The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 27, 1921, Page 4

PAGE 4 THE SEAT he Do These Remind You of +i Happy Hours Spent Reading “LAVENDER AND OLD LACE” “And' she waited, as women have waited since the world be- gan.” Never before in the history of moving pictures has so much time, wient and money been spent on ar |Ustry of production as wag spent by Metro in making “The Four Horse men of the Apocalypse,” coming Septamber 10 to the Blue Mouse theatre. J i \ * ith 7 The artist to whom moat credit i *T'd love to go, but if he should\come and not find me waiting? ees Aden ewaeten ta then Shape. L F 5 m the director, himself a sculptor be “Give Joe a\piece of pie, yister- “Do you read tea leaves?” are he entered the motion picture ,, ” “wy, | fel day’s cut. oan but they never come Sao li 0 tn. td; Slain ta ie. screen @& sense of composition and form that is infallible in getting the tight result down to the smallest detail, “T will set a light in the window to bring you back to me, dear.” “Hepsy, I'm going:to kiss you!” “Yes, youashould have been my son.” “ UNCANNY VISION RUNS THRU SCENES And then there are the big pet tinge—the broad sweep of the Ar. gentine plains with their enormous herds of cattle, the Buenos Ayres dance hall ‘with ite swirl of smoke and glamorous vice, the whirling galety of the Parisian tango palace, the fevered rush of the mobilization scenes at the outbreak of the war, “Shall I put the light in the window?” “No—never more.” Then spend another happy hour here seeing this never-to-be-for- gotten story and its characters brought to life. i ; the cluttered retreat of Marguerite Snow =. as Mary Ainslie the meminety 2S d oabe apr : jefman Oo} Seena Owens as Ruth T horne Paria, the bombardssent | poh Pot Louis Bennison as Capt. Winfield tion of a village and a chateau on MUST HIRE U. S, LAVENDER OLD LACE FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS STORY BY MYRTLE REED ND ZAADEN Baa soy shah pilihcage yore bagiad Plan Jubil Jubilee Fund Contractors Will Be Hit Hard by Ordinance City contractors wit give prefer. | jence to American citizens or they | will be heavily fined, This was the decision reached by the board of public works Friday, after Corporation Counsel Walter F. Meier bad informed the board that ity to revoke contracts for violation | improvements, At the req of Mayor Caldwell and the board, ordinance will be drafted and introduced next Monday jstving the board authority to cancel contracts where aliens are favored, Jim Says: “Here is one of the cleanest and sweetest stories ever told or pic- tured” granted after its passage, Approve Plans for Gorge Creek Tunnel Plans for the $2,000,000 Gorge Creek tunnel at the Skagit power project were approved by the bonrd of public works Friday. The tun- nol will extend thru a mountain of granite from the Gorge Creek dam site to the power house, two miles down the Skagit. It will be 21 feet tn diameter. The call for bid» wil) be advertived immodiately. Unveil: Monument Unveiling of & monument to Chief Seattle was to be a feature of the 1ith annual Seattle day held Satur. day by the Suquamish tribe of In dians at Suquamish. Seattle was to be represented by Councilman A. Lou Cohen. Due to the Fact That the Metropolitan Theatre Is Not Large Enough to Ac- commodate the Crowds, Ar- rangements Have Been Completed to Hold“Over the Hill” Over for Next Week Only -—-Closing : Posi- tively Next Sat- urday Night. Starts With Matinee at 2:15 P.M SUNDAY WILLIAM FOX’S BIG WONDER PICTURE OF THE AGE—THE PRODUCTION THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER “Over the Hill’ GEMMED FROM WILL CARLETON’S FAMOUS POEMS, “FARM BALLADS,” THIS WONDERFUL PRODUCTION HAS ECLIPSED ANYTHING THAT HAS EVER BEEN FLASHED ON THE SILVER SHEET. | SPECIAL LARGE AUGMENTED EVES., 30c, Sbe and BSc. These Prices ORCHESTRA PRICES | fie’ exe we nists. | Inka ae Million Spent for Artistic Touch on Great War Picture LABOR OR LOSE: the city charter does not give author | of the provision giving preference to| U. & citixens as workers on local | |r will apply only to contracts) to Chief Seattle} TLE STAR the Marne, the terrific horror “4 OF fascination of an infantry renee | OF from the trenches into No Man's Land. And thru it all is the un canny vision of Bt. Jobn, picturing the Four Horsemen—Conquest, War, Famine and Death—«a vision that Ingram is #ald to have portrayed in an atmosphere of unearthly imag ination. It took more than six months to assemble these details and photo «raph the scenes, with their 12,000 actors and 60 principals. It was necessary to erect on the Metro studio grounds a costume factory for “dressing” the produc tion, TWO MACHINE SHOPS NECESSARY Two machine shops were inci dental to other building operations It ts not strange that several new mechanics! devices for special photographic effects, for which patents have been inmued, were re quired for the first time in taking the picture. “The Four Horsemen” haa been awanted to Manager John Hamrick, of the Blue Mouse, for three weeks —#4 shows, four shows daily. The advance “one seat to @ person” sale opens Thursday. Fourteen Arrested in Dope Raids Here Fourteen alleged drug dealers and | jaddicts were taken by agents of the | narcotic squad in @ raid Friday night. Patrolman N. P. Anderson and fh. F, Baerman entered an apartment | at 220 Western ave., where they ar- rested Joe Billy and Yeo Mun, al-| leged peddlers. Sixteen packages of | |dope were seized, Twelve persona, E. C. Addington, Wil Meyers, J, Rogers, San Carren, A. Frankland, George Ellison, M. Monrog, Frank Proch, Frank Steele, |M. Miller, A. W. Widmer, George | Cleero and Mrs. Alice Kelly, were a | rested as they came to the apart- ment to buy dope, according to! polica, Will Move Offices of School District} Administrative offices of the pes) district will be transferred from the | Central butiding to the new shop and warehouse building at Dexter ave. and Mercer st. according to a de cixion Friday by members of the) |board. This is expected by the board members to help curtall ex-| penses. county fair will be held ag Was five days, September 27 to a 1. Exhibitors must enter their products five days before the! opening of the fair. as We use butter and lard. cot Antonio ‘ Monday Evening, Sept. Ottein. Tuesday Evening, Sept. 1 Scotti and Alice Gent BEGINS OMING! WITH A SPECIAL MATINEE WED., SEPT. 14 An Epoch in the Musical History of the Northwest—The Only City in the AND THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE PRODUCTION INTACT REPERTOIRE ! SIVIGLIA,” with Charles Hackett and Angeles Special Wednesday M: Mat., Sept. 14—“CARMEN,” with Geraldine Farrar, Quenna Mario, Morgan Kingston and Greek Evans, Wednesday Evening, Sept. Gentle and Morgan Kingston. DVANCE cins THURS., THE BIGGEST* PICTURE IN HISTORY & PRODUCTION THAT LIFTS THE SILbNT DRAMA TO AN ARTISTIO PLANE THAT 1T HAS NEVER TOUCHED SEFrORS of the APOCALYPSE} By VICENTE BLASCO IBANEZ A REX INGRAM PRODUCTION FOUR SHOWS DAILY: 12 e’Clock, 3 sleek, 6 O'Clock, 9 o'Clock | MATINEE PRICES NIGHT PRICES oa ADMISSION .........75¢ seteecensnseeees o1. 1.00 ‘ ONLY AS MANY TICKETS AS THERE ARE SEATS ARE SOLD FOR EACH SHOW, WHICH POSITIVELY GUARANTEES THE HOLDER A SEAT FOR THE PERFORMANCE 80 STATED ON HIS TICKET. =| BLUE MOUSE THEATRE Sent. 1 FOR 4 DAYS ONLY—STARTING MONDAY tetas to Be Visited by the ‘ ti Grand Opera COMPANY | Scotti ~ Geraldine Farrar MAIL ORDERS NOW Mail orders with checks or postoffice money orders, includ+ ing ten per cent extra for war tax, made payable to Metre politan Theatre, with self-addressed, stamped envelope for safe return of tickets, filled strictly in the order received, and seats allotted as near desired location as possible. All tickets sent at buyers’ risk, and only in @ self-addressed stamped envelope. NOTE—Send ten cents extra if you desire tickets sent by registered mail. — PRICES — First 14 rows... Lower Floor .. Lak: 6 sewn 12—“IL BARBIERE DI 3—“TOSCA,” with Antonio ie. 14—“LUCIA DI LAM. MERMOOR,” with Mario Chamlee and Angeles First 3 rows..... Ottein. Balcony ...... |Next 3 rows ...... Thursday Evening, Sept. 15 (Double Bill me 3 ursday Evening, Sept. 15 le ill) — First 2 wee “L'ORACOLO,” with Antonio. Scotti, Mario Gallery ......jNext 3 cows: Chamlee, Anna Roselle and Henrietta Wakefield. Last 5 rows.... Followed by “LA NAVARRAISE,” with Alice Plus 10% war ‘tex MATINEE PRICES SAME AS EVENING