New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1915, Page 4

| See it open in George M. Cohan’s play, following cast: Mrs. _the colors of the set-. in' lingers in the sky. affer « the day ~has S0 lingers in my ; the story of your - Tet. 1 SATURDAY, MAY 7-8 harp; Sat. Mat. RLES FROHMAN pre- ple Star Alliance CLIAM GILLETTE BATES MARIE DORO of ed Players DIPLOMACY” 10 $2, all performances. Y. Mail Orders Filled Hartford. 3 eek, Twice Dally, Poli Players, % S OF THE CABBAG! PATOH.” o Teams Tel. 308-4 T & SON, at? | News for The m Company is ‘ine in Cohan’s “Fifty Miles From Boston” The Lyceum Stock com, i pany is on its last week of the season and a large audience was present last evening to “Fifty Miles from Boston” with the Mr. Westcott. . Mrs. Westcott. Moseley . Captain of «++.L. J. Fuller .. .Grace Barton ....E. M. Leonard aseball Team...\.. ++evwwdim Connor .Adrian 8. Perrin .Adelaide Hibbard .«...Wyrley Birch His Father.... ..Frank Wright Emily Callaway Hughie Roman «Alfred Cross ..Jack Fargo ..Jim Connor ...Belle Flower .Lois Bolton Jed Woadis rs. Tilford.. Dave Harrigan. Timothy Harrigan, Sadie Woodis Eddie ...... Joe Westcott Fireman Constable . Aunt Kate.. Nellie Harrigan This plece was presented at the Lyceum seéveral years ago with sev- eral stars in the company, but it was not produced one whit better than it was last evening, and in some re- spects the performance of the Ly- ceum Players exceded it. = The play is well mounted, the parts are capably interpreted and the musical numbers are competently rendered. .The scene of the plece is Brookfield, Masg,, fifty miles from Boston, where the town is all wrought up by reason of Joe Westcott winning a ball game for - Harvard. An interesting inci- dent connected with the game was that his father won $800 on the game, one-half of which was from Dave Harrigan, who was in love with Jed Woodis's sister Sadle, aad the other Nhalf from her brother, who had taken it from the post office where Sadie was posthiistress, Badie didn’t like Harrigan and the latter | worked on her brather to have him induce her to give up Young West- cott to whom she was engaged and marry him under penalty of expo- Bure for theft, 43 plan which did not develop to young Harrigan’'s .credit. The company is especially well cast this week, Mr. Fuller playing Joe ‘Westdott's father with fine effect. He had been chosen to present his son with a loving cup for his prowess on the ball field and in deing so he also gave him a list of the contributors to the fund from which the cup was purchaged. Mr. Fuller made his speech naturally, in fact it could not have been done better were the oc- casion a real one. He gave espe- eial emphasis to the fact that Brook- fleld had never ‘given anyghing to any one bhefore and that his son’s || picture had been in the Boston Globe, an honer whith left nothing else to be attained. Mz Fuller played well' all through and caused much laughter in his scenes with Tim Harrigan, a character which was so well filled by Frank Wright. It was the latter’s first appearance in an Irish charac- ter and he injected not only much humor into it, but also an appreciable spirit’ of fairness when he returned young Woodis the $400 he lost on the ball game and which the senior Mr. Westcott had thrown away and which Tim Harrigan subsequently picked up. Mr. Cross was Joe Westcott, looked well and playing the part Wwith ‘a nicety of expression. Mr. Birch inter- préted young Harrigan in a non- chalant manner and making a great deal out of it. Miss Callaway was Sadie Woodis, which she played charmingly, looking the part, even to the smallest detail. She sang her song, “Jack and Jill,” nicely and later | she and Mr. Cross danced so well that they were obliged to respand to sev- eral encores. Miss Bolton, Who al- ways looks so neat, was applauded when she appeared and frequently af- terwards for ‘her work as Nellie Har- rigan, while Mrs. Hibbard was brim- ful of fun from curtain to curtain as Mrs, Tilfard, a sort of village gossip. The entire production was most inviting and will stand as among the best of the pieces produced by the Lycsum compdny, the entire cast doing its work acdceptably and should draw well during the week as a fare- well of a c¢ompany of players that has done £o much to please New Britaln theatergoers during the sea- son. FIFTH COMMANDMENT SUBJECT OF FOX FILM Bishop Potter paid a glowing tri- bute to the worth of Julius Steger's dramatic playlet “The Fifth Com- mandment” when he wrote “As the colors of the setting sun linger In the sky long after the day has past, s0 lingers in my memory life story and the song of vour beautiful playlet. I wdnt pvery man, woman and child to go and see it.” The Shuberts dramatized this rare dramatic play- let into five reels of motion-pictures and placed Mr. Steger in the titular ey St, 5 min. from ceater PHILADELPHIA DENTAL ROOMS 193 Main Street Over 23c Stnre T MODERATE i frow 8 A M. 0 8 P M. by Appointment i MONKS, D. D. S, na MG![!{S \D. D. 8. role of Carl Winters, the music teacher, the same role he Ccreatéd in the original stage production. The playlet is based upon the Mosai¢ law in the decaloque, and the play will | always live because -of its elements | of dramatic strength and moral} uplift. Julius_Steger gives a most‘l Entire Nature of Children May Be Remodeled Through Proper Music If Teacher Is Not in ngmon)' With Child Then Obtain Another Instructor Rather Than Sacrifice Spirit of Little (Clara and David Mannes York Tribune.) The entire nature and action of a child may be remoulded through music. This is not an idle dream nor a mere theory; it is a substantial fact proved in many cases during fif- teen years of work in the Music School Settlement, in East: Third street. Through the proper study of music the unmanageable child * may be made tractable, just as through wrong mthods the managcable one may become ungovernable. Not only has this work been done with chil- dren drawn from the mneighborhood that surrounds the Music Scheool Set- tlement, but with little ones who live in luxury uptown, where the air is sweet and clean, and in homes Where they dre surrounded with beéautiful things, for the incosvigible child is found not alomé in the slums—she lives in mansions-as well. The child of this type is one in whom ideals have been crushed or suppressed. It is a spiritual as well as physical condition that brings out qualities that brand him as' “bad.” But in these children there is hope, for they at least have the courage of their eonvictions, while the gener- in' New ally accepted “‘good” child is one often | made so through slavery. The first thing to do -with the “in- corrigible” child is to turn his mind into channels of interest, to afd him in discovering a personal] ideal, and music is one of the greatest aids in such a direction. ;There 1s a subtle gense in an art eX¥presgion thmtiaids the human -being #n ”':enlizin% his ideal. To awaken the beauty add ap- preciation of harmeny is more impor- tant than to give the child a - so- called thorough education. When it s said that music will in- fluence the unmanageable child it is not meant that mere listening is all that is required, though there have been great changes when such chil- dren’ have been placed in surround- ings where music is a feature. Teach the child to play. All children want to play on some instrument. . This may seem exaggerated, but notice the little one’s inclination to tender years to play on some toy instrument. A baby loves to sit by the piano and finger the keys. It is only’ when the child grows older that either the lack of an.instrument, or through making a drudgery of music by old- fashioned methods, this desire for musical éxpression is crushed. It is necessary that the whole idea of music teaching be changed and the terrible custom of subjecting the child to hard daily practice: when it can do nothing but make a most horrid noise shouuld be stopped, for it is subjecting the child to the mest nerve-racking physical torture—not to say anything about its neighbors. You eannot take a child, good, bad or indifferent, put him to work at the piano with an utterly uncongen- ial teacher, make him practice cer- tain set hours a day set scales in a set way and bring forth good' results. Either you are going to produce a spiritless “good” child or a rebel. Scales are tuneless affairs represent- ing tothe child nothing but drudgery. Chords that form harmonic instruc- tion are interesting, so begin with these, secure the child’s interest, and never fear but the matter of technique will follow. In the settlement a new method of music teaching has been developed 'which leads to the study of the bedy¥ and the co-ordination of mind and thuscleg which should lessen the time required in daily practice, and it is extraordinary what can be done. Take the violin, for instance. How often has it occurred that a person almost mentally deficient can be more expressive on the instrument that one so sensitive and refined that the very elementts which would make him a fine musician are a source of diffi-| culty; There must that keeps us all from doing what we want to do. Every expression is made through the uge of the body. By realizing this and = trying to Dbring about a co-ordination hetween the mind and. muscles we have gotten at the very health of the child. finished portrayal of the character while his supporting company is ex- cellent. The story Sounds the depth of human emotions, a striking and fascinating entertainment, and it also fllustrates a great moral which can- not be brought home to the human mind too often. Besides “The Fifth Commandment” the latest chapter of the fascinating serial “The Black Box” as well as “The Pathe News” will also Dbe shown for the last time tonight. Tomerrow ushers in a photo-play which deals with a dual personality another Doctor Jekyl and Mr. Hyde in the first screen presentation of Lionel Barrymorée in “The Curious of Judge LeGarde” a five act photo- play dramatizéd from the famous play by Victor Mapes. The latgst chap- ter of “The Exploits of Elaine” the story that grips and helds wili also be shown tomorrow and Thursday as well asvseveral single reel comedfes. CATHOLIC CHORAL UNION--41h ANNUAL CONCERT Mozart's 12th Mass—Also Program of Songs and Choruses Ghorus 100 Voices--Orchestra 14 Pieces--And a Quartet of New York Artists | Sunday Night, May 9th, Russwin Lyceum Tickets at Leghorn’s, Loughrey’s and City Drug Store be something He' i M e One’s Life. ymust be taught to sit and stand r!gm, to place his hands on the keys right. Wonderful things can be done in this the means of entertainment it can be the means of Ilifting out from the body that submerged self which needs expression. We are not at all interestéd in the talented child, because the talented child will always attract attention, | like the possessor of physieal beauty. But sirce the world ‘depends upon the development of the normal child it js this ome that attracts us. a little one can be made to play We have proven this time and again. There is tone deafness. much through music. many possibilities that it is a pity they cannot be worked out faster, And, it is our firm belief, that it is not the brililant musician who should be high priced; it is the devoted earnest teacher who is willing to work on what the child brings him. Here enters the serious question of the teacher and the child. One type of man or woman canngt successfully teach all children. There is an ex- cellent example of this in the music school, where -one will dften find teachers and children out of harmony, téachers who give up and declars that they canmot manage the child, and children who cannot learn from their | instructors. When this occurs the| teacher i8 changed, but the child is never sent awa So should it be with all who wish their children to study music. It you discover that your little girl or boy and their teacher are not in harmony with oneé another, make a change in the teacher, and if you have to do this twenty times before the right one is found, do it cheerfully rather than sadrifice the spirit and perhaps the future mode of expres- gion and conduct of yeur child’s life. ‘When s$hould a child begin with music? That is a question asked rearly every day. The answer is: in the cradle. It is the serious duty of every mother toward her child to sing ta it. Yet will you find the nursery song hummed and croomed in many families today? True, there are some mothers “old- fashioned” enough to sing to thei. little ones, they hum th nursery rhyme, the negro melody. Thesge things cling to the child through life, and really ‘ne:such -thing as You can teach so There are so way, and instead of music being just} TSR, gl they give it the first “attuning” to music. One reason we have so many children today who are utterly in- capable of carrying an air, who are really ‘“tuneless,” one might say, i because of the lack of this early home singing. This musical retrogression is di- rectly due to the women. Into their lives have entered certain elements of social and business affairs that reb the ‘home of repese, the twilight hour of veace and quiet, the close family com- munion of interests is gone, with it has 1disappearcd the nursery song, even with it are going the nursery tale and legend that form the basis of the folksong. In foreign countries yon will find folklore and folksongs be- cause the repose still exists in the! home, and untii our mothers loek to this side of home life we are going to remain a people without folksongs or stary tradition. There is no doubt that the music school 'movement has met with ex-| traordinary success. That the youns . folk want to play-and love music is praved conclusively through the fact that hundreds are vearly turned away because there is not reom for them, ner accommodation for their w This predicts, berond doubt, that some years we will have a community of splendid amateurs. Just think of it. In five vears thirty sister scheois bhave sprung up ever the country, teaching thousands of students! It is censervative to say that without doubit in ten years every town and city 'n the country will have a music schoc! 7ihere must be some human interest for the sake of our social relations that shall fuse our separate lives, and, 1if signs are to be depended upon, this fusion af brotherhvod will come through musie. PLENTY OF COMEDY THIS WEEK AT POLI'S rk The ‘Hartford Poli Players have Deen in action long enough to have Leen pretty thoroughly trled out and yet they are called upon this week to assay something which puts most of them to a new test in “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.” Ada Dalton is the Mrs. Wiggs of the present production and to those who have seen her as the stage ter- magant her présent work is remark. uble by way of contrast. As " Mrs. Wiggs—the quiet, unruffled Mrs. Wiggs, who is always hepeful, per- sistently optimistic and ever possessed of a quaint philosophy—Miss Daltton ' iv admirably cast. She lives the part with. which such sincerity that the person who has read the story of “Mrs. Wiggs” over and over again finds something new in the character and comes to feel that he has come into personal contact witn her sun- ' shiny disposition. Margaret Skirvin {3 the Loveyr Mary., The part is net so ambitious as many she has played but it suits Ber quieet, unaffocted ways. She { Mille Tuttle and her edienne, atre Goers an You will understand why spaghétti is the national Italian dish when you try COORED READY.TO.SEAYE It is made by an Italian chef—in the real Italian way—with a sauce that has never been equalled outside of the best Italian restaurants. If this cold print could give you but a hint of its irre- sistible flavor, nothing would prevent you from having it at your next meal. Try a can at our risk and be convinced of its goodness. Money refunded if you do met like it. On sale everywhere. H. J. HEINZ COMPANY 57 Varieties | makes a very pretty Lovey Mary and brings to the character ali the sweet- ness and all the lovable qualities which the author has written into it. Madeline Moore, as Miss Haay, makes the most of a somewhat diffi- cult comedy role. Her impersonation of the simpering. “old maid,” who is completely frustrated over her ap- proaching marriage, is drawn with fine consideration. Harry Hollings- worth as Mr. Stubbins, the man of her choice, is equally good. The love- making scene between him and Miss | Moore would have done credit to artists who 'have made comedy their specialty for years. Forrest Seabury enters into the role of Chris Hazy with the =ame spirit he always displays and Roy Phillips is a very real Billy Wiggs. Hal Briggs makes a most impressive H. Hunker- dunkus Joneg and John EHis appears to satisfaction as Mr. Wigsgs. Welba Lestina and May Megin are Miss Lucy and Mrs. Eichorn, respec- tively, and are consistent to type, con- tributing some excellent comedy. : Inez Lyman makes a convincing Mrs. | Schultz and Eveta Francis, Mae Fughes and Inez Seabury are good as the Wiggs children. Others who con- tribute satisfactorily to the piece, as cpportunities are afforded them are Tlen MacQuarrie. anley Dixon, R. J. Fagan, F. Matthew Maurice Dower, Walter Bauer and William Newton. The piece is well staged and the en- tire productien is fragrant with Mrs. Wiggs' bigheartedness and with the simple and unartificial atmosphere of the *cabbage patch.” MANY PRETTY GIRLS AT KEENEY'S THEATER {longed by ripping off putting them on again reversed—that Pretty girls, displaying beautiful gowns and the latest of all millinery creations, are prominent in “The Fashion Shop” vaudeville’s big | Parisian novelty, Keeney's headliner | for the current week. The act is a big undertaking, requiring sixteen people for its presenmtation. It is staged at enormous expense but if the attention it attracted in other citiés is to be taken for a criterion, the financial outlay was well war- ranted. With the New Britain “first nighters” it made a sensation and it wiil probably draw large audiences every day it is here. What milady is to wear this summer is exhibited by the young ladieg, led by the ' noted beauty, Mabel Gray. The act may be summarized as a spring style show or a paradise of fair young women in. the perfection of wearing apparel | in a stage setting of superb splendor. ‘While the management went to big expense to get the act here, the rest of the show was not overlooked In fact the balance of the bill has unusual stréngth and is bigger than anything given here in years. There sre six other numbers on the program. They are all high class specialties and they made a favorable impression last evening. Numbered the features is collection of educated parrots. This is a pretty number. Mille Tuttle has a number | of birds of various description, all | having beautiful plumage. They have been trained to @o many things and their performance is one that all will joy. Tt is a novelty and the mere fact that it is something different makes it Appreciated. Manue| Alexander and company in “The New Stenographer” made a hit 1 evening. This is a lively little skit with plenty of fascinating slang and shappy patter. Tt has some excellent features and the au- dience likes it. . Other performers on the bill are Virginia Carlton. the California night- ingale: Whitley and Bel. senz and comedr. The Kings, musical novelty M Hayward, =inging com- among and bolated vaseline, |ing. Rinse with clear water and dry i i e 2% A Compensation Does it sometimes come over you —you young folks, I mean this time, you blessed beings that “lightly draw our breath and feel your Jif¢ in every limb"—that some day vou, yes, even you, will actually be old? Of course it does? as you will, it sometimes catches the Drive the unw elcome thought away as persistently doorkeeper of the mind off duly, comes straight in and demands that we look it in the face. “J Shall Never Live to be Old.” Of course, we never see that face blessedness of being young that we can’t. “I have a feeling that I shall never 1jve to be old.” portant when they say it; they enjoy they fancy they are undergoing some quite clearly. It's a part of the™ How often young: folks way, They féel very im- the exquisito melancholy of youlh; unique experience in premonition As a matter of fact, they are only sta ting youth's incapability of imagining it=elf old. may ask? tell you a secret 1 have discovered. lleves with the part of him that sens I have wandered far afield. I s fortunate folks on the up-siope of 1if that some day you may be old? Is it any casier for them: t o think of themselves No, but they don’t really t hink of themselves as dead. Tdon't think ‘anyone ever really as dead, Let me e- es things, that he'is going to die. tarted to ask, what do you do, you e, when you do for a moment suspects Do You Scold the Door keeper and Then Forget? Do vou give a shiver of distaste a4 ak possible, scold your doorkeeper fo the whole miserable business in a whi Or do you, by any chance, pause a way to prepare for a happy old age? nd’ dismiss the thought. as quickly r letting it in, and then try to forget rlwind of pleasure or work? morent, and think of the Do yéu perhaps even foel a best touch or kindlier feeiing for those who no Iongeér have this beautiful jewel that vou prize so highly, and wonder if you make up? A letter friend who describes hérself as one whose “whole heart soul rebelled against it when I found little experience: can’t be kinder to them to Thelp andh tells me this 1 was growng old,” Won't You Help Make It Easier? “A few days ago in the street car Jimmy, and give tho old lady your :yat.’ in the erowd for the ‘cld laly,’ and in he was speaking to me, I thanked Ji settled my weary bedy -comfortahl to grow old after all” And here is a text for a sermon for you. young people by their thoughtfulness growing old, can help us to see the bri, which so many of us shrink.” Do I need to preach the sermon or HOUSEHOLD Bread and muffins, made with raisins and dates, are both wnolesome and nutritious for grownups as well as children. 1 { The flavor of boiled potatoes will be better if mo water is poured off. Do not use more water than 1s neces- sary to cook them. When putting away remnants of food, time and dishes are saved if the food is put in little pans ready for warming over. One method of keeping a refriger- ator in goed order is to insist that milk bottles and all dishes that go into | it are wiped clean. The swnging door between din- ing reom and pantry should have a foot clamp so that the door will re- main stationary if one wishes, It is a great mistake to allow a man said to his little boy, ‘Get up, 1 inveluntarily looked around shame and confusion realized thut mmy for the seat, and when I hud y in it I thought, “Well, it'i=n’t so bad How much, and kindly courtesy to us who ar ghicr side of this part of life from can you preach it to yourselves? T Coe NOTES The edge of a silence eloth ghould be finished with a buttenhole stitch, & not too close. A lWem makes a ridge under the tablecloth, Hoarseness can be relieved by mix- & ing one teaspoonful of glycerin Lo the well-beaten white of an egg, the juice of one lemon and enough sugaf te make it palatable. X A delicious dish for children is English frumenty, made of one quart of cracked wheat, cooked till'clear and soft. Add a quart of milk and co again until it is'as thick as cpeam. | Take it off the fire, add sugar, mut- meg and washed currants (whieh have been previeusly seoked, and the beaten yolks of two eggs. After using a bowl of starch do not throw away what remains of the mixture. Place it on one side, and warm fend to be put into the refrig- erator. It not only melts the ice, but | spoils the flavor of other foods. Always use cold/water for stains | of syrup, sugar and meat juice. Hot water for vegetables and various fruit stains. Wash mud stains in cold water. A shirt’s usefulness can be pro- the cuffs and js, with the frayed édges attached to the rlecves. The tired housekeeper will, find that a hot foot both at night, and rubbing the feet afterward with ecar- will add greatly to her comfort, To wash velveteen, make a lather "of soap and warm water and soak the fabric in it—squeezing. but not rub- l without wringing. i to be thoroughly dampened “Zen the starch has settled pour off the clear water. Place the basin™in an oven for a few minutes, and when it is taken out the starch will be found in a hard cake, which can be put away ready for use another time. [ When it is necessary to ‘irom a rough dry garment at once, try . this = method: Damp it, roll tight, \'\‘rapm' a cloth, and then in paper, and put it into the oven while the irons are heating. Evaporation will cause it in a very few minutes; but care must be taken {that the oven is not hot enough to scorch the things Take stockings or socks that aye past mending, split them from top to toe, trim off the darned places, and sew a good, seam, after pacing right sides together, and strétching ream well as you put it through the seving machine, The finer hose are especially good to polish furniture, next grade for dust cloths, and the heavier opes to scrub linoleum. < " FADS AND Summer hats studded with Dbeads are very pretty. used on all Taffeta basques are kinds of gowns, brims Hats with transparent are decidedly smart. will lead White waists, of course, during the summer. Wash skirts are made of pique, cor- deline and linen. Many evening toiléttés are entirely of white tulle. The “officers tunic” sult is hard to beat for a chic effect. Pockets are mostly confined to the sports style of skirts. Jet buttens are excellent on white vrepe, de chine blouses. Charming buttons are crochet or silver filgree. of silver New skirts gain fullness by a series of puffs and ruffles, A simple linen dress of tan or gray can be brightened by a plaid siik girdle, FASHIONS The long coat is now an interesting feature of the wardrobe, Ie Sweaters of brilliant color are wormn with white silk dresses, You can wear separate skirts and shirtwaists and be in gooa styie. Vandyke points and scallops are 2 favored cdging to full silk skirts. White gaberdine is being used ;of’\ wash suits and separate skirts. ¥ Afternoon frocks of distinction are made of black and white striped #ilk. The new skirts are far more grace- ful thm with skimpy nredecessors, A few long conts—almost reachfe | to the hem of the ekirt—are beings made, y e eminicd : voile with satin stripes is for inexpensive danéing Cotton delightful dresses. Box turbans, all white or all blaek are coming from the Paris milliners. There are collars 1ow and broad there are collars high. Shantung weeves in silk and H arc uzed this season. kg