The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 20, 1921, Page 4

THE SEATTL Strand Picture Tells of Wonderful Faith and Courage of Convict’s Wife NOW PLAYIN Young Girl Places Duty | Before Love “The Courage of place is what Maxine Finley, of 4020 University way, titles ber letter telling of the wtruxsle of a little walt reas to méther @ family of four “Man Ww ingiined to be @ hero worshipping Mhironi, who applauds the speetneulur, and condones the senaational, He is not particularly interested im the hero without the! background ef fame, or the heroine whe lacks the halo of glory-—he de- mands thrill, Yet, in this aggre gate of beings designated merely as “Man,” many live who have never been inflamed by the plaudits of a throng of admirers; tae call of love and duty bave inapired tw them a higher quality than he bears who | conquers 4 nation. Such « spirit | dwelt in thie city, in the form of a| ‘ A strong, heartappealing girl, fragile in body, but col ‘ a 7 story of the great North pe ut coloswal 0) ""Tn “Billions,” a brilliant cours ge. Woods where X. K. meant the She was rainea in luxury unta|and fascinating romance & sin of the brawny twofisted from French sources, Nazi- she was 17, when a. train nocident sx, taaeeed tn Gersd 008 bal deprived her of father, mother 4n4| mova is given full seope for B \). the amazing artistry which Cynthia Grey | Will Choose | | Prize Letters task of choosing the What I Would Do} if My Husband Got a Tena Week } Raise” has already begun, Cynthia} +Grey and Mins Daisy Henry will act | as judges. For the best letter $26} in cash will be awarded by Manager | John Hamrick of the Blue Mouse| eatre, where “A Ten-Dollar Raise,” }Peter B. Kyne's great story, is to Ihe shown, For the second beat, $105 third prize, $5; fourth and fitth prizes, $2.50 each, and five $1 cash prizes. The contest closes Thursday at 6 >» ™. Mra, R. 1, Whitasnan, of Edmonda, Wash,, writes: “Ten dollars a week, added to my hard-working husband's pay envelope perhaps you would be surprined if you knew tho priceless gift it would restore to us-—our little gray home im the West—that's what we christened it when we croaved its threshold, @ little over & year aga, “Pive years pridr to that greatast | of all events, we had sertmped, add ing only dimes sometimes, until we | made the Cirst payment, We denied ourselves practically all pleasures dear to the tarts of a young couple, and there, at last, wng the joy that | more than made up for the lost ree- reation»—the joy of meving Inte our own litte home, all clean and new | "In those days the good furiew | meemed to hover all about ws, I was able to secure work half-days, which enabled us to furnish our love neat more quickly in the way we wished. We worked hard, but our cup of hap- | piness seemed running over—I guess we were too happy. “We had just made four payments when my husband was taken danger- | Qusly fil with pneumonia and re} | moved to the hospital, With a heavy heart I closed our little place and went out to work all day. After «| long, hard siege, he pulled thru, tut | there were heavy expenses to meet,| doctor, medicine and hospital bills, and nothing left for payment. “He was fortunate enough to se eure his olf position, but work be came go scarce that I could get noth- ing, altho I would giadly have taken) A LICH CALHOUN'S splendid ath-| CLEMMER in washing to keep our home, Our] letic accomplishments stood her| Fie had ioxt a miltion overnight | creditors have been as patient, f sup-| in good stead in making “Peggy Puts | But he kept on writing poetry, In powe, as they could be, as every one! tt Over,” the film attraction which @ litte garret room in Greenwich needs and must have money, it/ opened at the Colonial today. | Village he was forgotten by the great seems. We have struggled bravely,| ygige Calhoun appears ae a young | WT! of society and finance in which but there just ism't meney enough 0! college girl, full of life and vim, who be had cut such @ brilliant figure. go round. Ten dollars @ week, over! shows the natives of a small town) Then a Russian princess came into $40 & month—it would enable us tO/ what college training does for a| hi life—just what influence she had meet the payment on our home, and young woman, and Miss Calhoun is|OVer him i# told in “Billions,” the at this time it seems that nothing In| quits qualified to show them. She | *reen drama Nesimeve is starring the world matters so much to U# A8/ is at home in any form of outdoor |!" #t the Clemmer thin week. being able to keep the little home we! games or sports, and spends much| Charles Bryant, the star’s husband, planned on and sacrificed #0 much | o¢ ner spare time in athletic purwuits, | the Common ‘The rreat best letters on “The Rider of the King Log” A Special Screen Version of Holman Day’s Fam- ous Novel NOW PLAYING ALICE CALHOUN “PEGGY PUTS IT OVER’ Come and see how she does it. See her make a live town out of a dead one. See her ride the four-year-old champion horse of ‘the werld. A picturesque rural comedy that everyone will enjoy. . COMEDY MOVIE CHATS INTERNATIONAL NEWS Latest Events HALL ROOM BOYS 2-Reel Comedy LITERARY DIGEST Topies of the Day GORGEOUS PRIZMA Natarel Colors GATHERING SPONGES Scenic Beautifal Matinees 25 Evenings and Sundays 35¢ We ADEN a. Sam De Grasse and Naomi Childers in a pretty scene from “ourage,” the screen drama now showing at the Strand. iss Childers gives a remarkably true characterization of a young wife who battles against heavy odds to keep her going in spite of the fact that her husband is serving a prison term for murder. It is due to her wonderful courage and faith that she is able to prove eventually that her husband is suf- fering for a crime committed by another. * * * LOOS-EMERSON WRITE GOES VACATIONING; ~ NEW SCREEN STORY Anita Stewart left the coast this| John Emerson and Anita Loos on her annual pilgrimage to/are now working on the continuity} seme te Tanhore, Cader ma.|of thelr new and original photo-| just | Play, “Good, for Nothing,” having | ly completed “A Question of|completed the synoputs. The which ts the fourth picture | scenario will be completed tn about 920-1921 contract with Louis fortnight, when it will be pro . She expects to stay in|duced under the direction of Victor bs East until about the middle of| Fleming, starring Constance Tai- _ POPULAR ACTRESS fortune, and left her the guardian} his logs catapulting down the of 16 months. Her mother had lived has won for her thousands of long enough after the aceldent to ADDED implore her to keep the children to “Billions” & showin fether and to riot the bany amone| ay Billions” ta now é i ec geek them ai e ©: mer, Little broad Mp diee, er for earning a living for her. a eee inner of the Mary Pick weit and the children wo she was| PICTURE ADAPTED to foreed to work aa a wajtrens. She pear ip person in songs worked unti! midnight in an oyster and dances, wearing the theme which evoked from costume that Mary wore. roughest clans, She denied herself | king Lear his immortal plaint, everything to give the children “\“How sharper than a serpent’s proper eduention. They grew up in /igoth it is to have a thanklens cruelty of youth, left her, to seek! to break the heart of his aged fath- their fortune. ‘The baby she always |er, David, King of Israel, has been kept with her. Love came im the| used by Wiliam Fox foe his great mule of a struggling young lawyer |eat photoplay “Over the Hill,” which both a wife and @ half grown child.|repolitan starting Sunday evening, | He dearly loved the girl but asked | July 31. | her to leave the child in a home and| “Over the Hilt" was made from to start life unencumbered. Herltwo of Will Carleton’s celebrated barrier between them and she re | theme t) divine love of a mother. fused to give up the child. They ste quarreled and separated: she te de vote herself to the young bretner | GARETH HUGHES girl as she grew older and saw her! lover marry another, but she jeaj| head and a bad adored him utterly. Fate seemed to laugh at her leve and to frown on its recipient, for one summer day she returned home to drowned in the act of saving the jlife of his chum, In spite of her seemingly endless chain of disasters she did not grow bitter, but spent of four younger children. one a baby raging mountain streams. admirers the world over. them. The girl had no training to ford Costume Prize, will ap house that wns frequented by the| The timé, and, with the unconscious | child,” and which caused Absalom who felt that he could not support | will be the attraction at the Met- Promise to her mother rose as @|-Barm Ballads,” and has for its and he to find interest in another. ously hugged the child closer and|When, during the filming ef “Gar- find that her brother bad been her tine among the poor and unfor- . madge. 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Garfield 5027 plays the leading male role, eee BLUE MOUSE A fire cscape that ts decidedly busy with the comings and goings of per sons who are most anxious net to mest each other starts a mirthful , bail of fun rolling at the Blue Mouse, where “The Outside Woman," Wan- | da Hawley’s latest screen vehicle, is | showing this week. “The Outside Woman” te a clever domestic comedy, revolving around the adventures of a giddy little wife. eee LIBERTY Frederick Vogeding, the good-look- young chap who plays oppostt Dorothy in “Behind Maskn, at the Liberty thin week, is a Dutch actor, He is extremely clever and gtves @ fine performance as Andrew Fourne, with whom Miss Dalton falls in love. Others In the cast who stand cut are Julia Swayne Gordon, the char- acter actress, and Willlam P. Carle Pj eee COLISEUM . Local film fans are enthusiastic im their praise of the acting of Ruth Renick, who t# piaying at the Coll- s@um this week, in James Oliver Cur- wood's “The Golden Snare” The Misw Renick fs not a Seattle girl, she endeared herself to hundreds of the atregoers in thie city when she ap peared here, two years ago, as the ingentte with the Wilkes Players, Miss Renick plays the leading fem- inine role In “The Golden Snare.” eee REX Edith Storey appears as Mile. Cleo De Bromsart, a wealthy young French giri, in “Beach of Dreams,” the picture at the Rex this week. | Miss Storey tx particularly well sutt- jd to this type of character. she im dark, with the large brown eyes #o characteristic of the French girts. A boat collision, in which the her- oine is shipwrecked on an island, in the features of the picture. ‘The Ipeomparnabte ‘ NAZIMOVA —lo— EDERICK sTONE American Tenor ‘our Times Daily Ne: Attraction ~The ‘ting Lever Now Playing: and Vrupit Walter tumate children until now she is the matron of a children's home which nhe hag organized, celve the encouragement of the in- fluential; she had not the bravery of Do you ever stop te think what a host of troubles may arise to invalidate a land title? Defective Probate of Wilts; Defective Foreclosures, deeds executed by lunatics or min- without forgery; Hens omitted by er- ror; undiscovered heirs; mis- takes of fact or of lawe wrong descriptions; defective ac- knowledgments. These are just a fewofthe things which may upset your title and give rise to an expensive law-suit. You owe to yourself protec | tion from anxiety or loss due to these causes. The protec- tion comes in the form of Title Insurance. Mildred Davis. She has been leading lady in most of Harold Lloyd's comedies. She has signed a contract to ap- pear in several more with him and then she is to star in five-| reelers. LOEW'S PALACE HIP FEATURE PHOTOPLAY “Under State Supervision” Assets More Than $265,000 f \ | | “The Wayfarer,” Saturday The “Elks’” Doings And Our WONDERFUL DOUBLE BILL On Thursday, Friday and Saturday All Star Vaudeville Nothing Cheap But the Price Afternoons %3¢; Nights 35c EUGENE O'BRIEN —IN— “The Wonderful Chance” DENTISTS | ata watch te he Trongest plate kno s mot cover the roof of mouth; you can bite cern eff b; guaranteed 15 years. AN work aranteed Have imprecnions wet teet! talon ang advice 0 nis ad with you. OHIO tus Qunceite Pouocr'Paticeces Om i haute . |