New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 25, 1916, Page 4

One Night, Friday, Oct 27 ¢ W. Willets Presents “THE SIMP” A Rapid Fire Ammunition COomedy By Zellah Coving- ton, Author of “Some Baby.” e Simp” will be seen here exactly as New York will see it, PRICES $1.50, 75¢, 50c and 2 Seats at Crowell’'s Tuesday Night. Lttt s iatantil - rain s Saturday, Oct. 28th § Matinee and Night, John Cort Presents $1.50, .$1.00, PRICES—Night, c, 2 75¢, PRIC 3\ ince, $1.00, 50¢, 23c. Seat Sale Wednesday 7:30 p. m., Crowell's Drug S 10 PIECE VICTOR HERBERT ORCHESTRA—10 BRI P TR Lt R, HHLRD FOX'S Teday and Tomorrow ATTRACTION XTRAORDINARY Mr. Willinm Fox Presents His Shakespearian Master- piece THEDA BARA N ROMEO and JULIET The Film Sensation Incomparable Cast of persons. Magnificent stupendous! 2,500 and Billie Burke IN Gloria’s Romance” PATHE WEEKLY SEE AMERICA FIRST CUB COMEDY No Increase in Prices! Continuous Performances 2 to 11 P. M, ARRANGE TO EARLY SHOWS cvening, 10; = | cn bars, one saw mud, another stars.” Thursday. Fox in FAIRFA Tonight Ha ATRICE and | ! i sather Drama. O LIFE” Red “THE ¥ ISL Fri, Farle Williz “PHE SCARLET them ing a gold fence | Lattern of it were just a little dif-|in the morning = ws /?r Her Side---and His Marital A STORY YOU CAN How Cora and David Temple Solved Their By ZOE BECKLEY Problems A Business Woman’s Home A young couple, friends of Walter Stedman, anxious to live in the country, were struggling to unyoke themselves from the lease of their city apartment. The place was exactly what the Stedmans needed, Janet de- clared- And, without more ado, they slipped into it. “But, dear, isn’'t It too big?” Walt objected. “I don’t want you to be vorried with housekeeping. It's bad enough your going to business every day without having to think of cleaning and marketing and fussing with kitchens and things.” h “Oh, but, Walt, If you only knew how I've longed to have a kitchen! Rows of lovely canned tomatoes and ssparagus and salmon and peas and jars of jam and bottles of olives and pokles. “It'll be a perfect joy to get little dinners and breakfasts. I love to cook. And I've lived in boarding houses so long that the sight of my own sas stove and porcelain sink gives me spasms of happiness.” ‘They’'ll give you spasms of meariness. I'm afraid,” “1 cant bear the thought of you coming home from business tired, and maybe wet with rain, fussing about a kitchen. It isn't right. Let's take a hotel apartment or something, so we can get our meals out.” “Yes, and pay a fortune for it, and have everything taste alike, and have to dress up and talk to a lot of gousipy people we don’t care anything about, and—oh Waltie, don’t you see that if a thing is what you want, it isn't hard work? Don’t you see it's ali in the point of view? You can make any under- taking casy or hard, according to how you go about it. Having an apart- ment of my own won't make a domestic slave of me. I'll let you take me out to dinner loads and loads of time -any ime, in fact, that I feel tired or not in the mood to cook. Having a kitchen, well stocked and conven- jent, won't mean more cooking for me. It will only mean that when I do hoose to cook it will he easler than messing around with a kitchenette or g out somewhere.” But the scullion’s drudgery, Janet,” ling and sweeping and bed making and stuff like Why I shan't do that, silly old boy. T'll have a nice motherly old cullud pusson come around cvery morning and make the Fouse neat a pin. She shall wash the dishes and pots and kettles left growled Walt. protested Walter gloomily. “The that.” comfortable, hearer Goe | | | { |at | breath, rs and AR - REVELATIONSOF A WIFE By ADELE GARRIGON Why Lillian Said “Don’t Think About the Al Luncheon.” dear, what mooning over that you me come in? I heg your pardon, | Madge, what is the matter? Tell me.” | Lillian Underwood stood before me. Lillian, whose entrance inta the small | reception Toom of the Sydenham, at which we had an appointment, T had | not even seen. She stood looking down at me with an anxious, alarmed | expression in her eves. | “There Is nothing the matter,” I returned, evasively. “Don’t tell me a terradiddle, my, dear,” Lillian countered smoothly. | “You're as white as a sheet, and I! can see vour hands trembling this | minute. Something has happened to upset you. But, of course, if yowd| rather nat tell me—" | There was a subtle hint of with- drawal in her tone. T was afraid that I had offended her. Aftor all, why| not tell her of the stranger who had s0 startled me? i “Look over by the door, Tillian, T said, in a low voice, “not suddenly as If T had just spoken to you about it, but carelessly. Tell me if there is @ man still standing there staring us.” Tillian whistled softly little trick she Man at Just Enjoy Your my are you didn't see Well, | heneath her | has when | | surprised. over from dinner the night before. She'll keep jus neat and tidy and shining and happy, all for $4 a week. Cora Temple’s Cook has a sister who wants work out Walt, i a cinch!” added Janet with a lau and delight that Walter could cnly agree to htr scheme though sculine reasoning still gloomed at the outlook. % “And now- few hours each day. Why, h so full of anticipaticn his » let me see,” went on janet blithely. “You're to have the room off the parlor for your study. It’s completely separated from the rest of the apartment, and no matter how jate vou hammer your old typewriter there nights with your stories and your piays vou won't distur bme. The Prown rug’ll just fit nicely there, and the mahogany highboy Cora Temple iwve us, and o “Janet Stedman, what are you talking about! »om and the best furniture and that brown rug and. “Walter Stec n, ycu'll have what I tell you. The small room is better tor me anyhow. T like the view over the square, and it’s sunnier than the hintz will go so well in it ,and T love chintz. Now, now, Walt, not another word. You're to have the room off the parlor for a study. The more comfortable you are the sooner vou'll be a famous author and play- ght.” “And when T am, will you stop being a working girl ” asked Walt a fully under his bantering tone. “Maybe,” said Janet, kissing him. “But I'm afraid I'm afraid I'm toofond of work and—and independence 1o quit altogether—ever.” “But there are other things than business.” “Yes, Waltie, there are—all in their good time. But just now I'm want- my home, my longed-for, business woman’s home.” won’t have the best | | i | | | | bit wi Never Quite “Two men looked out from pris ,and on the whole vsually good simply the food The fried chicken wonderful.” v { When I met the other, I said that There are some people in the world ' 1 had heard they had found M- who never are quite satisfied. Give 'a very pleasant place and the food un- the world and they'd be want- [ ually good. “Yes,” she said, “the food around it. Give them | vas pretty good on the whole, but T be wishing the ; wish they would have cooked cercal un- were —Stevenson. | the fence and they'd terent. She Wishes the Littie Bit Higher. I have a friend who has never| 1, other words, it ‘ot, so far as I can find out, had a| o take this huml gown with which she was perfectly | woman saw th satisfied. Somectimes she buys them 1eady-made and has them altered, | and sometimes she has them made by | Bevond a certain polnt, satisfac Waist Line Were a | tion is not a matter of what you have, {1t is a matter of what you look at in | { what you have point of view. humble instance—one © lack of cooked cereal, saw the fried chicken. Because Thorns Have Roses. the othe | went | of his actions away from me and kept A dressmaker. But never, in any Some people g0 through the world | “Oh-h-h!" she breathed, and turn-| ing she looked swiftly at the place ! I had indicated. “T sce a disappearing back which locks as though it might belong to, 2 ‘masher.” T just caught sight of him as he turned—well set-up man ahout | middle age, hair sprinkled with gray, I rath >r stunning looking.” Tilllan's Common Sense, “Yes, that is the man,” T returned, faintly, “but Tillian, T'm sure he isn't | an ordinary ‘masher. He had the! cfrangest, saddest, most mysterions Took in his eves. Tt was almost as if | he knew me or thought he did, and T, T have the most uncanny feeling about TAm, as if he wore some one T had known long ago. T can’t describe to | von the cffcct he had mpan me.” “Nonsense,” Tilllan said, brusquely, “the man is fvst an ordinary common ladv-killer of the type that infests these hot and ought to he horse- shinned at sight. You're getting fanciful, and T don’t wonder at it | Youve had a terrible snmmer, with all that trouhle Dranor caused vou. and T imasine you haven't heen having any too easv a time with dear mamma-in-law T'm mizhtv elad vou're going to get awav with Dicky hv vourself. A woeel in the mountains cught to set von np wonderfallv, and vou certainly meed it when vou start weaving mysterious tragedies about the common or garden varlety of masher.” " TAllian’s rough common sence steadled me. as it alwavs does. T felt ashamed of my momentary emotion “T fancy right. TAllian’* T sald monchalantly “Tot's forget about it and have some lunch. Where shall we 02" “There’s a ttle tea down the stroet here” she said very Tnglish, with the tea cezies £1] that sort of frills, and their Tuncheon dishes are Shall we try it?” “Ry all means, out of the hotel Although T looked around fur- tively and fearfully as loft the hotel entrance. T could see no trace of the man who had so startled me. | Scoring myself for being so foolish as) 10 fmagine that the man might =till be kcoping track of me, T put all thought the you're room e and same of deliclous. | hully T returned. and we together. we up with Tilllan’s brisk pace, chatting !4 mere coincidence, or he may | followed you. | ing. | he should attempt to get fresh—well, i comical that I 1 man entering the door, for he turned ! forget I'm a perfect persons | week { tance, | ton’s best comedy. omen Reade_lls come in here if he wishes. It may be WO WE CLOTHE"MEN, have MEN AND CHILDREN You're rather fetching in that sport rig, my dcar, as your| mirror probably told you this morn- | Unless he obtrudes himself there | is nothing you can do or s and if I pity him, that's all.” Lillian’s threatening air was so! lost my nervousness and laughed autright at her belliger- ency. The laugh was not a loud one, but it evidently was audible to the fa St; and cast a quick sharp look upan me | before moving on to a taMle farther down the room. The waitress indi- cated a chair, which, if he had taken it, would have kept his back toward us. He refused it with a slight shake (f the head, and passing around to the other side of the table sat down In 7 chair which commanded a full view of us. Lillian’s foot heat a beneath the table. “The insolent ald goat,” she murmured, vindictively. “Ie’d better look out. T'd hate to lady, but T'm afraid T may have to break loose if that chap stays around here.” “Oh, don’t say anvthing to him.” Lillian,” T pleaded, terribly distressed &nd upset at the very thought of a | bossible scene. ‘“Tet’s hurry thraugh cur luncheon aAnd get out.” | “We'll do nothing of the kind.” | Tilllan said. “Don’t think about the | man at all, just go ahead and enjoy quick tattoo h { vour luncheon as if he were not here at all. Tl attend to his case good and plenty if he gets funny.” “THE SIMP” ONE | OF WORLD'S FUNNIEST ¥ quality of exploited in “The The great American bluff is amazingly Simp,” the new comedy by Zellah Covington that will be presented by Clarence W. Willets at the Lyceum Jriday night. i “The Slmp” is humorous in the ex-| treme with a jolly story, amazing and laughable situations and ! novel complications appearing unceas- | ingly. And bluff figures in a big way throughout the comedy. A woman decides ta make a bluff. Her idea is to create the impression that she has| wealth and position. By this method she plans to establish herself in life. | Another woman sees the wisdom of this process as suggested by her | friend, and suggests it to the man she loves, but who at present does not 1ove her. At least he thinks he doesn’t. He wakes up later, so he, taking her advice, decided to bluff. His savings are scanty, but he em- | pioys all in his experiment. He hires a motor car, the girl who cares for |} him poses as his secretary and an office hoy consents to act as his valet. "t )AL T Y well-dressed even tho you may not be blessed with a big income and have plenty of TRIMMED HATS, D RESSES, WAISTS, SKIRTS, SHOES, IT IS NOT DIFFICULT to be ready cash. Our mous ‘““Charge Account’’ ylish Dressing possible. makes Fur Trimmed and Fabric Fur Trimmed SUITS Fashion says that milady must wear Fur this season—and to fulfill that decree have prepared a wide we range of Fur and Fur- fabric trimmed Suits in Wool Velours, Broadcloths, Gaberdines, Serges, Poplins, SUITS AT SUITS AT SUITS Up to $65.00. AT THE SEASON'S VERY COATS $7.98 to $59.75, FINEST Charming models in Bolivia cloth, Velours, Plushes and all the sea- desirable A wide son's ma- terials, riety. va- 0y ETC. By these pretenses a fifteen dollar a | - clerk returns from New York | to his home town in New Hampshire, | impresses everybady with his impor- outreaches big financial inter- ests, and palls off a rich munitions contract. “The Simp” is Mr. Coving- It is to be pre- York right away. The and production will be | f over 2 ats now selling. and stupendous screen adaptation of {tho Shakespearian | Romeo and Juliet, with that famous character artiste Theda Bara in the title role, supported by Harry Hilliard Romeo and an incomparable cast 0 persons. This feature sented in New New York c: scen here. S ! regular program which consists of the | fifteenth chapter of Glorfa’s Romance, “PRINEESS PAT” CAN | Pathe Weekly, Sce America First and {the cub comedy *“For a Cave Man.” SURE START TROUBLE }On account of the tremendous interest manifested in this attraction the per- “forn!nnce at this house will be con- {tinuaus today and tomorrow, from 2 “The Princess Pat,”” John Cort's (to 11 p. m. and Manager Melarkey production of the Henry Blossom- 'makes a special request that as many | Victor Herbert comic opera,with Miss | as possible arrange to see the early | masterplece, | ‘\\ill be shown in connection with the | Ruth Welch and a carefully select- evening show, which will begin about | iven credit for much of the comedy work of the production, assisted by the, energetic and resourceful Bobby Barry. This season the show is rich in scenic beauty, as well, showing Ha- | walian 'ccenes that are almost | yond description, and together with | catchy music and an attractive chorus the show bids fair to make another patronage record the Grand. - A clever bit of commedy in the show is called ““A Girl From Nowhere,” which abounds in witty dialogue ,sparkling | songs, pretty girls and artistic col- {oring. The principals are known well- to Hartford audiences, as they are rostly individual favorites, and they are putting their best efforts into their work this week, helping to make the show another top-notcher. Somo with her gayly over our past experi-| RUNNER” ences in buying hats and the execrable ed oast after its highly ful run | 6 o'clock. | of 160 consecutive nights at the Cort this feature Miss Bara says: In speaking of her part in | principals that might be mentioned i Bob complaining because their roses have | o ine . s ave | erpeclally are arvey Brooks, i 3 cnse, are they wholly right. Fre- thorns, Others are always happy be. | (uently the fit of the sleeve does not Good Vaudeville Bill. Zris ~ ALL THIS f§| AND WEEK HARTFORD. MAIDS | OF AMERICA With A1K. Hall And An All-Star Cast. 2 Ladies’ Matinee—10c i LADIES’ NIGHT Etna Bowling Alleys Each Wednesday Eve. lleys open to ladies every Afternoon. HARTFORD ART SCHOOL 2 40th Year Opens Oct. 2 Saturday morning Classes brawing and color. Write articulars. |28 PROSPECT ST, Hartford Conn. in for You Want Good Bottied | Beer, Wine or Liguors, Order Same from PHILIP BARBECK quite suit her. If it isn’t that, it is cause their thorns have roses, | creations turned out by milliners gen- | A discontented, restless, never quite | satisfled frame of mind is a mental dcformity. He who possesses it g | cross-eyed in the mind. Instead of | sceing the roses, he sees the thorns, Now, I hate the slushy, sentimen- tal kind of optimlsm—no one more, the hang of the skirt. Or, maybe, che wishes the walst line had been a little bit higher. It's always, “I wish it were a little this, or a little that,” always that | big little that stands between content | nd discontent. | ihe Fried Chickens Were Wonderful. | 1 believe in resenting injustice, in aq- mitting when things are wrong, anq lin trying to Improve one’s condition, But o straight common-sense pro. Two friends of mine spent their va- cation at a certain inn. I met one of them and asked her how she liked | the place. “My dear, it was charm- | position, it doesn't pay to concentrate ing,” she sald. “Such’ pretty sur- | your attention on the minor flaws of roundings and such a nice hostess, | lite. 7y G one cupful sugar, and yolks five eggs. When cool, add two cupfuls whipped cream, a little salt, one tablespoonful vanilla extract, and one cupful brown bread crumbs dried in the oven and cooled. Freeze. OIT OW—} m'enu for Tom Breakfast. Bananas Cheese Omelet Popovers Coffee Boiled Rice |Fadsand Fashions Lunch Mutton ang Macaroni Ple Apple Fritters Chocolate Serge chamois 18 a new fabric which is excellent used with velvet. The much disputed hoopskirt effect is undoubtedly disappearing. Paon and mirror velvets are cially liked for millinery purpos Dinner. Boileq Leg of Mutton, Caper Sauce Boiled Rice Mashed Potatoes Cold Stuffed Tomatoes Brown Bread Ice Cream Coffee o Catawba, is one of the colors to be seen among broadcloth suits, A great deal of the darkest fur will be used as bands on dres: mink Cold Stuffed Tomatoes—Peel some g | tomatoes, cut slice from top of each | and scoop out. some of the pulp. Fill | — tomatoes with equal parts of chop- The skirts of afternoon gowns are ped sardines, celery and olive { rather more claborate than others. soned with oil and vineg: A1t paprik Serve on lettuc sea- and | A pale pink hat with a loose veil of black be a most enchanting Make a 85 Arch St. ‘Phone 482-2 xsoll. custard with two cupfuls milk, Brown I d Ice Cream lace can * thing, likely | erally. “Don’t Say Anything.” The tea rcom proved all that Tillian had promised.” Fortuntely, we were early enough to escape the noon hour rush and secure a good table near a window lookinz out upon the street. “T like to look out upon the people passing, don’t you?” Tilllan sald, as| che scated herself. | “Yes, T do,” T assented, and then we turned our attention to the menu cards. “T'm fearfully hungry,” Tdllian an- | nounced. Ehih been digging all | morning. Oh! it's chicken pie here | toany.”” Her volce held all the glee | of a gormandizing child. “T don't think these individual chicken pies they serve here can he beaten in New York,” she went on. “You know the usual mess—potatoes and onion, and a little bit of chicken | mixed up with a sauce they insult | with the name gravy. These are the real article—just the chicken meat | with a deliclous gravy covering fit, | Paked in the most flaky crust you can | | imagine. What do you say to those, | with some baked potataes, new Hma | beans, sliced tomatoes and an lce for | desert?” | “I don’t think 1t can be improved | upon,” T a4, gayly, and then I| clutched Lilllan’s arm. “Look quick- ' ly,” T whispered, “the other side of the street!” | Lillian’s eyes followed mine to the | oppasite side of the street, where, ! walking slowly along, was the man I | | had seen in the hotel. He aid not | once look toward the tea room, but he came opposite to it he turncd from the pavement and crossed the street lefsurely toward us, ‘Oh! I believe he is coming in,” T | gasped, and my knees tremble beneath me. | | “Suppose he i Lillian snapped | beck. Her tone held a contemptuous | impatience that braced me as nothing | else could. “The man has a right to began to theater, New York, will be the wel- played the vampire woman a dozen | have - | times, and have been thrilled by the! for Saturday. Plosser and Herbert |power of the emotions I was essaying. | has become so well established as col- 'But the vampire roles have not been | laborators in the composition of light 'all. There have been moments such | and oomic ope that any work from |as in “Fast Lynne” ar “Under Two | these gifted men attracts more than jolags,” where my heart has been | passing attention. They have to their throbbing with the excitement of my | credit such other pronounced suc- |fancied wrongs. These were sympa- | cesses as Mdlle. Modiste,” “The Red !thetic parts, which gave me oppor- Mi1l The Prima a” and “The {unity to touch new emotions and play | Only Girl.” The five productions are ypon untried heartstrings. Yet I have | the only ones Blossom and Herbert pever found any part which called for | colloborated. They have all | the keen psychological insight and de- | proven positive hits artistically and |tajleq analysis that was necessary for | have been wonderful money makers, |interpreting the character of Jullet, | both for producers and authors. The 'ghe combines purity of heart with story of ‘“The Princess Pat” has to giow of imagination, sweetness and do with the flirtations of the Princess (ignity of manners, and passlonate Patrice di Montaldo (nee Patrice yjolence of emotion. This feature is O'Connor) who is called Pat for 'in seven reels, under the direction of | short. Her husband has of late dis- |y Gordon Edwards and there are no | played a lack of demonstration in his 'quil stretches. The action is nicely | affcction for her, and to bring him timed to please the average film fan | to that condition again as well as t0 'gn4 the attentian st all times 1s! save her friend, Grace Holbrook, from |focused on the two lovers. Neither | a marriage to a man many vears her the claborate backgrounds nor the | senfor, hut disgustingly wealthy, she Vm_emm[ous mob scenes can for a | starts a little affair with the old duf- | orent hold the center of interest ! fer that serves to accomplish her pur- against Miss Bara's vivid Jullet. | pose, but, in the meantime, created | Gritics and public allke have pro- | havoc with the happiness of her hus- | 'oincoq this the greatest part ever | band and the majority of others con- | nqartaken by Miss Bara, and her | cerned in the play. The book con- | oty ore ¥ = O ing to see. | tains an abundance of scintillating lines, while the score of Victor Her- bert Is as usual a joy to hear. There are twenty numbers, and every one of them is distinctive of the brilliancy of the celebrated composer. Seat sale tonight at Crowell’s. \gain the critics have placed their | “ROMEO AND JULIET” : < ave stamp of approval on the offering of AT FOX'S THEATER |the \‘rrund! theater. The public | pleased with past shows at she Grand, | lis this week uranimous in its ap- proval, s evidenced by the ca- A photoplay treat par excellence is|pucity sudiences, and “Maids of promised the amusement loving|America,” that last season was one of public of New Britain for today and |the best attractions on the Columbia tomorrow theater when {y heel, is I#ve again stronger and bet- | T his magnificenttcr than ever. Al K. Hall must be | come attraction at the Lyceum the: |CRITICS PUT O. K. | | | ON GRAND BILL | Calvert, Tony Shane, Alfaretta Symonds. “FADS AND FANCIES” PLEASING OPERA HIT , Ed Bisland and Nothinz in the musical comedy line playing at Keeney's this season hed attracted such attentlon as “Fads And Fancles,” a comic opera in miniature, offered as this week’s vaudeville head- liner. The act Is handsomely staged and the entire production is offered on extravagant style, the scenery, cos- tumes and other accessories being most elaborate. The company presenting the piece is headed by Harry and Annette Shaw, a palr of entertainers well known in New Britaln. They have the support of some very funny comedians and a bevy of mighty pret- ty girls. The young ladies can sing and dance in pleasing fashifon and they contribute heavily towards thae success of the act, There are twc other good numbers on the program. The vaudeville bill is very attractive and the patrons are enthusiastic over the different special- tles, Tonight's film program will includd Grace Darling &nd Harry Fox In Beatrice Fairfa and the Red Teather drama, “The I Of Life." ¢ On Friday and Saturday there will be a new episode in “The Scarlet Runner” series, featuring Farle Wil llams, e A surprising number of the new coats have the side fullness introduced last fall. The fall coats either cover the en= | tire dress or reach just above the hemy The new soft, thin velvets are very ¢ different from the more familian heavy sorts.