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‘ac tc over there Jast Jong: Witness five..strietly Old Won stories, made entirely in, America, Which the atmosphere of the respec- tive countries ts and, what is more, with the lights, appliances and so on || now available beyond the seas, if any- thing nearly so true could have ‘een Obtained om thé real locations. First of an, rBrokee, Blossoms.” Limehouse | p; been brittle clay ands. In Holl: a ag ee Shy 1 ana {tig he who was pis tu eat alton ti ee tnaae Be Polo] veep apie <g8 wae rsan Geen ally eke ne a oO completes a ai nd aat wrritas at theses ment in Los ‘Rigeloa, Lewis 8. mene Pense of making motion pictures is at} Will come back to Proady * least five times as great as in thia|!t isn’t—and the miners ‘oe ‘su country, and that poor daylight, un-| s!ving Rialto pedestrians tee ag & dependable clectricity:and haphazard | their lives—Stone will take (camera supplies render ti « Marshall Neilan tte SH |uncertain even at that. Hampton of ragey it all soente. mus Rosenfeld of ot bP heir and Pe Rate “Close-Up” News and Views OFFilmiand and ts People new musical Canaan it ete eal. cording to the it ‘will : oat on ‘sometime during the fall months, I will be Dr, Riesenféld’s maiden ef- fort as a composer of popular tufhes. Carlyle ‘Blackwell is establish a studio @n the picture coast, ban on his first independent™ jon. He has as his Lge woman Gloria Hope. ‘“Blackewell wi make his next picture‘in the ‘nat, then he will return to Hollywood and Settle down, he says. With.the debut of another Fiorens Ziegfeld show girl into she Mickering | fuzzies, we are called upon to remj- nisce over the other beauties who Jeft the National Tngtitution for ene ne aiden own Limehouse— ELL, the grand seramibie to} #04 ardent Burke de- en the most voteo must admit its perfection. Metto make photopjays with Ameri-|{ia‘much the same thing In ita groat | can companies in .Burope Chinese scenes in “The Red Lantern, didn’t last very long, and it would bave pees guite impos- You'll remember that Immediately | Sible to get anytRing like these to- » rmist ‘ ly because of the following, the ai y | aay in Peking, simply becai every film company announced that lack of the tremendous mechanical re- source which is the machinery, of! Players is sending Klsic Ferguson to it would soon be producing in France, Italy or England. Independent pro- photoplay. In Universal’s re- | England not only for British atmos- taathable new, bce an picture, | phere but partially as a matter of ducers rushed in with thelr announce- ore ments too, and where was the iso- “The Pinnack Alps actual authorial co-operation. are so perfectly reprodice, and their ated “star who hadn't bought a steamer trunk? Echo answers. People as well, pak te yh not Imve been bettered Some of them got over. Most of them are coming back. ability, under any condit tria itself. The new This column pointed out meany ‘two months ago that’ there was prac- | ed to show upon a large and objects of general Knowledge and international interest. Thus. Charlie Chaplin’ type of comedies tl Priscilia! Dean, after quite a lot of lay-off, is coming back to her fan admirers, to stay a long time. This ite thief, wildcat of Paris, or it have you in 3 mopolitan productions: Remer, another dion: Diana Allen, Martha Laurel, who has her own wampeny, with he el her. It gets all successful little oe, drama. first, ray, who Tatt of of b being a Nell Brinkley | irl to go with Lasky; Ann Penning- | fon—who was with the Follies ae we Flow Davies the blond ehild of Gos. | 22 Rubye De-| TFFTWATHRTY (7 YEAR-OLD B ; YEARS ABO SEEKS | KILLS BABY SISTER TRCEOFPARENTS, PLAYING COWBOY Frank Nichols, Now Become) Twirls Revolver’ Around fj Prosperous, Yearns for Finger, Ranch Fashion, Till Unknown Relatives. Tragedy Ends Game. A baby was loft at the New York| Charles T. Emmerich jr. seven Foundling Home, No. 176 Kast 6sth| ¥%rs old, shot and mortally wounded Street, thirty years' ago.”: Ho was! hi8 three-year-old sister, Anna, by about two weeks old, and there was|®ccident yesterday, when playing practically mothing doout him to de-| With si father’s revolver. The gist note that tie was anything moro im-|@/ed ten minutes after the’ sho portant than another of the thou ‘The children were playing in and one youngsters who annually be-| Parent's home at No. 4165 Ashiand| f*! come the wards of charity. Street, Woodhaven, I.’ I. Thoir| there was a note—and ' who is « manufacturing ma- in business for himselt, was outdoors, and thelr mother was can- ting preserves in the cellar. At the boy's suggestion he and his faistorwent to their father’s bedroom the second floor and idoked for some ‘pretty cards” he had dn his Dr. Hughes Tells Presbyterians They Are Sputious and Defends Medicine, , Faith healers were attacked by Bish+ oy Hughes of the Methodist Chureh im 4 sermon at the Fifth Avenue Presby- terlan Church yesterday, He dectared uch of the healing efforts were mas fuerading as spirituality. “Godput Tpto the herbs of the fold the ‘medicinal propertiés they pos= sess,” he said, “and into the ski of the physicians auch agencies for good as they exercise, A good many people pray for success in business, pray that they may be able to build a fine house, Dray for automobiles, and they are like thogs who Ynapire othord \tho wrong way.” Bishop Hughes salt the young men who wont to the war from the thealogt- moet 2 Node Veatheas, and ate re- semina’ blandishments turning to the church, SERVICE MEN'S CLUBHOUSE | [x= COMES TO AN END TO-NIGHT) Soldiers,’ Sailors and Marines Have }; Been Entertained There for ner of the Nevaky Prospekt, built on the Goldwyn lot at Culver City, Cal, ‘The Ton- | Aram Altbed cost. We predicted! don and the South Atlantic to the PHOTOPLAYS. | PHOTOPLAYS. Moally nothing in the world which |actually covers~ ac’ same gfe greatest Melodrama in the world. Dramatist Thompson Buchanan, Russia on a tremendous scale. A cor- could thoueht is true of the new Mamous ly aug gy ae end entertainment, “The purposes at ieast, in America, and at Aanarabie Crichton”—Barrie’s W on a "tw youth: es ia |and Yvonne Shelton—a “Wild Flow- er” of Room mit be And now, Betty Hi =. will a pastel | Dl comedienne in | WILLIAM: FOX presents Am invitation has been extended to! come. Ft Ble = eiiater te attend nt oe me wen annu: show Asbury Park. No, no+-not as cae they want Mary to the prises—act as the guest of * boner, in other words, ‘Theodore Roberts, we believe, holds the reeerd for service, to one com iv. fe recently zned another Sontract with Famous Players-Laaky to stay with them for his sixth year in, pictures. was being underpaid. Priscilla wouldn't work. Priscilla would break her contract. Priscilla would form own company! But it’s over . On Friday last Miss Dean signed a five-year contract with Universal, the firm which discovered her, and which made all her impor- tant pictures. While she is not get- ting a Mary Pickford S ommenen es | i most any bank would be pleased to have manasa ‘him her net income to- and as’ ‘her contract increases in duration of time, it wih increase in money, until her last years on the present will bring her a young fortune. will immediately ‘go to work in Uni- versal City on type plays of the sort she has done 80 ly. And there was another important Deginning during the past week. Jack Pickford signed a star contract ‘with Goldwyn for a period Z valy | ears. This con 0 Bf the Pickford tesa a real stel- lar position ‘for the fi Mae times Here- tofore he has. been, erally, speak- ing, “Mary's brother,” no matter now. sympathetically he portrayed | 5, the boy parts his varioys employers assigned him to do. Now he seems to have definitely dropped the family leaning, and is ol on his own. Tcan ore tale by & sonal mation: ickford, assuredly the most ener- oh by businesslike mother in the movies, was, allegedly, anxious to have Jack under her own wing, and Flenry M: Blossom Directed by Richard Stanton : - ‘Paling ecli, re hep oo ns of the; .) conTINUOUS are and dona Aj #3 E ENT to 11 RAL “Mr oan ‘Woman go by oe 13,” her | ‘ane acted on the, stage, and “Roads of Destiny,” in Which Flor- ence Reed was the en ae per- former, will serve as ecreen vehicles for Pauline Frederick. cast be the first personally Rupert Hughes picture several well kpown names. yee them, Helene Chadwick, the pretty ex-Pathe player, and Rock- oliffe Fellowes, Florence Deshon, Sydney Ainsworth, Kate Lester and er weir, bay r ex's wyn- ent Authors production, and it may said that Mr. Hughes had a part f it. himself; he wrote it, helped ‘with the continuity, and was present at the Culver City studios during its mak- ing. »: Did you note, perchance, that Irene a ae latest picture will be released @ title, “Should a Wife For- giver" WORKERS ON DROWNED MAN HURT AS PULMOTOR BURSTS Machine Explodes, Its Contents Severely Injuring Two Trying _. to Save Life. PROVIDENCE, R. I., Aug. 26.—Henry J. Kramer, one of a party of thirty Bos- ton men who came here on an auto- mobile outing, was drowned in Scott's Pond, Saylesville, last night, and Everett Dietrich and John Buraton, companions, were severely burned when a pulmotor with which they were working upon Kramer's body, burst, epraying its con- tents. over them. Kramer had been in swimming with several others. When his body was recovered it had been in the water hardly more shan five minutes and a pul- motor was hurried to the scene. The instrument had hardly been put in oper- ation when it exploded, Dietrich and Buraton were taken to @ hospital and later went home, ire, Uolivetdaress a0 “AT 9:45 Biba POSITIVELY NIGHT at 8.30 17 Thereatter Photo Play With an Amazing Soul VO ea ea MIRACLE MAN GEO. mt, COHAN, ele, ths, Pia, i All's Seats F Reserved—Now ‘Selling. Ba yers, the dusky daughter Pee Augeee rabbi, whom David Crier Giegovered and put in a pera and who progressed thro series of IUniverea! films to ce a favorite film figure—Carmel has left the screen as flat.as it ever was be- fore she graced it, to go ieee musical comedy. Back in the Essanay days—and not so far back either—Nell Craig, @ tately brunette, held the attention of wide following. She was princtpal- prominent in thi Bp ro of muel Merwin's ‘Trufflers.” With Bssanay's eadian “one lett Chi- cago, and that was the last we heard . Now comes the announce- ment that Universal'has engaged her to play opposite Robert Anderson— “M’sieu Cuckoo”—in “Common Prop- erty.” Arnold Daily, that unique and ro- mantic figure in the theatre, is mak. ing a picture abroad. He once did a serial for Pathe with the ex-serial queen, Pearl White. Although Broadway has been flash- ing to the curious crowds the electric announcements of Elsie Janis in “Everybody's Sweetheart,” the Belz. nicks ie have changed the titlé to “A Regular Girl.” Miss Janis objected to the other name because it seemed to be imitating the Pickford style, Theatre ti We Wai “Bway, 46. Mts, Wed,Sat.2.30 YY ort HOUDINI. PERSON femme, at SINGER HEIR TO MARRY. The engagement has been announced in Paris of the Princess Jean de Broglie to the Hon. Reginald Allwyn Fellowes, GREENWICH ‘VILLAGE aera Brenings, 8.45. Matinos Wed. “de Sar, 190, AMUSEMENTS. Actors Equity Association GALA PERFORMANCES ALL THIS WEEK Entire Changes of Program Bre, &.15. Lit yah CeRSa yay of Ramsey Abbey, Huntington, Eni The Princess ls a ) Gaventar of the late Duchess Decdzes, and is a granddaugh: ter of the late Tenen Singer, her mother having been ye get inger, from whom shg Inherited a lasso fortune, he bgbrotes, a Denne te, eae eee e has also a Danish title. The Hon. Supporting Marguerite Clark in her Mr. Fellowes ts 4 cousin of the Duke of last California-made picture is Jack borough, as woll na Mulhall, a personable young juvenile rc gh ag ae et | Capt. ee ee Seah" oncwestnA. LAZA, ANITA STEWART Pret acer ae :VAUDEVILLE. the Hon, you will remember in previous Lasky | Frederick E. Guest, all of whom married pictures. Walter Edwards is direct- |! American girls. | BEGINNING TO-NIGH AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. HT AT 8.30 50¢ to $1.50 (4 item eiccesr sHow— PRtices' Matinee To-Day AND EVERY ct EVENINGS AT 6.15, Py ¥, KEITH'S ‘cu ai eee tall om SIGHTSEERS UNA Wil uD A_ NEW SENSATION FOR BROADWAY | wine tem aE “ane GUS FAY THE WONDER SHOW OF. THE UNIVERSE, & to Se._]_Sesassend_sonepee_ 8.08, ie the past 19 years (wenty million people ave 90K, lodged Lim the occall . % etna Lexi ees Lire! bet nob fo ole, Sto i Rn eranG URE Tr IN THE WORLD NM = 7 = = Peles stare and 0 Other Big acts ae OLUMBIA 233, ay | Ropuiae Independent Attraction, Not Affected by Strike, N’S oma at WALL STEP Ri dines SJMMY HUSSEY ae UCAS & CI qqat uns Seca PALISADES Pan SHOOT THE CHUTES AND — it) Feney OURLEIOUR ts Tee bye A E y d , DANCB IN THE GREAT BALL ROOM | IA Fo I a eg =| Been | iy gic | TIMES ati See, BROOKLYN TRY OUR TWENTY, WHIRLY, STEEPLECHASE tn | Pittsburgh. ntenden the aon and heir of Baron de Ramse: feland. | with bureau drawer, The upper drawer] ‘Was open, and the boy found @ fe- volver, which made him forget about the cards, He was twirling the wedp- on around his finger like a moving Two Years, ‘The Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Club, opened by the National League for Women's Service in June, 1917, probatiy G hi th the first service club organised in the Mh Een", rt 26 the floor, ‘The M. night dance will de ‘The fither bald he had a permit to| "eld end other features of the day's {e| coop the: revolver, and said he al- ways kept the bureau drawer locked and could mot understand why it wag open. The\mother, who has a young Oebyyiome — ith grief, 1,200-DELEGATES TO ATTEND |: EQUITABLE LIFE MEETING Deda to service men being 26 cents a night, ‘There’ are billiard rooms, « ball- ew rad a library and « writing Mr A A ‘teen haa been conducted, ¥ f Helmont. Mrs. Alfred Wasstaft’ and Miss Polly Damrosch are are among workers. oF ives are still living,” mall reward for correct a: pa ae Sunday, Broadway Cen- “T haven't any absurd ideas about myself,” Mr. Nichols said. “It is prob- able that I was born under the mont humble elrourhstances, But whethe' it 1s a common longing of all perso Sixtieth, Conventiag tos Open at Tai very ancious ‘pctind eat Waltiorf-Astorié: Bhis bed have begitters "oud sisters: I may 1919 Banner have brothers ity mother and & father alive. I'd lik know.” Nichols lives at No. 810 East Street, About 1,200 delegates to the sixtieth ‘annual convention of the Equitable Life Assurance Society will assemble at the ‘Waldort~ Astoria this morning. ‘They constitute the members of the Quarter, Miljon Club and Century Club of the society and come from every section of the United states and Canada, , pen eplte of, the war. the year 1918 "Po ‘be the best business year for Re ican insurance companies Henry J. Le hob ‘ot Cincinnati, Rescued From Drowning, He Ex- there is hardly a company that cannot show bi for the mt tee} months res From Heart Disease usin of Toto whi ntire 1918 Shor exceeds on fe. business. i Tala te is mainly due te the in- N, Willard Curtis, President of the |orsemen ingurance Gov- t, to the epidemic of infucnza East New York Savings Bank, died Sat-/¢rnmant, to the epidemic of Induonsa urday at Belle Harbor, L. 1. his sum-|" "Phere will be a reception at the Bank- mer heme, of heart disease, while bath- |srs. Club by, President (Willem rs ‘ Curtin went be. [gf the society to the delegates at his a eo ‘when he alecovered CURTIS, BANK PRESIDENT, SIVED FROM SURF, DIE help. Ji Hie agnaer is eves. "on reaching ahore Mr. Curtis ee wane font of Brooklyn most of his life. He was e member of the fimber firm of Curtis Brothers, from which he ithdrew about six years 0. For many he was a trustee of the ma New pond Ra yin) Bank, and last aren: wee cae d President. ie was rod with ty other savings fostitutions. BLIND MAN GUTS THROAT WITH SHOE Edge of Sole Weapon Used by Brooklyn Suicide to End His Life. Using the sharp edge sole of a new pair of shoes, which he hed never worn, to cut hia throat, Patrick Fay, forty, Inmate of the Home tor the 16 Gates Avenue, Hrool non. fend in his ir of shoes, soaked im on the floor. WOMAN AND MAN WOUNDED WHEN NEGRO OPENS FIRE Newark Residents in Hospital Be- cause Policeman Tried to Stop “Heavy Walker.” Two innocent bystanders were shot in Newark, N. J., last night when a negro who had been accasted by a po- liceman fired six shota at random. The Policeman saw the negro carrying @ re- Volver in bis pocket and stopped him, Mra, Mary Grosse, nineteen, of N. Grand Street was ‘shot In the back, nd Irving Williams, colored, twenty-elgnt, No, Court Street, Hackensack, was shot in the late leg.” Both are in St, Michael's Hospital. ‘The policeman grappled with the ne- gro, who struck him over the head with the revolver and ran down the street Then the policeman fired three shots which were heard by firemen, and they caught the negro on the rn ee ee BATH HOUSES PROFITEER. All-American table beverage is your solution of the increas- ing high price of coffee. Youll find the price the same as before the war. y Rate of 75 Cents Raised to #2 at Coney, It Is ‘The heat gave the bathing house proprietors at Coney Island a chance to profiteer yesterday. Complaints were heard that the usual Sunday rate of 75 cents for a bath house had been raised to $2 at many places, The Proprietors justified themselves on the ground that they had had a bad season and yesterday gave them a chance to recoup their losses, About 400,000 persons spent the day e at Coney, and 115,000 went into the jwurf. ‘The Municipal Baths were re) bo L crowded. An extra tax of 15 cents was added to the regular 26-cent charge if a bather stayed out more than three hours. The bathers had an unpleasant ex- 8 SUNDAY WORLD WANTS | WORK WONDERS! DINE AT SHASTY'S BALCONNADES RIDES AT LUNA PARK CONBY I8LAND. Rede Manan ties” | Bali, GIRLS FROM JOYLAND Funay BILLY GILBERT. FOR FUN CONEY ISLAND, rig, without coffee harm Made by Postum Cereal Company, Battle Creek, Michigan. perience early in the aftern oil was swept in from the sea, \house attendants sold kerosene to ro- move the oil. | The police and ambulance surgeons were kept busy all day with minor quarrels and slight water accidents, hesldes two drownings.