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; ... -.' -1. -:J': If Itui 1! 1 1 I J c A 1 r j 8 "-i V , theatre be classed as one of the greatest he ; roes of, our age. For variety and I tense human interest as well as qual- ity of photography, they are t beyond comparison with any ever before ob- Tn 1838 Edgar Allen Poe published tained in frozen regions. They are his remarkable narrative of "A Gor- rich in scenes of icebergs, one oi don Pym" It was a fanciful tale of which is 40 miles long; of glistening a vast continent in the unknown Ant-', glaciers picturesquely broken here and arctic. It was a remarkable story there with great caverns or archways, told in Poe's best style. Today thatj New Bill a Hummer. flicht is trans-i Jack Amick's Pennant Winners pre- o.uiaiiii iixawm v v 1 i .- formed from fiction into facts by the : sented for . Wilmington amusement f films which Lyman H. Howe will pre- lover3 yesterday undoubtedly the sent at the Academy matinee ana 1 greatest, musical ccmedy production FIVE-MINUTE TALKS BY 'NATIONAL LEADERS. night on next Wednesday of Sir Doug-; at popular prices that had ever las Mawson's Expedition and discov-j put on in this city. There's the las Mawson s Expedition ana aiscuv-;put on m uiis cny. inerea ui ciaoa $ ery of the Antarctic continent. Still 1 of the dollar and a half musical com- j ' another bit of history conjured up by j edy all the way through this big fun ' this reproduction is the fact that in and music show that will be repeated t the same year that Poe wrote his fan- for the last times today and tonight, ' I ciful tale Capt. Charles Wilkes, U. S. ! and it glitters and scintillates from , . N began a voyage of exploration to j beginning to end, a gay galaxy of i these polar regions. Ke returned : beautiful costumes, nifty and gor four years later in 1842 with a geous scenery, pretty girls who can chronicle of his expedition that was wear costumes nicely, and who can . published in 19 volumes, eight of them j both sing an ddar.ce, one of the very written by Wilkes himself. In them ; greatest blackface comedy roles that he told of a vast mysterious South-; Bob Jarvis has e-.er presented any ern continent surrounded by impen-j where ten laughs to the minute etrable ice barriers. He could not 1 more than that of tne first bill and reason its extent but declared it to be . a real comedy plot that has some mo enormous. However, for no reason ments oi big interest. j in particular, the world at large re-j Bob Jarvis, in a singing and danc- fused to believe it and it has taken I ing act was recalled five times on just 78 years to vindicate Capt. i the atternoon penormances, presem Wilkes by the most convincing proof ing the niftiest line of parodies on imaginable the moving picture just current song hits that have ever been referred to. It shows conclusively heard. He simply had to refuse to that Sir Douglas Mawson can justly ' come out again when he had com- , pieteiy exnausiea am rfpeuuiic Ola the Ganges to the wind blown fields of Scotch heather, but it is a trip that Miss Pickford-has taken in: the inter val between "Less Than the Dust" and "The Pride of the Clan," a story of the northwest coast of Scotland. It is a far cry from the banks of A bill fixing eight hours as the le gal day's work for women is before the Illinois legislature. j I -V- i The twenty-sixth Continental Con-1 gress of the Daughters of the Ameri- j can Revolution Is tp be held in Wash-, ington in April. - m QiVtir tTirviisflTid- Missouri,, womeuf &ave signed -a petition to the legiSla tare of. that State protesting against a bill providing for the abolition or trading stamps and. similar forms of trade inducements. THE CLASS Of a Dollar and a Half Show TOMORROW ouble - (By Myron T. Herrick, Former Am bassador to France.) ; How long a time will France need, afc Bird- s First Law: : and wind. And there was several or ( after the coming of peace, to recover , the niftiest dancing numbers by the from the effects of the war? i chorus that have 'ever been seen. whQ can teU To hazard an an. I i Each performance yesterday ran from ger Qne would haye t0 know how jten to twenty minutes overtime njmuch ongep the war will last, what; (account of the great applause and the French losses in men and money many calls. It is a show that no one wm be and what the terms of peace j should mis today and to enumerate ! wm bg , jail of the big features would take en- Qne 'tlis .g certain in the mind of ; ureiy too mucii space n?.e. : every Frenchman and every French; I Tomorrow another big all-new snow , Woman France will not be beaten, i goes on, and one of the greatest com-."pile battle of the Marne decided that. is order regulax-ity. Obey it in your own body. Keep your liver active and your bowels regu lar and natural. Good health is possible in no i other way. One pill a day is the regular rule. Tvo perhaps three now and then, if necessary. edy features of the year, "'Rolling to TJio France of ! Ruin," a magnificent Vogue scream in ; prance of 1870. 1 two reels, starring Paddy McGuirei : land beautiful Gypsy Abbott roller 1914 was not the , dna Mayo and Eugene O'Brien In a Magnificent Film Version of the Great Stage Play "The Chaperone " A Runaway Countess Chape rones four girls in a Summer camp. They all become en gaged and so does the Chaperone. Presented by Jack Amick's PENNANT WINNERS La,st Times Today A Gay Galaxy cf Beautiful Cos tumes Worn by the Best Trained Chorus on the Road ATrnj&RJTriia: s&st une , The. Standard Railroad of The South. Arrival and Departure of Trains ct Wilmington, Effective jaa 1917- Time Not Guaranteed. - New and Novel Scenery JThe Biggest Musical Comedy i ab loid of the Season. A Brand New Show tomorrow, with "Rolling To Ruin" the Greatest Two Reel Comedy of the Year Roller Skating in Dathing Suits" A Sensation. "jler and chauffeur resign and, to add, "i further embara.ssment the count, her! husband, appears. i The comedy i.i sparkling and de-i feigned to be highly entertaining to all members of the family. "The Pride of The Clan." Next Monday and Tuesday at the i Victoria will be presented Mary ! Pockford, America's sweetheart, in her new photoplay super-feature pro-1 ACADEMY FEB. 14TH MATINEE AND NIGHT. CARTERS f?ITTLE SVER K pi'lls &tutne bears Signature Color-less faces often show the absence of Iron in the blood. , fcer's lh Carter's iron vms will help this conditior!. i skating in bath sails a dazzling sen i sation. Friday's Great Show atthe Grand. Acting the chaperon to tour young girls in a summer camp creates a sit- I uation crammed with romantic possi i bilities. But add to this the fact that i all four and the chaperon, too, be j come engaged and there lies a plot i for a raoid comedy drama. Such is : "The Chaperon," five-act Essanay fea- duced by her own company, lhe, I ture, with Edna Mayo" and Eugene! Pride of the Clan." Every Sotchman O'Brien in tho leading roles. Sydney in the country hails with delight the I : Ainsworth plays the heavy lead. i news that "Little Mary" has selected ; This oicture vas adapted from the , the role of Marget MacTavish," as ; 'stage play by Marion Fairfax. It was her next screen impersonation. For a j ' a big hit with Maxine Elliot in the , long time Caledonians have hoped to i title role. From it a brilliant, spark- j see the most popular girl in the world j ling photoplav has been produced, one characterize the charming lass of the j that will delight and thrill picture ! heather and that she will forever im-1 patrons of all ages. j moratalize te typical wmesomeness of j The situations in "The Chaperon" Scotland's tair daughters witn cnarac-1 : are decidedly unconventional, but of , teristic effectiveness is readily ex-j ' a moral quality far above criticism, j pected. The chaperon herself is in need of a However, the wonderful heart ap chaperon so often that many amusing : pear and dramatic finesse displayed scenes result. These have been well in the "Pride of the Clan" makes it; handled by a capable caet. ' j an offering that will prove of univer- 1 Not the least of the exciting mo-' sal appeal. During hor long and bril- ments is nroiinned bv the fact, that ! liant career on the screen "Little ' the chaperon Jfi a 'runaway countess. ; Mary" has portrayed characters of ;Ia;1!i0' wcr . fIoor Her first liveil a ' -young American, , number of different natlonaKlies, her K,7",,Je" 1,H ,fny "a" tuk ti 'chfl iMet : T-onont nhntnnlnv "1 .Pn Than n10. N iglt; lower floor ;()(. desires him. Then' the four young Dust." having met with record-break ! kATb ON y.VLfc at illin. io &. ladies become engaged, the cook, but- ing success everywhere. IB- ' . w ?3 p v!v.y. -t' v?-:-. Tmmi m Monday & Tuesday Feb, 12-13 Artcraft Pictures Present MARY PICKFORD America's Sweetheart and Yours In Her Second Great Super-Production "THE PRIDE OF THE CLAN" DEPAKTUBSi TO AND FKOM lo. 90. Goldsboro, Illcbmond,. Norfolk and Eagtern ! f :6 A. M. North Carolina points. Connects at Golds- Dally Except boro with Southern Hallway at Norfolk I Sunda. Southern Hailroad. i Through Sleeping Car between Wilming ton and Raleigh. Open to receive pas ; sengers after 10:00 P. M. and may oe occupied, southbound, until 7 A. M. : : i Chadbourn, Conway, ' Florence, Charleston, 1 s' Ne. El. 1 Savannah, Jacksonville, Tampa, St. i Dally. Petersbnrg,- Fort Myers, Columbia and ; .g aT m. Asheville, Pullman Sleeping Cars between ! Wilmington and Columbia, open to re- 'i ceive outbound passengers at Wilming- j ton at and after 10:00 P. M. and may be occupied, inbound until 7:00 A. M. j No. 64. ' ' s". ! 9t45 A. M. Jrcksonville, New Bern and Intermediate Daily Except Stations. Sunday. j Goldsboro, Richmond, Norfolk and Wash- ! Na. 48, ington. Parlor Cars between Wilmington ' Dally. -and Norfolk connecting at Rocky Mount i ' 8:00 A. M. with New York traing having Pullman i Service. No. 63. Solid train between Wilmington and Mt. Daily. Airy via Fayetteville and Sanf ord. 8:45 A. M. ' " No. 62. Jacksonville, New Bern and Intermediate Daily Stations. 1:05 P. K. , Chadboorn, Florence, Columbia, Augusta, No. 55. Atlanta and the West. Charleston, Sa- Daily. vannah and all Florida Points. All Steel 1:45 P M. Pullman Sleeping Cars between Wilming ton and Atlanta, via Augusta. Sleeping Cars daily between Florence and Colum bia, -Which may be occupied at Colum bia until 7:00 A. M. No. 59. 6:30 P. M. Fayetteville and Intermediate Station. Daily Except ' Sunday . Goldsboro, Richmond, Norfolk, Washington No.42. and New York, Pullman Broiler, Buffet DailJV Sleeping Cars between Wilmington and f:45 P. jf Washington, connecting with New York trains carrying dining cars; also Pullman Sleeping Cars between Wilmington and Norfolk. AKlTALflj ''o. 91 rM5 A- II. No. eq 12:20 A. 31. Tfi:,r' St 'J. 49, Dally. B:05 V, No. 52. Daily. 8:00 V. a, Daily, No. 64. Daily. 12:B0 p. n N. CO .:1-" A. M i'aiiv No. 41. Daily. :50 A. M, For Folder Reservations, ?ates oi fares, ?tc, call 'Phone 160. W. J. CRAIG, T. C. WHITE, Passenger Traffic Manager. General Passenger Agent Wilmington, N. C. B.-ih'ony 25c. r.ali'ony "j to 2.V. The Charminsest, Sweetest Story Mary Has Ever Helped to Tell. Greater Than "Less Than Dust". Is the Verdict of All Critics. Mrs. Bessie Barth Richardson, of For more than half c; ;r,ury yin Rock Island, 111., is believed to be the Emma 3 Hrown has )y.-vi :n t ho m only woman flag-bearer of the Grand tinuous employment ol" th liun ua o: j Army of the Republic. When her Printing and Engraeing Washinj. grandfather, for many years standard ton. Sh entered the uervice as a girl bearer of John Buford Post, No. 243, of n years (there weer r.o child labor died l-ecently, Mrs. Richardson was ;- , , unanimously elected "daughter of the lawf .m those days)' and n ,0 the post and flag-bearer, and proudly ac cepted the honor. a position of superintendent oi one of the departments of the bureau. There has jddt died in the Engl h village of Tooling a Mrs. Owen, who was present at the funeral of Napo leon in the historic prison isle of St. Helena, in 1821. Later, in 1840, when the body was exhumed to be sent to Paris, she helped to work the embroi dered silk flag that floated in the stern of the coffin-boat. Three women are now included among the members of the Pittsburg police force. Jannie Lee, whose yorirryal ol motherly characters is familiar to thousands of patrons of moving pic tures, is sixty-seven year:; old and has been in the theatric;-! iirofession sixty years of that time. Dr. A. Ross Hill, prsid vA of the University of Missouri, hr.s found it necessary to take some of t ho young women students to task for spending the week-end in th coHrg.? hoi'.al resting up when th"y were not sick. (Bar- a mmmmmmg-issm: m Wl- I R (5 mi WMW r.Bm: the shadowy corner I Beautiful Ladv O Presently Alice arose and came out from NLY a tlime, Patsy me boy," his mother had said, "until the ironin's done dnd ready to send back to the folks on the hill. Your pa's rheumatics is bad agin from the damp spell last week, and he needs some medicine. Just hang around the piazzy awhile, and if they don't need you there, then g'wa.n .down to Perdy's store and see what's doinV So Patsy bravely trudged up the hill to the hotel. Shyly he found a seat on the grass near the tennis court. Every body was out of doors, the air was de lightfully soft and fragrant, but no one seemed to want an errand boy. . He forgot this presently however, so ab sorbed did he become in watching two girls who were playing tennis. Patsy was susceptible to feminine charms, exactly as if he had been twenty instead of seven; and as is likewise the manner of twenty, repeat ed disappointments and disillusions never taught him a lesson. He con tinued to stare until a young man, im maculately attired in flannels, came and sat down on the grass beside him. "What's the matter, Patsy; dream ing?" he said smilingly. "Oh, Mr. Jack!" whisnered Patsv. "ain't that the most be-a-utiful lady you ever saw?" Jack Allison followed the line of a pudgy forefinger until his gaze rested upon Miss Virginia Lawrence, who now sat idly rocking on the veranda. swinging her tennis racquet at her! side. His eyes softened. "Patsy, my boy. your taste is excellent for one so young," he said. "It cannot possibly improve with age. I entirely agree with you in regard to "the young lady in question and here's a quarter!", "Oh,-thank you, sir!" cried PatSy, accepting the coin and slipping it into his pocket. "Are you in love with her?" he -asked with eager frankness. He was not at ail annpyed at the idea of a rival. That is the difference be tween seven and twenty. . Jack flushed and laughed a little. "I believe everybody is," he said. Then presently Patsy remembered his duty, and springing up quickly, with a last adoring look at the divin ity; qnv; the piazza, exclaimed: "Pa's got the rheumatics agin, Mr. Jack, and I reckon I'd better go git him some medicine with this quarter." "All right, come back again, son ny I " calle.d Jack, as he watched the little -figure trudging dawn the road. Then he rose and sauntered over to the veranda. r ' Patsy reached the village, and trot ted into the drue store with Tif mir. Jter held tightly in one hand. " After a struggle, first with his memory, then vith his tongue, he managed to make the druggist understand the name of the medicine he wanted. While be was gravely watching him wrap it up, some one slapped him on the shoulder and said jovially: "Howdy, Patsy! Want a job?" Patsy turned and saw Herbert Pres ton, one of the very nicest of the new arrivals at the hotel, looking down at him with smiling eyes. "Sure, Mr. Preston," he replied, "but if you want me to bring yer laun dry, why, ma's not done with it yet." "Never mind the laundry," said Herbert, "you come along with me." Pocketing his precious medicine, Patsy followed at the young man's heels down the street and into the lit tle flower-shop on the corner. "A bunch of violets, please," said Herbert, and the man behind the counter dived into a big, glass-paned refrigerator, and brought out a mass of exquisite purple blossoms, heavy with dew. Their perfume filled Patsy's nostrils, and he sniffed de lightedly. "Them is nice," he said. "Who's they for, Mr. Herbert?" "For the most beautiful lady at the hotel," was the prompt reply, with a wink at, the amused clerk. Patsy nodded gravely. He knew where to take them. It was just as Mr. Jack had said. Everybody was in love with her! Wrhen the violets were daintily wrapped in tissue paper and deposit ed in a paste-board box, Herbert took a card from his vest pocket, and be neath his own name wrote this: "If you really care, wearv these to-night," and placed it beside the flowers. Then the shopkeeper wrapped them, and Herbert slipped another card, with a name, beneath the twine, and handing it to Patsy, with a coin, he said: "There you are, eonny;, make haste now." 'Til do that sir, and thank, you!" sang Patsy, as he dived out of the door and up the street. Now it never.,occured to Herbert that Patsy couldn't read, and it never occured to Patsy that the most beauti ful lady at the hotel could possibly be other than the tall, dashing brunette who had so lately won hi suceptible little heart. ' And just as he was en tering the hotel grounds, he came up on her, hurrying along the path. "For you!" said , Patsy, shyly hold ing it up, and waiting for her exa minations of pleasure. She snatched it from him, her dark eyes glowingj then she read the name on the card. Instantly the light left her eyes, and she looked coldly at the small, embarrassed boy before r her "What makes you think that this is for me?" she asked. Patsy reflected a moment, then rais ing his blue eyes, he said bravely, "He said they was for the most beau tiful lady at the hotel, ao I brought 'em to you." The compliment was very simple, very naive, and quite sincere, but Miss Lawrence was not impressed. She laughed sarcastically. "I seem to have ensnared them all!" she said bit terly to herself, "from Jack Allison down to the wash-woman's son. No there is one " Then she looked again at the box. "Who sent these?" she asked sharp ly. "Mr. Herbert," came the low-voiced reply. His little heart was much dis turbed, for it,, seemed to him that this young lady received a gift in the strangest fashion he had ever known. Why didn't she open the box And why did she spea"k to him, so rudely? Virginia dropped her white eyelids and thought rapidly. So that was where Herbert Preston had been while she had waited and watched for him! She had almost asked him to take her to see the falls that day, and in the face of that he had been in the village buying flowers for Alice Langley. It was maddening! By a strange freak of this boy's, however, the flowers had fallen into her hands. A sudden de sire to see them, to read any little love message that might be contained therein, came over her. She looked around hastily. There was no one in sight. "Come in here," she said per emptorily, and led the way into the vine-covered summer-house. Patsy followed meekly, and stood before her as she sat on a rude bench in the shadows. Without hesitation, her deft fingers undid the twine and drew the lid from the box. There lay the card with the name and some thing else: "If you really care, wear these tp-night." An exclamation rose to her lips she raised one hand quickly with a passionate gesture. "You may go," 'she said haughtily. , Then, seeing his expression, she was filled with a sudden desire to hurt him. He was the onljf... living thing at hand on which" to vent her anger and humiliation. .: "For heaven's sake," she said ven omously,.: "go wash your face! You are positively the dirtiest , and most disgusting little imp that I have seen since I left New York!" Poor Patsy! Crestfallen, humiliat ed, hurt to the quick, he made his way through the grounds, seeing the trees and flowers through a mist of unshed tears. Then suddenly there was a rustle of skirts, and some one spoke. "What is it, dear?" said the sweet est voice in the world. Patsy jumped up and stared at the vision smiling down at him. It was Alice Langley, fresh and demure as a lily, with her soft blue eyes full of sympathy and compassion. Sympathy was the one thing Patsy least expected, and he burst into sobs of relief. "Now tell me all about it," she said. But Patsy was wary. He felt that to repeat his humiliation in words would bring more tears. "I believe I'd ruther not tell," he said shyly. "All right!" said Alice, with a merry laugh. ' "I just thought that it might make you feel better. Then what shall we talk about?" Patsy brightened perceptibly. "I know!" he said, "I'll take you to see a hummin' bird's nest in a syringa bush down by the brook. We can talk about that, can't we?" Poor susceptible Patsy! He was actually in love again! That same night, a young man In evening dress entered the ball-room of the hotel, and gazed with eager eyes on the merry throng of dancers. He was looking for a certain very pretty young woman, who he thought would be wearing violets. In the days following, Patsy and his new divinity became fast friends. They roamed the country-sido to gether, Patsy offering for Alice's en tertainment his little lore of nature secrets, which proved very interesting to his city-bred companion. , Soon, however, Alice began to no tice a subtle change coming over the child. He seemed restless, and on the brink of some sort of a confession. One day as they .sat on their favor ite log in the wood he burst out sud denly, "Oh, ; Miss Alice, last week I made the awfullest mistake! A, tur rible mistake ! k , you . . s'pose Mr. Herbert '11. eyer forgive me?" "Why Patsy,, what on earth are you talking about?" Alice said. "Mr.-Herbert gave me some vi'lets to give to the. mos beautiful lady at the hotel, and I gave 'em to Miss Vir ginia, 'cause jl. thought ,shev.wiiz, lut now I , know she. ain't, 'cause you, are, Miss Alice,, and 1 believe Mr. Herbert thinks you are, too, but I couldn!; read the card, and, oh! what shall I do!" It was all out now. Poor Patsy dis solved in tears. Alice was sorely puz zled as she tried ,to eomfort him. Gradually she drew from him the de tails of the affair, and she beean tn understand. Her heart fluttered. a lit By HELEN L. GORDON would manage to untie the misunder standing without appearing too for-, ward. Then she remembered Patsy. "Never mind," she said cheerily. "I am sure Mr. Herbert will send me more violets soon. In the meantime, let'.- go up to the lunchroom and get somo ice-cream." As they reached the veranda steps they met Jack Allison. He tipped his hat. "So the lovers are returning from a stroll," he said gaily. "Look here. Patsy, don't you know that every man in the place has got it in for you?" Patsy smiled broadly. Ho didn't ex actly understand, but he felt that Mr. Jack meant well. Jack and Alice had been friends for years, "pals," Jack said, and Alice made up her mind to confide in him. - - "Come with us," she invited smiling ly, "we are going to get soma ics cream." . While consuming a large mound m ice-cream Patsy listened as Alice torn the story of his mishap, with many gestures which were meant to convw to Jack some things she thought best for Patsy not to know, wow Alice was quite unaware that Ja heart had been in Virginia's keeping for some time, but Patsy knew it, an he watched his friend's face anxious as Alice mercilessly laid bare v ginia's unprincipled methods or P ing another man's affections. hurt, but Jack kept his eyes down, only he and Patsy ever knew. After she had finished, Jack was a lent. Then he said, VNewr J Alice, I'll fix it up with Herbert, iv known all along that something wrong with the fellow, at least m the night of the ball. As for Vitf" just let her go, she's not worth or. lug auuuii , That night a young man and a pretty young lady in white, lets in her belt, sat together i shadowy corner of the veraaaa i i mostly. suit oi Perched outside on the veral was .fatsy in a umuu - . clothes bought by Mr. Herper token of forgiveness. W . r te Jack Allison smoking a ciga Presently Alice arose and came from the shadowy corner, tne i from a window at her back tai her figure Into strong relief. "OhTMr. Jack!" whispered with beautiful if unconscious inc . teficy, "Ain't she the most be'alife lady that you ever saw in your "Right again, Patsy. Yourtasw improVed," said Jack sadly. i But this time he did not offer quarter. Copyright, . The People' Homo I I tle as she 5 wondered just how she ,' i , - f'f- V1' - ,i -K t 5- I' 4- J
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