The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 23, 1918, Page 7

lone low nent ‘Tance, a a Bill Hart, in “Dead oo Alive,” at the Liberty ‘SOME RUNNER, THIS RAH-RAH BOY, THORNE Thorne, strokeoaraman on the Harvard crew, is also some little sprinter, ma from New London, Con. put, to Cambri setts, a mere 200 mile | back again in the course of an aft ernoon Just as the big Yale-Harvard boat race is about to start, Thorne learns that his sister is in trouble, He's on the Thames river in Connecticut. jbut he puts on speed and runs to shifts, he's there's Thorn don, accusing Tom Brown, the of “Brown of Harvard,” the college photoplay now at the Clem mer, of treachery eee | Mary Pickford is beaten near- | ly to death by a cruel woman She ts adopted into a comfort able home. She is a paralytic in a home of splendor Bhe ts cured and wins the man she loves, On the other hand, she dies to make this possible. It's no Chinese puzzle. Mary simply acta the parts of two girle—a homely one and a very beautt. ful one, all in the same play and does it admirably—in “Stella Marta,” closing Wednesday at the Coliseum. bese FLOCKS OF FIGHTERS FALL IN SEA BATTLE An ancient fight, between fancy-| sailed galleys, manned by husky | | sword fighters, is portrayed in “Cleo- patra,” at the Metropolitan. The op-| posing galleys go alonguide each oth-| jer, and the fighting men battle at | the rails in an attempt to board the }enemy craft. Combatants topple over into the water by the dozens before the fight ends. Then the | ships catch fire, and go up in great jaree of flame and smoke, ore IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THRILLING SENSATION | Can you tmagine the sensation | you would have experienced tf cir-| | cumstances had permitted you to be | present at all the belligerent cap-| }itals on the day that war was de STAR—-WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 1918. PAGE 7? Basement Salesroom In a New Purchase: 50 Party Frocks $9.50 Each UST three of the several charming styles in this purchase are sketched. These dainty little Frocks are developed from Silver Cloth, Crepe de Chine and Satin in Nile-green, Apple-green, Laven- der, Light-blue, Old-blue, Pink, Nell-rose, Corn, Yellow and White —in the modish draped-hip and bustle effects, some with silk tulle flounces edged with gold or silver braid. The bodices are garnished with me- tallic lace and corsage bouquets. Sizes 16 and ‘ in a wide diversity of charming models, made up from —many tively Featuring black-and-white, ecru, white, pale-yellow, green, brown, corn and pale-rose, also some charming effects in flowered and striped prints, Women’s Sample Silk Petticoats cause of a very favorable wy | In an Exceptional Thursday Offering tailored in high-neck, round-neck and shawl-collar styles; some plain, others finished with tuckings and frillings and designed with lace edges and insertions. Exceptional Values FREDERICK & NELSON 400 Sample Blouses | $3.95 | Each TIMELY purchase of desirable Blouses for street, afternoon and evening wear, affording unusual values Chiffons, Nets and Laces of them designed over colored foundations—and effec- with ribbons, insertions and frillings. Assorted sizes. Also Blouses of Crepe de Chine in Flesh, White, Peach, Maize and Pale Yellow Sizes 36 to 44. —all featured for this special offering at the unusually-low price: $3.95. Basement Salesroom. $3.95 SAMPLE line of Silk Petticoats, priced, be- purchase, at an unusually- low figure. Included: Petticoats of All-Jersey- Silk, Jersey-and-Taffeta, Plain Messalines and Plain Taffeta Silks —in a variety of styles, finished wit! cordion bea tackings, wide rufflings and shirred flounces. Cut on correct, smooth - fitting lines and well-tailored. Assorted lengths. In a featured Thursday offering at $3.95. —Basement Salesroom. Silk Remnants Reduced bese 2D price’ advantages for those who have use for a skirt, dress or blouse length of Silk, in light Included 18; 36 to 40, Fifty Dresses only are available at this very attractive price—$9.50. g igh 3 P. N. Corset 95c DMIRABLY propor- tioned for the aver- age figure is the Corset pictured. Made of firm coutil, with protector un- der front fastening, and two sets of hose support- ers. Price 95¢. Broken sizes in Brassieres, reduced to 12¢ and 20¢. Basement Salesroom } Strand, shows the scenes in the vari ous countries around the war bul- Jetins as the first news ts flashed thruout the world. —Hasement Salesroom. Boys’ Extra-Knickerbocker Suits Reduced to $3.65 UST 26 of these Suits to sell at the reduced price. They are tailored from serviceable brown checked’ suitings, with* stitched belt and patch pockets —an extra pair of knickerbock- ers with each suit. Five Suits in size 13. Nine Suits in size 14. Six Suits in size 15. Six Suits in size 16. PERILOUS ‘TS APPEAL TO MRS. VERNO™ CASTLE It is a long step from the ease of | New York to jumping off cliffs and) shooting foaming mountain streams in a frail canoe, yet Mra, Vernon Castle doese these stunts in “Strand. ed in Aready,” at the Class A, with ny Exceptional values at $3.65. Tapeless Blouses Blouses of fancy Reduced to 19c fame. phreaifs hams, percales and chambrays, sizes 6 to 15 years, reduced to 19c. Boys’ Hats and Caps a and be Reduced to 10c fancy mixtures, ses 6Y fancy mixtures, sizes 6\4 to 6%, reduced to 10c each. or dark colorings. Chiffon Taffeta Satin Satin Lining Pongee The offering includes also a very attractive selection of fancy striped patterns. \ Crepe de Chine Messaline Basement Salesroom. Women’s Underwear Reduced to 19c Garment OMEN’S Cotton Vests in sizes 7, 8 Lace Curtain Ends Reduced To 10c¢ Each N opportunity to cur- tain small windows at little cost is afforded in ’ ! Twenty Long - trouser Boys Long Trouser Suits, in sizes 15, 16 Suits Reduced to $5.00 and 17 years only, re- duced to $5.00. Winter Millinery “Reduced Basement Salesroom. reine ee TODAY'S PROGRAMS METNOPOLITAN—Theds Bare a] _ | “Cleopatra.” yj SR SseUN — Mery Pickford =| ¥ uamesier yo Hart in “Dend or WIRAND—Mae March tn “Plelds of | MINION rater Holmes in “A I Town Guy.” CLeMM Te Masel Daly and Moore in “Brown of Harvard.” COLONTAL—Anita Stewart in “The | (irl Phitippa.” | PEX—“The Zeppelin’s Last Lr t CLASS A—Mrs. Vernon Castle in Arcadia.” CLEMMER NOW PLAYING in Harvar 99 THE COLLEGE CLASSIC OF THE STAGE AND SCREEN Adapted from the novel and celebrated stage play of the same name. SEE THE BIG BOAT RACE See the Best Cotlege Story*Ever Written —— GUTERSON'S AUGMENTED RUSSIAN ORCHESTRA “Operatic Gems.” “Aloha” .sccceess - Queen Litioukalant and 9, high neck, with short or long sleeves and crochet edge finish, also Pants in knee length, sizes | 4 and 5—reduced to 19¢ | garment. all the nonchalance of a parachute Jumper. this offering of Notting- ham Lace Curtain Ends— large and small patterns, in ecru and white, reduced to 10¢ each. Basement Salesroom. to $1.00 N odd assortment of Winter Hats (trimmed and untrimmed) makes an interesting clear- ance offering at $1.00. KNITTED CAPS in tasseled style for children’s play wear and for skating, in red, gray and blue, reduced to 75¢. lis RATHER FINE FOR | ANITA, ISN'T IT? | | ‘Thursday will see the last show- ing of Anita Stewart in Robert W. || Stage great story, “The Girl Philippa,” which is now being shown at the Colonial | Basement Salesroom. | This was Anita's last big picture for the Vitagraph company before her “squabble” with that cone-rn. | She has not made a picture «iiwe, || but has drawn check every week, as per contract. Basement Salesroom. Motoring Scarfs Silk-boot Basement Salesroom An Attractive Offering of Extra-size Silk Frocks $17.50 Sizes 40} to 524 Bust Measurement SPECIAL purchase, affording unusually interest- ing values in smartly-styled Frocks especially designed for women who wear extra-large sizes. | Ninety-one Dresses in all, Of Plain, Striped and Changeable Taffetas, also Crepe de Chine and Satin —handsomely designed in surplice, Eton and over- skirt effects, combined with Georgette crepe in bod- ice and sleeves, and effectively trimmed with beading and braiding. Large sizes only: 4014 to 5214 bust. In a featured offering for Thursday, at $17.50. PICTURED: An afternoon Dress of green satin, with bodice and sleeves of Georgette crepe; beaded and em broidered girdle. Price $17.50. A Surplice model of green satin; has Georgette crepe sleeves and skirt is finished with bias band of the same; soft, shirred girdle. Price $17.50. Dress of gray crepe de Chine in bolero effect, with sash, sleeves and bodice of self-color crepe, taste- fully braided. Price $17.50. —Basement Salesroom, Odd Lines of it Women’s Shoes and Slippers at Reduced Prices Reduced to $4.95 Pair —one hundred pairs of Wi Shoes in broken sizes, in- cluding styles with black calf vamps and brown bug tops, also black kid vamps with cravenetted | cloth tops; Goodyear welt- ed soles. Reduced to $4.95 pair. Reduced to $4.35 Pair —a small lot of Women's Novelty Shoes with ivory kid vamps and colored cloth tops to match; bro ken sizes; reduced to $4.35 pair, Reduced to 55¢e Pair —one hundred and twenty- five pairs of Women’s Felt Moccasin Slippers, with soft leather soles and padded im soles; reduced to 55¢ pair, Reduced to $2.95 Pair —seventy pairs of Women's White Nu-buck Pumps, with hand-turned soles and leath- er Louis heels; broken sizes; reduced to $2.95 pair —also, a small lot of Men's s Felt Slippers in moccasin style, sizes 6 to 8, reduced to $1.00 pair. ~-Basement Salesroom. Practical Coverall Aprons $1.25 HOICE of plain pink, light- blue and delft in these well- made and attractive Aprons of serviceable percale. Made in front- | | at the Mission this week, !| been involved in the cnerger of the ‘eal waioes sexx ‘Casseroles and Bean Jars LACES FAST AS MACHINES Colored pictures do not appear as often as in the old days when Pathe was about king of the films. How ever, they're back for a few glimpses at the Liberty this week, and among other things they show Belgian women spinning their famous laces. Gosh! They work faster than some | machines. Use 60 spindles | thre, do some of these women. | a at al MENTION OF LIBERTY STARTS DEADLY RIOT If you don’t believe that merition-| ling liberty on a Zeppelin will start | something, you ought to see the riot | Lieut. Alfred Brandt starts on the |Ir% 7, by mentioning that word. Lieut. Brandt and the L-% 7 are in “The Zeppelin's Last Raid,” at the Rex this week. ee | HE WASN'T SUCH A BOOB, AFTER ALL After he’s been a “small town sucker” for quite a spell, Taylor Holmes, in “The Small Town Guy,” shows that couple of “big time” He wins a girl and a for-| he has a punches. tune. FISH MERGER WAS BIG DEAL; OFFICES HERE ‘Two million dollars is sald to have Lee H. Wakefield fishing intetests cago. The new company, which will be called the Wilson Fisheries Co., will bave headquarters in Seattle, | | | with thone of Wilson & Co., of Chi-| iM At $1.35 N exceptionally low price for these baking dishes of brown and white firé-proof glazed earthenware set in pierced nickel-plated frames: 8-inch Round Casseroles 6-inch Bean Jars Just 70 of the Casseroles and 20 Bean Jars avail- able—choice at $1.35 each. Housewares Section, Basement. Engraved Water Sets $1.25 WO good patterns in these Cut and Engraved Water Sets—the popular star design and grape ar- rangement. Pitcher, with six thin-blown tumblers, $1.25. —Basement Salesroom. : Reduced to 15c Stockings and 25c 48c Pair pe yong of Wom- . en's Phoenix Silk hi orange, Scarfs with striped Boot Stockings in black and _— slightly imperfect, hence »ptionally priced at 48¢ pair. —Basement Salesroom. white, each; also 15¢ low- stitched ends, 25¢. 9-Piece Cooking Set 98c NUSUALLY good value in this conven- ient cooking set which is of well-finished brown and white ware, consisting of One Casserole with cover One Mixing Bowl One Pudding Dish The 9-piece set, 98¢. Basement Salesroom. 1% this underpriced of. fering are Aledo Silke hemstitched borders, in brown, yel- low and pink, reduced to flowered Seco Silk Scarfs, with hem- reduced to —Rasement Salesroom, Six Individual Custard Cups. opening style, with large collar > | and pocket of contrasting color. Price $1.25. AT $1.00— Shoulder - fastening Apron of good quality percale, with small black figures on white ground, | round neck and belt. Price $1.00. —Basement Salesroom. 2-at. Rice Boiler $1 95 a* pictured, Rice Boiler of 2. pure stamped aluminum, with ats cover that fits either kettle, mak- & ing two separate utensils when it desired. Price $1.95. 104-Quart Kettle $2.25 Large Kettle, as pictured, of heavy stamped aluminum, unusu- ally low priced at $2.25. Housewares Section, Basement.