The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1921, Page 2

Like a Big Family By Ernest D. Tyler Royal opera tn Petrograd for atx years. Just a big, happy, ¢arefree fam ly—a remarkably congenial family such t# the Rassian grand opera company which made its American | premiere at the Metropolitan thea tre bere Wednesday night Viadimir Danfloft, tenor, who was heard in the part of Flermann, @ young officer, played four years in the Imperial Royal Opera in Petro grad, and in Moscow one year. Interesting as the company ts]. Mi@ Marte Ma from an artistic viewpoint-—for they | DIAYed the role gave Seattle something Wednesday Plies’ abneatanan tania, Yaa What hed ‘noyer Deed ‘Seen or hears Cmr, and a before him many here before—it Is no less tntere-| times before hin dethronement, ey tah tingle | Viadimir Radeet, baritone, known } And anyone who watched them! is nis audience Wednesday night as aftor the performance, sitting I the! prince Jolotxki, sang in the Kaxean lobby of the New Richmond hotel) opera, the Odessa opera, and many far into the early hours of the| ciner large operas in the Russian jMmorning, chatting and laughing) omnire, He ia known to Russians jover eng peaen, could not fail to} as one of the beat vooal inatructors| jse@ tho remarkable contrast between| the empire ever produced. |the Russians and a similar organ ization of Americana, The company was organized by | When the Scotti company was| 140 Feodoroff, the present man here several months kga, for in-| S80 Im 1917, It mpent two years stance, the gingers comported| uring the principal cities ef Rus- | themsctves with ail the dignity ang/@& nd Biberia, They went to shir, soprano, who f Lina, the grand ue Dame,” made | duchosnen, Spending thelr time at an ex pensive hotel, they held aloof trom | the hoi poflol, and entered into the iife of the city no more than if they had been visiting royalty. oer MONTHS RUSSIANS ARK in ony AT HOME HERE The company spent two and one | half months tn Japan playing in the ‘These Russians, however—and bear! tmperial theatre by special request, in mind that they are of the same/ang in Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki pealiber as the Scotti company—are and Kioto. ‘The companys walled) | already just ax much at home bere! trom there to Shanghal, playing two! jas the they had been in the city for) weeks at the Lyceum theatre before! off succeeded in getting perminsion| and from the Kolohak government, then K of war-torn Russia, | childishly simple temperament of the|to Hongkong, After a 10-day en Russian, but probably more to the| agement here the company safied | vielasitudes thru which the company |for Singapere and British India, | han pansed. where they spent two and one-half | For tt has been given to few bands onthe. | Finally landing ont ot mortale to encounter such & beries island of Java, the company was he! of adventures as have these singers|* 7°*r bY popular demand. Java, making return engagements in , The company was organteed tl tonekona, Philippine islands, Shang- Petrograd ln 1917 under the Keren-| tar and Japan, sky regime, and ts composed of the ae mother is pleading * * * “You're all we got, Davy” ** * his older brother is crippled, his father is dead, victims of the mountain feud * * * to his mother he is still the “baby” * * * he must be her breadwinner now * * * yet could boast in the days of the former | terpreter, one of the few who speak | posed of Finns, Tartars, Serviana Poles, Germans, Jews and people of night tn the role of the Countess | ‘8¢ Cauasua Phe Pique Dame), played in the Imperial} “Tt was alright ander Kerensky,”|:.0 | pabeeennalee se he maid, “but afterward.” he gavel ara & Queer little shrug of his ahoulders! . and then added, “Hut we don't know, | c)a) we've been away two years.” Nearty all of the men in the com! ane Mies Ina Purskaya, mexso-eoprano, | who thrilled the audience Wednesday | Vital Statistics cluding four babies born after the * * * “Don’t you see how men are om W. 3910 Woodland Park | organization of the company, all *, boy. nk A, 6150 W. Hudson opera, appeated, * * * a sob heaves in his chest * * * rebellious tears stream over his cheeks * * * he is crying like a baby * * * he throws an arm across his eyes * * * he stumbles from the room. Do They Sell Them Eawart ueary, 7 X| for Sc in England? Harold W. Carolina Court,| LONDON, Dec. 23.-——The lareeat tington, Z J, 1622 2tnd ave.)! im the yo tion at Read. | . Harold W, 952 Bellevue pl, da, 15 ounces. JH OW doce this simple, homespun | MARRIAGE LICENSES |WIFE PERILS SELF) boy, who wants to be a man, tear JM) Xe «04 tesite coe se free from the agony that racks his fH) "ies. falteat sos -d8l encase. "3 gone theme a oak soul? * * * Must he break his moth- [f° X<rs.. san 51 |S lates Sncationt with me, 35 {almost made a tragedy out of | 15 | mt | Hobson. Wa er’s heart? * * * or his own? * * * See Richard Barthelmess in the role of David, in “Tol’able David,” at the Col- iseum beginning Saturday. Barthel- : tt home to nave clothes. No more,| mess, star of “‘Way Down East,” never aor ces fe ‘Logs | he ee this tow areas in hie favor | had a warmer, more lovable, more [mua Helen, seattle « Gon "gind Seat Uobet eral human role! The story is from The teat are at 207 Rialto Bide. be-| Saturday Evening Post. The author y Whistia, Sue ‘atevanen is Joseph Hergesheimer. take. I have been eo Interested getting nice things for the house| hat I have negiected my appear. | gal *c*. Dick wants me to go out! with him more and I have stayed | ** Catherine * . Lai Stella, ees | Ue Pig'n Whistle, Take elevator. | Advertisement. Layashik, Mateimt, 4 months, 118 MSs fth ave. TWKE Moritia Eten, 62 2024 stxth | hid, Agnes Ia, 43, 915 Cherry | Daily nna te, 66, $244 Latona ave | Roe 30.85 1 day, Wenatchee. CHAS. SCHWARTZ \Elected 37th Time ana Mtz Ontician || Without Opposition | ned and Gisases Fittea || Pposition | BARNSLEY, Pngtand, Dec, 22 Charles Wray has been reelected al derman without opposition. This «| ;.8%° the 37th time he has run without | Ww anyone contesting his seat, ¢ days, 135 Melrose lietts, Bunnie Helen, & 301 24¢ | OR Soe aa 33 VAUDEVILLE s= Sidney Francia, 1, 1319 Den- | set may Elizabeth T. 61 1707 Ww. EDDIE FOY 59th at R Aud the ¥ ie » SCH we American Savings Bank ROCKWELL DEMAREST &FOX & COLETTE & Trust Co. &FOX & COLLEN American Bank Building Second at Madison Jeweler and Silversmith NOW LOCATED 1518 Second Ave. Capital and Surplus, Fully Paid, $700,000.00 UNDER ONE OWNERSHIP American Bank. American Bank Building. |~ American Safe Deposit Vaults. Annually Paid on ond Pine Savings Accounts, Compounded Semi- LS aie Y . , WILKES testes 4% , . vi 4 — HOME OF THE BEST $2.50 |: GLASSES ON EARTH Examinations Free Start the New Year right by opening a Savings Ac- count; A period of prosperity is just opening. Your prosperity depends on your determina- | tion to save. Our expertence in viston testing enables us to correct your eyes with scientific accuracy. 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Soatama, Fakoetta, 1353 eliee ot. | SOMPONEM Of 97 members in all, in-| Oo)" Foreign Wars, but also have repre | Wi) be donated to that institution. | t > > " | four of whom appear in minor roles pares te “Ne about those things?” he demands. iat <Tetateary 2191 Soence| Oem stun Litto Lda, Anchituna| RePubG, Roanieh American War | | } * H H * * * be Yoram, Hen, 1409 B charmed the audience Wednend me - ned an . ver * * * His face is clouded his Syadom, 2308 16th ave 8. | might an Cupid, tn the clever beneg| Well 8 ety lf lend Fey rage ead % | hands clenched * * * “I got t . in the second act, in which Olealcrameer of labor organk |W" Grove {he mare yon wet BRO: | is clenc: got to go, ‘ x Kermit, Alta Vista | snsgnad Terai donna cb dl _ sationa, the Rotary clut, a BH THE SEATTLE STAR ‘Russ Opera Singers (oupest Man) GIRLIS SLAIN BY BOGIE MAN Youngster Dies as Result of Fright PITTSBUNGH, Dee, 29.—Little Agnes Katherine Hughes, 6% years old, “boxie-man” in dead Paralyzed, stricken au ed thru mer thoughtiens yearn ago wi KILLED BY FAST TRAIN Marry Donovan, 64, @ laborer em ployed by the Great Northern rait way, stepped in front of « fast train at. Meadows Point near EAmond Thureday night and was tnetantly killed. The body waa taken to the county mormusg, where efforts to Ic cate hin far y are being made rt day Denevan came here from Canada, Moran Is Honored by Lodge of Elks “a b f will get go into that dark room,” thig week in her ertb in her h . When she was 2 years olf she spoke Slavish, Polish and English but for more than a year her thoughts had been expressed in the most naive baby talk With the haunting of the “bogie man,” whom she fancied she saw ip every shadow, paralysia set in, and! for @ year she had been unable to| walk or ride on even her beloved! Djuro Chemdin kiddie car. To crown her affliction, | she became blind last June and had Viadivostok in August, 1919, Ostensi-] PARIS, Deo, 39.—Djure Chemdin, | 2° confined to her erib ninoe then, deco: of gra oa ° . E . sales — #041 nly for « short foreign tour, Feoder-| 146. year-old Turk, ts out of work—| lAttle Agnes was known ali over eck, the world, Three large boxes full! e's too olf to tote ptanon, tho| f letters from almost every civil: | in power, to get his company out)he's done that all his life in Con ized country came from sympathi«-| | stantinopia And he's too youn@looking to ex.|'o care for the little unfertunate, hibit himself as the world’s oldest] [9 the last week #ix physicians! man, which he came to Paris to do! of a# many different cities examined Djuro’s eyes are bright and his{the “bogieman” victim. They were step firm, tho his birth registration |OMly & few of the number of modi \ te date to be ing persoms with advice and offers 1775, Doctors say he'll live} Cal men who visited the Hughes heme during the last year in an effort ‘to sotve the mystery of the paralyzed nervous wystem caused by |e few spdken words, SPOKANE. Federal bureau ot} of Foreign Wars || markets announces that more than jone-third of all the apples shipped in the United Btates up to December f Committee chairmen to Arrange? | were sent from the state of Washing for the national convention, Veterans | ton, } of Foretgn Wars, to be held In Seat | tle next year, have been appointed | aswoctations and all other civic and/ | wince the Russian revolution. In March, 1921, they net out from iby Raiph A. Horr, as follows: fraternal organization. | County ‘Treasurer William A. - S48 Gain committee Roosevelt post for 1972 will take finest talent the Russian empire| !. Beresniakotf, secretary and tm) (144 ay winders, chairman of| place Tureday, December 31. | as, to be chairman of the finance! ‘The anfmsl election of officers of tation; Philip Tworoger. > | transpor Cxar Nicholas. . Engtish, said the company ts COR | shalrman of the publicity conunittes;| Senator pease, é@uring his il "Harry Young, chairman of the com.|!t to Seattle, probably will address mittee on arrangements; Couneilma > pont on veteran legislation now pending before congress, eee | Ip Tindall, chairman of commit on decorations; Capt. Wm. How Neleon, chairman of organtzation| A Gance wi] be given by the Dost | mittee; Maj. T. J. Cunningham, | at the Armory New Year's eve, A rman of reception committea, | spectal committee has been appointed, | of which Harry Youns ts chairman, | jhaving charge of the dance, The! | poys expect It to be a “rip roares The eats will be in charge of a com | mittee of ladies from the Orthopedic hospital, and the proceeds of the eats pint members of his committee, in the intention of the pont to of the members of Veterans of tives from the Grand Army of | af Will Close 2 the | Doors of oo Shafer Bros. Forever 4 i On Saturday, December 31st, at 6 p. m., I will close the doors of Shafer Bros.’ Store forever. This.will be ® | the final windup of more than thirty years business in Seattle. Every person who has ever purchased mer- 7 chandise of us has been guaranteed satisfaction. This holds good to the last sale that will be made in this store. 7% I have furiously slashed the price of every article remaining in stock. In just six days I must sell the enti 6 balance of this big stock. Read the following items and realize how far I have gone in price slashing. Ten Tuxedo Coats and Vests worth $50.00, will be closed out at $12.65. Ten Prince Albert Coats and Vests worth $40.00, will be closed “~ at $9. 85. I find about 100 Silk Shirts left which should have sold for $15.00. I will close them out to the first comers for $4.55. These prices are just samples of the way prices have been slashed for the final close-out. Get your share before it is too late, I have left 30 odd size and odd pattern Suits, for which the regular price was $40.00, which I have cut to... ‘ $8.45 have 39 Men’s Suits in one lot which formerly sold for $35.00. I have marked them down to ..............- Pr $15.65 have 34 Suits left that regularly sold for $50.00. tematew fof tas---+0---tne--, DRED have 37 Suits made by Stein-Bloch and other stand- ard manufacturers, formerly priced at $60.00. Tomorrow they go for. . $29.85 have 34 odds and ends Overcoats, regular price $50.00, which I have slashed down to..... suchbeuwawnsen $9.85 have a fine assortment of Men’s Overcoats, all sizes, regularly sold for $50.00, which I have cut to......2....... $23.75 11 dozen Winsted, Globe and Wilson Bros. Drawers are left, regular values $3.00 and $3.50. On sale now for.... ee $1.15 John B. Stetson Hats, light colors, regular $7.00 and $8.00 values, marked down tomorrow to ......-..-0. 66 fos $3.00 ~ ~ RADICALLY REDUCED Silk ‘Ties at 95: at $1.15, and $ $14 $2.00 Neckties @ 0 Neckties at f Show Cases, Oak Shelving, Window Fixtures A E C K T | E S and Mirrors at Small Fraction of Cost. A big lot of fine Neckties, ordered for this Christmas trade before I knew we were to quit business, must quickly be dis- posed of. I have marked $1.50 8 SECOND AND UNIVERSITY le night oreiahied man of the big br the lodge, with « life membership card in the organization, Moran. who leaves soon for Kansan City to me a member of the Libby, Moe. | ill & Libby staff, staged the boys’ pienic at Woodland park last July jand is active in the Seaitle Loyw elub. Biks, Thursday L, Moran, chair her committee of |Swiss Lace Closes German Factories PLAUEN, Germany, Dee 2%.—! Great quantities of Bwies lace have been dumped into Germany, with the reeult that the Gaxon textile tn | d |” sothes eeer. has been seriously bandl.| © Mother, bring home some gee | BOldt's Milk Bread!—Adver The Commish School | (<a> a Drama Music Dance Roy Street at Harvard Your Voice and Your Speech may be Improved by attending our classes in PUBLIC SPEAKING Now Classes for Moen and Women forming carly In the New Year Glasses$5-00, 5 FREE EX AMINATION Evenings by Appointment GLOBE OPTICAL CE. & Netw | sree eae ‘Will Tell You FREE Right Drug Co. 1111 First Ave This card, wherever it is displayed, re its good Americanism, collective bargaining, the 50-50 plan of industry. It is the emblem of cleanliness, of peace and of self-respect. seers I have marked all the Extra Trousers at the price of overalls, I have marked the Berg and Mallory Hats, regular $6.00 values, for tomorrow's 2 9 5 Selling down tO ...........0ee0 eee Tome Men’s Hats, sizes 6, 644 and 7, regular values $5.00, I have marked down to ..... os eee BDC I have taken Boys’ Suits, eats $15.00, and marked them down to... $3.45 I will close out a lot of Boys’ Light Striped Suits, worth $20.00, tomorrow for . $4. 65 I have taken Boys’ regular $1.00 2-piece Underwear and cut the price for tomorrow 45 I have marked Boy * Waists, . 35 : Ailey $1. ch down a 5 seems Cc have cut the price of Boys’ Shirts from $1.50 to .......... eens 65c I have slashed the price of Boys All-wool $2.00 Tams to..... oe ben duis 20c ; I have reduced the price of Bo; $2.00 SEAM! 40 ich Shas ie ne ct. no version ones 25c JULIUS SHAFER, FOR QUITTING BUSINESS