The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 10, 1922, Page 7

———— Comedy Success at Met M Vaudeville Shows Change FEAR NEW TONG OUTBREAK HERE Shots Fired in Attempt te Kill; Gunmen Arrive With all Chinatown alarmed at the armed white men were guarding the district Saturday prospect of renewed tong murders, follow! an attempt upon the life of) Lee Kee, Hip Sing tong member Friday afternoon, police details and DEMAND BONUS |West and South Unanimous in Asking Action BY KENNETH W. CLARK, WASHINGTON, June 10.—south jern and Western senators today ral lied to the support of the McCumber pidier bonus bill with a demand that it be brought up for early con | wideration in the Praghe from #6 ly at unanimous — support » from 17 weatern According t reports reaching po |lice, many imported gunmen are ar riving in Seagtle from Coast points, They are members of th nee, it in said, White gu ne many former Seattle stationed at the doors tong headquarters, and the tong leaders when they venture forth Practically all of the three war ring tongs—Hip Sings, Bing Kungs and Bow Leongs, the last two of which are allied against the first aeerTtTe — ae 1—Jack Franks, Helen Grossman and Otto Lederer in “Abie's Irish Rose,” Metropolitan. Hip. 3—Mlle. Shura Rulowa, Pantages. ‘The Metropolitan theater will haves Qs its attraction beginning Sunday night, the new comedy, “Abie's Irish Rose,” which Oliver Morosco is of- fering for Anna Nichols, the author. ‘The local engagement will be for one Week with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday, . = ~ “Abie’s Irish Rose” is a matri- monial mixup in which a rabbi, a priest and a Methodist clergyman all present themselves to perform a }marriage ceremony for @ littie Irish #irl and a young Jewish lad, to sat isfy the scrambied religious tenden- cles of various interested parties. “Abie's Irish Rose” has received Pméat ‘flattering notices from the press in all the cities where it has played. In a review of the show the Spokane Spokesman-Review says, |*"Able’s Irish Rose’ is a delightful } romance in the hands of a good com pany. The play is clever and all of the audience went away chuckling at the enjoyment of it, and jmissed the obvious moral that | good plays have.” |” One of the most complete and bril |iant casts which any producer has jever assembled is that which inter |prete this great Morosco hit jeompany includes Otto Lederer, Jac Franks, Barbera Brown, Phillip Ryder, Helen Grossman, | Shubert, Harry G. Keenan, Billy F land a bevy of beautiful bridesmaids. |OPERA SINGERS |COMING TO PAN | Of paramount jnew bill coming to the Pantages, be jsinning with the matinee vee Beerais all LOIS WEBER'S GREATEST PICTURE SANDS OF These singers have all been mem bers of European grand opera com panies and they will present somely staged and gorgeously jtumed excerpts from standard opera rane a 7 | Another name of importance on EVERY WOMAN |the new bill is Emily Darrell, de SHOULD SI jlightful comedienne, who will pr THE ANSW sent her newest skit, “Late for Re hearsal.” | The third ste Russe. Mile. Rulowa is Russian artist and she NEWS — COMEDY “NO ADVANCE IN PRICES’ MATL 10¢ EVEN lare unusually gifted dancers. Two colored gloom dispellers are Irving Jones and Walter Crumbley. They offer an original and scream ingly funny skit of rapid crossfire comedy. “Fun in Luna Park” ts the pro-| gram line for Lipinski's dogs The Pantagescope will show a [new comedy subject and interesting educational films Safe for Infants, Children or Adults | GLYCEROLE LOBELIA Cures cough instantly. Contains no; William Morrow and Margs opiates or injurious drugs. It's the| Evans will appear in a rural comedy best cough medicine made, Gives in-|skit called “An Episode on a stant relief. 50c at all drug stores, or | Country Road sent, p. p. by Joyner Drug Co., Spo-jand the popular pair are kane.— Advertisement. | best at have warned members to keep in hid ing for the present. Friday's shooting occurred as Kee | stepped into a store at 418 E B., when two shots were fired at roof of the Chinese Maw a Bing Kung strong ave him from th: sonic temp hold. CONCERT FOR | NEW SCHOOL | For the benefit of the Holy Remary parochial school, now under construc tion in Wert Seattle, a concert dd and secular music will be giv. en by St. Joseph's boys’ choir, Satur lay evening, June 10, tn the Witkes theater, Westlake and Pine. The cholr wil! be assisted by the Knicker: Docker quartet and by several soloints from the Holy Names academy de partment of fine arts and from the Cornish school. | The new school it ts said, wilt be fone of the finest buildings in the city 2—Ruth Packer, Palace} none | The |menta, (hia turn. Harold , [ioe feats; and the feature photoplay importance on the/| Monday | sonar afternoon, is the Alexandria Opera} AN ANSWER TO [ocmpeny, an organization of eight THE au ESTION joperatic stars, in a lavieh offering, | CONFRONTING |presented by Miss Mildred Perkins hand- | ar offering of the| {new bill is the Shura Rulowa Ballet | Mail lebrated | will a com: | box pany of four lovely young girls, who | next It is full of laughs their | | when completed. Modern and up to date, it will provide ample dations for m than 600 ‘The school will be ready for occupan cy In September, Train Hits Autos 2 Killed, 2 Hurt KLAMATH FALLS, ¢ June 10 |—Two persons were killed and two Friday night when an auto- in which the four were riding Do is. They were tourists from MUSIC NOVELTY AT PALACE HIP “Rup Van Winkle’s Dream,” elty character fa a nov- y with music, bill that commences a week engage ment at Loew's Palace Hip theater today. and a girl, form a “triple alliance of nonsense.” The comedians whore comedy bits are sandwiched in between harmony singing of popular melodies. A picturesque novelty is promised tin “Ramona’s Acres,” in which May }Le Hoen and Leone Dupreece will appear, Arnold Grazer t# a chap who claims “personality” as his middle name, jand the former musical comedy star blends song# and piano embellish talk and specialty dances in Maria Racko and partner open the bin, ) some hand-to-hand balanc “Beyond the Rainbow,” brings 16 noted stars of the screen to round out the program. A special added attraction is the motion picture showing the dedication of the new tables of the official and screen | world. \“ABRAHAM LINCOLN® BOOKED AT MET ord for accepted all at performancr and the once ALL JINNING Direction of EDWARDS and HERRICK INTER GARDE THEATRE ENTIRE NEW SHOW TOMORROW THE SILVER CAR WITH EARLE WILLIAMS POLLARD CC COMEDY NEWS—SCENIC SPECIAL MUSICAL PROGRAM Remember! All the Time LAST TIMES—HERITAGE THE ALEXAN Morrow & Evans Rural Comedy EMILY “LATE Artistic Da IMPERIAL General Admission: ehth | ot | Was struck by the W Klamath |Falls passenger train hu Hay worth, 58, rancher and director of the Dorris, Cal, bank, and Otha A.| Witkina, 42, are dead, and Stanley Rugs, 27, and Mra. Russ, 17, injured. is the offering in which Frank W.} Stafford, the author of the miniature | operetta, heads the new vaudeville | Miller, Packer and Sels, two men’ men are eccentric | $1,000,000 Loew's Warfield theater in| |San Francisco, attended by many no Zeginning Monday, June 19, at the Metropolitan, William Harri will present John Drinkwater's famous play “Abraham Lincoln,” and in it will app Frank Me }Giynn as Lincoln and a company f almost 35 players, each of them! leapecta elected for the particu lar role to be enacted, No Sunday performances are given of th lay office sale opens Thursday | NEXT WEE Mildred Perkins Presents Vaudeviile’s Most Brilliant Aggregation of Singers Selections From Grand Opera Tho Favorite Comedienne FOR REH SHURA RULOWA MATINEES, in puntain #tates was pledged | bill following inclusion, as an Jamendment, of the McNary $250, 000,000 reclamation project, which | also in added as another compensa | tion feature for veterans The move of Senator McNary, Ore leon, in offering his reclamation bill as an amendment, was regarded as jdouble assurance the bonus will be panned shortly | Several western senators with MeCumber following MeN | action and it was understood he gave per word he was ready to sidetrack temporarily the tariff and take up bonus legistation. B. C. to Spend Huge | Sum for Good Roads VICTORIA, B.C, June 10.—A mil }Hon dollars is being t in road mbia this | butlding th British ¢ year, Mont of the work will be between now and early autumn army of laborers now enga ne shifted to farms during th harvest season, British Columbia's program is be ing duplicated by the three prairie provinc Modern highways are plercing new agricultural sections ah rapidly as these districts are settled by incoming farmers. Under the comp sive program all the branch highways are linked with main roads, thus making Western | Canada's highways virtually a unit Man’s Body Found Hanging to Tree done The will PORTLAND. Ore, June 10 Rody of a man believed to be W. H Rrooks, Napa, Cal., was found hang ing from a fallen tree near here yes terday. The man was apparently about 60 years of age, carried a bank book and letters showing his identity to be that of Brooks, A note asked simply: “To be burieg in Oregon ts my ages Brown to Speak at | Workmen’s Picnic Mayor Edwin J, Brown will be the principal speaker at the annual pic nie of the Workmen's circle, to be | held at People’s park, Renton June jtion, Sunday. Dancing and sports feature an admirable program, In terurban trains will leave hourly from the Occidental ave, depot. All are invited. CATCH 15 JAP SHIPS | VANCOUVER, PB. C., June 10,—Fit teen Japanese fishing veasels have | been captured at Claquot, B. C. on the west coagt of Vancouver island, | fishing without a government license. | DR. J. M. WILKINSON, who has viewed the “Passion Play” at Ober lammergau twice, will give an illus trated lecture on the play at the Uni versity Christian night. AK ADULTS 10c (CHILDREN) AMATEU RS’ Man Trackers Thr y of the Frosen wir of the Nort! Black Roses WIth Sem akawa and My ‘c—Sun. aod Mon. | tA ATTRACTION LAR SONGS NIGHTS 7 and 9 p. m. MONDAY MATINEE DRIA OPERA CO. Jones & Crumbley Gloom Dispeliers DARRELL —in— RSAL” Pantagescope New Comedy Feature nae Divertissement and he 4 BALLET RUSS 26 cts; NIGHTS, 40 cts. THE SEATTLE STAR BILL PASSAGE heavy | jpark along t BY ROY RENTON HARBOR, Mich., June 10—"King Benjamin” Purnell, who hasn't shaved or had a haircut in 20 years, is going to be investigated again Detectives have been snooping aound the House of David, temple of the Flying Rollers, a cult of some 900 followers who live in a combina tion re jony and amusement shore of Lake Michi gan, just outside of Benton Harbor, Other investigations, by county and state, are promised within three months by Charles W. prose. cuting attorney of Darrien county. Gore bas been spurred to action by repeated reports of peculiar love rites in the House of David, and by rumors of mysterious disappearances of cult members on High Island, a desolate outpost of the organization in upper Michigan. “These reports have been persist. ing for years,” says Gore. “I believ the time bas arrived when they should be either proved or disproved by thoro investigation.” My enemies are spreading false reports, as they did formerly,” says King Benjamin.” “I am a man of God and tive according to His teach ings.” Purnell and his wifo—she's "Queen Mary” here—and credited by their followers with having had a vision appointing them God's messengers, They preached that the end of the fixes end tha NOTICE In these hard times we will make: Good Rubber Plates for ... - $6.00 Gold Crowns ... Bridgework .....$3.50 Pyorrhea Treated Free cur echureh Sunday! when other work is ordered, X-Ray Free to insure good work, Examination Free. United Painless Dentists 608 Third Avenue | fru’ jon, IN THE MUSICAL “King Benjamin” ‘House of David” and headquarters of the cult near Benton) Harbor, Mich. altho | bears grow. and crime. | park, |therapeutic springs, |by unbelievers. And they have a) bearded sega TODAY TO FRIDAY, JUNE 16, INC. FEATURE PHOTOPLAY and wid was near; several times “ “King | Benjamin” d specific dates, Ries. Now “King Benjamin” says the | barred in coming within 26 yearn. That apparently concerns him less investigations and the inroads modernism is mak ing on the cult—including jazz and fapperiam. “Our colony has endured deapit: © slanders of myriad enemies,” ing Benjamin” says, “but of late modernism has done much harm. Flapperiam, jazz music and similar | n the impending sen have hit us hard. “These manifestations of modern- lem have sown seeds of discontent the hearts of some members. ‘These no longer live in the faith they do let their hair and But that is not enough. “We are nearing the end of sin} Christ is coming again within the next 25 years. When He comes every living member of th | House of David will be glorified. But} | they all must live right, eat no meat, | work for each other and forget them. selves, The colony, established in 1903, is run on a communal basis; all mem- bers pool their resources and work |for the common good. They raise / and operate an amusement a vegetarian restaurant and, patronized tt all haired and SDT a? Billie” Dove And a Super-All-Star Cast in a Great Picture “Beyond Rainbow” V-A-U-D-E-V-I-L-L-E WITH FRANK W. STAFFORD, MARIE STONE & CO., PLAYLET— “Rip Van Winkle’s Dream” _ OTHER FINE ACTS MOTION PICTL DED BY OTED CREEN STARS, Viola Dana Ruth Roland Dan Mason Conrad Nagel Fred Niblo George O'Brien Mary Miles Minter Clark Young Lila Lee FRANC CuBOD, OFFICIALS AND INCLUDING Thomas Meighan “Billie” Dove Shirley Mason Leis Wilson Ludino Lang And many others Coming Saturday, June 17 Texas Guinan In Person and on the Screen With a Company of Five in “SPITFIRE” was quoted an having | but te fostered but tile be 66 barns Deere Raw. Bringing enit AMUSEMENTS _ — PANTAG { Mew neon 2130 New vier THm ROYAL Fig ts “Oh, acope ral Admissions 2hej Nights 40¢ « not how well ital work — in done, will not inst the teeth kept clean. The best way to cheat a dentist ix to clean your teeth and go to him ev- ery three months and have your teeth examined. DR. ge a BROWN, it unlens are Keep your eye on the lunch when it in- cludes good things from Boldt'’s, The very name is a temp- tation to those who know its significance, “Queen Mary” Purnell of the Marriage formerly was forbidden, | ons Secgng — BAKERIE TES Hay np ae Queen er dren into the world was once branded |. | sinful, but children no longer are METROPOLITAN THEATER WEEK OLIVER MOROSCO (Morosco Holding Company, Inc.) PRESENTS NICHOLS” IRIS SH- HEBREW MIRTHQUAKE w a TYPICAL MOROSCO CAST INCLUDING Bartara Brown Otto Jack Franks Lederer Helen Grossman Billy Fay Philip Ryder Harold Shubert And a Bevy of Beautiful Bridesmaids 4 Now in Its Seventeenth, Week in Los Angeles ANOTHER “PEG 0’ MY HEART” A Comedy of Ham Hocks, Kosher Meat, Brickbats, Clothing Establishments, Christmas and Yom Kippur 50c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 Best Seats $1.00 Prices: Matinees Wednesday and Saturday: Plus Tax Tomorrow Is the Night—Why?—Elks’ Night ALL WEEK ovine MONDAY, JUNE 19 MATINEES: WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY Box Office Sale Thursday, June 15 MAIL ORDERS ACCEPTED NOW Please Inclose Remittanee and Addressed Stamped Envelope With All Mail Orders, SCALE OF PRICES—TAX epee d Nights: Orchestra, €2.75; Balcony, $2.20, $1.65, Saturday Mat; Orchestra, $2.20; Balcony, $1.65, $1.! ty Gallery, ase WEDNESDAY MATINEE guars ..«...... $1.65 SEATS William Harris Jr presents dohn Driskwwaer’ 's ABRAHA LINCOL with FRANK M°GLYNN “If T were a millionaire I would buy a seat for every child in New York City.” William L, Ettinger, Supt. Schools, N. ¥. C. “No finer play was ever presented in America.” Champ Clark. | “One of the great plays of this century.” William Allen White, “A great play. Wonderfully acted.” Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, “I never enjoyed a play more in my life.” Herbert Hoover, “A beautiful and stirring thing. You sit enthralled.” N. ¥, Thmes, [he Only and Original Company of 39 P. uargest Dramatic Organization