New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1916, Page 4

e Theater of Distinction— The Best Plays For the Best Peopls In the Best Theat: INAL WEEK— § MAY 22nd estimonial Week or Alfred Cross Presenting GREAT MUSICAL FARCE IS DREAM SPECIAL BORATE S All each per- jrmance must called for § ffore 6:30 at Crowell’s. THE SPECL! \LT! tickets for be Tues., Thurs. and 10c and 20c. ptinces, Sat., at 8:15, 10c, and 50c. hts 20c, 30¢, TONIGHT. Robert Edeson In OR WOMAN'S IAIR NAME Frank Daniels in A New Comedy. “peg Of The Ring” Third Episode Wed. and Thnrs. King Baggott in “HALF A ROGU De- § s, Program of ightful Photoplays, Bparkling and Ef- fervescent, at 18D, & ast Time Tonight puglas Fairhanks a brilliant Comedy- Drama abit of Happiness” Blanche Sweet a Russian Drama ‘The Sowers” oming Tomorrow ig Bill Farnum. —in— pitle of Hearts” DH e L M| ARSONS’ | | tATRE—Hartford SHOW FOR 75 CENTS —Mat. Wed. and Sat. JRA PLAYERS | Viennese Operetta, | WALTZ DREAM” derful Score—A Beautiful (500 ! and 10¢ HE SOLDIER' CHOCOLATE | the | haggage. HARTFORD 11 Week—Twice Daily New Poli Players in ‘BACK HOME” Southern play of great m, based on Irvin Cobb's dge Priest” Stories. inees—10c, 20c. nings—10c, 20¢, 30c, 50c. | 1 | polis. —_— NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1916. | " News ‘or T Izeater Goers and Women Readers A STORY YOU CAN BEGIN AT Her Side---and His How Cora and David Temple By ZOE B ANY TIME Solved Their KLEY Marital Problems David States His Grievance Cora, T detest a meddler. And when it delicate matter in my life that is meddled loses me one of my dearest friends in life I put a quick stop to it. shall do more meddling in 1ay life, not even your mother! Here was the delicate problem of Wanda, vou and me. You had gone through our bitter hour of quarrel over it. We solved problem the hest we knew how, znd it took the finest in all of u our friendship sweet and fruitful instead of bitter and destructive. Then suddenly, without our knowledge, comes your mother, ar a heavy, -blundering hand, breaks down what I have labored to up; hurts my friend that I lose her and sets yvou and mec I had noticed that Wanda had stopped coming here. T why. She tried to laugh with light excuses. They vince me. Then I remembered how persistently your mother had tried to get you and me to see no mors of Wanda. Your mother could do noth- ing with us. T asked Wanda if your mother had spoken to her, telling her to keep away from us. Good actress Wanda is, hard she tried {o hide it—and I assure you she did try in all sincerit saw I had guessed the truth. Cora, I the most meddling No one is the most private, with; when that any and I the o keev with build quarrecling. asked her did not con- S0 me o as vou, not your mother. all the consideration of a because she is your mothe only vou: :io one else. No one else hag the right took upon herself to do, and did without warning me and without my permission; indeed, against my wishes, for she must have known I would forbid her meddling in my life. I doubt if I would have tolerated it even in you. Why must I toler- ate it in your mother? What claim has she on me to justify such a strain on my patience; such an abuse of hospitality. It is not enough to answer that she is your mother. T to acknowledge any human claim on my lovalty as any the accident of any woman being a mother does not by her to a son’s loyalty unless she earns it not by care, patience, sacrifice and wisdom that is the real If T have failed toward vour mother as a host genuinely acknowledge it when you prove that to me. scious that T have lacked courtesy toward her as a she had abused the privileges of a guest. Even when to speak to us of putting Wanda out of our lives I was patient Is there no limit to her claims on my loyalty, my patience? I don’t know whether this letter has helped me clear up the wrefched quarrel between us—a quarrel not of our making. But this much I am willing to concede—with a condition: T may have been to blame for the manner in which 1 resented vour mother's interference, hut I still fool the same resentment at the meddling itself. (Copyright, 1916, S. S. McClure). T owe her all the hospit man for a woman; some- But to my intimate, pa married a host for a guest, thing more, besides, rsonal life I can admit to do what your mother lity of am as willing man can be. But that alons entitle accident but by love motherhood I am sorr But 1 am host until she first and will not con- I felt that undertook with her. HOW MLLE. ZIRA, DARING ANIMAL TRAINER, FOOLED PARIS POLICE i short time, leopards aroused and were creating conternation among the | stewards and deckhands by their I mysterious ana e i the trunks, SEvinen i able pets were landed at New Haven, on English soil. The leopards; thus cleverls from confiscation. constityte one of the many interesting trainea animal features of the Cook & Wilson wilq | animal circus, which Were ! srenic performance PODU- | \well known rider Batig- | anq other circus st but not before the The courageous had become Mathilde Zira, the petite animal trainer with the Cook which this city and in scaping from Paris the day after the declaration of war with her troupe of educated forest-born leopards, is | of the many thrilling episodes for which the great struggle has been the occasion. Mlle. Zira and her topliners at the small but Cirque Medrano, in the district of the French metro- The imminence of the war | was not realized by the public, and no one thought of escaping from the city. The day after war was declared the government issued an order lay- ing under requisition for military use il the automobiles, horses, dogs and other “animals of whatsoever descrip- tion™ in the city. While there could l.¢ no possible public use for Mile. a’s leopards, except for food in case of a siege, the little trainer was notified that the animals could not be removed and must remain at the disposition of the prefect of police. Tt happened that Mlle. Zira's pets not only represented several years of rd work in training, but they also istituted normal times a very wnerative scurce of income, and | she decided not to submit to the mandate of the authorities As the was immediately closed, instead of sending the leopar to an animal garage for safe ieeping, she had them conveved to her apartment on the Rue de I Fayette, nat far from the princip railway station to the west, the ( St, Lazare, Mlle. Zi with feminine instinct, had several full of handsome stage well street gown These w emptied out, breathing holes were lored in the sides and bottom of the trunks: the leopards fed unti] they were stelid and sleepy, were placed inside; the lids fastened down, and Tomorrow and Thursday Selig will the trunks rushed to the station contribute the five-part drama Fortune was with the little trainer. | a " Pogue,” played by King Baggott The leopards, overfed and stupid, |and'a company of capable screen por- slept through the ordeal of passing | formers. The third chapter in the inspection of the bureau de [§2000,000 feature, “The Mysteries of In a few hours the train | Myra” is also scheduled for these Dieppe, where passengers and | days. were transferred to an udeville Channel steamer and in a |are Collier and Lifshea, and conversation team; Fred I Speare and company in the comedy ketch, “It's Only Imagination” and Lyons and Robbins, variety enter- tainers. The last named team has a sensational finale for thelr act. Tt describes the wrecking of a train as it crosses a bridge. The scene startling in its realism. exploit of Mlle. and daring & Wi son will circus, see June 1, afternoon evening saved one also affers in which many crobats, acrialis s participate. leopards an lar nolles BLUE RIBBON FILMS TO TOP KEENEY BILL Two Vitagraph blue ribbon fea- tures, “For Woman's “Unto Those Who Sin" photoplay uir Name™” and are among the bookings the former, is tonight, Robert Edeson the leading part. This widespread discussion brings to the fore the much question as to how far a should go to protect the repu- of a woman. The ide is worked out cleverly in this story and the problem is handled in most intelligent fashion. *“Unto Those Who Sin’ s to be shown Iriday and Sat- urday. Fritzi Brunette heads the company which interprets the drama which to be one of the most impressive films that the people have released in some time. Besides the feature film there will be some other big numbers on the program tonight. For instance Frank Daniels will be seen in *“The capades of Mr. Jack Then there will be the third episode in the great circus serial, “Peg of the Ring." for Keeney's this weck. 1In which to be shown pl has caused cause it mooted wan tation picture be in circus is said true trunks costumes, as | as was at luggage Fnglish for the a clever song leaders wee| Alleys Open to Ladies at Any Time. AETNA BOWLING ALLEYS Church Street. FAREWELL WEEK AT LYGEUM GOES BIG Alired Cross Players Surpass All Previous Attempts in Gomedy language The show over now ind yet it is left a smatter- There is some- play, something It is midnight, or, in the of the mariner, eight bells. at the Lyceum has hee some one hour and a not forgotten. It has ing series of thought. thing about that about the players, something about everything connected with the entire production that leaves a lingering, lasting memory. Perhaps it is be- ause this is the last week the Alfred Cross Piayers will occupy the boards at the local playhou There is al- ways something strange and mystic about farewells, and this may be the reason for these varied emotions that seem to lurk hereabout; conflicting emotions they are, filled with all the gladness and mirth of a million youth- ful hearts, and vet overflowing with sadness, sorrow, pangs of pain. This time next week it will be all over. The old friends who have stepped before the footlights in comedy, in traged in melodrama, in the various vehicles of stageland, will have gone. Then it will be le: difficult to explain the feelings that prompt the heart on leav- ing one of the merriest farces ever adorned a local stage and being peremptorily plunged into the very depths of darkness, of despair. “His Dream Girl” is the ephemeral title of the play. They should have called it “Maid in New Britain,” for it has all the ear-marks of having been written by one well versed with the local col- or of this particular spot on the map. If by any chance some traveling salesman from this immediate locality were shanghied in the remote regions of Arkansas, say in some town on the border of the old Indian territory, and a “fly-by-night” company showed up with “His Dream Girl” in the exact manner that it was put on at the Ly- ceum last night. and this salesman happened to be in the audience, the salesman would have pawned, sold, gotten rid of everything he had worth while, and invited the entire cast of characters out to dine in the most fashionable restaurant in the town. It would do his old heart good to hear so much about his native town, New Britain. The play fairly oozes with local color. And the meal would be an enjoyable affair, notwithstanding the fact that Philip Sheflield would probably be called on to sing his song, “Some Little Bug Will Get You It You Don't Watch Out,” a ditty that fairly reeks with bacillophobia, and morbid dreams of microbes. And this does not mean Philip cannot sing the song. He can. It is a funny sort of a song and it took six encores last night to satisfy the audience. Wherever Mr. Sheffield gets all these funny “stunts” he does this week he has a wonderful fount of fun. Prob- ably someone found a new and revised cdition of old Joe Miller's joke book. At any rate, it is all cleverly done, and this young fellow Sheflield, a gay Lo- thario at best, has everything his own | | | | | | I | Cros way from start to finish. He has one of the best character parts given to him since coming to our fair city. And “gets away with it.”” Here is gone half a column, have not yet gotten to the play. As no author's name is mentioned, we take it this musical comedy-farce- vaudeville is from the pen of Alfred Or, there might have been a collaborator called in to work qover the manuscript. Anyway, the wits were let loose and the pur frec rein, with the result that a clev- er, capable comedy was hatched which every man, woman and child in New Britain should avail himself, her- self, and itself of seeing. Alfred Cro: has the part of a husband who is under the dominating influence of a mother- in-law, the like of whom has been seen never before, nor nce, and might never be seen again. Such a horrible old creature, To even attempt to out- line the plot of this play would be greater feat than the hero, or villain, accomplishes when he reads the entire Arabian Nights,—One Thousand and One Nights,—in a single night. Moral Tt can't done,—not without make-up. Having disposed of the plot in that | fashion the players now remain to be dispensed with. There is Miss Julie Herne. She is the sweet, de- mure, little wife of Arthur Humming- he and we be Vitagraph | ‘Half | i of | the . turn top who gets into some sort of mix-t after reading the "Arabian Nights. She too has experiences, for she is tracked all the way from Wallingford to Ber- lin Junction and then to New Britain by a mysterious man in a jitney. Hor- rors! She does have a terrible time. And when she gets home she discov- ers her husband has been un-true to her. He has been carrying on a flir- tation in Walnut Hill Park. Think of it! So she is going to leave him, and this gives her a chance to sing a charming little ballad, “Auf Wieder- sehn,” which, as Philip Sheffield would say, is German for “Over the River,” or “Good-bye Then Miss Herne figures in one of the song hits the night when she joins vocal forces with Mr. Cross and they “Hello Hawaii, How Are You? clever topica sONg. In this number leading man performs a dance that promises to be long remembered this vicinity, rather an acrobatic unt. Later, he does a very neat at the piano, rendering two se- lections of very excellent taste, and topping off his end of the evening’s entertainment by a very clever song, “T Can Dance With Ever: But Wife.” He proves this too, be- hie dances in turn with eve in the company and shows how My cause lady sters given | Eczema Wash Used in Hospitals How many hospital patients have been soothed of their frightful iteh, of the scorching pain of skin disease. by the fa mous D. D. D. Prescription for eczeria. a soothing fluid, washed in by a nurse's hand ! A Supervising Nurse and institution on application). writes re garding a patient: “The disease haa eaten her eyebrows away. Her nose and lips had become disfigured. Sinca the use of D. D. D. her eycbrows are growing, her nose and face have assumed their natura 2xpression.” Some of our best doctors are using D. D. D. right along in their practice. Drugglst glad _to recommend this soothing, ¢ ¢, 50c¢ and $1.00. Your money > first bottle relieves you. . D. Soap keeps the skin Deelthy. Ask your druggistaboutboth today. (name of nurse much to do charm to not ver usual while she has this week, lends her the production. It is all very and one not likely ten. Miss Winifred again given a comedy part, the inevit- able third member of the party who is never wanted after she gets in, but who cannot be gotten rid of with any degree of precision or certainty. She is the cause of all the trouble, of all the string of lies, the subterfuge, the intrigues. Miss Wellington has two songs, one a solo, and the other done in duet style with Frank Wright. Mr. Wright is exceedingly good in bhis part, the only son of an Amazon who insists upon having her boy possess the earth without any cost to him- self, not even to the painting of the fence that she would have go around it. Mr. Wright too has a solo. Oh, There is Dorothy Dalrym- ple. We had almost forgotten Dor- othy, and she is one of the prime sources of the entertainment. It is M is it Mr -Dalrymple who keeps things going, who makes Robert Smiley, the innocent by-stander, keep on the jump, and William Enn! the man-of-all-work nurse a tched cheek. She is a veritable vixen. Who is this wicked old woman, anyway? But then it cannot be put in type. One must go to the Lyceum to see it all. And this time next week we shall mourn that the Lyceum is in dark- ness and there is no more fun such as holds forth there now. That's the way it is all through life,—we never appreciate the good things until thej go. JOIN THE FAIRBANKS CLUB AND BE HAPPY home-like, this pl to be soon forgot- Wellington ve: s,—or the of splendid Lovers of the silent art and theatergoer will find ainment the pictures offered casual plenty real enter in array of motion OT the last time tonight at big greatest output, a and an educational feature, comprise the offering. Douglas Fairbanks, the versatile Broadway favorite, is seen in “The Habit of Happiness” Blanche Sweet, the charming Paramount Star holds forth in *The Sowers” a Rus- sian military drama, while Charle Murray and a typical cast of Key- stone comedians bring the tears of laughter rolling down ones cheeks in “The Bathhouse Blunder.” Blanche weet in “The Sowers" rises to dramatic heights that stamp here as one of the screens most emotional stars. The vehicle in which she is seen revolves around the ma- chinations of a Russian Liberty league and throughout its action. the audience is held in a mighty grip of tremendous action that never relents till the very last climax. The sunny disposition of Douglas rairbanks has at last been adequat ly dramatized in “The Habit of Hap- piness’ according to the plot of the latest Fine Arts attraction. His pa ticular business is to make down- hearted people laugh. The very nov- elty of this brings him more clients than he ever can hope to cure. Among them is a crabbed old millionaire, and Fairbanks takes peculiar interest in his case hecause he has a beautiful daughter. Fairbanks efforts to re- lieve the old man of his blues is in- deed a difficult task and how he suc- ceeds is both interesting and extreme- funny. Tomorrow ushers in the latest Wil- lam Fox attraction, Big Bill Far- num in “The Battle of Hearts a rugged drama of the sea and the latest chapter of “The Iron Claw’” with Pearl White, Creighton Hale and Sheldon I.ewis. Fox's.. wo from the World's two-reel comed attractions 1y Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast Fruit Fried Potatoes Hash on Toast Lanch Potato Chowder Bread Pineapple Lemonade Dinner Macaroni Soup Boiled Shoulder of Mutton Baked Tomatoes Boiled Rice Strawberries Coffee Bread. Take any kind of fruit and thick slices of stale Spread the bread with butter, the fruit and syrup. On a plat- spread two or more of the slices, part of the fruit over them; on this put another layer of the bread and hot fruit and so on until the right quantity is made. Set away un- til very cold. Serve with cream. Pineapple Lemonade. Make a plain lemonade with one pound sugar boil- ed for three minutes with one pint water, the strained juice four lemons and two quarts cold water. To this add a ripe pineapple which has been Fruit Fruit canned bread heat ter, pour The Harm of Hate “If there is any person whom you dislike, that is the one of whom you should never speak.” eurs some- There is an unfortunate idea rent among men that there is thing to be proud of in hating people A a hows str chars I realized the full meaning of that :I’; c‘ by :4‘_’”; 'h',"““"_’”' \“f "‘}‘_rf sentiment the other night when T| ‘5 ¢ CHEAE R SieBaltieOr heard a woman whom 1 have always | * That's all ri vou hate the admired for her sweetness and san- [ 08¢ ml.’ L;‘;mo” i h”, \”" e L o e s ", One mig % ity, speak of another woman whom $ ner ne mgaseven i e be forgiven If one confused the hate Someone had chanced to mention | °f sin and sinner where some big this woman and tell of some work she | duestion of injustice or wrong to the had done on a philanthropic commit- | MUman race had aroused the hate e But that is not the sort of hate that Whereat the woman I TIOR T kR admired spoke. ‘‘Oh, is she on that ‘“Hatred is the vice of committee?” she said. And then she | they feed it with their went on to belittle the work the com- | SA¥s Balzac. mittee was doing and to ascribe an | _Littleness and envy and unworthy motive for the other wom- | Vahity—these are qualities S e sneaking about together. S e What Causes Half the Hate hard, unlovely quality in it that I World. had never heard there before. In| mnyy of one sort or another, often fact, she was a changed woman. & TS B it ) Hate Makes Those Who Feel It never admitted even to ourselves, Hateful, at the root of half the hatred in Hate is an unlovely thing and it | World. makes those who harbor it and give | Injured vanity it expression unlovely. quarter. It twists their faces out of shape, Listen to and watch the next it puts ugly tones into their voices, it | SO® You hear speaking about some- malkes them unreasonable and unjust. | ©h€ he hates, and see if you want to If people could see and hear them. | 50Und and look like him selves as they appear under the do- And if you can't use up all your minion of hate they would be care- | €motional energy in love and friend- ful not to let others see and hear | Ship and sympathy, if vou must hate them something, goodness knows there's Perhaps plenty of evil in the world to hate enough to As a great philosopher once ing itself, “I will tell you what to hate distort the face hypocrisy; hate cant; hate the heart. ance ;oppression :injustice; Pharisa- s 5 ism; hate them as Christ hated them Hate Docsn't Show Strength of S e S e Character, tred.” = - o I S to a wonderful scene of a Virginia court rogm in ful] blast, with the Jjudge, and the jury, and the accused man on trial. The story of “Back Home do with a magazine writer, Robert Carter, who goes to Waynesburg, Va., to investigate child labor conditions. He kills a man who has kicked of the children He is t and John- sim had always mean souls; littlenesses,” and 8o hate that in the voice had a is the accounts for another per- they would even be wise try and conquer the feel- knowing that if it can so it must be poisoning aid Hate intoler- “BACK HOME,” A SOUTHERN PLAY has to which in “Back the holds the boards at Poli's theater Home," play one ed | Shuttle Meadow Avenue week is a simple, of the ald that depicts life in the of, the 0Id and second acts inspiring, pave the way Thurs., June 1 st The Only Real Big Show Coming Hartford this comely drama school, a play about to be convictéed when a real old Southern gentleman, Judge Priest, recalls the fact that Carter's father was a Confederate saldier, and the jury acquits the writer. J. Irving White, as “Jeff” is scoring the hit of the show. southern mountainous regions The firs while nat over Dominion. New Britain, GREATEST WILD ANIMAL SEASON'S TRAINED Z00 SENSATION! Fiercely, Ferocious Denizens of the Forest, Performing Feats that Stagger Belief! " Aorobatic Riding Lion Exciting Equestrianism by an Untamed Jungle-Born Wild Beast TWO HOURS OF LAUGHS AND THRILLS 1 FOREST-BRED EDUCATED LEOFARDS] SCHOOL OF TIGEKS & FUMASI BIQ BEAR ACTOKS! ELEFHANTS & FONIES! GENUINE BOXING KANGAROOS! 550 000 Group of Blacl( Maned African Lions The Only Group of Exclusively Forest-Bred Lions in Existence Scores of Gymnastic Stars from Everywhers] An Army of Furiously Funny Olowns! Earth's Largest Safety-First Steel Arenal 3 Rings—2 Stages—Vast Acrial Spaces EVERY MORNING AT 10:30—RAIN OR SHINE Big New Free Street Parade cular Introduction to the orl Greatest Wild Animal Circus 2 I’ERF!JHIIAIIGES DAILY' AFTENIWI AT 2. NIGHT AT B