New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 4

Walter Naylor Sparkling Comedy in Threc Acts, By Edgar selwyn, atinees—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: 10c, 20c; Nights, 10c, 20c, 30c and FEUM— it Appearance in New Brit- ain of the Most Famous Actor of the Modcrn Stages H. Southern led by the Charming Screen Beauty, PEGGY HYUAND, In The Chattel the Quality Photo Play. Jllflxl\lflfll. 6:30 to 10:30. Prices 10c, 20c. £ LYC Tonight, Fri,, and Sat. Blanche Sweet in “MISS RAGAMUFFIN” Earle Wiliams in “THE SCARLET RUNNER.” Week of Jan. 22, Nazimova in “WAR BRIDES” Coming Soon Mr. and Mrs, Vernon Castle in Big Serial. - RAND THEATRE NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1917. A STORY YOU OAN BEGIN AT ANY TIMB Her Side---and His Euow Cora and David Temple Solved Their Marital Problems By ZOE BECKLEY The Outlet. To quarrel or not to quarrel? That is the question in married life, Which clamors to be answered and never will be. The easier w: is to say with the careless thinker, “Never quarrel!” But a quarrel is not the cause of martial unhappiness so much as the effect. It is the natural outlet for an inner clash. Stop its outlet and the sore may fester and take some other and more dangerous escape- ment. Janet was both exasperated and de- pressed at Walt's refusal to write the serial story for Roy Nicoll! Itseemed to her there were a million crying needs for him to do it; and not one real reason against it. The lowering of his little bank reserve; the monot- onous rejections of his work by edi- tors and play managers, with their chorus of ::This is fine and strong, but not for the popular taste;” thc lean, famished look on his face from over- work and undernourishment of the spirit—all these harassed Janet even more than they did Walt, and made Roy Nicoll's offer loom inu greater splendor. But she bit back every word of disapproval at his covrse. She felt he had ensugh to bear. But if she succeeded in suppressing her fault-finding with what seemed to her his stubborn refusal, she could not find the spirit to praise and en- courage him in everything he did, as she used to do. Had he oniv spoken out, he would have met her com- plaints with a host of good reasons why he could not accept Nicoll's prop- osition. Quarrels, misunderstanding, would perhaps have arisen. But they might have cleared the air; at any rate, the tension would not have sought another outlet. Nor was the tension only between Walt and Janet. Walt himself had daily to fight within himself all that Janet believed. That he no longer had Janet’s outepoken and inspiriting encouragement to hearten him was a great loss and taxed his strength the harder. He lived mostly on hiu cour- age these days, and Janet's cheer was sorely need nourishment. One evening, when he found work impossible and Janet was ut the office working overtime on her magazine, Walt went to the Lafayette for a smoke and a crdmb of old-time com- banionship. He sat down at a table by himself. From a group at another table Lucy Bénton detachcd herself and came over to him. “Is your mood for one, two or many?” she asked, with the excep- tional woman's instinct about the man she loves. “Two,” Walt said, opposite chair. “That was a splendid bii of yours in ‘Truth’—The Silken Noosc’'—do more like it,” Lucy said. Walt laughed. There was no pleas- ure in his laugh. Lucy reud it well. Bit by bit she got him to tell her of Roy Nicoll and his offer, gave her no hint of Nicoll's suspected motive. She had, /nevertheless, no difficulty in seeing oll's whole mo- tive and scheme. KEven to herself she trled to hide the exultation she felt at the knowledge. But her face shone with a gayer spirit as she spid: “You're in great companv. Walt, Every man with a message instead of. an echo to utter has been alone and had rough traveling. The hard road you can't avoid. But you need never be alone. Janet loves you so much she can’'t bear to see yon suffer re- verses, starvation. But if she under- stood you better she would be willing to see you cut yourself on tlie stones so long as you were going in the right direction. There is much that is shabby about our bohemian crowd here. But they are not afraid of liv- ing on crusts and cooking or. a ker- osene stove If the situation calls for it. Janet's seen so much penury in her earlier days that it's become a nightmare to her. I've scen so much of it that I've become ecallcus to it, That's the difference between us that and the fact that I'n a rebel; while she belongs at the king's court. ‘And vou, Walt-—where do you be- long?" A party of gay nonentities in eve- ning dress, chattering futilities and staring with slummers’ eyves at Walt and the strikingly dresed Lucy, quiet- Iy chatting, passeq by them. The wu- men were all of the “Lou type Walt had described in his story. “I am with you, Lucy!” Walt said. “I'm a rebel! pointing to the though Walit | Bay e FTablots Asplrln Do You Use Aspirin? If so, buy the one genuine. Every package and every tablet of genuine Aspirin bears “The Bayer Cross” — your protection against counterfeits and harmful substitutes. ““The Bayer Cross—Your Guarantze of Purity’’ ‘The trade-mark ' ‘Aspirin” (Reg. U. S. Pat. Office) is a guarantee that the monoaceticacidester of salloylicacid in these tablets is of the reliable Bayer manufacture. REVELATIONS OF A WIFE By ADELE GARRISON What Mrs, Cosgrove Told Madge About Her Famo: Brother's Life The very air of the Cosgrave farm- house parlor seemed vibrant with tragedy as Mrs. Cosgrove's voice rose in her denunciation of the woman who had ruined her brother’s life. All around us on the walls of the room were the wonderful paintings, the work of her brother's genius before madness clouded his brain. It seemed a fantastic thing to me, one hardly believable that the man whose hands Lad created the marvelous beauty be- fore me was chafing his life away in the little hidden enclosure but a few sat. rods from where we Mrs, Cosgrove's voice went on with the pitiful story, steadily, without tremor. But I guessed that under her unmoved exterior the woman's whole being was aflame. “l had not seen Robert for a long time befare the break cam she said, “‘Before the girl came into his life he had come to us often, and he left a Mrs. SErove’s ducks, and the news that our case had boen set for Mon- day. Mrs. Cosgrove's Suggestion, ‘When the warden and the attorney had left, after dinner which was a revelation in the culinary art, the Cos- groves, Dicky and I went into “execu- tive session,” as Dicky expressed it, to complete our plans for the evening. I_ was mused to see the venom which Mr. Cosgrove displayed toward the absent Mrs. Allis when he learned that instead of being attracted by him she had been deliberately planning to rob his house. That his wife thor- oughly understood and maliciously en- joyea his feeling 1 could tell by the quiet smile that hovered around her lips when her husband was especially vehement in his denunciation of the absent woman. “Won't that Jezebel smell a rat when she comes back and finds yau folks here instead of in the calaboose | where she meant you to spend the night?” he demanded at a pause in the discussion, and his wife’s lips were not the only ones that twitched at the epithet. he thought by saying you PARSON’S TH HARTFORD ONE WEEK, BEGINNING MONDAY, Matinees: Wednesday and Saturday JAN. 15 The Wonder Play of the Century Towering above all other productions in the history of the American Theater, Gen. Lew Wallace's Story of Time of Christ, told by 350 LIVING PEOPLE, Amid Dazzling and Sensational Sccnes of Ancient Life, the Thrilling Effect of which will last in memory for all time. IBEN-HUR “BILLY SUNDAY, the Great Evangelist, dred Milllon People could see ‘BEN-HUR. ¥ Wish One Hun- For the play is the Says: thing. Men and Women fecl what they actually sec.” WILLIAM JENNI JUDGE GARY, world, say cducational.” every human being, and is as marvelous as it Fathers and mothers will do well to take their children to the play, which besides being exciting and entertaining is ARTHUR BRISBANE, the great editor, says ‘Ben-Hur’ as it is today, produced by living actors—350 of them ~—with Hving horses in the rnce and with Myl lash in the wonderful scene of the galley slaves, HUNDREDS OI' OFTHER MEN of might and meaning quoted to cmphasize the opportunity that is now 12 LIVING THOROUGHBRED HORSES Take Part in the Marvelous Chariot Race, thc Most Amasing and Blood-Stirring Scene ever Witneased in a Stage Production. BRYAN, Statesman and Orator, have enjoyed “Ben-Hur” as the greatest play on the stage today, when measured by its religious tone and moral effect. a wonderful story in a thrilling way and leaves a profound im- pression on the mind and heart.” head of the greatest Industrial “Ben-Hur carries enlightenment and a message to Says: I It tells in terprise the is interesting, truly We prge you to sec gz men under the could be yours to see Ch. 1026. HARTFORD Matinee Daily—All Week. BARNEY GERARD'’S this Greatest Play of Modern Times. f THE BUSINESS AND ARTISTIC SUCCESS OF “BEN-HUR” STANDS UNIQUE IN THEATRICAT, ANNALS PRICES—Reserved, 50¢, 75¢c, $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00. MAIL OR- these pictures with me from time to time. “Somc day, after I'm dead, they'll make your fortine.” he used to say with a gloomy gav®ly that fright- were old offenders the justice would lock you up and get you out of the way at least until her little job was finished.” SIDE TALKS BY RUTH CAMERON | oliies 0f the Day” i whea nefore P. Murphy, Gertrude ayes and Chester Nelson. * In a New Edition of DOG” or “Whit Does the Public Want.” [Everything New. ILIZATION” AT FOX’S TOMORROW greatest attraction theatrically, a8 ever been seen in America, raction built of theater's new- the motion picture, Themas H. *“Civilization,”” will begin an en- nt at the Fox theater on Fri- rnoon of this week. Every ccomplishment of the motion makers has been outdone in ng of this gigantic spectacle, ®0 far a purpose that a new as been set that will prove an goal for long to come. “‘Civ- n" 18 the costliest spectiacle ever Thomas H. Ince having spent 1,000,000 in the work. More 000 people, were employed in many for long periods of Citles were bullt only later to ved. @ few large cities where “Civ- n has been shown it was re- | with such unanimous acclaim olumns have been printed in of it, while the capacity of rs has been taxed at every per- ace. Newspaper reviewers com- it to David Griffith’d “Birth of a ” in terms that placed “Civili- ’ on a higher plane. The New tar declared that “Thomas Tnce ffiths Griffith,” while the New lobe stated that “Civilization" s “The Birth of a Nation’. warld will ever owe the great er a debt of gratitude for giv- such a masterpiece as this, his offering. “‘Civilization™ is ded- to the Mothers of Men and by of that fact, or, perhaps, in £ it, makes its strongest ap- humanity—because, we all had 8, and we all welcoms a tribute who suffered that we might be. hdeed a Deautiful thought mag- ften thousand times. ilization is offered %t I'ox's at r prices, 15 and 25 cents mati- d night for the first time it was layed at such small prices. The es will start promptly at ix office will be open fort bs before the show the p ‘The first show F t 7 o'clock and the box offije . opened at 6:15. Second show the show runs cbn- opening at 5 and cond matinee at 3 Two Saturday night. Sunday eve- 16 first show The will be on and son? show at There five that all may rformance be- day night be- usual, 8 o'clock. Four Dollars a Week Someone told me of a mniost inter- esting experiment the other day. We were talking about the extra ordinarily large wages demanded— and received,—by girls who do house- work. One woman told of a friend who pays eight dollars for a maid for her- self and husband. They have a small new house and they are away to meals about a quarter of the time. Another told of a famlily of two where the mald received six dollars a week though the family were away months at a time. The washing was put out and the woman evcn offered to have the cleaning done. Twenty-one Dollars a Week For Housework. 1 myself told of hearing 2 woman in an intelligence office informea that the only accommodater ( misleading name) she could get, charged three dollars a day. When one realizes that no voca- tlonal training is required and that the wages are not affected by the high cost of living, since lving is includ- ed, one gets an idea of how much these wages mean. And yet girls prefer to go into shops and factories and telephone ex- changes where they sometimes get barely a living wage! Why is it? “There's a Reaso No one can surely know. but experiment of which T started to vou is an index finger pointing one reason. “I know a woman Wwho pays be- gan the one who chronicled H\G ex- periment. We all listened with bated breath expecting to hear some new shocker such as ten or twelve, “four dollars a week." she finished We looked the wi we felr. “Well, listen to the rest,” she said. “This woman advertised in the pa- per for a maid to work elght hours a day, no washing, for four dollars & week and she got thirty avplicants.” How They Got Along With Eight Hours, the tell to “But how did she arrange about the eight hours “The girl comes at seven, breakfast. She does the work house and gets the dinner which they She clears it away and prepares something in the line of a salad for supper. At three o'clock she goes. The family put the supper on the table themselves, clear jt away and put the dishes to soak. She is supposed to work steadily during the eight hours just as u,_gh'l in an of- fice or factory, and like that girl when she is through she is through. Her time is her own."” d gets of the have at noon. The comments were interesting. “Four dollars a week!" murmured no advance sale of tickets, | one woman avidly. “You'd never have her nings,” said another. “Girls are certainl independent- every y thorman's wife. there eve- more Au- getting ar, sail the SKETCH PREACHES LOVE OF COUNTRY “A Texas Tangle,”” the dramatic comedy in which Jane Ware is star- ring at Keeney's this week, is prob- ably one of most interesting sketches presented at the popular theater in past two yea It has a cleverly written story based on the Mexican trouble and the patriotism which it brought to the fore and it is acted in splendid fashion. The audience is enthusiastic over.the piece and it is the biggest applause getter on program. Miss Ware is a clever act- ress and her characterization of the part assigned to her is done in impressive style. Prof. Hermann's iliusions continue to baffle the while Green, Miller and Green please with their instrumental selection: Tonight's photoplay feature will be Rlanche Sweet in the Paramount re- lease ‘‘Mis Ragamuffin.” This at- traction will be kept for of the week. There will be several other high class films. “War Brides” will the week of January appearing in the leading role. M and Mrs. Vernon Castle in a new rerial is to bhe a Keeney feature for be seen 22, during nart of the month. CLEVER DANCING IN “FOLLIES OF THE DAY” ter theater's offering this “The IFollies of the Day, two-act burlesquo with a trio of stars, George Murphy. Gertrude Hayes and Chester Nelson Barney Gerard success is “Hot Dog?" or '“What Does the Pub- lic Want?" and the latter Is a clever travesty on the Belasco attraction, “The Bosmerang,’ which was the cre- ation or our own Winchell Smith. Mi Hayes is a clever dancer and actress. Superb costumes and fine scenic ef- fects help make a wonderful production. The Four Dancing Bricktops, the Four London Girls and little Anna Propp, the petite soubret, Elsa May, and tall Malvore add materially to i cess of the “Follies."” The Grand week is the | pointed aver his work-—poor Robert! i friends, | Robert’s presence a recret at first, but{ the § most ! patrons of the theater, ; the balance | Nazimova i in an eloquent a number of weeks beginuning the lat- The great | entitled | “Follies of the Day™ | Baith ' suc- | ened me, He was always so disap- “But after he married he was either ashamed to come to me or she woulan't let him. I have never de- cided which was the reason. At any rate, I had heard nothing from him for months when one of his friends, poorer even than himself, came to us and told us that for some time Robert had been in a sanitarium, supported Ly the contributions of some of hi each of whom needed every dollar of his own slender means. Tho treatment, moreover, had done Robert no good, and he having found out by a search through Rabert’s things, that 1 was his sister, came to me to see what was to be done, “T had no means to keep him in the sanitarium and I could not bear to have him sent to a state institution.' This place, was a great deal lonlier than even than now, sa Mr, Cosgrove ' fixed up that little greenhouse and the kennels, and built the little house. He gave it out that he was raising rare flowers and blooded dogs, and got quite a reputation for crankiness and snobbishness because he wouldn't let | people inspect his greenhauses. It was awfully hard to keep since the twins got old enough to help me, and Robert has grown quieter, it has been comparatively easy. And the ! hest thing about it all is that everv-| hody believes him dead. No cne, not| even his wife, guessed the real state| of thing: His friends who took hini| to the sanitarium brought him here; T never appeared in the matter at all,| and. they all hated her cordial could be depended on never to eny inquiries she might maie T don't suppose she ever made She disapp! shortly before mind broke. A Little Explanation. She rese from her chair. ler hands | went out to the pictures on the wall| e the seems Lreaking at last id jovousiy. “Robert’s fame has come to him, hi pictures are valuable enough to pro- cure the best treatment for him,.and his brain seems less clouded these last few weeks than it has been in years. Only once in a while—once since you have been here—he gets one of hi terrible weeping fits of melancholia, tlien one of us keeps constantly with him until he is over it. That is the reason for my deception concerning the twins. One of them was with his uncle that day, but to avaid remark [ created the impression that hoth were at breakfast. “But I smell those ducks. It would be @ sorry return for your kindness and Intersst to let your dinner burn.” $he hurried out to the kitchen, and t revolving in my mind the tragic story to which I had just listened. The most of it I had guessed, and I felt a feolish little thrill of pride at my own insight. Dicky, Mr. Cosgrove, the warden and the attorney came back from the justice conrt in short order, bringing with them tremendous appetites for any o hi “And now to be 1s “Why let her find them here?” his wife asked quietly. MURPHY APOSTLE OF ART FOR ART'’S SAKE No individual organization in recent years has attracted much atten- theatrical circles as the Wash- Square Founded a of S0 tion in ington few year Players. ago by a little colony artists, it's fame spreead rapidly from the great metropolis on the Hudson, over the Rockies to thy Golden Gate. RALPH MURPHY, I'rom the very beginning corimercial- ism has been a negative factor in the organization. The founders had de- creed that this was to b2 an institu- tion of “art for art’s sake,” thoir de- sire for wealth being completely ob- ‘ured by the love of their art. From this famous orgunization Ralph Murphy comes dircctly to New Britain, having relinquishcd his en- sagement in New York to join the Walter Naylor Players. As may be expected, Mr. Murphy < an artist with a finish rely found in a young man of his vears. He will play the role of Dave Fulton in ‘‘Rolling Stones” at the Lyceum, week of Jan- uary 1 E CHILDREN WHO ARE SICK Mothers who value their own comfort and the welfure of thelr children, should never be without a box of Mother Gra Powders for Children for use throughout the soason. They Break up Colds, Relleve Fever- ishness, C'onstipation, T\ Headache and Stomach oth. %l IVER FAIL. Don't _aceept an TRIZE. Address, mailed Le Roy, Moth ¢ Coi, DERS WILL BE FILLED WHEN MITTANCES, MADE PAYABLE TO H, C. PARSONS. Rises Promptly at 2 and 8 p. m.) ACCOMPANTED BY Rj- (Curtain GREAT SPECTACLE AT PARSONS’ THEATER Klaw & Enlanger’s massively crnate spectacle “Ben-Hur” is the important ! equalled | City 'any of the performances, announcement for one week's engage- ment at Parsons’ theater, Hartford, Monday, January 15. William Young, who made the dramatization of Gen. l.ew Wallace's great novei, has suc- ceeded in the production of a drama which not only retains absolute fidel- ity to the book.but which does not of- fend the most devout Christian. Prof. | Kdgar Stillman Kelley has heightened I the solemnity of “Ben-Hur" i sic | ear. with mu- that is a positive delight to the The stage settings provided by Klaw & FErlanger have never been in this country. The bpic- tures of the Star of Bethlehem, the of Jerusalem from the terrace garden of the Palace of Hur, the in- terfor of a Roman galley, ths Grove of Daphne, the IFountain of Castalia, the chariot race, the Vale of Fli.on and the Mount of Olives, are remark- able exhibits of the best scenic art. To these are added some wonderful effects in lighting, as in the Star of Bethlehem, and in stage mechanics, as in the famous chariot race. The contrivance used to make the chariot race cost no less than $15,000. Eight horses race in full view of the audi- ence. Kach animal runs on u separ- ate treadmill, and the effect of Ben- Hur's (oiartet of herses wirning is produced by electric power concealed beneath the stage. An immcnse cye- lorama representing the intcrior of o arena with its multitude of paint- ed people is whirled across the stage in the opposite direction from that which the horses are headed, greatly increasing the illusion, as the auvdience is apparently going with the race This Is not only a spectacular but dramatic success as well. The great scene which closes the play is the healing of the lepers on Mount Olives. Here hundreds of peo- ple are arranged in picturesque groups the whole forming one of the most beautiful pictures which has ever been put on the stags. The personal- ity of the Nazarene is not shown in the play, but in this scene the near- ness of His presence is indicated with intense impressiveness by a shaft of the purest white light. The dramati- zation is thoughtfully constructed so as to remove it from the domain of the so-called Passion plays, and while the Saviour is only referred to, vet His tremendous dominating power is felt with thrilling effect. “Ben-Hur” will remain at Parson's theater for one week only. The man- agement will fill orcers for seats for if accom- a panied by a check or money order, in 2 the order of their receipt. Matinee Wednesday and Saturday. Curtain rises promptly at 8 o’clock in the eve- & ning and 2 o’clock in the afternoon. i Menu for Tomorrow Breaktast. Fruit Sugar and Cream Fluted Potatoes Cereal Gems Coffee Lun-h Eggs Surie Plat Cocoa Corn Starch Tea Dinner Spinach Soup Fried Fish Riced Potatoes Creamed Onions Cabbage Salad Rice Pudding Coffee Iiggs Surie Plat—Break five cggs in a greased baking dish. Sprinkle with pepper, salt and butter, put in a quick oven for eight minutes. As soon as baked pour over them a tomato sauce and serve. Cabbage ' Salad——Remove center from a solid white cabbage. leaving a shell. Shred center and mix it with mayonnaise. Chill, fill cabbage shell and arrange on a thick bed of pars- ley. Garnish top of shell with chopped parsley. E. H. SOTHERN AT LYCEUM SUNDAY “The Chattel,” a five part Vitagraph photoplay with ¥, H. Sothern in the leading role, is the ten strike an- nounced today by Manager T. J. Lynch of thegRusswin Lyceum for his playhouge Sunday evening. Sothern has quit the stage forever under advice of his physician and greater interest has been aroused in his work on this account. It was con- sidered fortunate that his art should be perpetuated through thle mediumi of motion pictures. Mr. Sothern made his screen debut in ““The Chattel,”” supported by the populan English actress, Peggy Hy- land. It is a gripping, tense drama in which only a Sothern could por- tray the character successfully. Its success in New York was instantane- ous and it was acclaimed as the tri- umph of the film in so far as dramatle effort is concerned,