The Tacoma Daily Ledger from Tacoma, Washington (2024)

4 4 4 TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921 5 THE TACOMA DAILY LEDGER, SOCIETY NEWS AND NOTES Edited by Evelyn Chantler querade party Mrs. of Will L. August 12. McCormick Inis this affair, which will be giving the night st. vitations for S.

the smartest of the summer at one are going out before of the Interlaaken, week. Mrs. McCormick is ad in compliment to three of the entertaining 03 very charming young Mr. and girls, Mrs. Miss J.

Sally L. Cootes' niece of Carman, Miss Dorothy Alexander, of Mr. and Mrs. H. F.

Alexdaughter and Miss Dick Dempsey, youngS ander, daughter of Mrs. within James a few Dempsey, weeks er who her mother sister for a trip is leaving with abroad. this week not before Society include a luncheon on Frievents the Country Club for which Mrs. announced day at has extended invitations. Robert luncheon Hyde will honor her mother, The U.

Loomis, who is again in TaMrs. make her home after years of L. 0 coma to in Ellensburg. Invitations residence of 20 guests who will a during the afternoon hours. include party At Camp Lewis Friday evening sevplay bridge handsome the dinners marked Club.

One the lat eral week the larger parties was given by Col. end hop at Officers' Petty who entertained Gen. of and Mrs. Duncan, Col. and Mrs.

MorMrs. ris, and Commander Prideau, U. S. Maj. and Mrs.

Chaffin, Mrs. Maj. Seibert, Maj. and Mrs. Cramer, Mrs.

Peake, Capt. and Mrs. Newton Maj. and and Lieut. and Mrs.

Maertens. James and Petty Jr. entertained at the same time for Chaffin, a party Miss Ballantyne and Henry of four, Miss Josephine Duncan. At another handsomely appointed table Capt. and Mrs.

Allen had as guests Maj. and Mrs. Barrows, Mrs. Maj. and Mrs.

Dunnigan, Maj. and Fletcher, Capt. and Mrs. Haynes, Capt. and Mrs.

Hart, Mrs. Gehers of Seattle, Mrs. Woodling of Kansas City, sister ot the hostess; Maj. Struble and Capt. Warren.

Other dinners had as hosts Col. Kerwin and Col. Boster. Receiving for the evening were Mrs. Baxter and Maj.

Beebe. Among week-end hospitalities at the post was an afternoon bridge for which Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Dunnigan dentertained in compliment to a party of 16 friends. Mrs.

Dunnigan was and tennis yesterday at the Tacoma Lawn Tennis Club made 3 1 attractive NEA combination enough to throng the house and grounds on North Tacoma avenue recorded for the smartest assemblies of society folk with one of season has any sports event in town. the time has the clubhouse At no last summer looked more attractively this hospitable, and not year's Pacific tournament have since summer frocks been so pretty girls in fetching in evidence. They were conspicuously green lawns, gallery of the courts and in charming groups on in the on veranda where their colorful the the gowns repeated again and again the bright summer flowers. Indoors the living room was in gala form. Flowall about and the tea tints of ers were table, centered with pastel tinted blossoms, waS handsomely appointed.

Mrs. H. F. 4 Alexander hostess at her home and the guests and Mrs. Grant presided as hostesses, assisted included City, Gehers Mesdames Woodling of KanS.

G. Ellis, Mrs. Paul Savidge of Seattle. Rose, WelHicks by D. Cowles.

Serving Thom, Twitchell. Barrows. Mrs. O. lington, and Mrs.

Peake, Garret, Wood, Tressenberg. sandwiches were a. bevy of O' Cushman, Rourke of the Boylan, '1 Eckert, Hart and tea Thompson, Elizabeth army set. and girls. Jane Staples, Mary Louise One of the handsome dinners Saturyoung Harvey, Eunice Stevens.

as day evening at the Country Club had Jackson and Helen hosts Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Muir. afternoon hostesses for the tea Their guests Col.

and Mrs. David C. Scott Mrs. Mearns, Col. Holcomb.

Col. and Mrs. This al include Mrs. will assisted Petty, Maj. and Mrs.

Inglis, Maj. and John R. Rhodes, Mrs. W. W.

and Mrs. Mrs. Doig, Maj. They Mrs. Peake, Matthews, Maj.

and Mrs. by and Mrs. Edward W. Demar- Tyler, Maj. and Mrs.

Holmes, Capt. Mrs. Seymour to serve include and Mrs. Cramond, Capt. and Mrs.

est. The girls Price, Mr. and Mrs. George Beurhaus, asked Ellis, Dick Dempsey, Maude Mr. and Mrs.

William Beurhaus, Mr. Presley Carroll, Ruth Morrill and Katheryn and Mrs. MeStockler, Miss McStockler, tea the hos- Capt. Edwards and Miss Wilkey of Rhodes. For tomorrow's Philadelphia.

will be Mrs. Cadwallader C. Mrs. Maj. and Mrs.

Riley and Maj. and Lowell T. Murray. Barrows were guests in the tesses Mrs. which Mr.

and Mrs. arty Corse tennis, which to Edward W. Demand After the week's arest entertained at dinner. is number of delightful things, Saturday was very gay at the Inglethe annual Tournament Ball side offer a including Gardens. There were many prisociety in the younger vate parties for dinner, joined later Friday evening, forward to the mas- by others from town and Camp Lewis set will be looking for dancing.

LEAVING FOR MILLS COLLEGE Miss Agnes DePuy, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Hiram DePuy, and Miss Lucile Skinner, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Skinner, are completing preparations to enter Mills College. The two girls graduated, together in June from the Stadium High school and will enter Mills College at the same time.

Mrs. DePuy is leaving for San Francisco next week to accompany her daughter and Miss Skinner and to see them comfortably settled at school for the opening semester. RETURN FROM SUMMER TOUR Mr. and Mrs. A.

K. Johnson, Mrs. Marguerite Gallaher and and Mrs. Clarke Johnson returned last week from a tour by motor through eastern Washington, Oregon and California. The party was away two weeks and visited, after leaving Spokane, Hayden Lake in Idaho.

Crater Lake and Mount Shasta Springs. En route home via Portland they stopped lat Seaside, the popular Oregon ocean beach. RECOVERS 8 FROM ILLNESS After following a serious attack of bronchitis, her trip early last to Pacific Beach. Mrs. R.

A. McCormick is convalescent at the family home at Interlaaken. Following their usual custom, Mr. and Mrs. McCormick will go to California for the autumn and winter.

They expect to leave the first of September for Los Angeles, where they have a winter home, recently completed, in one the fashionable boulevard districts of the city. ARE HERE ON HONEYMOON Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Kennard have as house guests for several weeks family cousins, Mr. and Mrs.

George Jochem of Peoria, who are touring the Pacific Coast on their honeyThey arrived recently from California on a first visit to Puget Sound and are enjoying a quiet visit at the Kennard home after the heat and dust of Southern travel. Both are delighted with the climate and beauty of Tacoma. Mrs. Jochem, a charming Southern girl. was Miss Lucy Prichard of Mannington, W.

where her marriage was celebrated in June. She is a graduate of Ogontz and was later a student specializing a in music at the fashionable Miss Somer's School in Washington, D. C. For the pleasure of the visitors Mrs. Kennard's friends a are entertaining this week with several attractive affairs.

Mrs. Roger E. Chase Jr. has invited them to University Place for Thursday evening, where they will be guests of honor at a beach supper party. Friday they will enjoy a drive up the McCleilan Pass with Mrs.

Edwin L. Carlsen as hostess. For the week-end and Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Schrup are planning a motor party to Hoods Canal.

Last Friday Mr. and Mrs. Jochem and the Kennards were guests for a pleasant outing at Wollachet, arranged by Mrs. Schrup at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Hubbard. who have an attractive country place on the bay. LUNCHEON FOR BRIDE-TO-BE Complimenting Miss Inez Day, whose wedding will be celebrated this week, Mrs. Benjamin Snyder entertained Friday with a luncheon at her home on Division avenue. Invitations included family friends of Miss Day, who are especially interested in her happiness.

BOSTON SHOE SHOP 924 Broadway QUALITY BOOT SHOP 11th and Commerce -Rust Bldg. Featuring Edwin Clapp and J. T. Cousins Shoes Buster Brown Shoe Store 1123 Broadway CHERRY'S CLOTHES on CREDIT FURS OF QUALITY-LOWEST PRICES R. W.

Drew Upstairs Take -11th the and Elevator Broadway STOP AND SHOP at Lyon's Sample Shop 1126 Broadway EASY CREDIT TERMS HAIG FURNITURE CO 1137 BROADWAY ROCK DELL PORK AND BEANS are BAKED JUST RIGHT VERY SPECIAL )-Pound Tin Rogers' Auto Club Coffee for 90c Haering's Grocetorium Prescriptions Our Specialty HOYT'S NEW DRUG STORE 911 Broadway A.M. MAN BURNETT BROS? TACOMA'S LEADING JEWELERS 934 BROADWAY Cr Andrews To. (Women's Apparel Novelties in WAISTS AND BLOUSES 923 Broadway STEINWAY, AND OTHER PIANOS PIANOLA PIANOS, VICTROLAS and RECORDS EASY TERMS Sherman Clay Ca 928-30 Broadway, Tacoma. FURS! FURS! FURS! FURS! RICHMOND FUR CO. 1130 BROADWAY RUGS AND DRAPES CLEANING PANTORIUM MAIN DYE 2845 WORKS Silvers Diane Cal "The Best 1307 Place to Broadway Buy a Piano' Tacomas Nome Ownect Music.

Store TODAY'S EVENTS FOR TACOMA Washington Automotive Trade Association convention. Commercial sessions at 9 a. m. and 2 p. In.

Club. Tacoma Kiwanis Club. weekly luncheon. Commercial Club. Children's Industrial Home board, Tacoma Hotel.

10 a. m. Woman's Clubhouse Association board, 10:30 a fin. clubhouse. completed the luncheon party.

VISITORS RETURN TO YAKIMA The table, with covers for 11. had a lovely center decoration of marigolds and Shasta daisies softened with the delicate bloom of baby-breath. Invited for the afternoon were Miss Day, her sister. Mrs. W.

R. Strachan, Mrs. Frank H. Balcom of Mrs. E.

P. Wilson, Mrs. Gailen Grandview, Brown, Mrs. Guy Sheldon, Mrs. Sheldon Mrs.

A. Hamelin. Miss Isabel Hicks. Mrs. S.

Sheldon and Miss Ruthetta Schallebarger of Muscatine, a summer visitor. The hostess' young daughter, Miss Nilmah Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. James V. Monroe and little daughter Mollie, who have been visiting in Tacoma several weeks, left by motor Friday morning for their home in Yakima.

They were guests here of Mrs. Monroe's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder, and of Judge and Mrs. William H.

Snell and of Mrs. Harbine Monroe. Mrs. Monroe before her marriage was Miss Mary Snyder, Tacoma girl, very well known in SOciety circles. EXPECTED HOME TONIGHT Mrs.

Frank Hale. accompanied by. her young daughter Frances, is expected home tonight from the East. They have been visiting in New York, Washington. D.

and Atlantic City the past two months. MRS. APPLEBY HERE Mrs. Stephen, Appleby arrived last evening Portland to be with her mother, Mrs. Nelson Bennett.

at the Ansonia until Mrs. Bennett removes to her new home. Incidentally, Mrs. Appleby, who is a great social favorite in Tacoma, will share in the gaiety of tournament weex at the Tennis Club. RETURNS FROM PORTLAND Mrs.

Loomis has returned from Portland and is with her son-in-law and daughter, the Robert Hydes, at Gravelly Lake. DELIGHTFUL MOTOR JOURNEY Warren Brown Jr. and Marc W. Graff are at home after a summer tour of California. They returned Saturday evening with Dr.

and Mrs. Warren Brown, enthusiastic over the splendid highways and scenic beauty of the trip. On the way home their journey from Portland was by way of the Columbia River Highway to Walla Walla, thence through Southwestern Washington to Tacoma through the Snoqualmie Pass. Dr. Brown, well known among Tacoma physicians as a specialist medicine and dermatology, joined his family for the journey home at Los Angeles, following a stay of six weeks in the East.

He attended the American Medical Association meeting Boston and later visited the larger New York hospitals for special work in clinics. the TOURING PARTY RETURNS A party of Tacomans who have been touring California the past month returned home Saturday evening after a very delightful and successtul trip. The personnel included Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Metzger, Mr.

and Mrs. R. E. Mahaffey, and Mrs. E.

F. Freeman, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Stebbins and two out-of-town girls, Miss Bell of Wisconsin and Miss Burr of Spo.

kane. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Metzler, who accompanied the party on The journeying down the Coast, returned at a different time. On the way home the motorists visited Crater Lake.

RETURN FROM VACATION TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Perry of 2211 North Cedar street are at home after a delightful two weeks vacation in California. They made the trip to San Francisco by boat and from there visited relatives and friends in Eureka and other places about the state.

On the way home Mr. and Mrs. Perry stopped for several days in Portland. They returned to Tacoma Sunday on the Shasta Limited. Mrs.

Perry is one of the popular young secretaries at the downtown headquarters of the Young Women's Christian Association. WEEK-END IN DEL MONTE Mr. and Mrs. Earl Clifford, who are away on a motor tour of California, were in Del Monte Saturday. They have had pleasant traveling with the exception of extreme heat while passthrough the valley of the Sacramento.

The first thousand miles of their journey was made without the delays which ordinarily attend a motor trip of any distance. The Cliffords are expected home by the end of this week. ARRIVE FROM DENVER Mr. and Mrs. David W.

Houston of Denver, are visitors in Tacoma, yesterday afternoon for a fortnight's stay. They guests of Mrs. Houston's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. M.

D. Boland OL North Anderson street. Mrs. W. W.

Patterson, mother of! Mrs. Boland and Mrs. Houston, is also visiting at the Boland home and may remain for the winter. AT "FAR-AWAY" Dr. and Mrs.

Edgar F. Dodds returned yesterday with their young daughter Frances from a delightful week- end visit at the beautiful summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDermott at Long Branch. LEAVES FOR SPOKANE Miss Charity Rowell of Spokane, the guest since last week Mrs.

A. E. Braden, left yesterday morning for her home in Eastern Washington. DES MOINES FRIENDS EXPECTED Judge and Mrs. Miles L.

Clifford are expecting shortly for a visit of several weeks an old college and law chum of the judge's. Joseph Peasley of Des Moines, who is en tour of the Pacific Coast, accompanied by Mrs. At Each Meal Serve MATTHAEI' HONEY BREAD It's Delicious and Healthful. AYVAD'S WATER- WINGS PLAIN FANCY 888 FOR SALE EVERYWHERE. LEARN TO SWIM NOW GUARANTEED BY AYVAD MFG.

HOBOKEN N-3 DEEP. SEA AQUARIUM STEILACOOM A wonder ful collection from the sea. Live animal flowers. TUESDAY SPECIAL 25c Pies 20c 30c Pies -25 FEDERAL BAKERIES Chapeau Decorated With Beads Latest From Paris Strings of are attached to a new hat just launched at a Paris race course, with curious effect. The model is of black straw, with upturned ear flaps and a high.

stiff crown shaped like a Russian diadem, with a jet ornament of a conspicuous make set above the brow. The necklaces of jet are passed around the hat and lall from the ear pieces upon the wearer's I breast. Peasley. They are now in Los Angeles and have planned to come north tO Puget Sound within a fortnight. Mr.

and Mrs. Peasley were in Tacoma three years ago, guests at the Clifford home. JUNIOR AD CLUB The Girls Junior Advertising Club meets tomorrow evening in the club rooms downtown. P. C.

Smith, advertising manager of the Stone-Fisher Company, has been engaged by the club for an address. At the business session a name and managers for the club paper will be chosen. JOINS WIFE IN TACOMA Isaac Hartzell of Youngstown, arrived Sunday evening to join Mrs. Hartzell, who has been the guest of her sister. Mrs.

James Pincus, for the past month. They will remain until the autumn. DINNER AT NEW HOME Miss Lucy S. Lamson, supervisor of music in the grade schools of Tacoma, entertained informally at dinner Saturday evening at her new home on South 46th street. Among the guests was Mrs.

W. A. Chamberlin of Waseca, a summer visitor in Tacoma, BOARD MEETS TODAY The board of the Children's Industrial Home meets this morning at 10 o'clock at the customary place. CLUBHOUSE MEETING TODAY The officers and directors of the Woman's Clubhouse Association will have an important business meeting this morning in the clubhouse. IN SEATTLE Miss Emily Nettleton went to Seattle yesterday to remain until after the Sharples-Lewis wedding on August 10, at which she will be one of the bride's attendants.

BIG CIVIC WELCOME TO HUGH WALLACE AT NOON TOMORROW A public welcome will be tendered Hugh C. Wallace, former ambassador to France. who returned to Tacoma July 24, by the Members' Council of the Tacoma Commercial Club tomorrow noon, it was announced yesterday by Dr. Edgar C. Wheeler, president of the council.

Mayor C. M. Riddell will deliver the address welcome and Mr. Wallace will be introduced by Judge O. G.

Ellis. The former ambassador will respond briefly and Robert Montgomery of Puyallup will give the principal address. Those who have been invited to sit at the speakers' table are H. A. Rhodes, Judge George T.

Reid. John S. Baker, J. T. S.

Lyle, Charles H. Hyde, Chester Thorne, Maj. Everett G. Griggs, Frank S. Baker and several high officers from Camp Lewis.

Music will be furnished by the orchestra from the Ingleside Sunken Gardens. ONLY THREE KICKS ON TAX ASSESSMENTS Equalization Board Adjourns to Friday County Commissioner James R. O' Farrell was named chairman of the Pierce county board of equalization in its first session yesterday in the county auditor's office. Only three applications for reduced assessments were made at the opening board meeting and members adjourned until Friday at 2 o'clock. The three applications, entered 'by George Svidron.

W. A. Maltman and J. J. McCready, were taken under advisement.

The personnel of the board of equalization this year is identical with. that of last year. its membership consisting of County Commissioners W. E. Williams, James R.

O' Farrell, F. R. Easterday, County Treasurer George Meath, County Assessor Harry Austin and City Commissioners Fred Shoemaker, Ira S. Davisson and Jesse W. Silver.

COURT REVERSES CONVICTION SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. of Fred Peterson at Portland on a charge of conspiracy to make and alter war savings certificates. was reversed today by the United States circuit court of appeals and remanded to the district court for a new trial. The appellate court held that there was no evidence of conspiracy. Peterson was sentenced to two years at McNeil's Island penitentiary.

STRIKERS RETURN TO WORK ROCHESTER, N. Y. Aug. eral thousand building construction workers who have been on strike here since April 1. returned to work today without waiting for a decision on the new wage schedules being considered by the arbitration board recently appointed.

FLEET SAILS FOR MANEUVERS NEW YORK, Aug. portion of the Atlantic fleet. which has been anchored in the Hudson river, today steamed off to Southern drill grounds for three weeks maneuvers. Marriage Licenses George Strobel Jr. and Martha Boyne of Tacoma.

C. E. La Vassar of Grand Rapids, and Alma Niemier of Seattle. H. O.

Eaton of Spokane and Flavie M. Gertz of Seattle. Ernest Wright of Vaughn and Nina Lacky of Glen Cove. Rev C. Shaw of Chicago and Winona Brubaker of Tacoma.

Seen at the Hotels Report Greater Activity in Lumber Market During Past Few Weeks A decided activity 111 the lumber market 1S reported by John R. MeMillan, lumberman OI Portland, who registered at the Tacoma. Accord1S to Mr. McMillan, there have been a ing number of large purenases made 111 the Northwest during the past few weeks and in all sections of the Northwhere he has been visiting, he west, the lumbermen report heavier says, sales. it is true that more lumber is being bought now than a month ago, it does not mean that there is any improvement in the price," said Mr.

MeMillan. buyers seem to come from the Southern section of the United States where construction work is being pushed. Southern California is also in the market for fir and spruce and some large orders have been received from that section by Portland lumbermen during the past week." Mr. McMillan is on his way to Vancouver, B. where he will spend several days before returning to Portland.

Rev. S. S. Sulliger of Kent, who for four years was a resident of Tacoma. is spending two weeks in the city with his main object to enjoy the beauties of Point Defiance Park, a thing he never found the opportunity to do when he lived here.

With Mrs. Sulliger he is staying at the Berkshire. Rev. Mr. Sulliger is known to thousands of men all over the state through his many years service as chaplain of the old '2d Washington Infantry.

He held the rank of major in the National Guard. The following tourists left yesterday for Mt. Tacoma: William Gratz of New York, Miss A. Wilson of Portland. Gus Engquist of Bellingham, Mrs.

Ruth N. Hurd of Bellingham, M. P. Hollingsworth of Portland, Miss M. Martin of Seattle, Mr.

and Mrs. M. K. Harris of Fresno, J. M.

Ely Kennewick, Miss Helen G. Bryans of Philadelphia, Y. Marshall and E. Purdy of Los Angeles and B. Y.

Irish of San Antonia, Texas. John Nelson of Hoquiam registered at the Olympus yesterday. Mr. Nelson is a hotel man of Hoquiam. John R.

Franklin of Wenatchee was among the arrivals at the Donnelly yesterday. Mr. Franklin is a farmer in that section of the state and says that fruit crops are going to break all records this year. Mrs. J.

M. Fredrick of Aberdeen arrived in Tacoma yesterday to few days with relatives and friends here. Mrs. Fredrick registered at the Olympus. L.

H. Lockman, who is a business man of Chicago, is among the guests at the Tacoma. Frank C. Elwin of North Bend was among the arrivals at the Olympus yesterday. Mr.

Elwin is a business man of North Bend and is on his way to California where he expects to spend several weeks. BISHOP PLACES CORNERSTONE OF NEW CHURCH Ground Is Broken for $25,000 Central Methodist Edifice Ground was broken and the cornerstone laid for the new Central Methodist. Episcopal church at the corner of 21st and South streets in dedicatory services conducted last night by Bishop W. O. Shepard of Portland, resident bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

The services were atand members and friends of the odist pastors to of the Tacoma district tended by large number of the Methchurch. The new church when completed will cost $25,000. Building of the edifice at this time was made possible by a gencrous appropriation of centenary funds from the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. The church is looked up as a home missionary enterprise by the Methodist churches of the Tacoma district. from which the building program has already received considerable support.

The new building will be modern in all respects, including all necessary class rooms and gymnasium. A special feature of the plant will be an enlargement of the present industries," with a separate building constructed eventually, to house this enterprise of the church. The program last night was in charge of the Rev. H. W.

Michener, pastor of the church, and the Rev. D. Roland Martin, D. superintendent of the Tacoma district. Bishop Shepard spoke at the close of the dedication services.

TWO YOUNG WOMEN TO ANSWER CHARGE Accused of Grand Larceny in Passing Checks Information charging Mrs. M. Warner and Miss Mildred Williams of Sumner with grand larceny will be filed in superior court this morning by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney J. A. Sorley.

They will probably he arraigned on that charge today. A passion for pretty clothing led the two women to pass bad checks upon several Tacoma concerns. they declared Saturday when taken into custody by the police. The information specifically charges Mrs. Warner with passing a wortnless check for $30 in the name of Miss Williams on Feist Bachrach and 1 separate information alleges that Miss Williams passed a check for 220 cn the Pair House Dry Goods Company with full knowledge that she did not have funds to back it.

Both checks were drawn on the Tacoma Savings Bank Trust Company. The women live at Sumner, where Mrs. Warner's husband is' employed on a ranch and Miss Willams AS the daughter of the ranch foreman. Both ale young. FORMER GOVERNOR BETTER ALBUQUERQUE, N.

Aug. Frederick D. Gardner, former governor of Missouri, who was taken to a hospital here yesterday from a passenger train on which he was traveling to California, Was somewhat improved today, according to physicians. FAIL TO IDENTIFY DEAD MAN COEUR D'ALENE, Aug. An autopsy to be held today in an effort to shed light on the death of an unidentified man whose body, shot through the head and with a sack of bricks tied about the neck by a rope, was found yesterday by cottagers in four feet of water in Casco Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene, about a mile and a half from this city.

MANY KILLED AND INJURED NEW YORK. Aug. -At least seven persons were killed and many seriously injured in severe electrical and wind storms that swept various sections of the country yesterday and Saturday night. Four of the deaths were attributed to lightning. AUTO TIRE BLINDS MAN LANCASTER.

Aug. -Robert Doll, a farmer, was seriously hurt. and probably will be permanently blind as the result of the explosion of an automobile tire. DON'T WANT YAP MENTIONED TOKYO, Aug. Speaking to the Japanese Immigration Society here today Marquis Okuma, former Japanese foreign minister, insisted upon the undesirability of bringing up settled questions at the forthcoming conference and said the discussion of the questions on Tap and Shantung could not be tolerated The Screen and Stage "Irene" Tuneful Success Two seasons' anticipation of "Irene" was not sufficient to build up hopes In the breasts of Tacoma theater lovers which not be fulfilled by the cast that presented the musical comedy at the Tacoma Theater last night.

The vivacious comedy was all and more than reports bore westward. With the chuckling, humming and admiring audience that turned from the playhouse after the final curtain last night, it looks as if mid-summer could prove no drawback to the three-night engagement. On the metamorphosis of the chattering shopgirl to Fifth Avenue society by grace of gladsome raiment and a young millionaire is built the story. The musical score, superior to the musical comedy standard of the past few seasons, loses none of its attraetion by its familiarity. Dale Winter is as charming as the Cinderella of the fairy tale and in her modern Cinderella role is as radiant.

mischievous and alluring as any heroine of the imagination. Added to her sprightliness witchery of manner. Miss Winter brings to the part of Irene O' Dare a voice exceedingly pleasant and a romping sort of dancing ability. For support Miss Winter has some worthy material. Chief among them is the rollicking trio.

the modiste and his two manikins. Jere Delaney takes the part of Mme. Lucy and he and his pair of comediennes are the signal for 111- stant hilarity. The Irish mother who sallies forth to interrupt the garden party, where her daughter is the belle, is worthy of mention. The prince charming of the Cinderella plot is a sufficient background for the dazzling Irene to flit before.

Besides Dale Winter and the teasing tunes of the musical comedy, there are the gowns of the chorus to be tioned. Praise to James Montgomery. 'He burst away from the inevitable fashion revue and had his chorus gowned in tasty style with wide variation as to design but of a single and contemporaneous period. "Alice Blue Gown' and "Irene" are most popular of the musical numbers but any one of them is sufficiently catchy to lurk in the tuneful mind. The engagement closes Wednesday evening.

Passing of Hoakum By Mildred Whitcomb "The 'commercial' motion picture as we have known it for the past five years is in the throes of dissolution, and within two years will have ceased to be. A few will be made this year. and id there are several on the shelves of the various studios yet to be released, but they will have brief E. vogue and their fade out will be rapid." So says Production Manager Will M. Ritchey of the Rockett Film Corporation, in answer to the question: "What is the future of the motion picture? "The creative epoch of cinema evolution." Mr.

Ritchey says, "has dawned, and there will never be a return to the old hoakum of the obvious and the artificial. We are going to have pictures that both educate and entertain -that are built with a purpose. "That parrot cry, 'Give the people what they is born of a fallacy. We are going to give the people what they should have, and they will quickly respond by liking it and thus be lifted to higher ideals. "The motion picture an educational quite as much as entertain 'an ment medium and one of its functions is therefore to create a demand for better things.

"Educating the picture-going public to like better pictures is a selling proposition pure and simple. Show them the better line of goods and they will buy for the American people like the best the market affords in any line, but before you can make them buy a better thing, you've got to create "You have often heard producers say: 'We're not going to spend money educating the but after 10 years of experience in all departments of motion picture production I am convinced that the future greatness of the cinema lies in its educational function and an avalanche of gold awaits those producers who will pioneer in giving the public the kind of pictures they should have in order that they may learn to like them. moving picture must do its part by building pictures from stories that tell the tale of human life. and human nature, the highest type of which may be found in the Biblelike the stories of Joseph and David and scores of And in the great classics of Short Reels Gladys Leslie, former Vitagraph star. has signed as leading woman for Houdini in that star's second production for his own producing company, Houdini Picture Corporation.

The picture, temporarily titled "Haldane of the Secret a special feature, made from another original story by Houdini, goes into production this week. Houdini's first Man From Beyond," just finished. Leopold Godowsky, the pianist, has completed the recording of the famous waltz song from which "The Last Waltz." the Oscar Straus operetta, at the Century Theater. New takes its name, for the Ampico reproducing piano. Pearl White.

having returned from Europe, is studying the script of a new production, which she will start at the New York studio in the near future. Educational will release early in August the first of a series of unique one-reel novelties called Sketchografs. Each will tell a. story in the moving pictures showing the actual drawing of the pictures. Julian Ollendorff, the producer and artist, manipulates a motion picture camera with his jeft hand while he draws the sketches with his right hand.

is the first Sketchograf of the series. It tells the story. in humorous sketches, of the development ball playing from the earliest days of the national pastime, based on a thorough study of the history of the game made by Mr. Ollendorff. Estelle Taylor, having finished her latest picture at the Pox New York studio, is taking a few weeks' vacation in the Adirondacks.

The Fox featured player is. to make two more productions before Christmas. Goldwyn announces the purchase of the screen rights of "His Back Against the Wall." a farce comedy by Frederick Faust. better known under his pen name of John Frederick. "His Back Against the Wall," which will go into production in the near future.

is 2 story of an East Side tailor and western bad man which affords screen material. Just who will play the role of the meek and humble individual whom circumstances make appear a new Jesse James in daring, has not been determined. Report that William Russell is in New York on vacation is wrong. according to the Fox office. Russell has just started work at Hollywood in at production based on the novel, "The Lady From by Victor Bridges, the English author.

Corinne Griffith. Vitagraph star. has gone on location again to film shacks and buildings to get atmosphere for the homes of workingmen, who participated in the building of a half mile of railroad track for use in her new picture. "The Single Track," by Isabel Ostrander. This picture is being directed by Webster Campbell.

Henry B. Walthall, male star of the far famed "Birth of a Nation," heads the big cast of Flower of the North," the special production which Vitagraph is filming under the direction of David Smith. Pauline Starker co-stars with Mr. Walthall. The picture is an adaptation of one of the best-known stories of James Oliver Curwood, whose tales of the North have made him famous.

CURRENT BILLS AT LEADING THEATERS COLONIAL- Arbuckle in Traveling Salesman." PANTAGES- Vaudeville. RIALTO -Anna Q. Nilsson in "The Oath." VICTORY- Man's Plaything." Footlights Versus the Photoplay BY OLIVER MOROSCO Which requires more of the actorthe screen or the stage? With the growing discrimination between acting and action, I believe that the searching rays of the projecting machine demand finer artistry than the glare of the footlights. The screen actor has more to "get over." The contemptuous estimate of the younger art is softening under the intelligence being applied to the screen drama. Admitting that "panning pictures" is still a popular pastime much in the same fashion that the automobile was the conventional joke, the silent drama is undeniably making rapid strides.

It should, there is room for improvement, is an obvious retort. Granting this, too, the fact remains that it is. Pictures, relying so much upon mechanics, have progressed only as the science oL photography, electrical lighting and physical arrangement permitted. Years have been spent in developing the tools of the art. It is natural therefore that there should have been a striving for spectacle and "effects" to the neglect of the drama itself.

But today the pictures are swinging back to the "story" with dramatic values given their proper relations in the progressive pyramiding. And to visualize the drama, a new school of acting and direction is coming to the screen. The first idea that there must be action, action, action, is giving way to the demand for acting, acting and still better acting. We see a new subtlety instead of obvious pantomine. More confidence is reposed in the audiences' mentality because the picture makers themselves have more confidence in their own ability to portray instead of diagram.

Good picture quality stories are the keenest need of the screen. The SOcalled "screen literature" may not have kept pace with the development of the mechanical and acting branches. I believe that the expansion of stage plays of the right come the nearest to the solution at present. This has been proved by the notable successes based upon adaptations and the remarkably high prices that have been paid for picture rights to footlight classics. THREE ACTS SHARE HONORS ON PAN BILL THIS WEEK Honors are even at.

Pantages this week between Jarvis' Whirl of Mirth, Poole's Melody Maids and Senator Murphy, according to the vaudeville taste. For good fun Will Jarvis and Roe Reaves. aided and abetted by a group of four pretty girls who can warble well. take the prize. For sheer beauty, not only of music, but of staging and costuming.

the melody maids top the card and when an act is measured by laughs alone the senator is the favorite. It is toppy vaudeville all the way. Jarvis and Reaves have been here before and their pungent comedy always puts them over. This season they gathered together four girls with beautiful voices and had a production built. Handsomely staged and gowned it is excellent divertisement.

The melody maids play violins entrancingly. Likewise they dress quite up to the minute and they have a stage setting that is a dream. The whole arrangement of the act is well night perfect. Murphy, with his observations on political and economic conditions, is as big a riot as ever. all because his lines are new and he knows how to put them over.

His sharp wit goes over with a bang. Judson Cole is a trickster but he does not rely on his conjuring alone to put him over. He has a line of chatter with his tricks that sparkles with good fun. Teck Murdock is long and lean and a natural dancer. With him is Iris Kennedy, who is a half portion dancer and singer.

They are a lively pair. Baggett and Sheldon, youth and girl, open the show with Indian clubs which they swing with abandon. The picture program consists of a Harold Lloyd comedy and a screen review showing interesting places and events. SELECT PRODUCTION OPENS AT VICTORY She didn't belong among refined people, they sneered. And they even doubted her virtue until in the crisis of another woman's life she proved to be a thoroughbred.

"Man's a Select drama, is the title of the feature opening today at the Victory Theater. It is declared a very high class production, abounding in tense scenes. Adding to the entertaining qualities of the program will be in Strong." two-reel De Luxe comedy, and "When the Earth Rocks," scenic. FILM COLONY PLAN VETERANS' REUNION Two hundred members of the Hollywood film colony are aiding in arranging entertainment for the reunion of the 91st Division to be held in Los Angeles September 24 and 25. They are members of Hollywood Post, American Legion, most of whose membership is recruited from the film industry.

All of the prominent film stars are expected to appear at regimental and company banquets to be held on the night of Saturday, September 24. Trips through the studios are being arranged. Rialto- the Oath" "The Oath." the R. A. Walsh production for First National, which will be shown for the last times tonight at! the Rialto.

contains a scene that has been hailed by critics as beig one of the most dramatic ever staged. A series of fast moving, interesting circumstances has involved Hugh Colman in a situation where his convietion for murder is absolutely certain unless he breaks an oath given to his wife when he has secretly married. But there is another woman whom he has loved. Although her love has been given to his dearest chum, she makes the greatest sacrifice a woman can make to save Hugh from the gallows, and succeeds. The tangled net that results from her action in the lives of four persons provides an absorbing baritone soloist: Scholl on the Wurlitzer, Pathe News, Literary Digest and a Toonerville Trolley comedy are additional features.

Colonial Traveling Salesman" That there is virtue in a poker game is demonstrated in Fatty Arbuckle's latest Paramount picture, "The Traveling current attraction at the Colonial Theater. The hero lures the villain into the game, gets him intoxicated and makes him talk. The man discloses his plans to swindle the girl out of her valuable property, and Fatty, as the hero. balks his game. This famous poker game, which was one of the funniest spots of the stage play, is a real high light in the picheads a strong supporting company.

The accompaniment is played on the Wurlitzer by Hazel Holland. Additional features include a Mutt and Jeff cartoon, Kinograms and a comedy. MIRIAM COOPER CONWAY TEARLE ANNA NILSSON "The Oath" RIALTO FATTY ARBUCKLE "The Traveling Salesman" COLONIAL MEA GRACE DAVISON MONTAGU LOVE STUART HOLMES in Man's Plaything" To a false friend she was true, and to a true friend false. VICTORY MOORE VON TACOMA THEATER The Smart Musical Comedy IRENE COMPANY OF 60 AND AUGMENTED ORCHESTRA Lower Floor $2.50 $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 Plus Tax PANTACES VAUDEVILLE JARVIS' WHIRL OF MIRTH SENATOR MURPHY HAROLD LLOYD COMEDY OTHER ACTS SAYS "WAYFARER" NOT COMMUNITY, BUT COMMERCIAL Seattle Pageant Took in. About May Try Other Cities SEATTLE, Aug.

production of Wayfarer" in Seattle last week was not a community proposition but a "commercial" proposition it developed today. The Wayfarer Society will retain in a "trust fund" half of the net profits obtained from approximately 100.000 admissions to the big pageant last week, announced today by Edgar L. Webster, general manager, of the the society society. has Mr. the right Webster to use this "trust fund" to stage the pageant in any city that it selects or in several different cities of the United States the same year, if it.

chooses to do so. He said the Wayfarer is a "commercial proposition. The Wayfarer Society, owners of. the production, are not bound in any way, Mr. Webster said, to make the big pageant strictly a Seattle affair.

He said Dr. James E. Crowther, author of the huge spectacle, has now no itterest in it whatever and had not had since it was taken over by the stock company weeks before its production here. The seven performances of the pageant which drew people from all over the Northwest. brought in anproximately $125,000 gross, Mr.

Webster said. The members of the SOciety who went on notes for the sum necessary to produce the pageant and purchase it have been paid for the money advanced. he said. The Wayfarer Society's contract with the Students' Association for use of the Stadium was a rental of $500 a night for the seven nights, and division of the net proceeds half and half, said Mr. Webster.

In addition to the $3,500 rental the Stadium Assojation will receive "approximately $15,000 or $20.000" as its share in the net proceeds, said Mr. Webster. More than 6.000 Seattle men. women and children. considering it a privilege to serve in the cause of religion and community achievement that they believed the pageant represented, gave their time absolutely free.

They rehearsed for 14 weeks. during which time they even paid their own car fare and spent their money for the necessary books containing the words and music to the pageant, and foro ther incidental expenses. TONIGHT and every evening. Dancing, Dinners, Lunches, Fountain Service. Alder Beach Manor Telephone Main 42 DES MOINES, WASH.

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