New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1915, Page 4

— LL wEEk Ghre gum Players Present eo. M. Cohan’s cal.Comedy Success i In Three Acte e omoR FROM N. FiZOvrLim IN CAST ) ORCHESTRA Y. BYe. BN T ETuzs, Thurs, and Sat. ' Matinees 1c, 20 | | Evenings 105, 200, 30¢, 506 | ‘pow selling | at Crowell's "Phone 1369. K OF APRIL 26, MISS WILLAR acular Mid-Air Fents ce With Barnum’s, PRNIE & HERMANN, .The Ginger Boys HE COLONIAL TRIO, Classy Singing Act. HE EOUR MAXINES, Big Juggling Novelty. Virile American Tale” Hubert Footner's N ring Max Figman and Lolita Robertson pulsating drama of red- poded men and cravens, a man’s love and a man's te that will keep you cted to your seat. XPLCITS OF ELAINE” Latest €hapter Singie A TRE:«b—= Hartforé TONIGHT pavid . Bolasco presents. HE LOVE THOUGHT.” ent also for Tuesday and y with Wednesday matinee. Nights, 25¢, to $1.50; Mat- to $1.00. DAY, MAY 1 Matinee and DeKOVEN OPERA CO., IN “ROBIN HOOD,” Nights, 25c to $1.50; Mat- {to ! $1.00. Mail orders filled. R ;;XTER his Week, Twice Daily, The Poli Players, ITHE BIG IDEA” 20c. Eve. 10, 20, 30, 502, G PHILADELPHIA Bl DENTAL ROOMS ¥ 193 Main Streel B/ Over 25¢ Store WORK AT MODERATE PRICES PPen from 8 A. M. to 8 I’ . jundays by Appolutment - MONKS, D. D. S. v W8, v I?n‘tgn;—.\'hll:Depot MILK AND CREABI Wholesale and Retall t: “‘Best in, the City,” wanl ths BEST, get Seibert's 12 Quaris Milk $1.00. ERT & SON, poooms Tel. 708-4 ] [ ing specialty Ll » News for Theatre Goers and Women Readers JOHNNY JONES IS MAKING A BIG HIT “Little Johnny Jones” biggest hit of the season for the Lyceum Players and the audiences wkich have seen the performances siven thus far do not hesitate in say- | ing that it is just as enjoyable as when originally produced by tne author and | actor George M. Cohan. Mr. Birch scores a great hit in the cnaracter of “Jones.” Miss Callaway 1s decidedly chic in her costume under the role of the Earl of Bloomsbury, and the coy little French maid. The patrons also like the new characters in roles this week. Miss Bolton’s singing and dancing are as usual, a big nit. Par- ticularly pleasing are the settings which are on the par of excellence found in the usual New York produc- tions. There is a big aemand for geats, which indicates the popularity of musical presentations and also the very sat torv manner in which these aitractions are staged. The 21 at‘ractions, by reason of the kigh royalties, the special scenic offects, sveclal costumes and aug- mented company of chorus singers and dancers, and orchestra are the most expensive that the management | has undertaken and tne patrons should show their appreciation by at- tending. For the next week the management uffers another high class musical at- traction, presenting another of George M. Cohan's great musical successes, | “Fifty Miles From Boston.” 1t, - like | Cohan's other musical shows, pessesses a speed of action that is de- Jightfully pleasing and a run of original comedy such as only Cohz\nl can produce.. As this attraction will mark the closing week of the season’s cngagement for the Players there will | he special features at tne different | performances during the last week. TROUPE OF JUGGLERS LEAD AT KEENEY'S| makes “Dark Town Poker Chief,”” one of Bert Williams most popular song hits, is among the tuneful numbers intro- duced by Burnie and Herman, a pair of live éntertainers who are appear- ing at Keeneys's this week. This duo has a classy pianologue and finds fa- vor for its rendition of the latest Broadway hits, introduction of clev- er dancing and piano playing of a high ordetr. The act is one of the most popular numbers on the bill. Tt is a real applause getter and it scores heavily every day. Novelty characterizes the offering of the Four Maxines, a quartet of jugglers, who get the headline posi- tion on thé program. Their act is really “something different.” it is a TFuropean importation and prior to its advent in this country it was one of England’s biggest music hall success- ! es. The audience likes it and applauds liberally. Opening the show is a unique bal- ancing specialty which serves to in- troduce the Willards, a pair of enter- tainers, who for a number of years were big attractions in the Barnum & Bailey circus. They have a sensa- tional offering. Their tricks are en- tirely new to local theater-goers and they give a most creditable perfor- mance. Conversation and song serve 1o make the offering of Bernard and De Haven one of entertaining qualites. | The pair knows how to handle ‘he patter., They present a travesty on- the boy scouts that has some meri- | torious features. They also use sev- eral song hits that are well received. | The big act of the show is the sing- | given by the Colonial | trio, This combination features Mis Ida Butler, a soprano soloist, famed in vaudeville for her work in “The Viilage Choi Miss Butler has a wonderful voice and in popular and classical selections it is heard to ad- vantage. The others in the act are ; also good entertainers. POPULAR COMEDY AT POLI'S NEXT WEEK When “The Big Idea” is classed as an unusual play, it is very properly classified, for in no play of recent date has so much in the dramatic field been included. Comedy, farc real melodrama and tragedy are al cess. The young man is atout to com- mit suicide to raise funds to cover his father's shortage at his bank, his life insurance being sufficient to pay this. Then the girl learns of the young man’s position and inspires him to write the story of his position into a play and sell it for a sum that wiil make good the father's shortage. From this time on the audiencc secs a play being: written and acted at the same time—a most novel and uniqua idea. The final act of the play is reserved for the final act of “The Big Idca” when they sell their manuscript to a producer. It has been said that the play is based upon fact, which makes it so much the more gripping and absorb- ing. The characters are real people who work out their own salvation in their own way. It is not freakish in any sense of the word. Everywhere it has been receWed as one of the most unusual plays ever written and its authors, Clayton Hamilton and A. E. Thomas have given the stage one of its real original productions. The Poli ayers have scored very heavily in this play already, Miss Skirvin and and Mr, Hollingsworth playing the leading roles with fine effect and the other favorites have prominent parts. It is adequately staged. Next week the Players will present the ever popular comedy ““Mrs. Wiggs uic; St, 5 min. ftrom ceuter of the Cabbage Patch.” i th(-i | included in this Cohan & Harris sue- | (By Doris Fleischman Tribune.) Because they have found the fash- ions absurd and in New York and because they see in clothes the great reason ugly, Paul and Virginia have opened a shop, the quaintest little shop in New York, at 3 Milligan place. Paul and Virginia are Miss Janet Kittredge, of Chicago, and Mrs. Forbes Morgan, but I may not divulge which is which. “It is a mystery,” said Vir- ginia, “and don't you dare tell.”” *“No- body must kno said Paul, “and then everybody will think we are the more exciting.' “Really,” said Paul, “our names ought to he changed, for T adore Fluf- fies. It is much more fitting for me to be Virginia.” She bowed her face in a mass of rainbow hued chiffons, to show how she adored them. But Paul is tall, she is full of vivaciy and fire. Virginia is slim, of average height, and looks quietly executive. Both laugh a good deal over their new venture, for the idea is but six weeks old. You may have your choice as to which should have been Virgin- ia, but I think that Paul was right- 1y so named. Anyway it was Virginia who hinted something about senti- ment being the reason for the names. T found Paul in her apartment at 20 ‘West Tenth street, in shameful confu- sion, she said, for everything was to be moved to their quarters in Milligan place, where they will work and live in two small rooms. Milligan place a narrow, crooked court, curls back of | some tenements, and faces some oth- A queer fantastic little place it | , “but it will soon look beautiful, when window boxes are out, and the flags have a coat of paint.” “Why, did we decide to do this work ?” said Paul, vainly,trying to pull her lounging wrap about her knees, ‘“‘why, because we had always been in- terested in the subject of clothes. And because we wanted something definite to do, and we feel that any woman who wants to do things should. And becausg we were very sick of so- ciety. It really counts for so little. 'But what interested us most is the social and economic aspect of clothes. Half the misery in this country is caused by this foolish question of clothes. Women are eternally buying clothes that they cannot afford, and the men are eternally wearing them- selves out so that the women may be fashionable. It is all one scramble after these silly, silly things. Goodness, but it is foolish! . “T am a suffragist, but it is my firm conviction that women can never ac- complish great things until they ara dressed properly. Just th how they are hampered physically. Clothes that | bind them here and bind them there. Heavy bands at the waist and numbers of unnecessary things that wear them out before the evening. Thy wear so | many under things. Why, they would not need half as many. Before thev can do work that requires endurance they will have to have less exacting | clothes. “And the time and thought that are put on clothes!” She held up her slim hands in mock horror. “Why, tenths of our energy, our time and our thoughts are put upon having a new fashion four times a year. Isn’t it a i rd She pulled her pretty black and white gown further around he»r and then went to the mirror to adjust it again. 1 just ripped this apart | and it hasn't come together properly vet. “Do you know what we are coming to eventually? To Greek clothes. They are the only sensible ones. Why, As- pasia was a better suffragist than we are. All those Greek women had more time than we have for the things that | count. . And, another thing—those women werc very much prettier than we are, and that is because they wore prettier clothes. Oh, T think there fis more philosophy in cloth than any one ever dreamed of. Grecian womcen were prettier because their clothe fluenced mnot only their minds, ant made them healthier, but moulded { their bodies. We could be far better looking if we always wore artistic clothes." At this point Virginia, who had been out, came in. Paul jumped up and pushed her into the only chair wh could be cleared easily, “My dear, you must be perfectly dead. Just sit down and rest.” Virginia protested, but she et down and told how everything was van place house., “The main thing to be considered in | 1 clothes,” further explained Paul, the lines. Lines must be beautiful. l They can make a stout women look slim and a thin person look gound. If you have the right lines, ;ie fir: thing to be done isto eliminate de- tails. The detail§ that go on the gowns of today are preposterous. On» finds a chiffon petticoat with littie ; flowers; over that a chiffon petticoat with silver lace, and still another with net and ruffles. On top of that comes | the silly hank of a dress; that is all 1t TR Virginia laughed, and recited the “rag and a bone and a hank of hai and Paul drew distressing analogies. “Please go on talking,' said Virginia, | and Paul explained further. 1 ““We are going to eliminate all these | details. We are going in for big i fects. We choose the correct line And then we dye our own material if need be, and paint on the color thus doing away with ruffles and v bons and silver lace, and instead have | { held dizzy | | itien of | American business woman's { are not reform i sim | devoted to n < | advt. nine- | in- | { always ch [ ¢« life of red-blooded men ning along ocautifully in the Milli- | | ed, exquisitely drapec for marital unhappiness in America, | | Modish Clothes Are Condemned As Reason for Marital Unhappiness Women Buy Garments They Cannot Afford and It Has All Become a Dizzy Scramble After These Silly Things. as pretty, and, T think, more becom- ing. Let .me show you some of tha ducky things we have made, and she went into the other room and brought back wraps of chiffon, paint- combining col- ors in a way that we had not thought possible in America. There were cur- ious wraps, which were short, and were to be copied in deerskin and worn, with high boots and no skirt, for motoring. “We are not fashionable,” explained Yirginia. “We never have a pattern M the house. We are to make things | that are artistic and becoming. We have no rules except just that one.’ “But won't it be difficult for a per- son to choose the type of garment which is becoming to her, and to stick to that?” T asked, “and will variety be eliminated ?" “Dear, no” said Paul that wonld be odious. Variety life. But there won't be any set variety, which really makes for spasmodic monotony. There will be almost as many different styles as there are people, and so each one may change as often as she wants, but no oftener. ‘“Paris is not as bad as we are here. | Paris makes its gowns for Americans, The only ‘fashionable’ French people are the actresses and the demi-mon- daines. The ladies do not change their costumes from season to scason and do not wear the freaky things which we grasp in all eagerness. There a gentlewoman will wear a gown for three, four and five years if it is pret- ty and not worn ogt. She would not thi® of banishing it simply becaus2 she had worn it last year. Oh, no. They are sensible. i “And I do wish we would stop imi- tating Paris. Why, we can do splendid things. This has been shown decisivelr in the exhibition at the School of Fine and Applied Arts. You know, any step alone helps. We soon will be working alone, even if the beginning seems very bad. “But all that does not concern the | 1 Paul and Virginia shop. You see, wo are making only children’s cloth and wrappy things and tennis blouses and smocks for grown people.” She up a child’s dress for my in- spection. It was of crepe, a simple, comfortable, short waisted frock, haund painted in flowe: and inexpensive. “What do you think of the Polymu- | riel?”” she was asked. “We are going to enter the contest,” she answered, and then smjled. “Of course, if that came d all day. I think it is messy, Tut if it is merely an aid to the abol- fashions, an attempt to find which is more suited to the , mode of | life, it is very fine.” i Thus, while Paul and Virginia, on> | “a mother and a suffragist and the other a suffragist but not a mother,” | . they have hopes of time when, attired in robes of Greek licity, women will cease wilfully throwing away time which should be | bler pursuits than plan- mplicity ning furbelov Best Butter 34c ib. Russell Bros— MRS. LESLIE CARTER IS COMING TO FOX'S;l 1 Elaborate prepartions for the ven- tilating and cooling of the auditori- um at IFox's are in the works, and the management is endeavoring to make the theater the coolestin New Eng- land. The motion picture program for | today and tomorrow is an excellent , that savors of the higher priced theate throughout the country, and | is made up of the latest chapter _ of “The Ixploits of Elaine” the serial nmiotion picture story that you like so well, and Max TFigman, the popular comedian supported by Lolita Robert- son in “Jack Chanty” dramati from the novel by Hubert Footner. “Jack Chanty" is a virile American tale of the big out-doors, the story is) brisk in action, never lags, | judicious grouping of scenes and situations fraught with romancs and adventure, the masterpiece film producers have produced an interest- ing play founded upon one of tho most widely read novels which depict and cravens, of a woman’s love and a man’s hate enacted in the heart of the forests mnd on the rugged sides of the Sierra Madre. “The Heart of Maryland,” a five vart production with Mrs. Leslie Car- ter in her original role comes to fox's the last two days of this week. Ior the making of this big picture, twelv¢ 1 soldiers, several thousand ci- sixty principal actor: and hree hundred und fifty hor were | used. A church was built and com- pletely cquipped and then demolished by explosion and fire. It is one of the most thrilling screen productions to date and beer referred to Ly New York newspapers as the screen’s bigzest success. It was selected above all others to open the New York Hip- podrome March 20th. to inaugurate a policy in the largest playhouse in the country. nd by The finest butter in the land made sweet and delicious. 34c¢ fresh | means to keep on the | | { dresses too simple. P PR S TS5 S s i = o Fashion Hints by May. Manton 7864 Tucked Blouse, 34 to 42 bust. WITH LONG OR ELBOW SLEEVES. The tucked blouse with soft rollin collar is one of the prettiest possible an a favorite. 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There are so many things too, which present personal problemg Why have hread and butter forced upon onecsclf and then be refused cake or candy? Why not get one's feet wet? What makes a cold? Evervthing is new and so wonderful to a child. His mind is as impressionable as wax. Heé craves Information Yet so often he gets, in answer to his eager questioning, nothing but ridiculous misinformation I sometimes wonder how much of this misinformation leaves its imprint through the yvears. I know of a grown man who confessed to me that he thought for rears raisins made people crazy because his mother told him =0 in order to keep him from {aking them from the pantry A great mass of misinformation of course, removed from the m by later cxperiences, but some of it,dealing with intangibie things must leave some impression Children’s Questions Often Exe Openers, for constructional training presented by a child’s questioning should be =0 abused. Of course a child's quer- tions are sometimes hard to answer even though they deal with simple every-day thingz, but that might perhaps serve for a text of a talk for grown-u To discover that to put some fact of which we have a fs conception in definite simplc language is hard ought to open our eyes to thé slovenliness and incompleteness of our own knowiedge It may be pleasanter to save ono’s self from such an eyve opener making up some silly untruth and then laughing at one’s own wit, but call it downright mean to trade on a child's credulity so. If a child 2sk you for bread should you give Questions and Answers. Question—What do you think of people who take out a dozen recorda from a music store supposedly on approval, but with no real intention of buying, wanting them only to entertaing weck end guests? - Answer—That they deserve to lose the privilege of taking records on approval, as they undoubtedly will. 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