The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 20, 1917, Page 5

ORE THEATRE yan wert, M, HONES MAIN 222 ORPHEUM VAUDEVILLE NOTICE MATINEE SVERY DAY 1,000 Seats at 25c (A Large Aiea on ‘the tower Floor) BEGINNING TOMORROW MATINEE ADORABLE TRIXIE RIGANZA —with LOVELY WONDERFUL Melissa—TEN EYCK & WEILY—Max IN ed FRANKER WOOD and BUNEE " WYDE In THATS ALL Ry Frank Orth ARTHUR HAVEL & CO. In Will M. Cressy's Latest Comedy Playlet PLAYMATES In FIVE FLIGHTS OF Hy Charles ROLAND TRAVERS me THE ILLUSIONIST EXTR EDITH MAE CAPES AND HELSON HOMER SMW | Presenting “BITS FROM THEIR TREASURY” p AVELING & LLOYD— [Orpheum Travelogue | | — Twice Daily, 2:30 and 8:30—PRICES 10c, 25c, S0c, 75¢ MATINEE DAILY, 10c, 25¢, 50¢ ALL SEATS-MAY BE RESERVED BY MAIL, PHONE OR AT THE BOX OFFICE MUSICAL COMEDY BEGINNING MONDAY AFTERNOON Mile. Lillian Aurora Presents D’ARTAGNAN The Equestrian Lion in Sensational Feats ; “A Fireside Reverie” Merry Comedy, Good Music, Pretty Girls, Starring Jack Princeton Other Big Features—10c and 20c STAR—SATURDAY, OCT. 20, 1917. PAGE 5. ee HERE IN “THE KNIFE” | Trixie Friganza, One of the “Screams” of Vaudeville, at the Moore \e AIN3 3: 330 | Fuller, Pantages; -_- — | AT THE THEATRES 7; NEXT WEEK | Metropolitan “The Knife” Moore..Orpheum Vaudeville Cireult (Vaudeville) “His Majesty Bunker Bean” (Stock) Vaudeville | Vaudeville | Vaudeville | Wilkes... Orpheum Pantages Palace Hip | METROPOLITAN [his fiancee, Week@ay Afternoons... Kventoge and alace Hip 2 i8< 15c SHOWS CONTINUOUS DAILY, 1:15 TO 11 BEST SHOW OF THE SEASON TOMORROW! Clayton & Drew Travesty “When Caesar Marks Anthony” 4 OTHER BIG VAUDEVILLE ACTS “Light in Darkness” —WIiTH— SHIRLEY MASON eee “The Fountain of Love” cir cc. Cycling McNutts S-part First Run Feature Photoplay ‘Times Pawning Your Prospects You are borrowing from the successful man or woman you otherwise might have been, if you are wastefully spending all of today’s money. Part of it deposited regularly in your savings account at the Dexter Horton Trust & Savings Bank would doubtless render you financially inde- pendent. Fail to work for your own success and success will fail you. DEXTER HORTON TRUST SAVINGS BANK SEATTLE, WASH. Second at Cherry Combined Resources of The Dexter Horton National Bank and The Dexter Horton Trust and Savings Bank $21,510,451.38 “The Knife,” which created such a sensation at the Bijou Theatre, New York, last season, will be the attraction at the Metropolitan theatre, beginning Wednesday, Oc tober The play. concerns a revenge fo by Eugene Walter, physician who out of hideous crime against inoculates those re sponsible with a powerful serum One of the creatures dies, but the other recovers, and thru the expert [mentation a great medical discov | | afternoon, Mr. “A pow. was what ery in given to the world. erful drama of the day" the New York press proclaimed it In the cast will be Norman Hackett, May Buckley, Eva Benton, Clifford Stork, Cordelia MacDonald, Robert Barrat, Frank Wood, Frank lin George and others. A special matinee will be given Thursday qut of compliment to Hackett’s former associates, the Wilkes players. MOORE The Orphe bill that ope atre Sunday by Trixie Fraganza musical comedy star is one of the creams” of vaudeville. She keeps audiences in an uproar from start to finish, and when she changes her costumes while singing the fun m Circuit Vaudeville at The Moore the afternoon is headed |becomes furious’ She Is assisted by Ten Eyck & Weily, a dancing | team. Aveling and Lloyd occupy a prominent place on the bill. This pair have a bunch of comedy pat- ter. Betty Bond will offer her apart ment house stunt called “Five Flights of Musical Comedy. Wood and Wyde offer a bit of nonsense. Arthur Havel and Company wilt present “Playmates,” Roland Travers is an illusionist who performs uncanny things Capes & Snow are a lively pair of nimblefooted dancers WILKES “His Majesty Bunker Bean” will arrive at the Wilkes theatre Sun day afternoon, and will make the stage of that playhouse his throne for the balance of the week. “His Majesty” is a chap with a huge fund of wit, and a bellever in Egyp tian mummies, lefthanded baseball players and any old thing that is out of the ordinary, and will be played by Ivan Miller with all the members of the Wilkes company supporting “Bunker” in his efforts to be the funniest stage potentate that ever was. ORPHEUM “Transcontinental Vaudeville,” in effect Sunday afternoon at the Or pheum, will bring six acts direct from Chicago booking offices The headliners will be the Royat Scottish a woman, in Scotch vocal and in strumental music. 1—Norman Hackett in “The Knife,” Metropolitan; 4—Ruth Renick, Wilk 6—St. Clair, Orpheum; elty This popular | \gram of comedy Entertainers, four men and! S—Helen Hayes, 7—Miss Port and tan singing, dancing and com- edy team. Jack Winters will put on a one man cabaret. Foster and his Pal will promote an educated trick dog, and Palmer & Palmer will be nov musical entertainers. PANTAGES Mile, Lillian Aurora's equestrian lion, “D’Artagnan,” will be the headline attraction of the new bill at the Pantages next week, open ing Monday afternoon. Mile. Au rora also has a number of other animals with her. The added feature will be “A Fireside Reverie.” a musical com edy condensed into one act, and carrying many pretty girls Other numbers Wilson ers, in “The Lieutenant and the ‘Traffic Cop”; Joe Parsons and Dave Irwin, in “A Message from the Front”; Lord and Fuller, with nonsense and skill, and Eddie Mer cer, the eccentric dancer. PALACE HIP The leading feature of the show which opens Sunday the Palace Hip will be the Cycling McNutta, who present a comedy acrobatic cycling novelty. “When Caesar Marks Anthony” is a Shakespearean travesty pre. sented by the Clayton & Drew Players Jack Baxley & Lillian Porter, in “Moments of Mirth and Melody,” have a elnging, talking and musical act The Carson Trio present a must cal offering of solos, duets and trios. Francia & Wilson have a pro- talk, song, acro- batics and dancing. Gallon has a pantomimic juggling novelty. Broth: LEVY GETS NEW SHOWS Manager Eugene Levy will put his “Transcontinental Vaudeville” Into effect at the Orpheum theatre, Sunday afternoon, Hereafter he will show six acts instead of five, on every bill, There will be no change in price or policy except that the vaudeville bills will be so long that the feature photoplay cannot be shown after 4 P. M. Sun days or 7:30 P. M. Saturdays other nights it will be shown as usual The acts will come direct from Chicago to Manager Levy, who will send them down the coast. Then they will play back to Chicago, completing the largest circuit of popular-priced vaudeville in the country, a cireuit directed by a pool of independent managers Instead of | one controlling head MINISTERS LAUNCH ANTI-VICE CRUSADE [Continued From Page 1 ‘ there to make a man ashamed to admit that such conditions can ex ist in so Inte a century in eny city I have seen its six segregated vice dintricts run under the supervision of the police, at which time T have seen enough to fil one's soul with loathing, and with infinite pity for the thousands of victims that laid thelr bodies as sacrifices upon the altars of vice. J have seen the last 2—Nelson Snow and Edith Capes, Moore; coming , Palace Hip. All} LZ. 2 ath 3—Florence to the Met in “Pollyanna”; | sbi rds, A | commercialized vice, as a result of the efforts of a few consecrated ministers and laymen to admit that it was a evil. I have also walked up and down thru the reputed tenderloin of Chicago. Vice Worst In Seattle “But as one of you, and one who appreciates, second to none, the excelling qualities of this beautiful city, I can say, without hesitancy, that I have seen more commercial ized vice in the city of Seattle with in the past . four months than in both the above mentioned cities tn the past four years “Our dance halla are openty per mitted to run for mere places of Neentiousness, and bureaus of in formation where engagements are made for vicious practice during and after closing hours. Near-by houses of {ll-fame reap the benefits of the advertisements of the dance halls “So secure do some of the pro prietors of both these halls and the houses of ill-fame feel that the talready making extensive prepara tions, involving the expenditure of large sums of money, to run their thiquitous business upon a much lar scale. “We are told of certain regula ; tions in the hands of the police de | partment to be observed by the pro prietors of these halls, under pen alty of revoking of the permit for their violation. I dare say there is not a dance hall in this city} where these regulations are ob- served. | Embraced In Dance Hall In one of these halls I was em: braced by a woman with both arms within one minute from the time I entered, begged to | her, to drink with her, and upon my refusal to do either, I was invited to accompany her to a near-by hotel after 1 o'clock for !mmoral pur- poses. Two policemen were pres Jent, and one of them jocularly ask ed one of the women not to run jover him as she was racing around! |to find a partner tn the throng of men for the next dance. | “In another hall I was approach- that], ORPHEU THIRD AND MADISON SUNDAY—the Big N THEATRE °° ‘vase ew Deal TRANSCONTINENTAL VAUDEVILLE High-Class Acts Coming Intact From Chicago Don’t Miss Their First Showing Here No advance in the admission, but the shows are so big that hereafter the feature film will not be shown after 4 p. m. on Sundays or 7:30 p. m. on Saturdays. Sunday to Tuesday— Royal Scottish Entertainers Leroy and St. Clair Palmer and Palmer Foster and His Educated Dog Jack Winters Morse and Harrison HIGH SPOTS IN VICE REPORT The following points were emphasized in Rev. L. B. Smith's vice report: “1 have visited personally 50 different places, including hotels and apartments * * * and talked with women who re- quested me to engage in immoral practice.” eee “With co-operation of ministers and laymen * © © jard- less of poor excuses from the police department * © * com. mercialized vice can be made practically unknown in Seattle. eee “There exist in Seattle from 100 to 300 large and email houses of Ili-fame.” ° . “There are from 300 to 1,000 women In Seattle drawing wages from immoral practices.” paar “Male patrons of Immoral women in Seattle number 30,000.” eee “1 would urge a campaign of publicity and education in order to acquaint our people with the exact moral conditions of our city.” == “{ have never seen any attempt] ished in Seattle, there is a district whatever on the part of either the| knowh as “below the line,” and proprietors or,the police to correct| scores of hotels, apartments and) any of these immoral conditions.” | rooming houses are supported by) Cafes Called Vice Dens merefal vice alone. dcattiafe. orilin end tains Rat nen solicited daringly from mith found, serve as a meeting|¥indows, he said, until Prosecutor place for immoral women and men Lundin started recent abatement in- Many of the women, he says, live | Junction proceedings in the residencp districts, but use have seen women standing by the cafes to ‘ply their’ tmmoral|indows and heard them calling! trade. . y, ‘Come on up, dearte,’” “One can stand at a certain cor-| Smith's report. “I have seen polle: ner,” says Smith’s report, “not far)™men walking up and down these from the Armory, and watch couple| Streets, and never yet have I seen after couple go in and come out|#my attempt on their part to sup- of the same hotel. One of these | Press trade. young women told me that her av-} 125 Dens to Be Closed erage per day 1s 26 men. They prac-| «tt {s encouraging to note that our tically all refer to the practice 8/ recent efforts have improved con- heir “work.” One of them told me | gitions in this district ‘befow the that she would sooner starve than |jine.” Three owners of hotels have do anything else but practice tm-| accepted the injunction asked for orality for a Hving |by the district attorney, paid. their| “There are literally scores of our! fj) fine, and put up heavy bonds| uptown hotels depending upon! without trial, while many smaller these women for the bulk of thelr | paces have closed voluntarily, Oth- business, Some of them allow the| ers are still venturing to weather women to occupy rooms permanent: | the storm, and even have their win- ly, and entertain male patrons in| Sow jot hae them. Others require their female| ,, guests to procure another room | The prosecuting attorney has every time they have male patrons| S¢Mt out 125 ‘previous notices, this evidently to make the trade| 8 required by law, which indi. more lucrative, since an extra] Cates the possession of reliable charge is necessary for the room. evidence of vice going on In as Met Girl in Hallway many properties, while he has “Many of these hotels are the| feady 75 more similar notices natural resorts of innocent young] fo send out as soon as possible. men and women coming here to| There have been 19 temporary find employment. In one hoter| !njunctions granted by the quite near one of our largest; Courts. In most of these cases, where Injunctions were grant- ed by a young woman and asked to }meet her in room No. Hotel) , the same night, just after 1] | o'clock The following day I did} call at this hotel and found the| same woman in the room desig-| |nated. Her directions —_were| Jauthentic. In still another hall| was asked by a young! woman to meet her at her hotel, | giving the name and location, and |while her sister was asleep in her! |room, she said we would have no| difficulty in procuring from the pro: prietor another room for our pur- pose. This was in one of the up | town hotels, as also was the before- | mentioned one. No Police Action “In another hall a young woman | invited me to m her tn room —, | Hotel , after 4 o'clock the next /day. ‘This, too, was a large uptown hotel “All these and other {incidents oc- curred within one hour one even ing, with the exception of the first incident, In every one of these halls there were among the throng of men many soldiers and marines, who seemed to b the objects of mort earnest solicitation by the |women. I have seen these women | permit these soldiers to | caress | Leroy & St. Clair are a blackjone of these districts closed to] them jown room ought | she |bad a man churches from four to ten young women permanently reside in its} ¢d, the police have served jguest rooms, and are permitted to} Witnesses for the defendants, entertain men for tmmoral pur-| testifying that they have never poser at any time, and frequently] seen any evidence of vice in they have men occupying more than] these places. Evidently the one room at the same time, waiting} court did not consider serious. to be accommodated in their proper| '¥ the testimony of the police, notwithstanding the latter be- order. In this hotel I was met by a young woman in the hallway, Mi the sworn officers of the jaw. ho, practically disrobed, com- anita He Visits 50 Resorts menting on the attractiveness of her body, and in a tone loud enough| | “I have visited personally 50 dif- to be beard by the guests,| ferent places, including hotels and urged me to let her go down to the] apartments, and have talked with desk and procure a room for us.jWomen in private rooms who re- “Upon my suggestion that her/ quested me to engage with them to be sufficient, |in immoral practices, and my affi informed me that she already |davits, including the addresses of in there. In another|these places, together with the tes- hotel within a block of one of our|timony procured therein, are in the largest churches I was*taken by a|office of the district attorney. Be- young woman to her room and so-| sides these, I have been invited by licited. This hotel is within 20]women in public places, and on the feet of the dance floor of the sup-| streets, to visit them for immoral posed most highly respectable] purposes at eight other places, I dance hall in Seattle, One could}have also seen, on numerous ocea- sit In this very room and watch the | sions, many soldiers and marines go couples on the floor, Upon my re-|into these places, which I have en- tered, and where I know immoral fusal to remain with this womag, [ went out, and was directed to the} women are carrying on this busi- ness. proper exit by the proprietor or “lam told reliably that the agent clerk ° Segregation Not Abolished of a certain real estate company was asked for the use of two Rev, Smith points out that, altho segregation is presumed to be abol- now vacant rooms not far from says| Sunday Noon to 11 p. m. 15c Children 5c our Armory for the use of physicians who were to treat diers for diseases Can End Commercialized Vice “I do not even hope that evil can be immediately cured any method of law enforce! | but by the Cee ae | isters and Christian 1 city, regardiess of the poor of a police department with we are afflicted, this scourge of long standing and ending consequences can be ly mitigated, and commereiall vice can be made practically j unknown thing in Seattle. | Can we afford, ha’ in our hands, |ity for the larger part of | sentiment, to allow this deadly emy to go on unmolested in midst, assailing the purity of shenaes. undermining the life of nation, crushing the flower of | youth, incapacitating our before they ever reach the of Europe, and defeating the poses of a pure and undefiled | gion?) We will never bring its defeat by ignoring it, nor jever be defeated by being over to civic hirelings, who ently are being fattened from coffers. j Business Extensive “There exist In Seattle from one to three hundred i and ‘small houses of Il os besides many other phi which permit it to be comm! ted upon their premises out any scruples as to its effect upon the community. “There are from 300 to 1,008. women in this city, di wages from immoral practices, all the way from $5 to $50 day, and the male patrons these women number pet at least 30,000, young and fathers and sons, husbat bachelors, brothers, stude! Professional men, comme: men, visitors, idiers, soldiers — and sailors, There are more new cases of infectious dig eases resulting from thig than all other conta s combined, Suggests Solution “Let me close by briefly suggest. ing a solution to this problem, would urge the personal and method of investigating this on the part of every minister the earnest co-operation of the of our church “I would urge a campaign of pitte eity and education, in order to ae — quaint our people with the moral conditions of our city, to arouse a sentiment that guarantee a proper enforcement the laws by our sworn o! and an adequate safeguarding our youth. “At the proper time, let there be }and the press to expose all th | conditions, however appalling | shocking they may be, including evidence of police negligence, cial incompetency and Urges Church Federation “I would urge, furthermore, federation, to ments that have to do with the pression and extermination of vice, “Then let us launch our social service program by a ringing gelism, and let us make our service efforts be the surest proof that our evangelism 1 ward the right end—to save keep men and women for God forever. is the best method of social serv fee, and | believe that social serv _ ice is the best proof of the oan nese of our type of evangelism,” a concerted effort from our pulpite - immediate formation of a San ak include all depart- ba tocial I believe that evangelism — |