The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 26, 1915, Page 6

Lincoln in Ford theatre just before the assassination, a scene in “The Birth of a Nation,” at the Clemmer. Hubby Finds Strange Union Suit Beneath | Wife’s Bed; Divorce’ Tt must be irritating to go home| When he went to the bank, later to} to one’s wife after a duecedly hard|get something from his safety de | day at the office and find a strange | posit box and found that Mra. Flook gentleman's union sult underneath | had beaten him to it and taken the the bed. | entire $1,000 bank roll, he was for] Anyway, Edwin Flook felt & moment vexed. Way about it But whether he lost his temper He pulled the garment ont by the/outright is not recorded in the an- leg, but there was nobody fn it. He|nals of the superior court asked Mrs. Flook where the usual/ oie Gecupant was. She seemed some! 1: was a strange fate that called what reluctant about telling, and! in. case of Mra Mary A. Seymour vs. Jesse ©. Seymour next. Her |story was so different. She was a little old, ald lady, with the dearest wrinkles and soft, gray Her Mps trembled and ber |worn hands clutched the arms of {the witness chair in a grasp that tmade them blue. that nh © Well, Flook got a divorce, Friday, in Judge Albertson's court. years ago—when Flook got home the missus had vamoosed. Also the union suit. It was too big for Flook ig Meda She had been a stenographer and There were odd moments during | 1 ookKee; per when she married him the next few months when Fi0ok| she said. He had gone away some wondered where she had g0n¢.| where, she guessed because he w tired of her. She was struggling now at neral housework, and washing and ironing to raise the |mortgage on her little home at Bal lard. He is divorced eee And so ie Mre. Lillian M, Wii- tiame. She left Cassius M. Williame, who lives in a cottage on Lake | Washington, and went to Vic- toria. | talk of a Ger- on that city he | O YOU LIKE MYSTERY, AND A _ DRAMA THAT MAKES LIT- TLE THRILLS RUN iets UP AND DOWN @ YOUR SPINAL COLUMN? IF YOU DO, YOU CAN'T # | wired her: | “Come back at once. Germans are going to bombard Victoria. | And she wired back: “1 should worry.” The | Anna Alice Glozenbrooke Strayer | got a divorce from plain John Henry | AFFORD TO MISS Strayer, and Sarah Alice Von | s Conscience Gohren Martin took a decree from} | Ball, ° Mrs. Myrtle Sherman MacKnight A FOUR REELER Jr, said her husband, Alexander t D., had been in a sort of stupor , WITH FRANCES ever since she married him. By! way of waking him up, Judge Al) NELSON AND WM. WALSH IN THE bertson ordered him to pay $15 a} (month alimony. | “And if he doesn't want to do LEAD! LES that,” added the judge, “he may go ING RO out to the stockade and pull stumps.” see A DETECTIVE Four times had George Byrne formeriy of London, taken his) STORY THAT MASTERPIECE THE FILM IS A IN LINE lerring wife, Florence, back to bim.| | “She Is now a hopeless drunk- ard,” he said, “I would try again for our three children’s sake, but it —— is no use.” “Let the unfortunate husband take a decree of divorce,” said the ALSO judge, in a tone of genuine sym | pathy. way of matrimony an unhappy one.| They are Mrs. Jennie Smith and| Mrs. Helen Dodel, who got divorces | from T. W. P. Smith and Charles A Dodel, their respective husbands | both on grounds of abandonment. | The Smiths were married in Daw. \son in 1908, A COMEDY WITH KING BAG- GOT AND JANE GAIL IN THE LEADS Mrs. Winifred Orth, formerly Miss Winifred Lutz, enogr: pher for Armour & Co., wi married to William H, Orth le than a year ago. BMI left the matter of providing up to Mrs. Orth, but he doesn’t eat at her table now. 5 Reels for 5c % THRILE MINUTE AND EVERY Frazer thought that, so} BE had taken | Oliver FE. Hong as his wife, tee trouble to go to Grangewille,} |Idaho, to hunt herself another| |spouse, as he sald she had, he might | |a8 well get sore and quit her, Which |he did, Chris Lawringsen wouldn't split! | \his pay check 50-50 with Mra, Lena |‘ Just North of Pike |Lawringsen. He hoarded it, and : made her earn her own. Then he on Third. |sllpped away to the Frisco fair, or somewhere, and—blewee! Just itke that—he is a grass widower, | Arab” ledy combination ev edy, “The Little cher.” Mabel! Norman, Max Sennet, Owen Moore, | | Fatty Arbuckle nave parts in this. | CLASS A ‘ A circumstantial evidence film, |day and Tuesday | reels | sent jerime The arrest of a real murderer, The biggest battle of the civil war le re-enacted. A series of wild Ky-Klux “rides” that commandeered a county for a day and cost $10,000, Night photography of scenes invented and perfected at) cost of $5,000. j mo Wonderful artillery duels in which | ow real shells, costing $80 apiece, were | tin used. Miles of trenches, thousands | of fighters. “War as it actually Twelve thousand feet of film. The closing date has not yet been! determined, but will be announced at a later date. cee LIBERTY | The Arab,” in which Edgar Sel-| wyn makes bis first photodramatic appearance in Seattle, ander the} management of the Jesse L. Lasky| | Feature Play Co., has been selected | jas the Liberty's headliner Sunday,| Monday and Tuesday. The film is} founded on the play of the same name by Selwyn himself, in which| this distinguished star-author-man-| ager made one of his greatest New York personal hits. Scenes in “The are laid in Syria. It is a love story of Jamil, the daring #on of a desert sheik, and Mary Hilbert, the daughter of an American mission jary. The big dramatic event ts cen |tered around a wholesale Christian jm A new South American the shares a place on same pill. COLONIAL One of the most noteworthy ever assembled to portray a screen version of a famous work, is to be! seen in the William Fox production of Marie Corelli's “Wormwood,” | which comes to the Colonial Sun-| day. Every part, even to the minor| characters, has been handed to a} dramatic artist selected by Fox per sonally John Sainpolis. who en-| acts Gaston Beauvais, the “absin-| theur,” one of the princtpal char-| acters, is known all over the coun- try for his work in David Warfield's “Return of Peter Grimm,” in which he played Warfield’s part during the latter's enforced absence from} casts the stage, Some other notables are} Ethel Kauffman, Charles Arthur,| Edgar Davenport, Lillian Dilworth! The best com-| or assembled for | will enact a two-part com-| and Caroline Harris. one film. minus the hackneyed characteri« ties of films usually based on this} subject—the 11th-hour expose of tho| true murderer—is the leader on the! Class A's new bill for Sunday, Mon-| The play is called | and takes up four | of film. “Conscience” tells} story of a young man who is to the electric chair for a he did not commit. A while jafter a man, becoming in od in |the case, investi«: real) slayer is found, following a remark-| able probe A detective story and) Conscience, the a comedy, “Mismated,” complete! the bill | eee | MISSION | The headliner at the Mission for| Sunday, Monday and Tuesday ta ‘Rector's at Seven,” a Broadway} comedy feature in three acts, with| many well known comedienes in the cast. The action of the story starts at Rector'’s when Professor Alonzo White invites his wife to dine with | ALHAMBRA Chartier Chaplin continues to cut comical capers at the Alhambra in hin newest two reel comedy, lacknowledged to be the best of his battle long list of successful ce ag y little} nt has a seoaaton all surely must have seen Chap} The man who sald, ovem: n, STAR—SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1915. i “The Birth of a agg ” Half-Million Dollar Film, Opens Sunday at Work,” ite for no truer words, or more ex SUNDAY AND WEEK OLONIAL MACK SENNET'S LATEST KEYSTONE FUN RIOT The Little Teacher Two Acts Featuring: Mabel Normand and Fatty Arbuckle PAGE 6. Wormwood" (Ethyl Kauffman), five parts; “The Little Teacher’ (Mabel Normand, Owen Max Sennet, and Fatty Arbuckle), two-part comedy Class A Ending Tuesday Night Conscience,” four-part drama cee Mission Ending Tue y Night Rector's at Seven,” three-part comedy; “The Missing Man,” two: part Western drama eee Grand Ending Tuesday Night Moore, | oe “Lady, you want | should marry with you,” Edgar Selwimg ending “Conscience,” a power ‘aad i ful four-part film preachment against capital punishment— One of the scenes in “Wormwood,” Broadway feature, with desert sheik, proposes to pretty American missionary in Class A. all-star cast, booked for solid week at Colonial. Arab,” at the Liberty. { sata iilioneceines | i f Raps Clemmer will begin making new motion picture history for Seattle Sunday with the beginning of “The Birth of | | f a Nation,” the most stupendous and spectacular film which | et bee wceived by the brain of man. The picture | leost half a million dollars to produce. It was directed | Griffith, the highest salaried man in the movie game | his will be the first time a Seattle movie house has adopted a scale of prices ranging from 25 cents up. Manager | " Clemmer has engaged a full orchestra for this engagement | | Yesterday the picture was given a trial she t number of local newspapermen. It was unanimously indorsed | as the atest drama—stage or film—the world er seer | — ek 7 " BY CARL W. ACKERMAN with America, thru @ ono The ph volves about thi At about the same time) pressive ones, could be sald of the! The Test of the Man” (Marie| jeans ies, one Southern and one H White, tired business man,|litte comedian, Kvery mover Waleamp), two parts Larry | (United Proce Btat? Correepontent) | eee ican ern, tWo marriages finally uniting nd #ame|counts with hin 4 counts for a|O'Neil, Gentleman” (Wm. Gar-| BERLIN, (Via The Hague), June), 4 oo with mutual efforts them a/ laugh ith thin two-part, 90 horse-| Wood), two parts; “We Should |26—A strong editorial published by| Gerstanding can be reached. The romances are strenuously ob y the walt-| power comedy is a thre Vita-| Worry About Auntie,” comedy |the Berliner Tageblatt, powerful ex-|onjy difficulty is the ammu od to om both sides, and a a and then ¢ graph drama, “The Way tage i | ponent of the policies of Chancellor | problem. Germany will contini cations are added by political trou ifferent time than they | Tranegressor aturin | Alaska Endina Tuesday Niene | a bore American ealee aaa bles, the rising of the Ku-Klux clan The Missing Man,” two. and aney. Cro n Her Shattered Tdcl Ou «| Yon Bethmann Hollweg, today 10 anand po to GScn oni be and the civil war part Western drama, is the ot ities and the rteadfast love and Marsh and Robert Herron), five-|expected to have the most import While America is adh Au _ ° Re vividly | film pratt devotion of Fanchette, a cabaret! part comedy nt influence upon the German-/the letter of the law, she is | portrayed, « ny the civil war nger, for her unworthy husband as - preentios fe! srolong this unfortunate: battle scene, which was done by the GRAND ending In a dramatic climat where Alhambra Ending Wednesday | At#*rican situation conflict. The. sppostila alifornia state militia under the d Marie Walcamp, the daring little|the mar realizes the error, com Night The editorial dealing with ad Prenat government part rection of military expert t wal favorite, will again be| prises the th This show will| “Work” (Charles Chaplin), two|controversy growing out of the sink: |)" this barter is unfounded: sane shoot ng re! perabems Lis body as at the Grand, be\continue an next Wednesday varied 5" Way of ~ a ing of the Lusitania and the sub-| coin, one of the high spots of the! sinning nday and running until! nigt or” (Leah Baird and Leo Delaney), . “ ge |constructed exclusively for this pur-| Man,” 9 two-part drama. The Grand Springs”; “Hearst-Selig Weekly.” | People of both countries to view the pose. The exact measurements of has mate a practice of featuring, PROGRAMS so situation sanely and not to be gnis CANNERY the Pord theatre were followed. pretty Marie ox fast as filme star Clemmer Beginning Sunday Titite ed by the jingoes. | um Ending Saturday Night . Scenes Cost Much Money ring her are produce and this The Birth of Nation” (Lil havens ies o Fo tlighte wae It is vident that America has} “The Birth of a Nation” comes) policy i# making a distinct hit with! Gish Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooj parts; “The Swinging Doors,” two |e? 4% badly misinformed regard-| OLYMPIA, June 26-—A ae from “The Clansman.” a story by|the Grand fans. Marte gets a ¢ hance| He ry Walthall Ralph Lewis) parte: Mum comedy ‘ ing Germany's attitude as Germany | -onference to fix the wages Of Thomas Dixor to spread herself in this ot rey ore eee has been regarding America’s,” thc ¢ osses will not be held Below are a few facts about the| lease, which has several ng dre Liberty Ending Tuesday Night Madison Sunday paper declared Messages that all, it is announced by Franc film jmatic climates. Additional features| ‘rhe Arab” (edgar Selwin). five} “The War of the Wilds,” two|Germans were indifferent to the|Headlee, secretary of the 1 It has 5,000 scenes, 18,000 char-jare “Larry O'Nell, Gentleman. rts; "South American Trav-|parta; “The Stone Age,” “Courage” | Possibilities of war with the United|wage commission. A com! acters and 3,000 horse: drama in two parts, and a comedy.| elogue.” |(Edna Maison), “The Delicatessen” | States caused very bad Mgr nd peo welfare commissions of Cities were built up and then|"We Should Worry About Auntie eee (Weber and Fields), and “Park|there. But Germans and the ington, Oregon and destroyed by fire. | eae Colonial Ending Saturday Night | Johnnies,” ernment cannot too emphatically oe be held this summer to sert that their greatest desire is to) wages of cannery Ww maintain relations of friendliness’ Coast. three-part | drama Animated Weekly, of June 9th, topteal; “The Fatal Kiss,” comedy . Ye College Ending Saturday New Exploits of Elaine,” No. 18, |two parts: “A Romance of Hawalt, jdrama; “Animated Weekly,” top- ifeal; “Love's Reflection,” comedy. ‘CALLS ON NAVY June 26.—Revo- lutionary changes in naval methods NEWPORT, RB. 1 up }ican navy date, Secretary Daniels told the navy war college | jhere today He said the development of the| submarine and the activity of air ships had held England's mighty navy behind a landlocked barrier for the first year of the war. The secretary called upon the war col lege to find new weapons which will make the navy of the United States the greatest weapon of of. fense and defense in the world While holding wisely to the good of the past, such as has stood the acid test of this great war, do not fear to cast aside what have proven mere shackles of convention, and go daringly forward,” the secretary declared BUILDING TRADES ELECT OFFICERS Four building trades unions jelected officers Friday night as fol lows Bridge and structural iron work to ers; W. R. Palmer, president; 8, J, Randall, firse vice president Harry Lee, second vice president |A. G. Dentler, recording secretary lL. Tiffany, president vice president; Thomas Fred Knabe, {financial secretary; C. D. Johnson, |recording secretary, and F. R, Sa ea guardian | LOS ANGELES, June 26,—After| applying fire to the feet of Mrs Louls Martinez, an aged resident in! the Latin quarter here, to make her reveal the hiding place of $120 in| gold, seven Mexican robbers got in |to a dispute over a division of the |money, This gave Mrs, Martinez a chance to call the police, and five of the men were captured. FOR NEW IDEAS must be devised to bring the Amer. | Scotty Hofeditz, business agent; S |J. Randall, treasurer; M, J. Kinery conductor, and P. J. Fardy, warden, | Hod carriers and building labor-| Jers: William Coffey, president Charles Geake, vice president; I G, Spriggs, recording secretary, and |August Schimmel, sergeantat-arms. | Lmthers’ local, No, 104: J. W |Chamberlain, president; R. EB Moore, vice president; 8, A. Smith, jrecording secretary, and W. D.! |Laurenson, secretary-treasurer. | Cement finishers’ local, No, 528 The 5-part spectacular drama of the ert—the Oriental love story of a young Shiek and an American girl—filled with, the most amazing scenes of desert life” ever shown on stage or BOARD WILL SHOW DELETED FILMS PORTLAND, June 26.—Fol- lowing announcement that the motion picture censorship board had prepared a composite reel, showing all the immoral and un- fit scenes deleted from movie films, Mrs. E. B. Colwell, the sec- retary, was overwhelmed today with requests from persons anx- ious to view the pie It is probable, however, that the flim will be exhibited only to the city commission in connec: tion with the censor board’s an- nual report. M Albee suggested that the pi might be shown in a theatre for a week or two, and the city’s bonded indebtedness wiped out with the proceeds. and warfare screen. Paramount Travelogue Showing Antofagasta, Valparaiso, Vina | Del Mar and a Chilean mountain sunrise. FILE NEW CHARGE AGAINST GOVE A federal charge has been lodged against De Forest W. Gove, paying teller of the Dexter Horton bank who stole $15,000 from the bank to cover poker losses. The complain ant is Martin McLean, a depositor who charges Gove with abstracting and misappropriating $3,000 belong ing to him, Gove will be given a preliminary hearing Monday. —_——$<$ —____. Sunday Noon Concert 12:15 to 12:45 p. m. by H. B. 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