New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1916, Page 4

NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1916. LYCEUM The Theater of Distinction— The Best Plays For the Best Peopls In the Best Theater. Week of May 1Is The Cross Players —In— ROBERT HILLARD GREATEST SUCCESS. THE RGYLEF CASE Ford and Harvey 0. Higgins. Har:i Wy Detective Wm. J. Burns, Adelaide 1. Photo of Mrs. to ecach lads Tuesday Fribbard n Hibbard tendiv 20c. 30¢, nees at 2:30, 10c and 20c, Tat ights at 8:15, 10c, 500, Tonight and Tuesday Richard Buhler in “GODS OF FATE” Frank Daniels in JACK DUCK'S ALIMONY. Wednesday and Thursday “THE STRANC Fuller in GIRL WHO FEARED DAYLIGHT.” Thursday and Friday in HARTVFORD cond Triumphant Week. POLI PLAYERS Owen Davis' Masterpicce ‘SINNERS” A. Brady’s Playhouse Suc- A Magnificent Play That Mother and Daughter 1d Make it a Point to See. Daily: Regular Prices ARSONS’ LtATRE—Hartford Entire Week of May 1 fatinees Wed. and Sat.) Winchell Smith and John L. Golden Present e Mother Made Nights c to $1.50; Mat., Seats on sale. k at This Bill for Today and Tomorrow. tin Farnum, in the Para- mount Production “BEN BLAIR” —— n Emerson, in the Spec- hcular film on Prepared- o E FLYING TORPEDO” E VILLAGE BLACKSMITH” oaring Keystone Comedy. Open to Ladies at Any | Time. TNA BOWLI ALLEYS Church Street. y/(17/ e 4 zie s fants ena Invalids RLICK’S THE ORIGINAL L‘I'ED MILK , malted gmm. in powder form invalidsandgrowing children. ition, upbuilding the whole body: es nursing mothers and the aged. tritious than tea, coffee, etc. prepared. Requires no cooking. es Cost YOU Same Price cause a man gets tired pla | to | in the place. They | liked and petted | Who-Always-Know | real , News for Theater Goers pznd Women (Copyright 19135 by the STRANGE CASE OF MARY PAGE™ McClure publicptions) Read these cplsodes, each com- plete in six insertions. See them acted on the motion picture screen at ‘ho Keeney Theater. the grey to hat me to get him Republic. He wanted in there for a quiet « He asked te at the Miss I’ 50 he ‘Did you do it?” Yes. But 1 was kind su get gc , be- rand about of s in' e azy T boy that's dead cr a s “What were you doing on escape The question held the whole ctedne; for guy the fire= came so sharply ths room tense with its but Shale did not wince. “Dave told me to and keep an eve out for to butt in. He knew you ch the different rooms by “Isn't it true that vou and Pollock quarreled that night? “Yes, it's true,” he said hoarsel “Dave was a devil when he drunk.” His face was beaded with perspira- tion and his hand gripped the ecdge of the witness stand till the knuckles showea lividly. He tried to look angry, ceeded only in being tragical lous. Suddenly voice. “Where were you when Miss came into the room “On the fire-escape, standing flat- tened against the wall, so that any- hody looking at the steps wouldn't see me.” Wiy Shale mois with a gust head, “T went in because Dave called me,” he said loudly. The girl had gone hysterical. She was laughin’ and shriekin’, and he calls to me, ‘For d's sake, Shale, see if she’s got any smelling sal in that bag.! " “And when you opened that you found a revolver, didn't you Langdon’s voice rang out triumph ly. “George Shale, what did vou with that revolver?” For a moment the man stood, then he laughed hands wide . Ishot ‘him with it!” “I shot him with i he shrieked. it, but he was a dir dog. He had threatened me again that very night. He struck me—he called m, his jackal—and when T saw the gun—I knew my chance had come. T took it out and walked around and said, get out ther could g David 1y rea but he suc- ndicu- his TLangdon softened Page did vou re-enter the room?” ened his dry lips, then of defiance flung up his ha do swayed as he ana flung his he shrieked. t! anybody like- | ‘Here's vour he turned to take it I my smelling salts—and when hot him. Oh, God—" He broke off with a storm of gasp- ing sobs ! Everyone in the was i fect. Even the Judge had risen. Mary herself was standing swaving like some lovely lily, the light of a | | wondrous joy shining in her eves, | while her lips murmured over over. “Philip—Philip— Philip!" Then, high above the turmoil rose the voice of the District Attorney: | “George Shale, vou are herehy de- clared under arrest, to be held to await the action of the Grand Jury!” Again pandemonium broke out i fell to silence when Mary, her | @renched with bappy tears, softly: “What's to become of me now ? Your Honor,” Langdon’s voice was | exultantly happy, and his hand caught and clung to Mary" { Honor, the defendant desir | What is to become of her “She is discharged,” answered his Honor with a smile, and made no ei- fort to stem the cheers that rose, fill- ing the room and echoing far down the corridors proclaiming to the world at large that Mary Page was free! Still more cheering throngs greet- ed her when she merged from the prison a little later with Philip and her mother beside her, and they fol- lowed the speeding motor for blocks shouting their acclamations and con- gratulations while Mary nestled con- tentedly against Philip. Forgotten were the davs of horrer following the death of Pollock and her arrest for a crime she knew noth- ing of; forgotten even were the un- pleasant moments when Pollock sued her with manifestations of his unwelcome love. It was the most of her life. And you never suspected?” she d at last, and Philip shook his head. “Not Shale,” he said. “I was look- ing for someone clse. “Now don’t talk any more about it said Mrs. Page quietly. “Tomorrow, Mary, T am going to take vou back to the country, and keep you until vou have put this dreadful thing out of your mind forever “And then,” said Mary wistfull will come hack and take up my work. Langdon tightened his arm ahout her. “And ther id he, back and marry me. paid a lawyer for T ask the biggest one in the world. Mary—will you pay it?” And what her low-voiced reply was not even her mother knew. (The End.) room on his and but eves cried 5 to know wonderful moment “r “you will come A fee is always , rvices rendered. Some O one's bills, “Does it pay?” “Yes, it does pay to pay because the creditors profit by that action. But does it pay for a girl for instance—to behave respectab I go into an eating house and sit and at my dinner quietly-—because I have eat in order to live Others spend every cent they have—and haven't on pretty clothes, manicuring, hair dressing, etc., and flirt with every man are getting a lot of dinner. They are and helped eve where. I am respectable—and hum- drum. Nobody cares a hang for me! “I wonder what Molly and the C nic. and The-Lady-Who-Always- Knows-Somehow have to say to that So writes a letter friend. ut They Don’t Marry Her.” I showed the letter to the Cynic. said “Yes, T There certainly tion about the girl who h tion for being a little bit always flock about he: ished, y don’t m: T showed the letter the omehoy. she said. he's prob- those dreadful black moods that we sometimes have, espe- cially when we are young and don't e that things never stay so black I wish she .had sizned the let- ter, so I conld write to her and tell her fun out of their He know what she means. seems to be an attrac s a reputa- fast. 10 Poor child,” ably in one of Men ; Lady- o e that it does pay. You have your self- respect and that's the biggest thing in | the world—though you sometim lack perspective and think it isn't. “Youri MRS. HIBBARD'S FARE- WELL WEEK AT LYCEUM Tonight marks the of Mu the Lyceum, beginning of the Adelaide Hib- and the popular will have farewell week | bara at { character actress a promi- in story nent part detective Harvey O'Higgins' “The Argyle Many of the friends of M in this city have made up theater | parties for tonight and other per- formances through the week and her going away from New I in will mark an occasion in the current his- | tory of the town. She will take up her duties next week as a member of the Wilcox Dramatic company in Syracuse, New York. In choosing “The Ar this_week’s production, has heeded the suggestions of nume ous patrons of the Lyceum who have | written and asked that the play which depicts the methods used by Detective William J. Burns be put on in this | city. Seldom has there heen a play that shows the inside workings of any | one profession as does this play of | detective life. Tt is founded on one | of the most celebrated murder cases | ever known in America and shows | the detectives pick up a trail, | they work on it, and how finaH_v‘ Jand their quarry, after many trying experiences. All the modern devices known to present day detec- tive work are brought to bear on the | i | great Case.” Hibbard vle Case” Alfred Crc how how they situations presented. In one act. a | dictagraph is seen in working order, and later the result is produced in a record that speaks the exact secrets of the murderer. Alfred Cross will be seen tonight in the leading role, Asche Kayton, the detective. This will give him an op- | portunity to present an- entirely dif- ferent type of character then he has | been seen in this season in New Brit- | ain. Asche Kayton is, in realit depiction of the mannerisms of celebrated Detective Burns, and most of the details in the play were fur- nished by this well known character. At the performance tomorrow night pictures of Mrs. Adelaide Hibbard will be given to all the ladies who attend. Numerous requests have been received at the box office for copies of thi photograph, but the management h decided not to depart from the o inal plan to give them away during the per[urvnances | POLI'S THEATER PRESENTS “SINNERS” a| the | i Few dramatists have ever been able | to equal the characters drawn by i i Owen Davis, playwright and author, | whose plays and books have cvery- | P\where been royally received. Mr. Davis' great play, ‘Sinners,” which j was produced by William A. Brady at the Playhouse in New York with marked success and in which the Poli Players wiil appear twice daily all this week as the second week's attraction of the spring and sunmmer stock seasc is a most unusual p - Its name gives the impression that it must be a play of the underworld, but it is not; it U simple, forceful story of a girl who goes to New York to make her mark and who meets with ! the usual pitfalls which confront a | girl alone in that city, of her efforts is | piness. interest from { trayal of life in the big ¢! | the small town of the brand that | his plays ana books. | roles to succeed in spite of these handica ind her final return home to real hap- A romance of the Davis type into the story, retaining the the very start until the Also there will be seen a por v as well Mr. pictured well in The Poli Play- arc admirably equipped to pr: s remarkable play and many parts of prominence favorites will be seen in pleasing roles Crane and Miss Enid May on will have the two leadin of course and in their support will be seen the full cast of the play- ers in a memorable production. The management announces that the sec- ond get-ncquainted matinee will be held Wednesday afternoon and Mis Gilberta I'aust, who has a host of local friends and admirers, and J Trving White of the players will re ceive. All patrons of the theater who attend the performance Wednesday afternoon will he invited to go upon the stage immediately after the mat- ihee and meet the players person- ally. Refreshments will served woven finale. and Davis knew S0 all of be social hour. KS LOST a letter over to the from a man named rort in which he tion concerning a er. The girl was taken from her home when a small child and when last heard from living in Suffield. Her name was ie 1Paulds, but her brother be- s she married. He does not SISTER. Ty has hompson ulds in Bridge- asks for lievy know her married name and is anxi- | cus to hear from her, DUSTIN FARNUM """ BEN BLAIR/ PALLAS Some day she'll meet the right man and then she’ll be so glad she didn't| ‘flirt with every man in the place. " | I Wonder What He Meant? I showed the to the Author- man. “I say.” he a quotation, his bill-folder, his latest finds, and read: **To withstand steadfastly lurements of life, vet on those who yield to them a gentle breadth of characte moved from the complacent teem of the “unco-guid.” " What Molly Thought. I showed the letter to Molly She pondered upon it.** It ‘is hard,” e said finally, “to see silly, over- dressed, selfish girls getting all fun and admiration, but— ut what?" saia I “But don’t you think a girl bl on the fact that she is straight, y is just because she isn't ht and amusing, be letter said, “that reminds And he whipped out that he keeps full me of the al- denotes far ry self-e: Lastly, that some- rity whe bi] | life and charm “That might well be So now my letter friend need der no longer W it Molly and i think about this matter. won- Co. T C. .. Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast. Boiled Rice and Cream. Poached Eggs on Toast. Crumpets Coffee Lunch. ish Creamed Asparagus Caramel Custard. Tea Dinner Roast of Beef. Baked Potatoes Lettuce and Tomato Salad Banana Frappe Coffee Creamed Asparagus—( small triangle of the aspa Scalloped Pot Carrots toast in spoonful tenderest into cooked portions which have been { half-inch pieces and, when tender, cover with a rich er Banana IFrappe' —Select pull off the skins, cut ecach in ers lengthw then half-inch bits. Turn into a freezer, pack in ice and salt and set aside from one and a hs {to two hours; the fruit should Le very thoroughly chilled, yet not frozen solid Serve in punch glasses, sprinkling with powdered sugar. cut firm quar Have Your Ey Examined and Glasses Fitted by A. PINKUS EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Over 30 Years Experience. of | pass no censure | the | mes her lack of popu- | um sauce. | fruir, | ir ! PICTURES. | | 1 | | i DUSTIN FARNUM IS FEATURE AT FOX'S st of the manhood of the West is in “Ben Blair” the produc which | engagement this the local theater. where the polished terner goes to force issue with Sidwell, the society favor ite who has supplanted him in Flor- ence Winthrop's favor, the two American types are exemplified. Elair finds Sidwell drinking heavily with congenial friends and on their Geparture his western blood forces him to say: “You are the only obstacle between me and the woman ! love. Can you tell me any reason Why I should not remove that ob- stacle But his western blood also | malkes him bow to seeming truth in A striking contrs cf the Bast and strongly pictured latest Paramount on cpened a two day: afternoon at Fox In the scene Ben un- w an Sidwell’ reason— love vou past memories this statement father with a ex-plainman’s admiration and ports and brings this strong western drama to a successful finish. In ad- dition to “Ben Blair” there will the Triangle program of John Emer- son in “The Flying Torpedo” and Hank Mann in the roating two-reel Keystone comedy: “The Village cksmith.” The Paramount tograph, a permanent feature every Monday and Tuesday will shown, answer “Yes, a good he loves me and she doesn't Cooler thoughts and later make him doubt He goes to Florence's for be S. STANLEY HORVITZ OPTOMETRIST and OPTICIAN 321 Main Street Tel. Hours—8:30 A. M. to 8 P. M. Sat. and Mon. to 10 P. M. Ounr Scrvices Guaranteed line of Auto Goggles and Sun Glasses ull plan that awakens the | sup- | he Pic- | sent | - | treatingly {and the patrons will he the guests f | there are two reasons why | these players at turned | olice department | informa- | | | | i | was not ex | ment, Latest Styles for Men Back” Topeoats. 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He would not be decently civil to them himself, and he said flatly t he did not wish 1 me either to invite them to our home or to see any of them, women { or men, elsewhere. “I was so much-+in that if he had stayed me himself I do not | would have thrown loyalty to the winds and sacrificed the friendship it by your words this morning. T am | 9f Years to his insatiable vanity and mare than contented to let the mat- | jealously. But all the time he was foriTestl forever.’ | neglecting me shamefully. He was | “I know, my dear, | drunk for a week when a vear after our marriage baby Marion was born His Mother the baby changed love I Underweod's Story quietly she Marriage. life,” said married.” of bit- until spoke keeping up my “And I spoiled my much lian Underwood. “I Her tone was the essence terness, her face held a look not good | to see. I could hardly believe that | she was the same woman who but a moment hefore had told me of tha | happy, struggling days in Paris and ! New York, when she and Dicky and other comdares had ‘“worked and Jlayed and starved together.” “Please!” 1 leancd toward her en- | “Don’t tell me any more. If ever there was a sting in my thoughts concerning your past friend- | ship with Dicky vou have removed him with love with at home know but I I know. But I want You will be for- to meet any gossip you may if you know everything con- srning that old time, and then—" She stopped and gazed at lavished rchingl | mother I have kept all this locked in m¥ | had been drifting around ! heart for years,” she said SIOWIY. | before, and while she “No one has ever dared to speak to | the time of the divorce, me of any part of it. It was a |{ower of strength to me during the terrible effort for me to dig it all up | haby’s infaney. I was very fond of for you. But now that it is begun | her, and I think she sincerely liked 1 feel as if a weight had been lifted | mc, But Will, her only son, could from my heart. There is a certain | always make her believe black was | 1elief in telling vou everything. Do | \hite, as I later found to sou know what I mean?” serrow Did 1?7 My thoughts flew With the day in the sitting room of m¥ |jcve I had felt for Will, things mother’s friend, Mrs, Stewart, when i more smoothly with me. I worked | my reserve had broken down, and T | Jike a slave to keep up the expenses had sobbed out some of my troubles | of the home and to Jay by something { in her comforting arms for the baby's future. My husban | «Of course I know,” T answered ! wg ab 180 Muik Irateths hoyalsad | her gently. “And 1 won't make an- | cirls gradually came back to some | other obectiojn. ~ Tell me anything | thing like their old terms of inti you wish.” I never gave the matter of “Don't misunderstand me,’ sropriety a thought. My mother-in “When I say I spoiled 1w, a baby and a maid, were cer- marriage I do not ainly chaperons enough. all m 1ges ‘Afterward I found out tremendously | hustand, cquipped with | happiness. but I think I must be { knowled had set all | of the women who are tempermen- ! trapg for me, had bribed | tally unfitted to make any man | .nq diabolically managed happy l'ine innocent visits Her | of the old crowd to our “You « { own vile meanings. | that,” 1 said stoutly. *I would ‘Thau cAndia tho araeh Delicve that you were very unwise in | 1 one Sunday afterncon vour choice of husbands.” once that he was really Her Work Up. | know his carelessness She laughed ironically, otd el B 1 1 monia as he could w “Well, it that! | (orm was raging word | Dicky, after shive age. Tt | started to go back Y | Will's mother, who she | mensely, joined with ]H‘.’H he must not | to bed. Dicky was really too to | care what we did with him we got him into bed, and T took care of him for two or three days until he was well enough to leave. “Of course, the greater part care fell on me, for Will's mother was old and not strong. I am not going to tell you the accusations which my unspeakable husband made against me, or the affidavits which the maid was bribed to sign about Dicky and me, You can guess Warst of all, WilI's mother turned | against me, not because of anything his best to make a finished job of it. | she had observed, but simply because ‘T am not zoing to weary you with | her son told her 1 was guilty Fven “When for Will out. The Changed. came my feeling He had worn me had given him T upon the child Will's came to live with she you to hear me out. me | us miserably led at vet she was a me out my back to of the hectic went the vanishing my mean that are failures, sumed. | tife by | T believe 1 believe | i she re- | | | 1 P 1 te that his nner o m twist my legal . married one in e, ma my to of the home boys to his most bitt make me self-accusing. believe her in tone was nnot Dicky came and T saw at il You He had let a as near pneu- N be. A sleet outside, and when ng before the fire to his studio liked Dicky im- me in insisting out at all, but Kept we will let go at ate there is only one At that was hell The lcok any describes my first marr from start to finish.’ on her face told gerating. It was only graven hy intense sufferin “I was old enough, experienced cnough to have displaved seme judg- but T fell in love as roman- tically and wiidly as the love- sick school girl in the ana married after the briefest whirl- wind courtships. “It was not three months after my wedding day that I discovered my idol's feet of clay, and if there was a shred of youth's illusion or my self- 1espect left when we came to the parting of the ways, it was not Will Morton’s fault. He certainly tried me a look o ill most world, of of his | him " with her any- of course loved you 11 that T went through. Let it be I never would have thought nough to ray that while on the one | of vou Lillian,’ she said to me hand his apades were almost a | the tears streaming down daily insult to me, on the other he | wrinkled, old face. ‘I never saw was meanly jealous, and made my | thing out of the way, but hfe miserable with his pettiness and 1 wouldn't lie. And I suspicious prying. 1 had not given up my work when I married, for the rewards were just beginning to come in. Indeed, my husband did not wish me to, and as | the time came. She idolizes Marion his law practice was very slim, T soon | She gives her the best of care, and found myself not only bearing the | I do not think she will teach her to support of the home, but supplying | hate me as Will would.” with pocket money."” et ——————————————— e e e LA B JORNRON, DD 5 DENTIST “Poor old woman. Those last f words of affection made it easier for me to give the baby up to her when w with the of something 1 could say to her, but away into silence. I tried to think I knew that words were useless, so | National Bank Bldg, Open Evenings.