The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1914, Page 8

‘ | STARS TO BE SEEN OA i ON UN eC IE AE MO TO REM ¥ ‘ 3 William Farnum, in “The Sign TWO‘LEGITIMATE’ INSCREEN DRAMAS William Farnum wil! be featured in a five-part production, “The) Sign of the Cross,” at the Liberty starting Sunday The play is derived from the symbol which to scores of millions has for many centuries borne so profound a significance. William Farnum is seen in the roe of Marcus Superbus, a digni-| fied and all-powerful character, who was a big {actor tn the time of Nero. Mercia, the heroine, ia emblematic of Christianity, strong and | heautiful. The action of the play occurs at about the same time in *ncient history as that of “Quo Va‘is. Tt was during the time that the dissipated king of Rome, Nero, Was prosecuting the Christians Marcus intercedes a number of different times to save the Chris | tian girl from being tossed to the lions. Later on fn the play he becomes} &® Christian, casts wealth, fame and future aside and goes hand in hand with his beautiful Christian girl to share the martyrs doom In this role of Marcus Superbus, William Farnum {ts seen at his ‘very best and a number of critics claim his portrayal of this character is his masterpiece. | Blanche Sweet in “The Old Maid” Blanche Sweet, and just as sweet as her name indicates, will be seen | at the Class A, starting Sunday, in “The Old Maid.” a tworee! Majestic) drama. In the attic of her bumble home the old maid broods over her cher dvhed treasures of long ago. Memories of her youth and of the chances she threw aside come back to her. She remembers going to school and playing pbstoffice. Meets Benjy. They dreamed of the future and its happiness. And th a il over some trifling matter. Benjy marries another. The years St by. He {s successful in the business world, but neither his home life nor his money brings him happiness. And “Old Maid” Dorohty, as| she is known by the villagers, becomes the mother to all the young| veople in her community Funny Max Figman at the Alaska Max Figman, the favorite fun maker of the American stage, is} appearing at the Alaska theatre, starting Sunday, tn a Reliance film,) “The Hoosier Schoolmaster.” | ‘The story is laid back in the good old days when India: delight in burning white folks at the stake, and George V spent his winters at Valley Forge instead of California | One day there drifted into the Flat Creek district one of those solemn country schoolmasters, the delight of the old maids and the| pest of the village boys. The tough of the burg, Bud Means, tries his hand on the new master pnd gets it severely slapped. The trials that Max Figman, playing the role of the pedagogue, | overcomes are amusing and interesting Any way, the thing unwinds itself and, of course, the schoolmaster | marries a sweet little girl of the village, Hannah Thompson, who has been knocked around by the villain’s mother, curse her! Then she Story of North Woods he is the father of the child. “The Lure of the Windigo,” a story of the North woods, based on an old Indian superstition, comes to the Clemmer Sunday for a three day run. ‘The pilot is not a new one. It deals with the betrayal of a girl by the man whom she and her family has trusted The opening of closes the home life of the Le Clerq family. The head of the fam lly 1s too old to work. Sergeant McChesnay mounted police is in love with Annette, the daughter. Annette's love for McChesnay leads to her ruin. Later Ann and her child Teet McChesnay, her brother, Louis, and Jacques Le Bere, a lum of the berman, an admirer of Annette.) company next summe: McChesnay {s accused and admits the story dis-| After a forced marriage by her | brother, McChesnay fights to the| finish with Louis and is killed. | Jacques marries Annette and It all| |ends happily | eee Produce Beach Play A company of the Selig players will depart shortly for the Panama canal to film certain scenes for| The Ne'er Do Well,” one of Re! | Beach's latest successes. While| jon the trip the company will “do a lot of water pictures. May Robson in Movies May Robson, now playing at the| | Mason opera house in New York, | | has announced she will leave the stage and join the Famous Players She will be seen on the screen in a number of Blanche “THE OLD MAID” Two-Part Drama—A Splendid Heart-interest Story A Selected Comedy One of Those Side-8plitting Laugh Producers MUTUAL WEEKLY The World's Latest Picture News “Her Brave Hero,” “Limping Into Happiness,” Wild West Love, “The House of Keystone” Tonight Last Times | Majestic comedy; “Forest Thieves,” Keystone com- SUNDAY Sweet in 3c Third at Beauty com- | Reliance | THE SEATTLE STAR of the Cross,” at the Liberty; Max Figman, in “The Hoosier Schoolm GIRLS SEND GIFTS TO FRENCH TROOPS Bottom, Beatrice Claflin, NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—New York society girls are very busy making Christmas gifts these days—not to hang on lighted Christmas trees |however, but to send to the damp | cold trenches on the French battle front. Miss Eleanor Lemson, shown tn the upper picture, and Miss Beatrice Claflin, below, the leaders in the Lafayette fund committee, which ts packing “kits” of warm socks and of France. her masterpieces, such as “A Night Out,” and “The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary.” Ford Sterling Recovering The crisis has passed in the siege against typhold-pneumonta which Ford Sterling, the well known comedian, was waging. Sterling was taken suddenly ill aft er his return from the Kast. It was thought for a time that he would not be able to pull through. How ever, outside of looking a little bat tle worn and having lost he is 0. K Mrs. Carter “The new film on Film Heart of M ryland,” the Herbert Brenon is now completing, has the well-known actress, Mra. Leslie Carter, in the title role. Over 1,000 people were used last Sunday to compl one of the scenes, shawing a big battle see At the Clase A Until Tuesday Night “The C Maid,” drama, featur {ng Blanche Sweet; “Mutual Week ly," No. 104; a nelected comedy oes At the Clemmer Until Tuesday Night “The Lure of the Windigo,” two. Pike At the Alaska Until Tuesday Night ‘The Hoosler School master,” five-reel drama, featuring Max Fig At Top, Mise Eleanor Lemson; at] gloves and mufflers for the soldier: | What | Think About BY FREDDIE FILM I've noticed our old friend “Dante's Inferno” {a with us again, at one of the nickel houses on| First ave. The’ first time | saw Dante's Inferno” it cost me two- bits, The next time I saw ft for 10 cents, and now they are pass ing it out to us for a fitney ore |. Jim Clommer believes in mixing | ‘om up. Last week he showed a six-resler full of screams. Then he slipped us six reels of “Julius Caesar.” cee | Some of the smaller motion pte ture houses have been talking bout raising the price of admis |#ion to 15 cents to all the houses } it will never work, Claud! Two Jitneys in the till is worth three in K member, nyed Is al the public's pockets |the army of the ways open for volun Did you ever see Blanche Sweet? It's a sweet name, ian't It? Sweet girl, too. There is one thing | can’t understand. How can such a sweet girl play the part of “The Old Maid,” which will run at the Class A next week, until Tuesday night? Next week there will be two big stars shown on the screens of lo cal playhouses. 1 am glad to see }the exhibitors are trying to give | patrons their dimes’ worth. By special request Brin, of the not to mentl rom Manager stual Film Co his name any more It seems that Brin does not want people to know he ip the walking target for all the jokes In town He's @ regular fellow nyhow got a couple Christmas stogies out of him Friday . Jim Clemmer . Oliver Walla claima his organ ia three times good a comedian as Charlie Thaplin, the crazy nut who was }with Marie Dressler in “Tillie’s |Punctured Romance.” If Watlace |is half as good at playing the nut jas he is pumping the organ, he j would have Chaplin working in the White Lunch for a living within a | week | . | W. 8. Rand, special tive for the in the West, will be in town tomor. |row with his wife. Mra great lover of the water front. She knows all the stevedores by sight representa |man—one of Pray’ cartoon com edies At the Liberty Until Tuesday Night | “The Sign of the Cross,” five-| reel drama, featuring William) Farnum Alhambra Until Sunday Night “The Christmas Spirit,” two-reel drama, with Murdock McQuarrie The Champion Bear Slayer,” Selig omedy; “The Man From the Sea drama j CRIMINALS ARE “MADE BY CITY'S NOISE, HE SAYS NEW YORK, Dec, 26.—The need. less roar and racket of a big city {s a direct cause of the city's crime, according to Dr. John D. Quacken bos of this city, a national author. }ity on diseases of the ear and | nervous system In a statement today he says “There ix a great difference be tween a bad soul and a bad cell Noise, as I interpret {t, makes a bad brain or nerve cell, and #0 1s a direct contribution to moral de fielency “Noise helps to swell the ranks of our criminal classes by directly lowering the power to resixt temp. | tation ‘It thus represents an assault on the moral health of the nation, and from this viewpoint assumes an {m portance that cannot be ignored.” BURIED WITH HORSE LANSFORD, N. D., Dec, 26.—A reel drama; “Cupid Backs the Win-| desire to be buried beside the body jRer,”,, Comedy; “Hearst-Selig |of his faithful horse, Prince, which News ‘On hristmas Eve,” | recently died of old age, was ex | drama ress pressed in a note left by Martin “ Rayfield of Grover township, this At the Colonial Until Tuesday | county, when he committed sul te Night cide “The Tigress,” five-reel drama,| fayfield’s directions for burts ‘ | ( , al featuring Winsor McCay's Car-| tized a place “fifteen rods due east toons gat jof his residence” as the place where he wished to have his body rest. It was ascertained that the spot designated was the burial place of his horse, Mutual Film company | Rand ts a} t, In “The Old Maid,” YWRIGHT SPENDS SIX YEARS ON PLAY HE RE-WRITES IT 21 TIMES; SUCCEEDS | Richard Barry, author of “Brends of the Woods.” LOB ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 26. \Richard Barry recently landed play that {t took him six years te | write. He calls it “Brenda of the Woods.” Florence Martin is star ring in it and Oliver Morosco wil | produce it. The piece is being giver | the once over” here in stock by} the Burbank Theatre Co., to smooth the rough edges off. After that jit will be taken to New York and given a trial on Broadway. Barry {has re-writ his play 21 times and jh ws every confidence that it wil be the biggest success of the season The action of the piece t* laid In the woods of West Virginia ang deals with an unsophisticat maiden with none of the artificer of [soclety, who is confronted with th problem of modern life ‘CZAR AT THE FRONT PETROGRAD, Dec. 26.—The czar left last night for the front in Poland, it was announced today Florence Martin, Starring "Brenda of the Woods.” LOOK IT UP—WE HAD TO That boy of mine got fighting mad last evening, j Beca another kid said Santa waen't real. | had to pry them loose and lecture my kid / On keeping tempers on an even keel. But, oh, the boy was right! For, filled with fainhead® Was my boy's bursting heart when bedtime came, His arms with toys, with sweets his tummy, and so | He still believes in Santa just the same! *(Look It up in the dictionary. We had to.) ee ee Chief of Police Lang had a friend and an overcoat The overcont had # strap in the back, hitched on by two buttons The friend bad a playful habit of unhitching the strap when the wearer of the overcoat wasn't looking Next day he would mail the strap back to Chief Lang | This went on tediously Lang got madder and madder. And madder. He tried sewing the strap to the overcoat snipped the stitches with a pair of scissors. The chief fooled him, though “I sent the strap and the overcoat to a man in Portland the resourceful Chief Lang But what could he do? But the gul-durn friend chuckles Patrolman Claude Rix has out Broadway | The young friend went out to practice with the quartet recently When he went home the others went home with him, as George Ade says, to Kee that he got home all right They stopped in front of the house to sing about the passion of the nightingale for the red, red rose, “In the Moonlight.” - | ‘The young man, who sings tenor, Was met in the hall by his father. “T've been out to practice with a quartet,” the young man explained “Next time use a pintet,” advised the father, according to the vera clous Officer Rix | young friend who has joined a quartet oe eee ©, Smith ‘Typewriter | of several months “on the road.” artistic tonsorial emporium in the} Harold Raymond, traveling salesman for the 1 Co., returned yesterday from a tour He dropped into Roderick Bowers’ | White building | The man who presides over the third chair did not recognize Ray mond, and although the latter did not enter very enthusiastically inco| the Ine of conversation offered by the barber, the ‘barber's flow of| oratory was not visibly lessened | Finally he said; “Have you ever been in here before? | “Once,” said Raymond, closing his eyes. ‘Strange that I don’t recall your name,” said the chauffeur of| Chair No. 3 | “Not at all, not a-tall,’ Raymond quickly assured it. “It has alt considerably in healing up since you shaved me the last time.” RATTLERS PLAYFUL TYRONE, Pa., Dec, 26—When Mrs, George Kobac of Northwood, A suburb of this town, returned to found the boy fondling and talking to two large rattle snakes which were in his lap greedily eating of the bread and milk, The horrified mother grabbed the child from be hind and dragged bim into the} her front porch where she had left her small son feasting on hig) house. The snakes were frightened! luncheon of bread and milk, she | away. ' if A; Scene From “The Lure of the Windigo,” at the Clemmer. STAR’S MOVING PICTURE DEPARTMENT; WHAT’S ON AT LOCAL THEATRES 7 ) STYLISHLY CLAD GIRL FOUND Bees a BEATEN TO DEATH WITH CLUB LOS ANGE Dec, 26.—The finding of the body of a young woman on the LaBrea ranch, close to the fashionable Wilshire district confronted the police here with other murder mystery today The woman apparently had dead a month. The head had be beaten with a club or other instru ment, and the skull crushed There were two rings on her hand Aside from I: the ote | here was nothing else that identification. The body was that of a woman |. 25. It was clad in a dark green sit, silk Mele stockings, and new shoes, A small velvet loth-top bat lay close by rhe body was found late yester ay by a party of rabbit hunters, who notified the police. * ————— MANY CHURCHES HAVE ARRANGED SPECIAL MUSIC Many churches throughout the city have prepared special musica) programs for Saturday night and Sunday in celebration of the Yule tide. There will be special music at all the big downtown churches. At the Pilgrim Congregation lehurch Saturday night a Christmas cantata rendered earlier in the week will be repeated by special request Music begins at 7:2 Sunday night at the First Baptist church will be given over to the singing of sacred songs, beginning at 7:30. The Woodland Park Presbyterian First Christfan, Bethany Presby. St. Clement's and Trinity Intrigue and unbridlec ity, contrasted with the u early Christians, make a turning in fierce wrath upc This picture, produce ssic ever produced William Farnum in ) —THE— LIBERTY SUNDAY UNTIL TUESDAY NIGHT tional powers it is impossible to describe * Farnum, as Marcus Superbus, is fied, both in the love passages with Marcia and when Company, will undoubtedly be conceded the foremost 10¢ 1st at Pike 10¢ Parish churqhos will also no clal music at the evening Sunday : Programs have been arranged for both morning and evening serviee at the Temple Baptist chureh, ‘ PUTS DIAMOND RING _ON HER TOE; ROBBED ST, LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 26- again will Mrs. Dixon, O| City, Okla., wear a ring on her She isn't in the habit of doing: anyway, but on her journey to! Louis on a Frisco in, she” |to take every precaution | robbery. | On their arrival in St. Mrs. Dixon informed the that she had been robbed large diamond ring. The of where the ring had been was followed by a long Then Mrs. Dixon _ blushi plained her method of prevent just what had oc | Luther Livingstone, procanaes ‘bibliographer, dies at Caml ‘ ex- to .% seers | 4 mae te WA es2 ese $3¢ a). 1 luxury, throned senstal- unquestioning faith of the picture whose deep emo- William noble and digni- om his calumniators d by the Famous Players in America