The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 4

Everybody look this way The latest Charles CHAPLI The latest Fatty ARBUCKLE comedy, “The Garage” comedy, “A Day's Pleasure.” Ire release—its first showing anywhere on earth. Prerelease—its § first showing any where on earth, The latest comedy by ACK SENNE “OVERSEAS REVIEW” 30 funmakers on the stage. This wonderful en- tertainment is our NEW YEAR'S SHOW AND JINKS Wednesday night — 11:15 sharp to 1A. M. Doors open at 11. Be there at that time. | | | “In the Inkwell” “UNCLE TOM’S CABIN” A burlesque on it. “Little Laughs” “T’Pagliacci” Aria General admission $1.00 Loge seats $1.50 Both prices plus tax “Old Timer’s Waltz” } with the audience singing. Symphony Orchestra 31 artists SEATS NOW SELLING at the BOX OFFICE \Boilermaker Talks _|SPRINTING COPPER Himself Into Jail! RECOVERS JEWELRY “No, I don’t belong to the I. W It required three blocks of fast | W., but I'm going to join as soon as| sprinting for Policeman Tom Wright 1 can," Alfred Shervinakt, 35, botler-/to overhaul Frank Martinez Sunday maker, i# alleged to have told Patrol-| put the chase yielded 14 lockets, 4 man J. L. Peterson, at Second av bracelets, 12 @ laval a a | and Washington st. Saturday nigbt. | watch fob, a stickpin and 3 brooches: ‘Better | He was arrested Murtinex is alleged to have smashed mr a Jewelers window at 921 First ave cen eek, JAHISON FU ERAL HELD and filled his pockeets with the Funeral serv Why Sank your head off these e0l4 mornings, when I will guar. gmiee to make your car start easy? } Bring your car to 2015 Third ave. Crow for Andrew W.| jewelry. He is held in the jail | Jamison, 66, who died Saturday at/on an open charge. | his home, 721 Homer st., were held | at 130 p. m. Monday in the George | town Presbyterian church. Inter ‘ment was in Washelli cemetery, A soft answer may turn luck your way. think of a man who will eat onions, mince pie, Welsh rarebit and lobster at a single meal? You’d expect him to have an awful nightmare. He does. For the record comedy nightmare, see DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS in his record-size picture, now here— “WHEN THe CLOUDS ROLL BY” It’s new, and the flood scenes are magnificent. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 31 Artists under Reginald Dunn, playing the overture “1812” | THE SEATTLE STAR- ‘Oliver Wallace Hel ps Connie Vamp Pretty Constance Talmadge wears this very becoming smile all the way thru “A Vi | this week, | eee Sd the melodious strains of “The Vamp,” played by Oliver Wal lace, pretty young Constance Tal | madge is vamping her way thru “A Virtuous Vamp,” a lively comedy drama, at the Liberty this week How « modest girl with a cap |tivating amile turned a Manhattan in surance company into a warkshop of | jlovelorn wretches forma the basis of the story | An Nellie Jones, |the part of a girl w venient to cast aside her aristocrats |name of Gwendalyn Diana Beaufort Armitage, in order to gain a place in the Insurance office of James ( Constance takes | Crowninahield, a bachelor, who hated | |to mix social affairs with bustness Nellie is a wteady stenographer, un 1 Glida Gran, a Broadway shimmic dancer, makes application for a $60 000 policy on her shoulders. Then becomes necessary for the win nome typist to escort the staid Mr |Crowninahield to a jase parlor for nvestigation of this matter It is then that Crowninshield de len to atop being a bachelor, an on the beginning of Nellie vamplest attempts to win the only man who refuses to be captivated by her “Innocent” wiles. The pleture is preceded by a short prologue in which a fairylike little tot prances on to the stage with the aid of « large mirror and vampa the entire audience. eee this mak REX Attired In chaps, checkered skirt and boots w imprearive looking spurs, and wearing a big sambrero a bu ke angle, Mabel Nor nd struts thru ber latest comedy Pinto,” at m that her dynamic little pernc can summon up Normand is perfectly at in the part of “Pinto,” a ranch girl, Pinto has grown up un- der the guardianship of five ranch. men in whose care her father left her when died. The boys chip in to send her on @ visit to New York Pinto’s shock tn the Fast mas with the knowledge that New York is not a ranch, aa she had thought. A young fellow of engaging personality, named Rob DeWitt, helps her to find the people she ts to visit, and they became very good friends The little Western girl has lots of exciting experiences in New York before she returns to the ranch. Oh, you, Bob takes the trip back, too—bis object being matrimony. The picture in filled sith lots of good comedy scenes, expecially the reel showing Mabel’s arrival in New York. Cullen Landis plays Bob Dewitt a fleet co buy Boldt’s French pas try. U ten, 1414 Third ave.; down | town, 913 Becond ave. The Big Screen Classic SPECIAL SHOULD WOMAN TELL? 's Melodrama “ s Thrilling Powerful, Gripping Full of heart-touch- ing, soul-sti It’s Spectacular It’s a Screen Event! Don’t miss it. The usual Colonial prices prevail 0 found it con-| the Rex this week with | rtuous Vamp,” at the Liberty |” Top. r j WFRTY—<onstance Taimedge J “The Virtuous Vamp"; Universal hereon Magasine; Pathe News; Major Allan's Lion Must. CLEMMER — Feature production, LITTLE-Willlam Desmond te “The Hive Nandana, | . COLISEUM If even the thought of an opal caused cold shivers to dance from one end of your xpine to the ather and the sight of one of the rainbow colored gems developed an immediate | desire in your make-up to run a mile, and you suddenly discovered that the girl you hoped to marry just adored opais and insisted on that character of @ stone as an enguge do? Doug. Fairbanks finds a solution in “When the Clouds Rell By,” at the Coliseum this week. Obstacles as @ rule do nat bother Doug. very much, for he has the happy faculty of either jumping over | them or smashing them down with « straight blow, clean shoulder. But this is a very ticklish situation, involving a sweetheart, a subject which must be handled with | velvet gloves—and Doug is so very | superstitious, | Doug leaves bis fate to a ouija board, and after jumping, hoppin, skipping, handepringing and fighting }hin way thru several recis he finds & way to get around his super tition and also get the girl. Thia picture i# Just like all Pair banks pictures—not much plot—lote [of actlon—and a pretty girl for wham our hero risks his life at every ee | | photoplay “Are You Legally Married?” at the Clemmer holds a ripping heart interest in @ most ap | pealing, haman and poignant man. ner it presen a theme unusual } and unique in type, which stimulates jan expectancy only revealing itnelf in the very last foot of film on the screen. It unfolds the bewttching tale of “man-made laws and flaws,” | interwoven with many stirring bite | of unusual excitement, coupled with |the dramatic ability and originality jot the only “male vampire,” Lew | Cody, who takes the leading role, and |that delightful personality in. the | form of Rosemary Thebe, who plays oppodite him. Mian Thebe portrays a very diffieult part to a most con vineing and impressively rapturous se. The humor and pathos knitted nl this soulstirring picture play breeds into reality as the story un- the sereen, and it ia not dimme house lights loom |up to disturb you that you realize th s not @ real page of life lift |ed right out of your own circle of friends and molded into “justice.” | The story of “Are You Legally | Married? exceptionally original in | its theme, was written at the susgeN | tion and by the research of Miles Dobson, B. A., who devoted over two winds on “ARE You LEGALLY MARRIED” ? A pictorial sensation with Lew Cody and Rosemary Thebe ment present—weil, what would you) from the) It touches on great vital human problems of today! MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1919. URGE BRYAN TO Her Way Thru Picture at Liberty | TRY COME-BACK | Backers Talking Him for Presidency Nomination NEW YORK, Dec, 29.—Immediate reorganization of the former Bryan league of the state of New York was announced — tod Yrank Warder, tts retary, ‘The object of the reorganization, accord ing to Warder to Bryan policies and, it was indicated, to ure him ax a candidate for the demo cratic presidential nomtnation. Marry W. Walker personal friend of Br eft New York today to visit various New York and New England cities, He will confer with OMcers of former Diryan etate or ganizations and urge them to attend & Jackson day banquet at Washing ton, January §. at which time demo- ratio clans wil gather to name the national convention elty In the words of Warder’s an nouncement effort will be made to have aa p an possible of the “old Bryanites on hand to draft their own leader witness the great Bryan ‘come A meeting Bryan loa by mer mec in to py a and f the 1 New Jersey will be called at New ark next week, it waa stated It was said many New York Bryan Admirers have suggested former Gov Martin Glynn of New York as Bry Qn's running mate College Gets $50,000 to Teach Loyalty WALLA WALLA, Dec. 29.—Fifty thousand dollars are left to Whit- man lege by terms of the will of the Miles ©. Moore, ex governor, just opened here. The remainder of the estate be queathed to relatives. gu is “loyalty to the government,” says the will years in gathering the facts and foundations upon which it in based. The scenario is from the pen of Henry Christene Warnack, who gave “The Honor System,” “The Con queror” and some of our most popu lar stories to the screen. cee MISSION All the elements that go to make & fine photoplay—a charming love stor; strong cast and @ star who actually lives the part he is called on to portray—are to be seen in “The Speed Maniac,” in which Tom Mix is starring at the Mission. ‘The story includes a thrilling auto race, a fast boxing match, a run away, a rescue and an air of mystery that keeps the audience guessing from the opening scene to the final fadeout Mix is a ranchman of Nevada | who takes « trip to ‘Frisco. In the Tay City his adventures begin when | ho rescues @ young girl from a run jawey and makes his first acquaint anor with Cupid. Ta Novak is the girl. eee STRAND | Take Buffalo Bill's world’s con | grees of rough riders, augumented by the daredevil riders of the 101 | Ranch Wild West show, add to this | the men who make one’s hair stand on jend by their fearless riding in cir | euses and rodeos and you will have some canception of the horsemanship displayed during the picturization of Richard Harding Davis’ “Soldiers of Fortune,” which is the attraction at the Strand this week. ‘The story concerns the adventures of @ mining engineer named Clay, who goers to Central America in search of adventure, He finds it in bunches, ‘There is a girl (with whom Gur hero falls in love), raids, battles with Mexicans and thrilling adven tures galore—euch as only Richard Harding Davis can write about To Allan Dwan, who directed the picture, goes the biggest share of praise, He has faithfully carried out every Getall—the mob scenes and battles being particularly exciting For clever acting, Norman Kerry wins first honors, He portrays the character of Clay, the young Amer- jean engineer. . COLONIAL “Should a Woman Tell?,” a film drama depicting the struggle of a girl confronted with a fearfal moral dilemma, is the attraction now play ing at the Colonial, The story re Yealed on the screen is romantic, dealing with the love of Meta Maxon for a young artist living in a New England town, Altho well aware that the young man himself has not led a blameless Mfe, Meta hesitates to tell of her own mistake—knowing that to do so might wreck her hap. piness. Her choice of action is re vealed in the course of the play. Alice Lake, one of the prettiest and cleverest young girls appearing before the camera, and Jack Mulhall, popular leading man, are the fea tured players. The picture week will be shown all “Moving Day” A comedy with Mr. and Mrs. | The $60,000 in to be used to teach Carter De Haven ORCHESTRA NUMBER “Serenade” .,. Titl THE BIG SENSATION OF THE YEAR NOW PLAYING MABEL NORMAND —IN= COME EARLY AND ENJOY THE EXCITEMENT NEW YEAR’S HIGH JINKS AT LIBERTY Liberty patrons are anticipating a merry time at the New Year's eve show and jinks to take place at 11:15 o'clock Wednesday night. Ever since the first announcement of the entertainment the tickets have been going like wildfire, so that there isn’t a doubt but that the late- comers will be turned away. At that time Chaplin and Arbuckle’s latest comedies will be presented for the first time in the United States, These features, “A Day's Pleasure” and “The Garage,” will not be given as regular theatre attractions for weeks. Mack Sen- net's latest riot, a clever burlesque on “Uncle Tom's Cabin” and big Overseas Review” are other parts of the program, which for réal en- tertainment value has never been equaled. SESSIONS AT UNIVERSITY The Classical associations of the Pacific coast convened at the univer. nity Monday for a two-day session. The Washington State Philological association also met in conjunction with the Coast bod Tonight and Tuesday, then gone forever TOM MIX The only genuine cowpuncher on the screen in his most brilliant achievement. Russell on the Wurlitzer | | | Christie Comedy —and— Mutt and Jeff FUN AT THE COLISEUM A big New Year's eve show and jinks will be presented at the Coliseum at 11:15 o'clock Wednesday” night. The doors wit! open promptly/ 11 o'clock and the performang will close at 1 o'clock. Most of tt Coliseum's patrons are purchasi their Uckets now in order to avi the record-breaking crowds of the last moment. The program will include a pre release ahowing of the latest Fatty Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin com- edies, which means that at this time they will be given their first public presentation in the United States. A hilarious Mack Sennett, the “Over- seas Review” with 30 persons enter- taining op the stage, a clever bur- lesque and mafy other interesting features, will make this entertain- ment one of the merriest New Year's evé revels ever experienced in Seat- ue. CHINESE COOKS HELD UP. H. Woo and W. Sing, Chinese cooks on the steamer Fulton, were held up and robbed of $75 at the foot of Cedar st. by three armed thugs, Saturday night best story as a fine pho- toplay production, OF Raids, rescues, reckless riding, love romances— all magnificently visual- ized! . trand Orchestra, play. ing “Light Cavalry,” and “I Hear You Ca ing Me.” * * AFTERNOONS Lower Floor ... NIGHTS (After 6 Lower Floor and 1 Balcony Upper Balcor Children ., Loge Seats . (All Prices, Pius Tax)