New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1916, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1916. YCEUM he Theater of Distinction— The Best Plays For the Best Peoplo In the!Best Theater. eek of April 17 The Alfred Cross Players Production of International n a Special the great T RONWASTRR and Ap- Strong Light autiful Scencry pointment and a COast With Special Effects- o Performance Wednesday, April 19 pecial “Good Friday” Mat- inee: atinees at 2:30, 10¢ and 20c. ights at 8:15, 10c, 20¢, 30¢, ‘NEY TONIGHT William Courtenay in “IHE ISLAND OF SUR- PRISE” Biograph Stars in “THE LARRIMORE CASE.” Fri- and Sat. Geraldine Farrar in “TEMPTATION" Henry King in MIGHT IS RIGHT” “WH LAST ’l"IME' TONIGHT Bessie Barriscale, In HE LAST ACT” Pearl White n the Latest Chapter of HE IRON CLAW” | COMING TOMORROW Mme. Bertha Kalich the Fox Dramatic Master- piece LANDER"” "ARSONS’ A'TRE—Harttord BEGINNING THURSDAY, APRIL 20 (Matinee Saturday.) t Musical ow Ever l'roduced ZIEGFIELD FOLLIES , all formances. Opens Tuesday at to § Sale 0c pe ce Orde Filled in Order of Receipt. Self-Adressed Stamped In- Tickets are to be Returned 1 Open to Ladies at finy | Time. ETNA BOWLING ALLEYS Church Street. pusehold No'es | frying fish the fat should be hot before the fish are put in. 0 cheése and dates ling for a brown bread make a sand- /berry ice cream will be more ve With a ripe rea straws itting on the top of each serv- hrsley is covered in the gar. the fall*it will remain green ier, providing the winter is nor- IMAN SLEUTH ENGAGED. ol, England, April 20.-—A which thereby gains the dis- of _being the first city in the I to take msuch a step. The ficer has receved special train- police work, and although her will chiefly concern women and n, her services will be utilized ing a!l classes of crime and i e | place accompanied by Remit- | e News for Theater Goers and Women Readers “THE STRANGE CASE | OF MARY PAGE" (Copyright 1915 by the McClure publications) | n gu 'S a queer thing, Ana then, sir, that killed him, | ain't it Langdon nodded vaguely, too disap- pointed at the failure of this new hope to pay much attention to what the SYNOPSIS. } m;}lr; was saying. suppo he Mary Page, an actress, is accused of the murder of David Pollock, and is defended by her lover Philip Lang- don. Pollock hasibeen pursuing Mary for many months-endeavoring to win her love and her hand in marriage, | but his attentionsihave been very un- welcome to her. Knowing her stage aspirations, he has, unknown to her, financed her starring tour under the management of Daniels. On the night of {the murder, Mary | leaves the banquet 'hall in the Hotel | Republic and enters the Gray Room | alone expecting to meet Langdon. She has been lured there by Pol- lock, who has been drinking. A’ few moments later a shot IS forward staring up at heard and Langdon and others, upon | lifelong servility of the entering the Gray Room find David | serves falling from | Pollock shot through the heart and | as he said sharply Mary Page lying In a faint beside ‘Mr. Langdon, Mr. Pollock had a him with Pollock®s revolver not six | fight with somebody over the tele- inches from the ends of her fingers. - phone at the club that night, and he At Mary's trial she admits she | didn't go to the Hotel Republic had the revolver. Pollock had in- | alone!” vaded her dfessing room at the the- | “What! ater, Langdon had come to her res- | (To be continued.) cue, the revolver had been knocked | from Pollock’s hand and Mary had | seized and retained it. She had put | SPECIAL MAT]NEE it in her hand bag the night of the AT LYCEUM FRIDAY murder intending givingiit to Lang- don, Her maid testifies that Mary threatened Pollock with it previous- 1y, and Mary’s leading man implicates | Langdon. How Mary disappeared from the scene of the crime is a mystery. | Brandon tells of a strange hand print | drama of the old school. Tt he saw on Mary's shoulder. | compelling force that relies for its Furth evidence shows that hor- | interest not on the weilding of clul ror of drink produces temporary in- | or the firing of revolvers but on the sanity in Mary. | intense situations created by sane The defense is ‘‘repressed psycho- | happenings. The words of the pla sis.” Witnesses described Mary's | are as important as the action be- flight from her intoxicated father and | cause upon every sentence there is his suicide. liable to hang some subtle meaning Nurse Walton describes the kid- | that will be borne out later in the naping of Mary by Pollock, and Amy | very crisis. Barton tells of Mary's struggles to be- | Miss Julie Herne as come an actress, of Pollock’s pursuit young girl who is pc of her and of another occasion when | high spirit and who rather than ap- the smell of liquor drove Mary in- | pear hurt when she hears stories of sane. her flancee’s engagement to another There is evidence that Danlels,| woman turns around and gives her Mary’s manager, threatened Pollock. [ hand in marriage to a man she does Mary faints on the stand and again [ not then love is seen at her best. goes insane when a policeman offers:| This emotional actress is rapidly be- her whiskey. coming the best liked of all the Daniels - testifies women who have trod the boards of threaténed to kill the Lyeeum and her work this week don and actually goes far to further enhance her pop- Langdon. ularity in New Britain. Two witnesses describe Mary's flight To Alfred Cross falls the noble to the street from the hotel and her | character who is lured into marriage abduction by men from a gambling | to the girl whom he loves but who near by. Further evidence | does not love him. At the discovery seems to incriminate Daniels. of this terrible state of affairs he dis- Maggie Hale, inmate of a gambling | play. den, testifies that she was at the ho- | him stand as a model of self sacrifice, tel and heard two men quarreling in | as the generous hearted unself the Gray Room a short time before | that figured in all the plays of a past | the murder. Her cvidence seems to | generation. It is good to see such | increase suspicion against Danlels. | character portrayal. J. Trving | Daniels privately informs Langdon jand Miss Dora Booth are | that Mary Page did not kill Pollock [ away hig honors this week for their and that if Mary is in danger of | work, Mr. White as the rich father going to the electric hair he will tell | and Miss Booth as the daughter of all he knows of the case. the ironmaster. There will be a spe- - cial matinee tomorrow. Manager EPISODE XIV. Lynch has announced that there ar New Clews. a number of Miss Julie Herne's pic. “If you please, Mr. Langdon, may |tures left and thes | I speak to you a moment, sir?” The deferential voice halted Philip as he was on his way from court to Mary’s cell, and he swung about with the frown of one whose days are made up | or unpleasant interruptions by strang- | ers. Langdon had been at the office most | of the night looking up certain points | of law and his temper was none too | good. “Well?” he snapped, and the pallid- faced man with the stooped shoulders winced and drew back a little. “I'm sorry, sir, but T thought I | ought to-tell you, sir. It's—it's about the guns “The guns!” Thé frown faded from Langdon’s face, and he looked down at the man with a sudden interest. “Who are you?" “James Watson, sir. Iam a waiter at the Criterion Club where Mr. Pol- lock resided. I also acted as his con- fidential man during my off hours, sir. You see, T am an extra, not a regular waiter in the dining-room.” Langdon drew a deep breath and laid his hand on the other's stooped and servile shoulder. “This Is not the place to talk,” he said quietly. “You'd better come down to my office with me. T have a fow minutes yet before the recess is | over.” The man bowed, Langdon, | turning led the way into the private room beyond the court-room, and waving the waiter to a chair, sat down himself on the edge of the table. | “Now,” he sald, “what about | guna?” 1 oWell, it's Read these episodes, cach com- plete in six insertions. Sce them acted on the motion picture screen at the Keeney Theater. said dril, will you?” He looked sharply at the waiter. “No, sir.” The waiter hesitated a moment, then flushed and stammered, | wish it might have been one of a pair sir, if it would have helped the | Young lady; my wife and 1 admired her picture so. I know what a man he was. I ain’t sorry | dead nd 1'd like to help if I One night I saw him grab her by the arm and I could see she hated him. “I saw her that night, M Pollock gimme a pass, and afterwards I saw him"— he's Langdon, the man who him for a minute In the version ful drama, “The Ironmaster,” is meeting with such succe Lyceum there is all the elements of Churt's whic of Claire the sessed of a that Mary and attempted Pollock Lang- to kil | cial matinee tomorrow. SMART NECKWEAR IS 1916’S HALLMARK a and the this way, sir,”" saia James twirling his hat in his nervous | ingere, “I used to be in Mr. Tol- o b | 1ock’s room a lot, sir, and I knew all . AL his guns. He had a lot of them— i T they werc a sort of fad of his. There JHE ASCOT RETURNS] asgoo of revolvers—duellin’ pistols, he called "em-—but that there gun in court ain't one of those “It was his own special one. He had the barrel sawea off extra short so it would fit easy In his pocket. He showed it to me. and said that if, anyhody ever did for him. (hev'd | tone a have to move quicker than he did. | blue - B With a neat white voile shirt waist of pin tucked yoke and hemstitched seams is worn a white pique stock, the wings outstanding heing an interest- ing feature. The Ascot is blue and white striped hirting of the same the straw hat, which takes a satin band and dull silver buckle. “you | won't mind telling that fact in court, | w1 | ort of | could. | | He broke off abruptly, then leaned | wonder- | i at the is that | those generous traits that make | h hero | White | carrying | will be distributed | among the ladies who attend the spe- | REVELATIONSOF A WIFE By ADELE GARRIGON i Why Madge Accepted Lillian Under- wood's Offer to Clear Up the Past. “I tell you Dicky-bird, it won’t do. She's got to know the truth.” As Mrs, Underwood’s shrill voice struck my ears 1 sprang to my feet {in dismay. I must have dozed as I | sat by my mother-in-law’s bedside, | for I had neither heard Mrs. Under- in, nor Dicky's greeting wood come of her. My first thought wa. { woman over whom I w. Fioth Dr. Pettit and the nurse, Miss onnot, had warned us that excite- ment might be fatal {o their patient. And the one thing in the world that might be counted on to excite iy mother-in-law was (he presence of the woman whose voice T heard in ! conversation with my husband. The elder Mrs. Graham knew suspected or fancied—I really did not know which—that there was something in the past iation of Ler son and Mrs, Underwood which made the presence of the woman in our home an insult to me. She had hecome excited over the subject i but an hour or two bhefore that she d had a slight heart attack, some- thing from which we were all doing our best to guard her. Turning my eves toward the sick woman I was thankful to sce that the voices had not awakened her. I rose mnoiselessly from my chair and went into the living room, closing the Goor after me. Then with my finger lifted warningly for silence I forced a smile of grecting to my lips as Lillian Underwood saw me and came swiftly toward me. “Dicky’s mother is asleep,” I said a low tone. “I am afraid I must you to come into the kitchen, for cakens so easily,” nodded comprehendingly, ¢ flushed guiltily. in the kitchen,” hesitatingly. “T will attend to Katie,” T shortly. His disregard of my cautions con- cerning his mother made me furiously angry. 1 wondered his natural heedlessncss or whether in very truth the presence of this old friend of his made it impossible for him to think of anything save her. As we entercd the kitchen Katic looked up mildly astonished, from the vegetables she was preparing for dinner. | “Katie,” 1 sald quietly, “will | o and sit just outside Mrs. Gr door for a few minutes. If you hear her speak or if you think she nceds anyting, call us.” Katie nodded, and in another mo- | ment had dried her hands, exchanged | her Kitchen apron for a white one, and departed proudly upon her crrand You've done wonders with that girl,” commented Mrs. Underwood approvingly, as Dicky placed kitchen chairs for us | “Katic is verv satisfactory,” T re- | turnea. My manner, T am afraid, | was a trifle stiff, but it angered me to bave her utter so trivial a comment | when such a real issue lay between us, Mrs, Underwood shot me a keen | glance, then she turned resolutely to | iy husband. “You see? right.” | Dicky shook his head | rut Lillian turned to me. | “You Shall Not.” | “Mrs. Graham.” she said resolutely, | “Harry just told me this afternoon | of his encounter with vou, and of his idiotic warning to you not to try to find out the reason of your mother- in-law’s aversion to me. I did not a minute, but came straight here to sct things right if T could. 1t is abominable for you to have heard surmises and not to know the truth. T should have told vou long ago, but foolishly I thought as long @s you were in complete ignorance | You might well remain so. But liarry’s news changed all that. Where can we talk without danger of leing overheard?” She was smashingly Ay en with against her, which the sick watching. of | | | or s0 nie in he said returned vou she demanded. *T wa stubbornly, as direct, as al- the old resentment had been revived my surmises concerning the sceret between her and my husband, J could not but admire the singleness of purpose, the evident honesty of the woman before me, Dicky's voice interrupted hardly recogniezd it, hoarse, with feeling as it w “Lillian,” he Go this. There to bring all memories hack. them and have had Madge is the her. I choked said, “you is no shall not need for you those old, horrible You have buried a little peace. Tf woman T take her for she will be generous enough not to ask i, especially when I give her my word of honor t there fs nothing in my pi or yours which could concern her.” You have {he tdea what woman,” Lillian An Engagement Made. usual might retorted masculine concern a tartly. But T answered the heard in my husband’s miore than in his words, “You do not need to thing, Mrs. Underwood,” 1y, and at the words toward me quickly | srouna me. 1 flinched help it. Tt appeal T had voice tell me any- 1 said gent- Dicky moved and put his arm At his touch. T could not w one thing to summon courage to refuse the confidence for | which every tortured nerve was call- ing—it was another to bear the affec- tionate touch of the man whose whole being T had just heard cry out in n attempt to protect this other woman., Dicky did not notice my shrinking whether it were | ham's | {in | the even | but Mrs. Underwood saw sometimes nothing ever es s. She came closer to m at me gravely, steadily, ey looked capes think her e and “You are very brave, Mrs. Graham, very kind, but it won’t do. leep quiet.’ She turned to hi thoritatively as he started to “You know how much use ther trying to stop me when I ma my mind to anything.” She put one hand upon my der. “Dear child,” “will you trust had thought that I must right away, but your splendid cus attitude makes it to ask you this. I can see ne place here where we can ta disturbed. Besides, 1 must chance of your mother-in-law' g out that I here come to my apartment morning, any time after 10? Will be gane by them, and have the place to ourselves.” “I Will be there at 10," T avely. T felt that her hone: ectness called for an answer, and I gave it to her. ‘Thank you,” She smiled stdly, and then addead: imagine all sorts of impo It isn't a very pretty story, but she said ear me till tomorrc am w tell take Dick m au- speak. e is of ke up shoul- nestly, e you gener- possible for me there is 1k un- Harry e can said | ty and explicit little “Don't ble things I am beginning to hope that after vou have heard it triends.” _ Prepostcrous as her words s in the light of things T had from the lips of my hus! mother, they ing of comfort, we may become ver: W. COU LOCAL BOW ON SCR Vitagraph and Biograph star: figure prominently tures at Keeney attractions released in the s tonight, t by these makers having been Secured for popular playhouse. company contributes ture, liam pi The Vit Courte and a ppearing in the productio | bicture is one of the week’s bes: ings, night on about the streets today rimore Case,” the other tonight is a Blograph film and “rpy v real eemed heard band’s gave me a sudden feel- TENAY MAKES EEN will photoplay wo big films the graph ny a Big Four fea- The Island of Surprise,” capable Wil- com- n. This t offer- It pleased a large audience last and was favorably commented he Lar- feature for is said to be one of the most interesting dra- mas which this company has r many a day. Interest inc The Strange Case of Mary trial of the pretty actres its conclusion. Tonight the thi episode will be shown, the c ing on an unexpected turn. Th but two more chapters to this mystery film and they bo he watched for with are enthusi Page" cleased es in as nears rteenth > tak- ere are great und to m by the hundreds of motion pictures loy- ers who have been story from the start. Topping the program tomor: urday will be Geraldine I Temptation.” This film is release and is of the pensive photodram lic. The Knicke “When Might King in the lead, it a close run for first honors will also be an Essanay thr drama, “Her Naked Soul » ed before the camcra Vell and Darwin Karr. The vaudeville Harmoni the Hallidays and and dancers. followin S one bocler Right.” Droc with expected by alent includ five talented colored ind O'Neill, most before the pub- mus entertainers g the wand rrar in v ex- luction, Henry to give There ce-part resent- Craig es The ns; singers | Menu for Tomorrow ‘ Breakfast Cereal with Milk Eggs au Lait Cream Sc Coffee Lunch Fish Souffle Lemon Gingerbread Tea Dinner Potato Soup Roast Beef Potatoes Olive Salad Cheese Biscuits sago Pudding Coffee Lemon Gingerbread—Two lemons, four cupfuls sifted flou tablespoonful ground ginger, cighth teaspoonful cayenne, on ful butter, one cupful glassful brandy. Grate off the rind of both lemons, then s them and strain the Jjuice.: P molasses and butter teakettle, stirring occasionally molasses, ones Mashed Turnips large | ar, one one- e cup- one yellow queeze ut the n a bowl aver the until the butter melts. Add the lemon juice, rind and brandy, then mix all the in- together and make ce them on buttered ti hake in a moderate oven. Sago Pudding—Wash half a sago and drain, then soak it in cupful warm water for ten m gredients cakes, pl into ns and cupful half a inutes. Put one pint milk on to boil; when it boils stir in the sago and boil for five minutes, stirring constantly, by time the sago will be and quite clear; take the pan fr fire and stir in one heaping spoonful sugar and half a table: ful butter. Beat up two egss them, mixing well, pour the wh which cooked enough om the table- spoon- and add ole in- to a buttered pudding dish; sprinkle a little ground cinnamon over t he top and bake in a moderate oven for half an hour. no | s find- | Will vou tomorrow A voung borhood works as a stenographer in the city. A few weeks ago 1 her mother, and she Ellen was home in bed. pressed my sympathy, she said, | she's not really sick. She jus | as if a cold were coming on." | ambitious, conscientious lives very girl who in our neigh- was calling that on mentioned When I ex- “Oh felt Nothing more wa said at the time, and 1 wondered what Ellen. IFor she isn't stay home for a slight the winter hefore she pneumonia hecause she persisted in | going to the office in spite of a very | bad cold. Yesterday I met her on the trolley and she told me all about the | new state of affairs, | He Wanted Them To Stay At Home For The Slightest Cold. of the present who fact the kind cold. In almost had At the beginning winter, her employer had summoned | the office force to a conference and Esurprlsl‘d them by telling them that | in the coming winter he wanted them to stay home whenever they felt the slightest symptoms of a cold. | Then he had a serious talk with them. The substance of the talk was this: “1f you go to bed when you cold coming on, take some treatment keep warm, and have nine chances out of breaking it up in a day or course hitherto you haven't felt like taking a day off just because yvou were afraid a cold was coming on, and so vou have come to work and the cold has grown worse and lasted perhaps a week, perhaps longer. Maybe in | the end you sere sick and had to stay out a week or two. Maybe you vlfl;\r\z!g(‘\[ to stick to your post, but ! felt so mean that it was a strain to work. Probably you gave the cold {to two or three others who went | through the same experiences. feel a simple rest, ten two. Of of big BERTHA KALICH ON SCREEN AT FOX'S Bertha Kalich, one of the actresses and the only dramatic in the world who can seriously considered as the of Sarah Bernhardt, has signed a with William Fox, president Fox Film corporation and the of theaters, and will bc first Fox film at the local I tomorrow and urday This dramatic celebrity, personal story compelling vitally interesting as the greatest role she has ever portrayed on the stag has entered whole-heartedly her work, which, if predictions he indulged in, will even the reputation and fame which are hers the result of the many important achievements of her past stage career. Mme. Kalich has heen much averse to appearing in motion pictures until she felt very certain that the picture plays selected for her werc of the quality and type designed to introduce her favorably to the American photoplay public and in such a way as o add to { her artistic achievement After weeks of negotiations William Fox and others several ducers held out tempting offers, she reached the decision that the ox pictures provided her the finest oppor. funity for growth in her art with which she was but slightly familiar, and to fulfill his promises from the beginning, Mr. Fox has ordered that the first production for Mme. Kalich be of greater excellence the point of lavish and costly mounting, than ny picture he has thus far made and Ifox patrons who will see this new on I'riday and Saturday to the correctness of this artist be successor contract of the Fox cireuit sen in x theater her whose own and is as into may increase pro- in production will attest remark, had come over | | colds in the |n | ilege | get rid of the cold you | reatest | with | Efficiency and Humanity Asked Them To Be Less Devoted To, Duty. Now 1 thank you pluck and devotion to a man who really inspires these qualities); “but for both our sakes 1 don’'t want you to be so plucky or de- voted this winter. “Last winter I of time from serious col besides the genecral loss of efficiency where people worked under the handicap of cold. This winter I suggest that co-operate in trying to nip these bud “Whenever any of us feels that he has a cold coming on, he is to tele- phone the office and stay in bed until the cold better Don't bring it in'{ and pass it around.: And don't let it ¢t the upper hand of you. I trust vour honor not to abuse the priv- either by taking time when you don’t need it or by doing anything clse with the time except going to bed and working just as conscientiously to as you would work for your du (he s all lost some months , a we is in the office.” Stopping The Efficiency Leak From Health. That was the substance of his talk, = The results of it make Ellen, usually a quiet person, quite voluble with .en- thusias Although this has been an unusually severe winter, only one person in the office has been out more than three days with any form of cold In her own case she broke up two colds, one with two day's rest, another with one day's. The gain in, general efficiency from stopping the leak caused by subnormal health i from cannot be measured, but | her employer is entirely satisfled with it There are times ciples of efficlency Subnormal colds the prin- seem to be piti- and inhuman, there are other when efficiency and humanity | plainly go hand in hand.. And this | scems to be one of the latter. when less times the very The program offered for time this evening proved a en- tertaining to a big audience last night. 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