New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1916, Page 4

The Theater of Distinction— The Best Plays ¥or the Best People In the Best Theater. Ali This Week TURDAY MATINEE 7 Keys to Baldpate Week of Feb. 7 The Alfred Cross § Piayers Present splendid production of § George Broadhursts Great- est play. i Bought and § Paid For! As played in New York 580 performances. Beautiful @ scenery and cffects. Mati- g nee Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10c and 20c. , 20c, 30c and !‘ Reserve your seats A TONIGHT Jobhn Mason in Fatal Card.” “The TONIGHT AND FRIDAY Big Military Drama, “The Nation’s Peril.” FRIDAY AND SAT. Blanche Sweet in “The Se- cret Sin)” High Class Vaudeville ,. Like The Serpent That __Tempted Eve In The Garden Of Eden Is The Modern Role Of THEDA BARA Vampire) (The in “The Serpent” A compelling and thrilling Fox photodrama, at FOX'S Today and Tomorrow Screen PARSONS’ THEATRE—Hartford [All This Week. Matinee Saturday IOTT, COMSTOCK AND GEST Present the Most Wonderful Play in America, “EXPERIENCE .50. No phone orders. fices: Monday and Tuesday, Feb, 7-8. Matinee Tuesday “MAID IN AMERICA” 5 Matinee, Mail Massachusetts Institute of Technology Combmed Musical Clubs t High School Hall for the Bene- fit of Athletics. 145 P. M. Tickets 50 Cents. Followed By Dancing, RFECTLI PASTEUR 1ZED MILK I SEIBERT AND SON, k Street, Near Stanley, team~ Tel. connorhon. ASK FOR and GET YRLICK’S E ORIGINAL TED MILK s cost ¥YOU same price. +/Wants in The t Columns. \ HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1916. § (REVELATIO By ADELE SOF AWIFE GARRISON l How Madge and Dicky’s Mother Mect. “Madge! What under the heavens the matter?” Dicky sprang oui of the taxicab, which had drawn up before the door of the drug store, and seized my arm. “Has anything happened?” he de- manded excitedly. “You are rushing along like mad, vour eves are full of tears, and vou are down here instead of at home. Why, if I had not hap- ) pened to spy you we would have gone [ on home. That would have been a fine welcome for my mother, wouldn’t it? Nobody there to greet her Katie.” I reflected grimly that if ever there was a time in my life for telling only part of the truth that time had come. “Nothing is the matter,” T said shortly. “I went out to get some cream for Katie’s pudding, and some flowers. I stopped here store to get some of my headache tablets, and left the flowers and cream. I did not find it out until I reached the apartment, so I dashed buck after them. Some dust blew in my eves. T suppose that's what makes you think I have been cryin “That’s you, -all over,” Dick erumbled. “Risk not being at home to greet mother, in order to have a few flowers stuck around. Here, come on and meet mother, and T'll g0 it and get vour flowers.” He took my arm and made a step toward the taxicab. “No, no,” T said hastily. “I know exactly where I left them. I won't be a minute.” I broke away and hurried into the drug store. I was almost in'a panic. If Dicky had gone in to inquire about the flowers he would have been have found out that I had telephoned, not bought headache tablets. Luckily the flowers and cream were where I had left them. idea of arranging any part of one’ tcilet in public, but I did not want the critical eyes of Dicky’s mother to see my reddened eyes, and roughened kalr, which had been slightly Joosened in my hurry. There was a mirror near the tele- phone booth at the back of the store. I took off my fur cap, smoothed back my hair and put on the cap again From my purse I took a tiny powder Puff and removed the traces of tears. Then I fairly snatched my parcels and hurried to the door. Dicky was just entering the store as T reached it. His face was black. I saw that he was in one of his rages. “Madge, My Mother.” “Look here, Madge,” he said, and he made no pretense of lowering his voice, “do you think my mother en- Joys sitting there in that icab) waiting for you? She was so fatigued by her journey that she didn't even want to have her baggage looked after, something unusual for her. That is the reason we got here so early. And now she is positively faint for a cup of tea, and you are fiddling around here over a lot of flowers. If he had made no reference to his mother’s faintness, T should have an- swered him spiritedly. But I remem- bered my own little mother, and her lomging when fatigued for a | cup of hot tea. “I am awfully sorry, 11eekly. “You see yvou arrived be- fore I thought you would. TI'll get the tea for her the moment. we reach | the house.” But Dicky was is Dicky.,” T said not mollified. He stalked moodily ahead of me until he reached the open door of the tax cab. Then his manner underwent sudden change. One would fhought him the most devoted busbands to see him draw me ward. “Mother,” he said, and my heart glowed even in its resentment at the note of pride in his voice, “this is my wife. Madge, my mother.” Mrs. Graham was leaning back against the cushions of the taxicab 1f she had not looked so white ana il T should have resented the look of displeasure that rested upon her features. “How do vou do?” she said coldly. “You must pardon me, I am afraid, tor not saying the usual things. [ bave been very much upset.” The studied insolence of the apology was infinitely worse than the coldness of her manner. I waited for a moment to control myself ‘ answering her. “T am afraid that you are 31" T said as cordially as I could. am so sorry for having Kkept waiting, but I did not expect auite so soon, and had errands.” “It doesn’'t matter,” she said . in- different Her manner put me aside from her consideration as if I had been a child or a servant. turned to Dicky. we almost there, dear?” The warmth of her tones him, ithe love displayed in every inflection, set out in more bitter contrast the coldness with which 'she was treating me. “Right here now,” the taxi drew up to the door of the apartment house. There was a peculiar infle tion to Dick voice. 1 stole glance at him. He was gazing his mother with a puzzled look fancied I-saw also a trace of pleasure. But it vanished in another minute as he sprang to the ground, paid the driver and helped his mother and me out. She leaned heavily on his arm as he went up the stairs to the third fioor upon which our apartment was. ““You have no elevator in these apartments?"’ Her voice was com- plaining. “No, it is one of the older build- ings, but we like it because the rooms are airy, and it is near my studio. a have of for- really Gy vou vou 5 some as n at I but | in the drug| almost certain to | I detest the | before | She dis- | But now that you are here we shall lake a larger one with an elevato: “Yes, that would be better” Toiling up behind them with despised flowers and the bottle cream. I felt like a stranger, an in- terloper. If ‘'my mother-in-law had said in so many words: ‘‘Henceforth it s my will that is law here—please keep your proper place,” she could not have revealed her tcward me more strongly. At the door, Katie, who evidently had hc-al'fl the taxicab, stood smiling my of is Katie, “She mother,” will Dicky said help take care of “How do you words were the were much to me. do same, kinder Katie?"” The than her greeting “Your Mother Dicky assisted | room. . She sank and Dicky took off her hat loosened her cloak. She leaned her head against the back of the chair, and her face looked so drawn and white that T felt alarmed. “Katie, prepare a cup of strong tea immediately,” 1 directed, and Katie vanished. “Is there nothing I can do for you, Mrs, Graham?” I approached her chair. Nothing, thank you. You may e the maid the trouble of prepar- | ing that tea if you will. I could not possibly drink it. I always carry my own tea with me, and prepare it my- self. If it is not too much trouble, Dicky, will you get me a pot of hot | water and some cream? I have everything eclse here.” I really felt sorry for Dicky. He caught the tension in the atmosphere, and looked from his mother to me with a helpless caught-between-two- fires-expression. With masculine ob- tuseness he put his foot in it in his endeavor to remedy matters. “Why do you call my mother Mrs. Graham, Madge?” he said querulous- ly. “She is your mother now as well as mine, vou know.” “I am nothing of the kind.” His mother spoke sharply. *“Of all the idiotic assumptions, that is the worst, that marriage makes close relatives and friends of total strangers. Your wife and T may learn to love each other. Then there will be plenty of time for her to call me mother. As it is; T am very glad she evidently feels as I do abopt it. Now, Dicky, ‘if vou will kindly get me that hot { water.” o B | cidedly. ‘‘Dicky, her room and things. cream Now."” her into the living into the armchnn attend to it,” I said de- take yvour mother to assist her with her I will have the hot water and here almost at. once.” In the shelter of the dining where Dicky nor his mother nor Katie could see or hear ~me, I clenched my hands and spoke aloud. “Cnll HER mother! Give that tempered, tyrannical, old . woman the sacred name that means so much tc me. NEVER as long as I live!” room, “THE SERPENT” AT FOX'S TODAY “The Serpent” pronounced metropolitan pre the g 1 success, even greater than men” is coming to the local T {ater today and tomorrow. The again shines In the vampire rol and in this production she is seen the daughter of a Russian Serf. Vania Lazar (Theda Bara) is the beautiful daughter of a Russian Serf, who lives 8 an. the i 3 A with her parents in a small cottage close to the vast estates of Grand Duke Valonoff. Valanoff, despite his title is nothing more than a wealthy libertine. The-Grand Duke sees Vania and is enraptured with her charms, makes ardent love to her, and wins her with the lavish display of jewelry and marked attention. Valonoff, ulti- mately tires of Vania. Despite her pleadings, he casts Vania off, and de- his attention to some new . This is the turning point in Vania argues to hers poisonou serpent harmless unless | lested; trod onm, it strikes. She | sons that she had been trod ground beneath ihe heel of man, and she, too, determines to bare her fangs. Her prey is to be all men, not one. Her beauty enables her to come with- in easy striking distance of her vic tims, and her venom is potent. From ! this point the audience is carried | through a series of compelling and lhcill't racking situations that posi- | | \ | | votes is mo- rea- on { that the most | comparatively sentiments | but the tones | olf | | “THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE” (Copyright 1915 by the McUlure publications) Read these episodes, each com- ! plete in six insertions. Sec them acted on the motion picture screen at the Keeney Theater. EPISODE III. “Did Mr. Page say who the friend was that had given him the check. “No; but we, learned later.” | ‘“Whose check was it?” “My brothers.” “Was he imere<ted at that time “Yes. He had always been. I think, but she was not at all in love with him: She had told me that.” | | “Yet he gave her father a check for |a large sum?” | | 3 | in Miss Page “No.” She flushed hotly now, and cast a timid glance at Mary, as If half deprecating the necessity of the testimony in spite of the circum- stances that had built a wall of hor- or and hatred between the erstwhile girl friends. “No,” she continued stant's pause, carefully | words. “That was just it. My brother had not—signed that check.” “Do you mean,” broke in the Judge, “that the check was forged? 15 ¥es: ! “How do you know that?” | “A detective sent by the bank came after an in- choosing her and told Mrs. Page and Mary and me. Mary didnt believe it at first. but at any rate she said she didn't know where her father was, though we both guessed he—he—was in the bar of the hotel. He was mostly there. When the detective had gone | Mary wanted to go and warn Mr. | Page, but T thought it would be be ter to go to David; and we did. He was horrified when he found out that it was Mary’s father who had cash- ed the check because, not knowing, he had already told the police to ‘prosecute the man to the limit.” Mary cried and begged him to do something to save her father, and K David said, ‘T'll save him for your sake, Mary, if you will promise to do something for me in return. ” “Did he say what that was?"” ‘“No. She didnt even ask. She just said she would do anything in the world he wanted if he would save her father. So he went with us to the hotel and we got there just in time to save Mr. Page from arrest.”” “How did you ‘save him, as call §t?” “David something you told the detective that he to Ty Mr. Page good." “And Miss Page was naturally grateful to your brother for his hav- ing saved her father?” promoted the District Attorney, not knowing how “Grateful? Yes. She——she mised to marry him.” “How. soon were you engagement?" “Well, a faint and that it was perfect- to go on. pro- told of the little wraith of a {to the Page home while I was there | had forgotten about giving the check | as Ruth broke off. | smile crossed her lips, “I had guessed what it was that my brother would ask Mary, and then I heard her teli Mr. Langdon.” “Was Mr. Langdon at the house at that time?” “No, he came while I was sitting talking to Mrs. Page. Mary and David were In the next room, so I went to let Mr. Langdon in. He stopped at the gate, looking at my brother’s automoblle, and I walked down the path to meet him. While we were coming back toward the porch the others came to the door. Suddenly David caught Mary up in his arms and kissed her. She seemed to struggle against him and, slipping away, ran into the house. Mr. Langdon, think- ing that my brother had kissed Mary against her will, rushed at him and threatened to strike him.” “Your Honor!” It was Langdon’ voice, suddenly harsh and strained, “I protest against this evidence as entirely irrevelant and leading up to nothing that has a bearing upon the case at present.” “The court cannot sustain your ob- jection,” said the judge, curtly. “It is very unfortunate for vou, Mr. | Langdon, but whatever brings out | the details of the relationship be- tween Mary Page and David Pollock is decidedly relevant.” The District Attorney smiled in tri- umph. He turned to Ruth, who look- ed startled at the interruption, and said, gently: “You were saying, Miss Pollock, that Mr. Langdon threatened your brother. Was there a fight?” “No. Mary ran between them and | said that David had a right to kiss | her, that—that—they were engaged.” | “He didn’t say anything. He just turned around and walked away, and | Mary began to cry.” “Was the engegement of your brother and Miss Page made public?” “Yes. At a dance.” seem happy on that occasion?” “No.” Her voice was scarcely than a whisper now and her troubled and sad, traveled from Mary’s bent head to the frail litile mother who was sobbing so quietly, yet despairingly, behind. her lowered veil. “No—I—In fact, I know they were, not. ¢ “Did they tell.you so.?” “No, but I overheard. I—was hiding in the conservatory.” | With a smothered grasp of surprise { Mary’s head came up suddenly and for the first time the eyes of the two girls met; but now it was Mary’s that were accusatory and Ruth’s that | were troubled and it was in answer to that reproach, rather than the startl- ed look on the prosecutor’s face, that made Ruth add shyly: “It was all more eyes, that if he could find me before the music was half over, I would give him two more, for I had discovered | a nook behind the palms which I was sure no one else could find.” (To Be Continued.) i tively dumbfounding for dramatic in- tensity and daring action. The great and big surprise does not come to the very finale when the audience is treated to something new, extremely new and novel. “Knocks and Oppor- tunities” a roaring two reel LKo comedy featuring Billie Ritchie and several single reel photoplays frame the balance of the offering. “The Ser- pent” will be shown at 7:25 p. m. and 9:40 p. m. 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Bake from twenty to thir- ty minutes, turning often. twelve parboil Native Eg; Bros. —advt. water, | into a | firm. Turn out and serve with slightly | KENILWORTH CLUB GIVES THEATER PARTY The Alfred Cross Players will be honored tonight by a theater party of over one hundred end fifty members of the Kenilworth club to witness the { admirable rerformance that the Ly-| ceum is giving of the thrilling ‘“Se en Keys to Baldpate.”” After the per- formance, the club will entertain the “Cross” company at their rooms with dancing and refreshments. Next Monday begins the new period of Mr. Cross’ stay at the Lyceum. It is said that the result of the meet- ing of the Chamber ¢f Commerce, last Monday night is very satisfactory. Monday night the 7th, “Bought and Paid For” will have its first hearing in New Britain. Messers Lynch and Cross are giving the public novelty sufficient to sui most exacting and with the Ilist pla; scheduled a theatrical bill fare New Dritain should feel proud of will be in evidence | Butter is lower. Russell Bros, —advt. COUNTY GLERK With No Appetite, All Run-down, Tells How Vinol Helped Him. So many cases like this are com- ing to our attention that we are pub- lishing this letter for the benefit of | New Britain people who are in Mr. Kelly’s condition. Read our offer be- low. Clarksville, Tenn. Court Clerk, and became run-down, no appetite, was drowsy and felt bad- Iy most of the time, T had tried sev- eral remedies without benefit. Onme | day I read an advertisement of Vinol | ana at once tried it. In a short time my appetite improved, my strength increased and I felt better in every way.” 8. W. Kelly. The reason Vinol i in such cases is because it equalled tonic-body-builder, combin~ ing native wine, the oldest and most famous tonics known to medicine. So strong is our faith in Vinol that we offer to return the purchaser's money in every c: if Vinol should fail to give satisfactory results. The Clark & Brainerd Co., Riker-Hegeman, ldxnggnsts, New Britain, Conn. “I am a County so successful | | | | | is an un- “Did your brother and his fiancec | Just in fun! T had promised a dance | to Mr. Brandon, but I had told him | | always straightening his tie, HARTFORD’S MOST SIMPLY “CHARGE SAY ® i TEMPTING A Complete close-out of These will be CI{ARGED LADIES’ AND $5.98 $5.98 $9.98 Values From $14.75 to LADIES’ AND MISSES’ COATS $7.98 Values From $14.75 to $22.50 HELPFUL STORE. BARGAINS Garment in stoc Advertised prices every at the NO EXTRAS—Have them Charged and PAY WEEKLY. SUITS $12.98 MISSES’ $24.75 $10.98 SUITS MEN’S OVERCOATS AND $8, $10, $12 Values up to $16.00 { THE POWER of the quality of elu- siveness to make a woman more at- tractive in courtship days is universal- ly recognized. Man is by nature a hunter. loves to pursue. Every woman knows anything about the art charming a man knows that. Now is marriage bad for the mem- ory? If not, why is it that the aver- age woman forgets this fact just soon as she is married, and practices just the opposite tactics? Perhaps you think I am fcolish not to recognize that marriage is a very different state from courtship, and | that it would be impessible for a wo- man living in the house with a man | and sharing his dai xistence to re- | main the elusive creature she Wwas when he was courting her. No, I didn’t forget that, but T don’t think she needs to go to the opposite | extreme, She Even Asks Him What He Is Thinking About. Let me tell you about one married woman who typifies the at- titude to which I am objecting. She is very fond of her husband, and her fondness shows itself in this way—she simply can't let him alone for a min- | u [-don’t know how she acts when they are by themselves, but when they are with intimate friends she is picking or going over to He who of young a thread off his coat, sit on the arm of his chair. When he reads, she asks him what he is reading about; when he is silent, she asks him what he is thinking of. It is her boast that he almost never goes out evenings without her, and when they had been married three vears I heard her declare that she as | “HAVE IT CHARGED!” THECAESAR XISCH STORE §687—-693 MAIN STREET HARTFORD, CONN. Letting Him Alone ttic I may be Her Husband Now, of course but it does seem to me certain boredom in her husband's manner sometimes, a rather foreed tenderness in the way he receives some of her onslaughts of affection. I don’t doubt that he loves her, but I do think his love would flourish a little more in a freer atmosphere. to be let alone more Restrai one of the qualities solutel ry to art. It is equal- ly nec to the art of living. If this woman, and all like her, would practice a little more restraint, be a little less omnipresent, a little less ex- actingly affectionate, little more self-dependent, if they would retirg now and then into the castle of their own personalities and permit their hushands to do likew I am sure there would be less strain on the tje that binds them together. Friends Can’t Always Remain Fricnty In the Same House i I have known my life in which devoted friends decided to try lving together, and in each And yef) husbands and Scems a i Bored. aker, that there s a ad- several cases in case the friendship cooled. we wonder that wives are friend not always able to keep hip for each other! Thi utting one’s self away the world with one companion is difficult business. It needs |n!1nlle tact and tolerance and restraint. Eachl should be able to respect the other's mood, and if it is a mood of aloofness, to withdraw into one's self without hurt or resentment. L4 Thomas Browne's advice, to be alcne,” is excellent. ‘*Be able to let others alone,” is an equally val- their} rrou “‘Be able had never been away irom home a | single night. uable supplement, especiaily for mar- ried folks. He needs