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q | FIGHTS FOR’ LIBERATION Shows Strong Emotion in Sorrow Film But Binney’s Cigar Makes | a Poor “Head” OF HUSBAND American Citizen Is Held Prisoner in Russia for Three Years SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 One of the most delicate problems | tn _" ™ and “horror,” confronting the new administration | “f th eS Te on tae Se And involving the fate of a distin |.) "S00" ristman and Anatead Guished American citizen, ts the cAs@ | seated on a settee before the camera, @f Xenophon Kalamatiano, commer | were listening to the director as he | Gial attache to the 1918 U. 8. CoM | tod them | @ulate in Russia, who for three years| «you are coming home late tn the has been a political prisoner of across the street car trecite. peanine. pitch dark, You are cation eneted thre of the party you have just Tt was a tense moment at studio where The Star-Universal test test films were being Mth ave, and EB. Pine st, y¥ afternoon: Director Harold Binney had chosen | Ruth Listman and Isabel Anstead to | register four emotions for the mov interest.” “sorrow,” | evening It is think! the former State department was ineffectual. nd the happy time you had Dut, believing that al *\¥ou stumble over something lying th have not been exhaust the mid f the street. Look! It's your little brother lying there. Ob, make er husban he He's been run over by the forts to have i « are. V c's bis head? There it TELLS STORY OF HER lin, Se @ See it! Camera” eee “aces BUT IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE Ssabalene end LITTLE BROTHER'S HEAD inate, bre But instead of horror, the camera lives with her ye today ma Public the details of her husband's imprisonment and her own expert ences—scarcely less tragic than his. &s she tells the story Kalamatiano went to Russia to rep fFesent American business firms prior to his consular attachment at the be ginning of the bolshevik regime. In 1918, when the soviet agitatio against foreigners was at its height he, together with many others, was Arrested in con: ' brated Lockhart mar ¢ with anti-bdoishevik ac condemned to death. T Was tater commuted Only the most meager information about him s reached his wits whose wand with her son from Moscow thru Siberia and finally to America form a somber accor ment to Kalamatiano’s experi The latest report was conveye her by Washington D. Vandertip who, during his recent Russian trip n ntence jon with th e- | >| bie studios caught both girls laughing uproar jously, Director Binney's half smoked cigar, that had rolled off the top of the camera and onto the floor, didn’t look much like the mangled body of poor little brother. The director ad mitted it himself, All the horror was gone out of the oxical moment s was pane ed for two © Tuttle nother the films taken yester. day are shown at the Clemmer the atre and the scene register jed by the Misses Austead and List « flashed on the screen, it will 4 that real tears were in Mins an's eyes. and “net.” “sorrow” with satisfaction, ‘That # a wonder for emotions, In the they have an orchestra that plays ‘Hearts and Flowers’ when the star wants to shed tears. tears, no fooling,” sald the | was permitted to interview the at-| Here we had no music, but the tears} fache in his cell at Moscow “My husband,” says Mrs, Kalama tlano, “doesn't seem to have been Mistreated, but his health apparently is badly broken, and he is wonder. | ing if his country has forgotten him. TO HELP FREE # “And I am taking t >poi jcame any TEN CAST FOR A PARTY SCENE | Ten girls were cast In a party! uth Listman, Isabel Anstead, rd, Claudia Mazine Rog co Tuttle, Elxie Marum, Mueller and Louise ldred Filmer, Louise Petts. | Row to ask the state department and | Loug' All who are interested in foreign re-| It was 9 o'clock last evening be | lations and the welfare of Americans | fore the tests were concluded, The} abroad to do whatever may seem | final scene was a series of “flashes” wise to bring about the liberation of [showing Mins Filmer seated at a my husband.” dressing table, which an expressman Her fight thru Siberia ahead of | had rushed to the studio from the the advancing bolshevik lines, part of | Standard Furniture Co, “making the time as a volunteer Red Cross | up” for the movies. Muree, part of the time under the| A movie “makeup” differs matert Protection of ConsularGenera! Har. ally from the ordinary street “make ris and much of the way on her own | up” used by many women nowadays. Fesources, together with the long,|A dozen different creams, paatels Nervous strain, has left her in badly | and colors are used to prepare a face shattered health but with undaunted |for the camera, With the camers Purpose. set at the right angle, the lens caught Miss Listman's reflection Lyons, France, has the only uni. | from three sides, showing the detatis Yersity that offers a course in per-|of being “made up.” fumery making. A new group of girls was photo graphed In a first test this morning Best foodstuffs for the least at/|at the pubile library. Bolat’s.— Advertisement. Girls who have not yet entered the ‘ee 2 Rtanaed Bessey: IRRESISTIBLE VIOLA DAN —JN— “THE OFF-SHORE PIRATE” In which Cupid makes a modern young buccaneer walk the plank—of Love SPECIAL EVENT: Exclusive showing of Test Films taken in The Star-Untversal $1,000.00 MOTION PICTURE CONTEST Matinees 220 Children 10¢ Evenings ic BILL SEZ. If you haf to use a hammer build a house. Seattle's all jake only they’s too many local fellers without any reputation sellin’ hammers and they hain’t got no STARTING SATURDAY: “THE BIG ADVENTURE” A TRUETO-LIFE DRAMA OF SMILES AND HEART THROBS SCIAL KIDDIES MATINEE SATURDAY Admission Five Cents—10:30 to 1:30 Movie Contestant Sheds Real Tears!\EARLY SAVANT _ ing them a story. When asked to shed real tears.—Photo by Price & contest may do #0 according to the following conditions: CONDITIONS OF THE CONTEST contest ts in King county a versal and Clemmer theatre empioyes « barred. nder 18 wne enter the contest must he written consent of parent ootentdnts must fret submit a! photograph of themasives for the use of Judges in selecting those to appear tn the teat filme | 4—From those who appear tn the teat will choome the wi with the Untversal Film Co, wood, Cal &The winner wil be paid 5 at Molty- traveling expenses to Los Ao: retarn, Payment will be mad | nner will appear tn a Tntver- | a) pro: on. If she “makes good” in| this film she will be offered « permanent position with Universal not uarantes the re- submitted in the con- to have @ copy i valund, | reason of thetr tryouts every effort will the convenience of com- | testauts as pure Diamond Necklace Is, Lost at the Opera} SAN FRANCISCO, April 21.—A 15,000 diamond necklace was lost by irs. Henry T. Scott, of San Fran-| sco, last night, while she was at ng the performance of the Cht- | cago Grand Opera company, accord: | ing to reports to the police. Wn Police are working on the theory that the necklace was stolen by a clever thief. fl Town Council in Maine Bans Autos ‘ORO, Me., April 21.—Town | has banned the auto, Only one was ever brought to this isiand. Horses and some humans who had never seen one before were greatly | excited. This is a summer resort and vacationists like to sleep late. Queen Takes Whirl at Candy Dipping} The British queen, with Princess Mary, recently inspected of the chocolate factories a m, Eng: | ueen took girl workers for a while and tu out some | chocolate bon-bons that onlookers | who tasted them said were perfect. Seattle Man Gets | Perjury Sentence LLINGHAM, April 21.—A sen-| tence of one to five years in the pen itentiary at Walla Walla was given John A. Roddy, 40, of Seattle yesterday afternoon. He was found | guilty of perjury in the first de; | h Roddy had denied that he was a| member of a boove-running party. THE SEATTLE STAR * * GIVEN LAURELS Professors Say Roger Bacon Father of Science | Rog lived PHILADELPHIA, April 21 er Bacon, Mranciscan monk, nearly 700 years ahead of his time, | according to Philadelphia scientists | today, They were convinced that | | Professor William B. Newbold of the | University of Pennsylvania, was cor jrect in crediting the monk with nolentific discoveries mupposed to have been made in the last 100 years. Newbold submitted evidence to show that Bacon used a microscope, | a telescope and aclentific drawing In: | struments. The authenticity of Ba con's manuscripts he has translated were proved, Newbold said, by a sig nature deciphered on the last page. | Bacon's manuscripts bury under six ciphers, Newbold said, a mass of discoveries and theories which event ually will prove Bacon the father of all modern science. Bacon care | fully concealed his work by the use of ciphers, Newbold said, becaune as | a monk he could not write without permission from his superiors in the ehureh. nm was credited with discover he primary germ of life at least TheBonMarché MEMBER SEATTLE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU Street Floor Millinery Offers Regulation Banded Sailors at *2.75 FOR WEAR WITH NEW SPORT SKIRTS AND JACKETS The Street Floor Millinery Section—just up the central Second Avenue entrance—offers a group of Banded Sailors bought especially for Friday sales. Barnyard straw with medium or wide brims, and banded with Pugarree bands, in colors or white. These hats are shown in white, black or navy straw. UPPER MAIN FLOOR CENTRAL SECOND ENTRANCE jon befor He a erien coinciding with years when the tel veloped. Only a few thus far. 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