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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
MANY ARE CALLED. But

Those who have dreams of some
day being great stars in motion pic
lures will derive hope and encourage
mont from the success of Clarinc Sey-
mour. Toto's leading lady in Pathe
comedies. Only four months ago
Miss Seymour was playing very minor
parts in Pathe pictures Her work
attracted the attention of Hal Roach.
director-general at the Rolin studio,
and now the little lady is well up
on the ladder Of fame-Dame For
tune is laughing with, not at, this
pretty little fun-maker.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
every WOMAN PART
VAMP, SAYS THEDA

1.-THE reason that good women like
q, and flock to see my pictures was
i first Il little bit Of a puzzle to me-
hid Miss |Theda Bara, the William
l ok star, whose new Theda Bara
slper- production, The Forbidden
Aath.'' has just been released.
but / decided that there really is
Rlst a little bit of vampire instinct in
aTery woman, no matter how fat she
/ ay be or how model a wife or moth
Il. And the very good women seem
feel somehow that life hasn't been
1 lite fair to them; that they have
8issed som ething. So they like to
D. and see all these passions and emo
IONS. run riot, which, they have so care
ally suppressed
at is a sort of revenge for the dis
and dullness of life, ="
continued the famous portrayer of
Mren roles. ~And then in the end the
@ory of the vampire is always a ira
zedy. ! After all, you can't eat your
B Ike and have it too, no matter how
EARNING and clever you may be. So,
Ne sad ending is a sort of compensa-
Mbn for the woman whose sense Of
@stice would be outraged If sin were
u triumph in the end, but who, new
@+heless, Graves a. little Of it's color
HeIing that perhaps virtue is its own
ward after all. And everybody is
Heased, even the censors."
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15

ChatSworth Park, some fifty miles
ON Los Angeles, is being utilized as
Ie scenic background for William S.
ARTS new Aircraft picture to follow
Blue BlaZes Rawden," and which is
yet unnamed. The Thos. II. Ince
pr took his entire company to this
4 Id and rugged spot, where some cat
AlysTn Of nature has torn the rocks
Ito a veritable DEVILS playground
Ath caverns great boulders balanced
kecariously upon one another, with
lid vistas of staggering heights and
I pths and withal an aspect as gro
Ssouely magnificent as could be
H11nd anywhere in the United States
ere a great cavalry charge is being
aged: the troopers of the early
zontier days ride down dangerous de-
Svities in pursuit of renegades or
AstiIe Indians, and around the ragged
1 cks Bill Hart plays hide and seek
tn O. desperate at the risk of life
limb. From all indications, this
8cture will eclipse all former efforts.
he company will remain about a
Aek in the wilds camping out IN
hts, living the very life they are de-
Citing for the screen.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
ACEION APEENTN.

Cranllins a camera, like cranking a
machine gun, has its exciting mo-
ments-yes, indeed, quite exciting.
Captain Donald G. Thompson, war
photographer and correspondent, who
took the pictures that are now being
shown under the title, The German
Curse in Russia" was arrested four
teen times while swapping photo
graphs on the battlefelds of Europe.
He was twice knocked senseless by
conclusions, thrown into prison by the
secret police on four occasions and
then rescued by revolutionists. He
was decorated four times and wound
ed three times; and now he is going
back for more-you just simply can't
satisfy some people.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
IT PAYS TO Be BEAUTIFUL

A beautiful woman's face may be
her fortune-alsO it may be her sal
walton. Dorothy Dalton has discoN-
cred that her charms can sOOthe the
savage breast of a motor cop even.
The beautiful Thomas II. Ince star i'll
Paramount pictu es, whose newest
production, Love Me-" will soon be
released, and who has recently made
a great success Of "Flare-Up Sal" was
returning recently from one of the
beaches near Los Angeles via a wide
boulevard. Her lights we're out and
she knew full well the penalty. Thus,
when motor cop cspied her and gave
chase, instead of foolishly trying to
beat him, she pulled in and called to
the speeding officer pitcouSly:
"Oh, sir; won't you help me? 7
can't find my way and my lights won't
work and [ don't want to hurt any
body
The policeman pulled his own ma-
chine to a halt and turned a search
light into her face. He say her
sparkling eyes and wonderful teeth as
she parted her lips in one Of the
sweetest smiles that ever dazzled
poor, defenseless motorcycle police
man in the city of the Angels. He
asked no mOre-what man could p
and promptly ran his bike into a ditch
near by. Then he boarded the run
ming board and with his own search
light guided her into town.
AS he removed his cap respectfully
and bowed with one last glance into
those bewitching eyes as she thanked
him sWeetly, he said:
"Thatll be all right-you needn't
send me back. I'll take a street car
back to my biCyClC.'
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
QUITE NATURAL

In one Of the forthcoming Pathe
pictures a ships compass figures
prominently in the story and recently
while some "cXperimental shots
were being made, it was noticed that
the needle of the compass behaved in
a rather strange manner.
Upon investigation, it was found
that the magnetic attraction of an
umbrella held by Bryant Washburn,
star in "Kidder & Ko,' was the cause
of its mysterious behavior; later this
same umbrella again exertcd its at
tractiVe powers and attached itself to
the person of some one else before
Mr.. Wash burn was ready to leave the
studio.
This, after all, is not an unusual
way for an umbrella to act
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
EACEIlS w DIAL ROLE

Gladys Brocllwoll, William Fox star,
has become the great exponent of the
dual role. In a new drama she is MAX
ing she exhibits two distinct charac-
ters At first she is q sweet and in
nocent girl who spends her time with
her aged father in a secluded chateau.
Later after she has received q muir
derous blow on the head. she becomes
ferOciOus and vicious. It is claimed
for Miss BrOCkwell no one has so per-
fected herself in this art of displaying
dramatically opposite characters as
the William Fox star.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
HART AND DOUG TAKE
ARBUCKLE'S Def

Fatty Arbucklo's challenge to Bill
Hart and Doug Fairbanks for the SUI
premacy in gun play has been accept
ed by the Western motion picture
champions and a new country has
bee nheard from. None other than
the only Charles Spencer Chaplin
wishes to try his hand at the new
game. Hart and Fairbanks wanted
riding included in the festivities, but
Arbuckle draws a line at fancy
broncho busting, although he proved
his horsemanship in "Out West" his
latest comedy. In this stand Fatty
is backed up by Charlie, who says
that his riding activities are con-
fined to a nice and gentle wooden
SaW-horse.
"Out West" is proclaimed the best
comedy Fatty Arbuckle has ever done,
which is decidedly gratifying to the
big comedian, who had sworn to
demonstrate to Hart and Fairbanks
his conception of their Western pho
tOplays When the eminent Aircraft
stars watched Fatty's proWess on the
screen in Los Angeles last week they
admitted surprise, but expressed great
confidence in their ability to teach
him a lesson in hitting the bulls eye.
Just what Charlie intends to spring
is a dark mystery.
Location and side bets are not de-
termined and if the Los Angeles citi-
zens have anything to do with it the
match will anything to do with it the
match will be held somewhere in the
widest part of the mountains or the
desert. Among these prominently
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
NEVER HAS TIE RIFLES

mo, I never have had the blues, -
said June Caprice, the "Sunshine
Maid'' of the William Fox forces, but
it seems to me that if I did [ would get
rid of them by a long hike in the
open air or by reading a good book,
or by writing letters or getting busy in
some way. Persons who will keep
their minds and body occupied never
have time for the blues" June Ca
price apparently has the secret of hap
piness. She has the "smilo that won't
wear off. Her latest picture is The
Heart of Romance"
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
TFt4NGTC INSPIRATION.

At five O clock in the morning three
days before Christmas, violent ring
ing of the telephone bcIl awakened
Fannie Ward. who had been working
far into the night on the Pathc play,
'1nnOcent, and a voice on the Wiro
inquired if she was ready to so
Christmas shopping. After Miss Ward
had explained that the telephone call
er was on the wrong wire, she sat
down and wrote a scenario entitled
'Destroyers Of Happiness" in which
there are many strong murder
scenes.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
AIRCRAFT NEWS

| A big opportunity to shine has been
| granted RAYMOND Hatton in THE
| Whisping Chorus" the big Cecil B.
| DeMiue spectacle which Will be re-
| leased by Aircraft shortly. Hatton has
| done WONDERFUL character work in
numberless Paramont AIRCRAFT pic
lures and in his latest work he has
excelled everything.
ST. Valentines Day will mark the
completion Of Mary Pickford's first
"solid'' year at the Lasky studio in
HOLLYWOOD Cal. She arrived in Cal
ifornia from New York on February
a. 1917, after finishing THE Poor
Little Rich Girl" and in Hollywood
year just ended, has done six photo
plays for Aircraft release at the
Lasky studios, Signalling her most
perfect work and adding to her we'll
deserved reputation as perhaps the
most famous personality in the world
today.
Percy Marmont, an English actor,
who played with Elsie Ferguson in
Rose of the World" and who is now
appearing with Ethel Barrymore in
Camille" on the speaking stage, has
also been engaged for the new Elsie
Ferguson picture. j. Searle Dawley
At the Fort Lee studios Maurice
Tourneur is directing Marguerite
Clark in "Prunella" This is a fanci-
full production, with idealized charac-
ters, and Tourneur is adopting some
novel methods in producing it which
it is claimed is a decided advance
ment of the art. Jules Raucourt,
who has just finished with Pauline
Frederick in La Tosca," plays the
leading male role.
Clarence Brown, who has been
Maurice Tourneur's assistant for some
time, has enlisted in the aviation
corps and dons his uniform next
week. Winthrop Kelly succeeds him
and has already entered upon his
duties. Kelly has had wide expert
ence on the stage and screen, and is
known as the human dramatic en-
cyclopedia," being very we'll read and
gifted with a remarkable memory.
Elsie Ferguson is starting on a new
production for Aircraft release, from
q scenario by Charles Maigne in
which Betty Howe has been en-
gagged to play the chief supporting
role of the popular star.
Miss Howe has won renown on the
stage and screen as a beautiful and
accomplished young woman, and is
noted for her athletic procivities.
She is an accomplished horsewoman
and q tennis enthusiast, swims, shoots
and can sail boat in any kind of
wind from q spring Zephyr to a SOU
weSter. She is also clever with
brush and palette and is an ardent
motor enthusiast.
IA 4 benefit for the Hollywood
Studio Club, the Laslly Players, re-
comfy gave John Masefield's artistic
if melancholy drama, The Tragedy
of Nan" with Helen Jerome Eddy in
the title role. This particular play
offers formidable task for any
company of players, and particularly
for the leading woman. To say that
the Lasky Thespians covered them
selves with glory at the initial per-
Torrance would not be exaggerating.
There was not a noticeable flaw in
their rendition of bit OF dramatic
literature which demands much Of
all concerned gives little or no relief
from the sombreress of the key in
which it is written, and is exceeding
" difficult in the matter of dialogue,
owing to the necessity of using the
early English pronunciation.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
IT'S AN ILL WIND. ETC.

Even the elements are kind to mo-
Pm picture stars. When Creighton
8lle and Gladys Hulette started work
B Mrs. Stacker" a five-part Pathe
APture of present-day conditions, the
st scenes taken were on beautiful
8untry estate in Southern New Jersey,
II before these scenes were COM
@ted a strong wind stripped all tho
PES bare of their beautiful fall foil
Ne and so completely altered the
Mdscape that the company was COM
@iled to pack and depart for Florida,
here the work was started all over
ain amid the perfume of soft
aented breezes.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
NANNEXING Bull"

GLADYS Hulette and Creighton Hale
will soon be seen in fve-reel COM
edy, "Annexing Bill" to be directed
by Albert Parker. This picture play
is an adaptation from Ezra Franklin s
story that appeared in Munsey s
Magazine.
Sounds like this picture may con-
tain q hint for some of the admir-
ers of Creighton.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
MARY GARDENS MEMOIRS.

Between acts of "Thais' at the L>x-
ington theater, whore Mary Garden
made triumphant re-entry into
opera, the singer conf1ded to a Cold
wynn official that on her return to
France in the spring she intends be
ginning her memoirs, to be publshcd
within the year. Miss Garden has
taken an apartment at Monte Carlo.
deserted on account of the war, and
there she will dictate the story to
secretary
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
IT'S AID WRONG

A picture enthusiast has written to
Irene Castle requesting the Pathe
star to appear in her next feature
wearing "just the very newest thing
in Kolinsky capes"-this is almost an
unreasonable minimum in the matter
of wardrobe.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15

mentioned for referee, which is adj
mitted to be a dangerous job, are
Mary Pickford, Barney Oldf1eld, d.
w. Griffith or the entire Marine foot
ball team.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
VERY BUSY RESTING.

During her short holiday between
the completion of "Our Little Wife"
and the beginning of her next produce
ton, Madge Kennedy is q frequent
caller at the rooms of the Stage
Women's War Relief where she occu-
pies herself in recording subscriptions
and other necessary work. e
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
DOUG FAIRBANKS, NEXT.

The scenario for "Headin' South"
Douglas Fairbanks next picture for
Aircraft, was written by Chief Direc-
tor Allan Dwan, giving Fairbanks
role in which he does his utmost to
Guido the stunts that made his re-
cent picture, THE Man from Painted
Post" somewhat of a novelty from an
aero batic standpoint.
New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-02-15
"EVFN AS YOU AND I,

Everything has gone up, even tho
price of flowers as Ambassador Ger
ard recently discovered when he met
Bessie Love at a Christmas Fund fair
held in New York City, and found
himself minus $40 and plus carnaF
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
PEACE AGAIN IN
The CITY HALL
Stormy Period in Watch Suspension
oil PatrLman Was Up, Has
Terminated.
LIE0TKE REsCINDs ORDERS
Nithdraws Action OF Reinstating
Officers Fired Sunday BY
Chief Miller.

After a somewhat stormy period
peace once more reigns supreme
over the city hall and its denizens
II was learned late yesterday
that Commissioner John Liedtke
upon the loquest Of Mayor william
McConochie and two other city
commissioners. Wednesday night
rescinded his reinstatement order
concerning Patrolmen Charles Mi
ner and Harry Miller, who were
discharged from the Rock Island
police force by Chief of Police Phil
]. Miller Wednesday evening. Mil
Ter was let go for an indefinite
period, bu: Miner was given final
discharge.
Miner was found guilty OF assault
and battery by a Moline jury before
Justice T. NJ. Wheelock's court
Wednesday afternoon on a charge
preferred by r. Hermann. who the
jury found was beaten up without
warrant and provocation while on
Seventeenth street, between First
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
FIELD SECRETARY OF YOUNG MEMS
CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SAYS IT'S
HELL LET LOOSE AFTER HUNS COME

d block away is the Y. II. Z. A
warehouse and headquarters; or
what a week ago was headquarters,
before a shell went through t.
Across the street is a hospital with
the roof blown Off The Germans
bombed It for five days, and injured
two of their own officers, prisoners
there, after an aeropIane accident
The population of this beautiful
little city used to be fifteen to TWEEN
ty thousand; now it's about fifteen
hundred. During the last week it
has been decreased by evacuation
from seven or eight thousand to
this number. The hotel Lion Rouge
where l stayed. is now minus half
the roof 1t was once a German
majors headquarters.
In the afternoon I walked across
the river, the Aisne. and looked
over the old German trenches or
dugouts. A great place for sOuy-
enirs, if one had a truck.
las ! walked back into town.
had the new and unforgettable eX
perience of having shrapnel whine
and then burst over my head with
d Iouu DOOm anu pun, anu nlluute
later heard the spit-spit of its land
ing all around Believe me, l
snuggled up as close as possible to
an old stump, and so did the two
Frenchmen with me- Just as l got
back across the river (the boches
were Smelling the bridge a house
not yet demolished was struck and
blown up.
ITO see the beautiful cathedral
half shot away creates hate, I'll tell
you And to see also where the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
BUSY WEEK For
1918 GRADUATES
Baccalaureate Sermon on SUNDAY
Begins Series Of Com
mencement Events.
JUNIOR RECEPTION TUESDAY
Class Gay Exercises on Wednesday
and Alumni Meeting Comes
On Saturday.

The SO graduates Of the class Of
1918 Of the Rock Island high
school face a busy commencement
week
The first is the ba ccalaureate
sermon which will be given at the
First Methodist church on Sunday
evening. AT S o'clock. Rev. Samuel
Van Pelt will deliver the sermon.
On Tuesday evening the juniors
Will give a reception to the gradu-
ating class in the manual arts
building. On Wednesday after
noon the class day exercises will
take place al the high school audi
forum. on Friday night the gra-
duation exercises will be held at
Augustana college gymnasium.
The alumni association meeting
VIII take place Saturday night at
the Manual Arts building.
The class day program which
Viii be given at O'Clock Wednes-
DAY afternoon, follows:
Violin Solo Mazurka Nlynarski
Gladys Wilson
Address OF Welcome ...
---...-..... Marjorie Walker
Glass History NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Fridolph Swenson, Carl Rydholm
Glass Prophecy .................
ROblev Clark. Una Sodergren
Chorus, The Nightingale and the
Rose ..-......... Page
. Yes. TO Thee (Cornet OBJ
ligatO-AmericaJ &C. F Root
Presentation of Gift to School .
..-...-..-....--.-. Ida Gross
Presentation Of Gifts TO Juniors
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Roy Johnson
Farewell Address. Clifford Johnson
Violin Solo, Souvenir. Drdla
Robert Schurr
Graduation Friday.
The commencement program
Friday night at Augustana college
gymnasium, is appended;
March
invocation -.-.--.-......-.
a.. Rev. John McGown Stevenson
Organ. 'Jardin de la RENE,
........-..-........ Febrelle
]. W Casio
Address, Personality .......
.......... DR.. Walter A. Jessup
President. Iowa State University
Organ, "Maytime in Tuscany.
.-...-...-.--- ..-.-..---.. StreZza
J. w. Caste
Presentation of Diplomas
Star Spangled Banner
MOttO-Over the Top; CoIors-
Blue and Gold; FIOwer-Iris.
NgHH ~ %
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
Hell let loose"

Hell let loose.
That's the only adequate way to
describe a town Just devastated by
the Germans. according to a letter
received in Rock Island today from
Walter H. Johnson, Jr., one of the
Young Mems Christian association
field secretaries in France.
He was in Scissors when he
wrote, which had just been bombed
for FIVE days by the Germans.
Shrapnel still whined around the
ruins of what had once been a city
OF $4,000 inhabitants. and trains
stopped some distance away, to
avoid being shelled The station
hadn't any roof Neither had the
hotel There was a shell through
the middle of what had been Y. NJ.
c. A headquarters.
Those who remained lived in cell
lars, for protection from the bonn
bardment, their homes having been
destroyed The very trees were
nothing but SCARED stumps. With
out destination or plans, trainloads
OF women and children and old men
were being borne away from the
place. clinging to what household
goods they could carry.
In a letter to o. J. Stirratt, gen.
eral secretary of the local Young
Mems Christian association, Mr..
Johnson says:
For several days the trains
hadn't run clear into Scissors. be-
cause OF the bombardment, but that
day 1t seemed temporarily directed
elsewhere, and our train came in.
Half of the station is blown off the
map, and It's all caved in. About
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24

Germans had run a railroad right
into the building to carry away big
stones. II was one of the most ia
nous cathedrals in France. In one
corner of the transept not COM
pletely destroyed, a French priest
was holding services for a few
French soldiers.
"On the way back to Paris, | saw
several trainloads of refugees. most
iy women and children, packed into
the trains like sardines. enrOute
south. That refugee sight is typi-
cal of most OF, the trains going south
now Many Of these poor creatures
have now for the second time been
driven from their homes and have
lost everything. The refugees are
from the Somme area, Amiens.
Compeigne. scissors, etc.
Hardly any of them knew where
they were going. They had with
them the worldly possessions they
could carry. The most interesting
part of the goods was composed of
their animals. One family had ?
baby goat, a rabbit, two dogs am
two chickens.
The system was to feed them
and then put them into camions,
taking them for the night to the
Red-Cross hospital at St Sulpice or
the Y. NJ c. A hotel pavilion. AT
these places the following morning
they'd be tagged and sent south.
remember particularly one family
of II, two women and nine chill
dren of all ages. The night before
l worked there. two babies were
born in the cellar of the station.
In all this work. you can't compre-
bend the tenderness and indefatiga-
BILE energy of the English and
Red Cross nurses"
buy War Savings Stamps-
All the news all the time--The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-24
PRESTON NAMED
FOR BOY SCOUTS
Succeeds Lieutenant X. c. Mitchell
As Commissioner of Local
Council

Paul Preston was elected COM
missioner of the Rock Island Boy
Scout council yesterday.
AT a luncheon at the Rock Is
land club. the resignation of Lieu
tenant r. c. Mitchell. who has held
that office was accepted and Mr.
Preston was elected to fill the va
cancy.
The executive committee allowed
". T. Bacon, scout executive. 81 900
TO be used TO put the scout camp
in condition for use this summer.
Phil Mitchell, president of the State
bank. has given Boy Scouts per-
mission to use his farm, which is
two miles from Cordova. Work will
he begun on the camp grounds as
soon as possible The camp will &C
commodate about hundred boys
at a time.
Boys VINO can play the bugle and
drum met this afternoon at 415 at
the city hall, where they were or
ganized into a bugle and drum
corps.