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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1919
Page
8
Funeral held for Franklin E. Adair 31 son of I J Flair president of the Northwestern State Bank after a highway crash. He died Sunday at Burlington hospital where he had been treated. survived by widow and 5 year old son.
War Department released revised AEF casualty figures: 35 959 killed in action 14 760 dead from wounds 23 840 died of disease 51 212 died of other causes 90 827 wounded severely 80 483 wounded slightly 34 380 wounded degree undetermined and 1 585 missing in action.
Theater and film page listing multiple titles and stars such as Clara Kimball Young in The Better Wife and Priscilla Dean in The Exquisite Thief. It catalogs comedy shorts and travelogue features across Liberty, Strand, Ford, and other weeklies with names like Harold Lloyd, Irene Castle, Anita King, and extras in assorted reels.
Clara Kimball Young stars in The Better Wife at the Coliseum to England set romance with a titled suitor. Pauline Frederick appears in The Fear Woman at Clemmer with a dramatic sleeve restraint scene. Irene Castle shines in The Firing Line at the Strand, based on Robert W. Chambers novel. George Walsh headlines Putting One Over at the Mission. Margaret Fisher leads Trixie from Broadway in the new snow. Gladys Leslie features in Too Many Crooks at the Colonial. Vivian Taylor embodies peasant disguise in Mistaken Identity segments.
Actress Peggy Hyland after finishing Cowardice Court adapts two pigs for her Hollywood backyard menagerie. Her pets include two Airdales an English bulldog 40 chickens eight ducks two Angora cats six cockatoos 20 doves and a six month old cinnamon bear cub that all get along well.
Vivian played by Anita King and Stafford by Percy Pem anchor a gala at the Class A theatre as the 400 gather at Vanderflip dinner with 90 percent of town diamonds on display. Blue Jean Billie, played by Rex, secures entry with Old Man Colt's son Automatic. Priscilla Dean stars as Blue Jean Billie at the Colonial.
After reviewing nearly a thousand plays and books, Fox Film selects Tiger's Cub by George Potter as Pearl White’s film vehicle. White plays Mary the cub daughter of Hank Bloss the tiger in the London Garrick production first staged 1915 to 1916. The work was later novelized by George Goodchild.
Thos H F Ince signs film star Hobart Bosworth to headline several upcoming productions. Bosworth, known for Oliver Twist and The Sea Wolf, brings a vigorous masculine presence and varied skill as actor director and writer. He has appeared on stage with Julia Marlowe Amelia Bingham Mrs Fiske and Blanche Walsh and recently headlined The Sea Wolf on the Orpheum vaudeville circuit.
Berlin July 29 The government charge of 5000 for a passport is preventing many intending emigrants leaving Germany.
Picture patter notes Fatty Arbuckle’s brother Andy plays a humorous Mexican in Kerrigan’s new production and Marie Menken appears as Alice Brady’s mother. Scudder School girls appear in Bunkered wedding scenes with Mrs. Sidney Drew. Constance Talmadgetts film The Temperamental Wife to be shot in Washington interiors with cabinet offices permission. Sinners stars Alice Brady under Realart. Fox features Wolves of the Night The Last of the Duanes and Wings of Morning with William Farnum. Farnum also stars in The Better Wife with Clara Kimball Young and others. Charles Ray begins A Man’s Money with new leading lady Gladys George. Olive Thomas with Duty and the Woman third Selznick film.
A planned meeting near Washington Avenue and Occidental Avenue at 7 p m Monday by radicals failed to materialize due to police vigilance. Police patrolled the area and kept about 1000 curious men moving. a few radicals reached Fourth Avenue and Lenora Street but were stopped. No disturbances occurred.
William G. Sutherland a ship carpenter at the Bremerton navy yard fell from a scaffold while at work on Monday and was killed. He was the brother of John Sutherland night foreman of the Post-Intelligencer composing room. He had ten years of service and lived in Chico. Funeral arrangements are not yet made.
New York railroad men predict that smoking cars for women will operate on some eastern lines within the next few years. This year during college commencement period many trains to New England carried overflow crowds of young women puffing cigarets on vestibules and observation platforms.
Advertisement touts Proud's Portolive Tonic as a vegetable remedy to combat run-down feelings nervousness sleep loss and constipation. It claims to enrich blood improve appetite aid digestion and increase strength and energy with permanent relief and physician endorsement. Sold by druggists.
W. V. Kellogg claims he was put off a Lake Burien street car at gunpoint on April 2 and seeks $2,000 in damages from the city. He says the conductor abused him verbally and physically, while the conductor says Kellogg was smoking on the car.
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