New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1916, Page 4

FLYCEUM| The Theater of Distinction— The Best Plays Tor the Best People In the Best Theater. Week of Feb. 7 The Alfred Cross Players Present splendid production of George Broadhursts Great- { Paidfor| York 580 performances. Beautifu) scenery and effects. Mati- nee Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10 and 20c. Nights, 10c, 20c¢, 30c and 50c. Reserve your seats now. As played in New TONIGHT Third Episode In “THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE.” Mary Pickford In “A Girl of Yesterday” TONIGHT AND FRI. Regina Badet in “NO GREATER LOV FRI. AND SAT. Hazel Dawn in “THE MASQUERADERS” High Class Vaudeville LAST TIME TONIGHT { red Ma in that thrilling K tone comedy “UROOKED TO THE END” Kathe 8 ) ne Kaelred and House Petel in “THE WINGED IDOL” Coming Tomorrow “THE RULING PASSIO! Featuring William ¥, Shay and Claire Whitney. First William Fox photo- play received from Herbert Brenon mow making the An- nette Kellerman $1,000,000 production at Jamaica, West Indies. < H - PARSONS’ THEATRE—Hartford Friday. February 11 [BIEBER OPERATIC COMPANY In the Comic Opera (in Yiddish) “HANKY AND PANKY” Prices: 25c to $1. Seats today. turday, Feb. 12, Mat. and Night NEIL O’BRIEN d His Great American MINSTRELS bigger and better show than ever. Prices: Mat. 25c to $1; Night, 25c¢ $1.50. Seats Thursday. MY STYLE DIARY By FRANSINE ebruary LAMAR 10th. unggir its of ant, the spring prone to thou ! impor means something more trousseau! In it she not only springtime clothes t ones for summer wear. Here simple but very pretty adaption ~mbroidery. - The uppet kirt and wide girdle is of n-colc oile, the lower half of gkirt and the loose-fitting blouse of batiste, embroidered in three tion h deep, w friy L f love, Y and ost en- nd of the hable shabl 1 i 1 1 b G 1 T sub- I i Something hot would make a fight for my individual- deeply. mother a sneer. he jumped t me, sat down on the arm of my chair and put vour coming for days, nothing, but after a moment’s waiting { reached ! as she | need | sorrow. | I started up hurriedly. NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY News for Theater Goers and Women Readers VELATIONSOF A WiFE By ADELE GARRIGON *Nothing at AIL" to get back “Surely, mother,” he said cordially. “Just call on me for anything you May I help you now?” just send Katie to me. really does very well. From her assured tone and m ner she might have been Katie's mi tress for yes instead of a guest of less than I knew it was retty and mean of me, but nothing about my mother-in-law so annoved | me as did her assumption of 1- therity. I jumped to my feet my face fiaming. “Stay with id brusquely. is wanted.” I w fast losing control of | nerves just when I needed them most. For Dicky had yvet to be told of Jeck's letter, with its startling new and 1 dreaded the way in which he would probably take it. to the room of the Dicky ate his pudding with I choked of Mrs, Graham sat in stony we had finished. seemingly oblivious of had played in upsetting his mother back to the relief after the It was a living episode 2 She pudding. and down some mine, but silence until Then Dick ‘the part he matters, led living room. If she had been made ill by Dicky’s disclosure that water had dropped from the ceiling on the pud- she showed no evidence of the fact. The food she had eaten had revived her, and she moved about the opartment without leaning on Dicky. “Your apartment is pleasant, if it | small and without elevator ser- she observed. T did not answer her. had not been made directly and T left the response to Dicky. For the incident of the pudding had been the last straw. When she had | made the insulting little speech con- | cerning it, T had resolved that hence- | forth I would not speak to Dicky’s | mother unless she directly addressed | me, or unle: T was compelled to < her some questions as to her wants. T had tried my best, T told myself. to treat my husband’s mother with all kindness and respect. She had met my efforts with ill-concealed dislike nd positive rudene; Of course, T knew that she was intensely preju- iced against me She had wished ?W‘kd\- lt;::vwrv a glrl of ~her own | Mliss Julie Herne the popular lead- choice, and she had become so in- | ing lady of the Alfred Cross players censed by his marriage to me that| has added new laurels to her already he had refused to come to the wed- | successful career. She has now ing. Seeing her evident domina- | stepped forward as the writer of tion over Dicky, T wondered how he | four-act play which promises to have had ever gotten the courage to marry | a run on the metropolitan stage, me against his mother's wishes. Tf| play somewhat after the fashion he had been in the same city with | “Peg O’ My Heart.” The title of M Fer, T told myself hitterly, she could | Herne’s drama is quaint in itself, have saved her son from me. | “One of The Family.” But this And now I faced the:prospect of [ not the only play Miss Herne hecoming a nonenity in my own home. | written. Herself, the daughter of rose in my heart T | successful playwright, James Herne, of “Shore Acres” fame, it i but natural that Miss Herne should show facility in weilding the dramati pen. Among her many attempts at the written drama was a little one act playlet entitled “For Marjory that had three season’s run in vaude- ville, She had five ripts in the hands of the big theaterical managers of New York. Alfred Cross is trying to induce Miss Herne to allow him to present for the first time on any stage her play. So far no definite plans have been made, but if ar- rangements could be made for the premiere of “One of the Family” New Britain, could boast of a second mark | in M Herne’s splendid career, for the Lyceum witnessed her first profes- sional appearance, with her celebrated father a good many years ago. Miss Herne, it is hoped, will allow Mr. Cross to be the instigator of placing the pretty little play before theater- goers. gusto, n- a mother, Dicky,” I will tel] Katie she i your aing, my The remark to me, MISS JULIE HERNE WRITES NEW PLAY | Production, ;OE oTthe Family,” May Be Staged at Lyceum | i { | | | a a of has ty. T resolved. Something told me hat my best weapon would be silence, ind a seemingly icy indifference to ny disparaging comments. His Mother’s Move. thinking hurt, ears Madge ” My you and vou T must have been very | Dicky's voice sounded in my you asleep, is speaking answer her.” pardon.” T turned to ‘I did not hear vou.” that you must ais- | leased, manusc “Are to l0 not “T beg vour \er indifferently. “T merely remarked »e fond of flowers to have so many »f them at this time of vear. Are 10t the prices almost prohibitive 2" “On the contrary, they are remar .11y reasonable for this season, ceturned. “But I seldom indulge my iking for them. These were bought | n vour honor.” i “Oh! That was very nice of you, T; The words were almost a think Dicky notlced it, for up and, coming over to sure.” T AT "Menu for Tomo Breakfast Cereal with Date: Creamed Salt Cod F English Muffins Coffee rrow i caressingly upon his hand houlder. “Madge has planning for mother,” he like a Tro- been aid. “She has worked Ja Surely unneces- T saw her affectionate that was quite .ry,” she returned. and look with distaste at the tableau we presented. The look stung me into an action which T have regretted many times since. T pushed Dicky away from me with an irritated gesture. “Please leave me alone.” pered. Dicky Jumped up from the air as if he had been shot, and nt to the window, where he stood mgodily looking down at the street below. How T longed to run after him and | beg his pardon, as T would have done for a similar exhibition of temper if ve had been alone. But the pres- ence of his mother restralned me. T| had a sudden swift premonition that many quarrels would be left un- rcconciled if this presence in our home continued. “Just Send Katic.” By the thin line of her lips, T knew that Dicky’s mothar had been and un- | derstood the little by-play. She said Lunch Prune and Nut Salad Bread and Butter Custard Pie Tea Lettuce, Brown T whis- Dinner Cream of Spinach Soup Sweetbread Croquettes Mashed Potato Pickled Reets Orange Salad Brown Betty Coffee English Mufline—Sift together one quart flour, one teaspoonful each of salt and sugar and three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Mix into smooth ba‘- ter with two and one-half cupfuls of milk. Have a pancake griddle heated regularly all over, grease it, and lay muffin rings on it. These should be heated and buttered as well as the griddle. Fill the rings about half full draw the griddle back ana let the mufiins rise to the top of the rings. Then with a deft movement of the cake turner turn each one, rings and W1l They should he well browned by this time on the bottom, but not burned. Let them cook five minutes longer on the back of the stove. When they are all cooked pull each open in half, toast delicately, butter well, and serve on a folded napkin piled high and very hot. she rose from her seat and moved to | ber son’s side tall woman almost as tall a V. and up her hand and smoothed It was just such a caress nust have given him ve 280 when he was a small boy and in comfort over some childish | ¥ hair. took her hand in his with a impulsive gesture and laid it gainst his cheek. For several min- vtes they stood silently watching the sireet below. Then Dicky’s mother | Dicky quick, Cream of Spinach Soup—One pint mink, two quarts spinach, three pints cold water, one bay leaf, one tea- spoonful 1t, three tablespoonfuis butter, three tablespoonfuls flour, two tablespoonfuls chopped onion, season- ing of celery salt, cayenne pepper, some whipped cream. Wash spinach and cook it for thirty minutes in a very little water. Press it through a sieve, Scald the milk with onion, bay leaf, add butter and flour blended to- gether, strain, add seasonings and spinach; cook for five minutes and serve. Garnish with whipped cream. Are vou tired, mothe Dicky asked tenderly. “Not only tired, but auite she returned, and sank into a chair. iler face had the same white, drawn look it had worn when she arrived. faint,” “What can T get for you?” T asked jously. Nothing ‘But, if you do not will go to bed.” Dicky “Don’t be need nothing but a journey has upset me, that is all. T} Will go to bed now, and stay there | until tomorrow morning. I probably | shall sleep straight through. If,| however, I waken about dusk, will| sou help me with mv tea?” | She did not gla#F: toward me, 1j might not have existed as she ml\:mli to Dicky. He very wisely ignored her manner. at all.” she said coldly. mind, T think T| She turned to alarmed, my boy. long rest. The REGINA BADET SEEN IN'SELIG FEATURE Selig’s picturization: of the popular drama, o Greater Love,” will be among the notable screen offerings at “THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE” (Copyright 1915 by the McClure publications) row street. er and the bellhop and those at the han- | auet had testified that Mary had not | expected to see David Pollock when | she went into the room. Time after time as he went back to the testimony—to the fact that Mary had had the revolver in her bag, HAD gone into the room and HAD | been found beside Pollock's body, he strove to glimpse some faint clue that would give a chance for *“fresh evi- dence.” In the meantime, it was | Langdon's turn, and the keen-eyed Langdon. At Mary's trial she ad- | District Attorney wondered curiously | | she had the revolver. Her maid | just what defense he would bring. | testifies thar Mary threatened Pollock ' Langdon's continual refueal to eross. | j With it previously, and Mary's lead- | examine the witnesses for the State | | ing man implicates Langdon. How | had naturally kept his defence swon. | | Mary disappeared from the scenes of | derfully well hidden. Yot when so | the crime is a mystery. Brandon | much of the testimony had concerned | tells of a strange hand print he saw | Langdon himself, | | | each See Read these epis com- plete in them acted on the motion picture screen at the Keeney Theater. A confederate, on the oth- six SYNOPSIS, Page, murder of by her Pollock | of is is accused Mary the actress, David Pollock and Philip Lang- + intoxicated. of Pol- Was on the fire escape Watching defended lover, don. Shale, i loc i for was 4 crook and tool cross-examination G T e L, | must perforce have been a farce, and the prosecutor did not believe its ab- sence a part of any deep-laid scheme. | The newspapers were, however, full ,‘nf theories as to what the defence { would be. Several claimed that it would be the “unwritten law,” the | guarding of Mary Page's honor; an- ! other it would be proved that Pol- | lock shot himself when he found that ' EPISODE IV. Her Mother’s Story- The District Attorney stood at the window of his private office adjoining the court and stared down at the hur- ryving throngs while one nervous hand ‘i:L:t ‘«L'd_e\'i_ s tattoo against the some- | ¢ oo s support of her stardom 1‘1“:;;"‘{: n,;‘m,\'» p and the iden- | C0Uld make Mary marry him; while | e (e:o ::n}mnrg. I‘m(--nu"dl was *SUIL a third said that the real crim- e I e GO D GRS SEEEETIL Soihl GRenter ) s S i b : ne a sea of I & the stand. Absurd, all of them, and JEe TRgiy ihaeon wiitl WIS Gef 00 it e e | et &nd shining tops of the MOLOr CAFS v4 1 T woare tare. oo o frowd | darted like huge black beetles. BUL don himselt confessed to e l'f';‘:?i | the prosecutor saw neither the crowd o didn’t ho]i(‘\'n'I,-n\"(lnn llv;‘r‘l”i“l(l;: "I‘)"’" the trafc—he saw only Mary|mitted it, but he lovedq Mary and. agell She had Dbecome almost allmight perjire himeelr o chre por obsession with him now, and though | el Chieti A vetee feom {18 weino RS s W0 TRCOT i an ol I RS- ol A e o e B S SRS O there were other clients besides the |\turned quickiy Vi | State whose business claimed his at- | eqg Sheenan (lvnrtlm‘] Jn his other office, he had anything 2" o drifted here as he had drifted unwit-| 7 oot Amelnten | tingly each morning to mentally te ,(](,I:.m S me and shbhe | the links in the chain of his evidence o R saiall i not against her the lines vou spoke of 1t SHOULD be strong enough 10 | know anothing cronor { bind her upon the merciless wheel of | ang T've ',,.,,,»j, L 1,‘, . the law, and vet he was consclous that | for three durs Lofooe t jmere than one of its links was weak— | down to e So weak, in fact, that not even h e 4 masterly summing up for the jury had | & ”,‘:,’:," \'“’“h;‘;’,fi reen 3 able ) ss i 3 § & S “:("'lm:l'l.\” ’n«’ le tc xln«‘s it over. He ' mobiles parked on that night?" Eive as e et Mar B en bt Gazey s onlithe Tob at vid Pollock, but he had not J'Irm\'y,;wf f,’:".’, '.:',’,::0("(;}nf] e 'v'\',m”"h her o to his own satisfaction. The | arreet 1 e e R N intricaclesiottwhatihadlat nrstiscement(s 0 orioe o SR INEIES Latel T3 FRacie gofsimplealicarelinad niliiiTiediv it | Hea il is RISl cHl0e ke canRad almost Incredible rapidity. and eashi| oo ot g o c Tofchman b clue that it had seemed must throw | were on the i oo 6 anpiluminatnefiie B uDo nlEreSany S| K S e WIS AR MR Ol S eaa.y rinth of mystery had proved in turn | st el dn“n““vvw""‘l;‘f‘“(‘:::(]‘v: ‘(;;P‘;)‘;r";;:: “;11;""‘"17':‘ Wisps that led : };ml <~|iv;;|»m1 into the hotel at another €. ! floor—that’s the only answer.’ He nddfishownifhat Rollockiwasiin | mial Bvoadanion tirnedt nes it 11 her eves an enemy; he had proved | window. “All right he said corils that the dead man was a wooer whose | But the detective linxered SUEtT pursuit was unwelcome; he had shown | wgav. Cnief. he ed that twice during the recent Years' inslyv. “have vor ,,”mf’,” Pollock had forced Mary to Dromise ' Tifiia tat sus fhat ros o to be his wife, but that once the neces- fons T cou I . \’L‘:‘i ithe Sitvltonitat fetenlinas Brenioy eal somiae Il S IR SR e had claimed her freedom again. She ' mna nlosecutor laughed had ‘evervthingitol gam by hisldeath) | ipo DHCESIICE aliEed Wwhich was surely motive enough; add- g g he «ai\d » \] >a ‘v“;w ‘ CAl [ SAVER 7 R0 wrnt we sl st B i O he felt she would not have fled that > eanerons hacker thrs night after the murder. But that (pi(l cou calinre carteigson g fiight—that complete disappearance g, (o '8 i pre Cariidee—and the within those few short moments, pre- g0 "to' coop, He doesn't. i supposed a confederate—someone who o ip: ek Bl Ly had either let her into another room . . on YeBhmbecEhi dyias in the hotel or into one of the houses »°V3°T whose backs looked up across the nar- | i | he | ce the ry he | Have you got thing along he told, movements before the murder, inute, and there's dog’s hair to." out about ‘the auto- just the poli account earlier, said hesitat- Daniels ? Coving- and he in his lost a how and one little (To be continued.) 1 | { Keene: tonight and tomorrow. | i« it The picture is billed as a Big Four | so graphic that it { feature and is said to be exceptionally | conversation at every good. Other important numbers on | fable. As one critic in London re- tonight's pr vill be “The Girl, marked: “My, buw what a new theme of Yesterday,” Mary Pickford, | tor discussion our mothers, sweet- the third episode in “The Strange | hearts and wives will have now. Case of Mary Page,” adapted for the = The Blindness of Virtue is in not screen from the story of the same|jajng frank with our children, and name now appearing dai iIn = the| ;jjowing them to go on blindly in Herald.!| Henry B. Walthall and|(ne qark, when so many of our young Fdna Mayo have the principal roles | ro1ic girls especially, go headlong in_this great mystery. Motion pic-| o) the abess whence there is no re- | ture devotees are following the story |\ nine 3 with unabated interest and they con- it . tinue to flock to the theater in large| TNis is the problem that Mr. Hamil- numbers on the days 1t is shown ip | ton PHE DLetofe s whep ho wirate his i 5 4 powerful and yet pure and charming ity picturized form, Feviiai For tomorrow and : lnanagement announces in “The Masqueraders,” while the at- traction on Honday and Tuesday is to be Geraldine Farrar in “Carmen.” Much praise is being given to the | excellent vaudeville bill now playing. The headliner is a remarkably enter- taining concert given by the Asana students, a group of German musi- cians now on a tour of this coum They play the concertina and xXylo- | rhone with amazing skill, interpo- ing selections on a variety of other instruments. Samlow and Stremleau offer a song and conversation specialty that; fast. pleases, and Trumm, the legless slack | the | wire performer, gives a number of thrills while he holds the boards. ADVANCE ORDERS FLOODING LYCEUM sensational, but it tells a story becomes a topic of afternoon tea is i ! little four- every Saturday, the Hazel Down where In city next week’s ttraction has been presented, the capa- being regular con- and only recently The Poli Players of Hartford. playved it for two weeks in succession. In the hands of The Alfred Cross Players it is sure of refinement, careful delineation of its Celicately constructed characters, and an atmospheric setting that the play requires. The management looks for a record eaking week at the Lyceum, as the in very Monday city business ition, Ty advance orders are coming The opening night is 14th. PLASTERS The World’s Greatest External Remedy. Coughs and Colds (on chest and another botween shoulder blados) Weak Chests, —Any Local Pain. Insist on Having few weeks ago Cosmo wonderful money getting he Blindness of Virtue,” the Castle Square theater, Boston, to the biggest receipts and the longest run in the fifteen years | of stock companies; excepting the Harvard” prize plays, which of ccurse are the event of the ‘Hub's’ | theatrical season This play is neither Oniy a Hamilton's drama, played at suggestive, or i production, and fect photograpt an insurmountable problem to anxious they tempe: special laboratories What Not to Say There are few things more hand, meant a premeditated crime, | tonishing than the bad taste people of otherwise good taste show in conversation I think this vousness, partly being listened of thought Somebody ought to get 1o tell people what to talk more pertinently, what about These should like Don't tell stories prowess of one sort main theme, unless they are so tensely interesting in themselves tt they are justified. Even in that cas cne should slur over one's share much as possible, instead of rhasizing it. Don't Keep Making Chances to Say, “When I Was In, Et Don't tell will sometimes is partly due t to the intoxication to, and partly to the subject of lack on out boolk Whout, to or not talk of the prohibitions included: are some 1 to see in which your or another is the in- tories about your trave: st for the sake of giving vourself chance to say. “When 1 was in, etc.” 1f yvou have any travel to tell that would be intrinsically interesting, even if it happened to a stranger, tell il. Otherwise keep still on this sub- ect. Funny stories jn which the cn you are permissible Leave fun- ny stories in which vou, by your wit and humor, get the best of your an- tagonist to someone else to tell. Food likes and dislikes are a vul- car and childish subjec for general ¢onversation. Such statements as, "I like onions, but they don't agree with me."" “T can’t eat pork, are my favorite vegetable,” story joke cte., are | at | | poor em- | | consider “Radishes | the wi of interest o cater for company nimatedly on such ach is interested self Is saying, not cares a rap for to you, People to ofter pers not vill be« he him- anyors subjects, in what anyone els ments, People Don’t Care to Hear a Descrips tion of Your Disposition. Don’'t confide your peculiarities of temper and disposition to general company. Such confiden flat and in wretched taste Don't tell stories about vith whom the company is not acquainted \ hen the point and interest of stories in knowing people. Don’t spoil a good story one more tedious such details resday or Wednesd 1s Tuesday—no, it was I tecause I went in town 1 Don’t tell a dialect can't reproduce the dialect Kill Your Before It | Don't overweight too long an introduction | your hearer’s interest | bern ! Don’t mistake the dutes you have he: Don’t tell long stories Don't tell too many too much. The 1 know almost effect by talking too much | Enough is as good as a feast. Toq much, even of the best talk that ever was, is as bad two feasts, one on ! tap of the other. such consists the a to it it ay, or make stopping Was I think Wednesd Tuesday it by T v story you Hearer's Interest Is Bor a L Don't story by nd thus kill before it teling rd or of read for stories talk most amusing always spoils little as or talker her is as S @ “THE TAKING PICTURES The first of the Wil made in Jamaica, British , where Annette Kellerman s the direction of Herbert is making the William FFox $1,000.000 has been received by New York office of the Fox Film poration, and its presentation will be tomorrew and Saturday Ruling Passion,”” an oriental dr which a white woman falls u power n Indian prince, Willia Shay and Claire Whitney first feature to come here hot tropical regions. Per- in the burning cli- mate of the tropics has long presented West un- cor- here The ma in the features the from the photo- who, howe to play manufacturers, might be backgrounds the exotic wonderful scenery to be found in the region of the equator, were compelled to photograph, if they desired ideal results, more familiar scenes because of the climatic conditions found in hot countries. The highly important and interesting question of good photog- raphy in countries where the normal ature hovers around the mark, was solved in the making of the production which will be seen at the local Fox theater tomorrow and Satur- day. “The Ruling Passion,” in J: mai The film was developed in erected for the purpose, One of the most interesting learned concerning the making of mo- tion to do with the shipping of the tropical climates hs m pictures in raw f from the point of production. If raw film is shipped from the manufacturer tever | RULIN WIiLLIAM FOX PRODUCTION IN THE TROPICS | can am Fox photo- | Brenon | the | ! steadiness " ABOUT 300,000 " DIE BEFORE ONE YEAR * C i PASSION already perforated, with Its sprocket holes hored, it will have a tendency to shrink ir of the tropics is a most ¢ no matter may be film which will projection, the | should be made upon the work in tropical climz done in this production, oth shrinks of the film will when the picture n ‘rooked to as the z rtain to penetrate the shippin how apparently sealed For secure | the same pro- permit o perforation spot ducing a perfect when was the un- pro- rwise S cause is jected on the sc Fred Mace in * Keystor Katherine The in th Ena,” in two Kaelred and Wir Idel™ five will tonight. BABIES thrillin come a and House Peters in powerful drama shown for the last time acts The Census Bureau estimates that 300,000 babies died in this country last year before the age of one year, and it is stated that one-half of these deaths were needless if all mothers were strong and infants were breast-fed. Expectant mothers should strivetoine crease their strength with the strengthe | building fats in Scott’s Emulsion which | improves the blood, suppresses ner- things | vousness, aids the quality of milk, and feeds the very life cel Physicians prescribe Scott’s Emule sion; it is doubly important during nursing. Noalcohol. Everydruggist has it. Insist on Scott’s—the food medicine. No advanced prices, 8cott & Bowne, Bloomfield. N 1. iy whites