The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 20, 1922, Page 11

PAGE 11 BY STANLEY THE SEATTLE STAR BY AHERN | THE OLD HOME TOWN WA-HA-“TH! BOTH OF ‘EM! WAVE BEEN OUT SPRAVIN! THEIR “TONGILS~ BUSTERS UNK FEELS UKE A : MUSICAL“T1OP = “TH’ MAJOR 1S A VET HE DOESN'T GET POLISHED “THAT. EGG CAN BUT ‘eM OUR BOARDING HOUSE v7 na -sGol See ~ You MEAN PINTS oF WhTEREST! 7 MA MARTHA, MY FAIRY * | QUEEN, Good EVENING! I TRUGT WE ARE IN TIME O ENJOY THE FESTIVE REPAST OF SAVORY VICTUALG, EH? = I TOOK BusTER'S UNCLE AROUND ON Wy Lewis Joseph Vane, BHGIN HERE TODAY - MR FOSTER, ieee Tat WS LACINDA ORCC a apts the fmvitation ef her friend OUR FAIR CITY “THIG AFTER- I WARNED You Dnt Gehadhdmhunena NOON AND SHOWED HIM AGAINST TAKING ALMA DALBY pany in Cait form @ moving picture com ath AVE, Lucinda muses over ‘anny explains that Marry hopes nia, On the trip to the studio in her hushand THE POINTS OF TEREST! UP WITH “THIS ‘GAY LOTHARIO’ failed to bring hanpmess to their Pitth eavy drinking and an insatiable | means by which he destroyed her Aaa & had returned te New York, The trip nee to forget. en the side lines of the livingroom, between it and the dogged orchestra, and well out of range of the camera, She could now see three people on the set, two men with a girl who: GO ON WITH THE STORY Stage, as the layman understands that term, there was none; but the floor space as a whole was rather @iaborately cluttered with what Lu-| thanks to the wide circulation of the cinda was to learn were technically | !dy's photographs, she had no ditt . RCE : Joulty in identifying as Alma Daley Mnown as “seta,” in variots stages | po rseit—a iver dew. ool young per. of completion and demolition; a set} son with bobbed hair, a boldly fow being anything set up to be photo-| tured tuce, and a slight little body Sraphed. from a’ single “side” or! which she used with «a rather fetch- flat” with a simple window or door, | ing effect of youthful guucherie. er an “angle” formed of two such ‘Of the men, one was tall and dark, des Joined to show the corner of al with a thick shock of wavy black Toom, up to the solid and pretentious | hair, a wide and mobile mouth, and © AF PMA os } ) } piece of construction which occupied | great, melancholy eyes. Hin well fully one-half of the loft and repro-! tailored morning coat displayed to| duced the Palm Room at the Ritz-| admiration endid torso, The Cariton, At the far end of the room a sub @tantial set represented a living room. A good part of it was masked from Lucinda’s view by a number of Massive but portable metal screens Or stands arranged in two converg. ing ranks, at whose apex stood a heavy tripod supporting a small black bex. To these stands lines of insulated cable wandered over the! Moor from every quarter of the room. An atmosphere of apathy pervad- ed the place, as if Cething of mo- jother was @ smatier, indeed an un) |dersized man, who wore a braided |smokingjacket but no paint on his pinched, weatherworn face of an actor, “King Laughlin.” Mr. Culp's seere |tary informed Lucinda—"man in the jsmoking- Jacket, he always wears one jwhen he's working—greatest emo- tional director In the business, no- body can touch him. Why, alongside | him, Griffith's a joke in a back num. ber of Judge, You wouldn't guess that he gets thirty-five hundred.” “That's almost a thousand a week, oe Pa Se? 5 ts Ve wae SO ae y ment was happening or expected to! isn't it?’ , Sepape-—en eftect to which con-| “Thousand a week! In accents of | iN \* pir Bagot TR wae tne DOINGS OF THE DUFFS ; | . t . ¢ eure . derable contribution was made by|some compassion he corrected:| "Wain He turned gracious | the lugubrious strains of a three. | piece orchestra, plano, violin, and eallo, stationed to one side of the “Three thousand five hundred every | week's what King Laughlin drags| jdown in the little old pay envelope. 1 DON’T BELIEVE | CAN GIVE ANY DICTATION TODAY - “Now, Alma, ly to the woman: Mins Daley, herself not uncon-| FUL THREE TIMES 1 CAN HARDLY SPEAK- A DAY AND ONE living-room set. But that’s Mr. Culp all over; ex , PO LIKE To HAVE This trio tnt Lacinda’s tn. se" " scious of @ fashionable gallery,| i 4 tereet_ The premsuee, cones ane Se" Aina Duley lctere molting’ tog] shruneed signly to nny that abe|] I'M SO MOARSE | | YOUCERTARGY] You GIVE ME SOMETING mag scat | ARE- 'DGO @idn't mind if Mr, Laughlin thought} countable, but not more so than its! good.” rr rth whik nd wade rendition of plaintive melodies, tunes| “I'm sure . . .” Lucinda agreed|‘t really worth while, and made a AND SEE A Wilth ‘eae tora’ tumniiar with the| vaguely Tcccign Mganodhge mae tiger DOCTOR IF! cant of the theater would unhesitat-| 0} a a 2s a tT af tne commer of an eve the|ti™. Goor approximately opponite, | were You! ingly have classified ob stuff.” Guided by Mr. Lane, the exotics gingerty picked their way across the | of electric cable that ran in} ‘gnaky confusion all over the floor Uke exposed vincera of the cinema: and Lucinda presently found herself director had become aware of a new audience and one worthy of his met nd the young man in the morning: | Dropping the easy, semi-confi. | Ct strotied down to the front of the! |dential manner, Mr. King Laughtin|**t @nd settled himself to observe | lanatched a eilk hat and stick from|®%4 absorb the impending lesson. | the other's unresisting hands. | Mr. Laughlin then reentered tn “Right-O, Tommy! he aaid in the|Character as a degage gentleman |with an ary science, indicat ing this by hily opening and peering round the edge of the door before coming in and closing It with caution and his gentility by holding hat and stick In one hand and carelessly trailing the ferrule of the stick behind him. Relieved to find the room wu nanted |up to the table, placed the hat on it crowndown, propped the stick against it, turned and gave the door im the right-hand wall a hard look, jthen bent over the table and pulled pout and began to raneack one of its) drawers. Thus engaged, he said lelearty: “All right, Alma! and tm poems gave a etart, whereby it} ust stent eo @eeeeFor You to Colorseceee: TINTED TRAVELS : By Hal Cochran (Copyright, 1922, by The Sea eco THE ADIRONDACKS nl .) ih. He Knew S Varun ° ang VW, With d Have That he moved he’ appeared that he had heard foot-| }falle off, and #lammed the drawer. | At thin Mine Daley entered, a listless | little figure so preoecupied with se | jeret woe, that rhe quite failed at! | first to eee Mr. Laughlin, and when | she did, gave a start even more vio- jlent than his had been, claaping both | hands to her bosom and crying out ]in a thrilling voice: “Egbert!” | | Mr. Laughlin kept his temper ad. | mirably under the sting of this ept thet: all the same, anyone could see he didn’t fancy It a bit. However, firet and always the gentieman, he offered Miss Daley a magnanimous | gesture of outstretched hands. In-| antly the poor girl’a face bright ened with a joyous «mile, a happy ery trembled upon her lips an she ran to his arms. He enfolted her. with a fond hand ground her fea tures into the shoulder of hie emok- | ing-Jacket,,and turned his own to.|*rithed upon an elbow, planted her hands upon the floor and by main strength pushed her heaving shoul ders away from it, keeping a tortured face turned to the camera thruout Then she got her second wind, caught hold of the edge of the table, pulied ward the camera, working them Into a cast of bitter aneutsh Gently rescuing herself, Mise Da ley discovered rt's hat and | ntick, turne: nd looked him up and down with damning horror. HEY, SCROSGS, HOW ABOUT THIS F IL _ HAD AN ACLOIMTMSNT WITH OU ‘TO MGGT You AT YouR HOUSE YESTERDAY AFe r ar ‘ 3 audibly protestin “Hut Feber! herself up, looked round wildly, real ; : you are go He attempted |i#ed that she was a deserted woman, Nhe Adirondack Mountains are you are seine outry He attempted | aw her hat by Tappe hanging on top hat and the smoking-Jacket was | the back of @ Morris chair by Ludwig A lot of fun to climb — too damming: and in the end he had| Baumann, seized it, rushed to the That's why the people go there in 1 aa mit that well’ vee |door by which Egbert had escaped, | L¢ he was going out, and what of it, |a9d threw herself out in pursuit. = | Page 681 - Evidently Mise’ Daley knew any| Mr. Iaughlin clapped gleeful DON'T EVER TELL MR. DINSMORE pone re begat beg bel seaigpe ed ay Alen. wendeetedl: Zautve! “Worth Dinsmore, Worth Dins-that we reached it by a long * put she made the grave mis ; | bs ath Satake eis piae : take of trying to hold him with affes. |simply marvelous today, dear. Now,|| more,” David sala to himaeit, | Timht of steps, a Lin Unie ADV ENMTURES |) tion's bonds, throwing herself upon | Tommy, run thru it Just once with || when had he heard that name?| 1 + ices antes aan ici ida yf his neck and winding ft arma |Alma, and then we'll sho ie i e big OF THE TWINS tightly round it. “And that was too| Mr. Lane bustled about and found || “Oh Yes that was the lig iu) green and wood smoke YL WAS THERE ALL RIGHT, MR. TRUG, . for B Imuch: Egbert made it clear that, |chairs for Lucinda and her friends, who sang for the pioneers at thelr | from the heating stove when we ANP NO PDOVLGT 1 DION'T HEAR KOU jl jive Roberts Barton = while he'd stand for a lot from a|upon which they composed them- |] meetings and daddy sald he sang| got in, and astir wits the BECAUSE CLR DOOR BELL HAS BEEN Bil SUE Dv" 10 1T 7 + TH r 7,,| Woman to whom he was Kverything, | selves to watch Tommy Interpret Mr.|]} jote of pieces.” The voice of the| happy sound of eager children or Cy EVERYTHING UPSIDE DOWN IN THIS MOON LAND! |fiere wae such a thing as piling 1t| King Laughlin's tuition in the art of | trying to be quiet OvT CF DSR FOR SOME TIMG. “Tee, hee, hee! chuckled Mr. Peerabout, the Man-in-the-Moon, | turning to Nancy and Nick. “I am| glad you came, children. It was nice of the Fairy Queen to send you to} help me. Not only do I need help, | but I'm lonely—very. But won't you} come in?” j He led them into a little room that | (was even more ragged and tumble- down than the outside. Chairs bropped up on three legs, a rickety | table that threatened to overturn | eve inute, a clock that didn’t go, | a bre ragged carpet, torn curtains and | FREE FROM DREAD OF PILES NOW Resident of Toledo, Obie, Says He Was Kntirely Cured by Hiome Treatment. - | | ter suffering from Piles many | Mr. W. EB, Moorhead, Toledo, | Was restored to health by the | arkable d ery of W. Ft. Dar-| n, Kansas City, Mo. Mr, Moor- 4 your ten days’ trial) and took It ac It certain! actorily and ording | t have bad th this wonderful nfident is Mr. Dar atment will eure | or aeut ong standing—| 00 treatment will be| requent. 454 and mailed by | others chronic a v giving age, de- ption of ca nd how long af- Micted.— Advertisement | cupboard and presently drew out a | salt-shaker affair, my dears, th jexclaiming. What a queer place the mixed up. that altho things were old and tat tered, they were as clean as the in side of an egg-shell. “Are you cold?” asked Mr. Peer: about kindly, when he had set chairs tor his guests. “Earth people com ing to the moon often find it unpleas- antly cool.” Indeed the Twins were so chilled that they had shivered ever since the Magic Green Shoes had set them down on the top of a moon-moun tain. “Yen,” replied Naney. “We were wishing we had brought our sweat- ers and tame.” Jon’t know what they are,” de clared the Moon-Man, “but I have something better than that. A little magic powder I keep on hand @ little magic powder. Now, where is it?” He went fumbling about in an old sort of saltwhaker which he held up to the light. “I Just keep it In an olf thing Ifke this,” he apologized, “so that nobody will think it worth while and steal it, the powder is troublesome to make.” While he was talking you could | have hung your hat on Nancy's and | Nick's eyes, they were sticking out so tar with amazement. Vor the t the | Moon-Man said was so old and worthless was cut from a single ruby | which glowed and burned in the light like a live coal “Oh!” gasped Nancy. “Goodness mef’ Nick couldn't help moon was! E prything seemed to be | on too thick. And, against her fren aied resistance, he grasped her frajl young wrists, brutally broke her em jbrace, and flung her from him. She fell against the threw back her head to show the pretty lines of her throat, clutched convulsively at |her collar-bone, and subsided upon the floor in a fit of heartbroken sob. table, |bing; while Egbert callously took his hat, clapped it on his head and |marched out by a door tn the rear lwall, his dignity but slightly impaired by the fact that the was several sizes too large and would have extin- guished him completely if it hadn't |been for hin noble ears | Without pause Mr. Laughlin dou |pled round to the front of the set, |threw the waiting actor a brusque |*See, Tommy? Get what T mean?” and encouraged Miss Daley with “That's wonderful, Alma, dear. Now go on, right thru the scene.” Miss Daley, lying in complete col |iapse, with her head to the camera f OUR ~~ By a CHAPTER XV—WHO that Goorge Brad. about what he “I've an idea shaw knows more calls ‘love’ than all # put to gether,” said Jeanne Alison. “I've also an idea that he doedh't tell it all to Bonny.” “It's plain that we girls have got of (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, by Beattie Star) to do something to counteract George’ instructions,” suggested Mary Smith. “Girls, Mary's right! If Bonny ‘Tearle ever should make any mis takes, we'd have her sing on our own souls!” FIRST YEAR guest went on with her story: “I think it was the Christmas time when I was § years old that I was at grandmother's and was #0 excited about going to all the celebrations—it made Christmas stretch out so beautifully. “Our first Presbyterian Sunday “I don’t recall much of the pro- gram, but the long ‘plece’ of the evening was “The Night Before Christmas.’ Worth had a good clear voice and a firm oratorical manner and he stepped forward like @ veteran, and pulling down his little jacket, and clearing his throat, began Dravely enough the thrilling story, ‘'Twas the night acting for the screen. To the best of Lucinda’s judgment, however, the greater part of Mr | Laughiin’s effort had meant to Tom. my precisely nothing at all. Beyond the rudimentary mechanics of the physical action sketched in by the director, Tommy made no perceptible attempt to follow his pattern, and. disregarding entirely ite conventional but effective business, embellished {J %H00! was quite big by that time. | Letony Christmas and all thru the the scene instead with business We had eight or 10 classes, with | house which was, such as tt was, all his |g from five to seven in a class, and| ‘Then he cleared his throat and NOU'LE HAVE PLENTY OF TIMG Now To Fix IT WHILS You'Re AT HOMES REe began over on the same ‘'Twas the night before Christmas and all thru the house, all thru house ahem! ahem! All thru—the— lis face got red and he clutch: ed the corners of his jacket, he swallowed, he gulped, he spoke like this: “+ "Pwas the night before Christ- masand—allthruthehouse— “And—then he fled. own, or, more accurately, that of a dead era of the speaking stage. | And when Mr. Laughlin tranquilly |approved this performance and an jnounced that they would forthwith “shoot it,” Lucinda began to wonder if there were possibly something |wrong with her own powers of ob | servation, | “But,” she protested to Mr. Lane, p= didn't play the scene as Mr. about 20 ltt tots in the baby class. ‘Tut I was most interested in going with auntie to the Congre gatipnal party. ‘We came down the hill from grandmother's house, that stood opposite where the County-City building {a now, and I skipped abead, drawing a stick along the h Laughlin did.” (Continued Monday) pickets of the fences as we passed| “Now, David! the guest sald conaielent wn |f (that makes a lovely noise),” she} seriously, “Dga't you ever, ever ® added to David, “till we turned | tell t story. Mr. Dinsmore ! ner of Second ave. I re-| might not like it, but you have | r that the chureh stood | your lines so nobody ean ever tell way up on the side of a hill, so| such a story about you.” Bride ip seuee TEACHES FLAPPERS? Bonny. Then with sudden alarm, | You're called the most popular flap-| teachers, mothers, sisters tell them. J “But--then—I'd turn out just like|per in this end of town,” mourned | And isn’t that awful!” | “Pe The other ris have fin One never can tell when Jeanne) 64; Just like all of you! Abd the|Mary Smith. “Girls learned about love from | ished Nite lessons a love. And jf joking and when she ts abomin-| boys say that the reason I’m so in teresting is because I'm not like Conversation buzzed while changed the plates, 1 Evidently my older women for centuries!’ I re- they've nearly finished me, too. Its lably sarcastic. plied as I arranged my beautiful new | your turn now, What are you BO “Stop giggling, Bonny! Get ready, | other girls!" luncheon, if informal, was no failure, | Wedgewood cups on « tray. “Isn't ing to advise poor me? i: |girlat Hach in her turn, instruct the| ‘Sounds familiar! We've all heard| “We girls have discovered a big | it time they had the other side?” | 1 couldn’t answer Bonny immedb \infant! You begin, Mary?’ that, Bonny!’ Jeanne shrugged a|fact, Peg! whispered Mary. She| “Well! If Bonny Tearle is an ex-|ately. 1 felt awfully solemn, It” shoulder scornfully, “Listen, all of you! was helping me serve the sweet. | “Bonny Tearle! 1 say again, and in the pantry to ample of what men can do when they | seemed to me that beneath our fool \it's all I’m going to say, that a girl a educate their sweethearts—" The re-| ery ran a vein of the serious, re It occurred to me that women — If I don't talk of your age ought not to discuss |about love with the gren, they'll never| “What is it?’ mainder of Mary's sarcasm was lost | liove with men, Especially not with |take me anywhere, I couldn't keep! ‘We've found why flappers act as|as the pantry door swung behind|everywhere are asking what they — old men, Only with women, And|& man friend if I didn’t chatter senti.|they do!” me. can do to make love last a |when you're bothered, come to me,|ment to hin “Well, why do they?" ‘As goon as she and 1 had taken |what they can do to be happy when deart” Bonnie flushed as she confessed.) “They will not listen to women.lour places at the table, the young |love fuils. “Thank you, old dear?’ murmured] “You certainly ought to know!| Only to men. They side-step all thatperson who had occasioned our dis- | (Zo Be Continued)