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SATURDAY, APRIT 8, 1922. — a TODAY'S PROGRAMS | srnaxD—citera “Swenson tn “Her ; (* Trademark.” | COLUMBIA—Marte Prevest in “The Little Demen.” —-t = Seema Owen Lave in “Sisters. STRAND “HER HUSBAND'S TRADEMARK (Paramount) Gloria Swanson Richard Wayne . Stuart Holmes Clarence Burton deginning today. the of men and women who live beyond their means and who eek to attract wealth by making lav ish displays of wealth they do not possess. ‘The Elmer Floyd dance revue is an added attraction. COLUMBIA “THE DANGEROUS LITTLE DEMON” (Calversal) Marte Prevost Jack Perrin -Robert Eilts Fountaine La Roe Ie society best at its worst or worst at its best? Joe King “Sisters” ts the photo¢rama which it the Winter Garden today. opened ai ‘The rescue of a would-be suicide who has cast herself from the cliffa into the sea furnishes one of the big thrills in “The Rosary,” the big dra- matic production which is now on view at the Coliseum. Lewis 8. Stone, popular for his many splendid characterizations in James Oliver Curwood stories, heads the all-star cast, with Jane Novak in the leading feminine role. LIBERTY | “THE GREEN TEMPTATION” (Paramount) | } Betty Compson ‘Manion Hamfiten Theodore Koaloff -Mary Thurman Can a girl brought up in the under. world, taught to regard everyone and everything with the utmost distrust, be so regenerated as to become kind, Joving and gentle, and to accept cul ture and refinement as tho there was never any coarseness in her life? ‘This question forms the theme of “The Green Temptation,” starring Betty Compson at the Liberty. [ COLONIAL | “THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER” (Pathe) Claire Adams Robert McKim Walt Whitman Columbine... Hell Bent W: Jack Bellounds. Zane Grey's popular story, “The Mysterious Rider,” begins a four days’ engagement at the Colonial to- day. This is one of the most thrill ing of Grey's long list of outdoor wtories, and action never lags from the opening scenes until the final fade-out. It is a romantic as well as picturesque photoplay. 4 OAK “ONE MAN TD (Robertao Lupino Delchini.. A MILLION” Beigian Wait A real human and heartinterest story is “One Man in a Million,” the picture play opening at the Oak Sun- day in which George Beban ts fea- tured, It is a photoplay with a mes- sage. Not a preachment or propa gandabearing story, but a chapter from the kindiler side of life. Beban is famous for his clever por- trayal of Italian characters. “Oliver Twist,” in which Jackie Coogan is being starred, is to be another massive production, and will probably be exhibited as a road show. Important members of the cast are Lon Chaney and Gladys Brockwell. Learn to dance at the Hippo Grome, Fifth and Untversity, and you can dance anywhere. Prof. Wi- iam A. Jackson, of New York city, Tele- &| Wives, he 1—Cleire Adams, Colonial. 2—Bessie Love and Seena Uwen, Winter Garden. bia. 7—Betty Compson, Liberty. | | No, 1—What “Foolish Wife” ARSWET . poes see creenececerscsceccee Gave answers until 12 are printed) 3 60 cd 15 10 $100 “ool Also 10 pairs of tickets for ish Wives,” at the Columbia, Who were the 12 most “Foolish Wives” that ever lived? ‘This paper will give 14 prizes—$100 in cash and 10 pairs of theater tick tion. | Do you pride yourself on your |knowledge of history, or lterature, or mythology? If you do, here is an opportunity to test your powers and at the same time win a prize You don’t have to be a student, however, to compete successfully The rules of the contest are so ar ranged that anyone, by the exercise of a little ingenuity and patience, can participate in the contest and have an equal chance with anybody elne. Today there !s printed in this newspaper the first of a series of 12 pictures, each of which will represent & “Foolish Wife” of history, mythol- ogy or fiction. Perhaps you can guess immediately who it Is. If you can't look in the list of 25 names |printed on this page. The name of |the character in the picture will bo |found there, as will the names of the other 11 women whore pictures will be printed on following days. What you must do is to look thra |the 25 names until you find the one ithat fits the picture. When you find lout which one it is, write it down in the space provided, and clip out the |drawing, or write it on a separate piece of paper, marking down care. fully the number of the picture which the name is supposed to de |seribe. | Keep all your answers until the 12 pictures have been published. Do not #end them in until you have them all The prizes will be awarded to con- |testants who send in the greatest |number of correct answers to the | illustrations. Easy and interesting, tn’t Sure! And it’s algo profitable! Husbands, here’s a chance to make good on that boast that you've al. |ways made to the wife and kids about your knowledge of history! »’s a chance to show up friend husband! Kids, here's @ chance for you to beat both mother and dad, and show |them how much you know already! Following are the names of |"Foolish Wives” of history, mythol- ogy and fiction, One of these is rep- resented in the accompanying ple ture. If you familiarize yourself with the principal facts in the lives lot the following you will be able to lidentity easily the figure in the illus | tration: 1. Adrian: it? ife of Antipholus, in | Shakespeare ‘lomedy of Errors.” 2. Alemena, wife of the Theblan general, Amphitryon, and mother of Hercules. “TAILOR-MADE MAN” RAY’S BEST EFFORT “A ‘allor-Made Man," Charles Ray is making, greatest endeavor of his career. Mr. Ray will spend four months in the production of this picture. ‘The cast | includes Jacqueline Logan, Kate Lew. | ter, Douglas Gerrard, Victor Potel, Name of Contestant, .. - .0+----eres+ernecocee ee socsesccereces sem cece AAATOER ©... oe cee eee cece er eecescuwess ete—for the best answer to this ques- | -| WHO’S THIS FOOLISH WIFE Does This Picture Represent? | 3. Amytls, wife of Nebuchadnes war. | 4 Ann Boleyn, wife of Henry | VILL. whe Cleopatra, the “Serpent of the Nile.” | 6 Dora Copperfield, tn Dickens’ | "David Coppertieid.” 1 7. Dido, queen of Carthage, in Virgil's “Aeneid.” &. Eve, the firet woman. 9. Mary Stuart, queen of Scot | | 10. Fatima, seventh wife of Biue- beard. } 11. MoM Flanders tn Defoe's “Mot! Flanders.” 12. Guinevere, wife of King Ar. thur, im medieval romance. | 13. Polly Peacham in Gay's “The | Beggars Opera.” | 4. Roxana, wife of Alexander the | Great. | 15. Helen, wife of Menelaus, and jthe cause of the Trojan war. 16. Hermione, wife of [daughter of Mars Greek mythology and Venus, in | 16. Jexebel, wife of King Ahab of | israel. | 17. Carol Kennicott, in “Main Street” | 18 Katherine, wife of Petruchio, in “The Taming of the Shrew, 1% Lady Macbeth, in Shake | |Speare'’s “Macbeth.” | 20, Lot's wife, who fled trom Sod. | om, and disobeyed her Lord's in- structions. 21. Pandora, wife of Epimetheus, in Greek mythology. 22. Theodora, wife of Emperor Justinian 23. Niobe, who dared call her chil dren more beautiful than the daugh ter of the gods, 4. Lueretia di Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI., and duchess lot a. isie, in Longfellow’s “Golden Legend. | Received $1 ,000 | for Movie Plot Nell Marie Dace, 22, a Chicago stenographer, has just received | $1,000 from Hugo Ballin for a screen latory she wrote. | Actors who play In motion pletures get far more publicity than the cre ators of the stories. Hence these |three cheers and a tiger for Miss Dace. She is one of a countlens |number of stenographers and others |in common pursuits who are seeking to and who actually contribute ma terial for screen entertainment, Most stenographers seeking a place in the movies want to desert their | typewriters for make-up boxes. That, |according to a popular conception }fostered by press agents who tell jabout the past stenographical careers jot present stars | WONDERFUL SETS IN FAIRBANKS FEATURE By far the most n nifieent mo- tion picture ever made is indicated by the tremendous sets erected for Douglas Fairbanks’ “Spirit of Chiv- alry,” in which he will play Robin Hood. In size and grandeur the sets erected for this production surpass which | anything ever before known in Holly. will be the | wood. Colleen Moore, leading woman for John Barrymore in “The Lotus Hat ers,” has a great fondness for bril. liant colors and confesses she ex Nellie Peck Saunders and Kddie Gribbay pects to simply revel in the startling hues of the present mode, THE SEATTLE STAR 3—George bevun, vak. 4—Ulriu Swunser | Pathos oul Dadmus, | | | Hilarity in Chaplin Film BY JAMES DEAN The high light of “The Kid.” thaplin's greatest comedy, is reflect-| er diretcors in reproducing printed od in “Pay Day,” his latest. That high Nght is the pathos of poverty Chaplin ie the greatest tragedian of the sereen today, That is why| without being burdened with an ex- he tm the greatest comedian. He cre stew laughs thru the psychology of contrants. Chaplin ts writing bis own film) fullbiown rose—that tells the story | He ts expressing himeelf in| of a woman's them. That self is a hyper-sensitive| awakened love more surely, more im woul that reacts positively and quick: | preesively than any number of sub- stories, ly to the sorry plight of another I have seen tears start in Chap lin’s eyes an he stooped to chuck | does not lag on the sereen. baby under the chin. The baby was in the visitors’ room at Sing Sing. | a) The tragtcomedian had gone th to rub elbows with the prisoners. This reaction to misfortune is evi denced thruout his account of hie atienable right of a star. recent trip to Europe and the scence of his childhood. The drab shie of life engaged him more than the glit- | tering, Pay Day” has been heralded aa 4 return to the old atyle of his slap tick comedies, Chaplin will make a comedy such as he was mak ing five years ago. man. He can now devote himeeclf to doing what it pleases his whim to do, And that whim, as I see it evi denced in “The Kid" and “Pay Day,” is to call the attention of the fogte us, laugh at themselves. claims itself as a document for the laboring man. appears as cast. mean ability. roughneck, is the bons. viance, Chaplin's leading woman for & number of years and now to be starred in her own right, i# the bona’ daughter. Phyllis Allen is the wife whose size dwarfs the hero. “Pay Day” is soon to be shown here at the Liberty. Gish Girls Guests of Mrs. W. Harding Lillian and Dorothy Gikh and D. W. Griffith were guests of Mra, W ren G. Harding the other day. The Misses Gish are movie actresses. Griffith is a movie director. Mrs. Harding ls the First Lady of the Land. ‘The visit lasted two hours, Mrs. Harding showing ber guests thru all the rooms of the White House. Mack Swain, the giant There im’t @ lot of news In this! item. But there is a little sermon in it, a preachment on tolerance. The | photoplay industry deserves criticism from many angles. ‘The conduct of some of its members is not above re- proach Thone best infored do not condemn nor shun all members of any profes: sion because of the misdeeds of a few. Movie people have been wel-| comed in the best home of th country. PETITION HART TO CONTINUE IN FILMS “Prairie Jack” turesque character of Casper, Edwards, a pie Wy oming, is en route to Los Angeles on | horseback bearing a petition signed by several thousand Westerners ask: | ing Bill Hart to continue the mak- | has | ing of frontier pictures, Hart not been producing for more than a year past. Famous Players-Lasky have engaged Fred Niblo, who made “Tho Three Musketeers” to di- rect a serien of pictures starring Rodolph Valentino, “ROBINSON CRUSOE” IS COMPLETED “The adventures of Crusoe,” starring Harry Myers, is Robinson | never | might at any time may, as he did in By te very Utle “Pay Day” pro the play, “I have bought you and paid for you, and now you are mine.” | band, also lonely, ‘This moral is clouded in the screen | promixe to her that he will do some. Sydney Chaplin, Chartie’s brother, | version by the development of anoth.| thing that he has already promised ‘a mere friend” in the/er situation, the conflict of contrary | himself that he will do. He is « pantomimist of no | epirita | | | | | | | completed after many weeks of in- | tensive work at Universal City, It ie one of the most interesting and significant motion picture enterprises because it introduces a new kind of serial film, based on classic adven- ture. Each installment is a complete story. CLAIRE WINDSOR Claire Windsor will not wear “the t thing from Paris” in “Fools Firs been leading for Marshall Neflan ‘The frocks sent her from her modiste in the fashion capital were all ankle length and Claire is a devotee of the short skirt, Hence another wardrobe had to be provided, “And now, dear Lord, T have asked you every night for an me a good boy and today I've been bad again, Why don’t You make me good?” ‘That's what Wally Reid heard the other night when Wally, Jr, 4, was saying his now-I-lay-me. the vehicle in which ehe has | pnth to make | | Screen Play Equals Stage Production |For" on the ntage will be agreeably T® | yet she probably never posed quite #0 |much before the camera. He is a different | comedians on the screen today. eee Edna Pur-! > Thore who saw “Rought and Pald surprined by the photoplay William DeMille has made of it By that very subtle and sure touch | which characterizes him from all oth- and staged stories, DeMille has given | the ncreen a picture that telly the story an effectively as the stage play, | cons of wubtities, He achieves this largely thru em- ploying symboliem, A rosebud and a potential love and Utlea Action In “Bought and Paid For” Agnes Ayres was never more radi. tly beautiful than she fs tn this, However, she's a star now, and posing is the In- Jack Holt leaves nothing to be de | sired in his portrayal of the master. | ful husband who ts repulaively mas | terful when inebriated, | The actor in this cast ts Walter) Filers, who affords the comic relief. Fiera acts with an exceptional natur. allem, He fs one of the best polite THE MORAL The moral of “Bought and Paid For,” an the stage version imprenned Agnes Ayres, William DeMille’s screen ver- tt was that of a poor girl was unwine S10" of “Bought and Paid mate to the unfortunate and to make) in marrying a rich man in the hope|For,” which is soon to be the unfortunates, Chat great jegion of | of gaining love after marriage. He! shown at the Strand. co-star | nusbana to come to her. The bus is too proud to Conflict of wills might have gone} The wife ts lonely, eager for the’ on indefinitely had not the two met thru the belief that each had sent for the other, ‘The deeper moral of the film ts that pride goeth before ruinous mis- understandings. “Bought and Paid For has been booked for a showing at the Strand. INTERESTING EVENTS IN LIBERTY NEWS Signa of spring in Seattle are to be | recorded on the screen at the Lib- erty, starting Saturday morning. The well-known exploring ship Maud, owned by Amundsen, like a great |days ago, pulled away from her | moorings in Lake Union, to prepare |for her next trip. Alki women are the war heroes. Gov, Bone of Alaska | was “shot” by the camera on his visit |to Seattle, A passenger coach being [loaded on the deck of an Alaska steamship ix interesting. Seattle bank | experts in contest and the new Sal. | vation Army Girls’ home, recently opened. are other items. News of the world also will be included, RALPH GRAVES Ralph Graves is one of the biggest screen actors of the day—physically as well as histrionically. He meas- ures six feet one inch in height, and tips the scales at 179 pounds, He dominates the scenes in which he ap- |pears in Goldwyn’s new Rupert Hughes photo-comedy, “Come On | Over.” which will be shown on the bil at the Liberty the week of April 15, when Charlie Chaplin's latest comedy, “Pay Day,” opens, A portrait bust in bronze of | Madame Nazimova was recently in Thsen’ polar bear out for the summer, a few) shown planting poppies in honor of | Connie in Fav of Bobbed That bobbed hair is going atyle has been persistently by various fashion leaders past two years; still the 4 <s the “bob” ignore the hint and that not all the czars of the 5 together could induce them their hair to grow iong again, The matter was discussed which Constance Talmadge the Ambassador while she New York, and the brilliant comedienne was enthusiastic It | defense of the chic bobbed ‘ ’e “Personally I like bobbed I intend to remain bobbed for some time to come,” she 3 to say. “There are many in favor of clipped curls, — “No one can deny that to Jority bobbed hair is imn coming—the relief from tending of straggling locks in iteelf—the hours saved building up of an intricate unnecessary—all these are | sos why many bobbed heads vive this season in spite of | biters of the hairdressing | Fifth ave. “It is an expensive fad, of The ‘permanent’ wave costs $30 and then one simply must water wave once a week to hair in order, and this takes | $2 or $3. However, even if t |for the sacrifice of other | surely it is worth it” Anita Stewart in New Picture Dre’ A thrilling battle é underground between fi a gang of hired gunmen the unusual features of tional’s “A Question of Bot which Louis B. Anita Stewart as the star. Edward Hearn is Miss leading man in this new tion. The Grand Symphony of Human Emotion! ALL THE ELEMENTS OF WORLD-WIDE APPEAL IN THE SONG AND STORY! $500 Musical Program Contest Sunday will be play Sunday concert progra organizations in Seattle musical, fraternal, civic program which attracts the largest will obtain the prize, Sunday's ts the d by Program Sul “March of the Toys,” from “Rabes | Played at 12:30 Sunday of a series of various q nitted by the Ralston Club iseum Concert Orchestra ARTHUR KAY, Director All Star Cast: Jane Novak Lewis Stone Wallace Beery Mildred June Robert Gordon N ‘Theater Coupons—$4.00 for $3.50

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