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Newspaper Page TextTIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX," PORTLAND, APRIL' 21, 1918. 5 BIG BILL FARNUM KNITS FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN FRANCE Famous Movie Actor Clicks the Needles With the Alertness of the Fem inine Hand Diversion Quite in Contrast to Strenuous Photoplays. ii f ..-"v A '. 1 4 is vs. ; Sunset Th eater. Hart appears wfth House Peters and Enid Markey in the Triangle production "Between Men." while Chaplin Is back in his Mutual two-reel hit, "The Adventurer." "Between Men" presents the Hart of chaps and a mix-gun in a "biled" shirt. Of co u rue. he wears the typical West ern regalia a part of the time, but the story has to do with the invasion of the East by the Westerner and the lat ter' conquest in love and finance in a land unfamiliar. There's a thrilling man-fight in "Be tween Men." with Hart and Peters in dulging in a melee which results in broken furniture and broken heads. Peters is the villain of the story, the broker who attempt to win a girl's hand through her father's financial weakness. How the big and breezy Westerner carries the girl's heart by storm meets her Eastern suitor on his own ground and m-orsts Mm and then carries the fight to him physically, is unfolded in a stirring five-reeler. "The Adventurer" Is one of the best of the Mutual comedies made by Chap lin. This Is the picture in which Char lie appears In convict t ripen, escapes from the penitenttary. installs himself as a social favorite and makes his exit Just the law U. S. SAILORS MAKE BEST OF DULL DIRIGIBLE STATION LIFE Boys Who Take Risks as Part of Day's Work Overjoyed at Receipt of Shipload of Bats and Boxing Gloves Which Dodges U-Boats. BT HERMAN WHITAKER (Author of "The Planter." 'The Set tler." Over the Border," etc.) TTTHAT the ." the commander Vy began aa I stepped from the train, then concluded, "Who would have expected to see you down here?" You see, we had crossed on the same transport five months before. "Down here" was a United States dirigible sta tion on the south coast of France. Wherefore his surprise to see me, .a civilian, there. On the transport he had commanded a lifeboat or . would have ha the IN an Interview w hill, the well-k L' -boats gotten us and as T rtmcm. step ahead of the officers of bered his careful examination of its oars, sails, sea plugs: how he had tasted the water and biscuit to make sure they were fresh; also his lecture to the boat's complement of passen gers, i knew that the station was in good hands. While we were being- whirled away in a "Peaceful Henry" I took stock of his sartorial aspects, which had changed Film Flickers. ith Harrlette Under- nown film critic, a few dart ago. Ueraldine Farrar made the following: Interesting confession somewhat since we parted at Liverpool. regarding her own screen favorite: I A sailor on horseback has from time "1 suppose you will laugh when 1 1 Immemorial been something of a Joke. tell you whom I consider the greatest A sailor on skates, roller or ice, wide artist of all. It is Charlie ChaDlln. 1 trousers flapping like ravens' wines believe that man could do anything he rhythm with his stroke, is hardly less chooses to do. and his leading: woman. I runny. .Neither does your seaman look Edna Purvlance. is the prettiest little 1 we'l at the wheel of a buggy horse or thing in the world. Every one out osoy. in tact, it Is quite hard to fit West Is crasy about both of them. If you never have met Mr. Chaplin, do not fail to do so when he comes East." If you saw Mary Plckford in "TTie him Into any background but that of the sea. His clothes and sea roll clash with all other schemes. But in their brown service uniforms these flying sailors of ours are quite natty. But for Little Princess." you will remember the the blue and gold shoulder straps It little girl who played Becky. Well, her I were hard to tell the commander from name Is Zasu Pitts and she was dis covered by Mary Plckford herself and Mary told Charlie Chaplin about her one day and now little Miss Pitts is to be seen with the greet comedian In some big comedy roles. 'casn From thrilling man-fight In -The P pollers" or any one of a score or two tber strenuous photoplays to the gentle art of knitting Is a big Jump, but Karoum's press agent asserts that Big Bill has learned to knit. The reason T Why. It steadies Bill's nerves when he's scheduled for a rough-and-tumble scrap Just to sit down for a few minutes and click the needles purl, count one. etc, or whatever the countersign may be. ' However, the average man's nerves would be considerably frazzled after tussling with a ball of yarn and a pair of big needles. NEWS OF THE PHOTO THEATERS Continued from Page 4. A call to men In the motion picture Industry who desire to do their share toward winning the war, but are not within the age limits from which the Government Is selecting the draft ar mies, wss tsfcued recently by the Na- Young Men's Christian Association. ""du" l?,er.FT.een ' the prospect The special need Is for men who are "',, ' ,i"r . . -,.,. - j I istlc painter would have used up half "P."! Pr,or- ",m cutter, and re- a tub on each A Jn M goutn j?rance an officer of our line. Sailors la Qaeer Quart era. , Like the "heavier than airs" I had visited at another station, the war had dumped this lot of sailor lads In queer quarters. Beyond the dead flat mile of the flying field a river a real one, wide, deep and swift, quite unlike the Thames and other creeks they dignify with the title across the British Chan nel swept the stone skirts of a quaint, peaked French town. Here and there low stone farmsteads splashed pair men. Mary Miles Minter received her first love letter a few days ago. Most stars have long since lost count of their billet-doux, but the swains have rather held aloof from little Miss M. M. M.. probably owing to the fact that al though her age Is still "hotly con tested." there Is a "little girl" look about Mary that sort of cools their ardor. At any rate, along came the contract, will be today's unusual film effertnr at the Liberty Theater. Char lie, with his hat. cane, shoes and "fun nylsms." la back again, his fir.t new production being a three-reeier and fald to bo the funniest thing be has ever made. Hanger, th most primitive of all amotions, according to psychologists. Is the motive that supplies punch to many of th. Important scene In "A Dog's Llfe." At th opening of the slory Charlie Is awakened from his outdoor sleeping quarters in a fence corner by the tanta lising odor of steaming viand offered for sal by a passing hot-dog vendor. This leads to a number of spirited ad ventures with th police, who resent Charlie', ambition to eat without pay ing th usual fee. Later on. Charlie', faithful dog. famishing for something to test his teeth upon, digs up a well lined pocketbook that some crooks have burled In th ground. And when Chartl attempt, to speiwt tne money that haa thus been provided In a nearby raf he meets the big moment ot nis career, for It bring, him Into contact with a beauteous cabaret singer, wn Is herself starved for lor and kind- Be. "The Thing We Ive." a Psramoun Btvntnr-lar starring Wallace Reld kAthlvn Williams. Is another feature f the new Libert- bill. It is said to be a deeply patriotic, stirring photoplay and Is built upon th Idea of having a munition, msnufartnrer to bid In all contract, for the allies and thn delay the work. How this pint was foiled by a determined and true-hearted Ameri in and a pretty but equally loyal and tr'ie-hearted women, is unfolded In th ' photo-tale. LA TOSC.V IS HU.MTIC GEM Paalloe Frederick. Marring la Para mount Film at People. It would b difficult to find. In the vhAU tun of drama and opera. piece that has won mor si rival re nown thsn "La Tosea." which Is Pauline Frederick's latest Paramount olcture. which opens an engagement this morning at the Peoples Theater. Written by Victories Fardoo DP ni. r xn vaara ago expressly for tiaras. Bernhardt. It wa. In tnia piajr, later adapted for the operatic .tag. that She mad on of the greatest uc- ctse. of her wonderful career. Th posslbilltie of "La Tosc a. i screen drama can hardly b overesll mated It I. as perfectly adapted to th film, aa If It bad iw-en wmnen for them, and Mis. Frederick a the 1-eantlful Italian singer leaves noining to be desired In her magnificent In- l.rnraf.tlnn Inrtnita care and attention to ins ttetails of production are apparent In k. hiiiiiiin. of th them, and it is .,t .hat "La Tosca la on or tne moat .iinulti films thst has been produced for some time. A large com pany of players, directors, camera men and "props'" wen sent t St. Augustine. ! wher many ot tr. lienor scenes wer taaen. tiici f th CasO of St. Anvelo. th Inte rior of th Church of St. Andrea sna other famoua Roman editice. were ronatructed. sometimes only to appear neon th screen in a single momentary flaah. Viu Frederick, in the adorable curls and oualnt poke bonnet-Ilk hat. ai fwted by "Tosca." Is said to b more beautiful than ever and as one watches her Bros-resa through the episoo th hiding of th fugitive. Angeioiii. th eaptur and- torture of her lover. Mario, for It. and th beguiling or ins hardened old police chief. Baron Scar- pla. Into liberating her lover, w can not wonder at th saa navoc sne wreak, upon th heart, of hen many suitor. MAJESTIC HAS MISS TALMADGE "The Studio Girl" l H If Production Fxr-rllrnlly Suited to Talents. Constance Talmadge. who firmly pleated herself in the hearts of Port land photoplay fans as one of th most vivacious actresses of the screen when ane was presented In "Scandal" a few ateeks ago. is bsck at the Majestic this week in "The Studio UirL" a big pro duction excellently suited to her pe culiar talents. , , tne true American gin wno oo- Jart. to a loveless marriage, jiiss iai snadge appears even to better advan tage than eh. did In her previous pro duction. Th story tells of a cnarraing strl in an up-state town wno is eaila-1 noon bv her aunt to enter Into a sosriisge with a wealthy but unattrac eve of th ceremony aha hide. In an automobile belonging to an artist. Then the auto speeds on to New York. Of course, complications arise, but the artist prove to be a gentleman an everything ends hsppily. like all nice stories should, by the girl and the art 1st getting married because they have been In love all the time. "The Studio Girl" is adapted from the French. "La Gamine, the America version being written by Paul West, the fsmous author. The setting, are all American and the story is modern. As a vivacious comedienne. Constance Talmadge cannot be excelled, and "Th Studio Girl" gives her ample oppor tunlty to display all of her wonderful talents. Those who want to get awa from heavy drama and sob-stories will find her latest production the most ex cellent entertainment. The Majestic programme Is completed with a two-reel feature comedy. Waiter's Wasted Life." also the latest Path. New. Weekly. COLTMBIA BILL IS THRILLER IlfalthrllI, Offers fnlque Story of Wife. Devotion to Husband. Th Columbia is presenting a unique bill, slsrting today, mlth Iorothy Dal ton and Robert MrKIm in their Trlan gl nlar. "Unfaithful." and William Desmond In "The Marriage Bubble." Both of these plays, the first drama and th other a comedy, were originally In the standard five-reel length, but. curious to see how they would b taken by the fans throughout the country. Trlsngle relessed them together. 'Tnfaithfiil In two parts and -The Marrisge Bubble" In three. IJncoln one said: "All thst I am I owe to my mother. It was a game and frank astlmatlon of the vslue of little woman's effort. In th success of a man. Many a man gain, his reputation through the self-effsclng efforts and careful guidance of a little wife in the background, whose solely desired reward I. th .uccess and hap piness of her husband. "Unfaithful' offers a unique story of a wife's effort. to assist her husband, who Is a nov elisL out of his literary dilemma. To accomplish her aim. she risk, life and honor, and only good fortune prevents her well-meant effort, from culmlnat Ing In a grav tragedy. TIMELY DRAMA COMES TO STAR "The Zeppelin'. Last Raid" I. I nee Spectacle Arbleh I. Fall of Thrills That which the anti-German world fondly hopes for. a revolution and over throw of th Kaiser, with th estab lishment of a government of the people. s the story theme of the Thomas H. Ince spectacle. "The Zeppelin s Last Raid." which opened an engagement at he Star Theater yesterdsy. ith Tt Is being shown a two-reel Fatty Arburkle comedy, a hilarious affair titled "The Small Town Bully." As a thrilling spectacle this Inc. photodrama rank, among th best. It a packed full of action from the very start and will keep any audience on edge throughout the live reels, and make them feel that It was too short. The story Is purely Imaginary, but It la most timely. In the very first reel a realistic raid by an enormous Zeppelin is shown. This Is done wonderfully well, bringing out In all Its horror th destruction of a peaceful little town. The method of dropping the bombs, the operation of he air raider, the blowing up of build ings, and finally the destruction of the Zeppelin, are all Interestingly depicted. And if this Isn t enough, a number of hrllling scenes built around the cap ure of a suspected spy are given, with he street riots and th. uprising of the Whit. Cross Liberty Society. The thrill, most assuredly come thick and asf. with hits of heart Interest In jected here and there that will bring out many a handkerchief. Howard Hickman and Enid Markey re the chief players in the Ince spec tacle-story. Hickman is Brandt, com msnder of a German dirigible, while Miss Markey is Louise, a revolutionist who prevails upon Brandt to Join the White Cross Liberty Society. He proves is devotion to the cause by wrecking Is huge raider. HART PRODCCTIOX AT SCXSET Charlie Chaplin In "The Adven turer" Scrlctly a Comedy Feature. William Hsrt. In Portland In per son today and tomorrow, and Charlie Chaplin, th king of slspstlck comedi views, fat-bellied windmills waved gray wooden arms in the distance like ple thoric millers warming their hands on a frosty morning, from the dead center of all which the great canvas hangar raised Its hundred feet of height and ran like an overgrown haystack 700 or 800 feet along th field. The men were at dinner when we arrived. In one of the low huts that form their home in this far-off land and one glance at the table confirmed hlle cruis that the ou.ay ep j an Impression I had gained whl; term., wild promise, and pleading for ,ng. wUn our destroer fleet, VII1V ULsMIUWICUflClllclli. A eyed censor of Mary's ma throutth and then handed It over to i I UUI UUOll lV CI llVl lUV it il American officer, taking it by and it over to larKe doe not "eat" a" wel1 BS nls Mary Mary read a few words, gasped. cneei.,ei!11. A dam; wld ' ! t vertically while traveling turned pink then blushed ' violent the bleak countryside. The commndr "M lsiM" horizontally, the red. and with an enraged squeal threw h . lre.dy ,old m. lttla French wind is stronger, of course, than if every pore. Their conversation at ta ble bristled with technical terms; was dark with flying lore. Technical Terns Confusing. "Sondage," "angles of inclination," "ascensloned forces." "stabilizers" and "elevators," "fins"- full - mouthed' phrases such as these confounded my layman's ignorance. I wanted to learn and I did; among other things that a dirigible is operated on practically the same principles as a submarine; which might be expected, aa air and water, the mediums they float in. differ only in density. Both are fitted with nr ow vertical and lateral planes. - the "fina" and "equalizers." which cut the air or water sharply and deliver it in a steady stream to the rudder and ele vators." The latter are large discs placed at the ends of the "stabllzers" and are really Lateral rudders. Raised, they catch the wind and send the ship up. Depressed, they pull her down. The ship swings, of course, like any sea vessel in the direction the vertical rudder turns. Dirigibles are safer than sea planeB. which fall if their motors tail; hut the former can float for hours while their mechanics make engine adjustments or minor repairs. Also they can remain poised above a certain spot to deliver an attack or take an observation. The greatest advantage of all, they can stay out for 30 or 40 hours and cruise TOO or 800 miles. Because of these ad vantages your "lighter than airs" are inclined to put on a little "swank" and look down on the "heavier than airs" a. belonging to a primitive craft which practically represents the stone age in flying. They- seemed to be in doubt, however, as to their position in the scale with the submarine till the Com mander summed up a heated argument. "We steer by landmarks over the earth, by compass at sea. It isn't nec essary to learn navigation. Those sub- ' But such marine chaps have to know a lot more than we. Among the things the "lighter than air" must know is how to make the hydrogen gas he uses in flying. After dinner we went round to the gas house where the hydrogen is stored canvas omlter which, in turn, is con nected by canvas tubes with the dirig ible ballonets so that the exact pres sure required is always maintained. Three "caustic" pits, from which the gas is evolved, still lay wide open on the outside as the French had left them, extending a cordial Invitation to unwary persons. One of our lads ac cepted it one dark evening. Fortu nately, he fell into a solution weak by comparison with the thick, turgid acid in the next pit. Instead of being cooked to a crisp he escaped with minor burns. Phrase. Are Explained. "Sondage" and "angles of inclina tion," those mysterious terms, ex plained themselves when the Lieuten ant, who was showing me around, the station, sent up some toy- balloons to determine the wind velocity. If they field the ship's great bulk had cloven the air with a sough like a rising wind. On the last round she was go ing at a pace that put her in a few minutes low down on the horizon; but just before she went out of sight she passed a second speck that grew and enlarged almost as quickly as she had diminished. "It's the V ! From B !" The Lieutenant's face could not have lit up more brightly had it been hi3 best girl instead of the second ship of the four that would make up the com plement of the station. He added, as she dipped her nose to alight, "If that's little D at the wheel, you are in luck. He's the boy that can give you real stories." It was, and he did as we two sat with him at a late luncheon. A small, dark eyed Frenchman, he spoke English so perfectly, moreover, that his narrative lost nothing in matter or spirit by translation. "Oui, M'sieu." he confirmed the Lieu tenant's assertion. "We 'sank two sub marines at this station. With another we folight an artillery duel. Oui! the little V outfought a Boche U-boat with only her little popgun "This way it was. M'sieu.. e had slirhted her steaming on the surface. and had she kept her course we could easily have come down the wind and bombed her as we passed. But she was wise, that U-boat wise as a woman, whom, as you know, M'sieu, is wise without knowing it. Instead of wait ing for us. the U-boat headed into the wind, which blew so strongly that with our engines at their best we could make only 14 kilometers the hour. That was the U-boat's speed, and while we hung astern she fired 15 shells at us. Some burst close so close that the little V still bears the scars on her body. But luckily for us and she, they were not Incendiary; did not set her on fire. We answered and hit her, too. But our little, one-pound shells glanced from her curve like peas from a bald man's pate. Oui, M'sieu, Just so! Laughter Makes Life Worth While, Says Dainty Actress. Lollta Robertson, as Her Husband's Leading Woman. Will Be Seen la "Nothing But the Truth" at the Heillg Thursday Night. LOLITA ROBERTSON', who in pri ' vate life is Mrs.) Max Figman. is also her husband's leading woman In ,tbir comedy,. "Nothing but the Truth," which plays a return engage ment at-the Heilig beginning on Thurs day night. Max Figman is one of the most pro lific laughter producers in this coun try and Miss Robertson is acknowledged as one of the best among ,the younger comediennes. She is unusually beautiful and has a philosophy about laughter which she gave in a recent interview. "It was George Cohan who said. 'Leave them laughing when you say good-by,' and no finer . philosophy of the epistle from her and fled from the room. e Th. 1:20 ferryboat from New Tork to Fort Lee la called by commuters "the movie boat." An average of 200 or 300 town offered nothing in the wav of had risen twice the height. amusement: not even a nlcture house. Worked by a scale through triangula One could scarcely imagine a duller u"wlnd Telocy ',ea13r niuu i. .n.nrf h. vim., n.nr.th. Un I Come along! The Con the the determined. Commander cut lads had Just been made happy by off th Lieutena nt's explanation. "We .rriv.i f , t r K are going to bring her out!" photoplayers take this boat every ball and boxing sets, footballs, a box) "Her" was the dirigible, now due to morning for the studios and in honor of I of nnnlt. nn.l win innicinr rnrwarH tn I depart on patrol. The crew of 150 men th event th hucksters, taxi drivers the arrival of a Victrola. and nia.no required to handle her were already In and farmer, line up In front of the that were said to be on the wav. tne hangar- With its long rows ' of ferry-house to salute the actors. Oh "When they come, we ll be able to l"" steel piers rising In a graceful yea. th actor, love It; tickle, 'em to dance and sine: in the evenings" on arch overhead like fluted columns, its death. a a a Stephen Grattan, who plays Father Gilbert In support of May Allison in th Metro picture. "Social Hypocrites," was one leading man with the famous Modjeska. He also supported James K. Hackett In "The Prisoner of Zenda." On the screen Grattan has a long list of sterling characterizations to his credit. Douglas MacLean, a well-liked and clever young actor, hss been engaged by Thomas It. Ince. and will make his first appearance with Dorothy Dalton In her new story of the Southern coun try and Its people. Maclean will have a Juvenile role In which he should find plenty of chances to distinguish him self. vast interior spaces, the golden light that suffused in mellow streams through the canvas roof, it looked like a great cathedral. and within it, like Mahomet's coffin, which is said to hang in midVair without support, the great lad assured me with cheery optimism. "Then we'll feel all right." Boy. Loyal to Girls at Home, "Sure we will," another added. "And if they put us on the American T. M. C. A. amusement circuit, we'll be Lappy ship floated light as thistledown Un as sand larks." And they will that la, der the arch. as happy as they can be away from I Tour true sailor is neat as a New Dakota or Iowa, Kansas, Alabama. Cal- England housewife and just as crazy ifomia or whatever state they happen I about brass and paint, and the ship s to hail from. For the landed beauties I crew of mechanics were giving her the of Southern France human or land- last loving touches. Every bit of brass, scape cannot shake their allegiance to copper, aluminum shone like silver or the girls and fair stretches of the I gold. The painted body gleamed like motherland. -. a grand piano. With glue and sand "This isn't so bad for a while." one paper the master mechanic wae touch youngster summed It. "But after the I ing up a slight abrasion on the pro- war Is over me for the good old United I peller, for. with the iblades revolving States." I 2000 to the minute, the slightest At the officers' table at lunch, I got I roughness will cause vibration, which a reflex of this happiness In the satis- I will grow worse and worse till it Una f-jr.tin all at iha a ..Iva I Af th lv wrtcRR the ensrine. An nbiect so Slay Allison mane ner nrst puouc ap- outfit.: for it .eemcd that a previous small and soft as a chestnut has been pearance when she was still In ner -onKiB.nmn. of hna. eloves and bats known to pierce a blade like a high had been diverted by a U-boat to the Power Duuei. ana oreaa it orr tnrougn bottom of the sea. What an assortment of goods, by the way, has been opened lately for the Inspection of mvrman and mermaids. .They must -feel grate ful to Fritz at least. It Is to be hoped so for they are the only friends he has when she was still teens. She wrote the lyrics and com posed th score for a light opera, which she called "The Life of Moses." She also played the leading role. Miss Alli son insisted on a stage career, though her family was opposed to it. Finally, when they found that they could not persuade her to give up this ambition, ... 311SS Allison a inDiner w.-cumiiuicu iidi to New Tork. where she came to seek an engagement. the ensuing vibration. Accordingly, as with the sea planes described in a former article, every wire, nut and bolt had been subjected to microscopic examination. On the ship's bows she carried a Lewis gun on a swivel that permitted almost perpendicular depression, and. peeping underneath, I saw in their Of the dozen officers at the station . .. . . . . . . ... i . i , nearly- au nao "aineo i tn ""f'Dj" racks on each side the four bombs she school in Akron. Ohio. Many of them for the especial benefit of ... . w . m i nao do en laera lUKCLucr, n,i.u irvm tr i a- m j t i .r Aiaafce jr. en n cay never wein curia ior ,. . j i.i. I u-wrnxo. ouaj nuc e mau ctw unis th. .impl. reason that when sh. de- ' rr.' hi I1.' ' "ete,wi,ic? Goldwyn produc- I "'" " ,V i I sns wouia presently crop on a target. them had come out of civilian life In Buoyancy Is Tested. the last six months. I believe the Com- I The sand bags and mooring ropes msnder and his Lieutenant who bad having been cast off, the crew marched also crossed on the same boat with us her out and round on a -wide circle were th only Annapolis men. But into the center of the flying field. "Let what the others had lacked In service her rise!" The commander gave the they more than made up in enthusiasm. I word from his station in the bows. They had plunged nead over heels into their work; were so thoroughly! perme- clded to appear In tlons .he announced that she would never consent to be the conventional screen Ingenue. a Douglas Fairbanks told Bennle Zeld man, his press agent, one time he hated a sycophant and when Bennle was or derlns a Jazz band to play for Douglas In a cabaret scene he told the leader to bring the piano player, the banjo and .,.. that ' ,rm tne i ruin i.w no, UUi. iu w phant player at home. Bob Warner, the magazine writer. Is assisting Charlie Chaplin in the con struction and direction of the come dian', new comedies. Boh likes the work, but doesn't appreciate Charlie's calling him up at 1 In the morning and asking him If he has any Ideas. a a a Louis Huff, Wallace Reld and Ray mond Hatton presented for the 144th Regiment at Camp Kearney, known the Grlsslles, William de Mille's play let, "Food." While she was at the camp Louis adopted th whole regiment. This nit Includes a number of prominent men, among whom are Feter B. Kyne nd Stewart Kdward White, the au thora. m a Jack Curtis. Triangle character actor. a. pulled a new one In the way of get ting a vacation. He dldn t phone and say hi. rrandmother was dead or any Id chestnut like that. He simply went to th dentist and had all his front teeth pulled and then reported to Cast ing Director Hoyt. greeting him with broad and toothless grin. Curtis Is now laid up for repairs, waiting for a set of false teeth. a John Bunny, who died April IS. 1915, left a net estate of 16521.48. according to an accounting made by his widow, Clara Scanlan Bunny, of Valley Stream. L. I. Bunny, whose antics as an actor made million, laugh, was only 52 years old when, after an Illness of three weeks, he died at -his home. 1416 Ave nue G. In Brooklyn. Blanche Payson, of the Sennett Com pany, and formerly police woman at the San Francisco Fair, lost a suit recently I In Los Angeles for damages amounting I to II0.S35 for Injuries sustained by a fall In the jewelry store or o. I Wuer ker. The verdict against Miss Payson was returned by a jury of women, the rote being 10 to S. Miss Payson. who stands ( feet 4 Inches and weighs S10 pounds, looked down upon the jury I with much scorn when the verdict was returned and some of the girls became PORTLAND BOY ENLISTED VS V. S. . WHO 18 HOME OS A FURLOUGH. , t I lit y i - I 4 i I L ' j 4 X Xi LtaV Paul A. lie Paul A. Herron. son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Herron. of 575 East Sixteenth street North, is home on a furlough. He -was one of the first boys in this city to enlist in the Navy and was one of a hun dred young men whom the Gov ernment sent to the Medical Uni versity of Minneapolis. By per severance and hard study he was among the seven boys who com pleted the course five weeks In advance of the other members of the class. Then he was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Station. Illinois, and is now in charge of the surgical dressing division.' They slacked the ropes and gave her few feet. "Lower!" They pulled her down again. She had floated in perfect balance with just enough buoyancy to carry her up to cruising height. A pull at a lever would release water ballast and send her higher in an emergency. But she raises and lowers for ordinary cruis ing by the power of her engines driv ing the "elevators" into the wind. "Port engine! Starboard engine!" They both went off with a puff of black smoke. Satisfied with their even purring, the commander gave the final word, "Let her go!" Simultaneously the dozen ropes that held her slipped through the rings of her permanent stays; then, slowly, but with increasing speed, she rose and moved off on a wide circle that pres ently brought her heading back down the center of the field. In the meantime we had all moved back from the whitewashed lines that marked the deck of a submarine. At her height, nearly 700 feet, it could not have appeared any larger than a tur tle's back. A bomb, too, has the initial speed of the ship when released; de scribes a flat curve as it falls: may be deflected by a side wind. The com mander said, afterward, that he shot them 200 feet short of the mark. While it was falling, the bomb looked astonishingly large. A dead rifle shot like Doctor Carver, or any of the ex perts that tour our vaudeville circuits. could easily explode one in midair. At first it just tumbled, turning over and over; then as the wooden arrow feath ers caught the wind, it righted and shot true to the target. The ship had passed a hundred yards before it struck, well away from the concussion blast of a real bomb. Now she de scribed another circle, came back and dropped a second, third and fourth. All but the last struck square on the tar get: a side wind carried it a few inches to one side. But though technically a miss, it would still have damaged a submarine. While the French had the station, they sank, two U-boats; and Judging from that day's practice, our lads can be depended upon to carry on the good work. jach time sh. had come down the "It was suicide to persist, so we struck a wide tack across the wind to out sail and come back at her from the other side with the sun in the eyes of her gunners. But when we came about, she was gone, that U-boat; sub merged and fled from our little V is your boche. A cunning coward unless the odds are -his." ' Frenchman's Spirit Big. I took another look at that little Frenchman he had spoken so quietly, as though hanging on the tail of a submarine, a mark for its gunners, was all in the day's work. He could not have been more than five feet high. He probably weighed in the neighborhood of a hundred and ten pounds. But the spirit that looked out of his dark Latin eyes was big as Mont Blanc. The soul of him could not be weighed in tons. He shrugged when I mentiond the danger. "Is war ever safe, M'sieu? We do not always escape. Out there " a fling of his thumb Indicated, the fly ing field " we watched the Admiral fly off on a far mission. She was seen, here and there and yonder, fly ing south over the land. A ship re ported her well along the Mediter ranean, a gallant sight between the sunlit sky and deep blue sea. Then " his shoulders rose to his hair " she vanished. Perhaps a submarine got her with an incendiary shell? A flash of flame between sea and sky, the splash of her charred body in the water, it would be over! Or she may have been brought down. It is, per haps, that some day her crew will come back to us from an interior Ger man prison." Just as he said, a dirigible offers an immense target, but just how large I did not realize until, late in the after noon, our ship came sliding out of the sunset's gold. The huge bulk of her, shining and etherial, looked as big as the hangar. 4 While she was still a fly speck on the red face of the sun, the lone sentry away up on top of the hangar had sounded the bugle blast that brought the men from the huts; a swarm of black bees. As she slowed and dipped down with engines cut off, the quarter mile trail rope thudded on the ground. It was seized by a hundred hands and quickly bent to a "dead man" anchor. The guy ropes were as quickly slipped through the stay rings then, on a wide- circle, they marched her around' to the hangar. Ship Make Good Target. She loomed larger than ever, going In; "Some target!" as the boys would say, for the U-boat they are going to flush one of these days. Personally, I hope they catch her under water at least before she can unship her guns. But these flying sailors of ours show no mental disturbance at the thought of a give and take duel. On the con trary. liko the "heavier than airs' had flown with, the "daily bread" in their prayer has been changed to submarine." They will get it. too let us hope in the slang sense of the term. Meanwhile, Ihey are carrying on, Daily they go forth on the patrols, escorting convoys up the coast, keep ing the U-boats out of the French ship channels. Also they are making th bestof a rather cheerless existence. My last view of the station going away, showed a couple of lads ham merlng the tar out of each other with the new boxing gloves under the lea of a bunkhouse. Further away, two officers were breaking In th football with vigorous punts. The "heavier than airs" at the next station are all Harvard men. These "lighter than airs" hail from Tale. It won't be long till they are at each others' throats. Still further off, out in the center of the flying field, two games of baseball were in full swing under the wonder ing observation of a group of wooden shoed French peasants. The cheery yells of the players followed me down the. road. a.......................... T t jrV it t h - it T -.I I A: S I Lollta Robertson In "Nothing but the Truth." life was ever promulgated." said Miss Robertson recently. "Laughter is the sauce which makes life real. It is the salt which leavens the lump of trouble in the world and enables human folk to rise above the life of every day. "And the laugh play, as with 'Noth ing but the Truth,' can hold a message no less than the serious play. But in this kind of drama it is sugar coated, and the people who see it swallow it and think it good. It sinks in, stay, and leaves no bad taste in the mouth. "I wonder if those folk out there be yond the footlights know how good it is to hear their laughter how it gives the sense of taking them out and away beyond the world to a place where no troubles are, how it makes the world a good old place to live in and to work in and to love in. Laughter is, after all, the handmaiden of love. For with laughter one wins sympathy and with sympathy comes love, and with love comes all the dearest of dear things that life holds. "In times like these the theater holds a big place in the world. Abroad where " the war clouds have been so near for these past years the theaters have been crowded constantly. And it has been the laugh plays which attracted the big patronage because such plays take the people away from the drab terror of the horrible things which have come Into this world. So let us laugh and forget It is good to be so." SECRET TREATY IS BARED Important German Document Made Public by Leon Trotzky. EDITOR OF ELECTED. HUSTLER 3 f 4 i r , ' - ? 1 I. Edward Tonkon. I. Edward Tonkon was recently elected editor of the Hustler, pub lished by the Portland newsboys. Tonkon was one of the organ izers of the old Portland News boys" Association and was editor-in-chief of . the Portland News boy. He has been associate edi tor and manager of the Hustler for the past nine months. He is a senior at the Lincoln High School and is a member of the Cardinal- staff, the official publication of the school. PETROGRAD. March 20. (Corre spondence of the Associated Press.) The text of a secret treaty signed by the German Emperor William and Emperor Nicholas of Russia in 1905, by which it has been charged the German Emperor sought to bring about an al liance between Germany, Russia and B'rance against Great Britain, was among the secret documents made pub lic by Leon Trotzky, the foreign min ister of the Bolshevik government. This treaty was signed -by the two Emperors on board Emperor Nicholas' yacht, the Polar Star, off the Island of Bjorke, on the Swedish coast, in Au gust, 1905. It bears the date of August 25. The instrument has been des ignated as the "Bjorke treaty" and was so referred to by Emperor William. It was signed while the peace con ference which terminated the Russo Japanese war was in session at Ports mouth, N. H., and provided for a "de fensive union" between Germany and Russia, under which either should come to the aid of the other if attacked by a third European power. France, then in friendly relations with Great Britain, was to he invited to join this Russo-Germanic alliance after Russia and Japan had signed a peace treaty. It appears, however, that knowledge of the signing of this paper by the two Emperors was withheld from France at the request of Emperor William. The text of the Bjorke treaty as translated and divulged by the Smolny government reads: "Polvarnaya. Zvezda (Polar Star), Biorke. 24 Aug., 1905. Their Imperial Majesties, the Emperor of All Russia on the one hand and the Emperor of Germany on the other, with a view ot Insuring the peace of Europe, have agreed to the . following points of a treaty regarding a defensive union: Point 1 Should eitner of these em pires be attacked by any other Euro pean power, the ally shall come to its aid in Europe with all its land and naval forces. Point 2 The contracting parties obligate themselves not to make a sep arate peace with the common enemy. point 3 The present agreement shall 'come into force at the signing of a peace between Russia and Japan and shall remain in force until a perioa tne date of which shall be fixed a year in advance. Point 4 The Emperor of All Russia, on the coming into force or aDove treaty, shall take the necessary steps to inform France of said treaty and hall propose that France should join the same as an ally. "(Signed) Wilhelm, Nicholas. "(Countersigned) Von Tschirsky and Benkendorff, A. Birileff." AUSTRIA CAN'T ECONOMIZE Herr Paul Says People Already lave From Hand to Month. ZURICH April 1. Herr Paul, the new president of the Austrian Food Bureau, in outlining his administrative policy, said there could be no tal kof econo mizing supplies, for the people wer at present living from hand to mouth and these conditions could not be changed before the netx harvest, - The report of the Czech Apothecaries Association, of Prague, state, that stocks of medicaments are so low that f the war continues longer the chem ists or drug stores will be forced to close. , tive young man. on rwaim. v n ans, ar today', entertainer, at the just too frightened for anything.