Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A Great Film at the PRINCESS THEATRE Monday, August 18 Thii most astounding presentation ot facte was produced by Col. W.N. Selig for the National Motion Picture Comm. of the American Comm, for Relief in the Near East and Hitherto shown to Adults only at SIO.OO per seat In the Ritz-Carleton, New York; Bellevue-Stratford, Philadelphia; Blackatone Hotel, Chicago and Symphony Hall, Boston, for the benefit of the Armenian Relief Committee Now Released for Public Exhibition at Popular Prices. It presents the pictured true story off the sole survivor of half a million Armenian Girls AURORA MARDIGANIAN, hersalf She ia the Armenian beauty who escaped to Afherica after two years of unspeakable adventures in the hands of Kurdish Raiders, Slave Markets and Turkish Harems. Although the newspapers have given her story pages of space the National Committee chose the serpen as the most vivid medium of bringing heme to the American people what their Christian sisters endured in ravished Armenia. The resultant screen epic has been truly called “Auction of Souls” From the booK. *'*Ra%Jijhed Armenia** * « which is Aurora Mardiganian's own story substantiated by facts from official reports of Viscount Bryce, the British Investigator, Henry Morgenthau, the American Ambassador and the American Board of Foreign Missions. Thousands of People. Facts not Fiction Pre«» Comment Mrs Oliver Harriman in “Harper’s Bazaar"—With a courage paat belief, Aurora threw herself into * ■ the part of motion picture heroine in her own life history. For the / sake of the love* she bears her peoi pie, this young girl lived over again all the horrors of those years of deportation and hunger and misery worse than death. From the New York Sunday American —This girl (Aurora Mardiganian) who had been held capI tlve in the harems of the wealthy • ’ l ' urkß , had been dragged to the 1 tents of wild Kurdish chiefs, who I had been carried off Into captivity, I slung on the saddle of an .Arab \ raider, who had been purchased by BrSßoTwWga B lave dealer and sold on the aucti<>n bl ° Ck tO thC hlgh®Bt bidder. /.I \ j I, ARAiWpßg* 1 This sensational scene in the film shows what happened to Christian women In the hailds off Kurdish Slave Raiders ADMISSION MAtlNEE:—Adults 25c, war tax 3c, 28c. Children 150, war tax 2c, 170