New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1915, Page 10

dyers UCCESS AY v”" ACTS. M. COM AN [ARCH 7 ° 0” AKESPEAREAN HVE PARTS. leets Youth PARTS con Failed PARTS RT AT 7:30. AT 8, EY ARCH 1 f g elds’ Bros. Girl Be- ' ter.” g Novelty. b -Singing n & Co. ig offering. Parisian MOVIES tain, the Great ure S YOUTH Kleine. |[CON FAILED igo success e Willlam OMORROW. ’ JRGAN Js foundation L News for Theatre “BROADWAY JONES” A GREAT SUCCESS In “Broadway Jones,” which the Lyceum Players will preseht at the Lyceum during the ensuing week, .the biggest success of the season will be scored. = That is saying a great deal and is based on the exceedingly great popularity ‘of ‘“Forty-five Minutes from Broadway,” which is also a Cohan attraction. The Cohanesque style is in a class all by itself, as was particularly observed in last week’s show and in “Broadway Jones” it is even more pronounced. There is a breeze and freshness in the lines that is catching. ‘“‘Broadway Jones” is one of those simple, straightaway storles that increases with interest until the final grand climax. Jack- son Jones is a native of Connecticut and a young mililonaire. He runs down to New' York to spend some of his fortune and sets the fastest pace lively Broadway ever knew and wins for himself the sobriquet by which the play is known. He intends to fiterally “burn up the town.” He is conveniently separated from his money with amazing rapidity. When" his money is gone and the good times only a memory he feels 'round for some way ‘of existence. Almost before he realizes it he filnds himself engaged to a wealthy, but aged widow. She has money and wants o husband, and Jones is about to sup- ; ply the denfand. Just at this point | Robert Wallace, Jones’ friend inter- | venes. The seats are now on sale. “David ‘Harum,” the popular at- | traction of this week, is attaining a.{ record of patronage almost equal to that of last week. There will be a matinee Saturday afternoon. On Sunday evening ‘“‘Othello,” the grand spectacular five reel feature, will be seen at the Lyceum, also three other first' class pictures. DANISH ACTRESS IN FOX PICTURES TODAY | Betty Nansen, since Sarah Bern- hardt's retirement said to be one of the greatest exponents of tragic and heavy character roles on the stage ar- rived in America several weeks ago to pose exclusively for the William Fox forces and her first *“Made in America” photoplay will be seen at Fox’s today; and tomorrow. The actress was lc]ad‘mg woman of the famous Theater Royal of Copenhagen, Denmark’s endowed and government- managed playhouse. Miss Nansen has been personally decorated by the king of Denmark with the coveted Order of Literature and Art, being the only woman ever to be so signally honored. Betty Nansen makes her debut be- fore the American public in “The Celebrated Scandal” by Jose Echegar- zy, the famous Spanish playwright. She is cast as Donna Teodora, the ! beautiful young wife of Don Julian, a model husband but perhaps just | a bit jealous. The home of the hap- | py couple shared by Ernesto, a. young relative of Don Julian's. Er- neste is a budding dramatist. Teodora is much interested in his work and quite naturally the pair are drawn to- gether. This innocent companionship enough for malicious gossip to build upon. Calumny con- structs the evitabln triangle and thoush Don Julian knows in his heart that his wife is blamrless, he cannot rid himself of vague doubts and dis- quieting thoughts. The climax comes when Don Julian is killed in a duel by Marquis Alvarez, chief of the scandal mongers who had been tor- menting him. Miss Nansen is suported by Edward Jose, former leading man with Sarah Bernhardt and remembered in New Britain for his excellent and artistic portrayalvof the “Fool” in “The Vam- pire” shown at this theater not so very long ago; Wilmuth Merkyl, Wal- ter Hitchcock, Stuart Holmes and a full cast of players of sterling abil- ity. Several single reel comedies aug- ment the interesting and diversified program in New Britain’s most pa- latial theater. GRAND Main Street Near Myrtle . MOTION PICTURE TONIGHT—EXPLOITS OF Also Selig Drama “TILL DEATH DO US PART” SATURDAY Broadway’s Star Feature NDERNBEATH THE PAINT.” Three Parts—Biograph. “SAVED ' BY THEIR CHEE-ILD” SUNDAY “WHEN THE ILIONS ESCAPE” Three Parts “ANY WOMAN’S CHOICE,” LAINE’ Parts >, S. Glackin, Mgr. PARSONS’ THEATRE ——— Hartford TONIGHT AND SATURDAY AT 8:15 (Matinee Saturday.) William A. Brady, Ltd., Presents thc Greatest Combination of Novelty and Fun Ever Produced. “T00 MANY GOOKS” BY AND WITH FRANK CRAVEN. Prices—Nights, 25¢ to $1.50; Mat., 25c to $1. Seats on sale, POLI'STHEATRE i as a result of men | turned : whose sons were And I thought of how much | Marion Craig Wentworth Tells What Called It “The War Brides” (Frances England in New York Tribune.) Because men and women the world over are thinking the same thoughts and feeling the same emotions, a wo- man on the coast of the Pacific has | been able to give voice to the woe of | her sisters on another continent. And at the same time she has crystallized the sentiment of all other women in { her own country, from the western to | the eastern coast. i Mrs. Marion Craig Wentworth, whose play, “War Brides,” has given impetus to the propagranda of the { woman's peace party, spoke of this " great inter-relation of mankind that made her play possible and made wo- men receive it with tears of both re- joicing and woe. She comes all the way from rocky Santa Barbara, on the California coast, and she has found New York talking the same things and feeling the same way about them as they think and feel the whole coun- try over. ‘“We are all dreaming the same big | dream,” she said, in her low, pleasing voifce. “And it is our dream that saves humanity. You see, we become in the ond that which wedream. I dream to- day of a great world republic and in- ternational peace, and thousands of others are dreaming this with me. That means we shall achieve it after this war. ‘“‘After all, the brotherhood of man is not destroved. In fact, it exists more strongly than ever before. That is why the war seems so terrible to us all; it is because we care so much about each other. And it didn’t come not caring; it is rather that the institution created by men has turned against them, like a Frankenstein, to destroy them.” “Brotherhocd of Man Stronger Than Ever.” It was because men and women the country over resented the fact that the young women of Hurepe were to be into breeding machines that Mrs. Wentworth was enabled to voice | the protest of motherhood against war. “I can’t explain how I came to write it.”” she smiled. . “It just came. I sup- pose it had to be dome. I just felt the great vibration of feeling that was moving all women to pity and protest. Of course, if T had not been a mother I couldn’t have done it. But I have given life, and I know how precious it is., My little boy is mine now, and he has always been my companion. When | ihe war broke out I used to look at him and think of those other mothers gone away to be Killed. tliey had given to make fine men of their little boys, and how futile it all was, I just couldn't stand it then. So I wrote my play.” The Piay Women Sobbed Over. Mrs. Wentworth was in Nevada for her child's health when the war broke out. One day she read in the news- papers an account of the weddings of young women and men who were leav- ing for the front. “The war brides were cheered with enthusiasm, and the churches were crowded when the wed- ding parties spoke ceremony in con- cert,” she read, and this was the tinder that kindled the flame of her protest against it all. When she returned to Santa Barbara she wrote her play about these poor little war brides. And in the end she made her heroine com- mit suicide rather than give birth to a son to be killed for his country. This is the play that New York has sobbed cver, and there are few plays that move New York to tears. “People are moved by my play be- cause it expresses what they feel in their own hearts. All mothers feel as T do about war. men destroyed because they cost us so much. It makes no difference wheth- er they are our own sons or another mother's sons. It hurts just the same. And it isn’'t the women alone who feel this way. As I said before, men about it. Men Made Play Possible. *Men believed in my play from the first, or it would never have had a chance. Men read it first before it ever reached the public and it was because they were feeling what it expressed and because they knew other people felt the same that it was produced. I am glad that I was able to do it.” Mrs. Wentworth admits that this experience as a successful playwright is very new to her. As a writer she was practically unknown until the simultancous apearance of her play in “The Century Magazine” and on the stage as a vehicle for Nazimova. “I have never written’much before this,” she explained. ‘“‘Some years ago a book of mine was published. '"The Flower Shop,’” it was called and it dealt with the economic independence of women. - Oh, ves,’ she said, quick- ly. “I do believe in the economic independence of married women. Tt of life we women have laid out for ourselves. 1 don’t know just how it is to be done, but there will be a way. Women must be absolutely in- dependent.” Westerners Feminists As a Matter of Course. “And do the people of the west be- Hartford. All This Week, Twice Daily. The Poli Players. “ST. BLMO” IMats‘ 10, 20c. Eve. 10, 20, 30, 50c, lieve in feminisn she was asked. “We don’t believe in it, we just live it,”” she retorted. “We don't sit around and discuss it, but it 1g part of us, And suffrage is the most natur- al thing in the world to us. 1t is just ‘We hate to see our | and women are feeling the same way | is just part of the general big scheme | Prompted Her to Write a Play and' Gives Impetus to Wo- man’s Peace Party—Says All Are Dream- ing Same Dreams. as natural as—well -as a church pic- nie. .“I was quite thrilled the first time 1 voted, of course. It seemed almost a sacred duty, and that is the way most women felt about it. The men, too, seemed to find a new interest in it, and they talked with us about the amendments we were to vote omr, and we talked with each other about them and every one was forced to think. I went to a barn in my neighborhood to cast my ballot, and I met my neigh- bors, men and women, and they were all as serious and as eager as 1.” Suffrage, according to Mrs. Went- worth, is but one expregsion of the new feeling toward humanity men and women are showing. “A new chivalry has been born in Amer- jcan men. It is different from the old chivalry, because the motives inspire it are different. And it s more wonderful. because men re- cognize greater depths in women than they ever realized before. And the women have come to care more for other women and other children. It was selfish of them to think only of their own homes and their own chil- dren. stinct. “The suffrage movement is an ex women began to think of other wom- the fresh air and the pure food their own children enjoyed, the movement didn’t grow. As long as | women talked of their ‘rights’ and in- sisted upon their ‘rights’ woman suf- frage was an unpopular issue. Now that women the world over are think- ing of other women'’s sons and daugh- Iters as well as of their own, it is an inevitable thing. *The result of this mediaeval out- break in Europe will be an even stronger brotherhood of man and sister hood of women than the world has vet khown,” this hopeful-eyed prophet concluded. “It will mean that an international court international police system will re- place the outworn institution of war. And it will mean that no more little war brides will be called upon to fur- | nish men to feed to cannon.” I ACROBATIC FEATS ON KEENEY’S BILL One of ithe most novel and enter- | taining specialties in which acrobatic 'feats plaved a preminent part to be | seen in this city in a long time is that ,offered at Keeney's this week by the Nelson Trio. While the act opens the show, a privilege usually accord- ed to specialties of a mediocre char- acter, it is of headliné calibre and de- serving of a prominent position on any vaudeville bill. One of the mem- bers of the trio is a monologue man of ability and a tumbler of rare skill. The other two members are remarkably clever trapeze performers. They do some exceedingly difficult feats and give a performance that is seldom equalled in this theater. | Ludille Savoy continues a favorite ! with the patrons of the playhouse. Lucille is a dainty comediene, a pos- ing of recognized skill and a talented ginger. She is beautiful of face and figure and her work is done in artis- tic fashion. There is something very fascinating about her art and the au- dience is deply appreciative of her ability. The Fields brothers and their stock company will close their engagement here tomorrow night, leaving Sunday for DBuffalo where they are under contract to appear during the next ;oight weks. The company’s engage- { ment here extended over a period of eight weeks, an unprcedented run for any act, since New Britain became a part of the vaudeville circuit. They are offering this week “The Girl Be- hind the Counter.” This is an amus- ing version of the musical comedy of the some name and it goes big with the audience. Catchy song numbers are introduced during the progress of the piece. Joseph Adelam and company pre- sents the dramatic sketch, “The Par- son and the Burglar,” while Jeanette Homer, =inging comedienne, enter- tains with songs and dances. STOPS HEADACHE, PAIN, NEURALGIA Don’t suffer! Get a dime pack- of Dr. James’ Headache Powders. You can ciear your head and relieve a dull, splitting or violent throbbing headache in a moment with a Dr. James’ Headache Powder. This old- time headache relief acts almost magi- cally. Send some one to the drug store now for a dime package and a few mo- ments after you take a powder you will wonder what became of the head- ache, neuralgia and pain. Stop suffer- ing—it’s needless. Be sure you get what you ask for. that | that | Suffrage an Expression of Mother In- | pression of the mother instinct. Until | (en’s children, and to want for them woman's | and an | IA Menu for Tomorrowl T Breakfast. Fruit. Sugar and Cream. Baked Potatoes. Hot Twist Bread. Lunch, Veal Loaf. Wafers. Cereal. Coftee. Junket. Tea. Dinner. Potato Soup. Steamed Fish. Egg Sauce. Boiled Rice. Baked Tomatoes. Lettuce. French Dressing. Wafers. Cheese. Spice Pudding. Coffee. Veal Loaf--Three pounds of finely chopped raw veal, three esgs, six crackers, rolled fine, two tablespoon- fuls of cream, one heaping table- spoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of thyme, oen tablespoonful of pep- per. Mix well together and form into a loaf. Bake one hour and a quarter in a moderate oven, basting with two tablespoonfuls of butter. Spice Pudding.—One cupful of mo- lasses, one-haif cupful of brown sugar, one-quarter of a cupful of butter, one cupful of stoned ralsins, one-half of a teaspoonful of cloves, ¢innamon and nutmeg and a small teaspoontul of soda dissolved in half a cupful of watm water; flour enough to make as stiff as common ginger- bread. Put into a greased mold and stand the mold in a large kettle with not more than two inches of water | in the bottom, just sufficient to keep up a large volume of steam, but not enough to come near the lid of the mold. A pudding boiled in this way is more delicate than when baked, but if you prefer to bake rather than steam it, have a hot oven and be very careful that it does not bake too long. “WITHIN THE LAW" SUCCESSFUL DRAMA Bayard Veillers’ wonderfully suc- cessful drama, ‘Within the Law,” will be ‘presented by the Hartford Poli Players all next week with the usual two performances daily. Manager | James Thatcher is responsible for the statement that the royalty which was paid for the presentation of this re- markable play was $1,000. In the play Mary Turner is an in. nocent shop girl*who is convi¢ted of stealing. She ts “sent away” for three years a8 an example to other girls. She lays the responsibility of the proprietor of the store who pays starvation wages. The law can be molded to suit the wishes of the rich ‘and once out of jail she lays her plans accordingly. Surrounded by a band of clever crooks, she soon be- comes very rich because she is act- ing within the law. In a spirit of revenge, she marries the son of the man who wrecked her life but soon finds herself in love with him. The police and the boy’s father use every means to disillusion the young man and in the end only “Joe” Garson's confession of murder saves her. This is the thread with which is woven the story of “Within the Law.” Of especial interest to local theatergoers is the fact that a Maxim- silencer ts used in the play and the work of this attachment plays an important part, for there has been a murder and yet no one has heard a pistol shot. Large | audiences continue to enjoy ‘‘St. Elmo,” the current attraction and the Players are really scoring a notable success in the play. Native eggs 29c doz. —advt, “THE DOUBLE TRAP” AT GRAND THEATER Russell Bros. “The Double Trap,” the seventh episode in ‘““The Exploits of Elaine,” will bé one of the features of the pro- gram at the Grand motion picture house tonight. This is a particularly exciting chapter in this dramatic story. It is in two parts and is de- picted in interesting fashion. A Selig drama, “Till Death Us Do Part"” in two reels will also be shown to- night and the management has ar- ranged to show the Biograph com- edy, ‘‘Getting Into a Scrape.” Saturday’s program will be made up of Broadways' star feature, “‘Under. | neath the Paint,” a big three-part/ |drama. Helen Gardner will play tho | { pringipal part in this photo-play. Rose | Tapley, the popular screen actress.] will be seen in “Saved by Their Chee- 11d,” a big Biograph comedy. Gladden | James also has a prominent part in | this feature. ' For Sunday evening Manager Glackin announced today that he has billed “When Lion’s Escape,” a sen- sational three-part drama for a spe- cial feature. ‘“‘Any Woman’s Choice” {in two parts, will also be shown. ', Best new fresh. made butter 82c. National Butter Co. Bee their adver- i tisement.~—advt. ¢ Miss Ryan has many new suits in the natural waistline and plain tai-, loved effects that so many are look. ' 1ing for, at her shop, 79 Pratt street, Hartford. The materials are English worsteds in dark checks, white-and- gray stripes, pongee, etc., for south- ern and early spring wear. They are exceedingly well tailored and moderate priced.—advt. l Strictly fresh Connecticut eggs 28c¢ doz., 31 doz. $1.00. Russel] B’ros.,l 301 Main St.—advt. Goers and Women Readers SIMPLY SAY CHARGE IT HARTFORD’S MOST HELPFUL STORE EVERY MAN---EVERY WOMAN KNOW THESE GREAT BARGAINS After reading of these savings and realizing how great they are, don’t hesitate to act at omce. Stocks at this writing are complete with styles, sizes and materials, and here are the prices that will cause a clean-up tomorrow. Ideal for present wear—right style and weight for spring wear. Women'’s Suits Sold for $25, - $10.00 Women’s Suits Sold for $45, - $15.00 Women’s Coats Sold for $19.50, $7.98 ‘Men’s Overcoats Sold for $12.75, $7.95 Men’s Suits Sold for $20, - $14.75 TRECAESAR [X|ISCH QTORE 687—693 MAIN STREET HARTFORD Bundles Don’t you just love bundles? I don’t mean bundles to carry or to do up, but to receive and open. There are few things I hate more than to do up a bundle and few things I love more than to unwrap’ one which the postman or the express- man has brought me. The Poor Little Rich Children. I once attended a Christmas tree at which the father, who acted ag Santa Claue, himself unwrapped each package before giving it to the chil- dren. The gifts were expensive and dcefrable, but I could have wept for those children. Just think of having the fun of ripping off the string and unfolding the paper and seeing the things emerge, taken away from you. There is a fascination about bundles which transcends what we actual- 1y expect from them. They are so mysterious, so fraught with infinite possi- tilities. We open them with the zest with which we turn a page of life, You see, there might be almost anything in an unopened bundle Jjust as there might be on the unturned page. When Mother Came Home From Town. e Children (both those of small stature and the full grown kind) are especially fond of bundles, perhaps because their belief in the infinite possi- bilities of things in general is less tarnished. Will you ever forget how you used to hang about your mother when she came from town with her arms full of fascinating bundles? That was before these degenerate days when everything is delivered, and mothers come back from a shopping tour with nothng but an uniniteresting little handbag. “What's is this?” yvou asked. “What's this?” “Can’t 1 undo this one?’ Even when you are told that they merely contained such thoroughly unin- teresting articles as winter flannels or a new coffee pot, you still felt a de- sire to undo them. And when you finally fell upon a bundle of which mother said with a telltale smile, “Yes. you may open that,” what a thrill vou felt! What if it was only a half pound of candy or a ten cent toy, -t ;:»'as a bundle and it was for you and you had the fun of unwrapping it and discovering it. Answering the Advertisements. Even the bundle whose contents are known is not wholly void of fas- cination. I know a little boy who spends half his weekly stipend answering” the advertisements which offer to send sundry and various articles in con- sideration of one or more two cent stamps. His mother cannot see why he should send for a sample tube of acothpaste when he distinctly objects to brushing his teeth with the excellent paste she provides. “I like to have the little package come to me through the mail,” he explains. Though I am too inert to answer advertisements even when 1 would really like the articles advertised, I must confess to a deep sympathy with him for I actually am pleased to see the expressman bring the bundles 1 myself have ordered in town, and even find pleasure in opening them . " Bome will laugh at me, I know, but others will understand and it is for them I am writing today. Perhaps we're childish, but after all that's not euch an unhappy thing to be, is it, understanding reader friends? THE POPULAR SHOE STORE THE ENGLISH LAST A new model in Walking Boots, having a flat heel and medium nar- row toe. We are showing them in Tan and Black, with leather or rub- ber soles. Prices: $2.50 to $4.00 Come in and see¢ them. AISHBERG,,, THE SHOEMAN, Main St,, HARTF ORD me==""""""ASK THE CLERK FOR S. & H. GREEN STAMPS