New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1915, Page 14

Fiption made up u¥ ; 1 ffli_"esuzbln oils i u :;q:éiv Jand hich _into this counts if, 4 leading Ch ho have used it 5 sable merit, and tha ur ome edy, is ere wi _the Ranches and Cowgirls 9 Celebrated Club Jugglers. de Weese and Her e Cut-Up. Ottke. and Co., tic Sketch, “His r&s.nlts for suf-: al 1« ‘said | in France, whére it years by the peasantry, | himself of severe fid' intestinal troubles by e w it say the lent to convince any hours the sufferer 7 person. This medicine, known M: ; g;' leafi; ith, the positive ©Or quibble i ils to give you absolute LARGE AUDIENCE LIKES KEENEY BILL Three of the attractions at Keeney's this week, “His Last Race,’ a dra- } matie playlet of gripping force; the Bannons, expert Indian club jugslers, | and Minnie De/Weese, are competing strongly for first honors and it Is a toss-up as to which number should be | 8iven the position of prominence. | They are all first class acts, novel in make-up and highly entertaining, ana it is difficult to tell from the applause ‘which number is the most apnreciated /by the audience. The sketch is offered by Ellsey Ottke and company. This combina- tion is one of the best of dramatic performers that has been seen hiere in a long time. Mr, Ottke as the dis- couraged. jockey acts very = capably, while one of his feminine associates does a splendid bit of character de- lineating as-his mother,. It is an in- teresting piece ‘and is told in’enter- taining fashion, the performers get- tng the full force out of all climaxes. The Bannons are numbered among the world's greatest manipulators of Indian clubs. They are clever ex- hibitors angd their juggling is.a revela- tion. It shows that stunts never be- fore tried here are not so difficult ol accomplishment when handled by skilled peodple. Their act must be .| seen to be properly appreciated. It well merits the recognition given by Keeney patrons. . 3 One of the most entertaining of all the acts is that in which Miss De ‘Weese and her performing dog, “Cuba,” appear, The young lady is a clever musician, She is dccom- plished on the violin and banjo. Her eccentric playing is particularly good and‘it has caused much favorable comment, The dog does! some very amu-tnfi tricks. - ' 3 Mintz'and Palmer and ;Nine Cow~ ‘boys and Cowsgirls offer a specialty of high merit, t PRINCESS ROMANOFF IS AT FOX'S TODAY, Not so very long ago Nance O'Neil ghts 250 to $1.50; Mat. 25¢ | was shown in the William Fox pro- $1.00. FORBES Mail Orders Now. s Hve. 10, 20, 36, &0e, duction “Kreutzer Sonata,” scoring ROBERTSON | one’ of the greatest triumphs of her dramatic career and which incidently won ‘her a place in the 'hearts of the legion of Fox patrons. Today and to- morrow Mis O'Neil, the peerless em- press of stormy emotion, is offered in “Princess Romanoff,” based on Sar- dow's. “Fedora,” the most thrilling drama ever written. -'As picturized by the Willlam Fox forces, this produc~ tion gives Nance O'Neil, America’s foremost emotional star, full scope for the display of her marvelous powers of dramatic expression. Miss O'Neil is cast as the Princess [{ Pedora; Romanoff, a wealthy and beau- 1 tiful young widow of St. Petersburg. 'She" ig betrothed to Vladmir Boroff, ‘4 young man of high social position in the Russian capital. On the eve of i ‘wedding Vladimir is murdered. The. Pringess Fedora, transformed by the tragedy from a gentle loving wom- ‘an into a'veritable tigress, vows to de- vote her 1ifé to the punishment of the | unknown slayer. Plot follows coun- terplots and the denouement is so well ‘handled as to please the most critical. It is a wonderful story of throbbing emotions so skilitully blending the sweet with' the sinful that it is all like one great painting. The spectator is swept along by scenes and climaxes that are simply wonderful and action follows action .and holds you with a grip ‘that pulls relentlessly. The as- sembling is wonderfully well handled and. the entire production is manifi- cent. In the ‘early stages of the drama the work of Miss Dorothy Ber- | nard_as the disloyal wife stands out as one of the most complete and pa- fthetic ' pictures of womanly self- abandon and sacrifice to passion that ‘has-ever been shown. Several single reel comedies will ‘augment the in- {teresting prosram. jow Brifain, FRIDAY, MAY 21 réormances—Rain or Shine—at 2 and 8 P. M. The Only Circus of ¥ = A \d Real Worth Coming. NK A. ROBBINS LL FEATURE SHOWS '100—NOVEL AND STARTLING ACTS—100 ; Both American and European. 'r VENTURESOME, b | o ON 50—BEAUTIFUL TANOTHER NEW ANE AMAZING. STRELTHE MANTHAT SLIDES, £ WIRE QN HIS.HEAD. NG, LEAP THE GAP LADY ARTISTS—50 HIS HEAD. Tango Blephants, Bunny-Hug Bears, Waltzing Ponles, Dancing Horses Menag red Animals, . ; 20(;—FU‘NNY (8) d Free Street Parade . Tard farocions beasts. eric of Trained Wild Jungle LD CLOWNS—20 at 10 :3() E TICKET ADMITS TO ALL, Instructions As to Killing Flies Have Now Been Put Into Rhyme Mothers May Recite Them to Babies—Only Thing to Do Is to Keep Swatting Every Fly (Luey Huffaker in New York Tri- bune.) Mother Goose is -being rewritten again. This time it Is the state board of health which is revising the old nursery rhymes and bringing them down to date, Each jingle has a moral, and the words of the litile girl who said all morals were just the same apply in this casc For no matter which of the old verses tossed off: “That’s nothing—the cost of u day at war’ You have no idea how, suddenly streaking across the days or in the midst of rice pudding, an acute sensation of Turopean war strikes one, and all at the cue of somse perfectly trivial reminder. There are times when the board of health considers other things of im- portance beside the fly, but just now its one subject is to rid the state, so far as possible. of the fly. - That everybody, 'from the grandmother to the bay, shall take part in this work, the little verses have ‘been rewrit. tens For 'instance, if the grand- mother 'is ‘crooning to ‘the baby. she must not dé anything so banal as to invite the baby’s attention to the fly, as she used to. ‘No, indeed; In- stead, ‘she must sing it this way: Baby-bye, here's a fly, Let us swat him, you and I Just at first it seems rather a blood- thirsty doctrine to be teaching -an innocent baby, but Dr. C. E. A, Wins- low, who is director of the educational work of the state board of health, is of the opinion that if a choice is to be made between the baby’'s life and the fly’s, it is best to sacrifice the fiy's. Probably everybody will agree to that, and after one has listened to Dr. Winslow and seen some of the pictures which he is using in his edu- cational work one is willing to agrec that. perhaps the fly's importance as a-murderer has been underestimated all these years. If a child is of a pessimistic na- ture, one of the jingles may depress him. It tells in/the first stanza of ten little flies and of there being only nine after one “got a swat.” The stanzas go on telling of the swats given each fly, until the last one read: Four little flies, Colored green-biue, Swat! (Aint's it easy 'L'!len there were two. Two little flies Dodged the civilian, Early next day There were a million. Now, a reasoning child might fig- ure it out that there wasn’'t much uge in working to Kill the flies if two could ‘multiply like that. Because what little boy or girl could hope to: kill & million flies? But, on the other hand, it is just that matter of the way in which flies multiply that the board- of health wishes to im- press upon the children. “One of the things which we are trying to do this year,” said Dr. Wins- low, “is to organize the Boys Health leagug, Of course,, the league, which will be similar to the Little Mothers’ league, will do other things besides fight flies, but it is so import- ant to get rid of the flies we are laying insistence on that feature of the work. The children grow _very much interested ‘in’ this work, if’it is put before them in the right light. . *“We have a little chart = wihch shows the way flies multiply. On April 11 there are only two flies. By May 2 there are 120. By May 23 there are 7,200. But that figure seems as nothing compared to the grand total on September 5, when. there arc b,- 598,720,000,000. It;isn't mbch won- der that a boy looks at that and,says ‘Whew!” is it? “It wasn't, you know, until = the Spanish-American war that our peo- ple began to realize what a menace the fly is. It had always been looked upon as a necessary evil. It was not considered as anything worse than a nuisance. That it literally carried death where it went seemed a hu- ymorous idea to many people at first But the idea isn’'t considered humor- ous any more. “Last summey the association for Improving the condition of the poor collected some valuable data in re- gard to flies and disease. They proved that the sickness of bables was d. creased one-half where there was protection from filfes. Our work is not in the eity at all, but in the coun- try, and, of course, there are many miore flies in the country than in the eity. The city is so much cleaner.” “The city cleaner!” I gasped. Tt didn’t seem that T could have heard aright. But I had. “Yes, of course the eity Is cleaner. In the country, especially around barnyards, there is filth and chance for the flies to breed alarmingly. In our - campaign we try to impress it upon people that therc must be just as little chance for the flies to breed as possible. We not only try to kill them after they are here; we try to see to it that they don't get here. “A useful and simple contrivance is a fiy trap, which any boy can make out of a soap box. Most boys -like to make things, and they might just ds well be taught to make soemething useful while they are about it."” “Are you going to do away with files altogether?” was a question at which Dr. Winslow shook his head. “I'm afraid there will always be some flies in the world,” he said. “We can’t get rig of them: as easily as of mosquitoe: gx- ipstance. “Tt.is, possi- ble, of cou Ho-exterminate mos- quitoes altogether. But it looks as if Seen. | i | there would always be some flies. Our | business is to have them as few in, number as possible.”” [} “Has the fly population deereased? | Or isn't therc any accurate census, on them?” “Well, of course, one can’t really | number the flies and know how many there are. But, of course, we know | that it is possible by keeping a(ter' them, all the time, to reduce the num- ber of flies. That is why we have these campaigns. And when we have statistics to prove that there is a cer- tain ratio between disease and the number of flies, it behooves us to swat every fly we see. And the time- to*de it is now, early in the season;’ ' when they haven't had time to breed in such numbers. There are flics enough right now—or, rather, there are too. many, for even one fly is too many—but just think how many there + will beg by September.” WONDERFUL FEAT IN ROBBINS' CIRCUS ! i Following the policy ‘established | thirty-five years ago when he first | put a show on the road, Frank Al Robbins, the veteran circus man, who ' bring his show here on Friday, May 21, has among his star acts many | Which are not seen with any other | circus on te road this year. Mr. Robbins spent all winter scouring the | «country for the Kkind of features which are ‘different.’ ’' There has been a substantial increase made in the parade, menagerie and other equipment, so that the show, which has been in Trenton all winter, ap- pears so changed and improved that there is little that is old aboyt it, butr the name. The greatest feature of the show is Hillary Long, who leaps the gap and “walks”” down stairs on his heaqd, the only person in the world who does the act, will be seen at every performance. Defying all laws of nature,’ and without the use of his hands at any time, he mdunts an in- clne balances.on his head, and slides along a distance of ten feet:to a gap which 'he leaps across and langs on a similar incline on the other. side, | still inverted. The performance will be given twice a day. . ’a Graceful bareback riders, aerialisis, recently returned from a tour of Sout America, a big group of fun maken three bands, and a hundred other per- formers provide an entertainment which lasts two selid hours. " Two shows will be given, no mat- ' ter what the weather. The first will be at two o'clock Im the afternoon, and the other promptly at eight. The doors of the big canvas will open one hour earlier, so that the enlarged menagerie may be viewed leisurely. WAR PICTURES ARE COMING TO LYCEUM The New Britain Herald has ar- ranged to exhibit for the first time tomorrow evening and Sunday evening the New York Sun’s authentic repro- duction in motion pictures of the war in Europe. Full realization of what the neutral Americans have to be thankful for is shown in these wonder ful battle films which have created a sensation wherever shown. The motion picture camera as a means of recording warfare brings the scenes of strife right to our door and makes it possible for us, in our secure position undisturbed by calamities, to visit the turmoil. When the New York Sun’s pictu Were shown at Carnegie Hall, N | York, for an extended season tho | great hall was often inadequate to ac- commodate the great crowds that sought admission. The scenes caught on the 7,000 feet of film would require columns to de- scribe. Among the features shown are the flying of Zeppelihs over the outskirts of Paris, civil panic in the form of a run on a national bank of Brussels artillery battle outside Iou- vain, the engagement of Gdgman and British ships, German arniy ;entering Brussels, Belglan-Gerni@n afight at Namur, surrender of Bryssels to the | Germans, field guns In action near Antwerp, the blowing up of the bridge at Lys, terror stricken inhabitants fleeing from city, the speeding ar-! mored motor cars which have done %o | mich damage to German Uhlans; th® armored train at Arvin firing broad- sides as it passes (the dering photog- rapher was standing on the cab.of the | engine unprotectéd) the bombardment of Ghent, motor busses of.all nations passing Ypras on the way to Roul- ers and several hundred other details of the great strife. In view of the distance between the armies and the long range fighting in’ the war the telescopic orders and auto- mobile, messengers, thé scenes ary most extraordinary, One can plainly see the allies and Germans in actual battle. For the first time in history non- combatants can sit in the comfort of a theater chair and witness all the de- tails of civilization in convulsion and history in the making. Te obtain theése motion pictures on the firing line the photographer is forced to face shot, shell, hunger cold < c'xecutlo_n. t omen NO MONEY DOWN QOur Famous Charge Account Has Endured for Twenty Years and Continues to Grow in : Popularity It is simply a case of saying “C H ARGE IT” and then paying the bill in small weekly amounts. Yon will find find it a wonderfully satisfactory wiy to trade—its the way hundreds of folks are doing and avery one of them is satisfied. 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For instance, the friendly and hespitable Belgian Dogs welcomo the invading German hosts with tails awag. The children contribute relief from the somber and sordid tale of strife, for even in their pitiful plight the round and ruddy youngsters cannot refrain from pranks. COHAN’S BEST PLAY AT POLI'S NEXT WEEK“ The, advance sale of seats for tae remaining performances of ‘“Ready Money,” m ich the Police Players are appearing at Poli's Hartford the- ater this week, indicates an exceed- ingly large, total for the week, the play having proven one of the most popular. of the recent weeks. The comedy is novel in theme and clever in presentation. Next week the Players will be seen in another of George M. Cohan’s de- lightful plays; ven Keys to Bald- pate,” declared- by ‘many _crities to e the best dramatic. work that Mr. Cohan has ever done.. In taking the story of Ear] Derr *.Biggers' nove! “Seven Keys to :Baldpate,”” for the foundation of hig play, Mr. Cohan has not followed the story in detail as it is given in the book. He has used the characters and some situations which appealed to his dramatic sense and has s8¢ turned them to his pur- pose, that the result has been a novel play, different from any that has ever been written. This play Is one of frequent surprises, keeping the audi- ence in suspense and surprising them again with a unique finish, “The play is tense at times, melodramatic and thrilling at frequent intervals and is full* of laughs, accomplished by un- usual gkill by turning each thrilling | situation into a laugh, “Park Reserve’ is that beautiful gection of New Britain at the end of the North Stanley street trolley line where all those pretty bungalows and cottage homes are built.—advt. _ Pbor on Four Thousand The conwersation turned the other day upon some once wéalthy acquaintances of ours, who bemoan their poverty because they are obliged to live on the pathetic income of $4,000 a year. Some one blamed them for, not realizing how well off they were wnd wondered if it were not affectation wh ich made them eall the home which seems 50 pleasant and comfortablé t o us “that wrétched MNitle hole, Then some one elsc came to thtir défense. “I don’t think you can blamesthem. We'd all feel the same if_ We had ‘t6 glve np our homes and live In a tenement, and yet that ten'ement would seem comfortable _ 1o some other people.” * ‘1 suppose 50,” said the other critic, but in W& volce wus conviction which admits a fact but does not sense it, What Makes Riches and Poverty. It is indeed hard for us to sense how much difference the point of vew makes in our relation to the mpt érial things of life, T had an experiencs the other day which made me see t he effect of this point of ' view with _the lightning flash clearness with which facts, obvipus and yet mnot fully sensed, sometimes appear to us. ! my washerwoman., We passod & 1 happened to ride in town with district where there has been a gond deal of recent bullding. The housed are all fitted with modern improveme nts and are cheaply pretentious buf they are shoddily built and of a mon otonous sameness which is depressimg, “It's too bad they’'ve built that p lace up like this,* I said, meaning tho shoddiness and cheap sameness. The Washerwoman Thinks They Arve Too Grand, “It Is indeed,” said the washerwoman, “when there’s so many poos people neding homes ncar town and can’t afford to pay the rent they')l ask for these.’ Doubtless my standard of living, prising to my wealthy friends. For so it goes. S Of eourse I do not contend that { hat makes it any fairer that séeme folks should have more luxuries than they can use and others should labos all their days without getting enough to cat and a clean plaes to sleep. I only advance this as a clarifi cation of the fact that wealthy peopls are no more contented than you or I. * Luxury and necessity are words “acording to his standarda of living, 5 - Anecessity is anything you have always had. . A luxuryds something better than the thin, The Poor Rich Folks, In a way rich people are to be pitied because the range of luxuges, possible for them is pathetically small, And then the number of necessith which they can lose is dangerously large. The greatest material trag the lack of what I am contented with, is as surs which everyone translates differently you are accustomed to. is to have always had money and then to lose it. While the greatest material source of happiness must be to suddeply come into money. 3 For it isn’t what we have, but w hat we gain, that makes us not what we lack, but what we lose, that makes us unhappy. T O e happy: ¥ w