/ VEG DAILY BRITISH WHIG y N WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1028. -- ' GRAND FRIDAY, MAY 18th JOHN H. ROBERTS os MER LECTURE The story of my arrest, my imprisonment and release. "MY STRUGGLE<FOR JUSTICE IN QUEBEC" . PRICES 50c, and 25c. SEATS NOW ON SALE. STARTING A LLE . THURSDAY OH JOY! LOOK WHO'S HERE AGAIN! MORE ADORABLE THAN EVER He'll Steal Your Heart Away With his fiddle and his smile -- and his pet pig "Mildred" and his thou- sand and one adorable { What the Press Ageats Say About Coming Attractions ll PROMINENT LECTURER | COMES TO THE GRAND John'H. Roberts, editor of the was recently released from Quebed jail will appear in person in King- ston on Friday evening, May 18th, and will lecture in the Grand Opera House at 8 g'clock. His subject be- ing "My Struggle for Justice In Quebec." In October last Mr. Roberts was summoned 'to appear at the Bar of the' Quebec Legiglature on a charge of "violating the dignity of the As- sembly" because of articles which he had published in his newspaper criticising the administration. Af- ter his appearance at the Bar Mr. Roberts was imprisoned in Parlia- ment Buildings, until a special bill, known as the John H. Roberts bill, was passed to provide for his / im- prisonment for one year. The bill was sanctioned in December and the editor was held prisoner in Quebec jail until quite recently when an br- der-in-council providing for his re- lease was signed by the Lieufenant- Governor. During his incarceration feeling throughout Canada and the empire ran very high on the subject, and the Roberts case played no small part in the recent general election in Quebec, at which time the city of Montreal went solidly against the tTaschereau government as a pro- test against its intolerance and auto- cratic, un-British manner of rule, while the press of Canada and the lmpire protested vehemently against the imprisonment of a British citi- zen without vestige of trial by-jucze | or jury. . Because of his reputation for fear- lessness and plain speech, and be- cause of his added platform ability ---for Mr. Roberts has spoken before thousands in such auditoriums as the City Temple, London, Eng., and in Free Trade Hall, Manchester, as well as throughout Canada and the United States--something far out of the ordinary may be looked for from | the fiery little Welshman when he appears here on Friday evening. PLAY ROLE OF SHYLOCK Youthful Screen Star Is Mas- ter of Every Possible Emotion. TO-MORROW NO ADVANCE IN PRICES : : L I= The complaint' is frequently wrg- ed against the screen that it has re- legated "the art of acting to a back seat and has emphasized the import- ance of "type"; that the capacity to reveul a wide variety of characters. is no longer encouraged but that the screen players are chosen for their resemblance, fancied or otherwise, to the part to which they are assigned. In the old days a player would as- sume Hamlet tonight and Petrucio tomorrow; he would be in tragedy @t one performance and in comedy at another. He was like a violinist whose programme must include numbers light and gay and numbers grave and tragic. He must sound all the strings that vibrate to the hum- an emotions, Until a player on the | stage could perform roles off tho most divergent sort, he was not deemed worthy the high title of actor. ; 2 Then came the screen art and the search for types. Always the play- er appeared ic the same character- istics. The comedian was always funny, the society player was always in dress clothes, tha grotesque char- acter was always in the same per- sons' hands, the hero was always virtuous and be-curled, the heroine always beautiful, young and in- genue. Never did a player desert his or 'her set and fixed characteristics and thus it comes about that the screen is frequently rebuked for discouraging versatil among fits stars. It fs true that there are some noble exceptions to this rule, but they 'are the more notable becau-e they are so few. hn ey CAST INCLUDES: CHARLES JONES, EILEEN PERCY, ADOLPHE MENSON FROM THE STAGE PLAY BY LINCOLN J. CARTER Si | | sal RE | HER. REN NE wa = Era Art wh. w+ et AMUSEMENTS | PHONE 1071 MAIL OR PHONE YOUR ORDERS AN EXTRAORDINARY. EVENT-COMMENCING TOMORROW STOCK-REDUCING SALE SPRING COATS, CAPES, SUITS AND DRESSES OFFERED AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES FOR CLEARANCE In order to make room for the incoming Summer apparel, we are disposing of our entire Spring stock of Coats, Capes, Suits and Dresses at prices that represent some of the best savings offered anywhere in town. Come to JACKSON-METIVIER'S Stock Reducing Sale if you want to save money on high grade 'Women's Polo Cloth Coats Regular $19.50 to $22.50. '$ 1 3 S40 SALE PRICE ® : Wrappy Velour Coats SUITS a CLOAKS X belt, full . ! 'eptional opportunity to be able to purchase Coats of this quality. ; Canton Crepe and Taffeta Dresses - ~ Values up to $30.00. © $ 14.95 1 Coat; half lined ; sev ou uy : to waist; several shades to Regular $25.00 to $35.00. 1 Russian, Balkan and Straight-Line effects -- beautiful rich bY . » Navy Tricotine Suits Regular $25.00. $30.00 to $40.00. utiful ailored Silk-lined Suits in two piece models--the most charming Spring-tin fl Si 20, offered Tharrany io yl, ---- le, 13, = These Sults are Fashions that interpret the fav good variety of shades to select Pr Tora Tyies Jor Sp Tg . SALE PRICE v ' KAYSER SILK GLOVES Shades: Sand, Navy, Grey, Black and White--Mil ality, le \ HE A a SALE PRICE, PER PAIR Yo shades of Beaver, Sand and Grey. $1%s 86 to 44. It's a very ex- A 2 1 ® 4 5 95c¢. HOUSE DRESSES VALUES TO $3.50 Five dozen only, to be cleared at this price--sizes range from 384 to 44--light and dark check and Figured Ginghams, SALE PRICE $1.49 Imported Hand-Made BLOUSES Ev stitch hand-made--these were made In Porto Rico and are enhanced by Peter Pan and Tuxedo Collars--appro- priate for wear with either Suit or Sweater. 8. E P $3.95 « | JACKSONMEITVIER [cuore CHILDREN'S STOCKINGS LIMITED 14 PRINCESS STREET CONGRESS siz 10¢ > - as one of the greatest actors of all times, and so. long as human hearts are susceptible to the influence of human appeal, so long 'will Jackie maiutain his place among the bril- liant stars of the acting world, ~ AUTHOR OF "FAST MAIL" WROTE OVER 100 PLAYS, After fifteen years' retirement on a farm in Indiana, Lincoln J. Car- ter, who has been called "the Wis- ard of the American Stage," nas emerged from seclusion to supervise the adaptation of his . melodramas for the screen. Mr. Carter .is the author of more than a hundred plays that thilled audiences of a genven- tion ago. ; "The Fast Mail" his most success- ful melodrama, and the first of the railroad dramas to reach the Amer- ican stage, has been made into a photoplay by Willlam Fox. This picture will be shown at the Strand theatre starting tomorrow. The thrills which Mr, Carter in- vented to satisfy the popular love for melodrama won a fortune for a SYGUARANTEED SST BAT ' CLUB-SELECTION 2 FOR 25 crs. : AAA ARE EEE EE TE PER EYE LO.OROTHE 1.10. LL KANE 3 Subscriptions Recéived Hydro fr : f Sn Power i For Regiopolis College world's greatest triumvirate of stage decorators. - In spite of the fact that this sét was forty feet deep, . forwy SPECIAL SALE IN IMMED HATS PRICE * . Little Jackie Coogan is the su- preme exception to'this rule. Circum- scribed as he is, of course, by his extreme youth, he has not been giv- on roles that belie his 'age, but if he were called upon he conld give, a cameo performance of Shylock, dif- fering only from the work of a ma- ture genius as a mindatyre differs from an oil portrait. For Jackie re- Veals with ease the entire realm of human emotions. This fact fs firmly ; {and finally established in his per- _| formance of the role of Jackie Hol- presentation of | den in Sol Lesser's "Daddy," which was written for lit- tle Jacyle by. his father and moth- or, and is now at the Allen theatre National as a First attraction, star:- ing tomorrow. : him. 'His marvelous mechanical and electrical stage effects gained him the title of "The Wizard of the Am- 'erfcan stage," and many of his or- iginal inventions .are still being used today, } "The puble of today, loves thrills just as the audiences of a generi- tion agg liked my melodramas," sald Mr. Carter in the plays of today are simply the old melodramas repolishel and rewritten. Most people love thrills, and now that my melodrams are to be Jone on the screen. I am going to see that they are presented right. he more, «I think the screen a great step forward if ft centrate more on dramas 'like 'The Fast : than upon the type of material -- feet wide and twenty-four feet high. it was put up in two hours. "In starting this production," sata Allan Dwan, who drected Mr. Fair- banks in this feature, "we felt much as we did when we went to wae Grand Canyon several years ago to make scenes for "The Modern Mus- keteer,'. We didn't undertake to photograph the canyons 'st once-- _ {its magnitude appalled us. It was so vast, so big. So we played around Archbichop Spratt is daily receiv- ing substantial subscriptions towaras the building fund of the Reglopoiis college. The following have been re- ceived during the past week: Miss Mary McGuire and Miss Katie Mc- Callum, Kingston, each; Mrs. Michael Hennessy, Smith's Falls, $1,000; John Morrisey, Brock- ville, $1,000; Miss Marie Morrissy, Contnission of Ontario Tender for Construction of a Power at Dam No. 8 on the .. Trent River. Kingston, $1,000; Alexander Mo-| "Sealed Tenders for the construction of Power House fon Kinnon, Perth $500; Thomas Fitz- patrick, Lanark, $50. : i Note of Queen's. : oY nelunban scholarship in Greek 2, valued at $25 has' been' {awarded to J. D. Ralph, North Au- gusta. x right | "ng medical examinations which have been on for the past two weeks will be over Friday. oundations and Tefl- race Excavat 111 be received by the Hydro Eléctric Power Commission until 2.00 p.m., May 25th, 1923. . Ra InYolves rock excavation untin 0 a no! Fe See .; furnishing a - Anfoseing steel; cr oo n Tock Alls, nstructions to. Bidders, Bpecifica, tions, rawings, Form of Tender, and Schedule of quantities, may be obtain ed at the office of the Comm University Avenue, after cu. 2