The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1912, Page 8

lection 1s OVER Begins Tomorrow With the NEW SHOW at the GRAND OPERA HOUSE ‘Third and Cherry. 3 Big Acts 3 —4— per oa The “SPLIT WEEK" All New Acts and Meek Trunk & Bag Co., Inc TRUNKS AND SUIT CASES We jegneiacture odr own goods here in Seattle ani Sell them at 921 First Av.. cor- ner Madison. M. $82; Ind. 1655. ih” —AT THE— Moore Theatre Saturday Evening MARCH NINTH Third Annual Minstrels —Given by. Y.M.C.A. BOYS For the Benefit of Their Departmen: Up -to-the-Minute Ballads, Rage, Skits and Ske Cracks and Gage—A Big Old-Time Favorites < Young Again-—The Last Wo in the Newest Minstrelsy. RESERVE YOUR SRAT EARLY and Get im the Glare of “THE GREEN LIGHT” Tickets on sale at the e Theatre Box Of- LOUISE GUNNING “The jalka we inesday Tuneful, witty and full of action is “The Prince of Tonight,” the moasica! fantasy in which Henry Woodruff wil! appear at the Moore theatre, for an engagement of three nichts, beginning tomorrow night. The story ix that of a buoy-) ant college youth, oceupying a posts|" * ** && eee ee eee ww | before, will again be seen during! tion as life saver at “The Break-| ers,” who stumbles into the world of maxic and becomes prince of} the mythical land of Lunitania. His} }reign is to endure for the one night, at the expiration of which he is to die unless he is voluntarily kissed by the girl he loves. Of course, the famous song-hit, “I Wonder Who's ‘Kissing Her Now,” as originally |S#ang by Mr. Woodruff and the male foetette, is still a feature, and other popular songs are “Her Eyes Are | Biue for Good Old Yale,” “You're| ja Dear Old World, After All,” “Can| It Be Love?” “Follow the Rainbow | | Trail” and “My tady Nicotine. [ee ee eee ee eh i® | Coming, “Balkan Prince: elielictelichalicletchatletchalahel| | “The Balkan Princess” comgs to} jthe Moore theatre for four nights,| jstarting Wednesday March 13. | Louise Genning will head an excel [ent company. | The story is jald.in the mythical country of Balaria, and has to do lwith the plight of a princess who must marry or dose a throne. Her experiences in a Bohemian cafe, where she meets the Duke sur- jrounded by his boon companions, jare well sulted to produce the cli max. The musical |“ Halt-Holidays, “Stealin 'Like You All,” “Love and Laugh- |ter” “Dear, Delightfal Women,” } “Don't Lets Mees Again,” “The Opera Ball, Dreaming” and “Won. derful World.” numbers include KRKKKKKKKKhhhh * * &® Mrs. Leslie Carter Coming ® * * KKH hh Mrs. Lewie Carter, in her new play, “Two Women,” will make her appearance at the Moore theatre lfor one week, beginning Monday, |March 18. The production has been lavishly staged and an exceptional- ly good company of players give ex celient support for the star. : dndiindindindindndn dade dade nde te de ad * * j® Tetrazzini Here March 27, & * * (CREE RRO Mme, Luisa Tetrazzini wili be rd at the Moore theatre on Wednesday, March Manager Carl Reed yesterday afternoon concluded arrangements which | brings the famous diva again to Se- jattle, The great singer was here before under the auspices of the Ladies’ Musical club. | 27. REHM lt & * AT THE PANTAGES ” * * KEK HKKn Kh hh kk Manager Pantages announces an extraordinary attraction for the new show opening with the Monday matinee. This is the Princess Vic- toria, the miniature Melba, desertb- ed as the smallest woman in the world. She comes here direct from an engagement of triumph in the European music halls. Victoria is 22 years old, stands 25% inches high dd weighs only 19% pounds. Her act consists of a pianologue, the tiny queen of song reaching the |piano stool by means of a baby stepladder, The big comedy hit of the show is expected to turn up in Harry Brown's comedy playlet, “A Case of Divorce,” Still more humor will be provided } Clarke and Verdi, a pair of ItaMn funmakers, Other acts on the program are Sey- mour's Happy Dog Family aad “Who Is She?” the audience being THE SEATTL | Princeas”—Moore, * * AT THE THEATRES Moore—Y. M. ©. A. Minstrel. Metropolitan — “Get Rich Quick Wallingford.” Seattie—'Mutt and Jeff.” Empress—Vaudevitic Pantages—Vaucdevilic Orpheum—Vatnteyillc Grand—Vandeville and motion pictures, a eeeeeeeeee Se kktthweneeeeane * * * AT THE EMPRESS * * * wee eee eehenene The headliner at the Empress next week will be “The Card Par ty.” am intensely dramatic sketch, teeming with the romance and trib ulations of “a woman with a past Joseph Spissel! and bis company of pantomime artiste will present = laughable farce, “A Soldier's Dream.” Mumford and Thompson Will present a singing and talking act. Louise Cerver and Tom Mur ry will present a singing and dancing specialty. Lee Zimmer: man, & wellknown whistler and impersonator, will add a few trilis to what looks to be a strong bill. i SHREK RRREE Ee vo! AT THE ORPHEUM * * ee ee ee oe eo ee Jointly headlining. a vill of un- United Press Leased CHICAGO, March's Met ty 8 delegation, President Taft arrived in Chicago today and was escor to the Congress hotel president is to make the most tm portant of his speeches here at the banquet of the Swedish-American clab, celebrating John Ericson day In this address President Taft {| expected to reply to the speech of Col. Roosevelt at Columbus re- cently. FT. LAWTON PROTEST The Magnolia Improvement etub. composed of residents of the Magno-| Ya bluff and Fort Lawton districts, are protesting vigorously against the present routing of the Fort Law. ton cars along Western ay. and are now circulating a petition request ing the 8. E. Co. to route the cars an formerly, over First ay., First av %., Jackson and Main sts, Asbestos “may be spun into thread so fine that it requires 32,000 feet to weigh a pound. eseteenaee HENRY WOODRUFF “The Prince of Tonight"—Moo GBunday night CHARLES KELLOGG—Orpheum uaual interest at the Orpheum the fooming week will be Charles Kel ature Singer, and Jousie a donna of wide reputation, will be heard in a repertoire of classics. The Fear- less Ce Dora, the Girl in the Golden phe, will looptheloop in @ great | klobe motorcycle | Art Bowen has visited here the coming week, Hin cartoons and ayer fo gueKs the answer to the nov jsonge are al} to the good jelty, Arnaut Hrothers, tumbling clowns, {will enliven the bill with fifteen | minute of rough comedy. | Moffett and Clatre Trio will dance. eee eeeweetenene * i* / AT THE SEATTLE \* * jee ewe eweeeaeeae | The werriest j°The Girl Fro ithat gives the |be nt the Seattle theatre’ all’ next | Week, opening with the matinee | Sunday, It ix ode continuous seream of laughter from the time the cur- thin goes up on the first act, tll it is rung down on the last. it haw a keonly attractive story, and In the telling of ft there ts the brightest kind of wit. The many strands of comic narrative which are inter * * * of all comedies, Rector'’s,” a pla; % | woven into the complicated plot aré spun along briskly by the author. and “The Girl From Reector’s” wil! probably prove the comedy treat of the season at the Seattle theatre. LISTEN TO THIS BAN FRANCISCO, March o- John FPuhey expressed the deepest jsympathy for Geo. Donaldson be- jeause of a death in Donaldson's farmaily Then be asked Donaldson to buy a drink, Donaldson refused and Fi Y shoteat him twice. Owned Suit for Damages SAN FRANCISCO, March 9~ When Mrs. Sarah Arms died the only thing she owned was wult Bhe willed that to ox, Instructing her to fight it to a finish “Officer, Jail Me” PORTLAND, Or, March 9.—"I saw a chicken egg as large as my head. Officer, jail me; I want to jsober up,” sald Mark Ronald, after jhe had ja millinery store window, i Preliminary meeting to organize a King County club, to promote the candidacy of Otto A. Case for gov: ernor, will be held at the Good Kats cafeteria this evening at 7:30. THE COMMON MAN (After tewie Carroll.) By Berton Braley It wasn't very long ago, as } may safely state, I saw @ common workingman a-ai tting on a gate; “Now, tell me, Mr, Man,” I said, ” Said he: ‘what is it that you do?” “I work as best I can for moneyed chapa like yor I live where two and two make four and barely keep aliv While you take two and two or less and make it equal five But I was thinking of the way to make two millions ten, And #0 I shook that workingman and bade him speak again: “I work and toil,” he answered me, but grunted as he “I work and toil to get the grub for Missus and the kid,’ But 1 was thinking of a way to organize a trust, And keep a-watering the stock until the bubble bust, And so I punched that workingman, and cried; “Now, tell me true, What ie it you are working at and what is it you do? “I work to make my living and a And some time we may get a house~ Me and the Missus and the kid; a little bit beside, a decent place to bide, ind we shall keep a cow, And things will sure be better than they seem to be just now. But 1 was thinking of a way to take this poor man’s pelf, And speculate in stocks with it or spend it on myself, So I hit him once again and shook him up a few, “Now what?" id 1; but he grew vexed, as people sometimes do. He hammered me between the eyes and then he knocked me down. 1 was a most distressing sight as 1 went back to town, But I was thinking of a way to take the orphan’s dough, And make it into cake for me, and thus I didn't know ‘That I was looking very bad, but when I found it out, . I had that saucy worker fired—he's starving now, no doubt! The! anguing habit, will} E STAR YOU'LL FIND IT HERE NEWS OF THE DAY COND rving the Men and Relig: jon Forward Movement” is the sub: |ject to be discussed at the monthly Hineeting of the Seattle Ministerial Federation at the ¥, M. ©. A, at 1:90 next Monday afternoon BECOMING DANGEROUS “| eee that Hetty Green's son says he je Hooking for a wife who can wash dishes.” “Let him be careful, This country filling up with hus bands who have to wipe the dishes their wives wash.”— Cleveland Piain Dealer, Fifteenth anniversary of the bat- tle of Hampton Roade will be ob- served by the members of the local | John Ericuson Memoria! association at a banquet to be held at the New Washington this evening at 8 o'elock, Fe VOR ESSE EEE SYS * Darting out from the curb # ® and trying to grasp the wagon ® ® for a ride, little Menoru Kun © % ped and was crushed to death & & beneath the wheels of a large # Beattie Transfer truck which #) & was being driven by R, Odling, ® w 628 15th a x * HRARRRETE LEADING A DOG'S LIFE “Your husband says he ie: dog's life,” said one woman. “Yes,” it's very similar,” an- “He comes In with mudé: self comfortably by the fire and waite to be fed."—New York Evening Sun. County Assessor A. E. Parish yes terday sent out 70 deputy assessors |to gather figures of assessment for | the 1922 tax roll. Not only will per- |) sonal property receive new valua- tion, but real estate will réeeive ite biennial valuation, as of Murch 1, nd will so remain valued for the next two years. Dedication ot the new Cavairy be held Sunday, March 10, Rev. A. W. Leonard will speak at lia m REAR ARKRRARER ED * * * The Boys’ department of the # ® YM. C. A. will stage ite third @ ® annual minstrel) performance & # at the Moore théatre this even- # wing. Minstrelay, with black @ ® faces, jokes and singing will be # |® revived. * = * PURSES ERE EH EH DOWN ON THE FARM Hiram—J. P. Morgan ain't as amart a man as | be. Rube—How Go you figger that? Hiram—Why, he paid $40,000 for some fake Coptic history, and | wouldn't tet that agent feller sell me the whole dern History of Civilization for a | dollar down and a dollar a month.—Cincinnati Enquire Ten operations were performed at the Children's Orthopedic hospital, 12 children were admitted and money in the amount of $1,300 was fained for laundry machinery dur jing the month of Pebruary | March & 1862, just 50 years ago j tre ‘» the cheese-box raft Monitor was bat- tering the tron- clad Virginia or Merrimac at Nor folk, Va., General Joseph BE. Jobn ton was pulling up stakes of the confederate army which camped at and around Cen terville, Va., ever . since ite victory jat Bull Run the July previous, The |aame day General George B. Me Clellan, under severe prodding from |the White House, ‘ordered an ad | vance of tbe union army |. NEW YORK, March 9.—Supreme | Justice Clark refused to grant da lages to a youth who became so] | seared he fell out of a cherry tree }and injured himself when a neigh bor fired a shotgun at a cat | | “Practical Methods of Developing jand Retaining Soil Fertility,” will en several ostrich eggs In | be discussed at the Y. M. C. A. this, Mann evening in a free lecture by Prof.| | George Severance, superintendent | jof the state experiment station at/ Puyallup. On the following Tues- day evening, L. J. Chapin, agronom. ist of the experiment station, will sive a talk at the Y. M. C. A. on| “Crop Rotation and Crop Succes- sion for Western Washington.” | pani ‘A iieiiciialicticiieielieieie ant Rol * | * * Clty council, at a special #! ® meeting last night, canvassed *| the official vote cast for can- *| didates and propositions and charter amendments last Tuesday, Max Wardall, prest- dent of the council, signed the offical certificates. The city #| officers-elect wilt be installed # | at noon Monday, Marek 18, | . * RK RKKKhe hee eeeeeeeee Supper and entertainment will be given by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Herzl congregation at the! synagogue, 16th and Kast Fir,! Sunday evening, March 10. Supper at 6 o'clock. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., March 9.— Dr. Howard P, Mansfield and Miss Clara Georgia are trying to become divorced. They went through a| mock marriage ceremony 12 years age and now find the wedding was binding, SPRINGFIELD, Mase., March 9. Teddy,” a Boston bulldog, who chews tobacco, and holds his head over a cuspidor when he sneezes, is being held by the Boston & Maine railroad until an owner claims him, | NEW YORK, March 9.—A mother jis not ENSED FOR @ Charles Wilbur de Lyon Nicholls, out big latest selection of the 469 “people who are really worth while," they being his idea of “ultra- fashionables,” was at o time an Episcopal clergy: man, In 1899 he beeame a Ko- man Catholic, and stil] more re cently “governor general of the na tiona) woclety of colonial caval- Ex-Rev. Nicholls lers.” who has just give Senator Cullom of illinois says he has no real desire to be senator another term. At last he agrees with his constit- uente, A movement recently A. MeKay Gordon for the organiza tion in Seattle of a Canadian club began to take form yesterday at « luncheon at the Arctic club. PORE OH ERE HE * % A photoplay illustrative of ® the life of Christ will be given *® Monday ening at & o'clock at * the First Baptist church, cor * ner Columbia and Broadway # The musical program will in # clude the pipe organ played ® by Mr, Kieh! and several soios, ® It will be presented under the * auspices of the Amoma Bible # class, the proceeds to furnish ® the clars parlors in the new * church, Admission 25c, chil © dren 206. ASSeeeeeeeeeeeaeeex De i i ee Me te ee A A Buffalo hospital ambulance has aluminum linings that may be disinfected after carrying contagious cases, i Although the transpacific freight |Durenu has announced an increase jof four rates to Hongkong from $3 lto $4 « ton on Sept. I, rates may advance as early as the June sail ings. OUR PRECISE ARTIST | His eyes were glued to the door. March 16th will be tag day jthe Orphan Boys’ Home at Oriltia,| &u institution that is dependent! }upon public charity. Tag sales will! in Tacoma, Everett and Bellingham at the same tme.| CHICAGO, March 9. er had $6 left w for a job, A man answered who of. fered to get him a job at Chester. ton, Ind. Hé borrowed $5 from Meyer to buy the railroad tickets and then disappeared * ROCKFORD, II, March 9.—De-| lclaring that the Monroe Doctrine} is dead and that “we have become | & military republic,” J. Hamilton Lewis, speaking here of the influ ence of the “Panama canal,” pre. dicted an era of many wars CHICAGO, March 9%—Edward Hicks, charged with murder, re-| fused to have an attorney to de-| fend him, saying to Judge McKin-} ley: “I never knew an honest law-| }yer, and I'm willing to hang if you} think me guilty.” i | WHEN MONEY TOOK WINGS Comedian—Did the ghost waik? Soubrette- it was an avia- tion comedy, and the ghost flew after the first week.—Judge. necessary to her child. So Jong as they have their toys and en- joyments they are satisfied Justice | aid this in giving W. R. Thompson custody of his son. | “WASHINGTON, March 9.—Her! arms disfigured tn a railroad wreck | 80 that she can never wear short} sleeves, Miss Stella Reeves waa given judgment of $500 against the Pennsylvania railroad, PHILADELPHIA, March 9.—Rac- ing two blocks, Miss Sophje Dulles, a society debutante, caught two} youths, recovered her velvet hand- bag and turned the two young thieves over to a policem: KANSAS CITY, March 9.-~"I am the body,” said Henry Harencourt to an undertaker whom he had call- ed to arrange his funeral. He explained that his physicians had warned him of approaching death. “I am a apiritualisi,” he said, “and don't fear death, Having been an undertaker for 25 years, I thought I could arrange my funeral better than my wife could.” + = — | PRESCOTT STIRRED UP) PRESCOTT, Ariz. March | Prescott is in a turmoil of exe ment today, following the discovery } that gravel from a new pit inside the city limits is rich in free guld. Thousands of tons of gravel from) thia pit have been spread on the| city streets. Incubators $8.00—The Ideal. Built for this climate, Sixty-egg, $8.00. Other sizes in proportion, Sold by the Chas, H. Lilly Co., Foot of Main St., Seattle. / The modern methods used by » expert dent! for everyone to have teeth, which are not only of beauty, but very necessary you allowed your teeth to gradually decay, call here without delay. Y will be given a compl Uon by experienced ¢ titioners, who will tell you exactly what work you require, and the prices will be one-half what you ex. pect to pay, and your work will be guaranteed for twelve years. it pow perfect ANE UNIVE a Home of Your Own In Kirkland RIDE OUT 10 KIRKLAN TOMORROW Find out for yourself what a place it is to live— What an unexcelled opportunity # fers for investment— You will enjoy the trip out to Madison Park and on the Kirkland ferry, across the beautiful ex Lake Washington. And you will marvel at the wonderful that has taken place along the lake shore, both ia around Kirkland Kirkland js today “one of the most beautifal tial suburbs of Seattle, Hundreds of the city’s men, tecognizing her splendid scenic, climatic and portation advantages, have built ther homes there. Kirkland Lots From $75 Up: Acreage Trad From $65 Up © TERMS—$5 AND $10 A MONTH, Several of Seattle's richest men have invested in and about Kirkland—men whose judgment of unquestioned. Kirkland offers beautiful lake view homesites, e4 of which cannot be duplicated in the city proper for ™ or ten times as much money See Kirkland yourself. It will give you @ better derstanding of her matchless charms as a home ¢¢ Kirkland ferry leaves Madison Park tomorrow at 8:30 a. m., 10 a, my 19315 @. m., 1:30 p. m., 3 p. m., 4:45 p.m, and also in the evening. Call at our Kirkland office, near the dock, and We ne be glad (to show you some of the specific opportunities. Burke & Farrar, OWNERS SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE