The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1915, Page 2

building, and Mrs, J. BEGINNING TOMORROW SEATS NOW_ SELLING EVERY SEAT RESERVED Matinee, 2:15 ROO MATINEE PRICES Lower Floor ...... .50c Section of Balcony . .50c Rear Balcony ..... .25¢ Most Tremendous Dramatic _Spec- tacle That the Brain of Man Has Yet Produced. 5,000 Scenes 18,000 People 3,000 Horses Cost $500,000 dD. W WHO CONCEIVED GRIFFITH AND PRODUCED STAR—SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1915. PAGE 2. Evening, 8: "15 EVENING PRICES Lower Floor Section of Balcony .. Rear Balcony Three Hours Gripping, Appeal- ing, Blood-Ting- ling, Soul-Stirring Interest of Special Music by Symphony Or- chestra With Pipe THE BIRTH OF A NATION Adapted From Thomas Dixon s Story “THE ne KU-KLUX KLAN RUPERT HUGHES—It makes the most ME GATHERING Great Minds in Literature, Art, Finance, Statecraft, Journalism and Unite in Praise of This Marvelous Achievement of drama look like the work spectacular of village amateurs. It reduces to childishness the biggest things the theatre can do. JAMES S. METCALFE—Its drama is so intense that it brings the audience to their feet as no by all odds the greatest drama that theatrical play has ever done. REV. THOS. B. GREGORY—“The Birth of a Nation” has ever come to New York. REV. DR. CHAS. H. PARKHURST—“The Birth of a Nation” has my unqualified endorsement. NEW YORK AMERICAN—The play furnishes the spectators with a thrill that has long been absent from the GOVERNOR JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA—The most glorious accomplishment in any art I have ever seen. DOROTHY DIX—yYou see as the angels looking down from heaven must have seen all the causes that led to the Civil War. C. F. ZITTEL—N. Y. JOURNAL—It’s worth $5.00 a seat to see “The Birth of a Nation.” BURNS MANTLE—The mind falters and the typewriter balks before an attempt to either meas- 's crowning achievement, “The Birth of a Nation.” RICHARD HARDING DAVIS—For the first time in the theatre a battle scene has been pre- ure or describe Griffith's sented as it actually is. NEW YORK SUN—Never before has such a whirlwind combination of story, spectacle and tense drama been unrolled before an audience. eee RESERVE YOUR SEATS EARLY CLEMMER — Seattle’s Best Photoplay House — RESERVE YOUR SEATS EARLY WERE'S NEW WAY CELEBRATION IN MAN INJURED IN [TROOPS STILL Mrs. D. M. Johnson of the Denny Richardson GERMAN ARMY|‘coming to TRANSFERRED) Theatres y TO THE WEST? - LONDON, June 26. ~The Ger mans have closed the Beigian frontier, evidently in prepara tlon for the movement of troops from Galicia to the west ern battle front, 0 ed by the decisive Ruesians in Galicia the biggest military question of the day. | Military writers have generally) the opinion that Germany | would press the advantage gained! over the czar, possibly by making] wnother thrust upon Warsaw, re! newing the advance upon Riga or| centering the main attack upon th southeastern front and overrunning Hessar | The German and allied forces are as firmly deadlocked in France and) ty jes. Flanders as during the winter months | The popular demand in Germany is for a new drive against Paris however, and the big question {x whether German strategy will call for a continued offensive against the Slavs or divert the victorious en-| omies of the East against the allies! in the Went AUSTRIANS READY FOR FIGHT IN ALPS: ROME, June 26.—Alarmed by the} advance of Italian invaders Aus-| trians in the Carnia Alps and Aus trian Tyrol are strengthening all de-| fensive works at the frontier. From) points miles away Austrians can be seen dragging heavy batteries up the steep slopes, where they are] George Hastings, of being mounted behind barriers of! quartet, Empress. rock The passes up these slopes can not be traversed by horses or mules and hundreds of men are hauling {the big guns up the heights This report was made by Gen Cadorna to the war office today in his communication covering opera tlons of the past 24 hours, AVIATORS BLOW UP GERMAN TRAIN LONDON, June ators blew up a German ammunt tion supply train near Roulers by| showering bombs upon it, Rotter. dispatches stated today. Fifty | Germans on the train were killed SAYS HE FOOLED HER INTO MARRIAGE Mra. Edith G. Houck, whose hus- band, Bugene V. Houck, in suing her for divorce, has filed a cross complaint in the superior court. She says he got her consent to marry} } him by misrepresenting to her that }he was the aon of a wealthy wid- owed mother, who would furnish | him enough money to keep hin wife in ease and luxury. She says she has had to borrow $350 to live in the meantime, and alleges that while she was in Port- jand her husband wrote her letters calling her a —— fool. NEW YORK, June 26.—The Aero Fire Alarm Co. of Seattle again won out In its suit against the American District Telegraph Co. for Infringement of patent right, the cireult court of appeals having sus- tained the district court decision. The Aero Fire Alarm Co. recently) EMPRESS moved its headquarters from New The Tilikum quartet, composed York to Seattle. of four male members of our own ———___________ | Standard Grand Opera company, BACKACHE KILLS! will be added feature attraction at ¢/the Empr beginning with a mat- — inee Monda The quartet is com Don't make the fi posed of J. B, Carmichael, first Seaton ting what tenor, the tenor soloist of Plymouth warning that your kidneys are not| Calf, second tenor, soloist of Beth- working properly, and throwing tjany Congregational church; George the poisons should. If this| Hastings, first bass, soloist of Ply- ag A fe ee eae’ Of mouth Congregational church, and uraclf in the grip|C. J. Syliiaasen, second bass, solo- rable disease ist of Bethany Congregational GOLD MEDAL Haarlem O11 Cap-| church will give almost immediate!” mhe headline attraction will be f trom kidney and t which may be the un: the Florence Troupe of novelty ac- robats. © of general {11 health. AL, m |. Evans Lloyd and house will furnish a burlesque nov- elty Morris and Meeker, a pair of comedians, will comede in a regu- lar comedy way Two pretty and talented young ladies in the persons of Dale and Weber, will sing and play the vio- lin. “Fun in an Artist's Studio” will be the offering of the Sidonias, | World's events in motion pietures jand a Keystone comedy will be other features of bill see Titikum British avi Charles “Sari.” Meakins, Mrs. itan, jatrick Campbell, Metropol- mistake of wem to be a There ten't imported from the torles in They pared tn ¢ quanti venlent form to tak tively guaranteed relief, or your money will be re funded. Get them at any drug store be sure to tn > [ and $1.00. h Owl Dru =z} PANTAGES The Pantages will headline attraction have as Its next week, Are appropriate at all times. We have made a careful selection of flaw- less stones, perfectly cut. protean artists. The Hanlons, as sisted by their company, their latest pantomimic The Haunted House. novelty, The new can be METROPOLITAN WEEK *nioxt° JULY 5 MATINEES . WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY © MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL. PYGMALION * The Second Mrs. Tanqueray Wed. Mat, 50c to $1.50 MAIL ORDERS NOW MOORE ‘4 NIGHTS "tar" SUN. SEATS TOMORROW ::°°% POP MAT. WED 250 $1 The Most Sensational and Popular Musical Hit in a Decade ONE YEAR AND A HALF in New York Henry W. Savage —OFFERS— 8 The je Operatic Success Magnificent an oa nd Entire Original New York MIZZI HAJOS 08 co etaing BIG SPECIAL ORCHESTRA—BEST CHORUS EVER FORMED pA “Other Vaudevilie May Come and Go, ES Bes ‘Merry Widow,” the Mirthful, Melodic Chas, Meakine, J. K. Murray, Gretchen Hood, Howard Maroh, Bert Gilbert, John Squires But ner GOES ON FOREVER.’ ALL WEEK Except Tuesday Ni; 4 and Saturday Tuesday Ni; and Sat. PRICES, 50c to $2.00 BEGINNING MONDAY MATINEE The World’s Greatest Quick-change Artists, the HANLON BROTHERS And Their Company in the Pantomimic Protean Novelty “The Haunted House” ‘Wier, Haynes and Montgomery “The Swells at Sea” Kelley and Galvin. The Actor and the Italian | This Afternoon and Tonight MAUDE ADAMS In “QUALITY STREET” won the love of her Pygmalion { played by Mrs. Patrick Campbell. cee MOORE | “Sari,” the operetta in which Grace White-! opening with the matinee Monday, | the famous Hanlon brothers, clever | will stage! Mizi Hajos, the talented young Aus- trian singer, is to be seen and heard at the Moore theatre the first part of the week of July 4, is another Viennese production, fol- lowing “The Merry Widow” and | other productions by Henry age. As her leading man, Charles Meakins is well known here, - ing played the “Prince” in “The Merry Widow” and the lieutenant in “Excuse Me.” i Upward of a hundred couples en- |joyed the ball given Friday night | in the new quarters of the Seattle Comercial Club, It was one of the | most successful affairs the club has ever held. The dance hall was dec orated with roses and ferns. Lectures by Mrs. Fowler An interesting course of six free It lectures on “Health's Deepest Laws” will be given by Mrs. O. 8, Fowler at 3422% Fremont ave., over the Fremont State bank, be- inning tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Subject, “Where Wisdom to Be Found?"—to a June 28, 29, 80, at 8 p.m, all; July 1, 2:30 p. m., to ladies; July 2, 8 p. m., to gentlemen, Live lectures on deep subjects to be sure, Hear them without fail, Don't Forget it’s Free FILMS Bought of Us Developed ABSOLUTELY FREE Evans Service Evans Quality EVANS’ Third Near Union Third Near Columbia We Sell Only Eastman Films requires both “ups” and “downs” to round | out a carcer. Adversity prompts the yearnings that energize ambition and set high goals, One whose life is a | path of roses is not to | be envied, for what is | While on the crest of there to spur him on? | | Downs” | Prosperity one should | show also is featured by a return} engagement of Kitner, Haynes and || Montgomery, Other numbers on! the program will be furnished by | Kelly and Galvin, the “actor and| the Italian”; Barto and Clarke, in nifty songs and dancing, and the Morton Brothers, novelty entertain } Some late and livel a nent value and are be} irae trom ‘the “front In Burope coming much more valu- | will be the motion pleture cor ntelbu able’ every year. have reported to the police that _ ‘they are victims of thiever who) called them by telephone from iced _ Offices, then robbed the rooms While the women were absent. FARE DISPUTE GUARD GOVERNOR | A dispute over payment of a ATLANTA, June 26.—Thousands| are pouring into Atlanta today for the Inauguration of Gov. Harris, and, warned that there will be a huge demonstration of — protest HONOR OF 6. A. R. CENTRALIA, These _ mounted In settings man- || ufactured by us to your order. Diamonds have perma- not permit extrava- gance to hold sway. An intimate associa. | tion with the Dexter, Horton Trust and Sav. | ings Bank and all it stands for in the culti- | vation of wise money | | habits holds out as | much for those who | Prosper as for those | temporarily under the | | hand of adversity, DEXTER HORTON | TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK BRCOND ANU CHERAY June 26.—The en | |tire city of Centralia today Joined | fare, Friday night, may result in |in a monster celebration in honor! the death of M. A. Mullen, 24, of of the G. A. R, and the ladies of | 452 N. 64th st. a former city fire the veterans, who met here in the| man, who fell 15 feet to the tide against the commutation of the annual state encampment | flats from a South Seattle car as it) death sentence of Leo M. Friink, 6, " | ver a trestle at Ninth| uthorities were on the alert to | H.W. North of Everett was| was passing over a trestle at Ninth) tiger any altuation that might arise pear yn . a sayin bch gg race,/ave. and Bayview st. and injured) A small detail of militia {a still 6 department commander | his apine. guarding the country residence of B. F. Clubine of Centralia, was Gov. Slat This fore ; |chosen vice commander, and i, R,|_ According to Mullen, the argu:| Gov. Slaton. This force may be in | f ‘ [ment resulted in his betng put off th creased before night. | Harding of Walla Walla, junior vi , . {commander tunlor vice tne car at Bayview st. He followed) All near-by saloons were ordered Mrs. Dora Riddell of Seattle was| the car out on the trestle and gain feds Movin ste ia |elected department president of the, &? * hold on the gate, cs gg oo Ri I | Women's eliet corps | Conductor Vernon H. Ormsbee Mrs, Louise Turner was elected| S¥# Mullen struck at him, losing| Fire destroyed $1,860 worth of president of the Ladies of the G, hit grip on the gate at the same chemical apparatus in the elty bac ye time. teridlogical laboratory in the Pre 3 Prosecuting Attorne. Lundin fontaine building late Friday A STAR WANT ADS |says an investigation will follow.| pot of disinfectant, which Chemist Resinol clears away pimples Pimples and blackheads disap- pear, unsightly complexions become clean, clear, and velvety, and hair health and beauty are promoted by the regular use of Resinol Soap and an occasional application of Resinol Ointment, These soothing, healing preparations do their work easily quickly and at little cost, when even the most expensive cosmetics and complicated beauty treatments fail. Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap heal | ecrema and other akin eruptions, stop itchi | instantly, and are most valuable for dandrudf, | orem wounds, ete, Sold by all druggists. We tion of the wee! k have them in all sizes, METROPOLITAN aed 8 atric! Campbe! nd he but the smaller stones are} wn "Vondon company will appent just as precious propor- at the Metropolitan the week of tionately as the larger July 5 in G. Dernard Shaw's widely ones, heralded play, “Pygmalion,” Shaw has labeled the play a ro mance, but it Is really comedy Diamond Merchants 821 Second Ave. dere, Nervous Debil- 4 and all Wenk- 6 peanes. CONSULTATION oocereememewent i with many a dig at middle-class morality, and with amusing refere ences to the shame of the haughty An unusually capable company se lected by the famous Irish author | himself gives the play a fine inter pretation The role of © Kexten Churue for Mediclers Hours, tw B7 sun days, 10 to 12. A} DR. MACY | 1B18% Hecond Ave. Seattle, Wash, | Opposite Arcade Entrance o 12, 2 Ormabee has not yet been placed| Jacobson was mixing, suddenly ox under arrest. (ploded in a burst of flame. | that Galatea who