The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1914, Page 8

THE SEATTLE STAR RAR eee THE STAR’S MOVING PICTURE DEPARTMENT; WHAT’S COMING NEXT WEEK > Reading From Left to Right: Vivian Rich and Wm. Garwood, In “In the Candi HARRY CHAPLIN AND MARIE. DRESSLER WILL TICKLE THE. CLEMMERCROWD NEXT WEEK BY THE MOVIE EDITOR | WENT to the Moore one day last week to see a trial showing of| J “Tiilie's Punctured Romance,” an Aico film of six reels. It le) the wildest, funniest film | have ever seen. | 1 used to think Mabel Normand was the funniest woman in the movies. | know that Harry Chaplin is the funniest man. I'm not sure now which Is the funnier—Mabel Normand or Marie Dressier—fat, mad Marle, who, on the legitimate stage, has made me laugh many a tim Marie, Mabel and Harry are al! in “Tillie’s Punctured Romance. Many managers were present at the trial. Even they had to laugh. And if you can make a manager laugh, you are indeed funny. | Jim Clemmer secured the film. It will be his attraction beginning | Sunday. Pehaps Clemmer is getting an education in humor. He has been running jood lately. And the aw Lubin comedy ts about . The Gish Sisters at the Class A ‘The Class A announces as its main offering for the new program Sunday the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorot! in Christy Cabannes two-reel production, “The Sisters.” i There is an absence of theatrical tradition in its presentation; Ite people do ordinary things in an extraordinary way. ‘The story deals with the life of two re, May and Carol. As it always ie, May was the beauty and occupied most of her time in frent of the mirror, while Carol was busy with the mop on the kitchen floor. ; One day George, the young chi from the city, Carol, whom he had encountered on the street. George, the fickle thing, ran off with the beautiful May instead of Carol. Carol marries and esetties down in her home town. George and May are blessed with a baby, but it dies. May le 00 overcome with that she is taken sick. Carol loans her own child to the doctor to) save the life of her sister, who thinks Carol's child is her own. Through Carol's act of kindness, the two sisters are reconciled. The Sorcerer and Hie Millinery, In A new face in the movie world ts/ Bahbaqualanohsiwi, or “the sor-| cerer,” as his relatives in Southern Alaska affectionately call him. | He discovered talent for picture acting rather late in life. His principal occupation before that had been drinking whale oil Jand attending sea lion barbecues. © 9 <)er0 | The sorcerer was born about half ” : ja century before moving pictures “In the Candlelight” at the Mission were invented, in @ peaceful totem “In the Candlelight,” coming to the Mission theatre for three days, | ; m telle the story of a sculptor, John Derby, who is insanely jealous of hie) an indus officiated wife. He does not know her apparent affection toward Bertram, an ar calle to see ight,” at the Mission; Lillian and Dorothy Gish, in“ mer; Sydney Drew, In AAA RAR AR ALR ARPA DAD DPD AAD PPP PPP PDP PP PPP EPP | [4 er, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin, in “Tiilie’s Punctured Romance,” at the Clem. he Flogida Enchantment,” at the Liberty IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS” TO STAY AT THE MOORE TILL TUESDAY NIGHT | OF SEX NOW IN Ka “in the Land of the Head Hunters” It was tho first white man Le ever saw who made @ picture actor of him. Edward 8, Curtis cast him for the villain In “In the Land of the Head Hunte: the morte picture to be seen at the Moore theatre afternoons and evenings until Wed nesday. The sorcerer was evidently aware of his charms, for he charged Mr. Curtia more canoes and skins for his rvices than the rest of the e The pictures are Intensely inter esting. more decapitations than did tiet friend of his, is really her interest in her painting lessons, which | Henry VIL \ she is taking secretly to surprise hie: He takes their child and leav 'WHAT’S ON THE BILL FOR COMING WEEK Years later Bertram, the artist, has a pupil, Ralph Dorr, who hi met and loved Marion, the daughter of the sculptor. In later years the sculptor has become insane and driven Merten von he mane rs r fa Ralph Dorr meets her and cares for wu Beads & Goble Vas Poked Night “The Sisters,” with Dorothy and Liliian Gish; “Mutual Weekly world’s news in pletures; “Pathe Scenic"; “Ambrose’s First False- hood,” Keystone comedy eee Ralph goes to her ald and Is nearly killed by her father. one comes to help Dorr and recognizes the sculptor. Bertram recalls the past to the old man and his brain clears Ralph and Marion marry and settle down to meet the grocery and rent bills. ‘Slim’ Is Walloped oe gaged hand while she smoked. A hatchet-taced woman visitor of mature years could stand the sight no longer. “Who {s that brazen hussy?” #he| ear in their battle for) demanded of the Universal guide. | Alaska, Sunday Until Tuesday Night the hand of “Sophie,” that still) The guide grinned as she of the| he Price of Silence,” two-part shows a mark. | blonde hair and cigarette called to| drama, with Alice Joyce; “Unrest, He deciares that {t was acciden-| 4 friend who was crossing the stu-|¢@rama; “In Dutch,” comedy, and/ tal, but “Slim” ts waiting for the) Gio yard. Pasian San Pistaaia | ee | “Yo, ho, Bert,” roared the blonde ae | in a deep, bass voice an Actor | “Oh, that,” replied the guide, “is ‘Again Big Six Christy Mathewson | Lee Moran, one of our cleverest fe doffs the uniform of the diamond,| male !mpersonators dons the grease paint of the studio, Pe and, taking his place behind the| blinding lights, religiously follows| Elaine a Newcomer the instructions of his director, Stu- | eee Clemmer, Sunday and All Week “Tiliie’s Punctured Romance,” comedy Melbourne, Sunday Until Tuesday Night “The White Slave Traffic,” ma. dra- eee Grand, Sunday Until Tuesday Night “A Friend in Need,” Eclair drama; “Fido's Dramatic Career,” comedy; “The Outcome,” Mary Pickford drama (old release ‘Oth er People’s Business,” Keystone comedy art Paton. The picture is the second of the Christy Mathewson series, “The Umpire.” The first of the series, “Love and Baseball,” took the country by} storm. } Dorothy Phillips {s supporting| him in this picture, together with| Hobart Henley and Howard Cramp-| ton. . A Tidy Little Henry B. Walthall, recently of Mutual and Biograph, has signed a! three-year contract-with the Balboa Amusement Producing company of Long Beach, Cal., his salary being $1,000 a week | He will be starred in four-reel and six-reel productions of famous| novels. : ° Sunday Until Tuesday) Night | Candlelight,” two-part with Vivian Rich.| . Mission, “In the American drama, Liberty, Sunday Until Tuesday Night | | “A Florida Enebantment,” Vita-| graph comedy, with Sidney Drew, land two other pictures. ‘THEY KEPT HIM BUSY C. C. Dill, the only congressman-elect in Washington, Idaho, or Oregon, |spoke to the King County Demo * i 4 d cratic club at noon Saturday They Don’t Mind Work | He attended the {installation of The Flying cowboys are evi-| y A, |the Phi Kapp! Pst fraternity at the| dently in perfectly good condition, 4 4 borehened apeany Sia By ue bir path he guest at an informal meeting even if they are not doing as much| jot prominent democrats at the| riding as they used to. Good Bats. They had a genuine housemoving 2 ASYLUM FOR MADMAN the other day. One of the buildings, about 20x30, Joe Ralp, who held Father Otto Carnello a prisoner in church while used for storing props, happened to be in the way, and 19 of the boys picked it up and landed {t 40 feet demanding that the priest cut his breast open, was declared insane | | Friday afternoon by a lunacy com-| away Blonde Smokes; Gets é Elaine Ivans is one of the host of| migsion in Judge Taliman’s court, | A Visitor’s Nanny | Young girls who have chosen the) He was immediately committed | Visitors at the Universal Holly-| photoplays as their profession |to Stetlacoom asylum, | wood studios last Saturday after-| She is good looking, acts well and| noon stood watehing the production! photographs well of Al Christie's latest comedy;| One of the largest features Miss “Wanted, a Chaperon.’ s has had an opportunity to ap- Eddie Lyons, the Nestor leading| pear in was “The Littlest Rebel.” man, casually handed a cigarette t a tall, interesting looking blonde playing the chaperon in the comedy,| Pichard — Canfield, as they stood by waiting |king, dies from injuries The blonde switched, her skirts|from fall down New York fyom wide to side with her disen-! stairway, | j . | 7 | Salary | y democratic captivity in Vans SHOT STOPS ROBBER Sam Thomas was captured by al porse near Maple Valley Friday | ex-gambler| after he was shot in the leg in a| uffered |rnning gin fight following the " jhold-up of two section crews at subway | Landsberg and Noble, on the Mil waukee line, Makes His Own Films Arthur Mackley, who won a fol- lowing among fans aa the sheriff in the Western productions put on by| Friday on a charge of mishandling nay com-| funds, W Broncho Billy in the E pany, is now producing photoplays for the Mutual Film company Mackley's pictures now are re- SEGREGATION FILM HOUSES? | About the time of the Salem| witches, old New England was in | the throes of a remarkable code. | No man might kine his wife, sie-| ter or daughter except in the priv-| acy of his own home, with the cur-| tains drawn | But old New England had littie| on modern Chicago. | t summer the Lincoln Park | board butlt a fence out into Lake! Michigan to keep as far apart as] possible the men and women who patronized ite bathing beach. Having survived that ridicule, the elty now p pones to divide its ple ture theatres into, not two, but |three parts, to accommodate the men and women who are together, and men and women who a art Only the children are to have the run of the house But if there ts any truth tn Chief of Police Gleason's claim that wom en “parnsites”—his word—frequent the pleture shows, their conversa tion with each other, as well as that of the stag portion of the house, would doubtless be highly diverting and Inatructive to the unsegregated ehildren.—Metography MINNESOTA TO RETURN SOON TO HER OLD JOB The early return of the Great Northern liner Minnesota to the Oriental trade is expected by local ehipping men. In some quarters {t in predicted she will be back tn the transpa- cific trade before the first of the year, Until definite word is heard from the headquarters of the com- pany at St. Paul the probable date of her return can only be surmised. The Minnesota has been lying idle in Smith cove two months. At first it was reported that she was to be taken over by the Brit- ish government as a transport, then that the Russians were seek- ing to buy her. In view of recent statements is- sued by officials, the company has no Intention of disposing of the liner. GILL WILL ACT ON ALLEGED CRUELTIES A complete report of the investi- gation Into alleged atrocities com- mitted by guards at the city stock- ade will be ready within a few days, sald Chief Lang Saturday The chief will submit the report to the mayor, ACQUIT W.DEAN HAYS OLYMPIA, Deo. 12,—Acquitted Dean Hays, cashier of the defunct Olympia Bank & Trust Co,, now faces trial on a charge of receiving deposits after the bank was insolvent. leased under the Reliance brand HOW TO WRITE PHOTO PLAY; NO, 1| Written for The Star by E Scenario editor, Perhaps in no artistic profession in the world have such rapid strides been made as in the art of scenario writing A few years ago the photoplay wright was so scarce that not many nay's ! people knew such an individual ex.| isted Today there are hundreds of them, and many of them are among the successful fiction writers of the day. Do not roll your manuscript, but place it {n the envelope with a care fully addressed and stamped envel ope. Write your name and address on this envelope so that in case your script {8 unavatlable, it may be re turned to you without delay. Few studios care to consider a scenario that is not clearly and di tinctly typed. Carbon coples jected. In answer to the hundreds of Questions as to whether or not the are always re | storles [er big studios. No scenario department has time to bother with flegible manuscripts Time was when everything that found Its way into a motion picture studio was carefully considered the scrawled, plotiess story lay next to the neat, painstaking script while the scenario written on wall dramatic story. | With the coming of high-class the standard has been raised to such a degree that the scenario writer has to work harder than ever to get any sort of recog nition This is true not only of the ES SANAY STUDIOS, but ft is safe to say It Is also true of all the oth-| (No. 2 of thie series will appear) s00n. Watch for it.) ‘MRS, HAZZARD FASTS | WALLA WALLA, Dec, 12.—Re fused permission to have an opera tion performed in Seattle, Dr, Lin. da Burfteld Hazzard, the “fast spe- clalist,” has adopted her own cure. | editor will read scenarios not type: For three weeks she has taken no| written, we wish to state most em-| food phatically that scripts in long hand, unless very plain, are NEVER} Mrs, Hazzard is serving time be-| cause one of her patients died as| @ result of taking her “cure” * } MARGUERITE HAS ; BROKEN LEG; MAY; BE OUT FOR @00D | SECRETARY DANIELS URGES EXTENSION OF GOVERNMENT By Gilson Gardner WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.— Adequate facijities for govern- ment manufacture of anything needed for armament or equip- ment is the central recommend- ation cf Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels in his annual report to the president today. The elimination of “Krupp jem,” or the “incentive of per- sonal aggrandizement by prep- arations for war,” should be brought about, says Secretary Dan by government owner. ship and operation of its mili- tary plant. “The department should be able to demand competitive bids by having potential facilities to manu. facture anything needed for arma. ment or equipment which may at any time be controlled by those who a3 sive price: he says. “There is another reason why the navy department should be able to manufacture the munitions of war, “Merry maid with the golden curl was seriously injured while acting in a film for the Essanay company, in Niles, Cal. She fell from a stage coach and fractured her leg in several pinces. It fs doubtful whether she will be able to walk without the aid of crutches, doctors say. Mias Clayton ts beautiful, and not yet 19 years old. She bas recently been playing opposite G. M. Anderson, “Broncho Billy.” She has been doing leads in the Essanay company only a short time. She worked her way up from do- ing odd bits of work, which position she secured by answering an ad- vertisement in her home town pa- per. FEDERATION A CLEARING HOUSE OF MUSIC DATES The Seattle Federation of Music Clubs has, since its founding, num- bered among ite professed activities the promotion of a plan for avold- ing confitcts in dates of local mu- sical affatre To that end the federation now has offered itself as a receiving center for all dates of all musical bodies or musical sections of organized bodies, whether federated or not,| such dates to be distributed imme-| diately to such organizations as sig-| nity approval of the plan { Publicity shall also be given through loca} journals. If the mat-| ters interest you, kindly notify the corresponding secretary of the fed eration, so your club may be placed upon the list Helen Howarth Lemme! {s presi dent of the music federation; Mrs,! FE. B, Pudden, corresponding secre-| tary, 616 Fifth ave. N GRIDIRON CLUB TO “GIVE ITS BANQUET WASHINGTON, Dee. gridiron 1s heating today. By to- night it will be red hot, Thereon, public officials, no matter how | high their positions, no m er how dignified they may appear st st and sizzle to turn, for Washington's famous diron club is on the warpath its annual banquet DAILY HEALTHOGRAM Poor ventilation is the in- direct cause of a large pro- portion of diseases. The of- fensive smell of a vitiated at mosphere is an indication of its danger. Avoid, as far as possible, crowded, ill-ventilated cars, theatres and halls, espectal- ly when one feels tired, de- pressed and not in good con- dition, 12.—The for \ off the trac That policy would prevent effective agitation or organization for big preparations for war conducted by those who make profit by the manu- facture of war supplies,” he con- _ ARMAMENT MANUFACTURE jtinues | “It has been suspected ‘in some jcountries that makers of armor and powder, guns and fighting craft, lceve promoted steadily increasing jequipment for giant navies and |large armies for their personal |richment, as others have practiced |‘philanthropy and 5 per cen’ “Th incentive of personal ag- grandizement by preparations for war should not be permitted to exist in the United States, “The effective way to prevent so | baneful an influence Is for congress to give the department authority to manufacture implements of war, an |authority which could be employed | when necessar; | Secretary Daniels also demon- strates that government manufa |ture of war materials and equip- ment fs ving large sume annually for the government. Contrary to the popular idea,” he ys, “the navy department, in what it manufactures, does 80, from superdreadnaught to a gallon of paint or a pound of powder, cheaper than the same can be purchased.” That private manufacturers have been unmercifully gouging the gov- ernment is also asserted by the sec- retary. There is a lady in our street Who tries her And therefore he husband greatly; stays out at night A trifje too much latel; Oh, ladies, If you'd keep the love Of husbands fickle, trick: You really ought to try to b Not quite so hicksy-wicksy.® *(Look it up in the dictionary. ee Chase Sibley, the three-cushion went rabbit hunting near Orillia. . We had to.) billfard expert, took a day off and A small boy with a lantern escorted him back after dark to catch an interurban ¢ar for Seattle. They were waiting for the car when a rabbit hopped into the light of the lantern. lighting the way. They followed the rabbit a long time. They lost their way, the rabbit ee Sibley unpacked his gun and gave chase, the small boy and the car for Seattle. Alfred Bornstein, of Bornstein & Sons, joined a large company of adults in the toy department of a Second ave. department store. A clerk wi its head in a demonstrating a mechanical toy— artlingly lifelike manner, lon which wagged Then it crouched and sprang even more terrifyingly than when it wagged its head. All the grown-up men and women were delighted with it. Mr. Bornstein says that when he was going out he met a man and & little boy. was bawling The man had a bundle under his arm and the little boy “He was bawling,” says Mr, Bornstein, “because his father insisted on buying him one of the lfoni and he was afraid of It.” . Jacobs, the photographer, left his handsome little runabout in front | of a store on First ave. 8. while he went inside to see a man. | came out he saw his auto trundiing down the street all by When he self. Jacobs gave chase, but it eluded him successfully for some time. The machine was stopped finally by a string of freight cars stand- ing across First ave. And w reports the surprised en I came up, the automobile was trying to push the train but proud Mr, Jacobs. SUNDAY PROGRAM AT THE “CLASS A” “THE SISTERS” A beautiful two-reel Majestic production, featuring LILLIAN and DOROTHY GISH MUTUAL WEEKLY NO. 102 Latest nother laug news of the world in pictures, xtracting KEYSTONE COMEDY And __"PATHE lL another interesting SCENIC ast times tonight “THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE"—Kay Bee, “SHOTGUNS THAT KICK" “A BADGER HUNT”. “THEY NEVER KNEW ‘Keystone, ‘Pathe, '—Reliance. Theatre Admission 5 Cents