New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 23, 1915, Page 4

4 GHT, jpd Jokin 1 t” w3 sisd News :' Stage Looks in the Play From Home” b m stage has never looked does in “The Man From fWhich began the week at that | | t'evening. The scenes are rrento, Ttaly, and the artist onted a most beautiful pic- the mountings are in perfect §ony with each other and tne M8 of the ladies are as pretty as on-could design them. The play i striking contrast with last week's ering, being of quiet kind and deal- | ing with society of more than one na- j‘xionality Russell Sage is back with ‘(he company this week after a long absence and was given a cordial re- ception when he appeared. Miss Bol- 0N was presented with a large bou- quet of flowers during the evening. This is the cast of characters: Marianno, Maitre d’Hotel ........ I SRR S TR A I3, M. Leonard The Earl of Hawcastle .. L. J. Fuller Comtese De Champigny.. Lois Bolton Ethel Granger Simpson e > o Emily Callaway ITEm Hon. Almeric St. Aubyn .... ' 424 Wyrley Birch Sen of Lord Hawcastle. ‘Horace Granger Simpson C. Russell Sage Lady Creech, Sister-in-law of Haw- castle .. . Adelaide Hibbard The Grand Duke Vasili Vasilivitch ... Frank Wright Daniel Voorhees Pike of Kokomo, Ind. . ceases.:. Alfred Cross Ivanoff . Fred. Sutton ) The play is in four acts and the main feature of the plot is Daniel Voorhees Pike, guardian of Miss Simpson who comes fom Indiana to Italy to see her because she is engaged to marry Almeric St. Aubyn and to whom she has agreed to give $750,000. cesame P for The B O IR————— atre Goers and Women _Read_ers | Two Million Child Workers in This Country (Clara Gruening Stillman in New York Tribune.) “If the people of the United States knew what child labor really is they would stop it quickly. Not that we have not plenty of statistics and plenty | of proof that the employment of cail- dren is both destructive to them and unprofitable to society, that it is dis- locating industry and poisoning the race. But that is not enough. Great reforms are not carried through by a knowledge of facts and logic, but by intense and sustained emotion, and until .we become emotional on the subject of the two million children in industry, until the thought of them robs us of sleep by night and of peace by day, we shall not succeed in abolishing their slavery.” George Creel's intensive investiga- tions into the child labor problem in all parts of the tountry have brought him to the conclusion quoted above. “People can’'t be said to know,” he said to me, “unless they feel. “I have seen the child workers in every state of the Union, bent low in the blinding dmst of the coal break- ers, sorting the coal with bleeding flngers, watching needles that set 3,000 stitches a minute, crawling on hands, and feet tarough the damp ooze of the cranberry bogs. “I have seen them with ghastly faces in the glare of the white hot furnaces of the glass house, where they sweat the long nights through; in cotton mills, where the air is heavy with flying lint: in silk factories, re’ the shining threads weaves themselves into aching eyes; in shrimp His family, though passing as among the best of the English nobility, has been connected through the Earl with a theft which has made Ivanoff a fugitive from justice, but when the facts become known through Pike the marriage is declared off and the au- dience is left to surmise whether there will be a. wedding with Pike and Miss Simpson ‘ as contracting parties. The play is conscientiously presented and very much is made of opportunity for a beautiful stage picture. The cast in detail, however, does its work well, those in the leading parts, Mr. Cross, Mr. Wright sand Mr. Birch as usual being very good. The female parts were well taken, Miss Callaway being very clear in. lines, and dignified in general bearing. POLI PLAYERS IN “WAY DOWN EAST” “Way Down East,” that old prob- lem play which leaves unsolved the problem which it sets forth in four long acts, is given all this week at canneries, where the acid that is on the heads of shrimps cats the flesh from baby fingers. Dispassion of No Usec. ‘‘These are the pictures to be visual- ized by all if the curse of child labor is to be lifted. Calmness and dispas- sion are of no use in this crisis. You can’t put deformity and helplessness and despair into figures. ‘“We Americans are so afraid of be- ing seritimental. Many people believe that the child labor will be grossly exaggerated and that it is more or le of a hubbub inspired by muckrakers and professional agitators. Nothing could be further from the truth. On the contrary, the child labor situation has been constantly understated. Through fear of being charged with sensationalism, the national commit- tee and the various state organizations have excluded the blood and sweat and tears from their reports. But this problem is made up of blood and sweat and tears. If you leave:them out, you can’t deal with it effective- 1y.” And this is what Mr. Creel has tried to do in his study of “Children in Bondage,” written in collaboration Poli's Hartford theater by the Poll Players and given well. Marquerite Skirvin, in the part of Anna Moore, the girl who is betrayed by the vil- lain but who overcomes all her dif- ficulties and marries the son of tae puritanical New England squire after being taken into his family and after concealing her past for nearly a year, portrays the part well. A trifle more fire would temper the part and make it more real, however. John Ellis, as Squire Amasa Bart- lett, the hide-bound old New England squire, which—alas—has passed from use with the advent of the automo- bile and the traction plow, accom- plishes very well the sudden reversal of character made necessary by the author. Inez Lyman, as the squire’s wife, ig really good. Harry Hollings- worth, as the squire’s son and the hero of the play, portrays the part as it should be portrayed. It is not cus- tomary, however, to wear .one’'s mack- inaw at the.supper table, especially as the other characters do not appear to be particularly cold, despite the swirling snow and the howling wind outside. Melba Listina always por- trays such a part as she has this week, that of Kate Brewster, well. Bhe is extremely convincing in the role of the vivacious niece of the squire. Ag for Professor Sterling, who is Roy Phillips, asd Lennox San- derson, the city man and villain, who jg Ben MacQuarrie, they carry their parts well. Ada Dalton as Martha Perkins, the gossip, is too much of a caricature. The same effect could be obtained with greater force if the rapier was used instead of the broad- sword. Forrest Seabury, as Hi Hol- Jer, the chore boy, carries with him the very essence of a New England farmhand. PARSONS’ THEATRE Hartford TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY ' (Matinee Wednesday) ROYAL LILLIPUTIANS’ REVUE Prices: Nights, 25c to $1.50. Matinees, 25c to $1.00. ENTIRE WEEK MONDAY, MARCH 29. Matinees—Wednesday, Friday, Satur- day. ON TRIAL Night Prices: 25, 35, 50, 75, $1 and $1.50.—Matinee Prices: 25, 35, 50, 75, $1.00. Seat Sale Friday. POLI’SBmEATER All This Week, Twice Daily. The Polt Players, WAY DOWN EAST with Judge Ben Lindsay and Edwin Markham. Time Ripe for Anti-Child Labor Agi- tation, “The time is ripe for a great wave of anti-child labor agitation,” Mr. Creel went on, ‘““people’s hearts are softer than they ever were before, and social problems are accorded an importance that is new to civilization. One principal feature of the fight is to secure recognition of the underlyisg and compelling relation that toiling children bear to vice, crime, low wages, unemployment and conges- tion. “Then we must® get congress and the legislatures to take the same burning interest in the welfare of children that they ‘nave long mani- fested in crops and livestock. Dur- ing all these vears, when children have been exploited to their destruc- tion and despair, without inquiry or cven interesi, thousands of dollars were spent in waging war against cat- tle fever and hog cholera. And while it was impossible to learn anything authoritative with regard to child labor in the cotton mlills, the govern- ment issued report after report on the cotton crop and the proper way to proceed against the boll weevil. “In the gulf states there are tender laws for the protection of the oyster and the shrimp, dealing minutely with the crime of tearing them from their beds before they ©have attained a certain size and length, but there are no laws that prescribe penalties for those ruthless employvers who drag bables from their beds to labor in the -plucking fields and feed their flesh to the acid of the shrimp. “To arouse a national passion, an overwhelming public sentiment that child labor must go Wwill be no easy task. Natural indifference and tae tradition about ‘early habits of in- dustry’ die hard. But the greatest obstacle, because in some ways the most intangible, is ‘Special Privi- lege.’ Child labor is one of the foundation stones of big business, and its supporters in every state are both bitter and powerful in their antagon- jsm to child labor reform. Their corrupt control extends to courts and legislatures, and to a large partion of the press—a control that causes the suppression of child labor facts in great measure and the minimizing of those that can’t be suppressed, “I do not mean to say,” Mr. Creel went on, “that nothing has been done in the ten vears since the organization of the National Child Labor Commit- tee. Much has been done, though miuich still remains to do. The uni- form child labor law, drafted by the committee and indorsed by the Amer- R | ptats, 10, 20c. Eve. 10, 20, 30, 50c.| jcan Bar association, prohibits wage Are Waiting for Legislative Aid and Help Problem Is Made Up of Blood and Sweat and Tears—Im- possible to Put All Helplessness and Despair Into Figures. earning occupations for children un- der' 14, forbids night work for child- ren under 16, prescribes an eight-hour | day, demands educational qualificu- tions equal to five yearly grade: umentary proof of age and_the keen- ing of employment certificates on file."” And there is the Palmer-Owen biil, | which has passed the house but not the senate, but which will be pushed again until it becomes a law and makes impossible the interstate trans- portation of the products of child labor. Arizona alone has passed the former law. In other states the age limit varies from twelve to fourteen, but there are many outrageous ex- emptions, and in some ‘cases an etlr’e lack of proper inspection and law en- forcement. South Exempts “Child of Dependent Parents.” Charles 1.. Clute, a reliable au- thority, has stated that two-thirds of the states have no effective enforce- ment of child labor laws, and that not more than ten have even a fair tem of factory inspection. e southern states exempt the “child of dependent parents,’ others demand no proof of age,” sald Mr. Creel In this regard. “In Rhode Island working certificates are not kept on file, with | the result that one certificate issued to a boy of fourteen may do duty for a host of vounger brothers, cousins and friends. And there are dozens of other ways in which the law is vio- lated. “According to government report, there are more than 40,000 children between ten and fifteen years of age in the.cotton mills today, workins from six in the morning until six ar night, or from six at night to six in the morning. There are cases where they work seventeen hours at a stretch two or three times a week. At Any Rate, There Was the Uplirt! “In one town, where scores of mere children worked for twelve hours un- der the most enervating conditions, the management made a specialty of flower culture, and was eloquent in describing the uplift it expected from its petunias and geraniums. “In the silk mills little girls ro- ceive four cents an hour for toil that bends their backs to deformity and blinds their cyes until they can hardly see. In the canneries mere tots snip beans at a cent a pound from 4:30 a. m. tp 10 p. m.. The fingers re swollen and shapeless and they often fall asleep working and tumble from their seats. Children of six and eight husk corn and cap cans forty a min- ute for nine hours a day. At oyster shucking an industrious child can earn twenty cents a day. Work often starts at 3 o’clock the morning. “Well, T could go on giving you in- stances indefinitely ” Mr. Creel con- tinued. “In our book we have tried to show the harrowing, devastating ef- fects of these conditions. Children are worn out bodily and mentally before in { they have attained their full growth, and these stunted and dazed wrecks in turn produce weaklings, and so on for generation after generation. Child Bondage Depresses Adult Wagec. “The child in industry depresses the adult wage. This is one of the most pernicious effects of the system. No child gets a man’s wage, though it may be doing a man’s work and de- priving him of his chance to do it. Fathers of families are often unable to find employment, while their child- ren are forced to work, or else they can command only as much as the child. “I believe that equal suffrage will help a great deal in bettering these conditions,” Mr. Creel concluded, “women have not been petrified by the conduct of affairs as men have. They apply the mother heart to so- clal questions instead of the busi- ness head, and I hope they will al- ways continue to do so. Por . * 1 cannot emphasize too strongly my belief that a high emotionalism is needed in dealing with questions of human life and happiness.” Sanusages in surprise will go forther than sausages alone, one-half pound being sufficient for a medium-sized dish. Cut each sausage in three, and cover with mashed potato seasoned and mixed with a small bit of butter or dripping. Flour and fry in a frying- pan in plenty of dripping till brown. NOTIGE! For the next two weeks we will do Ladies’ Tailoring at greatly service, R. BERMAN 41 ARCH STREET. while | reduced prices.| Prompt attention and good, doc- | The Columbia Engages PABLO CASALS The World’s Greatest ’Cellist Under Exclu- sive Contract LARGO. (Handel.) - Or- chestra Accompaniment. MELODY IN F. (Rubin- stein.) Orchestra Ac- companiment. THE SWAN (Le Cygne.) (Saint-Saens,) (éhas. Albert Baker at the piano.) SERENADE, Spanish Dance No. 2. (Popper) (Chas. Albert Baker at the piano.) These four selections by Casals are the greatest ’cello solos ever recorded. It would be worth your while to step in and hear them. All the new records for April now on sale, BRODRIB & WHEELER 138 Main Street. Tel. 974-4 A Menu for Tomorrow 14 AN Breakfast. Fruit Cereal Sugar, and Cream Broiled Chops Fluted Potatoes Sally Lunns Coffee Lunch. Egg and Fish Salaa Nun’'s Toast Tea Dinner, Vienna Steaks Mashed Potatoes Stewed Parsnips ‘Watercress French Dressing Cheese au Chocolate Coffee Wafers Moule Steaks—Take each of one-half beaf off all fat and gristle and crop very fine. Add one-half of a | teaspoonful of salt. one-quarter of a | teaspoonful of paprika, one-quarter of a teaspoonful of mixed sweet herbs, oes teaspoonful of choped parsley and ine teaspoonful of chopped onion. | Stir in one well beaten egg and set | aside until the next day. Form into | steaks and saute quickly in butter Serve on a hot platter with mashed potatoes in the center and brown gravy in a sauceboat Vienna pound veal; a raw lean and trim Moule Au Chocolate—Two of chocolate, yolks of two eggs, one and a half cupfuls of milk, one heap- ing tablespoonful powdered gelatine, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, a quarter teaspoonful of lemon extract, and quarter teaspoonful of vanilla extract, I'reak the chocolate inte small pieces ! and put it into a saucepan with half a cupful of the milk. Dissolve slowly over the fire and cook until smooth. Ilemove the saucepan rrom the firs, | add the remainder of the milk, gela- tine, sugar and volks or eggs. Stir «gain over the fire until almost boil- ing and until the gelatine is dissolved. Strain into a basin, add the vanilla and lemon and cool slightly. Turn into a wetted mold. Serve with plain or whipped cream. are dear, use milk and of egg When crumbs eggs instead and crumbs | for frying fish cakes, rissoles, and so on. If your favorite cake or pud- ding recipe calls for two eggs, use one cnly, addng a little milk to make the right amount of moisture, and a scant teaspoonful of baking powder. ounces | A Foolish Pose To pretend to like a picture, a piece of music or a book because like it and because you know it is a classic and you ought to like it Nevertheless it sometimes has its root affectation. others is an in a genuine desire to improve one's taste and to like the best things. But to pretend to dislike, or persuade oneself to dislike ply because many others like it is an least, has no excuse at all anything si affectation which, to. my mind at The Ultra Cultured Lady is Bored. Someone spoke of hearing Schubert's Serenade beautifully played ‘the other day. The ultra cultured lady enthusiasm of several music lovers. very fond of it. ened with a carefully bored air to ithe 0,” she admitted, “1 can't say I1in It's so awfully common you know."” The effect of her superior boredom was #as she desired, to make the crude and uncultured to themselv: especially fine. Which, then, do you or perhaps actually was, bored by it som’s “Lady of Shalott.” ity-conscious tone. was genuine in her dislike, but it ask yourself these questions, Madam something different. more. I should say a woman needed a husband. MARGARET WYCHERLY IS FOX FILM ACTRESS “The Fight,” Bayard Veiller's Hud- son theater sensationdl success, dram- atized for the screen in five acts with Margaret Wycherly and John E. Kel- lard in the titular roles, was yesterday a photo-play production that will be met with the approval of all patrons of the motion picture theater. John E. Kellard, as Vance, the deformed crafty owner of an illegal resort is immense. Margaret Wycherly as Jane Thomas, the woman reformer, plays the role with dignity and feel- ing, while the balance of the ¢ast do some excellent work. The staging and the working up of tense and dramatic force leaves nothing to be desired, and as a whole this photo- | play is certainly akin to the big sen- sational success Wwhich captivated country by its interesting story of the underworld. The second chapter of “The Black Box.” written by Phillips Oppen- heim and released every week in two reels, with Herbert Rawlinson and Anna Little playing the leading char- acters, was also shown. There are fifteen chapters to this serial motion picture story, shown at-Fox's everv Monday and Tuesday, and judging from the two episodes already shown it will prove as big if not a bigger and popular attraction that *“Perils of Pauline” or *“The Exploits of Elaine.”” Both “The Fight" and “The Black Box” will also be shown today, with the Pathe News holding down the educational portion of the Varied program. For tomorrow and Thursday management has arranged for tae showing of “The Avalanche.” by Robert Hilliard, in which Cathrine Countiss, William Tooker, Caroling French and others are featured, The story abounds in pretty sentiment and heart interest, and not until the vers finish can we guess the outcome of the plot. The thirteenta episode of “The ploits of Elaine,” with “The Devil Worshippers,” also be shown. . will i€ fea- but 2 limited The extremely wide skirt tured in a few dancing dr tunics are being used only in way. you can make your lustrous, flaffy, and abundant. 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You know 1 never do like anything anyone else 1ikes,” she concluded with a superior- The Only Girl Who Dida't Like “Littiec Women.” I never knew but one gril who didn't like “Little Women.” secemed scarcely possible to me, and she afterwards grew into the type of person who makes it a rule never to like what everyone else likes, I suspeet her seorn of that simplest, sweetsut of books was the beginning of the pose she afterwards adopted. Of course you can’t like everything that everyome else likes course this would be a monotonous world if everyone thought alike Perhaps she ns of But of the ultra culture and the taste for and Wouldn't you like these same things if others did'nt like them ? Isn’t your desire to be diff erent making vou unnatural? If you can give an honest, from the bottom of your heart “No” to these questions, you don’t deserve what I've been saying about you. 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Furthermore, woman’s underwear and small appointments cost mueh* Now should the apportion#.ent least twice as much money as her ‘What do my reader friends think? e Captain Betts and his troupe '@ educated seals, appearing at K a3 this week's headliner. make up one of the best attractions that have been scen at the local playhouse in a long time. act with its many new features serve to make it one of exceprionafly high merit and it is bound to find favor with the patrons all week, The first nighters were well pleased with it and applauded generously. In the troupe are six of the celebrated lions of the sea. They are well tramed and the feats which they perform are nothing ghort of wonderful. They seem to noegess almost human intelligence and they go through the vartoug stunts master. Opening the show entertaining song and conversation specialty of the Milton trio ycung people in this turn are very clever and the audience last night seemed to like them wmmensely "hey have a repertoire of songs that arc tuneful and popular and thelr patter is extremely funny The act should be well received every day Lucere and Lucere, a pair of old timers, who have played to thousanis of people during their stage careors are numbered among the talent at the local theater this week. They are xood singers and conversationdlists ard their lon gexperience makes them more entertaining than otner per formers possessed of the same natural abilities. The Great Celest Furopean wire artist, does a series of mystifying stunts on the high wire He is a balancer and baton artist of great skill and his work is very pleas- ing. Billy whose home is in Hartford ing with Miss Harvey in a pianologue. 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