New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 11, 1915, Page 4

diy Matinee and Night, Oct. 16th HIT OF THE SEASON AT AND, PENNELL A Three Act Comedy AUGUSTINE MacHUGH uthor of “Officer 666" 3 ‘With r. FRED GRAHAM .Eminent English Com- in, and a Splendid Cast ory of Love, Thrills, Ad- enture and the Hap- piest Sort of Fun CES—Matinee 25c, 50c, Kc, $1.00. Night 25¢, 50c, c, $1.00, $1.50. | Sale for Both Per- . | Wed. Night at By ADELE A Willing Girl Makes a Good Servant. The chiming of the clock an hour after Dicky had gone to the studio after our gay little noon dinner warn- ed me that I was not dressed, and that the cooks whose advertisements I had answered might call at any min- ute. I dressed and arranged my hair. Just as I put in the last hairpin the bell rang. Two women, covertly eyeing each other with suspicion stood in the hall- way when I opened the door. To my invitation to come in, each respond- ed, “Thank you,” and the entrance of both was quiet. When they sat down in the chairs I drew forward for them I mentally appraised them for a moment. One was a middle-aged woman of the strongly marked German type. Clean, trim, grim, she spelled effi- ciency in every line of her body. The other, a tall Polish girl, of perhaps 22, was also extremely neat, but her pretty brown hair was blown around her face, and her blue eyes twure fairly dancing with eagerness in con- trast to the stolid expression of the other woman. As I faced them, the older woman compressed her lips to a thin line, while the girl smiled at turing Vitagraph Stars e 'War Pictures, Mon- flay, Tuesday, Frid.y -Acts’ of Vaudeville—4 'Madamoiselle” .of delightful action Tatest chapter “THE GODDESS” pretty Anita Stewart [N COMEDY, STHEATRE ‘Hartford This Week, Twice Daily. The Poli Players SHEPHERD KING” 20c. Eve. 10, 20, 30, 50c ARSONS’ ATRE—Hartford nd WED,, OCT. 12 and 13 Matinée Wednesday MAUDE ADAMS 3. M. Barrie's Comedy ALITTLE MINISTER” 500. 16 $2.00. Seats now. Potter’s Celebrated Play bd on Du Maurier’s Novel “PTRILBY” Eves. 25¢ to $2.00. Mat. 25¢ Mail Orders Now. Seat Sale at 9 A, M. is and Fashions | ess elaborate. g r i worn close to the head. ol T — jn hats 4rd in good fashion. AR o oqnvlniu;are headed by fur s — bats . are | much L= ' tmcnrcra fuller, of still without of the new suns and frocks e amema of dance frocks are extreme- ors are dull and lines some- vere. 's coats: are pes. made with is now wearing many leather me in a friendly fashion. “You came in answer ad- vertisements?” I queried. The Older Woman. The older woman silently held forth my letter and two or three other pa- pers pinned together. I saw that they were references written in varying feminine chirography. Her silence was almost uncanny. “Oh! yes, Missis,” the Polish girl exclaimed- “I put my—what you call it? My- “Advertlsement * I suggested, smil- ing. Her good-nature was Infectious. “Oh yes, ad-ver-tise-ment, in the paper, Sunday. Today came your let- ter, the first letter. I guess hard times now. Nobody wants maids. T come right queeck. I can do good work, very good. I have good refer- ences. You got maid yet?” “Not yet,” I answered, and turned to the other woman. “What wages do you ask?” “Thirty-five dollars a month, every other Sunday and every other Thurs- day out, no washing, no bed-making, no children. If there are only two in the family I will do all the cleaning.” Her voice was metallic, her tone mon- otonous, as if she were reciting a lesson. “You must do first-class work to demand so much money.” “That is not much.” She looked coldly at me. “I am a first-class cook and housekeeper. You tell me how much you wish to spend each week. I will manage your house on that if it is not too small. I can cook and to the “SEARCH ME,” IS°A DETECTIVE COMEDY “Search Me,” already announced to appear at the Lyceum theater is the first of the season’s detective comedy successes. There is said to be con- siderable plot to the play, much more than usual, which is of engrossing interest in its amusing mystery, the action is convincing and the incidents follow in rapid succession, the humor is clean and of the best sort, The story of the play takes place at “The Fire,” Bridgetown, England, and is purely English, all the char- acters of the play with the exception of an American playwright being Eng- lish. The time is the present. Messrs. Moffatt and Pennell the producers, have provided a company of more than usual merit, including Mr. Fred Graham, the English char- acter actor, Mr. Clarence Heritage, Mr. Curtis Cooksey, Mr. Daniel Pen- nell, Mr, Sydney Stone, Mr. Frank- lyn George, Mr. John Raymond, Miss Nellie Dent, Miss Phyllis Birkett, and others. The scenery and properties are all that modern stagecraft can offer and indicate an outlay rarely given to a farce-comedy production. The gowns worn by Miss Nellie Dent and Miss Phyllis Birkett (creations designed by Cecil Kerns and made by Maison Cecile Marie) are pronounced by mediates to be gorgeous as well as the latest thing in style. The engagement is for matinee and night. VIVIAN MARTIN Saturday SHOWS AT FOX'S: ! A big squad of men were busily engaged all last night in laying the new carpets at Fox's and when the patrons visit this popular playhouse this evening they will witness a com- plete outlay of the finest Wilton cov- erings heavily padded to give the proper soft and cushion effect. Sev- | eral other changes of marked im- portance are now under ‘way and soon as they are completed the local Fox theater will have every possible convenience for its patrons, that will make towards their comfort. Today's program is most delightful and interesting made up of all the elements of comedy and drama with Vivian Martin, the charming and dainty Broadway favorite in “Little Madamoiselle” holding hearline po- sition. This production is a Vivian Martin production from beginning 1o | the very end, being expressly suited | to her wonderful personality which she injects into her work. A Chaplin comedy with an abund- ance of roars and screams and other REVELATIONSOF A WIFE GARRISON serve a dinner for guests without any help. I do not like any one in my kitchen to help, even the madam. You read my references. They will tell you what I can do.” The Younger Girl. I turned to the other. *“How much do you want, and what can you do?” The Polish girl shook her head smilingly. “If you take her, you no want me. I tell nothing while she here. If you not take her, then she go, then I tell you everything.” According to all my theories and my training I should have chosen the older woman. Efficiency always has been an idol of mine. It was my slogan in my profession. It is my humiliation that I seem to have none of it in my housework. This German woman evidently was capable of ad- ministering my household much better than I could do it. was because of this very reason that I found myself repelled by her and smiling enthusiasm. “Have you much company and does vour husband bring home without notice?” The elder woman's harsh tones broke in. The questions turned the scale. From the standpoint of strict justice, the standard from which I always had tried to reason, she was perfectly Jjustified in asking the questions be- fore she took the place. But in- tuition told me that our home life would be a dreary thing with this martinet in the kitchen. “That will not trouble vou,” T said, “for I do not believe I wish your serv- ices. Here is your carfare, and thank you for coming.” I smiled to myself as I handed her the carfare, remembering the tiff Dicky and I had had on that very subject. Dicky’s influence certainly was changing some of my old rigid ideas. My Puritan training raised its head a moment to inquire whether my moral fibre was not weakening, but I put the thought from me. The woman took the carfare with the same stolidity she had shown through the whole interview. *“I did not think I would like you for a madame, either,” she said quietly as she went out. The Polish girl bounced from her seat as soon as the door was closed. “She no good to talk to you like that,” she exclaimed. “She old crank, anyway. You not like her. See me I young, strong, I cook, wash, iron, clean. I make beds. 1 do everything. You do notting. I cook good, too, not 8o much fancy, but awful good. My last madam, I with her one year. She cry, say I so sorry, Katie, you been so good to me. I cry, too. Read what she say about me.” single reels will be shown besides Vivian Martin, and the latest chap- ter of “The Goddess” with Anita Ste- wart. Fashion Hints By May Manion 8765 Envelope Chemise for Misses and Small Women, 16 and 18 years. Young girls and small women are sure to be interested in this design for they are apt to be on the outlook for dainty under garments that can be easily made. It consists of only three pieces, but be- Eause of the extension on the back, it ecomes a combination garment and perves two purposes. In the picture, it is ‘nade from fine batiste with trimming of | face, but crépe de chine and washable : pilks of various sorts are liked for under i Wear and this garment is perfectly adapted | to them all. It can be finished ‘with lace r with fine embroidery or with embroid- red edges, or, lace and insertion can be sed on the lower edge, while the neck ‘dge is scalloped and some little em- proidery is worked on the fronts of the body portion, and since embroidery Iways means a certain sense of eleganoe, ' his last has special advantages of its own. Here, the neck is cut on the round out- ine, but it can be cut square if that thaping is found more becoming. For the 16 year size will be needed 334 Qd=, of material 27 in. wide, 234 yds. 36 r 44, With 5 yds. of insertion, ;fi yds. o ging. | i The pattern No. 8765 is cut in sizes for 116 and 18 years. It will be mailed to any ! §ddress by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt of ten cents. Perhaps it | subtly drawn by the younger woman's | friends | IN “PAIR OF SIXES’ iPaul Nicholson a Comedian of Nd Mean Ability—Lyceum Audience Pleased For real,—not motion picture,— comedy, one could draw a long time and not get anything better than “A Pair of Sixes.” It would be difficult to imagine more ludicrous situatioas than were presented on the stage of the Lyceum Saturday night. When Edward Peples conceived the idea for this play he really gave to the pub- | lic something worta while, a show that will live for at least three or four vears. Its lines can ever be changed | to keep it abreast of the times. This has been shown by Paul Nicholson, who, as T. Boggs Johns, kept the aud- ience in a continuous state of laugh- ter by his funny antics and clever in- terpolations. The two pill partners, Mr. Nicholson and Walter Fenner were very good. Screamingly funny too, was Miss Norton, as Coddles. Jane Quinn, playing opposite Mr. Fenner, as his wife, and Alice Ciaire Elliot, as the sweetheart of T. Boggs Johns, were very good. The story of “A Pair of Sixes” is very simple. Two partners cannot agree. Their lawyer, finding no other way possible, gets them ‘to a game of draw poker, the winner to be the master, the loser to be the man, for a period of one year. T. Bogss Johns loses. Nettleton holds a pair of sixes. After that is where the fun begins, T. Boggs is installed in Nettleton's home as the butler. There is his life made miserable by the forced attentions of Coddles, the maid of all work. Added to that his “master” invites Florence Cole, T. Boggs' sweetheart, to visit. Bogss i ‘numiliated, yet he can not tell her, or anyone why he is the butler at Nettleton's under penalty of five thousand dollars fine. Busy- little Miss Cole finds out, however, by “pumping” the lawyer, and she it is who brings things to a happy conclu- sion. In fact, she turns the tables on Nettleton by making Boggs pretend he is in love with Mrs. Nettleton. Thais brings about the end. ¥t would be difficult to get anyone better than Paul Nicholson in the part of T. Boggs Johns. It seems to been huilt especially for him. Merritt who ed the part fice boy good. Mazie Fo- garty, as the gum chewing and hilar- ious stenographer for Nettleton and Johns, played her part wonderfully well. Godfrey Matthews made a poor lawyer. He should have been the shipping clerk. Others in the cast were: Joe Dean, James T. Galloway, John Houston, and John F. Lee. played by John By DOROTHY CLARKE Helen has bought the sports coat Just for a Fall House Party around the Country Club really awfully smart double-faced duvetyn, man green on the outside and te cotta on the inside .The lines are unusually graceful for a . sports {coat and as it is cut longer in back ithan in front, the red shows as it flares It fastens down the i front with buttons and loops . . | The deep cuffs are turnea back; here again is the touch of red and also in the high collar which ends in tabs that cross and run through a loop. .. Helen wears a Scotch plaid mmefl)un skirt with it and a Puri- tan hat of green felt, with a high crown around which is a terra cotta ribbon running through a large sil- ver buckle She will probably wear it to-morrow I'll see you then Good-bye. best looking the thing or to wear It's Made of dark Hunts POPE AIDS ARMENIANS. Rome, Oct. 1.—Mrg. Dolci, the apostolic delegate at Constantinople, having reported to the Holy See on the suffering of the Armenians, Pope Benedict has written an autograph letter to the Sultan of Turkey inter- ceding for the unfortunate people. Sometimes velvet pockets are the cnly full box coat. ball buttons and decoration of a NOTHINGBUTLAUGHS play | have | of of- " I “News for Theater Goers and Women Readers Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast Fruit Stewed Potatoes Coffee Broiled Ham Vienna Rolls Lunch Rusk and Milk Apples Sponge Cake Baked Cocoa Dinner Cream of Tomato Soup Beef Stew with Dumplings Potatoes Creamed Cabbage Ieg Salad Poly Coffee Jam Roly Hot Sauce | tusk—=Scald one pint of milk. Dissolve in it two tablespoonfuls of butter and a half teaspoonful of salt. When lukewarm add one-half of a veast cake dissolved in a little luke- warm water and sufficient sifted flour to make a drop batter. Beat well, cover and set ~side until light. Beat together three eggs and one scant | cupful of sugar. Add this to the | sponge when light, with a alf cup- ful of flour; beat and let raise again. When very spongy stir in sufficient flour to make a soft dough and knead until smooth. Put aside again until | light, then take off pieces the size of | a large egg and mold into round bis: cuit. Put close together in \\Pil greased deep pans, brush the tops with milk, and when very light bake in a moderate oven: they must not be very brown waen done. To dry them, let stand for a day, then break or cut each rusk in halves. Spread on flat pans and let stand in the open oven for a or more until thor- oughly dried. Keep in a tight can Or | coverea stone crock. Creamed Cabbage—Chop fine in the meat choper as much cabbage as will be needed and boil in salted wa- ter until tender. To one quart large as a walnut; salt Cook this over hot water nearly absorbed. | of butter as and pepper. | until the cream is “THE GHOST FLICKER” FOR KEENEY PATRONS Among the attractions at Keeney's during the current week will be four big photo-play features, include contributions from mount, Vitagraph and Sel jes. The management announces that there will be some high class drama- , tic offerings in which the country's most celebrated screen artists will be !seen. The program ‘for the entire i week ts one of exceptional merit, as far as the ‘“movie’” features are con- cerned and the Keeney patrons are {also assured of some unusual vaude- ) ville numbers. “The Ghost Flicker,” a big five- reel romance, with its many weird and dramatic parts, will top the bill to- night and tomorrow. This is a Fa- mous Players feature, N. B. Warner, appearing in the leading role. It is said to be a most interesting pictur- ization of the celebrated novel of the same name and it should prove a good drawing card Wednesday and Thursday Blanche Sweet will be seen in “Stolen Goods.” From a dramatic viewpoint there is no picture superior to this scenario. It was acted by a capable company. supporting Miss Sweet, before the camera. The Big Four special this week is “The Chalice of Courage,” Vitagraph stars interpreting the parts. drama will be shown in its p! form on Thursday and Frida Ina Clair in “A Wild Goo: will be the priivipal attr: Friday and Saturday. These offerings, coupled with the vaudeville features of the show, should make a strong appeal to local people seeking entertainment, the Para- POLI PLAYERS IN “THE SHEPHERD KING” Poli’s theater will set a new record in stock this week by presenting the biggest and most costly production that the American stage has known, ““The Shepherd King” a play that takes its place with “Ben Hur” and such other notable dramatic achieve- ments. The play is Wright Lorimer's great Bibical drama and is absolutely superb. It presents a spectacle of g that inspires admiration. portrays with absolute gorgeous- of power. The pl fields and hillsides, the home the faher. of David. The s , the sheep are led into the fold, the women servauts weave cloth and the broth,"s go and come about their rustic labors. Sud- dently, down a flight of rocky steps, descends a group of royal personages. Prince Jonathan, Prince Michal and Prince Phalt, among them. There 1s an immediate quickening of the pulse when the royal world of Saul's court touches the simple pastoral life of David’s home. There is spread before the audience a picture lined in vivid coloring, softened here and there by quieter grays and mellower semi- tones, that grand story of humble be- ginning, of poet’s fancies and the mu- sicians’ imageries, until finally, in the ripeness of manhood, David stands a king in very flesh and blood, the mas ter of his own, the ruler illing people. 'he Shepherd K pre- sents a high achievement in play- writting and stage craft. In the eleven years that “The Shepherd King” has been on the stage it has held a position at the very pinnacie among stupendous pla Tts costum- | in& is sorseous, the costumes of Bible opens on sunny of ng,"” the life of the Israelites in their | . Bibical. | | of | , boiled cabbage add cream with a piece | z compan- | ONMPARE! IS A DUTY YOU OWE TO YOURSELF ! Where do buy At you your a store where they show you a ‘“dozen” Suits or at this good store where you can choose from HUNDREDS? Think it over!! Suits $1 Nobby (hp cor- PRICES models in all rect materials. And that make us very popular with our customers. Overcoats $102° Styles Handsome the Warm, either in Form-fitting models or the loose boxy kinds that are All very popular. Reasonable. FAMILY Prices Very WE CLOTHE THE 687-683 MAIN STREET HARTFORD TREGGEsAR MiscH STORE \ Clothes? | “Is your husband a good cardplay- er?” asked the visiting lady, gra- which will | ciously “He hostess The husband, a big, self-confident, sweet-tempered boy, laughed in an uncomfortable, embarrassed fashion. His wife's thrust has been accom- panied by a little laugh which was supposed to take the sting out of it, but I very much question if it did. “There is many a true word spoken thinks is,”" said the in jest,”” is a comfortable old saying. It gives us a sense of being justified when we use the veneer of a jesting manner to cover some rather acri- monious criticism or rebuke. I think husbands and wives (and sometimes other relatives) are pain- fully apt to get into this habit of criticising each other in the pres- ence of other people. It Makes Outsiders Feel So Uncom- fortable. Sharp little rebukes, nagging lit- tle criticisms, sarcastic comments are freely poured out in the pres- ence of uncomfortable and embar- rassed witnesses, sometimes with this thin veneer of jest, sometimes without. “You may is had think that story funny, but you wouldn't if you heard it twenty times before.” “Oh, you mustn’'t expect my wife to be on time! She doesn’t believe in keeping appointments. “You think that would pensive way to buy! Well, that doesn’t bother my wife. ing like that ever disturbs her.” “Other men seem to find time to stay with their children once in a while, but my husband is different. be an ex- it is, but Noth- —_—— times being faithfully reproduced and carried out to the smallest detail. This feature offers almost unlimited opportunities for the introductions of costumes that are unique in stage pro- ductions. The massiveness of the scenic production is almost beyond the limits of stock company and yet the Poli company will present tha great play in all its splendor. The characters are all taken fram the Bible and the story of the play is Its intense interest coupled with the fact that it is historically true, makes it one of great moment. MAUDE ADAMS AT PARSONS THIS WEEK To pick out the principal charm of any one of J. M. Barrie's plays ls a most difficult matter. His plays lave many charms and the principal is a matter of individual taste liking. It is the combina- tion of charms that make the Scotch author's plays so successful and likewise so enduring, as it is to be noted in the revivals of “The Little Ministe: and “What Every Woman Knows,” to which iaude Adams is devoting herself this sea- son. In the study of Mr. Barrie's stage contribution shown so ertistically by Miss Adams, there is one luminous fact and that is that the works are all based on human nature one and in its various phases. His humor and guarantees have a solid founda- tion of truth. This is conclusively shown in “The Little Mivieter.” jm Jests Tlmt Hurt He thinks he is too busy goodness knows, he has plenty time for his golf.” Sometimes The Little Hurts Fester. So the sharp tongues wag and * sometimes the one who is criticised sends back as good as he gets. And again he winces in silence under the™ embarrassment and hurt of a pub- lic nagging, or tries to laugh with the rest and pretend he doesn't care, when he really does. Sometimes un- der an unruffled exterior rancor ac- cumulates and a hundred little hurts fester away until they become unbearable. Then, after some small final dig, comes a burst of pent-up resentment and its object wonders why some little jest should bring all that down on his head. He feels ag- grieved, but he has no reasont to be. It seems to me it is both better taste and kinder for husbands ond wives to make whatever ecriticisms.. of each other they think best in private, In public let them be loyal to each other, unwilling to discuss eagh other’s faults and quick to sym-« pathize and defend when necessary and justifiable. 1 frequently receive which are not of general and which T would much prefer t&\ answer by a letter. I wish the writers of such questions would sign their names as well as a nom de plume. They need no fear that I} will use their real mames in the paper. At present I have two let- ters, one asking me to give a name for a club, the other to tell where Iy live. One is signed “A Friend,” the other “Alicia.,” If these two will send me their addresses I will ane swer by letter. F i *~ - 7 DO SR though, of questions interest, ol at and matinee. which Miss Adams is to be seen the Parsons theater, tomorrow Wednesday, with Wednesday This exquisitely cheerful comedy Is an illuminating picture of Scotch life, with a winsome, self-like young woman, and sober-sersbus minded young minister as its principal con- trasting figures. The hardshell reli- gion of Scots is shown in all its force and humor and with many of its author’s defi and skilful touches. Miss Adams is meeting with great success in the revival of this play which served to first introduce her as a star The strongest dramatic organiza- at has been sent on tour vears is the eight all-star “Tr * company which opens a three nights’ engagement at Parsons theater beginning Thursday, and with a mat- inee Saturday This is the famous “Trilby” revival which set New York agog last spring. It still has that charming English actress, Phyliss Nellson-Terry, as Du Maurier's hero- ine of the Latin Quartier. a - PANAMA CANAL CLOSED. Oct. 11.—A careful survey of the slide area in the Galliard cut fact that there probably are ten million cubic yards of earth in motion which must be taken out by dredging operations be & per- manent ghannel thrugh the cut is possible. This is the conclusion reach- ed by the canal engincers, who con- ccde that there js now little hope of opening the waterway, even for the temporary use of shipping, much be- fara the Grst of the yead Panama, reveals the