Daily British Whig (1850), 12 Apr 1924, p. 17

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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG GRAND TO-NIGHT at 815 Last Te | "A WOMAN'S WOMAN" | "THE THREE MUST-GET THERE'S" AMUSEMENTS What the Press Abomt Agents Say : a-- | MYSTERY MAKES FINE | NEW GRIFFITH FILM For hi¢ latest motion picture sen- sation, "One Exciting Night," which has been announced as the feature attraction for four days, commencing APR. Matinee Daily at 2.30; Evening at 8.15 D. W. GRIFFITH'S One Exciting Nigar 'HALF.A MILLION DOLLARS IN A BARREL OF FLOUR Is the prize sought by sleuths and suspects who turn a home into a House of Mystery, guests into prisoners, Love into quaking fear. WHO MURDERED JOHNSON 7 . « The query all seek to'answer as stealthy figures slip out of secreting shadows; hands clutching here; eyes peer- ing there. Mystery ! Mystery ! Lovers suspected and * suspecting . And then--the fury of the tempest; the how! of the hurricane--and through all this LOVE WINS ITS STRUGGLE WITH GREED PRICES --Matinee, 10¢., 20c.; Evening, 15¢., 25¢., 35¢, Monday, April' 14th, at the Grand Opera House, D. W Griffith, master- maker of photoplays, has taken for hig cue the increasing popularity of the last two or three years of the stage melodrama and has produced a mystery picture par excellence. In this newest of Griffith films, a United Artists Corporation release, the great director gives five of the six elements that go t® make up ef- fective mystery--gecretad treasure, personal "disappearance, puzzling homicide, hidden identity; and the return of the gvenging spirit. And with it all he gives the spectator an altogether marvelious jassortment in the way of actual entertainment. Of course no Griffith picture would be truly Griffithesque without {ts great climax scene. And "One Excit- ing Night" has it. This time it is a storm, that type of mid-summer thunderstorm with which everybody everywhere is familiar--a torrential down pour of rain coupled with hur- ricane winds, low-sweeping <louds, split asunder every second by bolts of tree shredded lightning. Trees are uprooted and flung about like matches before an airplane propel- ler; houses are unroofed, demolish- ed, and crumble beneath the tem- past. And in the midst of it the [Boy-and Girl find their love story come true; the villain is captured; the 'mystefy of the halt million dol- 2 DAYS COM: FRIDAY FU. BY APR. 2 E SENSATIONAL MUSICAL COMEDY RI SANG ZIV] SPECIAL BARGAIN PRICES: Matinees THE WORLD FAMOUS . RUTH ST.DE SNE iS THE RNYTHM OF THE WORLD TED SHAWN] DENISHAWN GREATEST EVENT IN YEARS MAIL ORDERS NOW ! ONE NIGHT THURS. - Same production that ran for six weeks at the Coltseum in - » $2.50, $2; Bal. 1st & rows $1.50; balance $1.00, Boxes 2.80, Plug tax. Send money . WHA your order. Ss Just as y ] ships cultivate the oid. 4 4 Grand Opera House o a -- lars cleared. Carol Dempster has the feminine role and seldom does a theatregoer see a sweeter or daintier characteri- zation than she gives. Other play- ers in the cast are all of widely known popularity and ability. "BARNEY GOOGLE AND 3 SPARK PLUG" COMING Theatregoers who fail to find out anything new or entertaining in the theatre these days will have t6 ad- mit they ar®- wrong. The Cartoon Amusement Co., ig presenting a new cartoon, musical ood called "Bar- ney Google and Spark Plug" made from Billy Debeck"s comic cartoons of the newspapers' comic suppie- ments and brought to the stage by Willlam K. Wells who is also author of George White's Scandals, Ted Lewis' Revue and the new Gfeen- wich Village Follies. He has done his work well, for the transitién from the newspapers to the stage has only served to emphasize the fun of both Barney Google and Spark Plug. It's a play for kids from six to sixty, and whether you are a blasé, tired business man or a busy house- wife, you canot afford to 'miss the opportunity of.eeeing this really fanny play when it comes to the Good Friday and Saturday, April 18th and 19th. Bargain matinee daily ang evening performances. : It's for the kiddies, too, so bring them along by all means; but it is fun in the sort that can be appreci- ated 'to the fullest extent by the BTOWN-ups as well. And besides, it contains two score of jingly song hits, composed by Con Conrad, who 18 also the author of the year's big- gest song hit--"Barney Google." And the chorus! Well, we will let You judge for yourself. They're peaches, and ng mistake. DANCE FEAST OFFERED BY DENISHAWN DANCERS When Ruth 8t. Denis, Ted Shawn and the Denishawn Dancers come to the Grand Opera House on Thursday evening,' April 24th, they will offer a dance feast calculated to suit every taste. The many phases of the Deni- shawn choreographic art, the variety of the gorgeous costumes made of rich brocades, eilks and sati shot with gold and silver and jewels of barbaric splendor, the spell of the transforming lighting effects, the bewitching personality of Miss St. Denis, the virile strength and dra- Ks Matic powers of Mr. Shawn, the youth and beauty of the dancers that support them----all these and more, will make her programme the most artistic and satisfying ever offered by a company of ; e The first group of Miss St. Denis* programme is called Music Visualiza- tion ,and includes ven's "Son- ata: Pathetique," Chopin's "Revolu- tionary Etude," Schumann's "Scar- ing," Brahms' Waltz, Lisst's "Lie- bestraum," and Mana Zuecea's "Valse Brillante." vou) A i Ee Te second group {Bcludes es Span- ish Suite; a pastoral, "In a Garden," danced to @ new valse composed by Mische Levitzki; and "Xochitl," a dance drama based on an ancient Tolic legend. The third section of the program- me is entitled "'Orientalia" and of- fers dance groups of China, Crete, Siam, Japan, Java and Egypt. The Hindu group will again give Miss St. Denis an opportunity to do her famous Nautoh Dance and her "Dance of the Black and Gold Sari." In addition to Miss St. Denis and Mr. Shawn, the company includes Marthe Graham, Pearl Wheeler, Betty May, Lenore Scheffer, Julia Bennett, May Lynam, Louise Brooks, 'Peggy Talor, Charles Weidman and Paul Mathis, with & symphonic quar- tette conducted by Louis Horst, EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD BILL AT THE CAPITOL MONDAY "The Fighting Coward," produced by the man who made "The Covered Wagon," James Cruze, and featuring Beery, Phyllis Haver and Cullen Landis, will be the feature attraction atthe Capitol theatre the first half of next week. It's a story of a man and a young fellow who bluff everyone along the Mississippi, the idea being to con- vince folk that the youngster is about. the dangerous -gun-fighter thereabouts. And the whole thing is just one long thrill. Cruze has established for himself a reputation Of being the one direc- tor. to-day who can take a screen story, in this case an adaptation by Walter Woods of the stage 'play, ~"Magnolia,"" by Booth Tarkington, and get out of it every possible ele- ment of humor, "The Covered Wag- on," a tense western drama, as pro- duced by Cruse had some of the fin- est comedy touches of anything ever madé. 'And he's done even more with "The Fighting Coward." You'll get a good laugh out of the scene where ome of the charac- ters engages another in a gambling game and relieves him of even his clothes. Torrence is at his best in the char acter of Gen. Qrlando Jackson, and Cullen Landis handles the leading man's role to'perfection, while Noah Beery gives his usull excellent per- formance in a heavy role. Mary As- tor and Phyllis Haver are well cast as the sisters, Elvira and Lucy. And there's a thoroughly capable supporting cast, - Another good vaudevilie act is 'booked in conjunction with the regular programme, Haskell and Butler are an exceptionally good team, who sing' and musical novelties. S-------- LOIS WILSON AT STRAND. "Icebound," which ppens at the Strand theatre on "Monday, 1s , a story of a pretty girl who inherits a wild young fellow in a will, mak- ing a red] man out of him because she loves him, © It's. a William de Mille Para. mount production, an adaption of "S-T-R-A-N-D STARTS GDA ------ Satay eri Rac Ee 2 the Pulitzer prize play by Owen Davis, : Richard Dix plays Ben Jordan, a shiftless lad on a New England farm. Lois 'Wilson is the girl. When old Mrs. Jordan dies, leav- ing her goodly fortune to Jane Cros- by, her ward, played by Miss Wilson, her last request is that the girl take Ben in hand 'and make a mian out of him. There's a flapper cousin (Vera Reynolds) who does her best to win Ben over. She even succeeds for a time until Jane, heart-broken. is about to leave and Ben is brought to his senses. "Iecebound' is a human story of everyday people, a typical de Mille production that will stand alone for a long time to come before its equal in heart-interest and appeal is seen on the soreen. \ It's great picture no matter how you look at it--acting, direc- tion, photography all approach as near perfection as is possible to at- tain. NEWS OFF THE WIRES IN CONDENSED FORM Tidings From Places Far and N\ Are Briefly < Joe B , football star of Park- dale Canoe Club will play for the Toronto Argonauts next season. The church union bill was given a"second reading in parlament and sent to private bills committee. 8t. Brigid's separate school, King Edward avenue, and Murray street, Ottawa, was totally destroyed by fire Saturday morning, There' will not be a strike in the postal service on Monday as the federation believes the government will act regarding salaries. f Ten year old Alice Northcott o New Westminster, B.C, has com- Plated her ninth trip between Van- couver and Hull, Bagland. She reached home on Friday. i Biian \ Lifting of Cattle ' N Ottawa, April rd vi ol of the lifting of the embargo on the shipment of cattle from United Stat- es for Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Noah Present many, LOCAL NEWS ITEMS Brief Items of Interest Picked Up by the Whig Re-' porters. Tweddell's top coats $15.50 to $28. Handel's "Messiah," Choral Society, Grant 15th. J. F. Houston, Tweed was a visitor in Kingston on Thursday and Fri- day. Tweddell's top coats $15.50 to $28 H. A. Tofield is leaving for Belle- ville on Monday to assume his new bank duties. : A Kingston orchestra was in Lansdowne on Friday night, play- ing for the final dance of the sea- son. The coming week should be an effective time for Easter shopping. Something new for Easter Sunday is quite essential. Mr. Swalne, plano tuner. Orders received at 100 Clergy street west, 'phone 564w. Misg Loretta Cassidy, Tweed, who underwent an operation for ap- | pendicitis at Hotel Dieu, is Tapldly | improving. . {| Four men out of work were given Hall, April { shelter at the police station on Fri- | | day night. Seven men have been | given protection during the week. i The many friends of Mrs. F. D. Me- Callum, Colborne, Ont., will regret hearing that she .is seriously ill in the Hotel Dien Hospital. Tweddell's suits $18.00 to $35.00. Ladies! New Stock of Electric Curling tongs at $2.75 and $3. H. W. Newman Electric Co., 167 Prin- cess street, 'Phone 441. , The lecturing done by the profes- sore of Queen's during the past sea- Bon has been excellent In character and greatly appreciated by their listeners. Tweddell's suits $18.00 to $35.00. The council of the Board of Trade met on Friday everilng and decided to hold a meeting on April 29th, to discuss the hotel question. Citizens will be invited to attend. PORTSMOUTH'S GRAND OLD MAN Thomas Evans Will Be Eighty-Eight Mears of Age Sunday. Thomas Evans, a veteran resident of Portsmouth, will be "eighty- eight years young'® on Sunday and will receive the congratulations of a wide circle of friends. Although Past his three score years and ten, Mr. Evins is very active, in fact much smarter than many men twen- ty years his junior and this week he has been engaged in chopping wood for exercise. Eight years ago he re- tired, having for fifty years served as an attendant at Rockwood hospi- tal. Mr. Evans will celebrate his birth- day very quietly;at his home. Mrs, Evans died a few years ago, and out of a family of two daughters and (dive sons, two daughters and three sons are living. - Mr. Evans was born in Ireland. He has been a con- stant reader of the Whig since re- siding in Portsmouth, and the Whig Joins in extending congratulations: -------------- EVENTS AT MOWAT HOSPITAL, Box Social and Whist Drive Pleasany Features at Institdtion. The box soclal held Wadnesdey evening at the Mowat Hospital, un- der the auspices of the "Blue Byed Blondes" was a great success. There Was an interesting programme and the proceeds, amounting to $40, will the entertainment committee. ~~A Very pleasant time was spent on Friday evening by the patients and staff at Mowat hospital, when they were entertalned to a progressive whist drive given by the members of Louise Rebeccak - Lodge, LOOF. No. 10 Kingston. Refreshments wera served by the ladies, after which there was a short dance. First class music was provided by the Cheeris Harmony orchestra. is ------ "A Woman's Woman" at Grand. Another large audience was pre- sent at the Grand Opera House on Friday evening whea "A Woman's Woman," a picture, which has an appeal for every tNeatre patron, was presented for the fourth time. Mary Alden and her star cast present a pleture which np person should miss seeing. This picture will be present- ed for the lagt time on Saturday eve- ning with & bargain matinee on Sat- urday afternoon "at 2.30. . a -------------- Church Notice. ; Princess Street Methodist charch ----Rev. John K. Curtis, B.A., minis ter. Bervice at 11 am. her, Rev. Dr. W. Morgan, pfof of Systematic theology at Queen's Upi- ¢ .' 7 p.m, preacher, Rev. Dr. J. W. Graham, general secretary edu- cation for the Methodist _hurch. Sunday school at 2.45 pm. Seats free. Visitors cordially welcomed. Greek Officers Arrested. | Athens, April 12.--The govern. ment ordered the afrest of eighteen officers > tes00000000 » A - Kingston | be divided between the T. DB. A. and ® -- See ees SEL 440000400904 |SPLENDID SOLOISTS | | To Be Presented by the Kings- ton Choral Soclety Next Tuesday Evening. to be congratulated upon the splen- have secured to take the principle are both enwable tenor And soprano soloists Toronto vocalists with reputations in the Queen City, and Dr. H. A. /Fricker, Mus. Bac. F.R.C. O., conductor of the Choir. Of the soprano soloist, Mrs. Gladys Read, Dr. Fricker says 'she has a voice of good power and ex-| cellent quality, both clear and bril- liant, she sings very attractively and ! Jer work fs always well studied." | Mrs. Read has been a member of the | Mendelssohn Choir for the past two seasons and is soloist in the Metro- | politan Church, Toronto, and as | such has made an eviable reputation. | Of the tenor soloist, Mr. Allen Mec- | Lean, who is also solos' in the Met- | ropolitah Choir of Toronto, and who made a great impression; inStain- er's Crucifixion" last Sunday in To- ronto, Dr. Fricker says "his future should be one of real usefulness in the musical world. He has a genuine tenor voice of good quality which he uses with sympathy and effdetive- ness." Mr. McLean is also a member | of the Mendelssohn Choir, and is to ' sing the part of Narrator in Bach's | "St. Matthew Passion" on Good Fri. day in Toronto, a very.difticult part | and one requiring great control and | mastery of the upper range. The contralto soloist, Mrs. MH. Harton of this city,~needs no intro-| duction to Kingston music lovers be- | ing very wfdely and favorably known ' 83 a vocalist who can be depended | upon to sympathetically and Jmpras: | sivel render any part. Mrs. Horton, | before coming to Canada, Tecelved | an honors certificate in solo work' at Trinity Oollege, London, and | the personal congratulations of Sir Frederick Bridge. She has an en-| viable reputation as a soloist in the Midlands of England where she has sung at the matinees of the Royal Society of Artists. Mrs. Horton also | scored @ success while on tour in France, Belgium and Italy "during 1912, The bass soloist on Tuesday is to be Mr. BE. Hess, a recent addition to musical circles In Kingston who will be remembered as making his first public appearance at the last con- cert of the Choral Society. Mr, Hess, in his home-land, was a member of the Zurich Mixed Choir of over 500. voices, and took part in all the {most famous oratorios. He also studied the "Messiah' under Dr. Broom while a member of the To- ronto Oratorical Society before com- ing to Kingston. He has an exceed- ingly wide range and his Joicp has a carrying quality which enable him to make himself heard with no ap- FOR "THE MESSIAH" | 'The Kingston Choral Society are | did cmiibre of the soloists which they } parts in their production of Handel's fi "Messiah" on Tuesday evening. The Ji are both strongly recommended by || Mendelssohn | HANDEL'S "MESSIAH" Kingston Choral ™ Society GRANT HALL TUESDAY, APRIL 15th Chorus of 100 Voices. Orchestra of 25 Pieces. » Tickets on sale at _BHSTs RUG STORE from ursday, April 10th. . ld PRICES .. $1.00, 75¢., and 80¢ PALMISTRY CRESCENTIA -- Winnafy noted Palmist and Psychologi at the * RA HOTEL April 11th and 12th Fecs: $1 and $2. "or Cataraqui Lodge Neo. 10, 1.0.0.F, The regular meéeting of the bo Vi lodge will be held Tuesday eo : April 15th. W. H. MALLORY, * R.M. DO 3 Ree. CL BLAS - WANTED SALESHEN and NERCHANTS | IP you have the ability to pects for mad ave clothing Ormaataation. 3 sive clothing L 'B ~wide reputation for value-giving. 5 Merchants will five it a i profitable to this line with thelr own. Good Territories Open. Apply NOW | ROBINSON'S CLOTHES, led. Bb Nt, 'W » Mom .- : 0 Orel i. WE Memes HY "AUCTION SALE 414 KING STREET RB. MONDAY 1p.m. Parlor and dining room furnd Cosy Corner, 3 bedroom outfi Chest, Wardrobe, Victrola H Basy ang" Rocking Cablnet 'and Runge, or Washing Machine, Garden Tools, Cod W. A. Telephone $20J. AUCTION SALE Credit 8alc®of 14 Milch Cows 'd residence of William Trotter, 3 ml east of Joyceville, on : Monday, April 14th, 1924: At 1.00 o'clock. rd E. W. JACKSON & SON," Auetio PE ITHRO gx » pearance of strain. The whole production on Tuesday promises to be one of the mpst en- joyable musical evenings that King ston hag had for many years. The orchestra of over twnety-five pleces is extremely efficient and effective, while the chorus, composed of 100 voices drawn from local singers of all walks In life, are the very. last word In efficiency, -------------- TEA, SALE AND CONCERT {In girst Baptist Hall Friday After. ono NOORmgnd Eyentag. The Ladies' Aid of the Baptist church held a tea and sale on Fel day afternoon in the Sunday school hall on Sydenham streef, Miss {Cliff, the president, received, and tea was poured by Mrs. John Littos eo Tg BRITISH ISLE MOTOR TOUR EMPIRE EXPOSITION June 24-Aug. 'Reaper Tour, » June 20-Aug. Si-is. Inter and Cole July S-Aug. ny. "ate Meter, ao Ri Immediate b n, ee . APR. WATS 20 Wychwood Park, Toronta, = Hill 6196 J CHATEAU | h 500 Phone €C WR N =n : ? Live or Dead Sion * 5 Come To The New and Miss Sharpe, assisted by Mrs. Hugh Free, Miss Friendship, Miss M. Hughson, "Mrs. Hussy, Mrs. Isaacs, Mrs. Norman Frost and Miss Isabel' Leslie. Work was sold by Mrs. Bavage, Mrs. Frost and Mrs. Derbyshire; home cooking by Mfs. Martin and Mrs, Jones, and the apron teble was in charge of Mrs. Osborne. The Sunshine Club had an attractive table at which Mrs. J. Marshall, Mrs. M. B. White and Miss Dorothy Jenkins ' were charge. Mrs. R. R. McOregor and het class also were in oharge of an attractive booth.. Among those serv- ing were Miss Naomi Balisbury, Miss Edna Chapmap, Miss Lorraine Les- le, Miss Mary Patrick. Mise Mar- tha Hughson's class had a twenty- five-cent table. ] A comcert in tite evening was en- Joyed by a large audience. Thosa uesisting were Miss Posvelwaite, Mrs. | Turner, J: Saunders, Ruth and Jack LaFair, Miss Meikle, Queen's Uni- versity, Stuart Balisbury, Normaa Frost and an orchestra provided by the Salisbury brothers. Hi inf Picture Store FOR PICTURES AND 1 PICTURE FRAMING Speeinl reduced » hbduse cleaning season. All Suaranteed. M. 8. Successor to , A. Weese 237 PRINCESS STREEY One Door Above Harrison's * \ Big Fire at Quebec, Quebec, April 1%--Fire in the loss of three hundred tho dollars in the business section of {Hy city, completely gutted the w . sale drygoods warehouse of Ww. Lymont and Sons, St. Antofng St. Peter streets, early today. -------- tts 4 L. H. Graham, Toronto, head of the science department at Colleglate, struck dowp by a car on April 8rd, is dead. The Howtenant-governor of Edward Island has veoted Church Union Bill on the gt that it is ultra vires and ; 4 -------------- Another petition against church union was tabled in the House of Commons Friday afternoon by D, M. | wae | regularly presented. | Lockout ot 100,000 shipyard ployses in England took place Sab urddy. Kennedy, of West Edmonton, meuritis, ysis. Do so » ~ ONTARIO' i ---------------------- ocd says of Prof. Andre: "Use of legs is restored to : PRE

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