New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1916, Page 4

LYCEUM} The Theater of Distinction— The Best Plays For the Best People In the Best Theater. TONIGHT | "THE_ CHRISTIAN” | Week of Jan. 31 The Alfred Cross Players IN Geo. M. Cohan's mysterious comedy in prologue (2 acts an epilogue. “TKeysto| Baldpate”, GET YOUR SEATS NOW. Same Prices, Matinee 10c, 20c Night, 10c, 20c¢, 80c, 30c. Seats at Crowell’s Dl'ug Store TONIGHT. Lasky’s Big Film “THE CASE OF BECKY"” Featuring Blanche Sweet Lubin Release “DESTINY.” Three Reels ‘ Other Good Pictures High Class Vaudeville. ki ) Our Slogan ‘QUALITY NOT QUANTITY’ o— LAST TIME TONIGHT William Fox presents “THE FOURTH TATE” The Greatest Newspaper Story Ever Filmed it Coming Tomorrow Night Holbrook Blinn in “LIFE'S WHIRLPOOL” Picturized from the Widely Read Novel, “McTeague” PARSONS’ THEATRE—Hartford TONIGHT MIZZI HAJOS in “POM-POM” i Prices 25c to $1.00. Next Week (Mats. Wed. & Sat.) EXPERIENCE” Seats Fri. Mail Orders Now. "Prices: Nights and Sat. Mat. 25¢ to .50. Wrd Mat., 25c to $1.00. GRAND Hartford (Charter 1026) - Week of Jan. 31 Star and arter Show : WITH BERT ROSE cast of buslesque and 2 Notables. TWO BIG FEATURES e Great Deluge “The Aeroplane Girl” i | “Oh, NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1916. ~L___}]!‘_@’s—"owl’f’izeaz‘er Goers and —Woen Readers How Madge Saved the Child Upstairs —The Maid’s Frightened Plea. I took one look at the stream of water that poured from the ceiling of the kitchen, then dashed for the door. “Quick, I commanded, “get the wash boiler and all the big pans to catch this water. Empty them into the sink as fast as they fill. I will run for the janitor.” My heart was heavy as T fairly ran down the stairg to the janitor’s quar- ters. No telephoning for me. T wanted action as soon as possible. To think that this annoying thing should happen just as I had every thing in spotless readiness for my mother-in-law. I was glad indeed to see Callahan at the door of his quarter “Oh, Mr. Callahan!” T gasped. “Please come at once our apartment | Is being flooded.” “Just a minute, ma'am.” Calla- | han’s composure was irritating to me. 1 felt as if he ought to start on the run up the stairs. “Where is the water coming from, your bathroom, or where?” “Oh, not in my apartment at all,” I returned. “It is coming through the ceiling in a perfect flood.” that'll be Mrs. McGovern's | apartment. Isn’t she just above you?” “I don’t know 1 spoke impa- tiently, Why did he not rush up- stairs instead of standing there speculating upon the identity of the cccupant of the apartment above me? “You are No. 4?" Callahan either did mnot notice or aid not mind my impatience. “Yes, yes.” “Then the one above you will be No. 12. T just turn the water off that apartment right now, and then | we can find out later, what's doin’ the damage.” He disappeared into the darkness of the room behind him, and heard the ring of metal. I scored myself for stupidity. I had been impatient because he did not rush upstairs at cnce, when all the time he had been pursuing the only course which would enable him to stop the flood. A Threatening Danger. He reappeared in a moment, and T followed him back upstairs, meekly enough. He stopped at my kitchen door, and looked at the flooded kitchen, then at the ceiling, from which the water was still dripping, aithough slowly. “Those kids have let the bathtub overflow he said as if to himself. T11 bet their mother is down town, and that maid—" He hurried out of the door and up the back stairs. His manner indi- cated that he was worried about something. As T looked at him in vague wonder T heard him say: “Mrs. Graham, ma’em, would you mind stepping up here quick T hurried up the steps leading to the apartment above. Callahan was just. inserting his pass key into the lock. | “I've rung, but I don’t dare wait,” he said. ‘“There’s an odor of gas | here. T may want you to help me.” T did not like entering a stranger's apartment in this unceremonious n:anner, imperative. As we opened the door the odor of gas came more strongly to our nostrils, T saw that every jet of the kitchen range was open. “Leave the door open, and shut off the gas, quick,’’ commanded han, as he dashed through the kit- chen door into the room bevond. T turned off all the jets and fol- Jowed him. There was no one in the living room, or dining room, but in the bathroom a chubby boy stood leaning over the bathtub, full to over- flowing. He was trying to climb into it, crying as he did so. T shuddered as T snatched him away from the tub, If he had lost his balance while alone, he would surely have been drowned. | { | i | | Katie,” “T1] Keep Quiet. “Me want my boat,” struggling In my arms. losted.” “Where is your mamma, Gordon? Callahan’s manner was gentle, his tone soft. “Down town.” were fixed tearfully Where's Mary?” “In dere.” He pointed to the bed- room. Mary put Jack by-by, and she | g0 by-by too, but me fooled her.” The little rogyc chuckled, and Cal- lahan, muttering savagely to him- self, went to the door of the hed- 100m, and knocked loudly. “Here, vyou, Mary,” he roughly, “come out of that.” I heard a startled exclamation from the bedroom, and the next instant a slovenly looking girl with a weak face came slowly out of the room. “Why, T must have dropped sleep,” she said foolishly. *“Do you know what has happened while you dropped to sleep?” de- manded Callahan sternly. ‘This baby has been wandering around the apart- ment, opening all the gas jets and water faucets he could find, If this ady hadn't been alarmed by the er from the bathtub flooding her kitchen, the child would have been dead when vou woke up, if you ever diG wake, with all that gas escaping. He was just climbing into the bath- tub when we got here.” “Why, Gordon, you naughty the girl exclaimed weakly, ver mind scolding the baby. He isn't to blame. What do you sup- he “My cried, boat The baby’s eves still on the bathtub. called to | boy,” RFECTLY PASTEU IZED MILK SEIBERT AND SON, ark Street, Near Stanley, 6 teams. Tel. connection. pose Mrs. McGovern will think—"" “Oh, you won’'t tell her?” The girl looked terror-stricken, “I'll see. Depends on how vou act.” Callahan returned non-commit- tally. “By the way, yvou won't be able to get any water for a while, I've turned It off, and I'm going to but Callahan’s manner was | | | i | that T denounce the girl, keep it off ’till T've found out whether there is any leak in the pipes anywhere. Do you think you can keep awake now until your mistress gets back?” “Oh, yes, Mr. Callahan.” evidently was fully awake. don’t tell *her.” “Will vou promise never to thing like this again?” £ Ohiy “All The girl “Please do a then,” Callahan re- turned gruffly. “I'll keep quiet this time. But the ne time—'" His tone was threatening, and Mary wilted visibly before it. him out of the apartment with a feeling of resentment against his pro- posed shielding of the girl. She had endangered the lives of little chil- dren by her carelessness. If I had been the mother of the children whose lives she had jeopardized, I should never have forgiven the per- on who withheld from me the know- ge of her carelessness, Mr. Callahan, do you mean you are not 8ving to tell Mrs.—McGov- ¢rn, I think you called h that maid’s carlessness?” My indignation had gotten the bet- ter of my natural disinclination to ‘mcddle with things which did not | concern me. The janitor flushea in embarrassed fashion as he answered: “I hate to get a poor girl's job, Ma’am. I'm a workingman myself, and I don't like to take the bread and butter out of anybody’s mouth.” “TI understtand that fully,” T re- turned, “but that girl is dangerous in that position.” “I know it, ma’am,” Callahan said worriedly, “yet I haven’t the heart to tell on her. Maybe yould see Mrs, McGovern?” His tone was insinuating, but T could not tell from it whether the suggestion contained a hidden wish or a fear that I might do so. I had opened my mouth to tell him that I would see Mrs. McGovern when a sudden remembrance closed it The humiliating experience I had Lad with the woman across the hall flashed across my mind. In her ab- sence ‘her maid had brought her baby to my apartment in a convulsion. TIts life had been saved, and the next day she had virtually snubbed me. No, the affair was strictly none of mine. “No, Mr. Callahan,” T said de- cidedly “T could not possibly think of interfering in the affairs of a stranger.” “Of course not,” he agreed quick- “Good day ma’am.” He touched his hat and moved away, while I went slowly to my own apartment, My conscience was troubling me. I felt in some vague way that I would be responsible if through that maid’s carelessness in the future one of the children in the apartment above me should be in- jured. MY STYLE DIARY . Calla- | By By DOROTHY CLARKE January 29 I've just met the most charming young girl at tea, and she knows so many people that T do! She has been living in Canada for the last two years so that's why we haven't met before. She designs all her clothes, she says, and she showed me some lovely little sketches. One is a skating costume she has promised to give me. It's made of old-blue wool Jersey cloth. The coat is knee-length and has a high collar edged with sealskin; this fur, continuing down, outlines the slanting cut of the opening in the front. There is a belt of the material that holds in the fullness ss the back and ties low in the front ending in fringes; the skirt is laid in box-pleats. She said it would look charming in the new shade of tooth-powder pink, but I preferred the blue. MOST WONDERFUL PLAY IN AMERICA The most wonderful play in Ameri- ca is the way the New York and Bos | ton critics speak of ‘‘Experience”, George V. Hobart's modern morality comedy drama, which William Elliott, F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest ! announce for a week’s engagement at I followed ! (Copy? “THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE” ght 1915 by the McClure publications) Read these episodes, each com- plete in six insertions. See them acted on the motion picture screen at the XKeeney Theater. EPISODE 2. To Langdon alone the calling of | Mary came as no surprise, and he was at her side in a moment, whisper- ing reassurance, and urging her to answer as simply and clearly as pos- sible the questions she was asked. | His calm gave her back some meas- ure of her own serenity, and her voice was low but clear as she took the oath and, stepping up into the wit- ness stand, looked down upon that sea of faces. IFor a moment they swam before her ey and with a catch in her throat she remembered the last time she had looked down across ‘the footlights upon thousands of smiling lips and friendly eyes above a snow storm of applauding white gloves. How long ago it seemed and vet how short a time! And now the faces that stared up at her were avid with curiosit some hostile, some sympathetic. Then her eyes, traveling hevond them, met the tear-dimmed ones of her mother, leaning forward yearn- ingly from the witness-bench and because of the suffering on that face Mary smiled. Her first answers 0 the questions of the District Attorn#ly were spoken with quiet dignity. “Miss Page, isn’t it true that David Pollock wished to marry you?” “Yes,”” The answer was lower now, into Mary’s pale cheeks “And you found his attentions un- welcome ?” Something in the head up sharply. “I had told Mr Pollock that I could not marry him,” she said firmly Abruptly the prosecutor changed is train of questioning , Miss Page,” he said harsh- please tell the court exactly what happened just previous to the time when the revolver-shot was heard and Mr Langdon found you unconscious beside the murdered man. Begin with the moment you left the banquet” ‘With a shiver of aversion Mary closed her eyes for second; then, gripping the edge of the witness- stand, she began speaking slowly and with an obvious effort ‘“When the boy brought me S e S S e R Parson’s theater, Hartford, commenc- ing Monday, Jan. 31st; there will ve a bargain matinee on Wednesday aft- ernoon and the regular matinee on Saturday afternoon. ‘‘Experience’ a story down whose scenes tumultuo laughter ri s. There are tears too and desperate hopes and curses and the sighs of failures and the indomni- able cries of indefatigable hope. It is as modern as tomorrow: and the pec- ple the people we all know; we may all see ourselves in ‘“‘Experience.” The play comes to Hartford after its remarkable run of nine months in New York where it plaved three dif- ferent theaters in succession, from its sensational five months run in Boston, where it broke all records of this vear for attendance. the Primrose Path of Pleasure there is a fashion show of remarkable beauty. Ifascinating women wearing dresses and jewels that fairly dazzle the eye. The display is considecred, any fashion show the critics say, equal ‘o that has ever been en in New York or Boston. Tt is in fhis Golden Cabaret where Youth while on his guest for fame and for- tune sees night life of the great city at its best—or worst—with all its col- or and reckle: bandon. The very latest dances are given in this cabaret scene and new songs are sung. In the Corridors of Chance act « modern gambling house is shown with men and women engaged in trring to| woo the fickle goddess of chance. “Pom-Pom” the new comic opera that has been launched by Henry W, Savage, with Mizzi Hajos in the titie role, will be seen at the Parsons theater again this evening. The dim- inutive star is supported by Tom Mec- Naughton as chief comedian, and a large cast and chorus. The music of “Pom-Pom™ is played by an orch tra of grand opera size. The produ tion is one of the really big things of the season. “THE CASE OF BECKY” AT KEENEY'S TONIGHT Lasky's picturization of the great human drama, “The Case of Becky.” will be a feature of the motion picture program at Keeney's tonight. This big production Is one of the most dramatic film releases that Keeney's secured in many a day and it is well worth wi nessing. Heading the cast which pre- sents the piece is Blanche Sweet, one of the most clever screen stars in the country. She is supported by a num- ber of capable people. Essanay’s latest release, “Destiny,"” a three part film, a Lubin drama and an Edison comedy will also be shown tonight. High class vaudeville attractions are on thie week’'s program. The Seven Sons of the Desert furnish a spectac- ular acrobatic act while Mille. Lazelle Clarise has an aerial turn that is equally sensational. The second episode in the big mj tery, “The Strange Case of Mar will be shown next Wednesday. and a hot flush crept for a moment | tone brought her 1 is and | In the Golden Cabaret scene on the | of fetching stvle creations | | | | | ! was afraid and begged him to." | was very message—I—was glad to go. were drinking and were very at the banquet—and I was tired. boy showed me the door and 1 went in.” She paused, and covered her eves as if to shut out something terrible. Mr. Pollock was in the room,” she said at last. ‘“He—he had been drink- ing—he wasn't himself—he could hardly stand. He—he said he. wanted to talk to me alone for five minutes— and he wouldn’t let me out, though I They noi The of the suite, | | Did you try to get out? Was there | a struggle between you and Mr. Pol- lock 2" | She shook i she said with her head. ‘“Not then a little sob. “But angry—I told him he had ked me—and T wouldn’t listen to him. We—we quarreled over his be- ing drunk and—he tried to make me take a drink of the whiskey my- self!” A shudder of repugnance swept over har, and her eyes grew wide and staring and she swayed for a moment like a flower in a storm; then, with a tremendous effort, as one called back from the borderland to consciousness, she added hoarsely: “I remember striking at him | knocking the glass out of his hand. it break—and then—I ‘musti 1 heard have fainted!” “Miss Page,” came still another question, “if you had refused David Pollock—if you feared him—why did vou grant him an interview late at night in a private room at the hotel?” “Grant him an interview!” her voice rose in startled protest. “I didn’t. That was why I was so angry —1 had expected to find Mr. Langdon in that room!” “Oh! You had made arrangements then to meet Mr. Langdon there?” Again the satiric note crept into the harsh voice, and a crimson tide rushed to Mary’'s pale cheeks, “The boy told me,” she said with dignity, “that Mr. Langdon was wait- ing to speak to me. 1 thought he had come to take me home.” “The boy—what boy?” The ques- tion leapt sharply now. “Why, the bell-boy who brought the message,” she said in surprise, and, turning, pointed toward the group of witnesses where the small bell-hop cowered, half-covering his face with his shaking hands. (To be continued.) STAR AND GARTER SHOW, SEASON'S HIT 1e Grand theater, Hartford, mukes an apparently convincing promise of something absolutely new in the an nouncement that the Star and Garter Show of 1915-1916 installed there for an engagement o the next entire week. The offering of the organiza- tion for the present son is in two parts and, under the title ‘At Saratoga Spriugs” and * ight in a Harem" is strongly suggestive of the Broadway musical show. The first scene occurs | at Saratoga while the other transports | the audience over to that great city of pleasure, “Gay Paree.” This jingling two part nusical comedy embraces every form of modern stage craft and fairly bubbles with song and laughter. The writers and producers have done everything they could conceive in order to make this performance the one genuine hit of the season. It is a big organization the principals of which are Bert Rose, Don Clark, James Coughlin, Jess Weiss, Walter Wolf, Willie Colini, Margaret Lee, Jacquelin Talliman, Sherly Wara, Ethel Woodrow, Margie Martin and Edith Lefler. Willie Colini assisted by the Misses Williams and Bangor will be seen in a big dance revue while there is a prize assemblage of chor- us girls. The show this season has eclipsed all past perforraances. Tn- cidentally there will be introduced numerous high grade specialti in- cluding tha “Great Camel Dance | The | sive .| that George M. Those Big Little Things A party ing I neighbor of mine gave a little one evening. The next morn- happened to be in her home. telephone bell rang. She an- swered it. “Did you really? I'm so glad. It's so hard to tell whether people really ! have a good time or not. Not real- 1y Why, she's the hardest person in the world to please. I was afraid she’d think the table decorations were overdone. You'd like the recipe for that salad? Of course I'd love to it to you Yes, I am rather tired, but I don't care now know it really was a success.” Her Day-After Gloom Was Gone. | My little neighbor came away the telephone glowing. Her eyes shone. The rather dispirited, was-all- the-trouble-worth-while-after-all ex- pression, so common to the day after, had gone from her face. “Wasn’t that just sweet of Mabel? she cried. “She called me up to tell me what a success my party was. That's just like her. She alw re- members little things like that. | “Little things like that, ——y I suppose they are little, but, as I heard the glad note in my neighbor's voice and saw the shine in her eyes, 1 thought to myself, “How big thoughtfulness and the choice of the | 1 from es, | They right moment make little thing!"” There are some people who ways doing these little things. Remember to Ask About Invalid. If such a one comes to see you and some member of your family is fll, she is sure to call up the next day to inquire and to be glad with you if he is better or sympathize and cheer you up if he is not. It's only a little thing, of course, but it makes vou seem so much less alone, it gives »u that warm sense that someone can a are al- the ¢ in, T have some friends who al-4 remember when they meet me for those members of the family whom they have previously met, and I know others who never think of this gracious act With, some people this thoughtful- ness seems to be instinctive, with others it has to be acquired with ef- fort, but the effort has manifold re- wards. One is the satisfaction of giving pleasure to others; another is the consciousness that one has at-’ tained that degree of breeding; and another is the knowledge that per- haps in the next generation this thoughtfulness will be “instinctive instead of acquired. T O to ask the Misses Martin and Lefler and th sensational, “Oh, Don’t Stop Me” dance by Jess Weiss. 'There are two big extra attractions which may be de- pended upon to create the talk of the town. One is “The Great Deluge.” This is the most elaborate living pie- | ture ever produced ,with the entire chorus taking part. Then there is the big feature. ‘““The Aeroplane Girl” In her aeroplane she soars about the theater over the heads of the audience and everybody wondérs how it is all accomplished. Tt tests everyone's me- chanical ingenuity and they are un- able to figure out how it is all done. This is only a partial foretaste of what the program offers but it will indicate to the burlesque devotee that a trip to the Grand next week will result in his seeing an entertainment that is pleas- ing and which is different from most of the shows he has seen. “SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE” MONDAY sensational “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” the play Cohan has built from the story of the same name ny Earl Derr Biggers, and which will be pre- sented here at the Lyceum by the Al- fred Cross Co. is a farce of seven kind Tt is in two a January 31, ‘ts—that is one kind. It is original—that is the second kind. Tt is melodramatic—that ie the third kind. And there are four other kinds to say nothing of a prologue and an rh\hzne that are thrown in for good | measure. Alfred Cross will play the lead, that of the young novelist “Wm. Hallowell Magee,” Ralph Collier, and Arthur Vinton will appear as “Mayor Cargan”, and his mad man “Friday.’ J. Trving White as “Peter, the Her- mit” will have an excellent comedy part, and one of the hits of the play. | Joseph Henley, as the old care-taker Quimby and Estelle Morton his wife, have two lovable and s_\'m]».\lhm- ic characters. Philip Sheffield, will appear melodramatic “Bland” Hal Jarrett “Kenned a part adapted to his methods, Scott plays *“Ha den’ Julin Herne, doesn’t have her usual opportunity, as the little news- Thornhill is furnished with her be part of the season. Klsie Southern rs. Rhodes, has an interesting por- rayal. ‘Baldpate” requires production ive and substantial, and the di- rector is looking after that end, while scenic artist Tuttle, has painted some elaborate scener Baldapte” test week for the Alfred C as their has been many rumor the company leaving New Britain, s this play has been selected, that thea- tergoers are offered the most expens play before the stock company public. is the big trouble in every serious sickness — causing depression of spirits, irritability, nervousness, imperfect vision, loss of memory, oo sleep, los of -mtits. etc.—stop 't with a regular course of SCHENCKS MANDRAKE PILLS They act promptly and freely, but gently, thoroughiy cleansing the bawels, comforting the stomach, stimu- Iating the liver—the s ftcw Ior mdl- estion, headache, biliousness, b rn, flatulency. Purely vegstable. Plain or Sugar Costed. 80 YEARS’ CONTINUOUS SALE br.J. PROVES THEIR MERIT. r. J. H. Schenck & Son, Philadelphia the 2| i LIFE’'S WHIRLPOOL"” AT FOX’S SUNDAY Holbrook Blinn, the popular favors ite and an all star supporting comw pany of Shubert favorites will be see tomorrow night in “Life’s Whirlpool® a magnificent picturization in five acts of the famous and widely read novel “McTeague,” which will hold headline honors on the bilg Sunday night pro- gram at Fox's. ‘Life’s Whirlpool' i# a dramatic masterfilm. It carries the audience through a series of remark: able situations of dramatic intensit | and grips you with its interesting and thrilling theme. “The Fourth F liam Fox ate” the latest Wik production featuring Clife ford Bruce, Ruth Blair and Samuel J. Ryan will be shown for the last time tonight. This production fis thi greatest newspaper story ever film | and its many scenes were taken in and around the massive plant of the Chis cago Herald, through the courtesy of James Keeley its editor. The story gripping and and intensely interesting and through the entire five reels oné is held spellbound by its quick moving dramatic action and highly interesting theme. It will be shown tonight at and 9:40 for the past time, wi several single reel comedies and dra- mas augmenting the program to the usual two hour performance of high class entertainment amid surroundings that are conducive to healthy divels sion. TMenu for Tomorrow i Breakfast Sliced Bananas Fried Hominy Calkes Buttered Eggs Grilled Oven Scones Coffee Ham l Dinner Fish Soup Braised Ox-Tail Mashed Potatoes Fried Beets Celery and Walnut Salad Cheese Crackers Orange Souffle Coffee Supper Jellied Veal Custard Pie Wafers Tea, Oven Scones—Rub two tablespoons fuls butter cuufuls of flour, add one tablespoonful sugar, @ quarter teaspoonful salt, one tegs spoonful soda, and two teaspoonfy into a sc milk. Knea@ cream of Make dough with some sweet slightly on a floured baking board, vide into five pieces, make thej smooth and roll out thinly, cut in four small cakes, lay them on a by tered tin, brush over with beaten e 1nd bake in hot oven for ten minutese finely into four Jellied Veal—Wipe and cut knuckle of veal in pieces, put into # saucepan Wwith two quarts of wately bring slowly to simmering point, skil gently for two hours. Then add o sliced onion, blade of mace Teafy six cloves, and six whole 'y fimmer one hour longer. the knuckle, remove all, bone, put t meat into a square mold, boil the quor till reduced to one quart, strai of salt and pepper, pour over me add half a cupful vinegar ,seasoni and leave in a cool mea over night. D ETE C TIVES If you are anticipating imwe tion in any matter where fotegrity and results are essen | write A. G. BROWN, 26 STREET, HARTFORD, | PHONE CHARTER 412. I use the Detecta Phone. \bay