Daily British Whig (1850), 17 Apr 1922, p. 13

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MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1028," THE DAILY. ERITISH WH Pos ---- : tr AMUSEMENTS What the Press Agents Say About 1Eight Tipplers Were In Line- Coming Attractions | "Rose of Washingtod Square." Full of beauty and charm with a of clean comedy interspersing ih absorbing story, the whole bub- ing with life, laughter and joyous ong, "Rose of Washington Square," | Il win unstinted applause at the land Opera House next Wednesday, | 1 19th, The original cast head- i d by Arthur Blackaller will be seen | Mr, Blackaller, by his remark- | @ characterization of Ensley Hick- | p, the father of 'Rose' proves | mself ono of the finest comedians pthe American stage, What Frank pon's 'Lightnin' is to straight medy drama so Mr. Blackaller's | and lovable North Carolina | puntaineer is to musidil comedy. | It 1s doubtful if there is another ac- living today, in America or Xur- | p, who could duplicate his virtuosa- Ifke technique and ingratiating per-| lity. The Astor Producing Comp- | y has made a most adequate pro- | on and the chorus ensemble 15 | of youth, beauty and charm.) of Washington Square" is the | §oint work of Hardin, Edwards and | Myers who have many successes to eir credit. At the Allen To-day. "Watch Your Step," a Goldwyn pmedy coming to the Allen Thea- | , for three days, commencing to-| y, 1s a production of youth in| pry sense of the word. The story §tself is an Inimitable tale of coun- lry town young folk by Julian Jos- | ne | that if the money were available, the phson, the man who wrote Charles | Supply of lemon--three bottles nl ponies would be able to 'put fup | Ray's successes. The leading man the leading woman of "Watch Your Step" are Cullen. Landis and atsy Ruth Miller, Willlam Beau- dine, the director of the picture, Is pone of the youngest in his profes- n. Since the story deals with youth, and youth's point of view, there is no straining or reminiscing to "put it over" in the picture. The result 48 a delightful, rollicking, utterly Ruma and natural screen version of real life. At the Strand, Wallace Reid, in "The World's Champion." This is the breezy, al- luring title .of the feature which opens at the Strand to-day. And the Picture itself is as breezy and allur- ing ad the title. It Is generally con- ceded be the funniest picture sloce "Three Live Ghosts," and Wal-| $10 and costs or one week in jail, | fITSt Of'Its kind for many years. Ow- ly has a role that just suits him. Through all the strange adventures and mix-ips he gets into--and gets out of, he is the Wally the men ad- mire and the girls--you know the word, admire isn't quite strong én- | ough, The laughter in this picture 48 like the Spring sunshine, it does everybody good. The story deals With the adventures of the youngest son of a new-rich Englishman who i8 trying' his best (and worst) to get into the higher social circles. But the youngest son offends an earl--who is a bully, and to make 'matters worse the former refuses to STORY OF POLICE -GOURT| SPORTING NEWS | | and the thirsty ones. | ply. { usual $10 and costs. Local Baseball Prospects. | The prospects .for high class base- | bail in Kingston during the coming! summer are very slim, according to| veteran sportsmen, This is due to! financial conditions and not % the | lack of splendid material available. | The long period of industrial de-| pression has been a bad factor, but | the Inability of the Ponies club to| obtain gate receipts to cover the ex- | penses. of running a good team is the main cause. .If there was a| |good diamond enclosed by a fence, | the club would be able to extract | {sufficient at the gate to maintain a) {good team and cover expenses, but | the Kingston fans have been accus- . | tomed to getting their entertainment "Where did you get it?" thecadi gt their own price, and these rolun- asked the first offender. tary 'On Princess street," was the re- to base any organization upon. | There are good sports in Kingston, | "And who did you get it from?" | but little over fifty per cent. of those | "Il do not know the man's name." who go to the games will contribute | However, all the fellow had drink was extract of lemon. He was cent charge should be made. | fined $10 and costs. | When discussing this matter with | The second offender is a stranger | "'Stan" Trotter, the veteran baseball | in the city, so the police say, but secretary, he was unable to give any he evidently knew where to "wet | gromises for the season. '"We have his whistle." Had he used water |the material --lots of it," said he, to gargle his throat, he would have | 'but it is a matter entirely of finance been saved a fine of $10 and costs. and we don't see how we can put it The third offender said he got cross. Nearly every place outside some extract of lemon in a grocery | that has any kind of a team, has store. He was securing a few grocer- | 80 enclosure and is aple to guran- les, #0 to top things off, he added a |e 8 fairly good gate, but we are bottle of lemon. up on Blue Monday Morning. It looked like old times at the Monday morning séssion of the po- ice court. There were eight cases on the docket, and of this number six were cases of drunkenness. Ac- cording to the evidence, extract of lemon appeared to be the popular drink. No doubt whiskey would have been preferred in each case, but it- is really awful this high cost of liquor. It. is Interesting to listen to the dialogues between the magistrate The next tippler told about visiting | It this season." He was fined the Wtable to do this, and in the com- | | petition for players we are not in| | three grocery stores and securing a | all. He was let down with a fine of $10 and costs. "You are charged with being in- toxicated again," was the salute an- other week-end drinker got from the magistrate. As he was just recently before the court he was touched for $20 and costs or a month, Charles Currie and Charles Pen- horn had not the wherewithal to pay for a cushion seat on a Grand Trunk train on Saturday, so they boarded a west bound freight train. Currie got on at Prescott, and his companion at Brockville. Just how far they intended to go on their travels is not known, but their little ~journey was tut short 'when the freight train reached Kingston, as { a railway detective caught the young travellers and escorted them to the "lock-up." The magistrate imposed a fine of | The travellers went to Jail, - EYER > 3 ~~ | TREE KINGSTON FIREMEN | ---- | Likely to Be Winners in Buffalo Newspaper Contest It is quite likely that three King- Ston firemen will be winners in the | Firemen's Popularity Contest, con- ducted by the Buffalo Courier and 'the Buffalo Enquirer, and which ends May 14th. The Kingston fire- men who now appear to be winners are J. Hall, F, Shepherd and T, iI. Patterson. When the winners are found, a party of 350 firemen will pe Mr. Trotter expressed the opinion (a very strong team, for there are | some of the best players in the city. Y.M.C.A. Paper Chase. On Friday morning an interesting hare and hounds paper chase was held for the junior members. At 10.15 o'clock, the hares left the [oy the teams composing A. { Brunke, K. Upton, B. Vince and H. | Buck, and seven minutes later about fitty "hounds" started in hot pur- {suit. The course was very exciting, ---- contributions are too meagre | to twenty five cents, whereas a fifty- | Dainty, dashing darlings, with "Rose of Washington House, Wednesday, April 19th. ny | and during the two-and-a-half-mile | course, through the city, many mud- | | holes and "other obstacles were en-| { countered. The hares arrived back | [at 10.35, with the hounds only halt | |a& block in their rear, with all the! | boys showing obvious signs of their | {hard and muddy progress. There was a good crowd of spec- |tators on hand for this event, the {ing to the success of the ghase, Mrs | Dean intends to hold similar events} more regularly In the future. The senior hare and hounds will be stag- ed next Saturday afternoon. i BASEBALL RESULTS, National League. SUNDAY RESULTS. Pittsburg 4, Cincinnati 3. New York 5, Boston, 2. Brooklyn 10, Philadephia 2. St. Louis 3, Chicago 2. SATURDAY'S RESULTS New York 17, Brooklyn 10. Philadelphia 14, Boston 6. 180,000 TONS OF ROCK WENT SKYWARDS. The above picture shows the demolishing of a whole hillside at Havelock, Ont., where a-blasting operation was carried out by the Ontario Rock Company to lift 5,000 car- | loads of trap rock destined for Toronto streets and Ontario highways. ft took 26 toms of dynamite placed in tunnels 6 | Square," the super-musical comedy at the. Grand Opera The Accumulation of Bond Interest You may profit by it if you wish to do so, for if you own bonds, your bond interest at the end of each six months will assist you in making further purchases. Canadian Government and Municipal bonds, of the type we offer in our current list, provide the highest grade of security and at the same time afford substamtial interest returns. We can offer these honds in denominations of $100 to $1,000. Write for a copy of this list. Wood, Gundy & Co. Montreal 3 King St. West New York Winsipeg Torbnto London, Eng, hi Spologize. So pa gets mad at hisitaken aboard the steamer Octorara St. Louis 3, Pittsburg 2. feet x 4 feet, and then filled in, totalling 1,200 feet in | pon's stubbornness and folly, which raised a new barrier to prevent entrance into real society, and the youngest son, is cast out, to shift for hifaself, Then the story of Ris ups and downs provides a feast Of varied adventure that is as spicy #8 a Christmas cake. Crossing to States, he wins the world's mid- weight championship. Then he voturns home and--but we'd better mot tell, It's a winner, and the love Story Is delightful. Wally as a mod- orn Romeo climbing to his sweet- RDeart's balcony, with a bulidog af- ter him, is a whole comedy In itself. Johny Hines, in "Torchy Takes a Chance," is the short comedy on the Strand programme, which bristles with good things, Harry Vokes, the comedian, who, With Hap Ward, appeared in many Canadian cities, died at a hospital in Boston, Saturday, Death was due to injuries sustained in an explosion at 'the plant of the Beaton Oil Company, in Everette, Mass, of the Great Lakes Transit Corpora- ion and taken on a cruise of ths Great Lakes. Receptions, parades and other similar honors will be paid to the firemen of the contest by the {firemen of the cities they will visit. The contest has been going on {since February 5th and Kingston 1s {in competition with such cities as | Olean, Lackawanna, Lockport, Dun- kirk and Ithaca, New York, and Kit- chener, Guelph and Peterboro, 0On- tario, and Oil City, Pa. Mr. Hall stands highest among the Kingston group and in the stand- ings published Sunday, had 1,285 {votes to his credit. Mr. Shepherd 1s next with 1,125. -------- A group of Russian monarchists have arrived in Berlin from Sofia, planning an atiempt on the life of Karl Radek, Soviet envoy, who is re- maining in Berlin as Maison officer between Genoa and Moscow, Adrian C. Anson is dead, The end came late Friday at St. Luke's Hos- (pital, Chicago, where the veteran ball , James A. Mathieu, vice-president player underwent an aperation. last 3 sand general-manager of the Shevlin- Clarke Company, Port Arthur, has Tesigned as a protest against the ad- Justment of thie company's difference with the Ontario government, At Hillsboro, N.B., Hon. Charlds J. Osman, formerly speaker of the degislature and long one of the Lib- 'oral leaders in New Brunswick, died. He bad been in failing health, nOTH Saturday. The Washington admini tion ig preparing proposals for sul ssion to the operators ahd miners looking toward a settlement of the -coal strike, The Imperial hetel, Tokio, was burned Sunday. Thirty of the Prince of Wales' suite were-there and lost much baggage. PASS AWA Jesse Williams, aged seventy-cight (left), and Charles iams, aged seventy-one 3 of each other were well-known (right), who died within a fow at Bowmanville, exhibitors of Ont., from h Clydosda norwen | GANANOQUE | Cincinnati 8, Chicago 3. Amefican League. SUNDAY RESULTS. Philadelphia 5, Washington 1, xChicoga 7, Detroit 6. Cleveland 3, St. Louis 0. x--10 innings. BATURDAY'S RESULTS, .. New York 6, Washington 3. Cleveland 11, Detroit 4. St. Louis 14, Chicago 0. Philadelphia at Boston--Postpon- ed. ------ April 17.--The death occourred st his home on Market street of dil- bert Belfie, an old and respected re- sident of Gananoque. The funeral takes place on Tuesday afternoon tw Gananoque cemetery. During the past week, a number of golf enthusiasts have beengindulg- ing in the game at the links west of the town. A professional has been engaged to instruct the members of the Country Club. Mfs. William Bullock, Sr., and Mrs. Hoekstra, who have been spend- ing the past two weeks in Montreal, have returned to town. W. Yule, Swift Current, Sask., js visiting in town. Mrs. Robert Lip- man and son Leo, Kingston, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Leon La- france, Charles street. "Teddie" White is visiting at Louis Pecor's. Robert Case, Ottawa, is visiting fa town. Fred Nelson, Herbert Hamp- ton and Harry Roderick, Oshawa, are in town fora few days. Benny Case, Montreal, is spending the hoN.' days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Case, First stréet, Ford Gil- lespie, Ottaws, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mra. Bdward Gillespte. °. Mr. and Mrs, Harold Nicholean, Kingston, are visiting with Joseph Cunningham over the holiday. O'Gor- man and Miss Hazel Cliffe are visit- ing Mrs. Whitty in Kingston. Jack Willis, Bt. Michael's College, Toron- to, is Picture Bureau. Seven Sentence Sermon. Where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt. * - '. It is easier to go six miles to hear a sermon than to spend one-quarter of an hour in meditation upon it when I come home.--Philiy Henry. " . » * To be true, to love, to be strong, These, and work to do, Make life a song. ' --Laura E. Whitney. . * » It is better to be wise and not to seem 80, than to seem wise and not be so.--Plato. * LJ » If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. -- Jesus. . . » If I can stop one heart from break- ing, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life that's aching, Or cool one pain, ' Or help one fainting robin into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Anon. » - . I could not live, I should be over- whelmed with intellectual and moral asphyxia, if I were to lose this dou- ble and profound conviction in an in- finite Personality which is God and in a finite personality. which is my ego.--Pere Hyacinthe, ---------- The Beginning of an Industry, The subject of phosphorus in the chemistry class in the Paris high school prompted Professor Akers to gicE teh : Ei lige pisilgare HL hig : i § length, to effect' this colossal explosion. Photo by Filmeraft | Industries, Limited, by permission of the A A A A AA AA Al AAA AAA AA AAA A ei gr Ontario Motion | 'Twas Ever Thus, I can not cook-- The heat affects my head. Nor sweep a room--- My heart was never strong, I can not nurse the sick; My doctor said With my neuritis Sewing would be wrong. But I can walk ten Miles upon the links And with a man Play golf the whole day long. --Life. For the Lazy Bather. A novel sea-bathing accessory 1s in the form of an easy chair made or Grandma Says:- "Give the Children Plenty of Milk" She knows about children, G¥andma does. knows their little bodies need good molrishment. is why she 'advises Milk. She That PRICE'S MILK comes in sterilized bottles and fis sanitary. Phone your name to PRICE'S DAIRY and try the sanitary way. PRICE'S DAIRY the cork-like balsa wood, in' whicn the bather lounges half-submerged while reading, smoking or chatting. . John Friedman, a fifst year stu- dent at Toronto University, medical faculty, late of 231 McCaul street, | Toronto, where he was a roomer, has | |i been missing since March 11th,' when he was last seen to leave the || house. Dugald Campbell, one of the best- known farmers in Southwold town- ship was accidently killed in his orchard. by falling from an apple tree which he had been pruning. 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