New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1915, Page 4

s Week, Twice Daily. he Poli Players ; pherd of the Hills” Oc. ” Eve. 10, 20, 30, 50c BARA (the vampire n) is with us again. e her in DY AUDLEY'S . SECRET” pping and gorgeous m Pox -photo-drama h z with the curse of iy - insanity, at DX’S JOW PLAYING Lo THE MOTHER” ESSES DEEPLY the Mother,” the $1,000 | 0, which was a specjal he Keeney program last jde a most profound im- | & capacity audience and | they bestowed on it to- perly received by their will be another crowd on i Pretty ic- | hen the celberated pic. ;srxcks, @ screen production of the | its final presentation in rs,'if ever, has been so ssed as “The Sins of the ere is a daring about the | vhich the moral of the yen home that commands there is nothing surpris- ; e N CHARACTERISTIC BITS FROM ‘WILLARD AND 101 RANCH HERE TODAY there and | Not in a year at least, has ~been a spectacle inspiring i thrilling, to the younger generation, | as the big parade of the Miller Broth- iers and Arlington’s 101 Ranch which ! spread-its mile long sweep across the i city this forenoon, resplendent with { paint, feathers and real, wild and i wooly participants. From the bugler ignd his Indian attendant who led t s0 1 parade, clear back to the big prair i schooner, everything bore the stamp | of reality. The Indians were real, “he ! horses were the finest ever seen in| | these parts, there were real alkali dust ! on the wagons and real bandits on top of the three big gilded coaches. cowgirls on sleek ponies; Cos- plainsmen, clowns, chiefs and ! their dusky wives formed features of the parade that was watched with breathless interest by big crowds that lined the streets. Impressive as a reminder of jother days wHich never will return, were the long horned Texas steers and the o marked favor that has it since it was first re- s a big problem that is audience and there is sing about the marked s been shown’ it since leased. It is a big prob- lven to the audience in 1 picture and -the re- inner in which a solution the author of the story impress. The story was thousands of scenario it has. probably é ‘aftention than nay jeased since the Famous | Ipany came into existence: | h seeing. | reen,” “an amusing farce, ! rite. Clark in the lead- e another attractive fea- flit's program. This piece It will be shown Y. fday and Tuesday, the . announces “The County ith Maclyn Arbuckle in 'ts ofi exceptional eek’s program. ntertaining mu- I by:the Arnold ‘clever musicians n pnd Willard, a ing. young ladies, en- and live pattern, 'ons present a “specialty. t that has been seen X 5 will welcome tage: receptions of management an- eesumbtion - of - these wafternoon when those ! fence will have the oppor- | sonally meeting the play- performance. Earlier' in | gon these social gather- popular, large numbers ng on the stage to meet As there are many new J¢ ‘thi¢| company, the man- ! ifeved that there would be b meet the new membrs | fore arranged the reception b Tuesday afternoon. it concert Sunday r local people a pro- fon , pictures. William appear in “The Squaw 0} bé ‘one of the best pic- ich this popular star has The/ story: and Mr. déllent | geting ‘make it al feature. Edmund Iso appear 'in-“The Mas. strong dramatic film, story which is so well jeatergoers. Charley Chap- rriish the feature ' com ba there will be many oth- elk’s attraction in. which jlavers will appear is the edy drama, “In Wyom- the best of the many It will introduce the in strong, pleasing roles. quately mounted and is sure to make a pop- the local stock pa- Their | eve- | big Euffalo which is practically ex- tinet in a wild state in this country. In fact every person in-the parade, and there were more than 200, was a feature. The Indian costumes have been ‘designed with such realism ‘that a spectator feit.instinctively that tais was the west in all its glory of - the past. There were comic features, too A visit- to the -enelosure at the grounds gives the impression that 101 Ranch is not only the biggest of therr. i place the wild western scenes 101 RANCH WILD WEST SHOW. i all, but the most carefully conducted. Everywhere men aré painting out scars from the wagons; repairing a torn tent or driving a nail here anid there in some of the outfit. It has traveled entensively.. But one would think that the outfit was brand new. | And it is a big outfit. It would take a champion runner more than 10 sa2- onds to run the length of the main | tents, which are more than a hun-| dred vards long, and include than 20,000 square feet . The arrangement of these tents is such as to afford the fullest view of the whole show, with an open arca between. In this space which tho management says is one of tne most suitable they ever had is set a genu- ine Indian village with tepees and all the fixings, while in the center takes pat- ths | i | terned after those enacted early history of the plains. The side show features are for the most part new, and all but one shown, the operator of one depart- ment having been taken ill and ren- | dered umnable to appear. There are fierce and strange creatures among them the rectangoremus, so called ' from the squareness of its head and | jaws; fat ladies ‘of alarining propor- | tions; midgets, slimy snakes and | their fearless. charmers, wild men, dancers, negro minstrel, and in fa.t, if there is any®ing that goes with = circus that is not up at the circus grounds today, it is so unimportant as to call for no comment. i The big champion, Jess Willard, 1< of courde, the greatest feature of the 101 Ranch. He was at the afternoon performanee and will appear again tonight. on AT FOX'S TODAY | “Lady Audley’s Secret” opens a two day engagement this afternoon at the local Fox theater. The story is, well known, the legitimate stage pro- quction on Broadway. It is noteworthy, also. that in from whom she. had not, heard from, so long. She sees her chance for hap- piness fading rapidly. What should | she do! What cotld shg do? TROLLEY EXCURSION ! TO SAVIN ROCK, 75¢c Theda Bara, of the Theactar Antoine, | famous the world over for her re- | markably artistic interpretation of the Vampire Woman is seen in a part eds in dramatic possibili- ing that Miss Bara has ever | done before. Lady Audley's probl is a most racking one which is sum- | med up as foliow “And so I have dear uncle, of inviting this old friend of mine down to your estate for a fortnight shooting. We shall arrive in time for dinner tomorrow. “Lady Audley crumpled up the letter her | In “Lady Audley’s Secret.” husband had given her to read. Tt had come at last. After years of con- | tentment and happiness, a ghost of | the past had arisen to destroy her | peace. i Several years before she had mar- | ried a young man, the son of a weal- | thy father. The father has disinher- ited his son for marrving against his i i i wishes, and they had been compelled ! i to return to her father's home. There they lived in almost abject poverty. The husband later went to Australia in an attempt to make a fortune, leav- ing his wife alone with her chili. Left alone, she accepted the proposal of Lord Audley, who did not know that she had been married before. Now, after years of comparative hap- piness, her husband handed: her a note from his nephew, telling tha! he was bringing with him the man who had been her husband, the man | New taken the liberty, ' The attention of the public is called , to the special excursion to be run | by the Connecticut company Britain to favin Reck and re- turn, on Wednesday, August 11. for the round trip seventy-five cents. is Many pecple would like to take the trip by trolley from New Britain to ! Savin Rock but have | aged in the past from doing so, owing i to the inconvenience of changing cars { so many times. The idea of these | popular excursiors is to give the pub- | lic an opportunity to visit New BEng- { land’s greatest amusement resort, in camfort and convenienc The plan is to run special ca rom the Tri- angle, leaving at 1:17 p. m. direct . to the “Rock”; no changing of cars | is necessary; a ticket will be provid- { ed, and the inconvenience of paying | your fare for each zone will he ob- | viatead. seating capacity of the car; about ! seventy-five people can be accommo- dated comfortably on one of the large fifteen bench open cars, so tickets shoulds be purchased in advance to assure you of a seat. ; As an experiment for the first time one car will be provided unless the demand . for tickets is heavy enough to require an additional car; the sec- ond car will not be run unless there are at least fifty reservations for seats in same. The route will be via “‘Plainville, Southington, Milldale, Cheshire and New Haven, arriving at Savin Rock about 4:30 p. m: On the return trip, it is planned to leave in the ‘special” about 8 p. m. arriving home about 11 p. m., thus giving the excursion- ists three or four hours-to enjoy the many amusements offered at the won- derful resort, have time for a shore dtmmer, if desired, and a cool. com- fortable ride home in the evening. Tickets for this excursion can be obtained from the office of the Can- at Central park. Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast Fruit Sugar and Cream Stewed Beetf Kindey Flannel Cakes Cereal Coffee | bit from " about the town will most of | ny Tickets will be sald only up to the | necticut company of from the starter Engli;h Women Bear .. War Heroically, Says Elsie Janis No Tears Shed and Very Little Mourning When News. | Reaches Them that Their qued Qnes Have Fallen on Field of Battle. 2 [ | Bisle’ vanis [ back' from the war. At least-she is back from London and a' year of playing to home-on- week-leave meén' from the.Marnesand Ypres, and lately to allysortsyof*hos=- pitals, fram Mrs. Bint om(r-i, en dish’s rose satin upholstered home only), to the regulai Hospitals f£o the fellows you\never Heard of, old days, pasty" feltows fromiyc 0ld Ford road way, OtSgLetnegaw, from Sheffield. ok é!iflihff&%e'?ar { not with any semitsdléntin | speculations as to the status of womwy en or the probable rigidity of gav- ; ernments in the future and a lot “of all -that,” but a story here and a story there of the England that she loves and left in war time. “Queer,” she says, ‘‘one’s expected to talk about the war. Nobody’s said anything but war to me since I stepped off the gangplank. In Lon- don, now, it used to be exactly the other way. Why mention the war?” ‘Women Game Straight Through: She slipped into talking about the English women. “Game,” she said, ‘‘absalutely game. And silent always. No tears, and very little mourning. They lose their hus- bands, their sons, and they never tell you; you have to find out. I like the way they take things, jokes and si- lence, according to the tradition of the honarable way for a Britisher to bear sorrow. ““Occasionally a mother will show vou, never crying but heart breaking just the same, some bit of a last let- ter. I remember one woman and a her son’s -lettar written the day before he was shot. ‘It's better to go out with a good crowd, mother, than to stay behind with outsiders.’ Game all the way. Sailed Under Sealed Orders. “So many things happen quietly over there. We didn’t hear anything, dand then suddenly, without goodbys even to their mother, the next news was of a British army one hundred thousand strong in France. The men had sailed under sealed orders and feound themselves in France. “They can say all they want against Kitchener, but a man who can ooze a hundred thousand men across.the Channel, just liKe that is pretty big. Pinked Cheeked Boys Stiffen Up “And you ought to see his army. The crack regiments, the Grenadiers and the Coldstream Guards and those, the ‘Nut’ regiments of goad old, boys them never come back] for they went out early and the first battle of Ypres came hard. But the new army is full of pink cheeked boys. You laok at them and you get a sort of sea of blue eyes, pink cheeks and khaki, fresh as anything, but funny. “I used to sing to some of them in Richmond Park, where they draft the | Queen’s Westminster Reserves. Cheer- ful kids. Straight as anything. It does you good to .see the stiffening it has put into them all. Why, the callboys and ushers at the theater we used to know two yvears ago, fun- about the shoulders and all for cigarettes, .used to turn up every now and again in khiki and you cauldn’t recognize them for the sort of none- too-goods they used to be. been discour- | “Chorus—Let’s All Join In!” “In the afternoons I used to sing in the hospitals. It was what I could do. No use my trying to nurse, for I turn a flip at blood. But to sing to three or four hundred men in their navy blue hospital robes with crim- | son ties—no house in the world was ever so appreciative! They used to sing ‘I want to Go Back to Michi- | gan’ with me until the roof rose, and 1 if they couldn’t sing they took it out' | b¥ coming in double strong i part where we shout in plain talk ‘Neverthele: The ones that were | | l . | | | , Goers an for convalescent officers (andwofiicerssii i made a rule refusing employment to | on the | Burden of | | | -ones in bed, arms gone, legs gone and one thing and another, sort of bounce on the bed. It doesn’t sound pleasant but there are few places in the world cheerier than the. English hospitals, “I remember one man with neither Arms ‘nor legs. His comrades were Passing him around in a sort of game. OV, I'm very lucky, Miss,’ he said to @%yith' a cock of his cockery eve, ‘I t so easily ben a fellow gat biind with this war.’ ou told them fool yarns about | “tHawwhr, they used to laugh, but they | We¥s shrugged up, as if to say, ‘Oh eliopyou haven’t been there.’ “Dutchy” and the York Regiment. - “One of the yarns I liked best ‘about the trenches was of the way the Germans and one of the York regi- ments got chummy. Things went | along for weeks, with a kind of clay | pigeon pot shooting for cans going on, | when headquarters put a stop to this ‘friendlying’ among the soldiers. “The very next day a head came | out of the German trenches and a voice shouted: “ ‘Is there anybody Birmingham ?’ | “No answer. | “A little more impatiently the question came again in German Eng- lish. “ ‘Is anybody there from Birming- | ham? “No answer. “ ‘I say,’ came from the German trenches, ‘is there anybody there from | Birmingham? I've a wife and two” children, so, back in Birmingham.’ °| “And the English answer sang back: “ “That’s all right, Dutchy, hunch yer bloomin’ ‘ead down or you'll ’ave a widow and two orphans, so, back in Birmingham.” " Did the army, did Miss Janis think, get drink rations before a bayonet charge, as some one had told Miss Addams in one of the hospitals? Spring Comes and the Canteen Goes. “Oh, drink they get, but it was more to keep them from getting cold this winter. Two dreams each day before going into the trenches, so my friends told me, and jolly much curs- ing among the men when spring came and the canteen quit. “You couldn’t get men to talk much above bayoneting. They laughed it off. Four days is the most an. aver- age soldier ¢an stand in a trench, sev- there from Women Read | Men’s Suits Reduced Men's Trousers Re- duced . Men'’s duced Men’s Furnishings Re- duced And All You Say Is— “CHARGE IT"- . kamncoats Re- e rs The Whole Family Profits-- This isn’t a sale for'the men folks, the women or children but for the whole family for men, women and children and everything is of style and- quality and the very lowest prices. Women’s Suits Re- duced. Women’s Dresses Re- duced. Women's Waists Re- duced Women'’s Reduced. NO MONEY DOWN $1.00 Per Week. Petticoats THE (AESAR X|ISCH STORE 687—693 MAIN STREET HARTFORD been built in half a day. should see my mail.) once studied art for one year. eral friends told '‘me. A fortnight makes wild things of the men, ready to kill anybody. They get disgusted with God and life. Talk much about all that, they wouldn’t, _But come back 4 geL prénty P i a thedté¥ 6F Hestalirait™ lodikidg as though they hadn’t a care on earth, and with life and death two days behind them and two days in front d¢ them, say in their game English way, ‘This is the life!’ “And they all admit how scared they were the first time under fire. Always brave as anything, you know, bounding into a charge with shouts of ‘sixpense for front row’ ‘two and six for stalls’ and pals dropping right and left and not a flicker. Keep London Smiling. “They pull a lot of English casual stuffs when they get back to Landon and joke and keep London smiling. It happens to be the English way of bearing the unbearable and T’ mighty keen on the way they do-i Then Elsie Janis, with no com- mentary, fell to talking of the tram- way strike. “Everybody walked in the same game way when the trams stopped. When the men went back, of course, with their demands granted, it was discovered that the company had Nothing to but | men under thirty-cight. do, of course, said Miss Janis, for those to enlist. “No,” sald Elsie Janis, game her- self to the end about London in war. “I've never knit a stitch or a stock- tup used to crowd round, and the ing, not one all year!” Lunch Green Corn Timbales Steamed Brown Bread Floating Island Cocoa Dinner Beef Stew Scalloped Egg Plant Lettuce Frenca Dressing Wafers Cheese Frozen Peaches Cake Coffee Green Corn Timbales—Beat three eggs without separating, add one-half of a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne , three-quarters of a cupful of milk and one cupful of freshly grated corn. Butter small sized tim- bale molds and two-thirds fill them with the mixture. Stand the molds in |a pan, pour boiling water around ! them, cover with a buttered paper and bake in a moderate oven about twenty minutes or until tht centers i are firm. Turn out on a heated plat- | ter and serve with a cream sauce. Stenmed Brown Bread—Two cup- fuls of yellow cornmeal, one cupful of meal, one cupful of lour, two cupfulg of milk, one cupful of molas- ses, one-half of a teaspoonful of sal, | three teaspoonfuis of baking powder. | Mix well together, pour 1htc"a, well ' greased brown bread: mold and stéam for four hours, Fads and Fashion E Putty-colored linen is a favorite for Parisian tailored suits. A full chiffon skirt is edged with velvet and set with posies. The little felt tams for motoring have very wide crown-pieces. Pinafore dresses return to for voung girls’ holiday wear. favor Mushroom hats of colored are excellent for country wear. linen L Thne tendency in fall suits is ward more closely fitted effects. to- | The four-tiered skirts have tier stitched to the one below. earh Blue serge dresses are trimmed with full ruffles of black taffeta. White chinchilla sports coats coming out bound with silk braid. Large, flat ivory or metal tons are liked for the odd wraps. A Dblue ribbon sash worn with quaint ahite frocck and a bonnet are but- a is was so much good in it! Mind you, T don’t mean there was nothing to criticize. Far from So Easy To Criticize If it were as easy to construct as it is o critize, Rome would have In the housekeeping department she ridiculed the color scheme gested for the living-room with all the cynical superiority of a girl If it were as easy to do somethin 8 worth while as it is to poke fun at something worth while, we shouldn’t have to wait long for the millenium, The girl who thinks it is clever to criticize was turning over the pages of a magazine. 'Not a story here that An article on the girl in the office came in “Never read anything so silly in my 1ife. would dream of leaving fifteen minutes early every night, don’t in our office” (as if this settled She Should 8 ce My Mail! The column for young girls in need of advice she “Imagine anyone actually writing in and telling such intimate things as % ‘these girls do. I don’t doubt they ma ke up the letters in the office’” isn't commonplace,” she snapped. for her disdain next, Such overstatements! No girl they certainly it for the rest of the world.) fairly sniffed at, (she sugs who! On the fashion page she picked o ut one rather unattractive hat held up the whole page to ridicule on Yet There Was So M uch Good in It. After she had laid the magazine the strength of that. down I picked it up, and oh, thera i i But there certainly wasn't everything to laugh at and criticize and noths ' ing to praise and appreciate, I am:.no t foolish enough 6 say ‘that you. shouldn’t criticize a thing unless you yourself are capable of doing better, As the ctiticized critic says, “One does not have to be able to lay an egg in order to be capable of detecting a bad one.” haphazard scornful criticism often ar ouses a feeling of antagoniem in the ¥ listener, which makes him want to sa v, and better than these you criticize. znd listen to ourselves. Hazel has just this minute Sne is on her way over your house, so I thought I'd you up and let you know Hazel's surprise calls can be disconcerting simply stunning and is very left. 0 call For, She’s - wéarihg o affernoon- costume proud of if, ‘so I would advise you to start dressing im- mediately The dress? but yon will see it in a Dhittle while Oh, I see, “not at home’ You very quaint and pretty. are welcome for the warning rather | across the | i i Bleeves are short ending in Nevertheless, I think “Of course you are much wiser And Even Then They Probably Criticize, Girls of a certain age sometimes get into the habit of saying critical things about everything and e verybody that they come into tact with. It is so easy, it gives one s uch a feeling of superiority, and it 1s such a relief to any feeling of temper and annoyance anyone They do not realize how sophomoric sounds until they ineet someone eilse Wwith the same habit, and perhaps even then they criticize instead of re cognizing the fault, i I said “girls of a certain age,” but the fault is far more common than that. We are all liable to it, any of us may drift into it if we do not watch shary ‘con- may have. if not positively ill natured it all Be ready to catch yourself when you find criticisms coming to readily to your tongue and having caught y ourself, put that unruly member parole and put the probation officer o f your self restraint in charge of him to see that he does not repeat the of fence. on Tt o mnaii “OVER THE WIRE” Ly DOROTHY CLARKE It's Reseda green silk made In sort of coatee effect, which ends long streamers that arc loosely below the waist-line ..., waisted girdle of black lace in front out through two slite in and forms a flat bow a in tled . A high velvet passes and comes the back . The deert s of a flounce of lace and the skirt cream colored crepe de chine Of course I won't tell* her .. understand perfeetly .. entirely welcome ++ee. Good-bye....