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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Harlow Tafeta, 35c

An excellent grade of all-silk hair
bow tarfeta, in. wide in plain col
ors and warp prints. Specially
priced, the yard. CSC.
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Kimono Silks, $1.35 Yard

33-inch Cheney kimono silks in
attractive patterns on tan, blue and
brown backgrounds. A limited
quantity for Saturday afternoon at
$1.35.
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Creme Oil Soap, 4 for Csc

Lux-sslap Flakes ...-..-3 for 25c
Djer Mss Toilet Water $500. $1.2o
Mum, deodorant .....-......2 Oc
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Figured Lawns, 18c Yard

A good grade Of neat figured
lawns and batiste. Small figures on
light backgrounds. % inches wide.
Special, fSc.
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05

One variety Of cactus always
points south
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Intermission-

lntermlSSlOn-
March. ''Proclamation' =. Hughes
(a) Blue Jeans" fox trot. .
" Traveller
(b) Nestle In Your Daddy's.
Arms" ........... Hersche-
operate Medley ........ Dalbey
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Playing Cards, 2 for Csc

Finest quality gilt edge playing
cards the "Fads and Fancies" and
Smart Set" priced for Saturday
afternoon only at decks for CSC.
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Dress Bingham, 1sc Yard

e7-inch fine quality dress gtng-
ham in good assortment of
checks, plaids. stripes and plain
colors. Saturday afternoon only,
yard 1sc.
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
(From 1890 to $50 Only


$780, and
offering
profitable
Saturday Quantities limited, eay
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Polly Prim Aprons, S0e

Attractive new Polly Prim aprons
Of fine unbleached muslin with ere
tonne trimming. pockets and bibs,
or plain, plaid and checked gingham
trimmed with rick rack Special,
soc.
Second Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Plain Sateen, 28c Yard

About 500 yards of this service
able quality sateen in colors OF
black, navy, green, pale blue, grays,
reds, Copen, rose. wisteria and
others. An unusual value at 25c.
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
crocheted Spreads, $1.75

Good serviceable quality Mar
settles pattern bedspread, 74xS6.
Special Saturday afternoon, $1-75.
First Floor.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
Ain. Storm Serge, $1.10

A very fine grade OF Atwood navy
blue serge, made by the Hamilton
Mills Suitable for skirts, dresses
and boys school suits very spe-
ciaI value at $1.1o yard.
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
WoPhone Orders)
Womep's High Shoes,
S1.S5.

women's dress boots in good
quality gunmetal calf with circle
vamp, military heel and 9 inch top.
Sizes 21s to 51s only. Special, $1-s5-
First Floor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-05
WoPhone ORDERS
La Camille Corset, $3.95

I.aCamil1e front-lace cersets IN
fancy stripe and polka dot matarh
ais. Elastic and medium top styles
for slender and average figure.
Sizes Il to 26. Special, 1895.
Second Floor
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11

I'm the pest who misses and boos at the movies when things don't go right
 They SHOULD go right-that's why I hiss and boo. How do I know whether YOU think they go right or not? We'll, they don't go to please ME and that's all there is to itt I should worry if it bothcrs YOU. Here's a sample:
 What? neapolis
 Who went to the movies to boo and
 hiss.
 His neighbors all cried,
 As they ran him outside What kind of a place do you think
 this is ?''
 over again, but, believe me, certainly saw to it that a regular cameraman was on the job and the camera loaded
 Naturally I never thought of that incident joke until years after when I was talking over old experiences with some fellow players
 Erich Van Stroheim is believed to be on the last month of 1T oolish Wives the milfRon-do1iar ph Oto- drama. Spectacular night scenes are engaging the company now.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
Amusement Calendar
A DAILY FEATURE.

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11

penings at Turner's Corners or Hick- ory Point.
 Charlie as q Student. He talked for almost an hour on the after-effects of the war. He showed an amazing Knowledge of the financial affairs of the allied and associated nations He is optimistic regarding Europe's future and be- heves political conditions there will become settled soon, and thereby help stabilize the affairs of the whole world.
 Speaking of their mother Syd Chaplin said: Mother is the one who made Charlie a successful mimic. When we were little boys living in bitter poverty in London mother used to brighten the drab days for us- She would point out, for instance the odd manners of an old chap who work ed in q laundry and who took his best suit out of pawn on Saturday night to meet his ''Mon," and bright and early Monday morning would promptly pledge it again.
 Look at him., mother would say. Hes walking away out near the curb for fear of getting the suit dirty and losing a shilling the value of the pledge -.-- Now, watch him, he's not used to gloves and he wants to put his hands in his pockets And the next day Charlie would have a perfect imitation of the old laundryman for mothers approval
 Charlie got his famous kidney feet walk by initiating a poor old fellow with bulbous nose who held horses for candies so they could get a drink in a London pub or bar, as such places were once called in America, before certain portions of the English language became obsolete here.
 Mother an Artist.
 We come of theatrical family Mother used to be with an opera company in England, singing in Gil- bert and Sullivan companies. Her stage name was Lily Harley. She sang some selections from Patience the day she arrived in Los Angeles. And how good her me1odious voice sounded to Charlie and I, lined up on either side of mother at the piano, like a couple of schoolboys. Our fla ther, who died good many years ago, was a celebrated protean actor on the English variety stage.
 ,-~The average person would natur- ally suppose mother was very proud of the worldwide recognition which has been given to Charlie. Strange to say, he mas been somewhat of a disappointment to her. for she want ed him to be a clergyman She has seen but one of his films, and she sat through only half of that
 But, anyhow, Charlie Chaplin's first sweetheart is having the time of her life looking over her own beau tiful home, which is drenched in gold en sunshine the whole day and in giving. orders to her chauffeur, foot man, maid and head housek eeper
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
CharG, Ch pin Badly
 Burned, Torch Firing
 Famous Film Costume

Los Angeles, May II - Charlie Chaplin, film comedian, was severely burned yesterday while playing scene in a new picture at his studio in Hollywood
 Chaplin was saved from fatal in Turies by employees. An acetylene torch used in the scene set fire to Chapin's coat and voluminous trou- sers- In a moment he was afame from head to foot
 Carl Robinson, Chaplin's personal representative, and others seized wet blankets and eXtinSuished the flames
 Chaplin was carried to the studio hospital, where it was found that hLs arms, legs and body had received sur face burns. He was wrapped in cot ton soaked in oil. Physicians were been given.
 Edna Purviance, playing opposite Chaplin. was on the set when Chap hn's accident occurred. She helped smother the flames.
 Chaplin was playing in a scene pic turing hotel set in which a plum Der was at work with his torch He en- tered and deliberately stumbled over the torch with one of his characteris- tic gestures He misjudged his step for recovery of his balance and the flames enveIoped his legs and body.
 There is much speculation whether May Collins, who has been reported engaged to the film comedian. will hurry to Charities bedside and nurse him back to health.
 Miss Collins first met Chaplin when the latter was in New York settlin> up his divorce with Mildred Harris Chaplin, his first wife. Miss Collins was one of the beauties in a Broad way musical comedy show.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
Film Comedian Is Boyishly Happy Over His Mothers Visit-Pays Her Tribute As Source of All His Sue cess.
HGCC

Los Angeles, May 6.-CharIie Chap lin's first sweetheart has come overseas to be with him.
 She is the woman who is credited by his brother Syd the one who did more than anyone else to make the film comedian what he is today" She is a modest little woman, this | first sweetheart" of Charles. She dresses very plainly, has little to say beyond expressing her appreciation of herself when she isn't with the mo vie'' star.
 Charlie's first sweetheart has known him longer than anyone in the film world, or longer than anybody in the theatrical realm, where he ap- peared before he got into the mo vies.'' It isn't the least bit of exag- ge1-atlon to say that she knows him better than anybody in the whole wide world.
 For this first sweetheart" you see, is Mrs Hannah Chaplin, Charles mother, and consequently he has had a legitimate interest in his every move since he was born at Fontainebleau. France, April 16, 1889. Born in France, but of decidedly English stock.
 Charlie huns and whistles and cuts little capers not at all lin the busi- ness of his present film as he goes about his studio these days
 l III very, very happy, ne said. as he talked of his mother while resting g in an elaborateIy decorated little den.
 My mother mas always meant a great deal to me. I meant to bring her over from England to America years ago Then the world war start ed and she couldn't make the pas sage. She was nervous from the wartime Zeppelin raids on London and couldn't get over until recently.
 Adds to the Lustre of Flowers.
 Tt is a wonderfully fine day to- day. Gosh. but the air is so sweet The flowers never seemed to have the odor they now possess until mother came to be with her boys. She's a great little mother, my mother is, and
 The lips of the man who is said to earn more than 5 $1,000,0Q0 a year by working 120 days annually quivered a little and he opened a cigarette case and took out a ''sInoke-" Touching a match to it, he arose and walked over to ornate fireplace.
 What do you think of my studio ?'' he said, apparently changing the sub ject to regain his boise. 'tPresentable little place, isn't it?''
 The correspondent who has seen practically every. film studio worthy of the name in America agreed that it was, for the whole establishment, covering about seven acres, is kept in perfect order. Not even a burn ed match stub is allowed to remain on one of the immaculately white walks of VelvetIike lawns, if a care taker sees it.
 Charlie spends much of his spare time reading works on political and social economy. He is well versed in the politics of Great Britain, France, Germany or Italy, or the woes of Russia, insofar as they have been mirTored in American and Eng fish weekGes, as the average cross roads politician is regarding the hap
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11

Mary Miles Mdnter Reaia.rt star, will leave in June for a brief tour of Europe She will be accompanied by Mrs Charlotte Shelby and Miss Margaret Shelby, her mother and sis ter.
 t'I have been planning this "trip for a long time" said Miss Minter. but somehow | have never been able to spare the time. No sooner was one picture completed than another was scheduled for production and so Euro ope and all it's attractions had to wait.
 ''Now it's different. By arranging a schedule and working very hard was able to get sufficiently ahead of production plans to think about this tour and so I am practically assured now Of a little vacation"
 While abroad she will make d num- Der of personal appearance at some of the larger motion picture theatres. Her pictures enjoy a wide popularity on the continent and in England and it is in response to repeated requests from managers Ct1those houses that Miss Minter promised to appear in person before her European admir- CTS.
 On her way East she will stop off at Chicago. She plans to sail from New York with her mother and sis ter early in June, and will visdt Eng 1a<,d, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and other continental countries.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
MAY II, 1921

Second. I favor censorship only as little better than nothing until some ether mere efficient method of i'm proving the motion pictures can be put in operation
 Tn scores Of cases, shows have been stepped before they began, short y after they had been started, anu Tn he midst of the weeks engagement oy direct executive act of the mayor. never have I known of single in stance when the use of the police power has even been threatened. where the authorities have been pros ecuted for using the police power m his way Of course it would be pos sibIe to make use of this power but If this was ever tried and it could De shown that 1t was not with the inten- ton of public service, it would prove ? boomerang.
 T believe that it is extremely fru- portant to circularize in every possl- bl1 way the women's clubs and min iSter'S meetings and others with copleS of the judicial interpretation of ob- scenety and with information as to what has been done in various places n applying these laws.
 While this seems to be a fragm en- tary method in that in some places the police power is almost negative and the courts are not favorable to high moral ideals. there is an adEan- ge in that pictures travel the whole country and the bad picture that can 70 through the corrupt towns may find hard sleddinE in a hundred towns of another type. and after it has been once condemned it is likely to be shut out by the mayor or in some other way The town that would not lave taken the initiative in shutting it out would be ashamed to take what has been barred from some other town.
 Fifth, as 10 the Sunday question: the talk about Blue LAWS should be eliminated. because it has been based on misapprehension. there having been no real Blue Laws in the past and no national Sunday laws what ever, blue or otherwise, proposed in Congress in recent years.
 There are two classes of people now opposed to mCAries on Sunday one the class that would have no ob- lection to them if they were in ac- cord with the new exclusion standard; the other class believing that Sunday should be free from all labor and business, save work of mercy and necessity, not interfering so far as civil law is concerned. with uncom- nrerciaIized activities
 (Signed) WILBUR F. CRAFTS
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
Reader Pest Verse
 PrHewinners!

Here are the winners of last week $ ''Reader'' Pest contest. First
 To Be Sure. Don't be too hard on the movie pest, To read aloud he thinks it best. For silent thoughts in his empty bean Would sure be lost; so he reads from the SCreGD-
 G. SHERWOOD,
 A Movie Fan, 333 Laurel avenue.
 Get the Hook!" Mostly all of us can read and write, But. some folks think that when, They pay their fare to the movie, They can caci2Ic like hen, They'll read aloud. yes. every line, The peopLet turn and look. But. I guess the only way they'll stop, Is for some one to ''get hook:''
 F. N.
 No address. c. SherwoodS Poli tickets will go to her or him tonight. and if k, \. will write in his or her name, Plaza ticket will be sent out
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
Police Power Should Regulate
 Movies, Says Chief Reformer

Los Angeles May 10--Rev. Dr Wilbur F. Crafts, head of the Inter national Reform Bureau of Washing ton, D. C., has been in Los Angeles for several days comforting with mo- ton picture producers. visiting stu dios and preaching from pulpits and club ros.rums on the subject of pie tures For several years Dr. Crafts has been the principal inspiration of the movement to censor motion pie lures During the last few months Benj- B. Hampton, the producer. has been conducting q lively warfare against pr. Crafts censorship and federal commission plans.
 Mir. Hampton has been inaistent tilad censorship is un-A III eriCan anu inefh cient and that tne ponce power is the only weapon that can be used to i'm mpfove picture conditions. On ar irving in Los Angeles Dr. Crafts an nounced that his visit to enable
 to study conditions at first hand and to confer with Mir, Hampton,
 After conference with MT. Hampton Dr, Crafts Issued statement in which he declared censorship only Il little better than nothing" and said that much of the objection to Sunday movies would die away as soon as pie lures measure up to the new stand ards of the National Association of tn Motion Picture Industry. pr. Crafts OecldTeO n1EnSeif In 13NOT CT the Do lice power plan advocated by NJ. Hampton.
 Producers and picture people be- lieve that this action by Dr. Crafts
 means the beginning of new era Now that the chief advocate Of cen sorship has declared himself in favor of new methods. it is believed that his action will be followed by the adop- ton of a similar policy by reformers throughout the country.
 Dr ful1 is as follows:
 April 25, 1921. Young Mems Christian Association, Los Angeles, Calf.
 My plan for the reform of motion pictures is, in brief:-
 First, to cooperate to the largest possible degree with motion picture producers, believing that a majority Of them have concluded for many req sons that the thirteen standards agreed upon by the National Associa- ton of the motion picture industry. are sincerely adapted and will be very largely applied to future pic lures. The problem that we must mutually solve, is how these standards i can be imposed upon all producers
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
BASKETBALL
 LEAGUE TO HAVE
 ANNUAL BANQUET

The annual banquet of the Indus trial Basketball League will be held in the Service center of the Y W c. A, on Barnum avenue, Thursday. May 1 9th, at 6:30 o'clock.
 Captains of the various teams are in charge of the affair. which is cer- tain to eba lively one. Stunts of various kinds will be presented in a competitive contest. for the most original The teams and captains in cIude: Checkers. Miss Loretta Due irene, Harvey Hubb ell: Miss Mar garet BarrowS. Bullard; Miss Mary Llugo. Oronoques: Miss Marion Jack man, Half Moons: Miss Lydia Cham padne. ana General Electric; Miss May Cook.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11

Tom Santschi. weIl-beloved screen scapegoat, doesn't look so terribly dangerous here, does he? But il spite of his more or less air of kill ing indifference, he sure can pull 6 wicked trigger!
 Tom is a great favorite with the ladies, because he's always pulling some of that cave-man stuff. But he invariably has a kind heart in the end, so you don't feel so badly about it.
 Tom, who is q Pathe star. by the way, has had many funny experiences so he says, and just to show that a movie stars life isn't all skittles and beer, he tells this story:
 One of the funniest experi- ences I can remember happened to me back in the early days of motion pictures long before pho tography had reached anything like l-s present perfection. In those days anyone who could turn the crank of a camera a hundred and twenty times to the minute was a cam meraman.
 On he day I speak of the regular cameraman was sick; but photograpers were the same as nothing in the minds of the pro ducers, so they took a young fel- low out of the laboratory and sent him with us to take the scenes. He loaded his camera with a two hundred foot reel of film and was ready for work
 We took about thirty scenes during the morning, and after lunch went to the beach to film some scenes of me lying on the sand, supposedly unconscious and being washed out to sea by the incoming tide. I lay down on the sand, and he ground off several turns, after which I start ed to sit up.
 Don't novel he exclaimed. It'll show in the picture.' .
 T had to remain in that posi- tion I was in for three and a half hours until the waves came up far enough to carry me out. The cameraman would turn the crank a few times every fifteen minutes as the ittde came pa bit. I was numb and cold when I finished and could not hear a sound, the waves having washed sand into my ears and salt water until I was absolutely deaf. I was shiv- erinS all over, and it was hours later, after a Turkish bath and several rubdowns before I could keep my teeth from chattering. It took me exactly five weeks under a specialists care to get my hearing back to normal
 Two days later I had a hurry call to come right over to the studio Upon my arrival I was informed by the director that the cameraman had used up his two hundred feet roll of film hours before he took my scenes and was unconSciously grinding away with a fllnleSS camera while I was suffering on the sand Of course I had to take the scenes
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
Mother O Charlie ChapIm Comes tO America Behold
 My Sweetheart, He Saus

penings at Turner's Corners or Hick- nj
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-11
WEST END

Naomi Childers, luminous beauty of GoIdwyn pictures, who will be seen opposite Tom Moore in Hold Your HorSeS.'' a Rupert Hughes story, which will be presented at the West End theatre tonight brings to the screen a rare dignity She was born in St Louis and was educated in convent there. She was first on the speaking stage, her greatest success being with H. B. Warner in Among Those Present.
 Al St John in ''The Aero Nut reel comedy and Pathe News will also be shown.
Evening star., 1921-10-16
SCHOOLS.
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Robert \. Maurer. principal Of Gen.
tral High School, spoke to the stu
dents of the school on "Self-Govern-
ment" at an underclass chapel
Wednesday. He indicated that the
student government at Central takes
u high form. not that of student
being governed by other students. but
that of a student governing himself.
The principal pointed out that
Central the students have all the
freedom consistent with the mainte-
nance OF a good school administrs ,
ton, good school reputation ana
good school spirit. His talk contained
many concrete Illustrations.
Central has contracted the tennis
fever" which is epidemic throughout
the schools of the country TINS year
The enthusiasm and interest in tnis
sport which has been displayed py
the girl students is 100 per cent;
.Fifty-six girls already have entered
the interc ASS singles tournament.
The tournament games Will De
played on the Euclid tennis courts.
The highest award the school can
give, the letter &C" will be presented
to the winner and the runner-up In
the tournament.
The tournament will be under the
management of Miss Elsie Sanders;
physical director at Central. ana
Miss Alice Speiden. senior CLASS
student.