, sus- a tra-' ous dramatization of national Armenian on Turkish soil should be ining life shrubs, grass of the :t by eating gedy is.the personal narrative leported. It was an order that ev- roots. She walked more than z:houlders has 1 nd girl upon whose slendLA ry minor Turkish official proceeded 400 miles in her wanderings and,when sen out on been thrust the tremendous re-ponsi- Itl approva. ;oobey with fiendish thoroughness. :a t last she from the desert, of her emerged bility of saving millions peo- neaent that there had come to all of ate ruled that it was to be at a point pile from starvation and death. hese officials governmental sanction 'herean army of Russian troops were Aurora Mardiganian lived through killall Armenians, loot their homes Turkish enslavement-, ncampjed. Ready4 three years and ravish theire any avage their towns Practicallyinaked, emact ofs ew women 'lfthethis- avage their towns and ravish their depoint of death from her suffer- tioryfothe world have suffered. Death women. 1g,Aurora Mardiganian stumbled in- confronted her time and again-and And to no other Turkish ojcial there fell exhausted. a didt camp-and ments. in a dozen different forms. Only edicthe appeal as a greater source of indly Russians cared for her and *miracle could save her. And yet, each thanoy to Passet Pacha. Ordering t aecommander of the army, a mem- ier_ time, that miracle~was wrought. It ussoldiers t oseize the father and the b erof the Imperial House of Rus- seems as if some h';her power had ldestbrother of Aurora Mardiganian', ia,listened to her story. Soon af- destined her to live so that she might ;hisojcial at once ordered them taken rward Aurora, through the kindly come to America and make her -e- Lway. The parting of the Mardigan- ifluence of the Russians, was brought markable appeael for help for theK an family farms one of the most pa- itocontact with Gen. Andranik, the people of her race. ~hetic scenes in "Ravished Armenia." reat Armenian patriot. Aurora the only wo- ruth- S Mardiganian, ['hefather and his oldest son are had lis- WALKER' When General Andranik *man~who ever escaped from the clutch- essly taken from their families-and nedto the full recital of Aurora es of the Turks, same to this coun- ;heparting perhaps is forever. It [ardiganian's story, he said to her: try not for the selfish purpose of es- s more than three years since this in- all the was. "My little girl, you, among --caping further torture. Her visit ~ident took place and Aurora has de-. 'omen of Armenian are destined to a mission-perhaps the most respon- ded every possible enerby in an ef- a ctasits savior. You have lived thro' sible a woman ever was a,sked to rep- *ort to get trace of her father and xperiences such as no women has resent. This frail, delicate girl of 17, >lderbrother.e verendured before. Go to America samae as the unofficial ambassadress of.: No sooner had the father of Auroraa ndtell them there how we have suf- 4,000,000 people with this pathetic ardiganian been whisked away than red. Tell them your story and per- message: he, her mother, her older sister and h apsthe generous hearts of Ameri- "Armenian needs your help as nev-. ounger brothers were seized and inswill open and they will send us h er before in all its tragic history." nadea part of Passet Pacha's band. elpbefore our race is completely ef- And then Aurora Mar iiganian told; rheTurkish leader and his men, af- icedfrom the earth." A NN OlCEMENT of1 the story of her life-an
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