The West Virginian. [volume], August 23, 1917, Page PAGE 6, Image 6

About The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974

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i IN THE
lr FRONT ROW
HEA0LINER8 TONIGHT.
Muelcal Comedy.
Hippodrome Follies o1a Day
Photoplays.
Nelsom... The Valentine Girl
Pixie., Man and Beast
F? grfm-ss. The Girl Glory
OME do bare lame thrust upon
S them. Witneee the eudden break^
lng in upon the first page of Char ;
lie Markert.
And It was no press agent stunt, either.
He took hia seven-montbs-old baby
ff KM to the Connellsrille postoffice to
send her to friends in Marietta, Ohio,
so as to shield her from the possible
contagion of Infantile paralysis which
be had been told was raging here. He
pictured to himself that the little miss
would have a delightful trip and would
be well taken care of by the mall clerks
en route. "Why, everyone would have
had a fine time with her," he said, it
was only natural thai the fond parent
should have thought so. But this little
queen was not a "queen bee" and
the result was as stated In the news
i columns of this and Pittsburgh papers
yesterday. This Is Mr. Markert's third
trip to Fairmont and each visit was
accompanied by some unusual Incident.
The first was right after leaving the
Al. G. Fields' Minstrel show. He came
to the old Colonial in this city with a
company that had a run of bad busi-j
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! 11683 lor several weens aau umj s.a
larg in the management's exchequer.
The prospects (or salaries were blue.
Charlie decided to stick to the ship and
arranged with the manager to work five
weeks on the "commonwealth" plan.
The chorus was to be paid and the balance
of receipts, if any, divided among
the rest of the players. It worked fine.
Busiue8B here was good. When the
week was up there was over three hundred
dollars to be divided. The show's
luck bad changed and for the balance
of the "commonwealth" time the dividends
made fat salaries for the parties
to the plan.
On the second trip here, he was
called from another of Zarrow's companies
to come to the Hippodrome and
Join the American Girl to fill a sudden
vacancy. He arrived here at one
o'clock and at three made his debut at
the matinee, having In the two hours
been compelled to rehearse six songs,
& dancing duo with Raymond Lewis,
wita whom he had never worked Defore,
and the lines of a character role
that ran through the whole show. How
well he succeeded was commented upon
at the time. And now the baby Incident.
"All's well that ends well," and
Charlie doesn't think that Fairmont is
bis Jonah.
Marguerite Clark in Child Role.
"The Valentine Girl," a i'aramount
release at the Nelson today, has a
mere thread of a plot which serves as
an excuse for a series of Pfpity scenes
fFKv featuring Marguerite ciant 111 tier most
pip artless and childlike moods. In the
first half of the picture she plays a
little girl of twelve and looks and acts
, the part with astonishing skill and natBKjgffif
uralness. This engaging child Is the
If one guileless figure in a luxurious gamB|i/l
, bling house of which ner rather is the
head. Because the children next door
K; , refuse to play with her she invents
playmates for herself out of the pages
of her history book and gravely poses
||:J; as every imaginable character from.
Queen Elizabeth to Joan of Arc. Alter
her father's arrest and imprisonment j
i;: ' she is adopted by a clergyman's family
and grows to womanhood in the shadow
of the village church, where she
i X meets again her childhood sweetheart
and concludes the story in a pretty ro-1
mance.
|| . Richard Barthelmess as the boy
sweetheart is an unusual and attractive
type, perfectly adapted to Marguerite
Clark's coyly ingenious manner . A
raid on the gambling house aud a resIcue
from shipwreck in a picturesque
beach scene serve to speed up the story.
The "Valentine" idea is woven through
the entire play with an appropriate ac- i
companiment of candy hearts, forget-1
i me-nots and other sentimental sym-!
bols.
The manv admirers of Marguerite :
Clarke will find her most child-like 1
Hp| qualities brought out in this little j
: play against a dainty and sentimental
background. In the supporting cast!
are: Frank Losee, Richard Barthelmess,
Katherine Adams. Maggie Hollo-1
way Fieher, Adolph Menjon and Edith j
Campbell Walker.
Charlie Chaplin in "The Count."
The Dixie today* features Charlie
p t Chaplin in "The Count." This excellent
two-reelers has been described by
eome reviewers as among the best of
the Chaplin creations, but the host of
Chaplin admirers care little for the title
j)t the play so long as their favorite
Charlie is the central figure of the
.AaKOMC.
p;:.' A "CROOK PLAY" TI
A charming bit of romance, patho
long list of the dainty and captivatir
p Margueri
I "The Vale
jg?; ; - Author of so many Paramount s
pictures sbown at this theatre In
OTHER AT
kp pa's fami]
Napoleon add Sally, mpnkey cc
bp; mutual
An excellent variety of news ?c<
K TOMORROW:
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War spirit revisits Valley Forge
lentown ambulance corps training car
site of the historic camp of the revolut
By J. HERBERT DUCKWORTH.
ALLENTOWN, Fa., Aug. 22.?America's
new national army is to have the
best ambulance service in the world.
1 am writing this at the Allentown
fair grounds, now the main U. S. A. ambulance
corps concentration camp
where 5,000 picked men representing
every state and most of the universities
are training.
The Usaacs are the first volunteers j
to be made a part of the new national :
i army. ( I
"if anybody has an idea any of these
men are slackers," said my officer
guide, "he is mistaken. The percent
iigtJ Ul CttrtUUlllCB UUJUIl^ llliii/uinn< u
men is as high as in the trenches.
There are men here, aiding in the instruction.
who have been decorated
with the French Croix de Guerre for
bravery under fire.
"These men must learn to get their
j show it is a foregone conclusion with
[ them that anything that is Chaplin is
| all right. A thrilling five-part drama
which at any other time would have
I been heralded as the banner attrac|
tion lakes second place on the program
today, it is called "Man and Beast,"
I It is worthy of a top line position and
I the two features give Dixie patrons an
I unusually strong hill.
? ?
Excellent Show at Hipp.
When Harrow's American GtgJ Com!
pany played "Follies of a Day" in this
| city in the latter part of the winter
I season we were moved to type a
| lengthy and highly commendatory review
It was at that time, in our opinI
ion, the classiest presentation of a
short form musical comedy skit we had
ever seen at the Hippodrome, After
viewing last night's performance by
the same company with only slight
changes in the principal roles, we reaffirm
our previously recorded opinion.
It is a good, clean show with much
class. Harold Gillis is perfectly at
home in the blackface part which Raymond
I.ewis essayed in the first showing.
His dancing is excellent and ills
comedy is exhllirating. Murrell Osborne
is extremely funny in his telling
of his experiences to "Jassbo." The
lypo iir assumes is kuuwu iu hid tauuc* i
ville stage as "a dope." But It does j
not fall to the level of much of this'
sort of charaeter acting. His make \
up, wardrobe and mannerisms are In j
themselves examples of art. There are
a number of good specialties introduc-'
ed by other members of the company j
and the ginger chorus dresses, dances i
and sings splendidly.
"Follies of a Day" has a medley of J
i catchy music in which the company's '
own musical director, Mr. Manning, I
plays a conspicuous part. One of the 1
impressive features of the whole show
is its manner of closing. It is a pleasing
irnovation to see everyone in the
audience remain seated until after the
final curtain. It is a habit of tab shows
to close with a "grand ensemble," and
the majority of habitues begin a scramble
for the exits as soon as they see the
finish coming. The old order changeth
in this bill. It doesn't wind up that
way. Instead it closes in a decidedly
novei manner. It fades away, much
like the fade-out of the picture on the
screen.
The same program will be repeated
tonight.
Prohibition Play at Princess.
"The Girl Glory," at the Princess today,
Is a prohibition play, which manages
to be pleasant in spite of its seri
our theme. It la prettily Introduced
by the old fable the duck who, when
a flood came, drank up all the water
in order to save the other ducks and
then presents to us a heroine who rids
her grandfather of the liquor habit by
a similar method. There is plenty of
humor but a great deal more pathos
in the child experimenting with the
raw whiskey in order to find what is
> "in it" that has such a fatal attraction
HE NELSON
3D AY
IAT IS DIFFERENT
s and humor which will add to the
ig little star's success.
ite Clark
s
ntine Girl"
uccesses, will be one of the best
a year.
fRACTIONS
LI IKtttt.
imedy,
WEEKLY.
;nlcs gathered from all over the
popular presentation of a Jack Lon%
WsWi
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:jn
:'T it/
i, where Washington's men bore prlva
up cleaning up after breakfast, having
Ion.
cars up to the front line dressing stations
and back with the loss of as few
seconds as possible. Motor trouble,
bad roads, shell craters and enemy fire
are no excuse."
No circus ever interested the Allentown
small boy more than the Usaacs
at the fair grounds. Loud explosions
assailed my ears. They came, I found,
from a dozen specially-selected decrepit
'.'flivvers." Ambulance drivers were
being schooled in the vagaries of the
gasoline motor.
Lieutenant Colonel E. E. Persons,
commanding officer, believes in hard
work and plenty of it. Today sixty ambulances,
ten big trucks, and 500 men
were oft on n long hijy^to Valley Forge.
The men are uncZirthe strictest military
discipline. They get plenty of
close order drill, besides instruction
In first aid and drill with the stretcher.'
for her grandfather. She learns from
the minister that the saloon which
plies the old man with liquor cannot
be closed unless the bartender violate^
the law, so she induces his son to smuggle
her into Hie back room, just oft the
bar. where she swallows u glass of
"Itel Eye" nnd then bursts into the
bar, where the villagers are gathered,
and exposes the "sale of liquors to
minors." Thus the saloon is closed,
grandfather takes the pledge and the
little amateur inebriate happily marries
the minister. In the cast are Enid
Bennett, Walt Whitman, William Warters,
Margery Bennett, Darrtfii Foss,
J. P Lockney.
| "CLOSE-UP8"
?There are only three red-heads in
the American Girl chorus. And they
are "not so red" at that.
?Out of 168 theatrical managers
supplied with attractions by the Gub
Sun Booking Agency, Sol Burka, of the
Hippodrome, Is the only one thus fai
caught in the selective draft.
i
?"Vaudeville Vagaries" is a neat j
twelve page weekly which has just j
made its appearance. It is designed as i
an organ for the Gus Sun booking
agencies and prints news of the attractions
and houses that come within
his jurisdiction. It is an attractive
little magazine, full of "pep" and typographically
neat. In making its bow it
does not deny that its mission is to fill
a "crying need" and the editor, "Clar- \
ence," has set about his task in a way j
that's different. I-le "promises to plant |
a pearl wherever he perceives a peeve."
OLD STAGER.
William Pride Dies
At Morgantown
William Pride, aged 84, who fifty
years ago was engaged in the harness
business here with his brother Harry
Pride, died yesterday at his home
In Morgantown. He was born at
Cassvile, Monongalia comity and was
a son of Wm. and Elizabeth Pride. He
was united in marriage with Miss
Mary Corapton in 18(10 and of the
children born to the union five snr
vlve. Miss Hattie Pride and Jas.
Pride at home, Frank Pride, ot Morgantown,
Mrs. Ray McDermott ot
Clarksburg and Harry Pride of Pittsburg.
The deceasod -was a Civil war veteran
having been a member of Co.
A, 6th W. Va. infantry. Funeral Bor
vices will be held on Friday afternoon
from his late residence.
Dr. George Mayers, who had spent!
the last several weeks here went to |
Mt. Lake Park, Md., yesterday to
spend a few days.
UIPPODROMEl
TONIGHT
7:45 AND 9:00
H. D. Zarrow's 8
BE8T ATTRACTION
AMERICAN
GIRL CO.
PRESENTING
rFOLUESi
Iap a until
[UMUJHTj
N A Cast of Noted Players.
11 Ginger; Chorus of Pretty Girls.
PRICES 1to AND 25o
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: MEN OF *76 SUFFERED
&
ticns. Picture shows boys from Alhiked
from the camp of 1917 to the
Some of the men are under canvas,
some in new huts and others in exhibition
buildings. The Usaacs, by the
way, are famous in the army sb the
only wearers of pajamas. Today the
boys of West Virglnli were being iaoculated.
Allentown frankly likes the Usaacs. |
They spend $175,000 monthly in the j
town.
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Many Delightful Features I
About Johnson-Hunsaker [
Reunion Yesterday. J
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The Johneon-Hansager family re-! ,
union at Loop Park yesterday was a
delightful event and drew many vls-i I
ltora here from the surrounding coun-.(
ty and points In Ponnsylvaina.
On assembling at the Park yester- .
day a concert was given by tlio Hay- J
den band, an organization which has j
recently regained much o fthe tame 3
that it had in former years. At the j
close of the concert the basket din- ]
ner was served. Members of the l
Hunsaker family in this section are f
noted for their success along culinary j
lines and the dinner yesterday added (
further to their laurels in this art.
One of the features of the days' en- t
tertainment was a concert of old |
hymns rendered by a party of singers J
using the old fashioned methods dat- i
ing back some fifty years. Among 1
the singers were: Joseph L. Hayden, i
Nicholas township, leader; John L. c
Johnson, Somerset, Pa.;! D. J. Hun- c
saker, Woodskle, Pa; Josiah Hun- r
saker, Masontown. Pa.; William New- r
comer, Unlontown, Pa.; Samuel C.
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tohhson. Unlontown, Pa.; Jotuwoa
lunsaker. Old Frama, Pa.
Mrs. Clyde NetU and Mlaa Edith
Junsaker both members of the Huntaker
family sang aolos and readings
vera given by Miss Beulah Hunsaker
ind Ray Hunsaker, the young chllIren
of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hunsaker.
Among those in atendance from a
listance at the reunion were Mr. Sam
3. Johnson, Mr. Joseph Hayden, Mr.
ind Mrs. John Baer and daughter.
HiBs Rae M. Baer. Mrs. Hacel Baer
Puppet, Mrs. Minerva Johnson Hi:
ilrs. John Newcomer. J. A. Bner, TJnontown.
Pa.: Miss Opha Johnson,
'rot John Wlllard, Mr. and Mrs.
leorg? Hunsaker, Mr. and Mrs.
iosia Hunsaker, D. L. Durr, Mr. and
ilrs. Charles Hunsaker, Mr. and Mrs.
lonry Keefover, Miss Olie Johnson.I
ilen, of Masontown, Pa.; Mr. and!
ilrs. Nicholas High, David Johnson'
ind daughters, Misses Elizabeth and
s'ellio, Mrs. Anna Darrell, Mrs. Emna
Parrell. J. H. Hunsaker anil
laughter, Elizabeth, of Woclside. Pa.
diss Lenore tVoodfield, of Tlgh House
'a.; Miss Elizabeth Hunsaker, of
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. John Coffey, of
tkron. O.; John L. Johnson, of Soni;rset,
Fa.; Johnson Hunsaker and son
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liijus. in vnu i iuuil1, i n.,
irlna Dorsey, of Pittsburgh.
Jacob Havdcn. a connection of the
wo families, was the oldest person i
iresent at the reunion, and Miss|
ennle Hunsaker, a much beloved,
ealdent of Watson, wa the oldest!
lunsaker, in attendance at the reun-j
on. Miss Hunsaker resides at the.
Id Hunsaker home place above the|
overed bridge at Watson. She is,
ged 78 years and was one of the
nerrie t at the big family gathering.
Officers were elected by the asso-1
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elation as follow*:
President, Clarence Hnnsakar; etee
president. Thome* L Hnnsakar; *eo*>
tary. D. R. Johnson; treasurer. ? &
Hunsaker.
The time and place ot the next rp R
union has not been decided upon. w
CORNS HURT T0DAY2 -fl
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Lift your corns or calluses eff ;
with Angara and It wont fl
pain you en* bit, ' I
Tee! Tou truly can lift off ererjr
hard corn. 10ft corn or corn between
the toos, aa well as hardened eallusej^H
on bottom of feet without ot^
A genius In Ctnclnr^^l
G? discovered freeione. It
sn ether compound stfo^B
tiny bottles ot this magic
fluid can now be had at I
any drug store for a few J
Arily several drops of I
|| thb freetone upon a m
; " te,titer, aching coru or a I
callm. Instantly all
corn or callus so shrivel
J od ad loose that yon lift
It off with the fingers.
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froezone or afterwards.
Just think! No more corns or cal* fl
luaes to torture you and they go with H
out causing one twinge of pain vl
soreness. You will call freezonJft I^H
magic drug and It really la.
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