The Seattle star. [volume], May 08, 1915, Image 8

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HH, SO ROMANTIC A
CUSS WAS Hk^NRY,HIS
BRIDE TELLS COURT
They Mood on the l>rt«ij|cv at mid
light—two y*«r» ago
The ship »as bound for Nome
["he captain had gone brio* *nd
hey bad the whole place to them
elves The moonlight danced In
lubdued golden radiance over the
oug rolling sea. It was v»>ry ro
nanttc.
Hla name wan Henry Rtmond and
>er» Dorothy. Some people liked
w rail her Dorothea.
His arm stole about her waist.
Sha blushed daintily She needn't
lava dona It. but she did. and
llgheil. Just an she had sighed when
iar m*t husband proposed.
Ha unburdened hi* heart. It *»«
k» enchanting, not to aav mnehy at
llmaa.
lie had been a brave officer in j
the British navy, yea, had been dat
om tod with Innumerable medil*
tod tha Victoria cross. He *a« a
vary devil of a hero—bold, notv
rhalant, reckless
Bui ha had a pant Would aha
larnand to Know that. too.
v Vaa, she would.
All right. If he muat tell, ha mint
Ha had been dlacharged. dishon
Drably discharged. from ills brave
|Mt by a board of Jealous officer*
who stripped hla epaulets from hla
ihoulders —while he bore hla un
warranted disgrace like a man.
Now he was Just a noted phv*i
:ian and surgeou
But hla parentage* Ah. It wit*
wonderful, hla father* wooing of
Ilia mother down there In Hindu
*• an' Yea. hia mother waa a Hindu
TQO— t>eautlful as the twilight
n hi* father" He was the Karl
p Howes
There waa a deep shadow banc
ng over him. however. He muat
•II of that, too? Well, then, to I**
ruthful. he waa not their legitl-
Date eon
It waa out. Hla arm waa still
■round her waist, the moonlight
■tilt played across the waves
Would she have him'
Yea! It was their first meeting,
but ahe would
• Bight daya later they were mar-
Had.
Eight daya or less after that she
began to repent
They didn't live together five
month* He beat her- -many time*,
and told afterward he did It only
because he couldn't control hlniaeif
Nevertheless she couldn't stand for
It.
This la the atory substantially as
It waa told by Mrs Dorothy Esmond
In divorce court Friday afternoon.
And Henry's atorlea —the honor
medal, the Victoria cross, hts royal
parentage?
"Ha was a hothead." she de
clared. "addicted to morphine."
POSITIVELY I
-LAST SHOWINGI
I TONIGHT I
■ OF THE GREAT I
Itheda I
M - VAMPIRE ■
I KARA —I
I Clemeoceao I
1 Case I
H Establishing record, H
■ "2 weeks," longest run H
■ of any photoplay in any H
■ photoplay theatre in H
■ Seattle. 3
I Everybody I
I It Talking I
I About It 1
I You See It I
H So you can talk, too. H
11YOUR LASTII
I CHANCE I
I I TONIGHT ||
I It's Upl I
I to You" I
I TOMORROW I
H Triumphant return B
■ engagement H
I NANCE O'NEIL I
■ THEDA BARA ■
■ WM. SHAY 1
■ Count Leo Tolstoi's H
■ wonderful H
■ Kreutzar Sonata I
I FOUR DAYS ONLY I
Colonial
' And yi *i say you were married
once hefoi inquired Judge |{.»I
at on.
Yet on k\" she replied, and
dabbed her nose with a thin lace
han lknrchle
You shou U have known better,"
chlded the c< »urt "Divorce grant
ed."
see
.Mrs, Anna i > Ward was In the
hnblt of going t t» cafe* at night, her
husband. John, I' stifled In getting
his divorce, and one morning thev
brought her horn «' in an auto true*
She had been ou I *11 night, he said
Much of the time lie had to rook hi*
own meals
Kva Ines Drtio V who works to
support herself a* a telephone girl,
got ,t divorce wh Mi *he testified
her husbaud. Kdwa *1 It Mruce.
a private detective , and told her
shortly after their t iirrlace that he
had to spend all his Money "making
a show." He got |1 it) a month anil
all his expense*, her mother said.
• • •
Mrs Nellie lllanc bard of IJIS
Kifthth Ave. said she Was tired pai
ing rent for herself and Kdward,
her husband, and tool I a decree.
• # •
\lleti P Moore got a divorce from
Florence Moore becaur «• stie would
not live In t'alifornla i nil left him
there In l!»n> Alomo .1 Austin, on
the other hand. ti>ok a decree sep
arating him from Viva May Austin
tiecause she insisted on moving to
t'allfornla and went «wi or. even tho
he couldn t aford to sei <1 her.
HERO OF INDIAN
FIGHTS A SUICIDE
Sergt Michael lilattner, hero of
many Indian battle*, lit-* dead In
the county morgue Saturday, a vic
tim of hla own hand. He had be
come old and feeble and hla health
whs fast declining
Htattner's body was found by hia
wife, on her return tci their home
at 40-47 I.atona ave. following a
day of jury duty Blattner had
shot himself thru the head
I'pou conclusion of the Philip
pine campaign, Itlattner *»« hon
orably discharged from service He
was 71 years old
DIMOCK FINDS AID
For the steenth time the Cedar
river dam problem will be thresh
ed over at Monday's session of the
city council.
City Kngineer 1)1 mock, who In
herlted the dam leal* from a prede
cessor. and who recommends a
broadening of the soope of Investi
gation aa a means of effectually
sealing the pervious north bank,
has found supporters In Council
men !>ate and Hants* They will
propose that Dlroock's plan be
adopted, which Include* the spend
ing of 125.000 and the employment
of two experts.
Helnrlch Schmidt. Oakland, wins
first honors In Frisco fair handicap
amateur golf tourney by defeating
M A. Mclaughlin, Pasadena
A Rex Beach
Picture Stoiy
AT THE
Mission Sunday
"With Bridget Burned," a three-part Edi
son drama, from the story of the same
name by Rex Beach, with Mabel Trun
neUe as the devoted wife, and Augustus
Phillips as the husband, half crazed in his
night-and-day race with time against a
powerful conspiracy of grafters. A pow
erful story—a wonderful picture! Be
sure and see it.
LION I HAMS
MATES EASY EATS
A Selig wild animal pic- A Ham comedy— fix
ture, full of thrills ceeds the laugh
and action. "speed limit."
THE ENTIRE
Jv LOWER FLOOR
Mission
FOURTH, PIKE AND UNION
I<ead what the daily papers have to say about the
Movies' (irand Costumed Ball at Hipp, Juuc Ist.
What Movie Theatres Offer for Coming Week
Theda Bara, William Shay and Nance O'Nell, tha three
stare In "Tha Kreutier Sonata" playing a four daya' return
engagement at the Colonial, starting Sunday.
LIBERTY
Liberty theatre patrons will h«ve
a magnificent trout neit week In
the presentation of "After Five," a
modern comedy, founded on tti«
pi«v i>> W in (j *mi (v.-ii mi miiik
Thl* Ih th* flr»t re!*#** of the pl<*
ture production of thl* gr»at play,
which has taken the Ka*t by atorm.
The play tellii a story of Ted
Kwlug, a young New Yorker, wtio
contracts with a lllark Maml tang
to kill him. then renege* thru
a Hidden change of affair*, but
find* that It la Impossible to break
hi* *worn pact with the gangster*
Kwln* enter* Into thl* strange
agreement after losing $50,000 be
longing to Nora lilldreth. hla ward,
by speculation III* object |« to re
Imburse the girl by making her the
beneficiary of hi* life Insurance
policy.
The humorou* complication*
real!) beglu when It develop* that
the money ha* not been I oat. but
doubled. *o that Ted. In*tead of
wishing to die. ha* every rea*ou
Imaginable for wishing to live
"The Rescue of the StcfatiSMili
Ktpedltlon SurvlT er»." in inot'on
picture*, with acene* from Blbcrlh
and the Arctic, close* tonlgh at
the Liberty.
The King and Wing*, n Seattle
boar. operated by lllhbard it ftwe.i
•en. a Seattle firm started In Aptil.
1914. on (be uaual trading trip of
J 1.000 mile*, aklrtlng the lo«er
coaat of Siberia and the Aleutian
Island*, with a aide trip In the
Arctic ocean, taking along a bat
tery of motion picture camera* to
tell the story After they had
regclwd the Siberian coast, repeat
ed niniors of the fate of the Kar
luk, Stefansson's *hlp, caused thrin
to change their course, and nisi.*
the rescue attempt that la shown
In the pictures.
So far the pictures have be«*n
shown to big house*
• • •
MISSION
llow a msn put over a $.1,000,000
deal with JI.OOO and a bunch of
nerve, form* the plot In an unus
ual film offering. With bridge*
Murtied," the Ml«slon's chief attrac-
THE SEATTLE STAR
tlon for Sundav. Mondav and Tnes
day. The author has drawn from
none <>f the hackneyed dramaa. It
I* a ilei Utedly original theme one
that promises big hualne** for the
Fourth Ave house
After borrowing $1,000 from
K"riend Wife, iarals Mitchell salts
for Africa to get the contract or
bust He comes within an ace of
"busting' when a crooked con
tractor learns Mitchells bid la the
lowest of those submitted and re
sorts to trickery to put in a still
smaller figure
Hy strongest chance. Mitchell is
awarded the Job. altho he received
no Intimation of bis good fortune
until after his arrival home, for
which be left Afrb'« almost a ph»s
ical wreck from his earlier disap
pointment
• • •
GRAND
A Hank Mann comedy. "Shaw d
In Mexico," heads a program of five
reela at the tirand. t>eglnnlng oin
day
Mann. who. by the way. deserve
to t>e ranked with the ablest siaie
stick comedians of the da>, appear*
Edna Malson at th« Grand.
an a Metlcan barber In thl* aide
splitting offering. Besides running
the tonaorlal parlor ho la very rocch
In love wttb a girl who I* loved
by many other* There need b><
no great amoiint of plot, tho, for
*h»n Mann appear* |n the leading
role. hi* original actions are enough
to aet the whole honao roaring
Marie Walcamp. the girl who l»
al*a>» taking hazardous rhanr-s
■ tart In "Tho Blood of III* Brother."
a *trong two-part picture Kdn.i
Nlalaon la the principal In '"I I e
Grim Messenger." an eitra l«ro
part attraction.
• 99
SEATTLE
Something novel and something
different I* the promise of the He
attl« theatre management for the
coming week. In which a program
distinctively different from any
staged previously. will he put i n
for four day*. Both motion p!c-
BUS DRIVERS TO JOIN UNION
AND WAGE FIGHT ON S. E. CO.
The unbonded Jitney bu* driver*
may Join organized labor.
At n meeting of tho Automobile
Driver*' aaaoclatlon, Friday night,
at 1610 Third ave., a committee
wan appointed to meet the Central
I.abor council and effect an affilia
tion with tho Teamsters' union
The association haa a member
ship of 200.
The president was authorized to
select u secret committee which
will gather evidence against the 8e
attic Kloctrlc Co. for violation! of
the city ordinances, particularly
the speed ordinance.
After 8. E. Co.
Cnder thin ordinance, street cara
are forbidden to run faster than 12
mile* an hour In the downtown dis
trict and 20 miles In the residence
district*. This ordinance, the driv
ers claim, Im frequently violated by
the street cars.
Deputy sheriffs worn searching
for four Jitney bus drivers against
whom the Heattle Electric Co. him
filed charges of failure to comply
with the bonding law, anil for whom
warrants have been Imued. Two
additional complaint* from the same
sc—A Jitney—sc
with this coupon entitles Oio holder to any seat, matinee or
evenings, at the
GRAND Opera House
Home of first-run photo plays and unequaled vaudeville con
tinuous from noon until 11 p. m
5c 5c
Scene f roce "After Five," a Lastly feature comedy,
starring Edward Abeles, of "B r«<vatsr , s Millions" fame, play
Ing a three days' engagement at th# Liberty, starting Sunday
tufes and vaudeville Will be pre
sented
A mivelty vaudeville program I*
| platgtietf which will Include * num
ber t>f new fm-e* !n Seattle In
aildltfcm to lh«" "»<«levllle,'
f*r«llrnt picture* ate achadtlli'd,
the feature of which la "Tho Ar
i tint a ?Ho<lel," a tw»ict drama.
• • •
COLONIftI
Name O'Nall. Thrda Bara and
William >-iiav wllf plav a return en
gagnment. starting MunOay. at tba
,! Colonial. In the film adaptation of
I Tolstoi's Kreutmr Sonata," a
story of ftcwfan lll»
I'p to tbla w««ek, tbla picture hail
j the record of tjie buuieat run of
any ptrtur* la a .Seattle picture
hotiae. p|a> tug eleven dava at the
j Colonial
It la a |>e<atllar < Irctßnatance that
the pli-ture that broki" thla re. liril
la !»>«' i<la>l'tg It* lhat dat a en
gagniniTit at ttie Coliinlal and fen
turea Theila flaru and William
I Shay. t-wu of tlie |irla« Ipal charac
, tera In the Kmitirr Sonata "
Nafica o Nell la conceded to tie
one irf A inertia a foremoat emo-
I tlonal actreaaea
• • •
CLCMMCR
''Satan Handeraon." In plrCirra
an adaji'atlon of the Ixrik and iilav
of the aame natna. I* the offering
at the Clemmer Htmdv The pu
; ture la In flva part a. «lth ():rln
' Johnaon, the atagi- atar, In the title
I role The plot la too well knoan
to be revlaad here. It I* suffn I' M
to *ay that the plrtur« la Intensely j
dramatic
• a •
CLASS A
I Two of the leading atara of
! movledom. Mary Fuller and Violet
Meaereau. are Hated among the
acreen entertalnera found on the
new Claa* A |«»*r»m, whlrh begin*
Sunday Mjrv FMller la ae«n In "The
Honor of the (trmaby* a three
art drama Mia* Moereiu haa th» j
lead In The Blank Case," alao a
drama
a a a
ALASKA
Man'a Prerogative." a four reel
production, atnrrlng Hubert Ede
■on. with Mary Aldan playing the
feminine lead, open* Sunday at the
Alaska for a three day run.
• • •
Th« neit Famous Player* pro
dttrtlon. Marring Mary Plckford.
will be a version of the fanwiu*
• Irama, "Panrhon the Cricket." anil
| la to be ahown In Seattle during the
neat two week*
Lord lieutenant of Iraland re
ceive* annual salary of $100.00".
Cheeks signed with an electric
pen are ml<| to be proof against
forgery.
sntiro were served Friday. bring
log about the arrest of Prank Hill,
SOfiVj Union at., nnd .la* A Haw
kin*. Arcade hotel. Hoth are held
In the county jail, nnabtn to rnhe
the necessary 1260 hall.
Police Won't Arreet
Those whom the sheriff's office
have not yet been able to round up
are Sam Gray, ir>o« 24th ave.; Ir
ving Gage, mil Denstnore ave.;
Geo. H. Stevens, lfiS 34th N„ and
August Halberg, 1121 ir.th. The
specific charge In operating a motor
vehicle without a permit.
The police department will make
no arresta for bond violations. It
was learned Saturday Mayor GUI
has Instructed Chief i.ang that It Is
not up to the | Mil Ice to gnther evi
dence against bond violators.
MARY FULLE
—In *—
1 I'nrt llrvuvta
"TIIK IIONOII or TIIB ORMftfIYA"
Two Ollirr (•«*<! HMn, ft f*
Nun., M«m., Tuf>«.
Class A Theatre
PROGRAMS
Alhsmbra Ending Sunday Night
"Thirty" t Pram I* Bushman);
The Una Whip," comedy; "An
Arizona Wooing." Western comedy,
"Tha Bouquet," comedy.
• • •
Liberty Ending Tuaaday Night
"After Klva" (Kdward Abel**!
"South America' teducational).
• a •
Colonial Ending Wednead*y Night
"Kreutier Sonata" (Nance
O'Netl. Theda Rata an t Wm Shaj t.
• • •
Grand Ending Tueaday Night
"The Grim Maaaenger" (Kdm
Mal*onl. two part*. "The Blood of
I III* Brother" (Maria Waloamp)
two |iart* Shaved In Mexico"
i Hank Mann i. comedy.
• • •
Alhambra Beginning Monday
'Tbi IUb«l
• • •
Clemmer Ending Tueiday Night
"Satan Handeraon "
• a a
Mi**ion Ending Tuatday Night
"With Bridge* Burned," drama
* • *
Seattle Ending Wedneaday Night
"The Artist * Model" (Violet
McMillan and George Klaherl.
• • •
Class A Ending Tue*day Night
"The Honor of the Onaabva"'
i Mary Puller). 3 part*; The Blank!
Page (Violet Mcaer«aui, The
Chief'* Revenge," comedy; "After
Big Game at Sea." educational.
• • •
Al*»ha Ending Tueaday Night
"Man's Prerogative
Tllihum Beginning Sunday
"The Stool pigeon. "A Wlrple**
Heacue," The Hustle of a Skirt."|
a a •
♦ ♦
RESIDENCE THEATRES
♦ ♦
Queen Anna Tonight
"The old Fug)." thre* reels;
"Path* Weekly"; "Colonel He /a
I.lsr"; "llastua' Habld Rabbit
Hunt."
Sunday—"Mora Than Queen," si*
part* t hand-colored I.
FIGHTING MAY
LAST 5 YEARS,
EUROPE SAYS
Hoy W. Howard, president of the
fnlted Press, back In New York
after a three-month tour of Kng
land, Germany, Russia. Prance, Bel
gium and Italy, today declared:
"Belligerent and neutral In Bur
ope have adjusted their life—na
tional. commercial anil *oc|al —on
the haul* of an Indefinite war. With
thla point of vl«w Kurope—especial
ly France ami Kngland -la dum
founded at America's Insistent
peace talk and her reluctance to
accept the altuatlon aa It exists and
readjust business accordingly.
Expect Five-Year War
"Europe haa accepted the worst
aa a probability— a war of from two
to five veara and at the same time
la prepared to lie happily aurprlacd
should the trouble terminate earlier.
"The Impression la general In
both Kngland and France that a
considerable force la meddling In
this country In the direction of
early peace. Such n movement la
regarded aa an Impertinence
"In purely military circles. It Is
construed us pro-Herman. To sav
that it Is resented is putting It
mildly.
"fence In the near future, on any
basis likely to be acceptable to Ger
many, is unthinkable In France or
England.
• Citizen Army Perfect
"England feels that the ability of
a democracy to rise to an emergen
cy without compulsory military ser
vice la on trial She lias spent nine
months In perfecting a citizen army
that she believes will prove greater
than any professional army, hut she
knows this army must prove her
clßlma for It.
"Statement* that Germany Is tlr
I riß of the war, or wants peace, are
Idle gossip. The German people
are for the war to the last nun,
woman and child."
SOFT FOR ROBERT
NEW YORK, May X Robert Ed
eson, a widely known actor of the
legitimate stage, who recently has
gone Into motion pictures, received
word today he had Inherited a for
tune through the death of his un
cle, Wm. Henry EJesen, estimated
at about 1100,000,
of Re« Beach's "With Bridges Burned." a story of a husband and . t
wife's fight against political grafters at the Mission, starting
Sunday.
SHALL THE BIBLE BE
TAUGHT IN SEATTLE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS?
Will liible study introduced Into 1
the rerrlrulum of Seattle public
school* make every teMcher an in
voluntary law breaker?
Thl* is the question submitted by
the s< hool board to Its rotin*el for
an opinion. i'pc n this opinion de<
|>end* the sciiol bard s action with
rerard to a petition bearing many
signatures, asking that the Ilible
t>e I stir lit In *he schools here along
non *-ctarlan lines.
The state (onstltutlon is vague-
DAPPER YOUNG MAN
HELD AS THIEF
r>api«er and trim In the latest
style cut of clothes, W. H. Marshall.
21. who registered at the Washing
ton hotel at Saturday morn
ing, Is bold by the police on suspi
cion Marshall was seen loitering
In the hallway of the floor where
he had a room. It Is alleged by K
11 fiurtoti. night watchman of the '
hotel, and was inspected of trying
to it't Into neighboring apartment*
At th>' police nation Marshall pro
duced $>>0 In i ash lie says he's a
lineman and has just arrived from
Vancouver. H. C. I
Edward Abeles
Who as "nrewster" in "Brewster's Millions"
made one of the greatest hits of the American
stage, in
"AFTER
FIVE"
A Rapid Fire Comedy
•If A young man, in love with his ward, specu
lates with his own and his ward's money and
loses all. To protect her he insures his life and
hires a Black Hand society to end his life that the
girl might get his insurance money and recoup
her losses. A turn in the market makes them
both rich. His humorous escapes from the plots
to end his life make it a real comedy.
Tonight-Last Times *
"Rescue, Stefans*on Expedition."
If Showing over 7,000 feet of selected motion
pictures taken in a 21,000-mile journey in
Siberia and the Arctic by the Seattle boat,
King and Winge, showing wild animals, na
tives, hunting, herds of reindeer and actual
rescue of Karluk survivors.
LIBERTY
10c— —10c
"Everybody will !>c whistling the movies march
song, "(icing to the Movies Hall," June Ist at Hipp.
lv frank In declaring that "our pub
lic k hools shall be foreevr free
frr-rn sectarian control or Influence,"
bill does not specifically bar the
Blblo from the clasaroom.
The board ha* ordered phygical
examinations for all teachers. Ev
ery applicant must be examined .•>»
to his or her wind and llrnb before
pends the school board's action with
teaching staff. Teacbera now em
ployed mutt also submit to medical
test.
SUNDAY LAW BARS
EVEN FREE SHOWS
TOPICKA, Kan . May 8 —Free
Sunday theaters are under the ban
of the state anti-Sunday labor laws
and the city ordinances based upon
them, according to an opinion of
Judge A. \V. Dana of the Shawnee
county district court delivered la
Topeka today. The case was an ap
peal from the police court in To
peka on the part of a local picture
house owner who has been Riving
free Sunday shows In this city.