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

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1916. LYCEUM NEXT WEEK Matinees — Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. A Musical Play in 3 Acts “Alma, Where Do You Live?” Alma Wo Wohnst Do? Book by Paul Herve. Music by Jean Briquet. Adapted from the German by Geo. V. Hobart. 500 Nights at Weber’s Theater. PRICES—Night 10c, 20c, 30c 50c. MATINEES—10c, 20c. We Turned 500 People Away at Lyceum Last Night. See “The Time, The Place and The Girl” You Will Not Be Disappointed. Seats at Crowell’s for Tonight and Tomorrow, TONIGHT and SAT. OCHARLIE CHAPLIN, IN ‘BEHIND THE SCREEN' EARLE WILLIAMS, IN “THE SCARLET JARUNNER” A STORY YOU OAN BEGIN AT ANY 1TIME Her Side---and His How Cora and David Temple Solved Their By ZOE BEOKLEY Why Girls Are “Pestered” Wher dinner was over gnd Millie was reinforced by the first decent meal she had eaten in months, Janet took her forlorn little guest into her own room to hear the rest of her story. “Prader’s firing me,” narrated Millie with directness and brevity, “because I don’t go when he asks me to lunch and dinner.” Ah—the old familiar tale. It was a story Janet had sneered at more or less all her lfe. As a successful business woman, she felt a certain contempt for the girl who was always being ‘“fired” and ‘pestered” and then “fired” again. While she was thinking this she was looking steadily at Millfe, and Millie was obntinuing with her story. “It ain't that I don’t want the meals. Gawdknows, Mis' Stedman, I 2in't had a reg'lar dinner in seven months till I et yours tonight. But I'm trying to live decent and earn my way like—like you and the stenographers in the office. It's dead certain Prader ain’t spending his good money for no charity. Us girls know we elther gotta come acrost or get fired, that's all there is to it.”” Millie’s words had the air of truth. Millie's face with its coatige of cheap powder, was sincere, her blue eyes direct and steady. Janet knew she could save Millie’s position for her, but she did not wish to cut the story short. She wanted to find out why the Millles had such a hard road and how it could be made easier. “Don’t you think,” she asked Millie, “that you imagine Mr. has wrong intentions? He is an important man in our office.” “Oh, shucks!—I beg yer pardon, Mrs. Stedman. Didn’t he get Mabel Heavey and her sister both fired? And din’t another girl leave after telling him before half the office what she thought of him? know what the red-haired girl in the inspection department told me the other day? She can do as she likes; I ain’t no judge of her. But I ain’t ready to do that myself yet, Mrs. Stedman. The only reason he don’t pester vou,” added Millie with sudden personal allusion, “is because he dassent.” “Why ‘dassent’ he if he is such a wretch as you describe?” “Don’t you KNOW? Why, because you'd leave! And he couldn’t fill your job. He can fill our jobs in twenty minutes. A man—even a natural skunk like him—don’t dast be fresh with a smart girl. It's only us seven- dollar girls that gets pestered.” So that was the answer. Janet realized for the first time in her life that a girl’s only perfect armor is efficiency. She had always vaguely sup- posed it was up to the girl herself-—her manner, her clothes, her face, her deportment. She herself had always been a good worker, an asset to her employer. ‘Her labor returned big percentge of profit to him. That, then, was why she had so safely sailed the seas of self-support. “No man with brains in his head,” Millie was continuing, “is gonna guarrel with a moneymaker. It's dead cold business sense that keeps Prader, and others llke him from interfering with you and—and ladies like you. You may think its your but it ain’t. It's just because you’re onto your job.” “Why don’t you get onto your job then, Millie? Learn to be valuable?” Millle gazed. “Me? I gotta swell chance of gettin' educated. My father earns sixteen a week and there’s six of us kids. I hatta be a cash girl for three-fifty a week before I finished the sixt’ grade.” “You could go to night school.” Marital Problems Prader OTHER GOOD FILMS High Class Vaudeville Triangle Plays Present Bessie Barriscale IN “PLAIN JANE” Paramount Plays Present Lenore Ulrich N “THE INTRIGUE” HY TONE COMEDY BURTON-HOLMES TRAVELOGUE Matinee 5¢ — Evening 10c GRAND ¥etiord ALL THIS WEEK The New : . v “Sporting Widows GIRLS! GIGGLES! GOWNS! The 90-Horsepower Show Harry Cooper and Ruth Lock- wood. AND POINTS AVANA W eusa bplendid hotels; a delightful tropical biimate. Horse racing at Oriental Park. NASSAU satiams AHAMAS Polo, motoring, tennis and surf-bath- n Large modern hotels. ailings Thursdays and Saturdays from few York i MEXICO Regular sailings for Progreso, Vera ruz and Tampico. THROUGH THE PANAMA €ANAL ‘est Coast ports Central America, and alina Cruz, Mexico, direct. Regular sail- gs. Connections at Cristobal, (Colon,) or South America and the Orient Large passenger steamers sailing under he American flag. For Ilterature and nformation apply WARD LINE ew York and Cuba Mail S. 8. Co. Foot of Wall _Street, New York. Or any Ralligad Ticket Office Or _Authorized “Fourist Agency, the duties she had when she got home at night—dishwashing, her shirtwaists, tending the young ones: ; . laundering . . “I gotta swell chance of gettin’ educated,” repeated Millie. e s “T’ll see you keep your place,” sald Janet. And when Millie had gone, Janet and her husband till the wee small hours. talked—talked Something for Nothing Five Hundred Thousand Letters. When the government was finally put on his track and the *“firm” fled, | there were over five hundred thou- nd letters waiting for him in post office. It seemed unbelic wtelligent women w by such a ridiculeu offer as a petticoat up to date T he of my friends who dime, A fourth sven after ederal You cannot get something for noth- ing from anyone (except mavbe a mother). Emphatically not from Luasiness firm. Everyone knows this, Apparently few women believe Every now and then we: get demonstration of this. T wonder if you have latest. Some time ago women received a a it a able to me t 1d be taken in on the face of for ten ve heard of three have sent the heard the several thousand letter telling them, that for purposes of quick advertising, a certain firm would sell a four dol- lar and a half silk petticoat for éL‘ dime, You must write five letters to | five other women, putting up the ! proposition to them, then send their | addresses and a dime to the firm and | get your petticoat. persisted in sending hers, she had heen told of the estigation The Price Scemcd Too Low To Me. “If they had made the price more passible,” T suggested to the woman wio first told me of this, “a dollar, for instance, one could understand.” “No,” said she, “they are wise to put it so low. The women think that it's only a dime and therefore | | Furniture For a Doll's House. Now you may have heard of the | advertisement in which the adver- | tiser promises to send a parlor suite [ worth risking. TIt's like staking a for some such rediculous sum as | small sum on long odds. And lots §13.95.' No word is said in the ad-|of them may have sent it just for vertisement about dimensions and | cariosity vhen the suite arrives it proves to | Le otherwise as described, but suit- able for a doll's house. | 1 thought at first this must be a similar hoax, but I was wrong. It was a far simpler affair. Instead of sending a diminutive petticoat the advertiser sent nothing at all. To concludé, those five hundred thousand letters have got to be opened by the dead letter office, and the contents returined. Wouldn’t it be wonderfu) if that fifty thousand dol- lars could only be turned over to the Belglans or some other suf- terers! war MASONIC CONCERT. Miss Kerns the soprano soloist St. Bartholomew's church in New York city possesses a lyrie voice. of . great brilliancy and sweetness added | to which is a rare ability to interpret. and will please every one who hear i at | The at Noted Singers to Be at Fox Theater | December 5th. of Waterbury Kerns of New give their concert Tuesday evening, The Masonic choir assisted by Mi York city wil Fox theater, cember 5th. Grace chorus is composed De- | trained voices and those who {heard them prafse their work. It will be a rare treat that will | Arthur Turner. conductor of greet the musio-loving public, when choir is well known as a leader and the Masonic choir of fifty traired it goes without ¥ that he will voices and Miss Grace Kerns will do everyt his power to make render their concert. | this song festival, one long to be { membered Those who intend to go should get their tickets and seats now, don’t wait for the Jast minute, it may mean disappointment. New Britain Teachers’ Ciub i Tlrk‘et~>(nl on First Concert of the | Season MISS ELSIE BAKER, Contralto, 'Cello and Plano Accompanying Grammar School Hall, THURSDAY, DECEMBER Tickets—50c-75¢, at Crowell’s of have the sale at Crowell's NOTICE The New Driizin Wet Wash having maved into thelr cquinped tuilding are prepared to «o first cl work, We patro newly 7 sodlel your HERALD ADVTS PAY DIVIDENDS Mon- | i e action g S0 day, D ¥ All Seats Reserved, 04, uavant N And don't T | quiet manners and your neat clothes, | Millie tried to keep her glance from being withering as she explained | the cents; | fifty | re- ! T e e e e e e e . e [ 1 By ADELE REVELATIONSOF A WIFE GARRISON How the Cosgrove Household Re- ceived the News of the Fortune in Savarin’s Pictures, Every one at the Cosgrove supper table trailed Dicky and me into the farmhouse parlor at Mr. Cosgrove's invitation to look over the pictures | which his brother-in-law had painted of the Catskill mountain scenery. 1 was all agog with suppressed ex- citement at the mystery which I scented in the farmhouse life. Mrs, Cosgrove’s look of fear at my assertion that I could tell her twin boys apart, her tenseness of expression | at the mention of pictures, and the look of furtive watchfulness which I had seen in the eyes of Mrs. Allis, all crystalyzed my impression that there was something unusual about the pic- tures which we were to see. A big hanging samp in the center of | the room had been lighted and cast| the soft, kindly glow which only an oil lamp can give over the rather good pieces of furniture and the many paintings which the Toom contained. I was standing nearest to Dicky, and therefore first saw the look of surprise on his face as he glanced at the paintings. His air of bored lst- lessness had left him. He almost bounded toward the nearest one and scrutinized it carefuly. Then he made a quick inspection of the others. As he turned back to us again, his eyes were shining: “You say your brother-in-law’ painted these?” he demanded of Mr. Cosgrove. ‘““Then your brother-in-law must be Rohert Savarin.” “You Are Quite Correct.” A little groan quickly suppressed from Mrs. Cosgrove—a hissing, in-| drawn breath, so slight that if I had not been standing next to her, I would | not have noticed it, from Mrs. Allis— answered Dicky's words. Mrs. Cosgrove's face held an emotion T could not fathom. But into ! Mrs. Allis’ eves, as I watched her, | there leaped into life, then died again, | ! a look of fear. | . Mr. Cosgrove straightened himself | | to his full height, which must hn\'el | been six feet two. | “You are quite correct,” he sa!d! | | { | ! | with dignity. “Robert Savarin did paint these pictures. Did vou know | him?” I noticed the past tense of the; | question. Was the hand that had | wielded the brush in paintings that | even to my inexperienced eves looked { rarely valuable, no longer vibrant| with life? T waited anxiously for Not personally,” Di turned. | “Fe was hefore my time, but T know | | and reverence his work, as all the men Dicky’s reply. | | the Place and the Girl” i | other musical ‘for of nis_profession must do, and of i eourse T know- ff suddenly in an abrupt | recognized. Tt always | 1dden realization that | ething indiscreet. T/ wonld not finish what | But his sudden stop unnoticed the other people in | o e, the word “pro- | fession” Mrs, Allis shot a swift ques- | tion at him. | “Are They Really Valuable?” “The men of your profession?” she quericd, with a mnonchalant air that did not deceive me, for I saw the | tenseness with which she awaifed Dicky's answer. “You are, then, an i artist “It depends upon what you mean by | the word,” Dicky turned to her. sud- | denly grave. “In the ordinary sense | of the word T suppose T am an artist, | at least T earn my living by that pro- | fossion, but work like mine is not worthy to be mentioned in the same | breath with genius such as this’” He raised his hand and pointed | reverently to the paintings which he | had been examining. I had heard | him talk in like extravagant strain be- | fore of men whose work he admired, | for Dicky is a hero worshipper 01-1 the most ardent type. i His words had a curiously contrast- | ing effect upon the two women in the ro Mrs, Cosgrove's eyes lghted | and a faint color as of gratified pride came into her cheeks. But the creamy | Allis’ face took on a| while at Dicky's next! actly saw, in the shelter | the fingers of one hand | fas mar ! he is sayving sc knew that he ‘hr\ had to s at gray tinge, words T di of her gown, clench the palm cruelly, “I suppose Vou know hese pirtures?" Dicky l o Mr. Cosgrove. ““’h\ l“\\'o'\o always 1 | the value of | said, turning ! the big man replied. known they were 1 know we've been dollars for that biggest But my wife never nted to sell them bhecause her brother painted them, and so we've| refused everybody, even Mrs Allis | here. She has been crazy to buy some | of them.” He sn pretty valuable, offered fifty one over there. down on the a lightning could have | iled admiringly little woman, who, by flash of insight, T knaw | struck him dumb for his speech. - Rut Without a quaver she snatched at the ingenuc role and plaved it daringly “Arc they really valuable?” she cooed at Dicl “I am so sorry, for then I can never hope to get one. s are such protty things, so life- like of the scenery about here which I love so much. I did so want to carry one home as a memento.” Dicky almost snorted at the epithet, - thing T knew that he put | s down as one of the people don’t know art, but who know what they like,” and that his cpinion | of her intelligence had =zone down with her evident iznorance the paint | But T wa that i@ concer of as sure that she was plaving | sho knew much as ing the collection of that for as Dicky c;lln.‘ue of its value. { small New | Throughout, | ve “I hate to put a commercial esti- mate on this work, but I think I ought to warn you,” Dicky said gravely, turning to Mr. Cosgrove, “that the paintings you have in this room are worth at a conservative estimate about fifty thousand dollars.” LYCEUM SINGERS WINNING THEIR WAY With the Lyceum Musical Stock company off to a fiying start, as has been shown during the week by greater success awaits the manage- ment next week. New Britain has al- ways been skeptical regarding its amusements and the audiences this week have not been large, on the whole. But what they have lacked in size has been offset by the effect the company has produced. With this week's audiences heralding the com- pany as the “best ever” the future should be assured. “The Time, the Place and the Girl” | will be produced tomorrow afternoon and evening for the last time and those who wish to hear and see this excellent musical ocomedy should se- cure their tickets early. Miss Georgia Campbell, Miss Leone Courtney, | George Bogues, Willlam Meehan, Wal, ter Wills and Ralph Sipperly, are leaders of high callber as thelr work during the week has shown, while the i other members of the company have | given all the co-operation necessary to furnish an entertainment of merit. The musical numbers of ‘The Time, are unsur- passed in the annals of musical com- edy’s history for their sweetness. Well rendered by the members of the Ly- ceum company, they have lost none of their charm. “Alma, Where Do You Live?”, an- comedy teeming with fun, will be presented next weelk. “PLAIN JANE" IS FOX OFFERING Bessie Barriscale and Cherles Ray are co-starred in the Triangle pro- gramme’s comedy-drama of college lite, entitled “Plain Jane”, which will be one of the attractions at Fox’s today and tomorrow. ‘Plain ** written by C. Gardner Sullivan, tale of a little nobody ss and beauty band, a home and happiness. Tt con- cerns the adventures of a slavey in a KEnzland college town, her innocent flirtation with one of the “‘college dudes”’, her winning of a beauty prize and her eventful capitu- lation to the wiles of Dan Cupid. LENORE o v FALLAS PICTUPFL - the the atmos piece is abundant here of the campus. Barriscale is seen in the title role, and it declared to be one of the most ingratiating characteriza- tions she has ever contributed to the screen. Charlie Ray is cast in the part of John “Sophomore” Adams, the serfous minded voung student who falls in love with “‘Jane”. The Para- mount offering to this program will the Pallas photoplay “The In- trigue”, featuring heautiful Lenore #This is an enlightening and sting screen story of the schem- ing, spying and counter-spving that is going on among the warring na- tions of Furove. That the charac- ters might be correctly portrayed players of established ability, who were natives of the states now at war, were selected. Interwoven with this world-wide scheming and plot- ting is shown the strange and facin- ating love story of a beautiful Count- ess and a young American. The bal- ance of this excellent entertainment will offer the Keystone players in two thousand feet of laughs, entitled “Bombs”, and featuring Charles Mur- ray and the Paramount Burton- Holmes Travelogt with iss LYCEUM PLAYERS HAVE GOOD VEHICLE Live” is de- “Freneh Vaudeville descriptive phras upon, as it is not wee mus nas a “Alma Where Do You which the erit 1sic hi teatvres In the original text the | enthusiasm and generous applause of | the audiences, it is expected that ever | whose | win her a hus- | News /or Theater Goers and Women Readers account.” desire. of the Winter season. price is RIGHT! them. TRIMMED HATS PARTY DRESSES STREET DRESSES WAISTS, SHOES, ' HERE are NO “extra charges’ avail yourself of the Helpful Privileges of our “Charge Simply say ‘‘Charge It and we arrange satisfac- tory Weekly Payments for you. Cold Weather Garments are Ready Inciuding a Fine Stock of WOMEN’S COATS All Sizes From 16 to 51 A coat to suit every taste and satisfy every feminine There are Plushes, Velours, Wool Velours, Boucles, Fancy Mixtures, Fancy Checks and all the tasteful models The stock is very large and every Do not buy ANYWHERE until you see The COAT Prices Run From $7.98 to 365.00 .$14.75, .8 2.98, .$12.75, ..8 5.98, Fur Sets Scarfs of ANY sort when you $16.75 and up to $55.00 $ 3.98 and up to $14.78 $16.75 and up to $35.00 $ 7.98 and up to $25.00 AND OTHER LINES ‘ Wg_ Clothe the Entire Fa@fily l LTI R 887—-685 MAIN STREEX HARTFORD “‘drollique”” (very droll and Translated into Ger- wit becomes more shocking and less clever. FHowever for Amer n consumption it has all been re-written by George V. and in the adaptation of the original book and in the composition of the seventeen lyrics, Mr. Hobart has eliminated all of the objectionable features of retaining only enough of to build the it was a very naughty.) man, its Gallic gave the piece runs in New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, where the press and theater going public proclaimed it | | one of the plays that most pleasing musical has ever been ‘produced. Alma is a fascinating French mil-/ is induced to lure an un- | liner, who sophisticated boy to propose to her in order of four million francs that has been left to him with the provision that he does not make love to or propose as a violation of the. wishes of the they, ed in seeing the voung man lose his inheritance. However, the best plans miscarry when Alma falls in love with Pierre, saves his fortune and finally marrfed him. after the time limit in the will has expired. It is a pretty and romantic story, compli- cated with most amusing situations, ! bright dialogue and some of the most catchy music that has been heard in many years. CHAPLIN FILM IS KEENEY’S BEST BET | Keeney patrons continue to get considerable amusement from the antics of Charlie Chaplin in his latest | comedy success, “Behind the Screen,” !the photoplay headliner at the thea- ter this week. The piece is probably the funniest combination of Chaplin oddities made since the comedian be- came a Mutual star and the two long reels are nothing more than a series of laughs with but little in- fon between any of them. It | that Chaplin has lost none of | his skill as a gloom chaser and dur- the time he piroutes around the screen there is not a dull moment for : the audience | The | 1 e are I s tat Keeney's | erowas are 2 lot of other good things this week and large | attracted to the theater | daily by the Besides the Chaplin film there are some good Unlversal cen offerings which will be aug- mented tonight and tomorrow by the X wile-a-minute 1, “The ter,” in which Harle | to a woman before a certain date, and | deceased glves the fortune to others, | in turn, become vastly interest- | laid | Hobart | v series of farcical complications which | merit of the program. its vogue for record | Boston | f to make him lose a fortune | playing so successfully. The vaudeville show is also | sociates gives the audience a |idea of the Indian of today a: as the redskin of his uncivilize the Four Youngs in which a pl program of high class numbe; land Smith also contributes Mequ for Breakfast Fruit Broiled Cod F Latticed Potatoes Graham Roll Coffee Lunch Macaroni with Brown Sauc: Waffles Dinner Green Pea Soup Baked Fish Riced Potatoes Lettuce Apple Pie Co! {ning much favorable attention. act of Chief Bull Bear and his as- win- The ook s well d era. { Then there is the musical specialty of easing Ty rendered on a variety of instruments. A song and conversational act by Wolf to the Tomorrow] e Cocoa Tomato Sauce French Dressing ffee Brolled Cod Fish—Remove skin and bone. has been and a little Have ready some butter blended with salt, lemon juice. Cu which pepper at in pieces the size of beans and set on ice until very firm. With a thick w skewer and in each push a bit Stand away and let broil. 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