The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 6, 1920, Page 4

{TONIGHT—Last Chances to See “THIEVES OF Starting THE NIGHT” Tuesday DOROTHY —her fast-action it comedy— REBELLION” aoe ate arte aoe eee that Cox to be a happy blending Pree Snenre, eed and the entrance of ey into Manila. SUNSHINE COMEDY “Ten Nights Without a Barroom” Hayden, Hall and Snyder LONDON, Sept. 6.—Speaking of | th slippery London streets, Mr. Rich | Roeds Improvement associa- said that “not a horse can look our streets on a wet d&y without Gown.” The streets were the! in the country from the horse's of view. Experiments will be with hoes of the rub- kind to prevent borses slip- ; and falling. “Certainly not.” replied the pros perous citizen. “But may I ask why you want to know?" “My wife's been after me to buy a flivver apd I'm going to argue against it on a limousine basis."— Birmingham AgeHeral, Finland has 8,72@ miles of tele graph and 2,491 miles of telephone lines and one radio station. . Wick Carter Well~ Me on the Frail. TODAY'S PROGRAMS LINERTV—Chartes May in “The Vi- je Slewth.” |e MER—Vielet Homing in “The | uM COLISEUM.."Thleves of the Night.” STRAND—Vannie Muret's “Humor LIBERTY ‘That there is fust as much romance and opportunities for excitement in the average American small town as there is in the big city in proven afresh every Ume a photoplay starring Charles Ray is released This youthful star has definitely placed the country village upon the motion picture map. His latest effort is “The Village Sleuth,” in which he ts pla Liberty this week. Accor story, Mr. Ray leaves his father's farm when bie pet detective scheme falls down and becomes man of all work around @ fashionable rest sunt tarium, A mystery develops in the disappearance of a certain neglected husband and of valuable jewels and a large sum of money, Hin sleuthing instincts aroused, Chartie, after sev eral amusingly falee reports, locaten the real culprit and clears up the mystery All the Ray laugh-provoking qual ities are given full play in “A Village Sleuth.” Winnifred Westover makes & pleasing leading lady eee CLEMMER Love unworthily bestowed is the mout of “The Cost.” the picture in which Violet Heming is featured at the Clemmer this week. Miss Heming hag the role of con siderable emotional appeal. she ts |Paultme Gardner, who, against the |wishes of her father, marries a rich |youth while still in boarding school. Coming to New York with him, she [kon discovers that he is unfaithful }to her af well as taking a disrepu |tabie hand in politics, using his po- ition as head of the woolen trust, His political rival ts Scarborough, who in school has fallen in love with Pauline, unaware of her mar. riage, A panic in Wall st leads to the dramatic climax, which opens the way for happiness for Pauline with Scarborough. “The Cost" abounds tn well con ceived scenen of college life and good acting by a splendid cast. eee REX When five grown men—artists— start out to mother as weil as father @ small orphan child, and Christmas comes around, you would expect them to spread themaelves a bit. But Net even the wildest dreams of the Little protege suspected what was in store for her, according to the gay Christmas morning scene in “The Prince Chap,” the photopley attrac tion at the Rex thie week. The scenes are laid tn te bohe mian artists’ colory, tn Sohe, Lon don, and center around the quest for fame and fortune of one William Pey- ton, sculptor, How the little girl who becomes hie ward upon the anhood, brings about another, forms the appealing plot of the story. Thomas Meighan is the artist and Lila Lee bis ward ee COLONIAL Don't blame your parlor maid if she's uppieh And don't censure your chauffeur if he declines to soil his hands by changing a punctidred tire, Roth of them may be of noble birth and used to being the served instead of the servants. idea behind the screen comedy, “New York, the City of Masks,” now at the| Colonial. The plot is buflt wp around the) novel idea that there are hundreds of men and women in New York,| concealing the fact that they are of | noble birth, by occupying humble positions, such as chauffeurs, govern. | ennes, and the like, Robert Warwiek, aa Tommy Trot | ag iter, chauffenr to the wealthy Mr. height of his popularity he goes to Carpenter, is tin dinguine. ally an English lord "| partiouler and is el} that any woman That's the| He ts in love with a) Mrs. Morgan Belmont Is the Latest ‘Society Debutante to Enter Movies Charlie Ray Has Role of Sleuth in Photoplay Comedy at Liberty PETS, HE SAYS Charlie Ray, who is entertaining crowds at the Liberty theatre this week by his cleve Mine Emadale, who is not really the governess she pretends to be, but a woman of wealth, Their romance # threatened by a bounder son of & nouveau riche New York family, and only after several exciting adven. tures are their efforts happily ended. see COLISEUM “Thieves of the Night,” adapted to the screen from Robert Louis Stev. enson's popular tale, “The Pavilion on the Links,” plays at the Coliseum until Tuesday night. It is @ story of mystery, romance and adventure, dealing with the at- tempted escape of a London banker who has atolen the funds of an Ital- ian secret society. Enlisting the ald of @ gentleman adventurer, North:| mour, the banker promises him the hand of his daughter provided his| qncape te successful. On the Scotch dunes, where they land from a yacht, Northmour's enemy, Cassilis, unex- peetedly appeare and becomes tn- Yolved in the unfolding of the plot. The wi circle, thegaign of the Carbonari, the secret Beiety, plays an important part in the mystery, Jatiice Wilson is the girl. Others Prominent in the cast are Jack Gil-| bert, Spottswood Aitkin, Harry Northup and W y Barry, . ° OAK Bitott Dexter, the popular and go0d looking leading man. ts seen as) & buainessabeorbed individual whe, is aatidy in dreae and babita Th: why his wife leaves him, only come back later, when she finds | there are worse things about a man than a certain carelessness in habita Meantime, he hae reformed in this could wish for. All of which shows It doemn’ pay to change husbands, even if the prov ccation in great. AN this occurs in “Don't Change Your Husband,” the Ceci! De Mille production at the Oak theatre, . ° STRAND “Humoreeque,” now atethe Strand, is @ phetoplay in which real life ts faithfully portrayed, Fangje Hurst, author of the novel upon Phich the ploture is based, shows in “Humor eaque” why ahe in one of the highest paid and most popular writers in the country, The story is #tmplicity tt self in plot. Laon Kantnor, a child of New York's humble East side, with @ soul for music, ts the central figure, Under the watchful and lov- ing eye of his mother, he develops in- to a world: known musician, At the war, and returns with a wounded shoulder that, the doctors tell him, The are making in- movies roads into the top level New York so- Mrs. Morgan Bel- mont, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Andrews of New York and Newport, of ciety. and daughter - in - of Mrs. August Bel- mont, has gone} into film work. She says that only her ability spend _ this summer in California pre- vented her law in- to from taking | afte an important} role in a play now being pro- duced at Los Angeles. x impersonation of a “village will prevent hi ever playing « violin again Music is Leon's life he becomes morons, and, himself a cripple for life, in unwilling to marry the girl he loves. But in a wonderful manner the clouds clear away. Alma Rubens, Vera Gordon, Gas ton Glass, Dore Davidson, Bobby Connolly and ttle Miriam Battista, in the chief roles, are exgellently cant, ‘é Without it Young Griffith ° Star Succumbs Robert Harron, the popular young star’ who has appeared in many of D, W. Griffith's big feature produc tions, died at the Bellevue hospital Sunday from a wound received in bis apartment at the Hotel Seymour last Wednesday, when hia revolver was accidentally discharged. Mr. Marron was 27 years old, was married recently to Mary Hay & dancer of stage and nereen fame. A NEAT WORKER “Father, pleag® let me tarry Jim. He's wo neat. Why, when he was in France he got two medals for clean ing out dugouts and mopping up.” American Legion Weekly THECOST —With— VIOLET HEMING @autitui star of the Photo y “EVERYWOMAN”™ And of the Stage Play “THREE FACES EAST” CLEMMER MUSIC Liborius Hauptman pass “tu ro yours and te back over (ho days that are por and though Lvo thom over. I find myself, at roventy-ono, frequentty quarter cf a ccntury, when the Litile dra; castomere—whad we: nown only as Dr. Lewis’ Medicine for Etomach, Liver aod Bowel Complainte. For many yeara while Twas perfecting my formula X s:adied and hayostigaied’ (a0 eal ©7 0 @marketand main faglt t the pyatem of tho voor; * that they wore I belicved that © preparation to produce best effect must Bret tone the ih on the stomach and a jekening sensations, | better at once. Marent rule js now known a which I truly believe goes furt believing | He) | SNAKES FINE Also They Eat Rats, Thus Saving Much Grain OAKUAND, Cal, Sept, 6—Fver | since Mother Kve had her encounter with the adder, the anake has been |looked upon as man's mortal enemy | Now comes Fred V. Shaw, annie tant curator of the Oakland museum. who says that the harmless reptile hould be rated among man's most alued companions |SNAKES BETTER THAN A DOG etter keep a few snakes on your! | place than a dog,” says Shaw, who} j hen handied and studied thousands, | and who fears reptiles less than two legged or four-legged creatures “Ot the 111 American varietion, only 17 are poisonous, Learn the poisonous ones — they usually fight! only in In Amorica $20,000,000 worth of grain in deetggyed by rats every, year A gopher Shake eats rats, squi and other rodents that attack grein and the roots of fruit trees, Kvery time you Kill a gopher #nake, you might as well destroy 100 ti hin welght in grain, The same is true of a king snake.” Shaw says you can quickly learn to distinguish the poisonous from the harmiess species, The venomous ones usually have flat heads and keelnhaped scales, The rattler of the West, the copperhead and moc conins of the Kast are all marked thu: QUICK MOVEMENTS [ANGER THEM “Snakes are wb mya. “Quick move often anger them. Sigw movements they can hardly distinguish. Always back away from a snake slowly, and| then, if he's @ rattler, you can kill! him, “But don't kill snakes indiserim inately, You are killing one of earth's gnost gentle and harmless creatures, as a rule.” When going into the mountains, Shaw advises, it i better to take Jalong a hypodermic anto-toxin or permanginate of potash kit, to be had at any drug store, A rattlesnake bite in best cured by thin, with strychnine pills, to keep |the heart pumping. 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Tomorrow Alright Get a2 S° Box \ brant with the maody of livalove it thrune thie heartstrings-apoom of” as a star. It’s now here—this Paramount picture so real, so true and so beautiful that it ranks as the finest ar- tistic achievement seen in Seattle since “The Miracle Man.” This Chester qomedy is one of the best— “FOUR TIMES FOILED” THE AT RE | ame @\ i» » er Emory, who lives in a mansion on CLAIRE WILL PLAY mepry, ne 6 ee OLD-FASHIONED GIRL | conseauentty—supports» large ware Claire Adams is of the opinion that |" fashions are reverting back to the hoop akirt Miss Adams has just 4 SOUT 18 THRIFTY been selecting her costumes for her| Qu@tlon—What do you do with role in “The Killer,” photoplay of the| Four shoes when you wear them Stewart Edward White novel, and | out? . the hip effects of the evening gowns Answer—I wear them back in the are startling reminiscent of the| house again—Boys’ Life days when ladies used to have diff—i- culty getting their hoops thru the ordinary doorway. In “The Killer,” Miss Adams takes the role of Ruth| he ‘The Adantic liner Imperator ts the first steamship to be equipped with a full-fledged bank. Delicious Dramatic, Musical and Vaudeville Entertainment 15c, 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00 Mat. Every Day—15c to 50c MARIE AND MARY McFARLAND The American Grand Opera Stars in “A Concert Program” FRANK WILCOX AND COMPANY “Sahch” A NEW COMEDY The Original PRIMROSE FOUR Van—Cantwell—Murphy—Gilmer 1,000 Pounds of Harmony WILLIAM BRACK And His Company of Eccentric Artists WALLACE GALVIN Eggspert Conjurer or Egg Egespert ELLY ‘The Little Marvel The Youngest Feminine Juggier in the World COLEY AND JAXON Presentin, LJ “The Minstrel and the Maid” Kinograms | Toptes of the Day | Concert Orchestra There Is a Matinee Every Day at The Moore