Four Overcome
by Stove Gas
Child Tries to Call Neighbor
and Gets Undertaker—
All Revived.
A childish treble in the telephone
receiver at King's undertaking estab
lishment in Council Bluffs yesterday
morning advised the attendant that
"everybody's dying out here" and
asked for aid.
The voice was that of Esther Staple
ton. 8, 525 Twenty-sixth avenue.
The undertaking establishment no
tified police. Police found Mrs. Adah
Stapleton and her three daughters,
Eline. 11; Goldie, 19, and Esther. 8, In
a stupor as a result of carbon
monoxide gas escaping from a base
burner.
j All were revived. Esther had been
awakened by a knock at the door, and
in attempting to telephone a neigh
bor, called the undertaker instead.
The father, R. M. Stapleton, who is
employed by the Hoagiand Lumber
company, left the house before the
rest of the family awoke this morn
ing.
BluffrGvifWar
Veteran. Dies
John Foughty, 87. died yesterday
afternoon at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. R. C. "Webb, 639 Harrison
Street, Council Bluffs.
He is survived by two sons and
two daughters. He was a member
»f the G. A. R.
Funeral services wers to be held
i this afternoon at 2:30 at the home.
The body wil be taken to Hampton,
ta., for burial.
Former Omahan Dies.
Mrs. Ellen Smith, 68, died Wednes
day at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Leslie Way. 4752 South Thir
teenth street. She lived at Redowl,
S. D., but had been a resident of
Omaha for 30 years. She is survived
by three sons and three daughters,
Mrs. Frank Bilick. Mrs. G. T. Miller
nnd William of South Omaha. John
rtf Redowl, S. D., and George of Chi
cago.
The funeral will be held at 2 Friday
afternoon at 4752 South Thirteenth
street. Rev. R. L. Wheeler officiating.
Burial will be in Forest Lawn ceme
tery.
Martin Ryan Dies.
Martin Ryan. 79, retired farmer
who Was a resident of Omaha for 18
years, died Tuesday at his home, 422
North Thirty-fourth street. He is sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs. Jere
miah Ryan, Oytaha, and Mrs. Steven
Bonners, Carroll, la., and seven sons.
Funeral services will be held Friday
morning at 8:30 from the home to St.
' ,'ecellas cathedral.
George W. Yopst Dies.
George W. Topst, 38, 4012 Nicholas
street) died Tuesday night at his home.
He is survived by a widow, Mabel
Yopst; a daughter, Mary Catherine
Yopst, and his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Yopst.
Funeral services were held last
night at 8 at the Hoffmann chapel.
Burial will be at New Franklin, Mo.
Oil Talk Over Radio.
I,. V. Nicholas, president of the Na
tional Petroleum Marketers' associa
tion, will speak from radio station
iVOAW the night of March 28 on the
aims of independent oil companies.
.Musical program will be furnished by
i he Nebraska University school of
music.
For Public Defender.
A. W. Eisasser, democrat, filed to
day as candidate for public defend
er. He served In the last session of
the state legislature and wants to
succeed Public Defender John Bald
win.
BEHIND THE SCREEN
By SAMUEL GOLDWYN
\:__J
(Continued from Yesterday.)
An Astor or a Vanderbilt ordered
to go out and hoe potatoes, a Russian
noblemaft sentenced to Siberia—neith
er of these could have expressed more
profound emotion. Nor was the
prejudice of Miss Clark's sister an
Isolated one. I quote this exclama
tion, indeed, as significant of an al
most universal obstacle I encount
ered in those early days. Stars did
not want to leave New York for Cali
fornia. *
I soon suspected that in Marguer
ite's case the prejudice was a more
deep-seated one than could he ex
plained by climate or landscape. The
very morning after she agreed to go
out to the Laaky studios a young
man in the employ of Mr. Zukor came
to my office. His name was Harold
Lockwood and he will be remembered
for his work In some of Mary Pick
ford's earlier stories and later as a
famous star for the Meti^ecompany.
After a little preliminary clearing
of his throat the handsome Harold
suggested the purpose of his call.
"Ahem," began he, "I hear you’ve
engaged Miss Clark to do a picture
for you?”
"Yes, yes, so I Ijgve,” retorted I,
leafing over a pamphlet.
More pronounced symptoms of ner
vousness by Harold before he could
proceed. "Ahem—well—I Just thought
—of course, you may not be looking
for anybody—but—”
We did not take advantage of Har
old’s willingness to share Miss
Clark's banishment, but there are
numerous parallel situations where
we found the pressure more forceful.
Sometimes, in fact, we have been
obliged to take a constellation In or
der to secure the services of one par
ticular star which graced it. Our
engagement of Blanche Sweet, of
Pauline Frederick, and later experi
ences with Geraldine Farrar—these
episodes to which I am coming pres
ently—reveal the extent to which
some emotional preference Influences
the contract of the feminine star.
Well, Miss Clark did go to Cali
fornia and she made for the Leaky
company Its successful play of "The
Goose Girl.” The performance was
not, however, devoid of friction. From
the studio across the continent to
my office in New York came constant
mutterings of disagreements be
tween Miss Clark and her director,
Fred Thompson. Once I wired to
De Mille to ask him how the play
was coming along, and his answer
to the telegram was as follows:
“Don't know much about the play,
hut geese snd photography both
looked great."
I have mentioned that Marguerite's
sister met me that evening I went up
to her apartment. This eister, who
was some years older than her cele
brated relative, was almost as con
stant a phenomenon ns was Mary
Pickford's mother. Indeed, many
feminine luminaries of the screen pos
sess one of these adhesive relatives.
There is nearly always a mother or
brother or sister or husband stand
ing around hack of the screens to
see that Justice is administered.
There was one time when Mary
Pickford’s supremacy was seriously
threatened by the success of this oth
er Famous Players’ star. "Is Mary
jealous of Marquerite?" I asked Mr.
Zukor at this period. ■»
He shook his head. "No,” said he.
And then he added swiftly, "But it
comes to the surface through Mrs.
Plckford and Marguerite's sister.”
From this remark I gathered that
the two doughty supporters of op
posing causes used to look at each
other about as pleasantly as did the
Montagues and Capulets. And If you
possess any flair, like Landor, for
Imaginary conversations, you can eas
ily construct a dialogue between the
twain based on thefr respective
claims to the most mail, the most
unappeasable demands of exhibitors,
the most appreciation from Mr.
Zukor.
Yet Mary long outlasted her fair
rival. Why was this? Marguerite
("lark was beautiful, she was ex
quisitely graceful and she brought to
the screen a more finished stage tech
nique and a more spacious back
ground than did MJss Pickford. My
answer to this question, so often pro
pounded to me, applies not only to
Miss Clark, but to nil the other
actresses who have flashed, meteor
like, across the screen horizon. First
,of all, she did not have Mary Pick
ford's absorbing passion yfor work.
Secondly, she did not possess the
other artist's capacity for portraying
fundamental human emotion. Simple
and direct and poignant, Mary goes
to the heart much as does a Foster
melody. Herein is the real success
of a popularity so phenomenally sus
tained.
Previously to engaging Miss Ward
and Miss Clark, the Gasky company
had secured the services of Blanche
Sweet. The performance of this
actress in Griffith’s "Judith and Be
thulla" had lingered in my memory
and almost as soon as organized ]
took Gasky to see that film. He was
so much impressed that we wired at
once to De Mille to negotiate with
Miss Sweet, then working under Mr.
Griffith in California.
From the first she did not seem
satisfied with her new environment.
After some days, in fact, she came
to me and begged that she be allowed
to leave us. She wanted to go back
to New York.
“But why?" I pressed.
After some hesitancy she finally
confided the reason of her unrest.
Marshall Neilan, whom X have men
tioned as'playing with Mary Pick
ford, had been unable to find work
in I.,os Angeles and was taking the
train back egst the very next day.
The result of this conversation was
that I sent for Mr. Neilan and so
impressed was I by his Intelligence
that I engaged him as a director at
$250 a week. His success was marked
from the first and I have already
indicated his rapid ascent to fortune.
As to Blanche, who eight years lat
er became Mrs. Marshall Neilan, it
was not until she began to work un
der Mr. Neilan's direction that she
justified our expectations of her. I
shall never, indeed, forget my disap
pointment at seeing her first Gasky
film.
"What!” thought X. "Can this be
the same girl who was so effective
In that Griffith picture?"
It was my introduction to a recur
rent tragedy in my career aa produc
er. Various times I have been at
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The congestion breaks up. Before
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Get a bottle from your druggist
today—35 cents. It willnot stain.
Sloan's Liniment—kills pain!
Persistent
Coughing—
wastes your strength, makes
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apd sore, exposes you to more
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ly it stimulates the
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Dr KING’S NEW DISCOVERY
Visit City’s Business Firms
and “Know Omaha” Better
During this week of knowing Omaht better, February J to 9, we
hope you will visit many of our city’s business firms and other institu
tions, including at least one of the telephone central offices.
Omaha’s telephone property has grown from one small central office
and 150 telephones in 1880, to its present immense system of seven
modern central offices and more than 61,000 telephones. An average of
385,000 telephone calls are made in Omaha each day.
The vast amount of intricate equipment and the manner in
which it is operated; are interesting sights at the telephone
central office. Drop in at any of the central offices listed below
between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. and say that you would
like to be taken through. *
OMAHA CENTRAL OFFICES
Atlantic 1906 Douglaa St,
Jacluon 1906 Douglaa Sr.
Harney 3301 Harney St.
Kenwood '00? Fowler A»e.
Walnut 4601 hard St.
Webater 2213 Lake St.
Market 4601 So. 24th St.
\ NORTHWESTERN
BELL TELEPHONE
COMPANY
"Know Omaha—it’s a good place to lice.”
traded hy Griffith successes only to
find that they could not thrive in an
other environment. .Just like Trilby
when no longer confronted by the
hypnotic baton of Svengaji, so many
of the men and women who have
worked under Mr. Griffith cannot per
form when deprived of his inspiring
force.
Meanwhile the Lasky company had
been expanding tremendously. Like
an octopus It clutched at all the land
scape available In the vicinity of the
original livery stable. New buildings
kept going up. New people were be
ing added. So swift was the pace
of progress that De Mfile's brother
William, whom we had sent out
meanwhile as a scenario writer, fre
quently voiced his leading plaint. He
liked to work by himself in a little
building away out in a field, but to
save his fife he could not move that
little building fast enough. ‘T wake
up in the morning after I've just
staked a fresh claim." he used to say,
"and tlie doggone studio has caught
up with me in the night!”
A tremendous impetus was given
to both Mr. Zukor and the Lasky
company by an organization of thp
distributors who had been handling
our films. About six months after
Lasky and I went into business these
functionaries decided that in order to
make themselves a rpal force they
would have to guarantee to theatri
cal managers throughout the country
a larger number of pictures. Their
organization, under the name of Par
amount Picture corporation, requisi
tioned 104 films a year, of which our
company agreed to supply 30. As
this was Just three times the number
we had planned to produce, you wifi
see the urgency of growth. It is
equally evident why our capitaliza
tion now increased from the original
$20,000 to $250,000.
But the domestic market hy no
means exhausted our outlet. Always
I have been penetrated by a sense of
international possibilities in the film
industry. That this Esperanto of the
stage could be communicated to for
eign countries—here was the idea
which in the early summer of 1014
sent me speeding to Europe.
I was interested In placing not
Lasky products alone, for before my
departure Mr. Zukor h^d asked me
if I would not look after his interests
also.
I ntil this time we had engaged In
no concentrated drive of the sort.
For. although Mr. Zukor had a rep
resentative ' in l/ondon, the agency
waged only a haphazard, picture-by
plcture campaign. Nor was my first
important interview pregnant with
hope of more systematic sales.
Great Britain had always been ac
tive in picture production and tier
leading distributor was William
Jury, who lias since been knighted.
Mr. Zukor's London representative
arranged my meeting with this per
sonage, and from almost the minute
I began talking to him I saw that
Mr. Jury believed that Brittania rules
the films as well as the waves. After
he had listened to my enthusiastic
praise of both Zukor and Lasky prod
ucts he told me no American com
pany could possibly be as great as I
said we were going to be. To this
I retorted that no one so lacking in
confidence in a product could possibly
be able to sell it. Having thus clari
fied our views, Mr. Jury and I part
ed. Almost immediately afterward I
helped finance Mr. J. D. Walker to
handle both Famous Players and
Lasky films in Great Britain. Under
my contract with him he was U> take
the output of both studios and to
pay us $10,000 advance against 65
per cent gross.
After this my progress was com
paratively easy. Sweden, Norway
and Denmark promised to buy all the
pictures we made at something in
the neighborhood of $3,000 each. I
closed a deal with Australia guaran
teeing to take our complete output
at $3,500 a film; Germany put In the
same large order at even higher rate
—$4,000 each; Belgium and Switzer
land contributed their quota, and al
though France represented our poor
est customer, even she did not with
hold her mite.
Is It any wonder that as I rode
from Berlin to Paris my head reeled
with the magnitude of our success?
Could this really be I, the poor boy
who a short time before had wan
dered over these very countries with
hardly a sou in his pocket?
Yet mine was no miracle of success.
I traveled in Europe day and night.
[ pitted all my enthunlaam against
many citadels of prejudice and scep
ticism. When, indeed, I finally sailed
from Liverpool T was physically pros
trated by the long strain of it all.
Even the triumph which 1 have
Just chronicled was doomed to only
a partial realization. 1 could not
anticipate, of course, on that summer
day when, riding from Jierlin to
Paris, I counted up my thousands,
that in a few short weeks a bomb
would explode In Sarajevo which
would change the map and the psy
chology and the Industrial conditions
of the whole world. And I certainly
could not foresee, therefore, the
broken contracts and the difficulty of
obtaining ships to fulfill contracts
which followed the declaration of
war.
While in Europe I was constantly
on the lookout for actors, and one of
the results of my search was Kdna
Goodrich. Miss Goodrich had three
assets at this time. She was beauti
ful; she had created a sensation on
the London stage, and she had re
gently joined the famous recessional
of wives of the late Nat Goodwin.
Eventually Miss Goodrich made a pic
ture for us at $5,000, with the un
derstanding that if it were successful
we should have the first option on
her second venture.
(Continued In Thin Morning Hoc.)
Board Fails to
Employ Conlon
Boat'd of county supervisors of Pot
tawattamie county yesterday declined
to employ Bernard Conlon of Sigour
ney, la,, as county engineer, by a
vote of 3 to 2,
The hoard then, however, voted to
employ him at a Balary of ?250 a
month, so long as may be necessary,
to make plats, easements, deeds and
bills for light of way for primary
road property.
Vote on the motion to employ Con
lon as county engineer was Ingram
AOVF.RTIHKMK.N'T.
Ain KKTIKKMENT.
A Harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups — No Narcotics!
Mother! Fletcher’s Castoria has
been In use for over 30 years to re
lieve babies and children of Constipa
tion, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diar
rhea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and, by regulating the
Stomach and Bowels, aids the asslmi
lation of Food: giving natuial sleej,
without opiates. The genuine bears
signature of
and Keating In the affirmative and
O'Neill. Osier and Hammer, in the
board voted to declare the office of
county engineer vacant February I
The board thi* morning received^
and placed on file a communication
from Mra. Myrtle Fellingharn arsist
ant to former County Engineer Hen
ry Dean, asking for an increase in
salary of $15 a month.
I
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Coffee and Red Hots Plate Luncheon Daily
10c 25c
Downstairs _
Fourth Floor
“Bargain Friday” A Real Gala Day of Value-Giving
__ _ •
Annex Sales
w i i i r 111 eft wmt«
Apron* — Waitresses'
and nurses’ reversible
whits aprons, full en
veloping band style,
pocket on either side,
regular 98c q u a 11ty
for .59<*
mi ants’ Half Wool
Hose — Infants’
white half wool hose,
pink or blue toes,
and heels, regular
:*9c quality, Annex,
4 pairs for .. $1.00
Girls and Misses Coats
Just 26 Girls' Coats, sizes 9 to 14; all wool
coats, plain and Herringbone weaves. Coats
worth $9.60 and $12 50 QQ
Friday.
Ann**
Brown Muslin
Heavy round thread
36-inch brown mus
lin sheeting worth
20c a yard; special
forFriday—
Per Yard
inn
467 Silk — Silk and Wool
DRESSES
Women's and misses' silk and wool dresses,
sizeg 16 to 3g_ bought at a fraction of their
actual cost, hundreds of styles to select
from and every dress worth more than
double the price.
Annex ABA
Spring
Dresses
.00 crisp new dresses Id ail the new
k spring silks in plain and fancy weaves
' styles to suit any taste and varied
enough to give a broad selection, reg
uiar *10.00, *12.50 and *15.00 \alues
$8.75
Annex Sales
Stout House Dresses—
Fancy cbambray, gray
and blue percale house
dresses, the "Beaver”
make, all sizes 4.1 to 55.
adjustable belt and
waist line, regular $4.00
quality . *2.98
Bath Robes — 115
bath robes, genuine
“Lawrence'’ cloth,
regular $4 00 qual
ity, Annex at $1.98
Girls and Boys’ Sweaters
Boys' and Girls’ All-Wool Sweaters, sizes 6
to 12 years; former price $3.98. An r*q
Special for Friday. «J)Z.Ot7
Annex
Bleached Muslin
36-inch soft finish
bleached muslin,
worth much more,
special for Friday,
yard —
Per Yard
Remnant Lengths of Conos
togo feather tick- Q A
ing, 59c quality, yd. O C
Remnant Lengths unbleach
ed muslin, up to Q
five yards, yard.... C
Remnant Lengths white In
dia lawn, worth 39c 1 f*
to 49c, yard. IOC
Remnant Lengths toweling,
glass or hand -I Ol / _
toweling, yard 14b /ZL
Rag Rugs
27*54 rag rugs of extra quality
for .1.49
24*4? rag rugs of extra quality
for .1.29
24x36 Rag Ruga, 8peclal
69c *
Ladles' Outing Gowns—Ladles’ out
lug gowns tn regular sizes only
values to $1.39, special for Friday
only—
'
Remnant Lengths Turkish
toweling worth -l Q
25e, for, yard. X J7 C
Remnant Lengths of white
Indian Head Mus- O g
lin Suiting for_ 4wOC
Remnant Lengths of Scout
American Per- 1 ill /
cales, yard... X u /2C
Remnant Lengths of ' 'heviot
and chambrav, plain or
liT:.17V2C
Children'* Gray Taped Union Suit*
A Jl 00 value in children’s pray
taped union suits in sizes : to 13
years, special Fridav—
69c
Ladies' and Misie*' Ho*e—I-adies
and misses; hose In fiber, lisle, silk
and fiber, and silk and wool, all
sizes, special for Friday—
79c
Remnant Lengths of curtain
ing voile, north 1 ff
29e. for . lOC
3 Lbs. Roll Cotton Stitched
Batting, com- Ai /\/\
fort size, for.. $ * *UU
B e 11 er Quality Bleached
Muslin—Genuine long cloth
22vfec
Best Quality Unbleached
Round Thread O/^
Muslin, yard.. £\J C
—
Bargains For the P:ys Friday
Annex Sales Are Decidedly Interesting to Mothers Who Care
to Dress Their Boys in An Inexpensive Way
In the Annex
200 boys’ 2-pants suits
in neat stripes, checks
and mixtures in blue,
| Kr»y. brown, colors;
r,... $5.00
Juvenile Suits
Juvenile suits in cor
duroy, blue and
brow n, unfinished
worsted nnd neat pin
checks, Ag
» special
Boys’ Sweaters
25 dozen boys’ sweaters in cardi
nal and lionther, green and orange
trim- QQ and QQ
medal t/uC w 1 is/O
Boys’ Pants
50 dozen boys’ pants, vnl- p* A
ues up to $1.00, special at vUC
Boys'
Overcoats
$8.50 and $10.00
Values
$5.00 ^
All ages from 4 to
14 years. Qood, |
warm, serviceable
materials.
$5.00
Amiri
Boys Tweed Suits
With Two Pairs Trousers
These suits are actually worth to buy today
Just what we are selling them for. choice ol ABM
nearly a thousand suits— fl B M jk
The fabric* arn of pure wool In new novelty w*. M B, B
mixture*. In at! the most desirable colorings _. 1 1 M M
for the Inns. Mothers! This Is a 'real buy" B I .Jf B B B W B W
tor the boy. w ”
Hforr for lln>«
Friday Shoe Bargains That Will
Make New Selling Records
400 pairs women’s
pumps and oxfords, sat
an, patent kid,
black kid, mili
tary heel—
700 Pairs Children’s Shoes On Sale Friday
Pied Piper
Red Goose
$3.50 to $4 Value
srurtf'd about 7l»0
pairs of children's shoos out
ol‘ our regular stock for this
•>alr Friday nnd Satuninv
Home of Grover Soft Shoes for Tender Feet
Children’s Shoes
Hod top. green top, blue,
black. Sizes d* ^ 1 O
4 to S ... Villi/
Boyt' Heavy Pure
Cum Double Sole
Rubber*
89c
• ' 50 Value
Alaska Rubbers
Womens and children's
all rubber or cloth top in
all sites, p* q
P«ir . DOC
Hayden’s Sturdy Shoes for Boys
Brown Calf, Rubber Heels, All Solid Leather Shoes for Boys
Sixes 11 to 13*1 Sues 1 to 6, An £\p<
per pair.. per pair .
"Double Wear "/Shoes for Growing Boys.