New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 7, 1915, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1915. 7 14 i irec Acts nd ROBERT | i | i { arsday and i Sketch. ! MANS. pIty. TOTURES. bpularity heater. in ARL,” pt “Dear of OoF chocked : have { those | ALL KEENEY ACTS I | virtually without a headliner, all the Ll News for Theatre Goers and Women Readers “WIDOW BY PROXY” NEW LYCEUM PLAY | = | “The Conspiracy,” by Robert Baker and John Emerson, which is the pres- ent week’s attraction at the Lyceum, proves to be a highly popular ana pleasing play. Most interesting in- deed is the scene between Miss Cal- laway as Margaret Holt and Mr Cross as John Howell, newspaper reporter. Margaret Holt's story of the murder is told with such impres- sive naturalness that one forgets fou | the time being that it is a dramatic performance. The scenc between | Miss Holt agd Winthrop Clavering (Mr. Birch), in whica the old ama- | teur detective and story writer dis E | a covers it was she who committed the | crime, also cleverly done. ‘“The Conspiracy” is a play with few oq i in gripping interest. | “The Widow by Proxs" ve | the next week's attraction. This play. | with May Irwin assuming the role o | Gloria Grey, closed road engage- ; ment only last Saturday and the fact that it is offered here so soon ill trates that Manager Rirca is the very latest and hest of : tion, “The Widow by Prox; is | without doubt, the finest comedy of- fered in years. Few plays so pro- | lific humor and comedy situations | been written for the stage. | | i i | eiving | in Every speech is a mirth provoker and who fail to see it treat of a life time, laughed over the bright lines. It { played continuously for two yvears, | having had long runs in the principal cities of the country. “The Widow by Proxy” tells a most interesting and fascinating story, which will be enjoyed by all, will miss a Millions have | ARE HEADLINERS While Keenex's bill this week is acts being of type that entitles them to a top position on the program in any first class vaudeville house, the act of The Three Romans should get the place of the nominal leader At least, if applause is to be taken as a criterion, the patrons of the theater . regard them as the most sat- isfactory performers and they accord them a most cordial welcome every night. The specialty is a novel one and is presented in artistic fashion. The performers are dressed as gladiators and they look like splendid physical spebimens. They do some remarkably clever work on ladders, exhibiting exceptional skill and strength, | The Seven Mischief makers have | an old act, but they have dressed it | in new clothes and as a result there is an excellent improvement, It is the nevery-dying school room special- ty with the ever funny German pro fessor and his assortment of pic- turesque pupils. The songs used ar: of the popular variety and the jokes and pranks of the scholars enlivens the turn a great deal. Hibbet and Myers have a character sketch that is entertaining in every a rills and PPresents INUM Hur in 3 ein. NS’ Hartford 5. His Great ELS inee Daily) e” Star o :3 otoplays and “Perils MENT. fan be black- ce of ivory- lemon, and nough warm the consist- n the boots r and soap. on the black ave it for a respect. Billy Court is another of this week's big hits. Billy is a clever Scotch comedian and his songs and storles given in quaint dialect get plenty of laughs. Billy is the nearest approach to the Harry Lauder type of comedian that has ever appeared in this city. Kellen and Clark, musicians and comedians, also give satisfaction. They are skilled entertainers and their work well merits the praise it is re- ceiving. O’BRIEN’S MINSTRELS AT PARSONS’ TODAY Neil O’'Brien and his American min- strels were the attraction at the Parsons’ theater in Hartford this af- ternogn and will be there again this evening. The show has now been before the public for three years and that minstrelsy still retains a place in the regard and affections of theater- goers is shown by the success which has attended it all this while. This season that star and his manager, Os- car F. Hodge, promise a brilliant and costly entertainment, clean and whole- some, with many elaborate features and a company selected with the greatest care and costuming. The new first part scene is said to be a win- ner and is called ‘“The Futurist Ata- lier.” It will show, in the semi-circle, half a hundred of minstrelsy’s best comedians, vocalists and instrumental- ists, prominent among whom will be Harry Von Fossen, Eddie Mazier, Pete Detzel, Caspar Nowak, Doran and | Strong and a score of those famous blackface comedians and a large chor- us in addition to a number of excel- | lent =oloists under the leadership of Frank Fuhrer. Crane Wilbur, the hero of the Ec- lectic serial, “The Perils of Pauline,” will be at Parsons’ theater Friday and Saturday with both matinee and even- ing performances. Comparing the art of the legitimate actor and the camera star, he said recently: “Per- sonality is even more essential to the artist appearing before the camera. In the drama an actor may to a de- gree cover up his lack of personality with an agreeable voice, something to which the picture artist cannot have recourse. A fine appearance, clever pantomime and poise help a great deal, but these alone will never bring one to the top. An illustration of the power of personality may be found in my own ca8e. | have done all my best work when feeling like a fight- ing cock. If a man is brooding over some trouble it is impossible for him to portray sorrow in his acting. All . Then leave | ur hours and | ream. i emotions must be feigned rather than "Acting Herself More Comfortable Than Watching Husband Perform Mrs. Otis Skinner, Who Has Returned to the Stage, Tells of Agonizing Suspense Associated With Being Wife o¢f An Actor. L | nizing first night, when 1t amillion times worse than one’s own first night. vears I borne with agonizing suspense testing first nights, and now—I one with it again, and with my band.” Mrs, Otis Skinner, who is appearing on the stage in “The Silent Voice for the first time in seven years, wa explaining hov it feels to Lack.” She returns with fresh enthu- siasms and new viewpoints after her contented life in the little home at Bryn Mawr, Pa. She felt no urzent desire to return to the stage until her husband. who is starring in ““The Si- lent Voice,” told her of his plans for Then she found the old enthu- in rprisingly present. acting? Not a bit! you know what I missed more than anything else? 1 am ashamed to tell yvou,” and she smiled in humorous ae- knowledgment of guilt. “I m the glorious vagabondage of the road. You know we actors have always been known as the mummers and gypsies of professions. And it is true. We are gypsies and we adore it. One night when I was sitting in my cosy little cottage. a lamp at my elbow, a bright fire on the hearth, and the wind whistling outside, I heard the call, and was wild to take the sleeper to some place or other, just to be going again.” Despite the brightness of her brown eyes, Mr: kinner has the look of one who loves her home and family above everything else. To her a bit of change but makes the home standards more clear and appreciable. “Taw- noker,” meaning “The Dear Little House" in Romany language, is the name of their home. Mrs. Skinner proves that home life and the stage are ont incompatible. Here is exemplary husband and de- voted wife. “I have never missed one of husband’s first nights. And the ture of first nights’—she sighed retrospective terror. “You know how hard they are for the ac- tor's wife.” “An actor's wife, and especially a star’s wife, must keep up her stage interest,”” Mrs. Skinner explained. She has been as definitely interested in stage work as if she had continued her own career. She has done this chiefly perhaps, because of the un- usual sympathy that exists between her and her husband. But, too, be- cause she feels the strong need for outside influences upon the married woman. To her the mother is a per- son who is in crying need of educa- tion. Education is the motif of the can imagine nothing more ago- than waiching a one's hushand is the star. is IFor en have the am hus- my tor- in Do | don’t | “come { | leges and preparatory { While I child’s life. he the Even more so, mainspring of her parents actions. The mother in constant need of education or the result will i be retrogressive.” . | Mrs. Skinner has alway j to the power for good of varied in- }flu(fln('(\t:, influences that keep the fhome from becoming dull and | She is not a faddist, but she refuses to accept, tentatively. any new suggestion. And she treats all questions with sympathy, the same sympathy which permeates the that she has created in the i theater production. It was the thirst for education and its consequent breadth that | her to make the town of Bryn Mawr her home, where. surrounded by col- schools. the forces would her, it is never iberty intellectual not only particularly. live in wonderful commun- ity. 1t is always inspiring, for women there are big souls have reached life, and have realized all but that of love. Her daughter, Coligny., who fifteen years old. shows fine abilities in acting. “But,” said her mother, ‘“‘we tend that she should not think of it at all seriously until she is at least nineteen. There will be time for con- sideration of the subject then. We want her to go to Bryn Mawr. | think a college education is a splendid thing for women today., [ always regret that I have not had one. So much is open to the college woman, for her life has given her a tremendous verve, has thrown open to her so many in- terests, and has laid the foundation for so broad a knowledge. I think an actress should avail herself of its tre- mendouvs advantages. “Now I have to go and be good it feel as excited as an ingenue. Even more, for 1 know lots more about audiences now than T did then. was the private lady I really sitting in the front row most of the time, watching.” We went to see Mrs. Skinner to find out just why she had returned to the stage. Popular mind, which has always been very fond of her, knew of her after her retirement merely as a model wife. She had turned into a home-loving woman, one who shunned publicity and allowed the world to know of her only as the wife of her husband. And now she is back footlights again, partly she feels that the homg is large enough for any woman, and partly be- cause of the old call of vagabond- strongest bear upon daughter “We but “ They all its beauty, is but already in- before the bhecause not age—the gypsy call which seven quiet home years could not still. A Menu for Tomorrow | L \ Breakfast. Fruit. Cereal. Sugar and Cream. Liver and Bacon. Scalloped Potatoes. Drop Bisculit. Coffee. Lunch. Sliced Corned Beef. Brown Betty. Pickles. Cocoa. Dinner. Black Bean Soup. Mutton Chops Breaded With Cheese, Creamed Turnips. Apple Fritters. Plum Pudding Croquettes. Coffee. Mutton Chops Breaded With Cheese —For this dish the loin chops are preferred. Trim them in good shape and wipe with a damp cloth. Dip into melted butter and then roll in a mix- ture of equal parts of fine bread crumbs and grated cheese. Broil over a clear fire or in . a little butter. Plum Pudding Croquettes.—Heat one pint of milk until it is a little more than blood warm. Crumb into it sufficient stale bread to soak up the milk—this will require about one large cupful of crumbs (do not use any of the crust). Cover and let stand where it will keep hot, but not cook, for half an hour. Add to it one well beaten egg, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, one-eighth of a teaspoonful each of nutmeg and cloves, one-quar- ter of a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and one cupful of chopped fruit—raisins, citron and currants. Mix and set aside until cold. Lightly flour the hands and form the mixture into tiny croquettes. Dip each into slightly beaten egg, then roll in fine cake and bread crumbs. Drop into smoking hot fat and cook golden brown. Serve with a wine or vanilla sauce. saute quickly Here are a few notions for salads: Potatoes and beetroot; lettuce and tomatoes, apples and onions; French beans and lettuce; beetroot and celer: boiled butter beans and tomatoe onions and lettuce; watercress and sliced apple: sardines, lettuce and olives; cold boiled caulifower and pickled beetroot: tomatoes and cucum- bers; grated cheese, hard-boiled eggs, | cress and cold chicken cut into dice; peas, lettuce and a few nasturtiums; Leetroot and lettuce: cold boiled pota- tees and onions or tomatoes; hard- beiled eggs and lettuce; radishes, let- felt and this is where personality comes in.” tuce and cress; spinach (cooked,) let i tuce parsley and minced tongue, l _ Hoaseho_ld_ Notes Peas, beans and lentils are the most nutritious of all vegetable sub- stances. heads of cabbage are of finer The heavy always the more solid and texture. Little bits of left-over rice added to the griddle ackes will make them delicious. leaves contain therefore a great are very Cabbage deal of gluten, nourishing. cream used in In making salad dressing, and melted butter may be place of oil. Strong lemonade mixed grape juce makes an excellent drink for an invalid. To help out a meatless meal use cream soups, cheese, beans or egss. Try making a make-belive with the convalescent child fretted by staying in bed. Oysters chopped and served in the gravy of a particularly juicy por- terhouse steak are delicious. Rag rugs made of cotton wash well, are inexpensive and are often just the thing for the kitchen. i have yvou are so unfortunate a bilious headache, as to put a tea- black coffee. an attack. This is a cure for such To make a syrup for fruit bever- ages, add 3-4 cup of sugar to 3-4 cup of boiling water, stir till dissolved, cool and bottle, ‘The lower step of the black stair may be made into a hanrdy tool box having the top of the step put on a hinge like a lid. Every one who uses the stairs. however must be careful. Dried fruit and not be soaked in cold water: wash thoroughly in many changes of water and soak them in a generous amount of tepid water: they will swell larger. vegetables A potatoe poultice substitute for linseed. toes in a bag for this purpose, and when they are soft bruise them into 5 mass and apply them in the bag to the patient. is an excellent Boil the pota- with | or dishes which include | spoonful of lemon juice into a cup of | then boil 12 minutes without stirring, | | s€ should .GREAT OPERA SINGER l COMING TO HARTFORD' Ever that of America since the day the voice and the Ernestine Schume personality 1-Heink took storm, writers of every degree Lad something to say about the great singer’s rank as a mother and house- | should | been alive ! dead. ! part | induced | her i the the greatest fulness of | MADAME SCHUMANN-HEINK, That she knows how to do every other kind of is a well established fact, keeper. cook, and hcusework. ing her domesticity, have inspired real €.oquence, as the following treatment frem the Chicago “Inter-Ocean” will show: “Most tistic opera singers have the ‘ar- temperament’ to a marked de- gree. It causes them to do many ab- surd things and prevents them from | doing many useful things. greatest of singers, however, one ranked by man competent critics as the greatest artist of them all, does not despise the ordinary things of life, kut rather glorvies in them. Although this may be heresy from the ‘ertistic temperament’ point of view, it is not improbable her many-sided- ress and her well-rounded life are strong contributor, causes toward making her the great artist she is.” “The artist is Madame Schumann- Heink, the great contralto. She js in Chicago and here Christmas Eve and Christmas day with four of her children. For them she provided with her own hands, their Christmas diiiner, cooking and serving it Deutsche haus-fran fashion, and glorying in it. Her children will re- member and Jove Madame Schumann- Heink for her motherliness and housewifely ability far more than for her glorious voice and superb act- irg.” Schumann-Heink appears in Hartford with MacNamara, the Trish tenor in the World Famous Artists series. Tickets and all information { ean be had at Pierce's music store { this city. ’Phone 1117-2 PLENTY OF COMEDY IN “THE RAGGED EARL” rank was One the Dbest dramas ever presented in motion pictures was seen yesterday at Fox's, in the picturi- zation of “The Ragged Earl,” with Andrew Mack playing the role. The comedy drama of Irish life is replete with side-splitting comedy situations, and abounds With pretty heart interest and sentiment. Andrew Mack is excellent in the character of the Earl of Kildare, better known as the Ragged Barl, and injects plenty of comedy Mto the difficult role which he portrays in truly artistic fashion, Ormi Hawley as Kathleen Fitzmorris is sweet and vivacious and Lord Wildbrook, an old roue is excellently taken care of by Edward Piel who gets all there is out of the character, making the production a reaj big hit which was immensely enjoyed by the Fox patrons. The second episode of “The Exploits of Elaine” the new Hearst-Pathe serial showing the rem- edy of mercy applied to the work of ev and the startling use of science by “The Clutching Hand” startles and enthralls, and has given la new figure to the screen, the super-criminal, who comes goes as unseen and as free as the | air and who leaves desolation and pil- lage behind him. Both the “Ragged Earl” and “Exploits of Elaine” will also be shown today with a change of the balance of the reels. For tomorrow and Saturday Wil- liam Fox presents William Farnum, the creator of Ben Hur in Henri Hernstein's masterpiece “‘Samson,” produced at the William Iox studios in New York. Roused to titanic {wrath by the falseness of his friends and by the fact that the wife he wor- ships spurns his devotion, ‘“This Mod- ern Samson’’ pulls down the structure of wealth that he himself erected, ruins the rake who is pursuing his wife, and crushes the crowd of syco- phants, and hangers-on that his bene- volence has enriched. mson™ rises triumphant over the wreck of his fortunes and secure in the love of his wife and with full faith in her, his face toward a fresh begin- of comedy stellar ning. following is a delicious for a cold wintry day: and quarter six apples, put them into The dessert ful of sugar, a small amount of nut- nieg and cinnamon and bits of butter. Spread over this shortcake dough cover with a quart of boiling Cover closely and boil forty and water. minutes, b 74 have | and some time pen pictures concern- | One of the | in true | and | Pare | a kettle and sprinkle over them a cup- | More About the Cynic Keeping House BY RUTH CAMERON. Author-man’'s wife persuaded mother invalid a bit longer asked the Author-man “Still keeping house?" asked the “Yes,” answered the Cynic. “T've still intact and that she can play ‘How about your own work?"” Doing that “Where do ind “1 don't find it—1 =ave it,’ said the schedule now. That saves time. Taie ordering, for instance waits till the order men come and then begins to think what Frequently > thinks of something else and either goes to the spends time telephoning it. That all wastes time Menus Made Up Ahead, several & ahead As I notice anything is out to the man and he's out that the house vou time daye on Mother needs. or Cynic I've got my 5 she store, jotting in the margin what 1 add that to of the house “1 made I need to order my Jist. Al in a jiffy—no delay, no mistakes “Mother said to let housework slide, but 1 knéw she would worry, 1 didn't. But that was done on schedule. Thé first day 1 took time plan the wor T wouldn't be wasting steps or motions—and saved time the second day in increased efficiency “1 did one thing that mother won't few women will. 1 put the window shades up far 25 possible.Too much Jight is considered hard on the paper and the carpet, but by George too little is a good deal harder on me. Few houses have enough light anyway, and to cut off half of what they do have is on a par with pasting hlack paper over half the electric light bulb you at night. Mother goes peering about the room, looking for something she could see in A minute if she had the curtaing up, and then she has to stop and see if it's really what she wants, The eye strain in semi-lighted rooms means less efficiency and loss of tin o all day Any modern fuctory owner can tell you that. Just look &t a modern factory—all windows. Tmitating the Factory Builder. up my for menus each meal hand the order 0 to that as long. In brief. | set definite limits for my minute T could. 1 had so much housework to do eleven o'clock. T honestly believe that little time for her work, but too much “Give a man two weeks in whick to do something, and he'll do it and think he has worked two weeks' worth. Give him a week for the same job, and if he's any good, he'll do the same work not by humping twice as hard, but by eliminating waste effort and getting sixty seconds value for every minute run. “That's my philosophy work, saving every before nine o’'clock-—not before the average housewife has, not too She has no spur toward efficieney. of housework.” T O Daily Fashion Talks BY MAY MANTON PRETTY MODELS FOR NECESSARY GARMENTS HILDRENS’ underwear must be shapely if the frocks are to produce a good effect. Here are two little models, each of which is perfectly adapted to its use. The petticoat consists of full skirt and plain body portion, and it can be utilized both for the garment of cambric and Jawn, and also for the body portion of cambric with the skirt is of flannel. In the back view, the body portion is shown with high neck and with sleeves, and these sleeves can be made longer or shorter. For the 4 year size, will be needed 1% yds. of ma-/ terial 36 in. wide for the entire petticoat; or 14 yd. 36 in. wide for the body. ‘portion with 3{ yd. 27 in. wide for the skirt. The 1\2;y Manton pattern No./ 8393 is cut in sizes from 2 to 6 years. ' 8393 Child's Petticoat with Under Waist, 2 to 6 years. 7918 Child's Under Waist and Drawers, 1, 2 and 4 years. The drawers that are shown on the second figure little children, and consequently are exreedingl\'filz 2 They are finished separately and buttoned to th npr;l, (thfi un‘der vl:ak:l is made of cambric while t with frills of embroidery. In the small view, the le i i i lace banding, and frills of the material. A :,[i“dain(isfiofir;::?:\:l:iif{::rhefd (:”h can be obtained by embroidering the edges or by finishing with frills, l)‘oe !"se of which are scalloped and embroidered. For the 2 vear size, will be need "i{ g]r; yd. 36 in. wide for the under waist; 34 yd. for the drawers. The May tMN pattern No. 7918 is cut in sizes for children of 1, 2 and 4 yvears of & e The ahove patterns will be mailed to any address by the Fashion D.c:::rlmeng ure are designed for the very simple with short leg portions. ¢ under waist. In the illustra- he drawers are made of batiste Jof this paper, on receipt of ten cents for each.