The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1919, Page 10

Merry Christmas! Until Friday night only-- the. COSMO HAMILTON remance from the Cos- mopolitan Magazine— “THE MIRACLE OF LO 99 With Jackie Saunders Lacy Cotton Wyndham Standing A Lavish Production! Russell on the Wurlitzer HIT BY STRAY SHOT DURYEA, Pa. Dec. 25.—With a! hole in his chest and the bullet im his left arm, Alexander tawicz, aged 17 years, of this waiked three miles to a phy ffice. Upon reaching the| clan's office the lad collapsed) fell at the feet of the doctor, | ng, “I'm shot.” ‘The lad had been walking in the near here when a stray bullet him. Whether the shooting| accidental or deliberate, is not State police were detailed to! scene immediately, but no trace| the person who fired the shot! not be found. has been restored to} than two-thirds of his accident @eafened patients by a French in who massages their ears sound waves. She is one of many big players in “Soldiers Fortune” ondignas Richard Harding Davis, coming here soon as a topline motion picture. MILLIONAIRE IS KILLED IN AUTO J. H. Brown Shot as He Rounded Curve MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Dec -Immediate arrests In connection [with the murder of J. Stanley Brown | near here yesterday, were predicted | |by police today. ‘The turbulent family affairs of Brown, a greasy coat found near the auto in which Brown was shot, and wrench were clues promising re sults for the officers. Brown, son of J. H. Brown, mil Honaire cigar manufacturer of De trolt, was shot as he drove his car around a curve four miles from | Mount Clemens, Four bullets entered | his head and neck. Flix skull was battered. His hands rested on the wheel and his foot still pressed the brake, when a farmer discovered the body late yesterday. Much money In Brown's pockets indicated robbery was not the motive, The assassin evi [dently had stood waiting for Brown) for some time behind a nearby tele phone pole. Brown recetved $500,000 in trust from his father’s estate about six years ago. In his pockets were a two and one-half carat dismond ring and $20,000 in securities. TODAY AND FRIDAY @ Have Into ment peur of alauahar MADGE KENNEDY “THROUGH WRONG HAROLD LLOYD That Dilterent Comedian “CAPTAIN KIDD’S KIDS” Wave on wave of laughter in oceans of joy. GUTERSON’S AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA Flute and Oboe Duet * “THE TWO BIRDS” COLO NIAL COMING SOON HE SCRE EN; CLASSICS SPECIAL HOULD A WOMAN TELL? In order to introduce our new (whalebone) plate, which ts the lightest P4 strongest plate known, covers very little of thé roof of the mouth; you can bite corn off the cob; guaran toed 35 years, EXAMINATION FREE. $.5.00 Set of Teeth. . 10.00 Het Whalebone Teeth. 00 Crowns . $8.00 Bridgework . $2.00 Amalgam Filling... An guaranteed for mernii wo ft aad of oO ‘Time. ‘oat of our presen whore work enti our _ work, Bring this Palnions Kxtracting Have impression taken im the y et teeth same Ree ears aes and advice free. Werk. we sane the comm: th ~~ coming ‘to our od with yo This I ile, 6 $0.45 45s! Weckinn Teopte OHIO CUT-RATE DENTISTS URIVERSITY oR Opvecite Feases-Patesses Ob NAVY CROWN | Will America Obtain First Rank Position? BY FREDERICK M. KERKY The United States navy, by 1924, may rank first in the Hat of the 1d naviow: will admiralty |doning the U.S.MAY GET | hon happen if the Mritish sticks to ite plan of aban building of dreadnought Jbattloships and goes in for alroraft jand wu construction, U.S. WILL COMPLETE THRER YEAR PROGRAM The United States navy depart ment ts pinning ite faith on the ” bigeun dreadnought type" for first line ships of the navy, It will com. plete the constr nm Of the three year program adopted in 1916, which was intert by the war's de mand for destroyers and chasers for parine work And BSeocre la has before him the rew Jona of the general board for ther th year am equal in ™, and calling More firstline battleships and battle cruisers of still larger tonnade, cquipped with 16inch SOcaliber guns larger than anything now in uae, Wh the armistice was eigned, |the comparative standing of Great | Diritain and the United States was: Great | Britain, Dreadnoughts .... .... Prodrendnoughts ... | Battle crulsery ...... narine » navy | Flest Une battleships Old-tine battleships . Total ships . -w Britain topped | her " putlding pro fram with the signing of the armim tice, Her future policy is “up in the Jair.” But the United States navy has under construction 12 dread: houghts, 6 battleships and numerous smaller cruisers, and Secretary Dan lols has Juat recommended the appro priation of $185.248,000 to help com: plete them, and will recommend one |more appropriation before the new bullding progr on and presented to congress, HAY! By 1921, therefore, the United States Mavy should include 24 dread noughts, 19 predreadnoughts and € battle cruisers, and if the new three- year program equals the 1916 pro- gram, by 1924 it should Include 38 dreadnoughts, 19 predreadnought« and 12 battle cruisere—a total of 69 bigeun ships. compared to Britain's 63 when the armitsice was signed If Amert scke to the battleship jaa the ma pendence of the fleet however, it ly probabl wilt forced to & dreadnoughts also. Her will depend largely upon wh fea and Japan decide to do, be Amer or being placed afloat by any other navy, are being built for our new battleships and battle erulerrs. Of isinch, 60-caliber, with muzzle ener Y of 115,000 foot-tons, these are the lant word in Amertoan naval design One hundred and ninety of ther are being mguntagygred. ‘STORE HELD UP BY BANDIT PAIR Robbers Escape With Loot | From Cash Drawer Five clerks and more than a score of customers in Minear & Saltgaver's meat market, at 1062 N. 29th at were held up at 5:34 o'clock Wednes- }day evening by two armed robbers. who made their escape with $240 from the cash register, None of the cutomers or clerks were searched by the bandits No attempt was made to pursue the robbers until the arrival of de |tectives and policemen several min | utes later, No trace of the robbers [has yet been four The proprietors and clerks w | busily engaged in waiting on custom eta when the robbers, armed with jautomatic pistols, walked in. | “All you folks had better put your hands up,” announced one of the} robbers, in casual tonés, Every head turned toward the speaker, who | waved his gun and ordered the crowd to line up against the wail robber’s order was obeyed. While he covered the crowd with his piatol, the |second thief rifled the cash register. | The robbers then backed out of the store and took to their nee The French ministry of agricul. ire, aftep a careful survey of the evastated regions in t northern art of the country, estimates that M but a very small percentage of land that was formerly de brought back te within @ period o cultivation ¢ to a productive r xf perhaps four y n be MEANY HALL SEATTLE SYMPHONY OR SHESTRA JOHN SPARGUR, Conductor Christmas Pop Concert FEATURING OLD FAIRY TALES IN MUSIC With Description Given by MRS. LOUISE VAN OGLE The New Celesta HAS ARRIVED FROM PARIS AND WILL BE USED FOR. THE FIRST TIME ON SATURDAY, Dec. 27 PRICES 50c 75c Children 25¢ (Special) Tickets on Sale at Sherri: lay’s Piano House ‘i the inevitable, alt | m will be decided up-| Guns larger than any now tn use, ! The! -|on THE SEATTLE tannin al DEC. 25, 1919. She's sa : Daughter to Five Fathers { ee ee CHIEF OF WATER IS REAPPOINTED, ge Hands L. B. Youngs Mabel Normand, during her picture career, has enjoyed almost every possible comic situation, In her newest Gold- wyn picture, “Pinto,” which opens at the Rex Saturday, she has the chance to appreciate the responsibility which attaches to a daughter with five fathers. Her task seems to be cen- tered in overcoming their pies 4 for upbringing. And be- leause of their love for her, she always makes them “see” things her own way. The story was written and directed by Victor L. Schertzinger. - ® STRAND TODAYS Puoonane || Clara Kimball Young has a unique way of deciding her future in “Eyes of Youth” at the Strand this week. | CLmMNEn 2 Madge A traveling fakir provides a crys “Thee the f Maret al ba {| Liev in Kids,” Bhe fie nhe Review | | M-Miltie Hurke in “Want vaba nd Kennedy tm looks Into it and sees that if at home she will become an unrewarded drudge, If whe marries the rich man, her father's choles, she will be divorced and dimeraced ‘The third time she seen that ff she follows her stage career she will be ery unhappy. ‘Three looks are enough for Clara. Without further consultation she ac pts the hand of a poor but honest sap who loves her see ATRAND—Clare Kimball Yoone tn | “Kyes of Youth”; Strand Weekly. REN—Mary Pickford in “The Hood. tam’; Christie comedy; Mutt and Jett “Animated. COLONIAL — Olive Tell tm - « | tameery When Zane Grey saw Eficen Percy while Interviewing screen players to t a cast for the picturization of CLEMMER The story of an aceidental honey- moon. That describes Madge Kenne- jy'a latest comedy which is showing at the Clemmer this week. Isabelie Carter determined to pick his novel, “Desert Gold.” he said (0/16 man she would marry and leave Director Hayes: “There! That git! Is /notning wtand in her way when she Nell. She is Miuvia d'Oro (shower Of founa him, Revolvers, rain, and re wold.” Verses didn't stop her, Straight thru | The novelist meant that Miss Per) ing wrong door she passed—bumped jcy'e blue eyes and wealth of golden | inte the RIGHT man—and won him, hair fitted her exactly for the part) atiew Kennedy is delightful as Ina- of Nell Burton in his novel: the irl) Lene, the determined, Jealled by the Mexican Forlorn 5 river, “Iiluvia a’ SOS fb ,_cininenesstllisibilinetiohadiiniieenpibiaas shower of gold a, Liberty this —_— ro,” which “Desert week. COLON! Miss Tuffa Bantiead, who plays ‘the sister of the in The |Trap” at the Colonial this week, i* related to the United States cong by birth. “Relat iy the pr word, for Mise Bar ad's father grand members of the tional rislativ body Her grand father John Hollis Bankhead, ta United States senator from Alabama “a her father, Wil Brock Bankhead, 45 a representative that state. “The Tr night only heroine am mar from * remains until Friday REX “William = Turner,” Burke to her tenement “thr na ago I didn't love any ypatra (referring to the cat), but now I love you! I gues it's because it comes easier to poor people, Maybe it's because ts the only luxury that od provides for people who don’t know a finger bowl! from a cuspidor,” Mary Pickford plays Amy In “The Hoodlum,” the comedy-drama at the Rex this week. OH, BOY! THIS GIRL WILL PAY ALL BILLS NEW YORK, N. Y., —An advertisement, which th tising department of Columbia university's daily newspaper, Spectator, says is the legitimate appeal of a young woman, appeared over the address “B 26 Spectator” ntly, It reads “Are you bound by convention? A Columbia girl from out of town, oul- tured, well bred and fairly good look- ing, wishes to make the Haint- ance of several men in order to be introduced at Columbia functions, | “t the Colisoum this week, She is entirely unconventional and me wg she is a poor working is willing to meet the men ha j#irl, who hasn't any beau. she is io eter ai easannes pill eo peso |teaned so much by her pretty com: fidential, Address B 36, Spectator,” |P2Mlons that she pretends she has a Hundreds of male students are| anes. When It comes to a show: now anxiously awaiting replies from |“W", Bille has to draft a hand. the advertiser. The students who| ra a ereet date ual =a the part. publish the Spectator profess ignor- ne then Colle heteeif up, and you anos of the identity of the youn | know how perfectly adorable Billie woman or whether the No, 36 had | !* In frilla age sewer . ' any reference to her age. course, there Is @ romance, and y site the young chap Hkes the Job of being s “fiance” so well that he keeps It, “Wanted—A Husband” is the at: traction at the Coliseum until Friday night. says Amy sweetheart love Can you imagine darling, dainty Millie Burke placing an ad which |reads as follows: “Wanted—A Hus band"? NO? Well, neither eh we. Hut Billie does just this very thing Don't submit to the Inevitable un- Ul you have positive proof that it is { Just before bo left hls office W jnesday afternoon, Ma Unique ¥ Yule Gift nh, Fite | gerald handed L, B. Ye superin tendent of the city wa depart ment, a real Christmas present, a re | appointment ax superintendent f three years, beginning December 31 Superintendent Youngs, who ha» been at the head of the water de partment so long that the mind o: man runneth not to the contrary was about to leave HIS office Wed nesday afternoon, when the follow. | ing letter, dictated a few minutes be fore, was handed to bim “L. B. Youngs, Superintendent of Water, “Dear Bir: You are hereby reap pointed superintendent of the mun! cipal water department for a term o' three years from December 31, “Hoth an mayor and as a citizen of | Seattle, 1 desire to thank you for} your loyal, efficient and untiring ner: | vice to the city of Seattle, which! nervice, I believe, is fully appreciated | by the people of the elty. “I wish you @ merry Christma) and a happy and prosperous New Year. “Yours very truly, “C. Bh. FITZOBRALD, Mayor.” Million Dollars Needed for Water More than $1,000,000 will be re. quired during the year of 1920 to finance the Swan Lake extension of the city’s water supply system, ac- cording to @ report made to the elty council Wednesday by, L. B. Young», superintendent of the water depart: | ment. | The fwan lake project will take three years to complete, according to | city officials. It in designed to in-| crease and stabilize Seattle's water supply by storing large quantities of water at Swan lake, the level of which ee to ne rained 18 brad clure Pider Pegey Hyland will star in “The Official Chaperon.” eee | nerial, Lillian Webster, formerly with D W. Griffith, bas been engaged by Montgomery and Rock an new lead ing lady in a series of comedies to be produced for Vitagraph. eee Antanto Moreno is star in the new “The Invisible Hand.” eee Alice Joyce in working on of Pride,” “Slaves One of the neenes to be staged at the William Fox Western studio for Shark Rawley” requires the use of 2,000 persons. Dell Henderson, the director, says it will be the biggest dance hall scene ever staged. eee Gale Henry ruins a $250 evening gown in her latest two-reeler of mirth, “The Laundress.” The gown was bought specially for the picture. eee “Three Gold Coins” is the title of the latest Tom Mix picture. cee Shirley Mason will make her debut asa Fox etar in “Her Elephant Man.” . eee “Pierre Le Grand,” starring Wil. jam Farnum, has been rechristened “Heart Strings.” | eee ‘The cast for “Her Elephant Man” includes one full-grown elephant and the charming Shir- ley Mason. eee Thomas Meighan is to make a movie of Rdward Pepie’s “The Prince basa “Tet's 1414 34 eat at Boldt’ ‘uptown, ve; downtown, 913 bial Ave. Great Story of the Klondike ‘The Trap with Beautiful OLIVE TELL Special Xmas Attraction “Sinbad, The Sailor” A Treat for the Entire Family PRALY ConRBUTY econ MAM BENEER. ieee Christmas! Follow the big crowds here tonight and Friday to see a delightful com- edy entertainment— Merry Christmas! You have only tonight and Friday to see a drama that is remark- able for its big cast, big roles and big story— “EYES of YOUTH” 1919. | with Clara Kimball Young and Five Leading Men STRAND ORCHESTRA AFTERNOONS “Wanted — a Husband” See this if you want to know how a girl really lands a man! ™.) Lower Floor and Lowe! Baleo Symphony Orchestra Giris in Engtand are said to have P earl Ear Rings grown larger during the war. Watsts Nipped by Thief 7» measure on an inches, while One purse-snatcher’s girl may be happy this Christmas night with a pair of pearl ear rings ngs belong to Mra, O. E.) Bender, 659 Jackson st. She had put them in her bag with cash on Christmas eve. The bag was jerked oft her arm at the King st. station. | Etholm, 1221 EB. James st., ing at the interurban sta tion when a thief grabbed her purse containing $30 cash, some jewelry | — and valuable papers, GIRL ARRESTED WHOSE AUTO STRUCK OLD MAN Mixes Marie Guthrie, a clerk for the Standard Oil company, living at 2348 Franklin ave. was under arrest Thursday, and William Stokes, 50, an engineer of 609 2ist ave, N., was in serious condition at the city hos pital, Miss Guthrie was driving an auto which struck Stokes at 21st ave. N. and E. Mercer st. Wednesday eve ning, fracturing his skull. Miss Guth- rie told the police she tried to avaid the aceident by blowing her klaxon. 3828 Fiset Ave, NO VAMPIRES The Most Unique Theme Ever Presented in Pictures ARE YOU LEGALLY MARRIED A Pictorial Sensation with LEW CODY and ROSEMARY THEBE COMING SATURDAY LEMMER( SEATTLES BEST PHOTO PLAY Hat Mr. Ford Owner— Why crank your head off these. cold mornings, when I will guaf, antee to make your car easy? ave. See Mr. Atwood. 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