The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 7, 1916, Page 3

THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY COLISEUM Hazel’s Past Revealed Beautiful Blanche Sweet in “PUBLIC OPINION” Founded on the sensational theory that persons who depart this life actually re turn in spirit to wield a real influence. NEW = §$FASHION SHOW FRIDAY 15¢ Children Sc A TRAVELOGUE MUSIC -llAN- WOMAN BARES “HIS” SOUL; H ASKS FOR FREEDOM OF TROUSERS _WINS( ME _ DOR T strong enor rn to your father In Colorado,” she said It is not if the woman misunderstood the nature of the proposal “Wait!” said “Bob” Gaffney. "Can you keep a secret “Yes ; Then Robert Gaffney told her secret for the first lama woman! Be “Our relations,” said Robert Gaffney to me. “were the relation of two women, a strong one and a weak one. She was helpless, so | fended for both. It was Margaret who insisted, for the sake of “appearances that they go thru the form of marriage before a justice of the peace. It was done. They came to Seattle. WORKED AS JANITOR one knew who Bob men encountered So far as any Gaffney” in those days, man building, with five earned $90 a mon He” smoked a little and drank an occasional glass of beer The second child was born to Margaret. THEN CAME A TRD! “Oh, she was all feminine!” scoffed Robert Gaffney, amiting the table with her stout knuckles. “Ali woman was Margaret, and weak as so many women are—siaves of men and having no wish to escape from bondage. | knew, or suspected, who the father w: A married man! Poor Margaret! That's what she said to me, this strong, eccentric woman, who go wanted “freedom” that she wore trousers to get it—"Poor Margaret!” But imagine the feelings of Robert Gaffney when the neighbors congratulated “him” on the birth of the third- born! Blanche Sweet, in “Pu “It was plain hel she cout on with Mar. _ - ml gare So 1 flew the coop t didn't re want to be thing. “Ob ien't the at helped shaps of Ib It isn't al She went to Callforr bicycling a o wa She had the bean P ine 6? a pleasantest time of her abling in t Riyou moun c P tains. She got a jo Ca nia, Ic got her, lost that tance ypsteine and, as work Was scarce, she returned to Seattle he fc of « ARRESTED AS “LAZY HUSBAND” nen fr THEN THE BOLT FELL! A WARRANT WAS WAITING iy iaasibees ont FOR HER, SWORN TO BY MARGARET, CHARGING NON-SUP. doubtf ly that I t re i PORT 1 if there was more t Robert Gaffney wen ted Robert in jail : . How can you have ‘ort of your chi “ yee P dren, when you know asked Robert cic“ e Mie: But, if you prove they are t yo Margaret replied at en “ : + leo dare do that iamoe do # Re t But Robert Gaffney dared |friends? Wren she was a “man"| Gaffne nl 1 Aare’ 1 jas released * | she could make friends anywhere, inal proba \ prosecutor ne as all men can. Lend a man a erate have been att 1 t had an open-an match on a street corner, or share me. 1 want § t Lae against me, an wa with him your “makin: and ert G ¢ 1 . ergasted.” presently you have a friend a genuine Ww hat tried t She bo woman's othe As aman | was never lonely,”| help Margaret Hart because she donned the and came to hb id-| she told me itied ing place in Oregon But now? If she speaks to a man Feels Like Prisoner ea 2 nm a public place, he will say to 1 1 er return to Se Consider her ght himself ‘A woman of the street.” Port d My forme her gestures, even her habits of If che speaks to a woman in a ee me agalr t thought are mannish. Her walk is public place, she will be rebuffed want them to th of me " mannish; so are her hands. with: “We have never been in ay entr AD ¢ She feels as a man comedian in| troduced.” " enn fr the movies must fee! who puts on When she asks for work, if work woman’s clothes to perform before is to be had—janitor work, say P iff e between n the camera. The petticoats bind she is offered $30 a month. When othe on ie th {dared her legs when she walks. The she was a “man” she got $90 for for the freedor ut me waist is too tight for comfort, andthe same kind of work. That's the! enic the sleeves retard the free swing cifference, in wages, between pants She had been wearing the hat of her strong arms. Her hat, a and skirts. with the flopping brim as we talked simple thing as women's hats go,. Wher A man" she went| Now she cast it aside. She wears has—oh, height of absurdity— rw r she| her iron-gray hair short, man-fash feather, a ribbon and a flower on x ion. She can't bring herself to let It. And the brim flops! ‘ Ne-|it grow and do it up in a knob Cook? She has forgotten how. carn a; | vath. pine, Sew? She's as clumsy with a 1 The effect made me gasp. The } needie as | am. Fancywork? She|» twolegge ‘ with face was the face of a man, | laughs bitterly or trive to make| | thought of the comedian in the “1 want a tool in my hands,” she diffientt movies, and my first impulee was id to me. | Wants to Be Free to laugh. But there is nothing Pants vs, Skirts to be free n,” said|funny in Robert Gaffney's plight And, oh, the loneliness of the! Robe Gaff afraid 1 Having tasted freedom, she finds prison that she has been driven all neve c 1 am bound by!imprisonment now trebly hard to} back to! Where shall she find] th u ote the hateful bear. MOVIES News — Notes — Gossip LIBERTY [Dorothy Giet the Fine Art ru ". ; u he aan dance FIRST AT PIKE CONTINUOUS 11 TO 11 3 DAYS—STARTING TODAY ¢ che beau titles state art vith her native songs rende in Eng sh with an Italian accent.” A two art comedy entitled “The Mummy and the G with an allstar east completes the progra COLISEUM At the Colis 1 1 Fr lay and agor popular star ¢ r Blanche Sweet, in ay in which @ young w ac 1 of murder, wins accusation thru pirit of he who departed. It is sald to be as ata n the world as was David Helasce The Return of tage. The new comedy, new & und a new Burton Holmes Tra the third fall Fashion Show CLEMMER | No effort was spared by Director} Ince, in “The Conflict,” now at the Clemmer From the Inning to the end of the production, excellent acting settings and light ¢ are tn evidence. The ‘seript called for a! of lavish tnteriors—the | dres oma, where a deal of action take ace r themselve the tn rior decorator’s the AS wing room. on, the r of the wor ea ever 5 all that i desired | on ring of “The duds at Charlie Chay ‘ new bits men particularly this pict as t « Laugh REX I whone beaut ‘ onal histrio \" » of the fore moat nctremses on th -HE RE HY AGAIN | t c an enem sh ride hard, fight fair, “be ded Cop the girl, has | all re fane going blic Opinion,” Coliseum outh Two comedies which ts al for one bill, complete the gran The first ts, “he Dea Prices Paid cers for . s the Show and the se Poultry, Veal and Pork Old roosters, live s, "The Boy From the Gilded - Both, Weed block bags et | Walla Walla moter epi iad Rot! are filled with Saeton Selling Prices to Retailer for a ‘ to dramatic fort ghs and thrills of extraordinary Hutter, Peas and Cheese White, new, Cal e whieh A the feature ot| Sore greiner Native | Washington Sweet potatoes % | EXTRA 100 Nalive Waehingtes * | Experiments by German scien- PR at creamery, brick 34 | tists have proved that tightening a ig STRAND fe PiGnibils whe verte man’s belt lessens hunger. q Rober ayne, who has the part| Today _ Lin 2 @ [33 —— —____ real officer during the ma D esr ; PAULINE meorre is as fg Lucille was on his way back to the is 12,00 Sst t hen he saw a’ man whom FREDERICK Big Double Bill ant gH ewar loo at the man intently when] Her Ftlsmph 00 - the. latter sudden developed Supreme 43.00 @44.00 “ ” marked signa of nervousness, iss aatastaaleeas acaoe oe The Conflict nally, the anger approact Vegetables and Fruit ‘I Wish: banded Nin & onli onic + Five acts — powerful in Ev onen tn a Als irahaen tone ected da iw Awin & story, tense in realism—it i: pata pal Aw ° og te Jepicts a potent problem markin juavering tones that tt PARAMOUNT ‘ showing to what ends wan first PICTURES eon, ‘ jealousy leads its slaves GRAND 10 yoaie RaW Ges ne per orale nf M. Guterson’s Mme. Petrova, one of the’ for Cc n His omedy pe. tove @1 : Kine URGLOLLO BAT eetcuadaal eta _“THE COUNT” | pe. loca 5 @ 1be Russian Orchestra er screen ben: aL tae 5c Children 5c errata‘ leeat $ ice Miserere,” from I Trova: Grand tn “The rlet Woman,” a ow plese % @ 7 | tore y, Verd five-part wonderpla Th fea Poitralt. cn ri “Poet and Peasant,” over- ma itho: f Playing With apes 5a 1s e tb Fire.” “The Soul Market,” and oth pes, seeaigen 135 @ Lko Pathe Weekly er productions in| which Mme pt _ a 4 4 4 MISSION ‘ a nges 4 e 1. Warren Kerrigan, the rite In a 5-Act Wonder Play nd af ‘aliiion essen’ at eke THE DIAMOND Takima os Missle ir The Code of the ! . e Mounted,’ for three days, sturting|? Look thru The Star Want RUNNERS today and ending Saturday night.|| Ads for bargains in acreage. The way Kerrigan can help a| @— . BoA! “The Mummy and the Girl,” our comedy, and Japan, Gateway to the Temple of the Gods, a travel scenic, completes a picture program well up to the Liberty's established high standard of excellence. ALLACE and Our URLITZER 8 USICAL | ARVELS s M EXCLUS Matinees 10c The lAberty is the exclusive Seattle home of Triangle plays Mack Sennet-Keystone comedies, Childr 5 and the Giant $ 000 «Wurlitzer en Cc Unit Orchestra Evenings 15c