New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 26, 1915, Page 4

RUSSWIN LYCEUM -sat, Nov, 26-21 MATINEE SATURDAY Round the World Tour of ; ROY’ Xponents ALMA ™" nd U0 B0SCO | 50—EUROPEANS —50 Tons .of Paraphernalia, 00 Head of Live Stock. 'RICES '25¢ to $1.00.—Mat. aturday 25¢, 50c. Scat - Sale at esday. o Crowell's <Maurice Costelo in “THE MAN WHO COULDN'T BEAT GOD.” Five Reel Feature. and ’ Saturday. Tonight anche Sweet in Today and Tomorrow William Fox Presents NANCE O’NEIL The Peerless Empress of Stormy Emotion in “ATWOMAN'S PAST.” Thrills, amazes, startles and dumbfounds with its swift, strong and dramatic action that sweeps like a torrent to a mighty climax. Now Appearing JOSEPHINE DAVIS The Queen of Ragtime Character Melodies. FOOT GUARD HALL Hartford WEDNESDAY EVEN. DEC. 1, AT 8:15 PADEREWSKI Prices $1, $1.50, $2 and $2.50 Tickets Now on Sale at WATKINS BROS, INC, 239 Asylum St. Sleinway Plano Used Direction C! A. Ellis NG, i PARSONS' ‘I HEATRE—Hartford NIGHT LYMAN H. HOWE’'S RAVELOGUE PICTURES I New Views rices—Night, 25¢ 35c, 50c; Mat., 26c t0.36c. Seats on Sale. MONDAY, NOV. 29 MME. EMMY DESTINN Season’s Song Event ce 75c to $2.00. SATURDAY, MAT. SAT. ts now selling at box office. or Theater Goers and Women Readers REVELA | By ADELE How the Party Broke Up Startling Scene, Frank, we must go home.” With a | Little Mrs. Lester stood before herl. ‘husband, her face anxious, her voice strained. ‘' I knew that her anxiety about leaving her baby alone had reached a point where she could no longer hide it. “‘Go home-" Dicky’s Voice broke in, aggrieved, astonished. ‘‘To think any- body should suggest such a thing at a party of mine. I'm surprised at you, Daisy.” We were all seated in the living room again. Harry'and Lillian Un- derwood, Frank and Daisy Lester, Dicky and I. From every point of view save one, our little chafing dish supper had been a decided success. That exception concerned muyself, however. It was Harry Underwood’'s unpleasant persistence in forcing his presence upon me., The sandwiches were all eaten, and the chafing dish was scraped clean of the rarebit, although I wondered how they could possibly eat the stuff. The beer and ale bottles' with which Dicky had liberally stocked the tables were empty, and the whole supper had been one continual cross-fire of laughing and jesting. “You will surely wait for some coffee and cordials. Katie is coming with them now. I knew that I must second Dicky's words. I felt guilty, however, in vrging Mrs. Lester to stay, even though with my inexperience of babies. I thought she was foolishly anxious. “Oh. Mrs. Graham, I don’t believe | I can wait for anything. I am get- ting so nervous. I know it's awful to be so silly, but I just can’t help it.” “Dalsy.” Her husband’s voice was | stern, his face looked angry. “Do stop that nonsense. We are certainly not going home now.” His wife seemed to shrink into herself. Her pretty face, with its worried look, was like that of a little girl grieving over a doll. I felt a sudden desire to comfort her. Mrs. Lester’s Fears. “I think you are worrying yourself unnecessarily, Mrs. Lester,” I said in &n undertone. We were sitting next tach other, and I could speak to her without her husband overhearing. | “When you telephoned the maid an hour ago, the baby was all right, wasn’t she?” “Yes, I know,” she returned de-; Jectedly.: “But.-.I have heard such dreadful things about maids neglect- | ing babies left in their care. Sup- pose she should leave her alone in the apartment, ‘and something should catch fire and A “Don’t imagine such things,” I said sharply. “If you have had your maid a year you either ought to be able to trust her or you should discharge her. But I think Jou have heard exaggerated stories. Now, for instance, in the apartment across the hall there is a maid who | horrible TIONSOF A WIFE GARRI:ON Indeed I was not looking for vou,” 1 returned spiritedly. “But I am glad you are here. Please talk to Mrs. Lester while 1 go to the kitchen. 1 must give some directions to Katie.” ““Of course that's a terrible hard task’—he began, smiling mischiev- ously at Mrs. Lester. . But he never finished his sentence. A loud, prolonged ringing of the door- ibnll startled us all. It was the sort of ring one always associates with an urgent summons of some sort, “Oh! my haby. I know something’s { happened to the baby and they've jcome to tell me.” Mrs. Lester's words rang high and shrill. They changed to a shriek as Dicky opened the door and fell back startled. For past him rushed a girl with a fear-distorted face holding in her {arms a baby that to my eyes looked as if it were dead. But I had presence of mind enough | tc quiet Mrs. Lester’s hysterical fears. “That's not your bhaby,” I said sharply, grasping her by the arm. | “It is the child from across the hall.” DISAPPROVES OF AN OLD SAYING The accepted saying that “the hand is quicker than the eye” is disap- proved of by Servais LeRoy, the Bel- gian magician, who comes to the Rus- swin Lyceum, Friday and Saturday, matinee and nights of this week. He believes that the phrase was coined by one whose knowledge was limited. The fact is that the best conjurer seldom makes a rapid motion. Tae real magician is slow and deliberate and it is merely by his action that he causes the spectator to look in a di- rection other than the one that might possibly give an insight on how some particular feat was performed. Sometimes a false pass, or an appar- ent accident, is the bit of business used to bewilder the audience. It is only by keeping abreast with physical science that the modern ma- gician holds tae public favor. The really clever magician must be an ac- tor, though he does not speak a line, he does the most difficult part of act- ing-pantomining. Every magical feat is a little drama within itself, there is an introduction, the plot and the cli- maX. Many of the greatest stage il- lusions introduced by magicians were started on a small scale and parts add- ed bit by bit. With the LeRoy, Talmo, Bosco com- pany there is one of the largest aggre- gation of magicians ever seen together at one time. The co-s head the show are internationally famous, in addition there are Hindoo fakirs, Egyptian mystery men and Oriental magicians: The company is augment- ed with nearly two score European ar- tists who offer the latest in novelties of the old country. {takes devoted care of a baby. 1 do not know who the people are, but the mother is out nearly every afternoon, and the maid is really most painstak- ing in her care.” “Oh, I know, I know: but suppose the baby should be taken ill suddenly. The maid would never know what to ol I ond s ikr atamot speak the words aloud, but they flashed into my mind. She appeared such a child-mother, this pretty little woman. “See here, Dai * Lilllan joined our group, coffee cup in hand. “Drink your coffee and your cordial. Then pretty soon, if you feel you really must go, I'll gather up Harry | and start for home. Then you can make Frank go.” “You are awfully good, Lillian,” Mrs. Lester looked gratefully up at the older woman. “I know I am silly as I can be, but you can’t know how I am imagining every dreadful thing in the calendar.” “I know~all about it,” Mrs. Under- wood returned shortly, almost curtly, and walked away toward the group of men at the other side of the apartment. “I never knew that she ever had a child.” Mrs, Lester's eyes were wide with amazement as they met mine, “Neither did I.” Purposely I made my tone non-committal. From the l Lester told us in my room of the way the baby looked asleep, I knew that some time she must have held a baby cf her own in her arms. “Not Your Baby!” ' But I detest gossip, no matter how kindly—if, indeed, gossip can ever be termed kindly. I could not discuss Mrs. Underwood’s affairs with any one, especially when she was a guest of mine. «But she must have had a baby some time,” persisted little Mrs. Les- ter. Her anxiety about her own baby OLI’STHEATRE Hartford TONIGHT AND SATURDA' POLI PLAYERS “THE OLD HOMESTEAD” Matinees, 10c, 20c. Evenings, 10c, 20¢, 30c, 50c. appeared to be forgotten for the noment. “t must have been a child of that awful man she divorced, or who divorced her. I never did get that story right.” I looked around the room. How I wished some one would interrupt our talk. I could not listen to Mrs. Les- ter’s prattle without answering her, and I did not wish to express any AMBULANCE INSPECTOR. New York, Nov. cording to information cre. Mr n Ambulance Hospital at at service for several months. 5.—Robert Maclay this city, who has acted as judge many New York horse shows, has en appointed inspector of all Ameri- n ambulagces at the front in France, received Maclay was appointed cap- in of a field section of the Ameri- Neuilly, ter having driven an ambulance in opinion on the subject. As if answering my unspoken wish, Harry Underwood rose and came toward me. “Were you looking for queried audaciously. I had a sudden helpless, angry feel- ing that this man had been covertly watching me. Annoyed as I was, I was glad that he had interrupted us, for his presence would effectually stop Mrs, Lester's surmises concerning his wife. me?”’ he { Gale | look in Lillian Gale's eyes when Mrs. | PADEREWSKI PLAYS HARTFORD, DEC. 1 Paderewski is one of the most strik- ing examples of the definition that ge- nius is the capacity of taking infinite i pains. Granted that the fundamental | genius was born in him and granted, also, that he is endowed with a most unusual personality, neither of these | would have counted for much had not he made his life one of unending “HELP WANTED” AT POLI'S THEATER Judging from the success which at- tended the presentation of “The Blindness of Virtue” at Poli's theater some weeks ago, it is probable that “Help Wahted,” the production in which the Poli Players will appear all next week, will be the most talked about play of the fall and winter sea- son for, while “The Blindness of Vir- tue” recited incidents which befall girls unwarned of worldly things by their parents, “Help Wanted” invades the business fleld and shows truths which have been proven by investiga- tions, plainly depicting the hardships which confront a girl who enters a business office as a stenographer and strives to succeed by pleasing her em- ployer. “The Old Homestead” will be given twice today and twice tomorrow, clos- ing a week’s engagement that has proven a marked success. HOWE’S PICTURES AT PARSONS’ THEATER In the feature covering a journey through' the Panama Canal to the Cal- Lyman H. Howe at the Parsons’ thea- ter tonight and tomorrow matinee and night, there are many architectural gems that are the realization of art- ists’ dreams, such as the tower of Jewels, and the triumphal arches and beautiful statuary that adorn the courts at the San Francisco exposi- tion. To see Howe's reproduction of the other exposition at San Diego is as though, by the wave of a magic wand, you léft behind the hum and rush and roar of the twentieth cen- tury and found yourself back in a city of ancient or mediaeval Spain. The Spanish “atmosphere” has been car- ried out to the finest detail. Howe' films of both expositions are the mo complete, striking and interesting ever obtained within the confines of the ex- position. “THE BIRTH OF A NATION” WONDERFUL Theatergoers of this city are anx- jously awaiting the opening day of “The Birth of a Nation.” Those hav- ing seen it insist that their friends and family see it, as it'is one of those productions that happen just once in a life time. The management of Foxs, where it is to play for a full weeks” engagement commencing with Monday, Nov. 29th with mat- inee daily, have everything in read- iness, leaving nothing equal its presentation here as it has been presented in other cities. It would be wise to make reservations now as a tremendous sale is expect- ed, judging from what has already been sold. The theater box office is open from 9 a. m., to 9:30 p. m. every day. The curtain will rise promptly at 2:15 and 8:15 p. m., with only a six minutes intermission between the first and second acts. MAY SELL PARK. The New Britain Quartet club is considering the proposition of selling its park property on Wooster street for building lots. The section is fast de- veloping into a residential region and members of the club feel that it might be wise to dispose of its property on that account. The club did not apply for a club license at the park and a remonstrance has been filed against the application of the German Rifle club for a license at its place on the work and had the courage to overcome obstacles which would have been in- ;surmountable to most artists. Paderewski’s success was belated. He was twenty-eight years old before the world realized that in him it had the greatest pianist of his time if not | all times. His talent had shown itself when he was very young but it had no chance to develop. He was in his 'teens before he T1ad any real instruc- tion in music. Although the critics were a little | slow in recognizing his genius he con- quered the public and secured a hold on its affectations which has never t has had success le with his. No musician, save possikly only Adelina Patti has made such a fortune in this country. During ‘his first tour he played one hundred and seventeen The following year he played seven times in twenty-six cities. n in 1896, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1907, 1908 and 1913-14 he has gone over the length and breadth of the country av- eraging nearly seventy concerts to each tour. The last five tours have been under the direction of Charles A, Ellis of Boston who has charge of his affairs in America {his year. He wil appear at Foot Guard hall, Hartford, December 1st. NANCE O’NEIL SHOWING AT FOX'S Nance O'Neil, is a notable recruit to the motion-picture stage. The new vehicle in which Miss O'Neil is seen and which is more dramatic than even her other successes, is produced by Frank Powell and has heen nam- ed “A Woman’s Past” is now playing at Foxs. “A Woman's' Past’ thrills, amaz startles, astounds and dumfound with its swift, strong and dramatic action that sweeps like a torrent to a mighty climax. This masterful pro- duction will be shown this evening same street. “OVER THE By DOROTHY wore a last CLARKE lovely gown at night The fitting bodice was made of the est blue Soiree silk the shoulders there drapery of the same caught in front by le of pale pink roses. The skirt was of the silk, wired out around the ‘hips in She dance the tight- pal- Over was a chiffon hade of blue, at 7:25 p. m., and 9:30 p. m., with several single reel comedies roundmgl Lout the balance of the program, the new fashion From this line, chiffon was draped over a lace underskirt and caught in place with ifornia expositions to be presented by | undone to | Menu for Tombrro__w \ Breakfast “ Fruit Broiled Bacon Potatoe Cakes Crumpets Coffee Lunch Turkey Salad Cocoanut Fritters Dinner Cream of Onion Soup Cold Turkey Mashed Potatoes String Beans Pickles Lettuce French Dressing 1 Waters Cheese Lemon Pie Coffee | | i { | | | 1 Cream of Onion Soup—Peel and rut‘ fine sufficient white onions to measure one pint. Melt two tablespoonfuls of | | butter in a saucepan, add the onlons, | | cover and cook at the side of the fire, shaking frequently until tender, but | not colored; add one pint of water | and simmer slowly until soft enough to be rubbed through a sieve. In the ! meantime melt and mix in a second saucepan one tablespoonful of butter and two tablespoonfuls of flour and cook without coloring for three min- utes. Stir in gradually one pint of hot milk: When blended ana cooked to a smooth sauce draw to one side and ! simmer for five minutes. Stir into this the pulped onion, add salt and white pepper to taste, and a tiny pinca of sugar, then simmer for five minutes longer. Short Crust Pastry For Pie—One pound of flour, ten ounces of butter or lard, one teaspoonful of baking powder, balf a teaspoonful of salt, cold water. Sift the flour into a basin add the baking powder and salt, shred the butter into it and rub light- | 1y in with the tips of the fingers until the whole looks Ilike fine bread { crumbs. Make a hole in the center of the flour, pour in a little cold water, mix it in until the whole is a stiff | paste. Tnen knead the whole lightly together sprinkle a little flour on the | pastry board and rolling pin, but not i r the pastry, then roll it out to the desired thickness. MAURICE COSTELLO KEENEY’S FEATURE | BE THANKFUL For This Good Store A store that supplies the lothing, Hats, Shoes, etc,, at that are RIGHT—and makes burden easy by accepting small mepts that are not a hardship YOU. Investigate our ‘live live” system. Best and in prices your pay- for let MEN’S SUITS and OVERCOATS $10, $12 and up [ HATS | Open a Charge Account. Pay Each Weck. NEW COATS $7.98 and up NEW $9.98 SUITS and up FUR $2.98 SETS and up MILLINERY $2.98 and up DRESSES $1.98 and up SHOES $3.50 and up BOYS’ And GIRLS’ CLOTHING HATS AND SHOES The famous Vitagraph Blue ribbon feature, “The Man Who Couldn't Beat ! God,” with Maurice Costello and other celebrated screen stars in the leading 10les, will be shown at Keeney's a | tonight. The picture made a deep | | impression on Thanksgiving day audi- | ences. The play was produced before | the camera under the direction of Al- bert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton | and it is said to be of exceptional mer- | it | Sharing the top position with it to- night will be a Lasky photoplay, “The Clue,” with the Broadway favorite, | Blanche Sweet, figuring prominently | in the cast. Other films will be “All | For the Love of a Girl,” a Vitagraph | comedy; ‘““The Dynamited Trai an ! episode in the “Hazards of Helen” se- ries; “Roses of Memory,” an Edison drama and two good single reel come- dies. Werner’s horse act continues to be the talk of the town. The fve equines | in this troupe are well educated and they perform in most intelligent fash- jon. - They do a series of spectacular : feats in addition to the usual drills and dances. There are two other good acts ! on the vaudeville program. ! Andrew Berlin of Church street, | who underwent an operation at the Jocal hospital for gall stones, is re-| ported as resting comfortably. ‘The; operation was performed by Dr. E. T. | Fromen. 'WIRE” little wreaths of roses used on the bodice cor- | tainly was the quaintest gown there : She wore silver slippers with | it, and her hair was piled high on er head and tied with ribbon that was pale blue on one side and silver on the other .. .. Did you joy vour theater party half expected you to drop in at the dance Too bad, ‘wo had a really good time Call me up tomorrow, dear Good-bye. like the one Buy Your XMAS GIFTS NOW and Avoid the Crowds WOMEN'S WEAR 687—-685 MAIN STREET HARTFORD The Talent For Adventure “She the talent for adventur someone said to me the other day in describing a woman. I should like to meet her, shouldn't you? * It is a great talent, that talent for adventure. convertible into money but what money for except and this talent for It may not be so readily as some other talents, do we most want to buy happiness, adventure can be | coined directly into happiness without being passed through the dium of money. Of course you know what T mean by the talent for adventure—the gift of finding adventures not only in the out-of-the-way situation, not only in travel or in danger, but in everyday life Nothing Happened (o Him While She Wa Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote fo his wife: ‘Nothing at all has happened to me since I left you. It puzzles me 1o conceive how to meet with many more events than 1. You will have a volume to tell me when we meet, and you will pour your beloved voice into my ears in a long stream; atlength your life been?’ and then will stupid T your life been? and then will stpid look back upon what [ call my (' for three or four past, and hold. a blank!™ 1t is evident from this and of the letter that Hawthorne Yoved his wife dearly, but dependent upon her. He and wonderful talent, but ave the talent for adventure she so evidently possessed, and he needed her to give flavor to his life They Give Flavor to Our Lives. That is just what they do, the peco- ple with the talent for adventure, thn give flavor not only to their own lives gross me- Away. £0 the rest not only very had a great he didn’t which was but to the lives of all with whom they are associated. 1 once spent a week end in a quiet little country town with woman so talented. We were driven down to our camp by the hired man of one of the neighbors The lady of the talent drew him out to talk to us and behold, he proved to be one of the most integ- esting characters 1 had ever met—a man who had lived and travelled and dreamed and could tell about it all on the rare occasions when he chose to (we learned afterwards that his confi- dences to use were almost unprece- dented) The next day the lady of the talent warmly admired a beautiful dog we met on the road and that led to our being shown over his kennels by tie master of some of the finest kennels in the country. Besides these, we had two or three more adventures—all in a day and & half. iven Poverty Can Be Made An Adven- ture, Of course these things happened oh an outing, but even in one's daily rou- tine there are adventures for those who have the talent and the will to fin@ them. It isn't sordid, trying to see what & quarter can be made to do,” says one of Robert FHerrick's “It's exciting.” And ag character heen limiting or hilarating fight t sources of mind and body." Of course that's in a book, but T know that there really are people 80 gifted that they can wrest adventure even from poverty. It is a beautiful gift, the talent for adventure. Let no one who possesses it ever think himself poor characters, this same her, poverty had mot crinding, but an ex- taxed her re- n, he To writes of - 5§ S il BBl