The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1920, Page 4

TRE SEATTL Clever Actor Has Difficult Role in Strand Photoplay Attraction Man Weighing but 96 Bags 48-Pound Fish MACON, Mo., Aug. 26—A 4%-pound you weigh—in catfish was Drought in from Chark | meant ton river recently by a party of cunpers, “Harve” Varnes, a barber, made the cathh. “Harv inches tall and weighs 96 hin stocking feet. Me has a nice large blue eyes and parts hia hair in the middie. When the crowd gvea rabbit bunt the altogether, COLINEUM-—Rald Remeete tm “Hair CTR MMB Ratan! Nermand tn “The flies Princes.” A New York version of the notorious badger game—a thrilling pistol battle in the East River —the big girl shows of Broadway—the female in her lair—all there and a score of other sensations, now here in this picture—Until Friday night only. “Little ever 96° “And the fish?” “Forty-eight pounds” “De you know what the tractive power of fish in the water is?” “Well, here» Mc¥adden on Aqua tles’—-good authority. |fish can move 60 pounds per equare inch, Would you think that fish had more than two square inches about When the outfit goes fishing he catches the biggest fish. ‘The fluh im, or waa, here to slow for iteelf—4t weighed exactly 48 pounds TOWN MARSHAL WAS DOUBTFUL the fish weighed, Prosecuting Attorney Wdwards had Constable James serve a subpoena on Harve Varnes, the barber, Harve whitefaced, wondering With much formality the proacu tor showed him into hin private of- fica, where a stenographer and the town marshal with his star and club oy you chught that 4% pound cat, Varnes? asked Edwarda “Why, ft hed more than that—« hundred, I guess.” | STEERED ISH “Bo would 1,” safa Eéwards, “but according to this book it would only take two square inches of that fish to move you; you weight leas than 100 pounds. Will you please tell me how you got M ashore in those circumstances?” “Harve” thought a moment and de cided to take a chance, “Ot course the fish could outpull me,” he admitted, started down stream I laid out more line and started running after him” “The fish wag so scared it milled photoplay which opened at the Coll- neurm Wednesday starring pretty Eaid Rex Rossmore had a wife whe thought of it. But Rex didn't like her domesticity, and that's why his stenographer appealed te him so strongty. However, when Rea‘s wife disown ered the true state of affairs she tm mediately became so uptodate that all New York et up and took no NEW YORK SLEEPS “With hook and linet “Yee, sir, I always use hook and line whenever I fish.” “I'm not intimating you're fMaling unlawfully, Mr. Varnes; 1 was just In fact, she was #0 up to date that Rex was made to realize how wonder ful she really was. That's why he begged her to return to her former ways of living and eventually found real happiness in domesticity, Matt Moore ts scen as the husband. COULDN'T CREDIT EXPLANATION “The fish was in the water?” “Well, I saw @ log kinda angting out from the shore, and I pulled in the line @ little #0 as to guide the It kept on sailing un- der full steam, and I guided it in “Excuse me, Varnes, but what do' between the log and the bank and “And you were on the shore?” MORE WHISKY, LESS BEER, IN CANADA indicate that q ériaking lean liquor, but of “hard er’ propensities than ever before. During 1918 the value of whinky imported was $610,023, as com pared with $461,000 worth during the past year, The figures for beer are: In 1918, $99,954, and during the past year, $34,712. which Indicates more whisky conmumed and less beer, The total amount of all kinds of liquor dropped more than a million gab |\Mrs. Catt to See i President Wilson WASHINGTON, Avs. 26.— Mre. Carrie Chapman Catt, suffrage leader, and Miss Helen Gartner, worman member of the civil vervics commiasion, will confer with Presi- ldent Wilson at 330 this afternoon, lit was announced at the White House | today. ORT pp ALLL there it stuck ftast—couldn’t budge an inch.” UNABLE TO ern prbeecutor wcrc his head. The utor “anything else?” asked Varnes softly as the prosecutor hesitated. “That's all, Varnes,” replied od wards “I was just thinking w! a chump Jonah was to let a © swallow him alive when he had mo tackle and 10 Umes better show tham }you had.” —$$—— Any man who thinks that he cam keep house better than his wife is fodjish if he even mentions it ‘There are many highty amusing situations in “The Slim Princesa,” George Ade’s famous comedy, in which Mabel Normand is starring at the Clemmer this week. The Princess Kalora (faba Nor get a hosband be cause she wasn't fat enough. Bo her father, the Count Selim Malagaskt, put her in @ rubber suit, filled with air—and lol she wae enormous ‘That is, until she sat on a pin— and then the blooming thing blew up. Mare McDermott, who does some splendid acting in “While New York Sleeps,” the photoplay attraction at the Strand this week, This picture is unusual in that it shows three indi- vidual plots. McDermott's acting as the paralytic in the final story, which has to do with life in New York's slums, is the outstanding feature of the entire production. mand) coulin’t Of course Kalora’s matrimonial |“God's Country and the Woman,” at prospects then vanish, but only for| the Rex this week. & short time, as a good looking! The story tolls of @ girl who lives happens on the/in the frozen North, away from civ. scene and runs off with the “slim |ilization, nursing @ secret sorrow. 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