The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 16, 1916, Page 3

| 43] H. B. j | WARNER | ENID | MARKEY Are Starred Mack Swain In 2 Reels of Keystone Comedy— “Madcap Ambrose” Oliver G. Wallace And Our $35,000 Wur- litzer Unit Orchestra— Real Music for Reel Pictures This Bill Tonight Only FIRST AT PIKE Our old friend. Dreamy Dud. the sharacter made famous by Cartoon Wallace A. Carlson. back gain. He ts scheduled to appear wice on Essanay programs in Sep tember. He will be accompanied by 500 feet of scenic. The antics of Dreamy and his dog Wag are known and loved by all picture enthui fests. They carry every grown-up back to his childhood days and are an intimate part of the life of every boy and gi They appeal to all alike. Among the split reel re leases for this month are also two more of the Nooz Pictorials. Carison Canimated CLASS “A” THEATRE THIRD AVE. AT PIKE ST. Always 5 Cents Wed. to Sat. “The Old Man Who Tried to Grow Young” 3-Part Selig Drama A Sensational Drama of An Old Man's Search for the Fountain of Youth, Featuring AL W. FILSON The Versatile Character Star ——— VITAGRAPH COMEDY “The Fur Coat’”’ —With— WM. DAUGMAN “It's a Good One” “The Girl From Frisco” OLLIE KIRKBY “The Fighting Heiress” See the— Terrifying and Spectacular Prairie Fire—Cattle Rangers and Sheep Herders in a Pitched Battle A Play Full of ACTION Shell Wagan = STAR—WEDNESDAY, AUG. 16, 1916. GERMAN CROP OUTLOOK GOOD Declare Attempts to Destroy Their Crops Have Failed } PROVENDER PLENTIFUL By CARL W. ACKERMAN DOINGS IN FILMDOM ‘NEWS~~NOTES GOSSIP SOOO BERLIN, Aug, 16.—Allled mill leas chieftains baye attempted to ald the a jermanyout cam paign” by setting fire to German harvest fields, according to fr perts received here in by «Anglo over the Bach ar Karl lands ni ve been expert Incendiary bomb veral fields with fir tarting gr ht damage Hetockt » that Germa the plan In the first the felds ve not iry enough to of able them to start a & t fire,” he said In th ond place many of the cr in. In the jthird place large farms like you have in America| and if small far ost thelr crops in this manne would not af pet the total, Den't for that our aeroplanes are our farma as well rther o potatoes—eannot burn they are bur The oat aly from the harvest is so good that horses’ ra tions Will be increased. The grain} crop is so good that bread ratio will be Increased and th food fe der prospects aro se excellent that! Germany ex; to raise as large | a stock of pigs t fall as in peace | times ND of “Jumpers” oave been working | the claim under a false ownership. . s leads up to the various T lelashes with the Big Boss and his gang, which are exceptionally well jhandied Billie Burke, Famous Star, Who Is Appearing in “Peggy” at the Alhambra oe eee PROGRAMS TODAY depicts a guide in the North Woods LIBERTY—1. Warner and Feld) who is also a poet hspeee te “ane $5") Rarwises eomest:| Chartie Chaplin in “The Vega i , —Derethy Bernard in “Sport| CHArl! Pe Little Jane Lee, the popular Wm.| a. i pond,” Is also on the b Fox photoplay actress, is only 4] ALMAMBRA—Billle Burke in “Peasy. ee . 4 with complete in roots years old, but she is saturated h COLISEUM—Mary Pickford te “Hulda CLASS A the motion picture atmoxphere. | rom Hotieed” The Fighting Heiress,” a two-|pmiends recently gave the diminu DELEMMER—Aaita Stewart te “Th! roel Kalem, opened today at theltive screen favorite two chairs, one| | REN—Bleache Sweet “The Sow Class A The Old Man Who}, rocker the other a straight chair COLONIAL—Williom Ressell, to “The| Tried to Grow Young.” and “The} And Jane calls the first her — Fur Coat,” are also on the pro!movie’ chair, the second her Heiress”) eram still” chatr | j Tried to Grow The feature story of the heiress o.0 6 ] ha ne | tells the story of two men in love! srumor was bred in the bones, In | Reckoning Trait”: 1.| With @ young girl-—one is young /the case of John Barrymore, the | Nesneretsr an ely ‘-/and handsome, the other aged and | Pamous Players star, in Paramount se saa jvealthy. The story ts aptly told) pictures, and ft was inevitable that - with many new features Ihe should become the super funny] see triot 4 }man of hin filustrious family, as penseful REX lof the screen, too, for that matter.) and decidedly human play than| Por the first time in several /for he has inherited the most valu Shell 43” reached the screen.|photodramas, Blanche Sweet ha: lable asset of the comedian, the in-| This production will be shown Atjan opportuaity to display several |gtinctive knowledge of that which| L the Liberty for the last time to-rof her beautiful gowns tn “The |constitutes humor Learned it during the pre-conven-| uccccegee ie ener ie term) forms the basis of relationship aay night. Written by C. Gardner Sul-| Sowers,” at the Kex. This story, ‘The son of Maurice Barrymore tion days, they maintain eur Spplied to the hedge | Trees, bushand 200 wise fsa, this dranik trom the Ince|of Rossian political intrigue waslang’sennta Drew. and nephew of mare worn in soldiers’ hats, originated. | Sanaet antl most sacred tie mit studios tells of a spy's work in the| written especially for Miss Sweet the {nimitable John Drew, it Cari D. Shepard, Hughes’ pub-| 4 his word is bacoman from sat: aver tli tath considera present war, and taken as a whole./by Marion Fairfax, and produced |oniy natural that he should have f] liclty agent, says the governor is/ine French word “cocarde,” and|that fatal little word “but")—love the picture, which was produced under the personal direction of |pecome permeated with the love of VISIT human—admits it openly, in fact. | was sinally applied “to the|tiay not always last. Olan under the direction of Reginald) Wm. C. De Mille the stage haga |plumes of cocks’ feathers worn by| Sounds the keyaute of many aJ6—m Herker, is one of the most inter de > Rell 4 | Shepard gets by with the human/Cretian soldiers serving in the| tragedy in the following lines: ting andj thoroly satisfactory MISSION Ry the simple expedient of using _— stuff himself by wearing a softliyench army. SD el eLove he comes and Love lian five-part of@rings presented fn ve qe zen Kerrigan is well suit-ltwo cameras and of ators alter: licity manager, “because it appeals) shirt ! irk | ries z acuna’ tinae ed to the leading role in “The |nately, each stationed in a different/to the old guard 1 + S10 | Just as fate or fancy c: : oe Reckoning Trail,” the five-part Red |part of the set Director Gen eee One of the human things Hughes #. sem agte Me iineia: beni ae Longer eae whan Corest culadan STRAND j Feather production that is playing jeral Albert Capellani, of the Clar And there are two secret service |does ie sweat down five collars | tory 40 the Germans eld at *|vcughs and. flies, when. penn Few plays that are being filmed at the Mission. ie first appears | Kimball Young Film Corporation, is guards, a doctor, three stenog- every day. i aaa Pa eg and bidden” : today, carry such 2 powerful story|#s Carter Raymond, a Broadway |saving an average of four hours|raphers, valet, private secretary eee bout 9,000 square miles. | As yet, no one has proved DRI \otdoes “The Witch,” at the Strand | youth who has gone the pace and|wasted time a day and in tour manager and the publicity 4!) “And he had to bring four suits,"| @ __py as neylOsopher “enough to Geen beginning today, with Nance O'Neil, | suddenly finds it necessary to earn jnew and startling screen effects in/rector trooping with Mr. and Mrs. /says Shepard, “and six white ves' Th Bie ane yp give meet t re hater love of parents far aan America’s greatest emotional act-/a living. He goet West to work a|the production of Robert W. Cham-| frughes The white vests ere all ready for| ne otar the address of the head-| | or for their children t* @aamnn ress, "The Witch” is based onjclaim left to him by his father. |bers’ famous novel, “The Common| cee the laundry [quarters Of Gen, Funston, and |e." ven 90, | db tot Rae Victorien Sardou's famot y.|On his arrival he finds that a gang Law | He does not carry a barber 98 ee sent NNIE Bl rule could be applied. indivi ‘The Sorceress.” The plot id | — spear ae nF ea Suances od si he But Shepard didn’t know wheth-| i /hwon ig stationed at See Ant |A father’s love fcr his child Bi in Mexico and Mr. Frank Powell | ‘Then there are 15 newspaper cor-/ er Hughes ever ran after a fire en-| qi, toy. AuOned at San Anto-| cron caused a mother untold the director the picture, has | i >—> EE | os jon 80088 ro movie man and &/ gine or not io pangs of jealousy, and on the nared neither time nor expense snap shot poa T along. oe } rs * other hand, it has served to 79 lin order to surround his work with | 7 2ee C. W. Wheeler, 417 Lumber Ex Feb ego best friend to es in| strengthen the spiritual bond be- |that atmosphere of color and ro a Frank Tyree, the secret service | change building, said he'd go to jail| my husbema na jac ner ee een them |mance which Is so effective when guard with the blond moustache,| if necessary, but wasn't going to qeeher peyote hdie) ph hig If your husband's first wife wi properly presented was President Roosevelt's pro any cops or secret servicers| why. We have been parted five | Pearer and Jeare: to him than you s+ tector for four years while he was) keep him from shaking hands with | mosths, ‘1 have et Se wher can ever be, it is just possible that ALHAMBRA | President | Mr. and Mrs. Hughes have received no reply. When we | Ler children, flesh of her flesh and | Only a few more days remain In | eee i-_ * were together he wae goed te me blood of her blood, will stand be- which to see Billie Burke in her Capt. Sylvester Brierton, the He sald it to their faces, too, In tho not confidentic' or companion. fore you first motion picture success. other life saver, was Mr. Hughes’) the Washington hotel lobby, just able as he should have been. Now Peggy.” which {s playing at the guard when governor. He's @ C@p-| after the party reached there. |} want him back so much and || @-—Can you tell me if there is | Albambra Like a merry little tain in the New York police depart “ee have reasons to belleve that he| any way of making money by ‘chirlwind, Pegsy. from America, in ment, on leave with C. E. H “You won't have to go to fail to| wants me, too. catching rattlesnakes? | under- upsets the traditions of the pretty | it shake hands with me,” smiled Mra He has children by a former Stand that the oi! and poison of a Scottish mountain hamlet, where {| One or both of them fs always’ Hu And her husband and the| marriage and so have | 1 wish | rattlesnake is valuable. Please an- she goes to liv: after her father's near the candidat detectives all smiled, and Wheeler| he would be more reasonable. Most | SWer as soon as possible. | death. An orphan and heiress. oe. got the official shakes any man would at least talk or J. We | Peggy Cameron le a lively member They loitered back and forth in os 8 write about the situation. | have) A—As far as I have been able lof New York's exclusive set. There Debut Ob ane date wt kik auton at the Nothin’ like havin’ a little|heard things he said to his girls,|to ascertain, the oil or poison of a leomes to her a letter from her New Washington, even while he nerve,” said Wheeler to the crowd | but | want him to say them to me./rattlesnake has no commercial Jiwele in Scotland, offering her a took a bath and a nap. of G. O, P. voters to the rear of him,|! am willing to make a reconcilia-| value. Some cf the large eastern me with him. Peggy accepts the Ye ge ce. 8 | tlon—anxious to laboratories use cobra venom tp vitation and comes breezing in Brierton has whiskers, too. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes didn’t eat! Miss Grey, which is nearer to a/n.ake certain tesis. It/is also some: o the little town of Woodkirk, in “But I'd have the job just the| anything at the Washington jman, his children or hie wife? !\times injected into animals to the Scottisn highlands, cne bright same if | shaved ‘em off,” he de-| ace etiaed mean which should be? In my mcke an anti-toxin test. Sunday morning clared. “It's my record that gets| “Said he wasn't hungry,” ex-| pinion there is no closer relation: | ee | ore me by.” plained Manager Marmaduke, of |Ship than that of man and wife, | ; COLISEUM } eee |the Washington, “but wanted to then what should come between| There are about 4,000 islands In Mary Pickford remains all the Lawrence H. Green, who has| take a nap and a bath.” them |the Japanese archipelago, and they | Jer Sekcauan eee PERPLEXED. |make up a territory four times the week at the Coliseum in her terrific wallop, “Hulda From Holland,” the |Liggest vehicle ani in many opin fons, the best, in which Little Mary ever has been seen here. She THE GREAT COMEDY [i HIT OF THE a little Dutch i) ia, Woodep sboes } FUNNIEST MAN the way she others her three il IN PICTURES le brothers on the way from Hol fend to a Peuteyivania Dutch set-| NOW AT THE Itlement. The children ure good too, and the ground of dikes land windmills is most picturesat ven the music, Vietor Herbert's {Old Dutch,” fs Hollandesque IAL. |CLEMMER Hamilton Revelle, the well THEATRE known romantic star, who has ap peared. in scores of notable Broa Bring the Children, 5c way stage productions lseen on the screen at the Clen ature picture in AFTERNOON OR EVENING possible emotional realms by the genius and personality of Nance O’Neil. AFTERNOON OR EVENING CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 sta Medic |been Hughes’ secretary years, wears a Charlie ( Blanche Sweet or Thursda in The Price . AN > Malice,” a five-part Metro won ADDED FEATURE Daipaearah a tor 1 ¢ nant, who has “ iil hay scored he Dead cclaating seorian W R The Mrs. Hughes has sent posteards Revelle. There » strong s#uy IN Bridgehampton, from every stop of a ur a ] a - d —IN— y length porting cast, including Willlam wny length A Davidson, Frank Glendon Helen PARAMOUNT “Th S f She sent a box of candy back to a u Jeffr Willia Beabes, nes leer, Wiha e Strength of Donald picrunes wll amt ates of samay tna well known artists of the stage K. oes | Soy f GRIPPING FIVE-ACT DRAMA | and ve Fad r hats, “because it's} COLONIAL c ae William Russeli is the Colon > Saat At ae Wike : Karl Fasold is the official movie a tena te CONTINUOUS ianagt n ttimovs Strength of Donald McKenzie.” He 11 TO 11 10c 5c CHILDREN 5c into the Pathe Weekly. He had a has added a new character to film-| gondola car hitched to the train go aom. Mr. Russell, whose name is| ing over the Cascades, and filmed| which he plays, brush and all—into one reel, PAGE 3. Announcement Extraordinary! 10c AFTERNOON OR EVENING Starting Today, for 4 Days Only William Fox Presents the Powerful Emotional Actress O'NEIL in “The Witch” A Photo Masterpiece of Sandou’s Success Great Play, “The Sorceress” This Is Miss O’Neil’s Greatest Please Come as Early in the Day as Possible A powerful visualization of an entrancing story, carried to its highest AFTERNOON OR EVENING SECOND AVE., BETWEEN SPRING AND SENECA | (Letiexs To Custhin, Grex tache, and is tall and handsome. He likes to keep silent and pull { the mysterious watchful walting { stuff, the newspaper correspondents sylvania Hughes merely shook hands with | he precinct committeemen — ‘ was. Jumper “Mary Pickford | In “Hulda From Holland’’ "Will Remain Until A As long 8 love undivided size of Penn aplin mus | Then he was escorted to the| |state suite, off the mezzanine floor. | LAST | pees The rooms were banked in dah. | TIMES | jias grown by Richard Buttle, pres TODAY ident of the Pacific Coast National Dahlia society. . . Mrs. Mae Sehle the New Washington sonal charge of comforts jand Mrs, C. B, H ary Se house hostess of One maid was detailed Hughes, who doesn't her own carry one of | “Mrs. Hughes is a lovable gentle: | woman,” observed Mrs, Sehle; “but