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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1916)
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1916. PAGE TWO L2 GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER Knew Him "In trainer to decorate you for $ i The Finishing Touch a GOSSARD Brassiere bravery, Mr. Wadleigh. Put tis French .war-orphan medal on your coat. "But, 1 havenjt perlormea any aeea of heroism." "But vou will whan you Rive up twenty-five cents." New York World. i Illustrated is a model which is typical of our line, made up for every conceivable typo of figure and to retail at only ,, 50c 3 The care exercised by our de oV - signers and skilled workmen is splendidly reflected in the many models retailing at '. . . . $1.00 It matters J U tie whether you wear a low bust or high bust coi-set the finislurig touch to your under garments is a Gossardhrassiere. There are different models to choose from, at .. 50c and $1.00 Above all their qualities-is this "A Gossard Bras siere Kits." Hill's Department Store ARCADE theatres were u haven of rest, both being1 exceptionally well ventilated and cool. Alter the Portland board of censors get through with a picture under their new rules as printed in a Port land paper recently there won't be enough left of the picture to say grace over. Arcade Sunday Only. Henry Gayloid (Hubert Harron) elopes with Myra Holbum (Norma Talmadge.) He takes his bride to the home of his father, the local banker. Jasper Starr, th'S justice of the peace, is bitter against the Gaylords, as he is stepfather of Myra and resents her marriage. There is a run on Gay lord's bank and Jasper is appointed receiver. He acts in a very harsh famous Japanese dramtic artists. manner toward tne banner, wno aies. Henry threatens to kill Jasper. Some time after he finds the justice lying dead in the bank, liesidc the head of the dead man is a cuff link. Henry shows the link to his brother Horace. The brothers suspect each other of the crime. Henry is arrested, us he has been seen near the bank on the night of the supposed murder. Chris Tomp kins, an amateur detective, discovers C. P. Martin, the ex-cashier of Gay lord's bank, burning some papers. He finds a scrap of writing which corre sponds with some forged notes. Later Chris ransacks Martin's suitcase and discovers the mate of the cuff link found near Jasper's body. Martin is arrested. Henry is cleared. "Because He l.oved Her." "Because He Loved Her," the new T.i inngle-Keystono, shows Sum Ber nard working as chef in the cafe of Glen Cavender. Saiii steals Glen's private stock of whiskey and Glen cull's and kicks, tho hilarious chef when he discovers the larceny. This arouses Sam's ire, and he puts what he thinks is poison into a mince pie he bakes for Glen. Mac Husch, the cashier in the restaurant, has a pretty sister. Glen sends tho pie to the sis-1 ter. wnen nam linos where the pie is gone, ho is remorseful and con fesses his guilt to Glen. Sam gets a taxi and races for tho sister's house. The girl has eaten some of tho pie. Sam takes out a bottle labeled poison and drinks a libonil amount. It all comes out right when Glen rushes in with word that he had put some of his private slock in the bottle with the death's head. The one who progresses is the one who gives his fellow-beings a little more, a little better, i- Sessue Hayakawa, Lasky-Para mount star, conies from a famliy of Lillian Walker was a telephone op erator and an end in the "Follies," and her lines now silent ones have been busy ever since. Uichard Huhler used to "sling" soda in a Washington drugstore. Baby Jean Fiazer is called "Steve" by her father, because when she came he was expecting a boy. Henry B. Walthall, "the Mansfield of the movies," studied law, went to war and began in the pictures as a ditch-digger. Knrle Williams was a phonograph salesman, .when he had to talk for a living. Edna Mayo is an expert sculptor, painter, swimmer and ride shot. The picture house manager was dying. Doctor and nurse bad done their part and now stood by his bed side, waiting for the end. "He is going fast," said the doctor in a low tone. "Note the change in nis teatures. "features ciiangeu daily," mur mured the dying man, as a film, cov ered his eyes, and his spirit was re leased. A cake of soap and a pair of big snoes can always lie depended upon to cause side-splitting mirth for at least 500 teet of mm. 'J am going yesterday," answered Marguerite Clark in response to a question while she was waiting for a scene in ''Silks and Satins." She waxed rather indignant when the re mark was greeted with a guffaw. "If yoii had changed from a 1916 bride to a mediaeval heroine as often as I have in the last few days you couldn't keep your tenses straight, either," de clared the little Famous Players star to one of the humorists. 'Business does not come in the mythical golden showers; it is built up ttone by stone of cold, hard gran ite like logic." Mabel Taliaferro has signed with Metro again und will appear in 11 five-reel features. foillace Keid son of Hal Keid, American playwright. Early career reporter, civil engineer, cowboy and .. , . u ii- 1 i l. 'editor. Mr. Keid has done everything .,,, ,... im"..,! ,ln motion pictures that scenario writ rather play with a wild tiger than L,. ., fu:i. r r,i,r with a cat or a dog. , f i,ts. .livea. nml even fe.mnle . , impersonations, special i. ,i f i i,i: II ' p 't I I . lit,; a;t;uii;u iui octciui William Gillette courses in York, Massachusetts , Institute of Technology and Boston University be fore setting out to conquer the drama. George Cooper went into the "movies" when he lost his beautiful tenor voice whilo with Fiske O'Hara. Naomi t'hilders wants to appear in comedies, but her "boss" won't allow it, because she is too good in drama. SHERRY'S ! li Marguerite Clayton was brought up in a convent. 1 At Sherry's. Hamilton Hevelle, tho eminent dra matic actor and exponent of artistic romantic roles, and Marguerite Snow, affectionately known from one end of tho coimtry to the other as "Pretty Peggy," are the strong stellar com bination that will be seen here at the Sherry theatre on Sunday only in "The Half Million Bribe," n Metro wonderplay in five nets. It is an adaptation from the successful novel and play, "The Red Mouse," written by William Hamilton Osborne. Mr. Hevelle and Miss Snow are surrounded by a strong supporting cast "The Half Million Bribe" was produced under the direction of Ed gar Jones, one of the best directors on the staff of Metro. There are scores of big scenes handled in a masterly mnmier. Among these is n court room scene in which more than 800 persons appear. The setting for this scene is a faithful reproduction of a Supi erne court room in New York City, and was photographed on Sun day, so that some of the real at tendants, recretaries and others from the Supreme court, could appear in the production. Another big scone in a fashionable rumbling house, which is also a repro duction of a gambling house that once Charles Richmnn likes the pictures so well ho doesn't care if he never re turns to the spoken drama. Uichard C. Travers is a doctor, a soldier of fortune, a warrior and a man about town, and was brought up in the great Northwest, which he pic tures so well. Guy Oliver was a cub reporter. motion picture companies and was se lected by the Lasky company as lead ing man in support of Geraldine Far rar in the Lasky productions, "Car men," and "Maria Kosa" for Para mount pictures. Mr. Keid is tall, especially well buiit, and very good looking. His latest appearances are with Cleo Ttidgley in "The Golden Chance" and "The Love Mask." He also ap peared in principal support of Mae Murray in a picturization of Mary Johnston's novel, "To Have and to Hold," by the Lasky company for the Paramount program. The movio baby's prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep, Hoping that You my soul will keep. If I should die before I wake, Please don't ask for a 're-take.' " And, Lord, pleuso bless the director who omits the love scene for a climax; guard and protect the" press agent who tells the truth, he is valuable; watch Lewis S. Stone was a soldier, cow- ?ver,lne vl""m Y"u uu ' " puncher, big-game hunter, sailor and , muscne;- proieci -.name college graduate. Chaplin's big feet; rfess the censor Eugene Woodward, "Mrs. Hare," in "East Lynne," as produced by Wil liani Fox in picture form, although an American by birth she came from Cincinnati began her dramatic work on the German-speaking stage. Her mother was a Get man actress. Her first Knglish-spe.ik ing part was with Mile. Rhea. .She' later played lending roles in Shakespeare with Julia Marlowe. Then tho pictures got her." and she now has joined the group .if rex stuvs. find Mary Miles Minter's right age, and bless the cameraman who shoots from a girder twenty stories up; he needs it, too. Amen." Craft v "I think 1 will start a magazine to be called Umbrage." "Why that somewhat unuscunl name?"' "People nre so apt to take it." Ivoiusville Courier-Journal. thrived in New York city. known all over the world. and was I J MOV IK NEWS. .j. .j. .j. Ed Hussy is certainly the children's fri( ml. Not u day passes that he docs not take a crowd of children to the picture shows. They all lay in wait for Ed. La Grande is to he movied soon. "Better Babies" is the slogan for the Paramount pictographs. During the recent hot spell both V1 tm u vs -K i j ; fi . . i i x t SCENE mOMTr HLF MILLION ORIBt Jill II ' Always Look To j Kc Trada Hint. U. & FU. OOoo. 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