The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 28, 1921, Page 7

Pober $2 36 2 ES E78 a) E ee ¥ AMIE 1 PUES abr the aed ePists ha WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1921. _ JAPS BORN IN U. S. MENACE CITY NOW The menace of the Amerwan born Japanese was called to the attention of the city council extay by Councilman Philip Tindall, when he voted te grant a pool hall license | Alfred K Tatsumi,. Japanese citixen of the United States and a work! war veteran, Tindal pointed that nearly 2,000 Japs were born in King county last year and tifat they will out people the fact thy in the Seattle & thousend Ameri dren of Japanese parentage; that several thousand more are approaching school age; and that nearly a thousand Japanese babies were born in King county during the year of 1921, just coming to a clone, “) make no we have schools comment on these have the full powers of citizenship | cts further than. to urge the peo: when they reach their majority REBUKES APATHY OF GOVERNMENT “Since becoming a this councit I have oted Japanese,” Tindall said, “I have done this not because of any antip athy toward the Japanese but by way of protest aguinst the indif fesence of our national government which for the past 13 year has been admitting them by thousands in complete disregard called gentlemen's member of consistently agreement | ple against granting licenses to! of this city to consider what t will mean when theve thousand of young Japanese and thousands to follow them attain the voting age. DROVE WHITE FARMERS OUT “We have seen the teamwork with which they have driven the white farmers from the | fertile valleys lands between here and Tacoma ‘and entrenchat them the other marvelous of the SI selves in the commercial and indus by | trial life of this city, Will they/ which President Roosevelt believed | chow an equal gift for united action | he had put an end to Japanese immigration to this ceuntry “The applicant in this case wae! ihe im polities, and if so what ends will they seek to accomplish thru concentration of every Japa bern in the United States of Japa-|nese yote upon particular candi nese parents and has served the American army, In voting to grant bim a license I call upon the people of Seattle and of tho entire country to witness the fact that already we have on our hands the question of the American-born | Japanese who is endowed with all he Mehts of American citizenship “I call to the attention ef our cl $3.95 en's oxfords; black kid also brown and black blucher oxfords with welt soles and military with lightweight soles, kid and patent leather, baby Louis heels . brown kid, with buckle military heels; kid and brown calf with Cuban beet '$G.95 toes MAIN FLOOK of men's shoen, pumps, makes in | dates? 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Second and — Madison Your Choice Values $6.00 to $8.00 women’s smart two-strap pumps, black and brown kid cuban heels and Goodyear welt soles; kid vamp and brown suede quarter foxing and straps joodyear welt soles and military women's one-strap pumps in tan calf with perforations low military heels and 4 95 Goodyear welt soles... tere . —women's oxfords In brown and black kid with Cuban calf bluchers Cuban heels and Good $4. 95 —women's broues and oxfords in leathers, with low heels and welt women's brown suede ‘women's oxfords in black kid, black calf tan calf and brown calf, plain with perforations; military or Cuban heels High Grade Men’ 8 Shoes Officers’ biucher Men's brogue style oxforde in black Men's brown blucher shoes with medium Men's blucher style shoes with medium full toes in black kid and $4. 95 toes; also English bal black calf style seowe Extra Special — Men’s Shoes Bal or blucher style in brown calf with narrow and full in black kid and brown kid with medium toe: with Govdyses Also on sale 2,913 pairs of high-grade shoes for boys and girls; hundreds of pairs Nettleton's, other famous lines; more than 4,000 pairs of women’s high shoen, including Laird, Schober & Co., I all at decisive reductions. 2ND AND MADISON Miller & Sons DORMIE ACQUITTED OF CAT SLAUGHTER SAN FRANCISCO, D Dogdom won its first t ' vi today, when Police Judge Lile J. Jacks “ordered dusmined the charge of ughter against Dormie, arrogant Aire aceused of killing Sunbeain and 12 other well-known oata Jacks declared that the San Franciaco ordinances under which Dormie was on trial for hia life Is contrary to the tu tion of the state of California that it violates the inherentrights of dogs, be they pedigreed Alr dale or nondescript: mon The case was dinmined James T. Brennon, Dormie’s torney, made a motion for dis missal and impasionedly pleaded for the rights of dogs. Dormie, who was in court, wag ed his tall gratefully as the po liceman unleashed him. He then trotted across the and room leaped into the fond embrace of Jack MeMillan, aged 2. ter. his mas. do when the J boys who are now mingling with their daughters in the public schools have grown to maturity and ome to ask for their deughters in marriage? “IT am not attempting to answer these questions. But the people of this city who are now sitting idly by while these conditions are coming to @ head owe it to their children to wake up and take note of Ghat & taking place. Some day they will wake up with alarm 1 only pray that when they do it will not be too late.” 95 $4.95 also with brown $4.95 with perforations on ‘brown calf. grain $4.95 oxfords and two brown kid $6.95 trimmed with $6.95 ped) “" $4.95 $4. 95 All poTH STORES and oxfords and high-grade Bostonians and other AND THIRD | [orm dress | | THE Baby’s Tooth Stirs Actors Beggar’s Opera Co. gar’s Opera,” head of hair of his own, | By Wanda von Kettler Just o great big family group —with everybody happy and tre mendously enthusiastic about all things from Pacific coast weath er to a new tooth recently ac quired by Mr. Peachum's baby! That is the way the members of | sore of 1728 the Bexgaw® Opera company, of Lon appeared to me last nig “behind the scenes” at the “Met,” | It was ten minutes before curtain [time when I arrived back stage |Scenen were being shifted and ad }justed. An occasional player, attired | lin a bathrobe, perhaps, and carrying his wis, scampered Two or three members of the cant, already gurbed in the old English jelothing of 1724, stood in and 4 Jay wea umeed the ef n of 1921 \DAM DOCKRAY sHOWS UP Adam Dockray, himself an oper singer of Europe, and at present Manager of the company, appeared on the scene. “You've Just about time,” he maid to me, “to see Mies Polly Peachum fn her dressing room before the show—" And two minutes later we were climbing the funny little fireeacape ly’s room. Now Polly, who ix really Mins Sylvia Nels of London, was ad- justing the Polly cap of 1728 on her pretty ble head as I opened the door and looked in, “Won't said Polly; but you won't mind “4 come in? it's amazing, positively amazing | 1 haven't been able to get my | breath since we arrived and we've been in America now sev- on weeks.” | Polly, who plays the feminine lead in the Beggar's Opera, told me that |ahe made heft debut opera five years ago in Sir Thomas cham's | company in Covent Garden. Since |then she hax been singing continu lously and liking it better, she says, all the time “TOO MUCH MAKE-UP?" Downstairs a bell buzzed. Polly, eady r pink bustle gown dabbed a last bit of powder on her} Pose; then turned to me with eyes shaded heavily with ¢ blue lids | and beaded lashes, ar very red heeks and lips “Too much ‘makeup she laughed. “Honest, when I'm off the stage I don't make up the least—just a little bit of powder on the end of my nose to take off the shine—that’s all. Polly hurried downstairs had buzzed, and she was nee ‘The door of a second dreasing room A man with a bald head and wearing knickers and shoes buckles looked out. Good evening,” said 1 Lockit, the jailer aren't you' Yea.” he replied, removing skull come in “Phank you,” said I, adjusting my self on a traveler's trunk near the door, “but don't bother about taking off the decorations. Just what is that thing?” “It's made,” he said, handing me the aforementioned skull ‘of linen and paste and fits right over the top of the head.” It was a beautiful thing—and so convenient, 1 couldn't help thinking how it might excite the envy of many men—even Seattle who would delight in find: it possible tor » bell stood open. wit! u're won't ye bald heads and find by them a, plentiful crop of wavy hair did Lockit, who happened to be Charles MaGrath, also of London town, WAS BOKN IN CORK Charles MaGrath was born in Cork he told me, ax I surveyed the dress ing room from the trunk, and has been in opera since 1888, when, re eiving 1 scholaratip in the Royal College of Music, he yng in the Roy 4) opera in Covent Garden A secona bell buzzed. So Charles MaGrath, in the appearing stairway that led to Pol-| ATTLE |young women ht from | | | | across the stage. | the winga! wot the holi-| | tuming—th: STAR x | Charles MaGrath, who is Lockit, the jailer, in the “Beg-' now playing at the Metropolitan theatre. der his wealth of hair, as shown in the picture, he has a fine with skull and now a wig of long curls, and I went down to the wings | of the stage. And there the cast was assembled wonderful enst. Lovely with the sweetest faces, and men with the merry ways and the strange altire of the fun —wuch a “Something quke wonderful has happened,” Colla Turrill, who alternate the part of Lacy Lack- it with Vera Hurst, told me; “Peachum's baby’s got a tooth.” “You,” joined in the group, “it's got » tooth.” “Bot where's the baby?” 1 asked them, “Ob, it's in Engiand,” Mis Turvill reptied, “But that doen't ke a bit of difference. Haven't you learned by this time that Peacham's baby i the most important thing of the com- pany? He received the tele gram about the tooth this morn: ing, and we haven't heard any- uh oho” aid I, “IT haven't heard any. thing aboot it; | haven't even seen Peachum—* “That's the reason, then,” put tn Herman Gelheusen, one of the robber gang, “Here comes Peachum now.” And Peachym approached—Peach um in his lof green robe and tos jee! cap—Peachum, who off the jttage is Arthur Wynn. They're telling you about my ybaby.” he exclaimed. “I heard them. But they can't be blamed. It's a wonderful child—exactly 28 that, will you? If you'll just throw} ¥6eks old and has one tooth.” nome of those things off that; And Peachum was gone to play chair | the part of the heartiess father to 80 Poy and I got along wonder: | Polly fully well, And we talked about|, During the acta the back stage everything from scenery to face|f the theatre is very still, and the powder, # |players “off stage” speak in whis “1 don't see,” said Polly, as | pers: she talked about her trip up the Tt was during this whispering coast, and pinned a little green [time that I met one of the few bow at the back of her cap, “I stage “manageresses” of the world. | don't see why you Americans [She is Mise Phyllis Hiller, who should ever want to leave your [manages the lighting effects, the| country. You have everything | staging, and trains the company —simply everything here—-the it tours t nited States. sea—and the hills—and all. Why is just a girl herself, with bobbed hair and very wise look There inn't anything about the show she doesn't understand,” said blue eyes and a | Alfred Heather, garbed in the clothes of the robber leader. line of the opera. afternoon rehearsals “Knows every everything . Heather ended his little speech with the characteristic little bow and totter of the wine drinking and song «inging Filch in the play. Heather, however, was quite sober off stage. And I learned from Heather then that the little lady, Gla Johnson, in the red skirt, who played in the scene with the hevamp man, with | Nonny Lock and Dorisnne Bawn and the other ladies of choice the hevamp's had arranged and trained all the dances of the performance, It wasn't until the close of the second act that I talked with that Happy Un-| | INSURANCE DAY JAN. 17 BURGLAR GIVES BACK LOOT HE STOLE ONE The first day of National Thrift YEAR AGO CHRISTMAS week, beginning January Ben The burglar with a conscience jamin Wranklin’s birthday, will be|| has made his appearance in Be Life Insurance di A myer ew fi cig A rag prenident of the Seattle Life Under: || 10 Police that he has ptarted to writers’ amiociation; W return hin loot, Wednesday the airman of Life Inwurance day; | police were informed by Mra. J Joneph 1. Greenwell, chairman of the | C, Houster, 1814 29th ave peakers’ committee that her Twies, chgirman of the literature | watch, whi commitiee, will have « of the | ago Christmas, hac plans for the day. Posters will be |to her last Chrint ev dinplayed in windows of tanks and | ing q small Chr greeti business houses and Nterature on the] on which wns scrawled, “I wih advantages of life insurance will be | you the compliments of the sea distr cr cash | | in | | Wl Manages the cos | he-vamp man, who had lured one dozen ladies to love him. “Dear, dear me,” said he whose name in the play was MacHeath, | but who off stage was Percy— Perey Heming. “Awful name, inn't it?” he asked, “but it doesn't matter a great deal When I'm running around here in this garb they generally call me the bloke in the red coat,’ so it's all right.” “What color hair have you got?" 1 asked the hevamp. “Would you please take off your wig?” “Dear, dear me!" ‘what fiddling little details you re. porters do want; I don’t see how on eurth you ever write anything,” and he pulled off the gray wig with the pigtail and displayed a regular erop of brown locks said Percy, He was a he-vamp of 1728—with a wig. Without the wig—well, he might possibly play the for 1921 Rut TI wouldn't say for certain, be- se I don't know anything about he-vamps At 11:10 the show was over, Out afde the audience shuffled its feet and adjusted its ties and its hats Rehind the curtain somebody called to me, “It doesn't matter what you say about us~—but don’t forget Peach. um's baby.” Miss STER MADE POLICE CHIEF YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. Mayor Hlect George Oles, whose campaign pledge was to rid Youngstown of win, has asked Dr, L. G, Batman, a minister, to take charge of his police person of Lockit,! department thuted. 11CA00.—G. fer FREDERICK & NELSON AND PINE STREET The Annual Garment Clearance Offers Important Savings K. Grindley locked five men in hin and called ont the police FIFTH AVENUE bank ee | he sHouted. “Hank examiners, They were ND-OF-THE-SEASON _ reduc- tions on remaining lines of Fur-trimmed Suits, Winter Coats and Wraps and Frocks make this event the for renewing wardrobes at great clearance savings. DAYTIME AND EVENING DRESSES REDUCED $18.75, $24.75, $34.75, $47.75, $58.75 and up to $139.00 FUR-TRIMMED SUITS REDUCED $33.75, $48.75, $58.75, $67.75, $94.75, $124.75 WINTER COATS AND WRAPS REDUCED $28.75, $38.75, $43.75, $63.75 and up to $198.75 Broken Lines of Women’s Shoes Reduced * $4.90 and $6.90 Patent Coltskin Oxfords, $4.90 pair. Black Kid Strap Pumps, $4.90 pair. Bench-made High Shoes, $4.90 pair. Patent Coltskin Pumps, $6.90 pair. Strap Pumps in Suede, $6.90 pair. Walking Boots in Kid and Calf, $6.90 pair. Clearance Offerings in Women’s Winter Apparel WOMEN'S COATS, reduced to $12.35, WOMEN'S opportunity $53.75, —Second Floor —First Floor DOWNSTAIRS STORE $14.75 and $2 In Children’s Apparel BOYS’ SUITS, reduced to $4.95 and $5.45. BOYS’ OVERCOATS, reduced to $6.95 and $8.95. GIRLS’ WINTER COATS, reduced to $3.95, GIRLS’ NAVY SERGE DRESSES, reduced to $5.95, $6.95 and $7.95. 2,000 Skeins Knitting Yarn Special 5Q¢ Skein HESE are the large skeins, weighing 354 ounces. The Yarn is the desirable four-ply quality, in Jade-green, Black, Copenhagen, Pink, Brown, Fawn, Orchid, Navy, Maroon, Old-rose, Gray, brown, Red and Purple. Khaki, Tangerine, China-blue, White, Tan, Billiard-green, Seal- Special, Thursday, 50¢ skein. PRICED TO RS STORB —THE DOWNSTAIL A Disposal of Silk and Woolen Remnants At Sharp Reductions An accumulation of remnant lengths in Silks and Woolens, Plain and Figured j Effects—Lengths 1 to 4 Yards AFFORD GREAT ” they Clearing Broken Lines of Boys’ Suits $6.85, $8.75, $12.75 pata 8 to 18 years in this disposal offering of Boys’ Suits—all well- tailored from good cloths and all with coat and trousers fully lined. Impor- tant savings are represented by these prices—$6.85, $8.75 and $12.75. BROKEN LINES OF YOUNG MEN'S SUITS, reduced to $14.85, $29.85 and $34. $15.75, $21.3 DRESSES, reduced to $6.45, $10. S SUITS, reduced to 'S SKIRTS, reduced to $1.95, $4.35 and $5.75. $4.95 and $6.95. : SAVINGS PAGE 7 RUSSIAN TRADE DRAWS NEARER Dec, 28, —Tesump- with Fousia ie WASHINGTON on of trade relations ought nearer by changes mew oir n the soviet form of gow ernment, it was stated In high ad ministration quarters here today, This government in recetving re ports regularly as to the steps being taken by the soviet government it ia on a more stable pitting BR industrial basis, and financial improvement in being observed which officials believe ultimately will make possible opening of trade relations, it was pointed out that a soviet move” ernment official had been to the United Staten to act am chasing agent in connection with Russian relief program, using | gold to buy supplies for Russia. 50. —Third Fleer 5 and $24.35. $15.00 and $19.75. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Cotton Remnants | — Reduced EVERAL thousand yards in this clearance of useful lengths, including: Dress Ginghams _Percales : Outing Flannels ES Plisse Crepes, Devonshire Cottons Romper Cloth Shirting Waisting Muslin Cambric Linings § White Goods q —all greatly underpriced for clearance. —THE_ DOWNSTAIRS STORE THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE