The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 17, 1915, Page 8

THE SEATTLE STAR STUDIO AND PLANT OF THE WASHINGTON FILM COMPANY AT KIRKLAND; THIS ch EXPECTS TO ADVERTISE THE CITY WITH ITS PRODUCT Location of buildings upon picture, left to right: Stage in lett rere werrey ana abt back of same, garage, machine sit and por eene tenia can be seen sees li center is manufacturing building, while at the extreme right is the administration and recept Stars to Be Brought From WHAT PHOTOPLAY HOUSES WILL HAVE DURING COMING WEEK | California, Company Says 7 eee Director Plans to Take Full Advantage of Varied Scen- ery Almost at Studio Door. What the moving picture tn j Known motion picture stars are to be bro! from Callfornia it @ to advertise Loa| be brought from aeidlemapgg edihedinapieds r It 1s & well-known fact that the Angeles and Southern California, »ocion picture companies of South ‘the Washington Film company, now ern California have done more to Nocated at Kirkland Jo} acquaint the world at large with ‘for Seattle and the beautiful scenic spots of Call ‘The Ski Man,” the first pleture than a released by the company, is now comm Mheing shown in the states of Indi ‘ana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and lowa thru the Central Film teompany, of Chicago, while the fAvex Feature company has the ‘Other state rights. Thousands of movie lovers are {becoming acquainted, thru this film, ‘with the really wonderful natural “scenery of the Pacific Northwest. Obtain New Director The Kirkland studio, which oc Cc. P. Winther, formerly of the| cupies over ten acres of ground, {s| Majestic and Mutual! studios in the) now completed, and each day a/South, has been appointed produc Score or more of movie actors can ing director of the local company, be seen working before the camera.| with E. R. Hinds, late with the Tt has been said that Seattle! Selig Los Angeles studio, as = ould never produce motion plc-| chief camera man tures, but the Washington Film, J. Haroldi Lichtenstein, also ot| company was the first to try the Los Angeles, will be in charge of venture, and is succeeding. the publicity department | Get Experienced Actors The technical director, W. P. At the studio at Kirkland, across! Peterson, has added five new em Lake Washington, the director only| ployes to his staff, among whom has to go a few feet to secure ideal| are two experienced cutting and locations—valleys, hills, mountains| splicing girls, also from pec or water scenes. nia. For future productions by th J. 1, Adams ts president and gen-| Washington Film company, well- eral manager. expects to ¢ Northwest the forn comm: civic ould ever h do, In the curr Issue of th Motion Picture World a corre spondent says The Chamber of} Commerce of Los Angeles claims the motion pieture companies are| the leading industry of the South and they are worth to the commu nity over $15,000,000 per anmrum organizations “Demetra and Van Buren Plight Their Troth, at the Li a pretty erty. rrita: ooner, i bourne. ine wrens wire. Flo Labadie and Boyd Marshall, in a dramatic scene from “Crossed Wir at the Class A. omiun,” at & DESERTED AS BABY COMES, MOTHER GOES INSANE; DIES Mrs. Emma Mariott, 45, mother of ‘@ baby girl born at the city hospital Waly 3, a few hours after Mrs. Mar-/ “ott had been granted a divorce | ‘from her husband, Fred Mariott, millwright, died Friday afternoon, gust after she eptered the King county courthouse, where she was to have been tried for insanity. The physicians attending her say she was stricken with a sudden at- 4ack of heart failure. At the time of her divorce, court-| room loungers were stirred by the forceful story she told of cruel treat- ment. She said her husband not only treated her brutally, but squan- dered his savings, forcing her to support herself, and finally desert- ing her. He is supposed to be in Canada now. Tears coursed down her cheeks he told her story. A few hours later a patrolman found her wandering about the Streets, in the night. She was mut- tering to herself. When he spoke to her she moan- ed and gazed at him dully. Within a few moments an ambu- lance was bearing her to the hos- “THE WOMAN FROM WARREN” 2-Part Majestic Drama ATT Y's cKY PUP” Keystone Scream, 2 Reels i MADONNA” Teeny Li ae pital, where, after a hasty examina-) tion, hospital attendants began working frantically in preparation | for the new arrival. The baby, a healthy, promising | youngster, was born and will live Mrs. Marlott recovered phyaical- ly, but the haunting memories of }that terrible night undermined her }mentally, until it was agreed that treatment at Steilacoom Insane asy- lum would be best. OLYMPIA, Tuy 7.—Arraigned | here yesterday on a charge of first! degree murder tn connection with the murder of Fred Weiss, an Olym- pla tatlor, in June, Joe Parrott con tinues to maintain his Innocence, insisting a man named Brown com mitted the crime. ed of the murder of J. O. Rainey, at Wilkeson, tried to escape from a deputy sheriff several days ago by | throwing pepper in the deputy's | face. jone of Parrott’s fingers. against him was not strong enough |to hold him in the Rainey ca case. When you buy a cigar, look at the label. If the label is pretty, the chances are the cigar is bad! RETURN ENGAGEMENT OF FRITZI SCHEFF “Pretty Mrs. Smith” A Comedy in 5 Acts Supported by an All- Star Cast—Including Owen Moore, who enacts role of third husband; Lewis Bennison, late star of Damaged Goods com- pany, and Forest Stanley, leading man of the Bur- bank theatre. ? What would you do with three ‘husbands, if, supposing two of them dead, all three were to make thelr appearance at the same time? Fritzi Scheff shows you a way out See for yourself how she does it. Three Days only—Starting Sunday—at the MELBOURNE ADULTS, 10c. CHILDREN 5c. The deputy shot, nipping off) Evidence) scene from “The Rug Maker's Daughter, | | Parrott, held at Tacoma, suapect-| a Nation,” Clemme: | _F. &. Pratt of Boston, chairman of board of directors, Puget Sound Traction, Light & Power Co,, who jarrived here Friday, will remain jin Seattle a week. Total of $288,000 In bullion re-| ceived Friday by U Gov. Lister will attend governors’ conference {n Portland. |. Chicago Maru arrived in port Fri- day. When about 60 miles from | Shanghai, ship hit subme reed wreck, damaging port side | Dr. A. N. Dickinson, of Massa-| chusetts Institute of Technology visiting in elty M. M. Palge and Julia filed sult Friday for $46,000 against | Malcom McFee, railroad contractor for injuries sustained when auto driven by MeFee’s son crashed into Paige car on * September 28 1912 Washington State Weekly, repub- |" lican organ, made first appearance Friday. Publishers are EB. Jay Thomas. Wife of George T. Marye, Ameri-| can ambassador to Russia, on her arrival in San Francisco Friday, | denied rumor that her husband was to resign George Hotcomb, former mem. ber of Washington supreme bench, killed in auto accident Friday near | Washington, D, C. | Gen. J. Madero, brother of mar- |tyred president of Mexteo, wedded |to Carmen Garcia, of Hermoasilla, | | Friday G. 8, Speets, claiming to American trader, arrested in Ber. | lin on charges which have not been | made known ¢ } | Portland Lumber Co killed Thursday ing tree, at Cathlamet, afternoon by fad Henry Waithall as “The L ittle Colonel” in “The Birth or FORD OWNERS TO GET BIG REBATE Approximat hased thelr The compa refund of approximately $15 In August 1, clared that if sales reached | during the year, | date, every purchaser would receive | Monlal league was a love affair, but| a refund of $40 to $60 S. assay office.| was reached Friday afternoon, ac | cording to a dispatch from Detroit as ‘ely $50,000 will be | distributed among Washington own-| lers of Ford d August 1, profit-sharing plan of Henry of Detroit who have machines since their share of autos pur last the Ford ny announces a total 100,000 1914, the company de beginning on that The mark VENETIAN FIESTA » People's Chorus will give its) have shown up at once second annual festival of music water T by steam Paige} Washington Prizes for canoe will be will Some of tb has been secured, ram is assured be carri ave Leschi Mrs, J. C rived here Fr automobile the Blewett and Snoqualmie in the the first woman to accomplish this feat FARM HANDS BARRED t OLYMPIA, an hands cannot be derived compensati@n act in G. L. Clark, employe in camp of creameries operated on farms come| under {ts seope, ing of Assistant @ttorney General iJ, M factories, . Wilsoa, cade on July Lake uesday evening, er Issaquah, on the best awarded, and canoes ed on the boat free. best talent in the city and a fine pro: The steamer will park at 8 o'clock decorated “""\ DRIVES OVER PASS Lilly of Cashmere iday, rom ar after driving an Wenatech pases, mountains, She is July 17.—Plain farm reap the benefits to from the workmen's machine shops and| necording to a rul thru} | hands with ® man but men working | LIBERTY Maud Allan, internationally fa mous as a dancer, appears at Lib erty Sunday tn a five-part feature, The Rug Maker's Daughter. This ts Miss Allan's first appear- ance on the screen, and is in the «of a scoop for the Para t program, as Miss Allan had repeatedly refused to appear before | the camera. | | However, after a successful 18- month tour of Australia, Asia, In-| dia and the Orient, and while on| her way to London, the famous dancer stopped off for a visit at Los Angeles, and fell for the charm of pictures, The film is a mixture of dance and drama, told thru a seductive love story of the Far East. A treat will be W. BE. M Clymont’s interpretation on the $35,000 Wurlitzer HopeJones Unit orchestra. Mr. MacClymont ts dt rect from the Vitagraph theatre in New York city, and a master mus! clan A Paramount travelogue completes the bill CLASS A “Crossed Wires” ix the feature at the Clans A for three days, be- | ginning Sunday. The story deals with an old woman who is made! | violently {11 by a potion prepared | by her rascally servant. She drags herself to the phone to tell her| nephew, but the lines are crossed and a young civil engineer hears the woman's last words, laying the blame upon the servant. After the old lady's death, her nephew is/ lcharged with the murder, but in| saved by the civil engineer, who | comes forward with the t mony that frees him. A Woman Scorn-| ae ’ a drama, “The Mutual Week-| * and “The Silent Co-ed,” a com: | jedy, are the other pictures on the bill, MELBOURNE Petite Fritz! Scheff ts the attrac }tion at the Melbourne this week in | Mrs, Smith,” a comedy | | “Pretty To escape the| drama The story Is this life, Druetila| Smith, with} monotony of home marries Ferdinand whom she goes to Africa. She re-| and meets For Believing Ferd turns to Americ rest Smith, poet drowned at sea, she weds the poet He decamps, leaving the impression of suleide. Dru meets Frank Smith 300,000, @ Clubman, and weds a third time. | Her latest venture in the matri-| Frank has a bad temper and a} Jealous disposition, and pretty Dru soon begins to pine for single bless. | edness again. | However, her difficulties are Jeventually straightened out. She | decides to live with the hubby she really loves, after all of them | . COLONIAL “Scandal,” famous drama written |by Lois Weber, author of “Hypo crites,” is at the Colontal for a run of one week. The picture tells of the ease with which seandal may be started thru an entirely inno-| cent situation and how easy it fs to be deceived by appearances | To save herself from being ostra- Jelwed even by her own family, | Daisy Dean marries a man who is }not her equal, This man's sister atill keeps alive in her breast the scandalous tales about her sister | in-law | One day thought she at the saw sea shore she Daisy holding If she had Seen jthe same thing from the opposite side of the beach she would have seen that the hand which was be ing so rapturously kissed was not | Daisy's, but the hand of one who |had a perfect right to the caresses Slander, 1s represented in the al |legorical epilogue to the picture as a slimy, shapeless creature which | throws mud upon all within reach ee | ALHAMBRA “The Millionaire Baby,” Selig | the construction Als good al rt feature, is now at the hambra. There are several | scenes, such as the theatre, the big storm, and the fight on the balcony { Dr. Pool’s The photography ouse is well handled, jthe settings exquisite The story is of a baby bought by 4 millionaire’s wife to deceive her husband into thinking it her own and what happened when the real | mother, in later years, wanted the child back. Grace Darmond ry Mestayer and John Charl are the bright lights In the list of Selig | stars featured . . MISSION Today the Misston has another popular double feature bill The Wives of Men, two-part Bio graph, is a story laid in the big out doors, on the frontier of civiliza tion. When it became evident that work was going badly because discipline had re laxed under the blast foreman, who was a heavy drinker, the chief en gineer was summoned from the Eastern office to take charge. Because of a wife's pleadings, the | blast foreman is put back to work This adds to the hatred of the for man. Two little strangers visit camp, one baby to the chief's home and the other to the foreman’s The first dies, and, fearing that the news would take its mother, too, the chief pleads with the foreman 8 wife to exchange babes and to re pay her debt of gratitude. She con. sents, with a breaking heart plications follow that give an un expected twist to the plot Lilian Walker, in a two-part vi tagraph special, and a new Billie Reeves comedy complete the pro- Har | Com- | | sram GRAND ‘The Grail,” a two-reel drama at the Grand, is a modern applic tion of Tennyson's poem, and trans- |lates into modern terms the spirit which actuated knights of | cross in days of old. | Jean, tion, insists her lover make a mod- ern knight of himself and seek his | “Grail,” pledging herself to marry him when he has found it. He helps the girl's father, who fs financially embarrassed thru rash investments. His bank breaks. The father leads the girl to believe her lover an ab- sconder. She puts him out of her heart. They meet later in the West at a dry water hole. It all comes out right in a somewhat wonderful manner. A drama and a comedy | are also on the bill |CLEMMER Manager Clemmer has continued | |“The Birth of a Nation,” Griffith's film masterpiece, another week. He | has Inaugurated three shows a day |for the benefit of those who other-| wise would not see it. Each show, since the start of the picture, has played to a full house, and from all indications will continue so until jthe end. Manager Clemmer has this ambitious venture. Order issued by Gen. Gallieni, military governor of Paris, forbid-| djng sale of alcoholic liquors to troops stationed in camp at Paris. the} a girl of romantic dispost-| been extraordinarily successful with | IPROGRAMS Liberty Ending Tuesday Night The Rug Maker's Daughter? (Maud Allan) Paramount tray elogue; W. E. MacClymont on Unit orchestra Alhambra Ending Sunday Night “The Millionaire Baby,” six (Grace Darmond, Harry M and John Charles) At the Clemmer “The Birth of a Nation” (Lilian Gish, Mae Marsh, Miriam Henry Walthall and Kalph Colonial Ending Saturday Night “Scandal Stock Farming is Brazil,” educational Class A Ending Tuesday Crossed Wires” (Flo and Boyd Marshall); Weekly “Woman drama; “A Silent Co-ed,” Melbourne Ending Tuesday: The Pretty Mrs. Smith” | Scheff Grand Ending Tuesday Night “The Grail” (Anna Littlesan Herbert Rawlinson); Spirits Moved,” comed: of the Sea,” drama Madison Ending Sunday Night four-part Court Martialed,” drama Baby,” comedy; “Whee Charley Was a Child,” comedy, Alaska Ending Tuesday Night “The Greyhound” (W. Tucker) | Reduced All Around “The blamed shirts won't fit ma — j they” re three sizes too small.” 8 “Bat, Henry, they are regular lehirts 1 got for $17"--Philadelphia Bulletin —the first screen appearance of the internationally famed dancer MAUD ALLAN In an exquisite divertissment of dance and drama. “The Rug Maker’s Daughter’ A Sunday dashing Trave 1 W., E. to 11 logue by A. M, Concert P. romance in 5 parts. Aiso Paramount Noon Continuous—11 .¢ +. Ma P eae LIBERTY i # Henry |