1(> t " X . , . , STEACUSB ABBAJLD:-, SUNDAY HORNING,'DECEMBlilR S,-1918. -^ FRED STONE'S RISE - ASANESSTERTAINER — T,0 . D AY,— ' S. GEDDES, NEAR PUTNAM Famous .^Comedian Began as f- WINSOME LITTLE ' Tightrope Walker Follow- -- TO-DAY ' x ing'^Visit of Circus. Peter. Jlirritt's '"sketch in Every- MaryPickford body's 'for December of Fred Stone's rise in ^he,world is recommended to VIOLA DANA .imbititms youngsters desiring screen fame. , Win* N«w Laurels as "JUNE" In Wlten- Kred Stone was—oh, years - "THE under ten—a tightrope walker came to town. He was 'verv wonderful and (jome gpangles Ml off his tights. LITTLE Fred took-i them home and said: "Mother", tsew some tights on these." PRINCESS'' "Blue Jeans" An|l his mother said, "Jf you what —Freddy?" *.- And "he said "If you possibly can." By Frances Hodgson J3urnett MUTT"AND JEFF After that "Fred practiced so hard In "JOINING THE TANKS" tight-rope walking: in the back-jard, - ADDED that next year, when the circus came, RUTH ROLAND he "»v as able to vievfr it from the hole Mack Sennett Comedy in. the top of the tent, having talked j "BEWARE OF BOARDERS" In "HANDS UPf thttlier uji the guy-i'opes. After a | SMILING BILL.PARSON while the manager came out. "You'll ' Gladys Brookwell break jour« neck up there, - In "BILLIE'S FORTUNE" youngster," said he. 'Li "Pooh," said Fred's playmates, "he "KULTUE." Plaza and Elmwood Open at -2:30. kin do smaiter stunts'n anybody-in Midland Open at 6 P. M. your old show." "S DAUGHTER OP THE <#?<7i%r " So the manager asked Fred in, and then he offered him a vjob with the THE TALK circus. .And Fred's father let him go. But that was because his father OF •was a snare-drummer. They make TQWJV'-' by far-tlie best fathers. "Colonel Bridau ' Again. The. only catch was that they made Fr"ed';wear. girls'.1, clothes • and a Once -upon a time—th»§ was-ages yellow-wig- to do his clowning: in. He and ages aso, five 3"ears or so- be- haied that And he carried his cos- fore the war, says the Boston :Tranr tumes in .a. doll's trunk Later on he acted "Topsy" m "Uncle Tom's script—ra - distingTiished---American, Cabin." ("We. should like to have manag-er strajed into the Odeon in seen thar.) THIS WEEK ' Paris and came upon a performance The three .otHer important dates MONDAY. TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMB ER f, la 11. »1» of "La Kabouilleuse," -a romantic^ in Fred Stone's lively life are: 18S8, x comedy for which Emile 'FabreXwas, when he met Dave Montgomery: THE POPULAR SlNGINa COMEDIENNE indebted to tlie "Uu'Menage de Gar^ 1904, TV-hen he met "Lady Lunatic" an icon" of Balzac. "The Wizard of Oz," who became MARIE STODD.ARD As was not altogether unusual- Sirs Stone and the mother of the with him, 11 r. Frohman (for . the three Stone daughters; and 1918, IM SONfl CARTOONS BY BLAIR TBEYNOR American manager was ''C. IF.")' saw when Mr, Stone went into pictures, ir. it a promising- suggestion. He and~;milllons ;.of us who' haven't ;seen KNUTE ERICKSOH Assisted by FLAVIA ARCARO watched the sv>j.;tgenng old buclc just" about the funniest and nicest INv" CUBED1 stricken while rehearsing- a. scene at who richly dominated the stage of person in the world can see him, the studio, and her condition quickly,the Odeon that afternoon, and., ever and all the rest cn.n Bee him some Twcame seritfus. ;Her physicians re- Imindful as he was of his family .of more. - ; FENTON-ancJ FIELDS fport her condition as encouraging, [stars, he said to himself, .."This is A VARIETY TEAM PAR EXCEUENCE. a play and a part for Otis Skinner." THE EMINENT POSING ARTIST . One of the : newest stellar lights Xow "C. F." had no French and could to "brig-hten. tlie'^Lib'erty Theater'-'cir- not follow the dialogue, but he did MLLE. RJALTO & COMPANY THE WEEK'S CALENDAR cuit- is Marie Dressier, vv-ho - has'• just have, of course, a lively sense of the PRESENT THEIB POSING NOVELTY, "THE A DTIST'S OBEAM " \>egufl a'six weeks' tour.: Miss .Dress-'theater. And so while the players,.o£ PALACE .ROLLER RINK 'o-'-i; c5.,T)"6'rtiTic: company, includes | the Odeon ivere acting: "La Eabouil- ;New.' Wanagement'" and Attractions AND. TWO .OTHER STELLAR:ACTS £q!s Ix>ris, soprano; "Jean Clement, Ileuse," Mr. <»ohman was busily in- 572 S. SAUNA ST. PRICES—MATINEES, lie, 17o! EVENINGS, lie, 17c, 2*0 Empire—All tlie week. "Half Past Eight." . Ki'ai>!v!ia • Riker, tenor; jterpreting their pantominie u> • liis SUNDAY ENTERTAINMENT CONTINUOUS Temple—Vaudeville. . • : •"• Prefleric Holcombe,.basso,'and, Kuth|own not insensitive imagination. SUNDAY..AFTERNOON, 2:30-5 EVENING'PRICES. PREVAIL ON SUNDAY THAT IHEES KapoDorti pianist. : ' j So when Paul Potter was. first ptu SUNDAY NIGHT—Special Session Crescent—Taudcrille. . .'.'•'•' ,'• •-.."..'•>'.. •. '• :. — —-^ to. work by Mr, PYohman' m tlie 8-10:30 With "Orchestra. :f; Ttip;'al5flity.-of^a play-to stand on iadaptation of Tabre's comedj.^Ue _,MONDAY~TRIO SKATE its.i.Tnerits alone- was demonstrated [speedily returned to his chief. ""La, Special Attention to Beginners. -^TVith''" great success recently- "when jRabouilleuse," it seemed, was in Private __ Lessons by Mr. Murray, •'•Tfte/-Kiss -Burglar," sans costumes I many ways not the play which "C. , and sans scenery,.- which had been. F" -liad outlined .to the .playwright, The Passing Shew;j delayed -at a distant railway station. and then came one of the "Utterances BAP.. Brutus," toy J, yi. Barrie." | gave its opening .performance in the which some of the retinue of "C. Fi" |ntoniime Comedy Revue , _ is now in rehearsal • in'.^Ne- - w iIjab'ert ---•v theate-— —r —at -.Ca'ni .p- -Deven- s and stm remember. "Xever jou wind." \ , York under the direction;;of [-^OQ-' enthusiastic applause from a said Mr. Frohman. "jou go ahead Men ".'Payne. In, the cask, besides j capa'citv audience ' - and write the plai I thought I saw." ' m. Gillette." are Sam Sothern, [.; •••."." • .-^-—=— ' ' . | So Potter wrote "The Honor of h European Novelties Louis Calveri. Grant Stewart,. J.-^H. K, Eti{e} .jjarrymore is going to make _... Family," and as its hero; "Col. Brewer, Hilda Spong, Harriet :Qtis]a n 'extended tour o£ America - this Philippe Bridau," Mr.'Skinner, made Deilenbangh, yiolet^Kemble _Cooper, jsea!.on itl ..The orc ;chancc." Her one of the Ijiffgest hits p£ his career. Myrtle Tannelnll, EHzabeih ^Risdon lait tour was ma4e three years ago He is playing' the role again; and at Empire all the Week and Helen Hayes. Both Mr. Sother, n in "Our Jlrs." JlcChesney." "The Off has made=another bis hit in it;- —THIS.C.WEEK— and Mr. Breiver have come from chance"-is a'comeclj- by K. C.'Car- WON., TUES.' AND "WED. London especially to play the parts they 'created In .the. original produc- ton,Avbo ..wrote, ."Lord, .and Lady Castles Hard-Up in Paris. MATINEE DAILY tion of the play there. ' -' . Irene Castle,? recalling, the day HE'S IN A HAREM NOW! the Featured Comedian With "Half Past when she ;: rand Ternqn were strug- Ethel Barrymore, now play ins- on "Eruce'"JIcEae .-is- the'-.iiero.- of an- glil>S lor a livllliood in- France, 'tells HARRY HAYWARD & CO. Loose-Fisted, Sharp.Tongued American Runs Amuck. tour in '"The Off Chance," tells of other love etory" in David :Eelasco"s in Everybody's for ^December, the In a Most Unusual Comedy Playlet £f-Eight"—Sybil Vane, Bud Snyder and the Clef production of "Daddies" in the Be- uncertainty of those times when the Entitled Tough Quy of Morocco and Doug Mix Thingf Up Every her meeting a. species, of, the source of the nest deal "was prob- fcg&;Club Jazz Band Among Those Who' Will Help genus, "amateur.playwright." iasco theater, >Tew York. How iemalic. Minute. • v - , "I even remember the' date," says - times lie has acted in a similar j . "Every ,. time 'we, paid the- rent, "CHICKENS" JMiss Barrymore. "It was September to Entertain. 23d, 1S95. I Know because it was; THE 3 MANNING GIRLS the first performance of'That Imp , , ,.„, . „ ln_ .Up-to-date Songs. dent Youns Couple,' at the^Empirei'or twenty years ago, it would ie iJ^f- I vard. champagne on these Past Eight,"' an English, revue in "which pantomime theater, New Tork. Uncle John Drew I ficult to say. Certainly the name o£ i occasions and more tiian -we wanted was the -star and I was in the cast. the1 stage lovers presented by the to cat, because there was so litUe THE TWO JESTERS Douglas Fairbanks comedy is the principal feature, will play the entire "week left from the rent that it never The man sat in a front seat. He had distinguished . Englishman is legion. Singina comediant^of Excellence. at th-2 Empire, opening to-morrow night. Joe Cook, a "black mustache and sharp eyes' and His description of tneir evolution seemed worth saving, and the glass he looked lonesome and be kept bears, therefore, the stamp of au- of wine washed our cares away and ?i$eett-]iere last season in "The Bed Clock,'- is^the featured comedian looking- at me whenever I was on thority. kept our misfortunes from swamp- tie stage. He fascinated me. The ing? uk "We even used to order a UST HALF |^iffi:the produetiori. ."-';..- "Lovers and their methods of love- SPECIAL FEATURE ATTRACTION nest nigh-.-— t. he was- there —•agai» n "an -•d makiniiMiiviJiig; havi4*i» e changed,vw<"-i'Svv*» " hiiec uc\,i»ideclaresi co. whole steak for Zowie (Vernon's ^jjjfi^yti'i .Clef Glub jazz Land is included in the organization and 1 l " dog), to make.it a big night for her SS^SSlS * $££**-„. %?*«£ --N-othfnS in the theater has .changed too, I can remember Vernon buying IprprjuseSrSonic lively music.. Others prominent in the list of enter- " , scared_ . The__ , -n on , .our 15:,. i much. ^, on the stage WH1TES1DE SISTERS matinee I, found him waitins the sed to be Uer me a petticoat and hat with one of In a Dancing Novelty.. Elaborate | tainers -are Sybil Vane, Bud Snyder. Joe 3Ieliuo and Roy Stever our 'rolls' "o£ borrowed money, T7c stage , Hestopr.e_ d me as I words sensationai deeds. Aa. ' 'Special Settings: . Gorgeous BOUND IN MOROCCO fcv_-i:-^r^_ -, Lpyejoy. rx had admired them both on our way ;.'. '- : Costumes. - ." • 9 • - *° - ^ora morbidly saturated their ro- to and from rehearsals, and I had •vaudeville bills at the .Temple and Crescent promise to looked so long: and hungrily at the To-morrow ^ '" - -;no .more as Camillemi . F..te':-"ap: to the nsual standard. . '.minnspHo black-and-white-striped petticoat MARGUERITE CLARK IN "THE SEVEN SWANS" and B 'Armands' arc heroes o£ costing- nineteen francs that, though i-Half Past Eisht" opens at iti,o6 save where here and thcro & "Song .Cartoons" !slamme. d the door Jn his face. In;^ we could 111, afford it, Vernon insisted Tuesday '- ^ taapire lo-morrow night. Syra- at the Temple. j the dressing room I looketS- at tlie are revived by some producer on buying""for me even before tre t fijfcose'tbeatersoers will have the op- j manuscript and paid the rent By the time wo had "THE KILLER" SESSUE HAYAKAWA IN "THE CALL OF THE EAST" of seeing asain Joe Cook, The Temple for the first hj]f of the I seemed wonderful had dinner and taken a cab home, ivcck wfTl featcr* ^f-inV ^'oddard iried "n-ith it to "L-nclc • John. •It'si*« seiaom rcvncu wi.n any ue^ee there -was very Httle left to start the An Extremely Funny. Playlet. Wednesday if'tjie. Versatile comedian who appeared week -nni rcatt,re Jlanc ?,oddard,)Isr 1!«' Uncle John iookcd! of fmanciaj success, even when they next day." . pjiero'. last season in "The Rod Clock," the popular - coraedicnn«, j a't it. 'Wliat is it?" said he, 'A play." ' beautifull' y- costamed an—d* set—•'. PRICES —Mats., lie "and ITc; ELSIE FERGUSON IN "THE SONG OF SONGS" j-l'HIs "nevr vfehicle offers him exceji- "sonjr cartoons" by Blair Treynor. isaiu I. The retelling: of great love stories ol In the manner of Oisnosinc of their Evei., He, 17c/and SSc. Itiss . Stoddard describes. b
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