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re rn8t a = N the raputtrewn party reform!” aske a writer, ay atl to happen to it pretty soon—reformation, def rge dose of information. CARRIE WEBBER IN “BUSY {ZZY,” SEATTLE SkeKKKA Te RKRE RET AT THE THEATRES Lambardi Opera * by Myrtle Vane. * * * pect % Metropolitan—Dark. * # Seattie—Dave Lewis, in “Don't % Lie to Your Wife.” & Lois—"La Tosca.” % Orpheum—Vaudeville. %& Pantages—Vaudeville. Vaudeville, % Empress— %* Grand—Vandeville and motion ® ~=pictures. SRST ESE REESE RRRKKKARRKKRKKRKE * * % MADAME BUTTERFLY. * * * Raearnaeenerekeese ‘The tragedy of a human heart— that’s the story in “Madame But- "And Deanette Alvina, with seeks * * the melodic beauty of her votce and | her superb nga as Era ee the truth, which Lieu Pikerton of the U. 8. army in the lyric drama fa!!ed to grasp, that human emotions are the same the over. A broken heart may come into the life of a Japanese as it sometimes comes into lives of Americans—that’s the of Madame Butterfly. Dea- Alvina tells it that sweet soprano of hers. pathos necessarily involved in revelation to a loving and trust heart, that the object of its a! fections had treated his Japanese e as trivial, as @ toy, and|surpassable when it comes to pyra-|be one of the featu splendidly to the great scene in the third act. Little Gertrude Mand Allen, a Seattle girl, 5 years old, made her bow for the first time on the stage, as the child of the truant leuten ant and his Japanese sweetheart, and she showed intense interest in the rather important work that fell to her. “Madame Butterfly” will be re-| peated Sunday night. This after noon, “I! Trovatore” will be given. and tonight, Alvina will be heard again in “Thais. dadedinddadidndndedaiadied * BUSY IZZY * REERKHERRAKKHE ‘Theatregoers will have two more opportunities to see George Sidney and his company in “Busy Izzy” at the Seattle theatre, as they return for two performances only, tomor e * * yow matinee and tomorrow night. This musical and comedy offering made a big hit. | Sri ima dina liad x * “THE CHAPERON” * as * * * Kkkhhkn hhh “The Chaperon,” a distinct sue cess of Maxine Eliott,” has been secured for Myrtle Vane and her company for presentation during Christmas week at the Lois thea- tre: “The Chaperon” has not been seen in Seattle. a PENS EM * AT THE Lois * BERNER Beginning tomorrow matinee Myrtle Vane and her company will present for the second week of their engagement at the Lois thea- tre a production of “Carmen” dramatized by Miss Vane herself from Prosper Merrime’s famous romance of old Spain. the coquette is known fo the world of literature, opera and drama, and in each of these * * * * Bnew she has filled an enviable nd | eloquently | * ! After achieving a@ real success in “La Tosca” as |their bill, it is but natural to ex- something fully wp to that high standard in the coming of “Carmen.” SERERE SEETHER EH ED * * AT THE EMPRESS * * « leek etheeeeeene The second road show of the sea son of 1911-12 over the Sullivan & | Considine cireult will be on tap at |the Empress during the coming week, with Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy presenting the domestic comedy, “Clancy's Ghost,” as the headline attraction. Lew Hawkins. who has been here before, will be seen in new biack-face stuff. An jother importation is the Malvern, troupe of five acrobats. A trio of young girls called The Three Dis- cons will be seen in fancy dances Paul Stephens, an equilibrist, will Present some pole balancing and wire walking. Rekha hhahhhae * AT THE PANTAGES * @ SURE ERE RHE ES Abou Hamad’s nine Arabs are the bright, particular feature of he new bill at Pantages opening | Monday afternoon. They are un ¥ |The Dutch in China.” THE SEAT MRS. MARK MURPHY, EMPRESS place. The name role will be taken , An added attraction next week will be Frank Rutledge and company, including pretty Grace Bainbridge, in the comedy playlet, “Our Wife.” The song and patter end of the new program will be in the hands of | Billy Nobles, “The Dixie Roy,” and) Jeanne Brooks, “The Girl With the | Smile.” Other numbers are Mile, La Feydia, who will present her| “transparent art creatio and Reiff, Clayton and Keiff, singers and dancers. RARER A ARR * * + * * AT THE ORPHEUM * eee eee ee Girl acts being the popular ery the Orpheum is avoring to sup. ply the wants of the public gener ally by supplying girl acts, Dick Crotius will headline the offering for the coming week, while Wil Roehm’s Athletic Girls will be the traction, Croling ts «| The Athletic Girts, five in all, give an exhibition of boxing, fencing and wrestling. George Carson and Jake Willard | | will present a bit of German called Ethel Me- | whose gowns are said to nedienne who | years with the Boston Fadettes as the little drummer gir! Monroe Hopkins and Lola Axtelle have a littl offering Hed “Trav. | eling.” “Color Phot phy” Loa Dur-| YOU'LL FIND IT HERE NEWS OF THE DAY CONDENSED FOR BUsY Portsmouth, N, M.—Rather than marry without a clear conscience; Samuel! Grossman will serve a year in the naval prison here, having rod himself as a navalde Marblehead, Forrest, flying as a p Burg biplane, killed a duck with a shotgun, The hydroplane landed in the water and picked up the dead bird. Rivers and Harbora committee of the Chamber of Commerce ma a proposition to the port commission yesterday that Instead of permitting | the expenditure of the entire har: | bor bond issue of $350,000 for a nite | on the Duwamish river, that the | amount be epent in improvements of Harbor island. Mra. Katherine Ross, widow of Rey. Donald Ross, ix dead, She ts survived by a daughter and a son. both of this elty, and a granddaugh ter in Spokane. to the Grand Lodge rv of Golden Wert, a new ernity claiming Seattle as ite , elected the following Grand lodew offleers: Grand commander Dr. L. Charles Neville com. mander, William W fi | nancial a etary recording ® vice Holland; ree F. Jacob ary, ©. D, Ban | F, Chariton, eee ee ee ee ee * P. B. Van Trump, who, with # | Gen. Hazard Stevens, made the # first suceersful a mt of Mt, #! incidents of his trip ata meet: ing of the Mountaineers at the # New Chamber of Commerce. seeeeeeees * * SPREE EEE EE EHS Chieago—Women of Tracy, a ‘|Operation on | Payne Whitney and Mri |The government su-| today formally began its investiga TLE STAR Guggenbet Big Busines man in the ate, has bearen the voters of Gul orado a full two yea: He told them just the other day that he w ing to retire from the senate in 1913, because of “bust ness reasons” They bave been) expecting to re Ure him in 1918, becau of big business rea: Guggenheim. (FROM ADDRES: f= Vanderbilt {RY PRited Press eased wire) | NEW YORK, Dec, 16,—Cornelins Vanderbilt today waderwent an op-| j eration for appendicitis at bis home | here, and at noon Dr, Austin Flint} issued a bulletin to the effect that | | the work of the surgeons had been nuccesaful, Mra Cornelius Vanderbilt, the! patient's two sisters—Mra. Harry Eli Bay-| Reginald, | when the operation Hee—and bis brother, were present Rainior 41 years ago, related * | was undertaken, PROBE EXPLOSION BRICEVILLE, Tenn, Dec, 16. life-saving crew burb, who have been carrying re-| tion to determine the cause of the volvers for protection against thugs, today organized @ shooting | mi gallery for practice. With the varsity gymnasium = in gala colors last night 300 cou ples | danced and made merry at the an pual ball in honor of the gridiron | heroes, who brought & fourth con secutive champlonship to Wash ington this year, One of the | day: are thought to be in the rear gal-|Tector of the Schmidlapp fund for @ counter complaint asking for the explosion in the Crous Mountain », from which sixty-seven bodies ad been recovered up to noon to-| At least twenty more corpses | leries, BOMBS FOR GRAND TURKS CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 16.~| Clockwork bombs were discovered today in the offices of the Grand | Viater and the minister of war, Fol most important lee | Hamid aro believed to be respon: | re of the deposed sultan Abdul turer of the free series on dairying | gible. | being delivered in connection with) - the agrienttu C. A. will be an address tonight by L. W. Hanson, deputy ae inspector, on “Foods and nag | for the Dairy Herd.” | This lecture will be fastened! by stereopticon views, Mr. Hanson | having bad a number of alides made | purposely for this lecture. | ers away from the army grapbd “Little Mc” found that some | leaks had oe curred and that the confederates were entirely too well advised | as to the feder als’ plans. So be ordered that no one should be allowed to remain within hear ing of the military telegraph sounder except the operator and the regularly authorized officers. Milan, ttaly—Mile, Gamelli, form. | er fiance of Caruso, the singer, has been acquitted of slandering the song bird. It is said Caruso paid her $10,000 to withdraw her breach of promise suit will} - New York — Some miscreant id formations of a sensational |byelle is the only woman shadow-\turned on the gas in Mrs. Barah inature and whirlwind tumblin, Str Holding that a divorce does not begin to date until the written de cree is filed in the office of the | county clerk, Judge Dykeman | terday handed down a decision that will cause consternation in hun | dreds of homes in Washington. Under Washington laws, a di vorced person is not permitted to |remarry within six months after |the divorce. Judge Dykeman, in the case of Hattie T. Fezler against Walter B. ‘ezler, ruled that this means from the date of filing the | decree and not from the date when | the divorce is granted in open court Rockefeller Deer Races Train for Six Miles Before Killed A 400-pound buck that strayed |from the William Rockefeller es tate raced in front of a New York Central milk train six miles The locomotive finally overtook it and killed it Cat’s Curiosity Around Basket of Clams Causes Blindness Feeney, a cat owned by Deputy City Clerk Joseph O'Grady of | Tompkinsville, §. L, went to inves. tigate the contents of a basket of \clams presented to O'Grady. The cat was rewarded with two eyesful of the salt water that a clam ejects, and will be blind for weeks, Goose Is in Li White Hope of Feathered Suffcaget! Doll, the largest Arctic goo: captivity, whipped a black swan, a white pelican and the biggest stork iu the Central park, New York, menagerie. ‘The vanquished had been put in the flying cage because they had | tet ange Decision May Annul Many Marriages In the Fezler ca: arriage | took place 14 mo th dab vores decr | Was not filed until ten months | In the meantime Fezler remarried Mrs. Fezler was granted an annul ment of marria on the ground of ilegality of the marriage as having occurred within the prohibited six months. Similarly, there are probably hundreds of marriages in Washing ton that are invalid according to Judge Dykeman. Lawyers frequent ly fall to file the divorce decree ‘wptil their fees are paid. THE SEATTLE STAR’S Z00 |become quarrelsome. Doll soon took the pugnacity out of all of them. The pelican had previously whipped a vulture and a bald eagle | Wildeat Kilts Dog and Fights | Man in Jersey Suburb | A wildcat attacked John Bodine jot Livingston, N. J., near Glen Ridge, and was in turn attacked by Bodine’s coach dor The wildeat killed the dog and climbed to the top of a tree, but by the time Bodine got a gun it jhad disappeared Dog Finds Lost Roll After Many Months and Returns It Duke, an Engli iIidog belong ing to W. W. Be of Mount Ver non, N, ¥., brought in a $5 and a $2 bill and placed them in Mrs Seeley's lap. He was trailed to the cellar, |where, behind some sereens, a purse containing $10 in small bills that had disappeared last summer was found. The family hag't been able to decide whether Duke is an embezzler or a retriever | Creel Payne's bird and fish store and killed more than 700 birds, gold fish and white mice, | New York—Samuel Best, 78, a retired fire department captain, saw a fire across the street from his home, and dropped dead from | the excitement | SANTA BARBARA, Cal., De After reporing in a vault here three months the body of Mra, Juan | wife of a multimillionaire }banker and land owner of Mexico, | who is a brother of Former Ambas sador Enrique Creel, was taken tn | ja special car today to Chihuahua, | Mexico, where it will be placed in the family mausoleum, RUSSIA'S LATEST r RSBURG, Dec, 16. Claiming that many American Jews are anarchists and revolutionists, the Russian government announced |today a new pretext for keeping them out of Russia, The coming of the Jews, armed with passpo: and the right to claim consular aid, it 1s claimed, endangers the pobiie peace and would cause diplomatic friction and serious aggravation of Russo- American relations. | BACK TO PEN (By United Press Leased Wire) | TACOMA, Dec. 16.—Confessing to | several hold-ups, including the sticl | up of a at Grimm, ex the will go back to conductor, H. M.| He was sentenced to from five to| ten years at hard labor yesterday THE STEVENS CAFE } First Ave. and Marion St. Resides their celebrated 2he weekday dinners, will serve a full-course turkey dinner Sun day, from 12 to § p. m., at Soe. Grrice wouns ose me Bonners 6 rere wr oy Me ang 4% o# or wee ad 1 ta? Men neCLES “The fussiness of woman's attire is keeping her back a hundred years in her progress in business life, while her extravagant headgear is keeping he: housand years,” said Mi Edith ¢ pbell of the Cincinnati sehool board, in Seattle today. “A woman's manner, her courte. sy and her mode of dress are great factors in achieving success,” ex plained Miss Campbell, who, as di girls, has had wide opportunities to observe the requirements necessary | and desertion. in @ successful business woman. | | divoree made by Capt |ford to the effect that his wife re- j “It is necessary that a girl should | look well when going about her work; in fact, she must look her very best, and to do this she should give considerable time to the problem of dress. “When she has found out what thought |constracted on the hill. 1 Kh RK ADEM fa thé fleet In the Washington sp manent frill ‘Hat Has Kept Woman Back 1,000 Years and Dress 100 BY Mi66 EDITH CAMPBELL Wh ON THE POWDER, <—Wk On THE ROVEE — 98 on The wAeHINES S48 08 Te necniace 04 ON The penoanr Fh OW The cow Necy SM OF The ae swenes <0 ON THE Phin bs C OWN SK On TRO BHOWT SM On the woe <7 Oe ves CLoves OW The aaAeeL er » of dress I» most becoming to her she should stick to it and not vary it with every change of fash ton ‘Simplicity should be the keynote ot her attire, and short sleeves, low neck and la trimmed waists should be abandoned ‘ Iry should be worn, and, paint and powder should be tabooed If girls would not wear castoft party finery in the morning to work, but wear a simple, freshly laundered shirtwaist, they would realize that half the battle was won, Can Copy Men. #8 one has to think of the io give to business, en should eliminate the problem of dress by sticking to one simple style, as the men have. “We can copy them fn that par tieular at least.” Answering the allegations for a H. W. Stam- fused to follow him from Fort; Meyer, Va, in 1903, when he was transferred to another post, Mrs. Edith W. Stamford yesterday filed divoree on the ground of cruelty | At a mass meeting of Queen Anne Hill residents the majority | chose Queen Anne ay, and Garfield st. for the site of the Mbrary to be| Carnegie jetant secretary of state, has to Khow & BEAUTY DOCTOR IS BEATEN UP TACOMA, Dee, 16. rants arg out today for Mrs. Norah O'Malley, scrub woman, for beat Mra. Marie ‘tnd Attorn the courthouse steps. Mrs, Purcell suspected the seruly woman of taking some things from her apartments, and sent tective around, Mra. O'Malle clared, to w hb the O' Malle The serub nm sued M ing beauty doctor Whitn oi will give $36,000 towards the erec tion of the building. soit Does Advertising in The Star Pay? MR. ADVERTISER, READ THIS: Wain 7218 REGAL DENTAL OFEICES 1403 3np AvervuE SEATTLE pecenver,5,1911., Ur. W. Abbey, Advertising Manager, The Seattle Star, Dear sir: economicaliy in the St City. or effectively. the past, I am, Yours truly, GL re Ever since etarting in business in Seattle, I will find hic money .well and profitably invested; Manager Regal Dental for trespass, but wher went against her, took it other woman and her att Purcell says — Ihe Comtorter BERTON BRALEY Mother, Mother, Mother I'm @ man full grown And I thought 1 didn't need you, I could stand alone, But the fight has been too crue And the whole world’s blue And—Mother, Mother I have need of you! the ef t on: the cy, Mr, Mother, I want your hands to soothe mo As they always can, I want your voice to still me Though your boy's a man, I want to find you waiting As you used to do, For Mother, Mother, I have need of you! Mother, My love has Jed to sorrow And my trust was vain, And I've tasted bitter failure And I've known deep pain; I've tried to bear them bravely As a man should do, But ob my Mother, Mother, I have need of yout { want to sob my story At your aproned knee, And to feel your fingers tremble ‘As they comfort me. 1 am spent and sick and weary And my heart aches, too, And oh my Mother, Mother, I have need of you! SPOKANE, Dec. 16—The crime wave in Spokane apparently has passed, according to the police to- day. It is believed that the threat of Chief of Police Doust, coupled with the fact that hundreds of citi- zens have armed themselves fn the last four days, caused the sudden cessation of hold-ups and murders here. I believe that you will be interested to know of the excellent returns that [ have had from advertising in the Star, have been ® refuler and persistent user of newspmer‘space as I realize fully that by no other means can I get before the public so Of sll tha nowspaper space that I have used during that time, I can say.without exagreration thatthe Star has mid me by far the best.As a result of this I amet the present time, spends ing by fer the greater part of my advertising appropriation Wy exp-rience hos lead me to believe that 1f an advertiser haz a propositicn of merit, and backs up his advertising, ef I have gone, and will use the Star intelligently and persistently , he Trusting that my relations with your paper will continue to be as pleasens and profiteble in the future, es they have been in fhe Offices.