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NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1916. YCEUM| Theater of Distinction— The Best Plays For the Best Peopl~ In the Best Theater. Veek of Mar. 20 he Alfred Cross | - Players In A production of the Kate xton version of the im- ortal ‘The Two§ Drphans” ! " This is the biggest thing Jet; beautiful costumes; t of 50 people: ces, 10c, 20c, 30c. atinees 10c and 20c. same 50, Henry B. Walthall and Edna Mayo In “THE MISLEADING DADY” “THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE” (Ninth ¥pisode) Friday and Saturday Theodore Roberts In “MRE. GREX Or MONTE “THE WITCH OF MOUNTAINS"” CARLO" THE LAST TIME TONIGHT Bessie Barriscale, in “THE GREEN SWAMP” ed Mace and Mack Swain in OVE WILL CONQUER” Pearl White In the 2nd Chapter “THE IRON CLAW” COMING TOMORROW Theda Bara, In GOLD AND THE WOMAN" Another Bara Triumph PARSONS’ HEATRE—Hartford DAY & SATURDAY, March 24- (Matinee Saturday) pugh Every Time Your Watch Ticks COHAN & HARRIS Present Their Greatest Hit PAYS TO ADVERTISE By Roi Cooper Megrue and ‘Walter Hackett ces—Nights, 25c to $1.50: Mat- 25c to $1. Seats on Sale. 25 i enu for Tomorrow Breakfast Fruit Rice and Milk Potato Straws Coffee Boiled oiled Chops plls Lunch Hashed Veal Cheese Sandwiches Custards Nut Tea ked Cake Dinner Baked Fish tatoes Boiled Lettuce Mayonnaise I Onions gs in Cream Coffee —Rib by roiled Chops chops can ly Frenched s of each one f fat and meat b prefer loin chops. need the trimming s fats. The broiler it of fat, the chops arranged eooked over a clear, very hot best them when There are many These off of in fire 5 to season e otato Straws—The Ipared by cutting them ps. They are soaked in cold for half an hour or more, car ried on a towel and plunged int p smoking hot fat until well col ja. drained for a moment on ung o 1d dusted with salt beforc igin round the chops. potatoes into thir aping the iong until entirely denud- | sim- super- is rubbed with it haif are wa- fui- After taking from the fact they ews for Theater Goers and Women Readers I Read these episodes, cach com- plete in six insertions. See them acted on the motion picture screcn at the Keeney Theater. SYNOPSIS, actres: Pollock her lover, v Page, | is accused of the of David by N murder and is de- Philip Langdon. Bt fended intoxicated Marv's admits she had maid testifies Pollock with it and Mary's leading man implicates Langdon. How Mary disappeared fro mthe scene of the crue is a mys- ery. Brandon tells of strange hand print he saw on Marcis shoulder. Ifurther evidence that horror of drink produce Ay insan- ity in Mary. The > re- pressed psychosis.’” cribed Mary's flight cated father and her Nurse Walton describes the kidnap- ing of Mary by Pollock, and Amy Barton tells of Mary's struggles to become an actress. of Pollock’s pur- suit of her and of another occasion when the smell of liquor drove Mary insane. There is evidence that Dan- iels, Mary's manager, threatened I’o lock. Mary faints on the stand and again goes insane when a policeman offers her whiskey. Pollock was the revol- | Mar, iously she Her trial ver. threatened P 4 | i ' a shows tempo defen Witne from her father's suicide. is ses des- intoxi- EPISODE X Pollock’s Threat. The green shaded lamp flung a wide pool of mellow light over the scat- tered papers on the table and brought but boyish glints in Langdon's dark head as it lay on his folded arms, sunk in ineaffble weariness. All through the long hours of the night he had kept his lonely vigil now poring over the legal documients on the table, now pacing the floor in a frenzy of anxiety, or making way down the echoing ccrridors to ook in with ‘mute suffering at the room where Dr. Foster and Nurse Walton watched so silently beside a moaning twitching fizure on a narrow prison bed. But when the scanty furniture of the office was gradually emerging from the enveloping cloak of night into visible ugliness he had at last sunk into a doze of complete exhaustion, Miss Walton, coming to the door, an eager message on her ips. turned silently and pityingly away. Some betraying sound reached him, however, and he lifted his neaa with a start, blinking to find the lamp- ight paling before the gray of morn- ing. Yawning, he got to his crossed to the window. wide and drew in great chill air. A heavy fog wrap- ping the city in dense gray waves, and from ghe river came the minor monot- on arning whistles. Dreary as it was, his heart lightened: for after all, it was morning and he still voung enough to feel that nothing can be quite =0 bad in the day it in the shadows of the nigh: For the first time since Mary tack of madness in the courtroom realized fully how tremendous an : set the tragedy was to the defense, and in spite of his grief, as a lover, over her suffering, the lawyer in him exulted in the episode which cement- ed into place the cornerstone of his case. The thought of this iei bouyancy to his tired bod another trip to the cell where, Dr. Foster's orders they had Mary, still screaming witn frenzy. Gut it was the lover rather than the law- ver who had surged uppermost by the time he reached the door, and all thoughts of the trial were submerged | in an overweening anxlety and pity for the slender girl who was paying so heavy a price her father's sin of drunkenness. Mary herself was sleeping when he glanced into the céll FFoster was on his feet franiis stretch- ing, while Miss Walton was bathing her tired eyes at the basin in the cor- | ner. his, feet and e flung it breaths of the was ¥ of was as ‘ at- he a hint 4+ he mu ca 1 for v soundly and Dr. answering the question in rather than the one he huskil pered with his lips, Dr. Foster said “She will be all right now. woke, conscious, just after vour last visit and is now sleeping soundly. There's nothing to worry about—at least, not just at pr “Thank Goad!" { broke on the words, and Dr. FFoster put out his hand and patted the shoulder of the younger wan reassur- ingly saying: “We all g0 get some up.” Oh, I'm all right,” “But, Doctor, is she—is it possible to go on with Mary hear it?" ‘T think so | stowly. “Of She | Langdon's voice v that rest but now; vou hetter done yon'd look said ning to he The ansver course yestorday | was baa, very bad. Bui you realize that the attack, while plainly due to whiskey upon her, was only to some extent brought about by the fact that the liquor was handed her at a time when was hysterical and had been ng events that kept her r ences constantly in her n iven healthy surroundings an! 1 wouldn't worry about attacks in the future. But it's a fine reflection upon an American city,” ~he continued harshly, drawing TLangdon out into scone must 1t was thrust she re-enac nd. Langdon. | this trial? Can | me ! happiness, | t i 1 1 v tabl, h v wan, nothing i « | | 1 The keep ONE woman from the sight of drunken men and the smell Langdon heart of th worr, and cost woulc when she woke a few hours later she | Claudia vowed | into court han wer time to was spectators the a N Whatever doubts had he n veracity and fense built up by Langdon had h shattered 1S ev at th man, hat which b Tt had he c When shadow with those livid mutely of how torn into her tender flesin, The newspaper bearing D article watched but nodd was e great ali about he was what it at had not 1 well she was ever t an hour la continued. at hour hac Mary an 1 very whi es of the oors, 1 ¢ 1inds of th the at ervone on said e sight but she great of brui of on R, the District sarcastically introduced had man, een and pored from eemed ould she ever came serenel; but the (To he echoing the vowing might frecdom and happine enough continue for some days at long who crowded could the cruel "THE STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE” (Copyright 1915 by the McClure publications) )f Tiquor for hi led absently, word eartier enist: “Given in 1 to he tacks ¢ fulv himselr would ye " dared hope <he for the 1l trial tc bu perfectly hen. te, able’ And so no more the nrocceding 1 seemed a very nd to Langd one o shor hut the excitec the rooms t pering excited remin lay hefore, lingered n e public strength to e the or de e ik, blow. might - indeed hawe been actress enough to feign madness the drunken not se on the scars police have feigy ner shoulder. gripping hanc beneath it tolc hac tingers IToster’, ed Psychosis Attorney as every to coast epress over by coast to those creay regain in, very calm and fear of her sanity. pale, ver smiling, being shu: v out from the final scenes of the great drama kept the crowds from w ild plause ap- continued.) 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Walth: ng the Mhe Strange also be and *“T phe e the other leade riday and will be zation of great rts ,. of The M will day h v hese Some People We Know. a 1t took place in New Not in some u are aske: confirm a Any article that is endor: Is more worthy by Lynch, sy Pills as a ed to be a Doan’s my kidne J. ice 50c, a Iy ask for v's Kidney Tyneh had 1o, tripping and her work dancer but brothers, cast, shotn novel Monte Carlo.” The Kn the clever Parisian en- s been recognized by Held pro- critics as Anna ille attraction at The wearing eck. charming wonderful costumes which display her beautiful her there i her turn The about way into increased at each diminutive the stage euse of the adorable songs like Nothing could her va dances. and grace in and the most Mlle. Dure can also 1s not She is a ell known stars colored Bellongs, comedy acrobats, make up the balance of the o feature * wil Lady,” plity eading all and Edna The ninth » Case of Mary Page’ ‘“The Accu Battle of Truth for tonight. Saturday seen in . Phillips Oppen “Mr. Grex o “kerbock. “Th ountains” and “I Wil o he on the progran ave are OF LOCAL INTEREST We This is a purely local event Britain faraway a to place. investigate it Asked to believe a citizen's word; citizen’s statement. ed at hom of confidence Than one you know nothing about, unknown 338 . peonle. Main St “I used Doan’. kidney tonic and 11 that is claimed Kidney vs and the: I can all dealers. Don kidney t a Foster-Milburn Co. N. Y. nealthy | surroundings and happiness I woudin't it the Mary, evidence jury the dramatic story of the scena in eonurt was the one subject at the breakfast | s of rich and poor alilc. ineredible the frenzied, woman carried out the day beforc that vho ning her ! Wierd musical effects written for her numn- charming sing ex- | ! come- are skill and her burlesque are enter- with | episode ing Theodore striking Wwill Profit by Hearing About Them. New Kid- for Pills strength- endorse remedy—get Pills—the same that “THE PRINCE CHAP” COMING TO LYCEUM Another great drama will be sented at the Lyceum “The Prince Chap,” the s pre- next week in ory of an | | artist’s life in Peple Rebel,” London, by Edward the of “The Littlest of author “A Pair actor and the Nixes.” (yri Scott s who created play of little ~girl his own of the | title role in this umique the raises the run the entire child’s life o | until cighteen > | the t a he man’s love for adopts and 5 chilg Throughout three acts of the drama gamut emotiony of part inoa from age the drama three five To play of | heroine in the | octresses is required. In the first act, a five vear old voungster. In the second act she s eight, and in | the last act she is eighteen ful prodigy is coming from New ay the role in the first act and yYoung actress has been en- the part in the second final role Miss Julie play the character. Al- Wwill have a great chance Prince Chap, the American is ) s York Lo es: t hother to take In the will Cross ar gaged et Herne ired the | wbroad | While rehearsals arc “The Prince Chap” the | players still continue “The Two Orphans,” which ing with the best reception corded a play in New B tpite the snowy weather the house are packed and heavy demands ar Leing made on the box office for seat or the end of the weck. In this play Alfred Cross carries off the ceting honors “Pierre Frochard,” | the cripple every sense Mr. s | Cross is always in the picture and » { ave to that picture sympathetic rendition that the part has seldom had. His “Chevalier” is great, and it t o | | | ) for Cross in meet- yet vin. going on Alfred their succes ' i 1 1 1 Tn a appear in two characters in the same performance. Iugene Weber makes a picturesque “Jacques,” and J. Trving White, convincing “Count Linicres,” Philip Sheflield draw many laughs as the valet “Picarc Julie Herne, and Dora RBooth hy- phened together on the program, play the Two Orphans, and play them well. Miss Herne gives an extremely pathe- tic rendering of the blind ‘‘Louise” and Miss Booth plays “Henrietta” with taste and discretion. Florence i Hart reappeares as a member of the | Lyceum Players and received on Mon- day a warm welcome from a house | evidently her warm admirers She beautiful performance of The |22 and the convent sister she very convine- ing. The rest of the forty people tak- ing part are all good, and do all that is required of them in a painstaking Mrs, Hibhard m her how “Frochard The Two Orphans is higgest thing ever accomplished | by a local stock company and those ! who are following the fortunes of the | Cross Players predict this will be the greatest week of their career here, of ave Countess Linicres,’ a was way kes A vouth- | iz a novelty to have the leading man | De | THE PERFECT BAKING POWDER PERFECT BAKING POWDER 1 Household Notes l stand To clean decanters, put raw potatoes in them and let for two or thr day baked green color, in the oven In baking fruit with plain batter, mixture for the inside of stuffed pepper: oil them be- If you want to keep their fore putting line the pan add the fruit the cake. cake, then Fried fish requires sliced lemon; pork or goose, apple sauce, and other cranberry sauce, fat dishes demand Blue in different tones or pure, delicate greens are the most restful ind livable colors for sunny bedrooms. figure with tantalizing effect has been | cinging and favor all week ¢nthusit REVELATIONSOF A WIF How Madge Diplomatically Contrived To Make Mrs. Graham Remove Her Coat, I ) i when a simple prob- did the sitting op- Fraunce's I do not know perplexed me as while has so 1 m I dilemma I faced posite my mother-in-law in | | the obstinacy of spoiled { With Graham was per- ¢ | child the elder Mrs sisting in sitting with her heavy cloak on ate her luncheon, al- though our table was next to the big, ¢ld fireplace. in which wood fire was burning, Indeed, it was the table’s location, which she had se- lected herself, that was the use of her obstinacy innocent remark mine into fupon her choice, and had evidently decided to wear her coat to emphasize the fact that in spite of the fire she was not too warm. As T watched the beads of perspir: tion upon her forehead, her rartive dabbing at them with her handkerchief, T realized that some- (hing must be done. T saw that she Would soon be in a condition to r ceive a chill, which might prove fatal, A sudden inspiration came to me Perhaps if made some excuse to Jeave her for a few minutes she would {ake advantage of my absence to slip ff the coat. when she would not do if my eves were upon her. With an unpleasant recognition of the fact that T was fast hecoming an accom- Jlished teller of half-truths, I spoke to her. “Will 1 while she 1 of slur f e 1 n and | { o @ | it | 1 a mo- bouillon are vou pardon me for ment T laid down my spoon and rose. “There { things of which T must remind Katic. 1 xhould have 'phoned her before.” I may have fancied it. but T thought T saw an of relief come into her eyes “By all means walked swiftly “Where is the asked of the man the doorway. “Right back room."” It was not some e expression she returned. and into the hall. telephone hooth ' T who had opened 1 v here, behind the tap- until [ entered the booth that I realized the incongruity of being directed by a colonial majo domo to a twentieth century tele- phone booth behind a “taproom.” “If this were a hundred years ago T should have to dispatch a mounted it She had construed an | | up nerves there seemed but one inter- GARRI' nger whimsically. I racked my brain to think of something which T could say to Katie There was really nothing of which I had to remind her, as T had given her | full directions as to dinner hefore T left. 1 knew better than to omit the t<lephone mec g however: my mother-in-law would be sure to find cut the truth about it. But a plaus ible pretext soon presented itself. was ready for Katie when she swe the telephone to thought 1 an- | ed i Plan, i voice dis? want?” | Madge's Premonitory “Hello,” her familiar over the wire. “Who is Misses Graham, vot you We shall be home in an hour or Katie, and T am afrald Mrs. | ham will be chilled through. e | haa luncheon, don't | hother about that, but have her tea | things ready, and keep a kettle of | ioiling water on the simmering 2o ner so that she can have a cup of hot | tea the moment she gets in. Be sure that the m doesn't down cither. 1 the rooms to be zood | and warm when she returns.” “All right, T fee: As T was about ‘phone Katie's voice “Oh! Missis (Graham e rot T tell you Meester Graham he call up a little while ago, | say he not going to be at studio till | after 2 o'clock, He say he tell ¢ot so if you vant him for anything ind vou call up studio 1 not find him dare and den call here I know Vot to tell you.' \ “Thank ame | Oh! | two Gr shall have s0 stes ot want to hang the | came azain, T almost something. up me | i | | Disquicting Thought. | ou, Katie,” 1 said quietly ‘Good-hy ind hung up the receiver. But in the semi-darkness of the little hooth paused, clenching my fists, trying to control my emotions befo going back to meet the searching eves of my husband’s mother For while there probably were a hundred plausible explanations of Dicky's message, any one of which at other time T would have accepted to my wrought- ¥ 1 any without question, yet pretation of his words. | Dicky must have taken Grace | Draper out to lunch! 1 had a sud- } den swift vision of that stunning girl sitting opposite Dicky in the alluring setting of a -well appointed luncheon table. 1 was as sure that if I had actually he was with them her as seen to- moment | better Borrow! not | “He that he knows wlho knows not and knows not is a fool, shun him; and knows that he h he he who knows not { knows not is simple, teach him; he | who knows and that he knows not knows is asleep, wake him; he who knows and knows that knows is wise, follow him.” 1 have always liked that old Per- ! sian proverb, but just at the moment 1 feel inclined to quarrel with that second clause To know that one is the foundation of all knowledge Sur those who have reached that stage de- | serve a better adjective than *sim- | ple” Yesterday, in company with a mu- tual friend, 1 called upon a neighbor. 3 She s just had her living-room done | | over It is very attractive We | plimented her upon her taste in select- | ing the paper, which is a lovely soft hade, particularly well-adapted (o the room knows not I com- i She Didn't Pick Out Her Own Wail | i "aper that out! “The than asked Uiy, N dmitted like was Who didn’t pick promptly much brighter did choose it?" mutual friend S a5 piece of sulting her.” “And you didn’t like You don't mean to say what she wants instead want? “Sometimes,” “Why? You the house, aren’t vou'd know what better than she “Yes, 1 do know one that” the never out without pick furniturc a paper or a con- this, that of yourself you take what you zoing to live in I should think | voursell are vou? you want does what 1 hoste so well as sie does to live with judgment 1 her want at the said slowly; don't I'in day than teach me how to choose.” The mutual friend see from the tenor of her an intimate friend thereof, gave our pity and condescension. our h “but what from 1 Know going to day. want Her taste to my so0 1 get to who, as you conver- with the ! hostess u (3 may sation is privileges look of RYZON is made with pure crys- tallized monoso- dium phosphate, the latest baking discovery. Man cannot live with- out phosphates. At your grocer’s % 1b., 10c % Ib., 18¢ 11b., 35¢ Satisfaction —or your money back ing Taste she Chooses Her Gowns the Way “I choose my gowns the sam she said, clamly. “You mean that choose them, too?” “No, not Mrs. { much for her taste Louise, you know h to perfection, and lor plan a gown | advice.” “Don’t you viduality ? 1 don't think that prevent doesn't select the thing. She Iy guides taste, just as M does.™ The mutual friend looked eve horrified “I like individuality,” stiffly. “No one helps me buy clothes my furniture.” thought clothes and I well believ let you 1 in ] | ! don't c i clothe I try never without want to have my my I home or of could her Own Judgment, myself, 1 more than I ever 1 could understand why her ho her clothes have become tractive in the last few years. discovered the great secret own judgment isn't trustwortny tain lines, and it with the her 1 bt another musical records everyone They are though When she disclaims asked Wilhelmina and select most them.” like those she chose selected yourself? ‘Better!” shc and I like admired had before my mo she is supplen best her thot or friend admir unusuall not enjoys, selection, an she is musical people all she hely And well 1 answered praisc choice, of as you her. of minc day.” Most those once hers more of us have among our have better taste ti department another that taste will at our is sufficiently his good tas to lend who in not be one use or It ? do service, son pleased at e recognized to be plainly that she knew wh e better than anyone ¢ But the hostess was not at all intim.- ed said very : wanted o e O his services And to the contrary, (estion of submerging uality, but of improving it our friend it is one's Mrs asking any she and Learned to Sapplement friends can ¥ credit ¢ as those for the averag indi Same way I are s but the clothes sensc to buy hex indi- She merc- rs. R. n more said either her e her. « Her hostess And and me re She ha that het in cer- nenting give whose res and good all her I me at ed 1o you asked i every friends han we Why ubtless per- having willing mutual not a id- - bitter to the gether. My lips twisted little smile as T walked teble in the dining I was lunching with my husband's mother while he was entertaining the beautiful art student who nmodel and protege in one. 1 had intended to telephone Dicky not to home until 1 © chance to see him and talk him alone. I wished to tax him the secret which he shared in com- mon with Lillian Underwood, and which had been unwittingly revealed te me when Lilllan’s husband, Harry Underwood, and my mother-in-law had accidentally met two hours be- fore Now [ that I would have to wait to telephone him until I reached into hack room was his | to | had with with come | | | | saw | B | i | to him. our own apartment all in favor of ing him before elephone message “to something 1 devoutly did not wish Dicky to hav lightest idea that T knew an suspected anything of the between himself and Lillian before T had a chance t Like a fencer who pla opponent’s weakest pol wished to catch him off guard But T managed to keep all tr my thoughts from my face walked back to my table, an. with much gratification tha The my moth I could him. Th desired to ere wood coat and was eating the main chances her-in- get a is was avert e thes vthing secret nder- o talk ns for nt, I race of as I d saw t my, | mother-in-law had removed her heavy course | of her luncheon with evident relish.