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Show SECOND STORY WORK HAS ITS COMPENSATIONS So Thinks Howard Estabrook Whose Aesthetic Eye Was Gratified After a Hard Climb Howard Estabrook, featured In tho flvo part drumn Tho Closing Net, by Harry C. Rowland, is n man of many experiences, but nover betoro (en or off tho stugo) lam ho encountered such a startling experience as ho did at tho end of thu llrst real of thlj Goli, Rooster Play. lo it known, then that Estabrook plays tho jmrt of Frank Clamart, alias Tho Tldo Water Clam, n much loved I and much loving young man and tho I most sought for fancy crook in tho world. Ho is in his room In a largo hotel passing his appraising lingers over a particularly good haul from tho ambassadois ball of tho provlous ovenlng, when suddenly his crook's keenest senso, Intuition c,aUBos, him to tlptoo to tho door, and open It tho most Infinitesimal bit, R Is enough ror him to mako out tho figures of rour representatives or law and order or-der coming advancing down tho corridor, cor-ridor, bearing in their delicate lists tho usual appurtenances or tho woll known Indoor sport or crook caging. Quickly, nolselossly, tho door closos, nnd a heavy ropo, kopt conveniently outsldo tho window of his bathroom is Hung upward to tho roof abovo, and its grapplo hook catches on to tho cornlco. Then Estabrook swings out of tho window, and draws himself him-self upward, hand over hand as tho detectives burst Into his room below. (No we haven't conio to It yot. This Is merely Incidental), Mr. Estabrook Is bound for the root. To reach tho roof, ho has to pas a window. That Is ho should havo passed that window. win-dow. But, alas ho novor passed tho window. No ho didn't fall ,or If ho did, It was only a figurative fall anyway. any-way. Nothing to hurt, you know. But It was moro than Mr. Estabrooks highly dovoloped senso of beauty would permit, passing that window. His entry was, as tho lady afterward said, I assure you, unexpected, and changed tho tory a bit, but Edward Joso, who mado tho picture for Patho got tho lady a bath robo, and Impressed Im-pressed hor Into sorvlco for tho next sceno. Benjamin Struckman tho cameraman says ho never saw such realistic actlngl Howard Estabrook was born In Detroit, De-troit, Michigan, whero his fathor la one of tho oldest established Iron manufacturers In that part of tho country. Ho roslgned from tho county treasurers staff In 1904 to accept an engagement from Charles Frohman with William Collier In tho Dictator. Ho played In that from Now York to San Francisco and then, to London and, Incidentally, beforo tho lato King Edward. On tho Quiet camo next, and his first Now York hit In Brown or Harvard, was follow? od by Clydo Fitch's selection of hlra as loading man with Blancjio Walsh, In Tho Boys of Company B. Ho ha,s latc)y received favorablo comment in Going Somo, Tho Boss, Within tho Law, Little Women, Tho Point of View, Dlvorcons, Kim's Marrlago and Tho Things That Count. Patho Is dollghtod with Mr. Esta,-brook's' Esta,-brook's' work In Tho Closing Net, and ho will very probably go to work shortly In another Gold Rooster Play. This beautiful photoplay will bo shown In connection with tho DIa- mond From tho Sky, Chapter 21, on VK Monday and Tuesday Octobor 11 and U 12 c JH |
