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TUESDAY, JUNE 3
THE WELLS
—TODAY—
KEITH ATTRACTIONS.
ALLA MOSKOVA
And her company of sifted ("lassie
Dancers, assisted by Morris
Petroff.
BIJOU RUSSEL
The Act With a Knockout
Punch .
HARRY COMER
The Fashion Plate
Comedian.
TRANSFIELD SISTERS
Vocalists and Instrumentalists.
RENO f
In a Unique and Clever
Offering.
LAST DAY
STRAND
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Dustin
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* —IN—
“AMan
in the
Open"
SEASON’S GREATEST
PICTURE
ASK YOUR
FRIENDS
s Modjeska
MAY
ALLISON
_ —IN—
“CASTLES IN
THE AIR”
Where a golden girl
finds her true romance.
Modjeska
MARY
MacLAREN.
—IN—
“VANITY
POOL”
Are you living on the
edge of Vanity Pool?
Don't fall in.
Dustin Farnum Last Time Today at
the Strand In “A Man In The Open”
“A Man in Vg' Open" is universally
pronounced to be by far the strongest
screen vehicle thus far provided for Dus
tin Farnum. and to this Mr. Farnum adds
his own unhesitating testimony in pro
nouncing his latest suoerpicture the very
best he ever had the good fortune to play.
Dustin Farnum* stage and screen ar
tistry and his likeable, virile personality
have placed him in the forefront of pres
ent-day actors. To "A Man in the Open"
he brings the enhanced qualities and con
vincing naturalness inspired by' a role
with which he is self-confessedly keenly
delighted, and of which he goes on record
as saying that it will mdd a host to the
number of his friends.
By its rapid succession of thrilling in
terest, its griping suspense and the hu
man appeal of its predominant hove story.
Roger Pocock's ‘ A Man in the Open" has
achieved an enviable popularity and many
thousands of readers.
From the moment Jesse, the half
drowned sailor struggles ashore on a
strange short, to the final episode in
which the unexpected happens and the
trick of Fortune suddenly promotes hap
piness by its welcome turn, the action
speeds with breath-catching acceleration,
heightened by periods of suspense which
grip attention, holding the audience in
Mary Mac Laren at the Modjeska Today
Mary Royal was a girl of the tenements.
Her father and mother, broken down the
atrical troupers, though her a bit queer
because of her (lay-dreams of a Prince
Charming, who was to come and rescue
her from her sordid surroundings. But
one day her fairy prince did come. At
least she thought him a fairy prince, even
though he loked old and stern and had
gray hair. But when he kissed her she
saw visions of wealth and ease and an
honest love leading to uie altar.
Little did she know that he had a wife,
whose one ambition was to be the govern
or's lady, for Mary’s Prince Charming
was an ambitious office-seeker, who had
been named for the gubernatorial chair.
He had the backing of the political boss
until the latter got wind of his little affair
May Allison Scores Big at New Modjeska
"Castle in the Air,” a brilliant c.omedy
drama adapted from the clever story by
Kate Jordan, published in the Saturday
Evening Post, was the feature yesterday
at the New Modjeska Theatre, with May
Allison as the star.
The whimsical story tells of the longing
of little Fortuna for the alluring romances
of the books she read—books that tell of
the millionaires marrying girls of her own
station and raising them to the heights
of fame and fortune.
Fortune realizes that although she is
only an usher at a fashionable theatre
she. nevertheless, possesses rare beauty
Mile. Moskova’s Big Classic Dancing Act
Scores Hit at the Wells
Mile. Alla Moskova and her company
of classic dancers scored a distinct lilt
at the Wells yesterday with one of the
most artistic and in every way most ex
quisit dance offerings ever witnessed here.
With a company of four beautiful young
girls, still in their teens, together with
her dancing partner, Moris Petroff. and
a gifted baritone singer. Mile. Moskova
presented a high class offering that is
the embodiment of grace and aesthetics.
With bare feet and bare legs, the danc
ers flit about the stage like nymphs,
the movements of the body being in har
mony with the classical music; while Mille
Mnskova's dancing with Moris PetrofT
beggars description. A beautiful Russian
woman, and a graduate of the Russian
Dorothy Gish In “Peppy Polly” at the
Rialto Proving One of Season’s Hits
The engagement of Dorothy Gish, “the*
disturber,” in “Peppy Polly” at the Rial
to. is proving one of the season's most
.popular motion picture entertainments.
“Peppy Polly” will remain on the Rialto
screen today and will give way tomor
row to David Graham Phillips' cele
brated story, “The Grain of Dult. M
That money gives no man' the right to
trample the feelings of others is the les
son which the ambtlous young broker of
Wall street learns in this thrilling story.
This broker, who fell in love with his
stenographer and then wrecked her home
when she spurned hirp. is one of the
dominating types of men such as only
David Graham Phillips could create.
“The Grain of Diifst” is a picture that
grips you from thfc start, and holds you
breathless all the way. Picture lovers
in every corner of the v filiation have long
ed to see this story enacted on; the screen
and from the interest already shown in
the forthcoming engagement in Augusta,
the Rialto is one the way to another day
. Much Interest In the Coming of
“Little Women” to the Rialto Thursday
University recognized as one oft he
most appealing stories ever written, rich
in sentiment, humor and quaint charm.
“Little Woman " »...o famous novel of
M. AJcott, has been issued in
phot ray form as a Paramount-Artcraft
special picture, and this will be shown at
the Rialto Theater Thursday. Its presen
tation at that playhouse will visualize for
the first time for admirers of this immor
tal story, the most celebrated characters
in American literature —Meg, Jo, Beth
Any.
“Little Woman” was filmed In and
about the Alcott home in Concord. Mass.,
where the story was written by Miss Al
cott in 186&.
The Alcott home has been well pre-
WASHINGTON’S PORTRAIT
PROBABLY BE RESTORED
The large portrait of George Washing
ton. which formerly hung on the wall at
the city hall, and which la now rapidly
going to ruin because of Its extreme age
—it dates from 1791—will In all probabil
ity be restored within the near future.
P. B. Carter, well known portrait paint
er, told city council Monday night that
the portrait would he of high value If re
stored. It was the largest portrait of
of Washington he had ever seen, he said,
and In his opinion would be an good If re
stored as the one Charleston values at
SIOO,OOO. As to the eost, he said, h»
would restore the picture and re-glid the
the frame for the sume of SSOO. After
some discussion council referred the mat
ter to the city hall committee with power
to act.
DEATHS
Florence Evelyn Heard.
Florence Evelyn. 3-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. It. 11. Heard, of 1321 Km-
DREAMLAND
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4.
"Perils of Thunder Mountain,"
Antonio Moren and Carol Hollo
way. Episode No. 2< One Reel
Drama.
"Well I'll Be”—Larry Demon.
Two Roele Comedy.
"Suele’e Schemes"—One Reel
Comedy.
“Made In America"—No. 7. One
Reel. «
eager up to the final solution
of the plot.
The picture is a masterly production
and attracts by reason of its clearness,
its easily followed continuity, beautiful
photography and skillful direction. The
variety of scenes ranging through tem
pest tossed ocean, ship-wreck, wave
washed sore, rough mining camp, and
its rougher populace, to magnificent
mountains and virgin woods, with unique
snatches of night photography gives to
the picture a surpassing fascination and
places it high in the scale of superlative
screen achievement.
Coming w a widely heralded reputa
tion as alfoi ** iv: \ustin Farnum the most
popularly accepted vehicle of his screen
career, "A Man in the Open." under the
direction of United Picture Theatres, Inc.
Few' modern romances have attained a
larger popularity than Roger Pocock's
novel on which the latest Farnum super
picture is based, and which it closely fol
lows in story. The rapid action so essen
tion to a groat motion picture is easily
forthcoming from the swiftly moving
story of the novel, and in the photoplay
version is added the natural advantage of
swift succession of event and change of
scene possessed by th£ screen over the
written word.
with the tenement, maid. Then tl\e boss
was about to throw him over, and expose
his scandal through the front pages of the
newspaper, when a bosom of friend saved
the day by bringing Mary to the would
be governor's home, where his wife re
ceived her with graciousness and an
nounced to the world that they had adopt,
ed the girl.
It broke Mary’s heart, but it covered up
the scandal until—well, see the finish at
the Modjeska Theater today, when "Van
ity Pool.” Mary Mae Laron's latest Uni
versal special attraction, will be shown.
It's the best thing she's ever done, and
she is supported by an all-star cast, in
cluding Franklyn Farnum, Marin Sals.
Virginia Chester. Anne Q. Nilsson a nd
Thomas Holding.
and determines to follow’ the lead of the
heroines of her dreams and find a mil
liohftir for herself. She does find one, bn*
soon discovers that he is not her hero
after all. but a man sorely in need of her
help.
The play is filled with situations which
give the noted star unusual scope for her
vivacious and subtle humor and for the
heart-gripping pathos which she knows so
well how to project into her work.
Others of tb* clever cast are Ben Wil
son, Clarence Burton, Walter T. Percival,
Irene Rich. "Mother” Anderson, Viola Do
lan and "Ruth Maurice. The production
wa directed by George D. Baker.
ballet, her beauty of face and figure is
exhibited to excellent advantage in the
deft manner in which she executes most
seductive dances. 1 ler solo offering. "The
Dance of the Arabian Fish” was an ex
hibition of her wonderful interpretative
skill and won immeasurable applause.
Other acts of the bill are very enter
taining, especially the offering of the
Transfield Sisters, n team of gifted In
strumentalists and vocalists who made
quite a hit at the Wells several weeks
ago. and who were received with equal
enthusiasm at yesterday’s show. Harry
Comer does a pleasing singing act. and
Reno is exceptionally clever in a charac
ter monologue; while Bijou Russel is a
blackface offering is entirely acceptable.
iof record business. The fact, too. that
“The Grain of Dust” will be shown for
one day only hints at splendid patronage.
The leading women characters in the
play are ijortrayed by Lillian Walker
and Edith Day. Miss Walker has hosts
of friends among the picture fans. Miss
Day became famous for her singing and
dancing in the popular musical comedy,
“Going Up.'* She is a beautiful girl, and
already is showing signs of becoming a
leader among the picture stars, although
she has been seen in only a few pictures.
Miss Day is a Minneapolis, Minn., girl,
having started her stage career as solo
ist at the Lyric theater in that city. Her
father was for years a well-known Min
neapolis newspaper man.
In addition to “The Grain of Dust,” the
Rialto will present tomorrow the latest
Pathe News, the foremost news reel pub
lished. News pictures never were so
popular as they are now and the Rialto
has made many friends by offering the
subjects filmed by the great army of
Pathe cameramen.
served and stands today exactly as it did
when the story was pened. The produc
ers had I** act;ve assistance and co-oper
ation of the surviving members of the
family, and the players selected had the
unqualified apuproval of several residents
of Concord who knew Miss Alcott and
the little women of whom she wrote.
The four “Little Women “ Meg. Jo.
Beth and Arpy. are portrayed respectively
by Isa bell Lamon. Dorothy Bernard. Lil
lian Hall and Florence Flinn. Hrnrv
is John Brooks and Conrad Nagle plays
Laurie. Kate Lester is Marrnee. The
scenario was written bv Anne ** a xwell
and the director was Harley Fnobl From
the standpoint of tne pic
ture is unexcelled.
mett Street, died at the Wllhenford Hos
-1.1 ta! at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday morning
after an Illness of three days.
The remains will be enveyed Wednes
day morning to Covington, Ga. where
funeral services will he conducted at 4
o'clock In. the afternoon, Kev. Mr, Combs
otliclatlng.
Mrs. L. B. Kendricks. ,
Mrs. Mellsa Alice Eugenia Kendricks.
K. wife of If II IfenOricks, , lt t |,„
l r.lversltv Hospital Monday evening ufter
four weeks’ Illness.
The body was removed to Elliott’s Fu
neral Home find will be shipped from
there to-Stateslioro. Ga., funeral services
.to 'ahe place Wednesday afternoon at
Portal, Ga,, several miles from Htates
burc.
Reside* h«r husband, the deceased
leave* -sone two daughters, six
trotters, three sisters and eight grand
children.
At Strand Tomorrow
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
FEDERAL SLEUTHS ARE
SCOURING COUNTRY IN
SEARCH FOR BOMBERS
(Continued from Page One.)
it was obvious he intruded to place the
powerful infernal machine. Tin' coping
tripped the anraohisi and when he fell
the concussion apparently set off the
bomb.
It was at first thought th.it two men
had been killed by the explosion be
cause parts of two legs were found
where they had been blown. Later, how
ever. the police definitely established
only one man had been kited The neigh
borhood in which the explosion occurred
is one of the most fashionable in Wash
ington. Two doors awa> lives Senator
Swanson, of Virginia. Directly opposite
lives Rear Admiral Theodore F Jewell.
Many handsome residences suffered by
the explosion. Parts of yp anarchist
were blown in through some of the win
dow's, after flying many feet through the
air. Many of the occupants of the near
by houses were blown from their beds
by tl| i force of the explosion.
Government experts toda> made a
careful inspection and analysis of the
Clothing and other fragments gathered
by the police in an effort to determine
the nature o ftho bomb
Additional precaution, were taken by
the police today to safeguard public men
In Washington, guards being phn■« d
about many homes and public buildings.
At the capitol extra police were placed
on duty and the rule against bringing
packages of any sort into the enpitol and
the house and senate office buildings was
rigidly enforced. The same rule was he
Ing applied in other government build
ings.
Acrid fumes hung in the atmosphere
and penetrated all the houses on tin
same block as the P; ne t residence for
an hour after the explosion Lieuten
ant S. J. Magee, 1 K A an authority on
high explosives, who happened to be in
the neighborhood at tin linn declared
his belief that the bomb had been load
ed with cordite, one of the most power
ful explosives known.
A bloodstained conductor’s identifica
tion check, found in front of Mr. Palm
er’s residence early toda>, showed t.ha*
the anarchist arrived in Washington at
10:110 o’clock last night from Philadel
phia. He went directly from the union
station to the Palmer home and only a
few minutes before the explosion he was
seen alighting from i street ear a few'
blocks away by C. s. Briggs of Marion.
South Carolina.
The head of the dead anarchist was
found on the roof of a house more than a
block away from the scene of the ex
plosion.
Representative Mnnsfield of Texas,
was passing nearby "when the bomb ex
ploded. Flying fragments of the anarch
ists struck him and dyed deep crimson
spots in the light summer suit he was
wearing.
Attorney General Palmer did not go to
his office today and his associates re
fftsed. to disclose where he and Mrs.
Painter, who left their home after the ex
plosion last night, had taken up their now
residence.
All available, men of the bureau of
nivestigation have been assigned to the
case.
BOMB EXPLOSIONS
THOUGHT A SEQUEL
TO MAT OAT PLOTS
front *-’age One.)
POLICE TIGHTEN THEIR
VIGILANCE AT PITTSBURG.
Pitsburg. A cordon nf policemen
and detectives was thrown around
Pittsburg today In an effort to ap
prehend the perpetrators-of two bomb
explosions in different sections of the
city shortly before last midnight. The
outrages were directed against United
States District Judge \V. It. .S. Thomp
son, and W. W. Sibray, chief inspec
tor of the bureau of immigration. That
the explosions were in connection with
a plot of radical agitators to kill which
has been active in their prosecution, Is
indicated in the fact that local au
thorities found (tills, signed by “the
anarchistic fighters” anil similar to
thoste discovered in Washington.
PROBE CONTINUED IN
PHILADELPHIA EXPLOSIONS.
Philadelphia. —Federal and local au
thorities were investigating ttie bomb
explosions which late last night badly
damaged the rectory of a Catholic
church and the residence of a jeweler
in "West Philadelphia. Three persons
were Injured, one of them seriously, by
the explosions, which occurred shortly
before midnight and only a few min
utes apart.
One man lias been arrested.
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United Picture Theatres /America i«t.
Showing Today at the Strand
The automobile used by the men
who bombed the Catholic church was
found early today abandoned in Fair
mount Park. The car had been stolen.
The police are searching for clues
to the identity of the man who -was
killed in exploding-a bomb at the home
of Attorney General Palmer in Wash
ington. The Washington authorities
reported that he wore n hat bearing
the tag of a Philadelphia hat store.
Thie store was located in the Italian
quarter of the city.
A chemist who made an investlga.
tion expressed tlie opinion that high
powered explosives were used in the
bombs exploded hiere.
TWO MEN SOUGHT
BY CLEVELAND POLICE.
Cleveland. Police of Cleveland, Co
lumbus, and other cities today are
searching for two men who are be
lieved to have planted a bomb at the
honvo of Mayor Harry L. Davis late
last night. The house was partially
wrecked, but no one was injured.
The explosion was so terrific that
it tore out practically the entire north
side of the house. Windows in many
houses for several Mocks were broken.
Mayor Davis was seated on the lawn
on the opposite side of the house with
his wife and several friends when the
explosion occurred. His three year old
son and ;i maid were the only occu
pants of the house.
Two men, one of them carrying a
suit case were seen prowling around
tin* house about an hour before the ex
plosion Less than half an hour before
the blast the mayor twice received
mysterious telephone calls.
For several months the mayor has
heim a target for anonymous threat
ening letters which he Ignored.
''RADICALS BLAMED
FOR CHICAGO CASE.
Chicago.—Possibility Hint some of
the alleged radicals taken In a. raid
here several days ago were concern
ed In tlit; widespread bomb plot, was
advanced today by detectives as the
reason no explosions took place bore
last night, such as occurred in eastern
cities. Of the score of men arreshed
in the raid eifeht now aro awaiting
deportation.
In the down town district precau
tions were taken to protect the Fed
eral county buildings, the Western
Union ami I’ostal Telegraph buildings
and the leading clubs.
NO CLUE FOUND
AS TO BOMBERS.
Paterson, N. J. Investigation by the
police lias so far failed to throw any
light on the mysterious explosion that
■airly today wrecked a two story dwell
ing house at 351 Fast 31st strop!,
damaged The adjoining house of Max
Gold, a silk manufacturer, broke win
dows in other nearby houses and
created a panic in the neighborhood.
It was lenruled today that, a special
warning had been given the city police
last Sunday by Chief of Police John
Tracey that anarchists were active in
Paterson. Chief Tracey told the of
ficers that he had deceived reports
concerning an anarchist group which
was spreading its propaganda through
out. the city and directed that close at.
tentlon should be paid to speeches
made at certain meetings and the con
vtorsutinn of men and women who at
tended these gatherings.
BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS.
Helsingfors—Representatives of the
Finnish red guards have arrived at Re
vel and have begun negotiations there
with Finnish government delegates, the
British consul participating In the dis
cussions.
NOW FOR A BIGGER
AND BETTER AUGUSTA
ir.0,000 People in the next five years
years is what we want right here for
the city's population. We want a big
ger and better Georgia, and really we
want a bigger and Pet ter f/nlted
States. To tell you the truth we want
the (Tilted States of America bounded
on the Fust by the Atlantic, on the
•West by the Pacific; on the South
by the Panama Canal and on the
North by the aurora boneulls.
What do we want these things for.
Col. Tarver, Manager of The Great
Eastern Shoe Company, says he wants
them for the reason that they don't
want to sell shoes from under the
flag und they want more room to op
erate and sell their footwear than ut
present litis no competition. Adv.
Mrs. Duryea to Talk to Augusta Business
Women Wednesday
Mrs. Duryea will come to Augusta to
morrow, Wednesday, and will talk to
Augusta women at six thirty Wednesday
afternoon at Y. W. C. A. Athletic build
ing. Mrs. Duryea is organizer of tlie Na
tional Federation of Business and Pro
fessional Women’s (Hubs. Her talk on
this occasion, while primarily to busi
ness women, will interest every think
ing woman of the day and nil Augusta
women are cordially invited to hear
her. Mrs. Duryea comes at the invita
tion of the Augusta Business Women’s
Club, of which Miss Annie Mae O’Con
nell, of this city is prresident and who
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WEDNESDAY.
LAST TIMES TODAY
Dorothy Gish
-in
“ Peppy Polly”
THURSDAY
LOUISE M. ALCOTTS
“LITTLE WOMEN”
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will preside at this occasion. It is es
pecially urged that all professional and
business women will present on this
meeting as (he “hour has been made six
thirty for their accommodation.
* * *
Lieut, and Mrs. Donald Nicholson
have returned * r - Vucu»»-
GEiVIhAL STRIKE ENDS.
Lima, Peru.—The general strike which
began here last week terminated today,
the labor leaders directing their followers
to return to work. Conditions, again are
normal although martial law is still in
force.
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