New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 2, 1917, Page 4

HIS W EK e Walter Naylor Players Giving a Fine Performance Mrs, Fisk's Great Play Leah leschna PAY YOU TO SEE IT eek of Feb. 5 NAYLOR PLAYERS Offer. . « Funnicst Farce in‘a Decade ® Misleading Lady Chas. Goddard and Paul Hickey Your Reservation Now. This will be the big week of the Season. Sale Now. Mat, Nights 10c-20c-30¢ 10c-20c. 50c, R Tomight and Saturday. John Barrymore in' ; “NEARLY A KING.” Other Good Films. High Class Vaudeville. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY SDOROTHY DALTON “A GAMBLE IN SOULS” THE LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL Two Comedies ‘Continuous Show Sat- urday 2:15 till 11 'SUNDAY Special Metro Feature VIOLA DANNA “THREADS OF FATE? Shows Sunday Night, 5:30 and 8 r‘ N- Ch. 1026. - HARTFORD This Week—Two Shows Daily BARNEY GERARD KNOWS HE HAS “SOME SHOW” ‘with EDMOND HAYES Highest Salaried Comedian Burlesque’s Superb Cast and Chorus. Ladies’ Matinee 10c. How Cora and David Temple Her Side--and His By ZOE BECKLEY NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1917 Solved Their Marital Problems for currency in love's domain is, “Where there is love there is hate.” The heart in which love does not ban- ish hate is as undeveloped as an ani- mal's; and the love is as low In type. | To those who truly love, hate of the loved one becomes as impossible as black sunlight. FEven thought the loved one and the lover find they must part, they part not in hate but in sorrow. And often it is love itself that bids them part, as it did Janet and Walt. Had Janet's love for Walt been less than it was, she would have been con- tent to keep him with her even though she beliéved she was a drag on his One of the false pieces that passes [ | best development as a writer. If Walt | had Toved Janet less, he would not | have prompted her accept the t | splendid career Nicoll Xafl opened for her, even though he had a prevision that it might take Janet away from himself. Now that they were actually apart, each tried to think the other was better off. Walt's publisher happened to meet Janet and Roy Nicoll in the office of “Woman” on the day Janet returned to New York for the big meeting at which she was to preside. She did not need to try to hida the painful blush as she rehearsed to herself what would sound like a casual question about Walt's book. The publisher assumed that she would be interested in hearing good news about her hus- band. “The success of ‘The Silken Noose’ seems to. have fired your husband mar- velously!” he exclaimed. “In less than one week he has done almost half of the next book and has outlined two others for me. It is remarkable! And his illustrator, Lucy Benton, _seems to keep step for step with him. They work together with rare sym- pathy, it seems to me. She under- stands the spirit of his work as no other woman could. I mean as il- lustrator, of course,” he smiled in apology for his harmles slip, as he considered it, ignorant as he was of the state of affairs between Janet and Walt. But to Janet his words seemed the tolling of a bell over hope already dead. She had told herself this thing Where There Is Love— again and again, and had even acted from belief in it. But in her heart there had lived a flerce hope that Walt would prove her wrong. Here, how- ever, was confirmation of her fear from the lips of almost a stranger—a discerning stranger. Will, if Walt was better off without her—with Lucy Benton—she, Janet, was strong enough, loved him enough, to give him up to whatever, whomever meant most development to him! Not very different in tenor was Walt’s train of thought in the night when he could not sleep. He could not work then, and with work forget Janet. He felt at such time a flerce longing to go to Janet and make her run away with him to some new world where they could start anew and grow together flgnh’l Then the thought came to Him of how much Janet would lose if she gave up her work with Roy Nicoll. The sudden emer- gence into the world of art, letters, in- fluence, travel and pleasant power which her editorship meant—how it had enhanced life for her, broadened her,” stimulated her! He himself could offer her no such career. What- ever he could bring her would be for her as his wife-—not as a worker in her own right. If Nicoll could give her so much more than he, more of life in many important aspects—it be- came the part of the man who loved her not to stand in her way. It was with this thought running fn undertone in their heads that Jan- et came to the great hall for the meeting. And Walt, too. But Janet, handsomely gowned for her important role that evening, had come with Roy Nicoll in his Hmousine. Walt had brought Lucy along, both bound for the balcony seats. To help her keep in touch with Walt in the crowd, Lucy had taken Walt’s arm. It was.at that moment that Nicoll's limousine arrived before the hall, and Nicoll, himself in eve- ning clothes, helped Janet out. Janet caught sight of Walt with Lucy on his arm. Walt saw Janet at the same moment. And through the minds of each flashed the confirmation of the same fear. “Walt is happier with «Janet is happler with Ni- ‘S0 LONG LETTY SEEMS S0 SHORT Play at Parson’s Possesses a If there is any fault to find with “So Long Letty” whizh opened last night at Parson’'s theater, Hartford, it is that “So Long Letty” is so short, Letty. There are two hours and thirty minutes of continuous fun and all this time seems like thirty sec- onds. The play could probably run five hours and no one would grow tired of it. There is just one laugh after another. Charlotte Greenwood is the pivot about whom revolves all the fun in “So Long Letty,” a musical farce | which is not so much on music as it is'on farce. But the elongated com- medienne is not the only pebble on the beach. Far be it from such. There is her accomplice in mirth, Walter | Catlett, who doth contribute mightily to an evening's entertainment. In | fact, Mr. Catlett belongs to that rare | vintage of comedians from which have bubbled such sparring exponents of the wine of laughter as Tom Mec- Naughton and Tom Powers. ! For all the people who last night | saw ‘““So Long Letty.” might have | known there was no such a thing asg | a new crisis in the international sit- uation. So wrapt were they in what was going on before them, over the footlights, that for ail they knew Germany never even wrote a note. They did know, however, that Oliver Morosco and Elmer Harris collobo- rated on the book, and some musician threw in scaitering bits of melody to round out the musical end of “So | Long Tetty.” They knew also that ! the Camero sisters, Dorothy and | Madeline, tripped the light fantastic as only they can. They knew again that when it comes to getting fun out of & charming lisp there is no one who can twist the tongue as glibbly | as May Boley, stout, clever, good- natured; and pretty. They knew, too, ; that Sydney Grant possesses not a few accomplishments both in the line of singing and acting. And they knew, above all. that the blues, be they of the Memphis, Richmond, or even Roanoke, V.. variety, have no place | Is it not queer how even the best of us are Apt to look at certain peo- ple in our acquaintance through the opposite of rose color glasses (what- ever color that may be)? Everything these particular people say or do is colored by these ‘specs. Or if the word or deed itself is be- yond cavil, the anti-rose spectacles help us find some unamiable motive. A recently married couple whom I know have just left the place where { they cannot buy just the things they keeping. They have a dear little home but it is not complete because they acnnot buy just the things they want all at once, and being wise they prefer going slowly to taking sub- stitutes. ! She Keeps Them For Her Husband’s Cousin. Now the wife is a very sweet tem- | pered generous woman but she has a pair of these anti-rose colored spec- tacles which she keeps for a cousin of her husband, an older woman of more means than they. This woman made them a short visit recently. She is a bit peculiar but I think she tried to make herself agreeable. In vain! Things were pleasant enough on the surface but all she said and did was resented by the young wife. If she offered to help clear the table between courses, that was accenting the fact they had no maid. When she went off on a little trip by herself to lighten the burden of her entertainment, that showed, she was not satisfled with what they did for her. After she went away she sent them a lovely wicker and cretonme chair ANNT! AL PROHIBITI ON BANQUET Wednesday Feb. 7th, 1917 AT 7P. M. Junior Mechanics’ Hall Hungerford Court ON. ¢ Angeles will be the speaker. Supper furnished by the W. C. T. TICKETS 59 CENTS 4 ASK FCR and GET ORIGTNAL MALTED:MILK J. H. WOERTENDYKE of Los 0. HOTELIO‘K?S for the guest room and a beautiful book for the baby. i She Called the Chair a Hint. What do you think the young wife’s comments were? On the chair—"T think it was rude of her to hint that she hadn’t been comfortable.” | On the book. “It's altogether too | ola for the baby. It was a perfectly ! ! absurd thing to send.” On both gifts, “T'd rather she had not sent them than have to write | the thank note.” « She Would Have Been Grateful to Anyone Else. if anyone clse had sent the things he would have loved them for she is naturally very grateful. That's how anti-rose colored glasses can distort the vision. Don't you sometimes realize that you are using these spectacles on T people? T do. And I am so ashamed. Besides I'm scared because 1 know th it is a trick of these glasses that the ugly lisht they shed appears to 4 SIDE TALKS BY RUTH CAMERON } those who see you using them to fall upon yourself rather than your vic- tim., i T, Coinen— Anti-Rose Specs. CHANGE FROM DRAMA TO COMEDY,—PRESTO It took ali the ingenuity of two master playrights to construct “The Misleading Lady,” the play that will bave its premier performance at the Lyceum by the Walter Naylor players on Monday night. What novel situ- ations Paul Hickey could not impro- vise, Charles Goddard supplied. The result 18 one of the funniest plays ever presented on the American stage, and one that is destined to live when other have long passed beyond popular approval. As ‘“Leah Kleschna,” the play which occupies the boards at the Ly- { courn this week, is pure drama, so “The Misleading Lady” 1s the other way ’'round. It is comedy undefiled. Its dramatic woftth, however, is not entirely lost sight of; for there is a heart throb in one or two phases of the play that might well be possessed by one pretending more to the realm of ‘serious thought. There is a love story which is not wholly as mislead- ing as the title of the play might in- dicate. It requires a finesse and gifts of talent known to the limited few to make such severe switches in char- acter parts 2s must be done by play- ers in stock. The Walter Naylor Players by turning from the highly dramatic endeavors demanded In | “Leah Kleschna” and taking up the { comedy work prescribed in ‘“The Mis- }1endmg Lady” must necessarily dis- { play these accomplishments. Where i Ralph Murphy is this week cast as jan accomplice to the villianous | “Kleschna,” next week he will have ! the leading comedy role,—'‘Boney, the escaped lunatic who imagines he is Napoleon. Miss Virginia Perry will play the title role. one that com- ! pels her to essay a complete chanze in presentation of character. Philip Quin will go from the serious-minded legiclator and student of sociology to the totally different nature of “Jack™ Craigen, an adventurer from Pata- gonia. Orrin Burke who is this week playing the real *heavy” will also have a part given more to vein. as will other members of the company. all of whom are required part in the far-making. nghter | at Parson’s theater so long as “So Long Lotty” holds the boards which will be until Saturday night at some- where close to eleven o’clock. Then folks will be loath to say ‘‘So Long™ to “So Long Letty.” The only long thing about the play is Charlotte Greenwood,—§6 feet 2 inches. | BARRYMORE FILM FINDING FAVOR | “Nearly a King,” the Paramoul\L: fealure in which John Barrymore 1‘!‘ appearing at Keeney's is one of the | most interesting photoplays in which the popular actor has ever played be- fore the camera. It has an amusing as well as serious side and Barry- { more’s interpretation of the comedy 1 lines makes it a hit with the audience. "1‘1\0 picture is to be shown again to- { night and tomorrow. It is well worth seeing, The combination if vaudeville acts ‘»\q one of the best made this season. | The musjoal parts of the program are | the most appreciated. They are pro- | vided by Magda Dahl and Signor Con- | stantini, assisted by their Italian band, and The Killarney Four. Miss Dahl is an operatic singer of uncom- mon charm. She has a distinctively pleasing voice and she makes a most favorable impression in all her num- bers. The Killarney quartet intro- duces vocal solos as well as ‘cello and harp selections, getting a big hand for each. The Berdino troupe of cyclists and acrobats put considerable life into the show. They have a number of thril- ling feats and there act brings down the house. Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast. Fruit Sausages Creamed Potatoes Oatmeal Bread Coffee Tmnch Baked Eggs With Cheese Pickles Baked Bananas Cocoa Dinner German Apple Soup Meat Loaf Baked Sweet Potatoes Stewed Onions Lettuce Caramel Custards Coffee Baked Eggs With Cheese.—In a flat earthen dish melt one teaspoon- ful butter and let it run over the bot- tom of the dish. Cover with thin slices cheese and dust with white pepper and a little salt. Break in carefully as many eggs as the dish will hold and place in a hot oven until the whites are set, then serve at once. German Apple Soup.—Cook one tablespoonful sago in a pint slightly salted boiling water until clear; add one pint apple sauce, a two-inch piece cinnamon and sufficient sugar to slightly sweeten. Press through a sieve and serve very hot. White wash silk petticoats are ad- mirable for wear with white dresses, suits and skirt: Chic dresses of gingham are being worn by the fashlonable woman for efther afternoon or marning. - News for T. heaz‘er Goers and Women Readers -t ol Sre————————— | Fads and Fashions \@ | e @esar Misca SioR: 87— 6983 MAIN STREEX Tassels are on everything. Everything is loosely girdled. Jersey cloth is still without a rival. The new canard color is a b green. Thousand and One La“ghs Woolen tassels are used on frocks. If a suit is belted, the belt is narrow. There arc very smart beach of jersey. Simplicity is the keynote for dren’s styles. Very tright colors are favored for silk petticoats. The new evening dresses are ulation length. Eciu net, embroidered, favor for waists. The little girl's dress is a very straight garment. Girls' party frocks are best mado ' of creps de chine. Filet is the favorite lace for all types of garments. White satin is a rival to crepe de | chine in underwear. Gray and African brown are | vor for eilk gloves. Ornaments for evening coi are in Russian designs. Dainty petticoats of batiste ruffles edged with color. Even petticoats for spring are cut in novel fashions. Embroider a bunch ribbon on your sports hat. There is a tendency toward bright colors for children’s dresses. Eton and bolero jackets appear on young girls' dressy suits. Blouses are more and more erned by dress hodice styles. Tunic blouses will be worn skirts of white or light color. 0dd ‘ittle capes are promised worn with spring frocks. Sports skirts are the vérites among spring skirts. A touch of blue on flesh-colored un- derwear, continues in favor. Belts and sashes are much ployed in children's garments. Some elaborate skirts are mad simple Grecian draperies. Hats will have ve The new skirt may Chinese patterns in silk embrold- fashionable. ery are particularly White gloves are the proper thing for afternoon and luncheon affairs, The new white petticoats are neither very full nor very narrow. Nothing is too gay-—either in color or pattern—for sports clothes. Narrow blue braid makes a good trimming for a blouse of chiffon. Soft satin hats are embroidere: gold or silver or a brilliant color. A white satin petticoat with of printed chiffon is quite charming. Beaded belts and for girls. Bags of Roman striped croch color when carried with the street suilt. Most of the brassieres of the ent day fit the figure snugly, b boneless. The straight line silhouette obtains as much with children’s coats as with grown-ups. The waist line of some of the newest frocks is defined by a large buc! ‘brilliants. With a skirt of black satin have a bodice of black crepe de chine em- broidered in rich colors. “SOME SHOW” IS MAKING BIG Barney Gerard’'s ‘“‘Some “packing 'em in" at the Grand ter twice daily, this popular burlesque Edmond Hayes, the original “Wise Guy’” ‘and being considered. by regular patrons as one of the bestiat- Mr, Hayes organization, headed by “Piano Mover,"” tractions of ‘the season, has a brand of comedy that is tinctively individual and it is as con- Not alone the tagious as it is original. cdmedy, but the manner in wh is put over, lesque’s best funmakers and he sisted ably by his famous stde- ‘Bozo,” who does not utter a word from the start of the show the finale. is In much of flowers in great - tall crowns. be narrow the bottom and wide at the top. sashes are seen on some of the more elaborate suits Show " makes him one of bur- luish sill | very | coats chil- reg- January Mark Down n fa- i have HE COST OF LIVING is undeniably High—and gives Y l signs of going Higher. This condition makes our al- to be ready deeply appreciated system of ‘Convenient 5 Weekly Payments” even more Helpful and gratifying During this January Sale, now going on, we add tre- gov- with to be fa- em- mendously to this helpfulness by offering the greater part of our stock at REDUCTIONS that are worth while. are invited to come and SAVE MONEY! Ladies’ and Misses’ Coats $8.98 $12.75 $15.00 Ladies’ and Misses’ Suits $9. 98 $14.98 $19.75 Former Prices $15.00 to $35.00. Men’s Overcoats and Suits AT ATTRACTIVE REDUCTIO S YOU e with at Flounder is much cheaper than hal- ibut. Milk dishes are the most valuable bone-forming foods. Barley makes a very good cereal for a winter breakfast. Vary the highly :easoned foods with mild or bland ones. A whisk broom is a good thing to white | use in sprinkling clothes. Many small pieces can be ironed 4 witn | While sitting on a high stool. Rice will take the place of pota- ruffles | to€S and it is not expensive. A very hot nail will not split plaster when it is driven into it. Overcooked fish 1s dry and taste- Jess, and undercooked fish is not safe. et add G Keep the wick of the oil lamp free from char if you want a clear, bright light. “Natural sugars” are most whole- some for children—dates, raisins, figs, honey. pres- ut are Lemons should be packed in a jar of sand if you do not wish them to shrink. Apples are deliclous baked without sugar, but with a little salt and but- ter. kle of If a bolled vegetable has too much salt in it, pour boiling water over it and drain. Plum pudding 1s a good thing to have in the house in case of an emer- gency. HIT ing for plair salad will make it more interesting. Plants for the vegetable zarden can be started now in a window box. Watch the bread box and waste no pieces of broken bread: they will make good hot cakes or bread pud- ding. is thea- Warmed paraffine is a real re- source for the children on a dull day ——they can model is as if it were wax. dis- ich it The rice pudding should be planned is ast | for Ironing day. Tt is easy to make, kick) | and fuel is saved in the baking. singlel S untih| Troming day is the best time to bake beans or make rice pudding, or Cheese added to the French dress- | Household Notes. | | “GAMBLE IN SOULS” | angle five-act drama, “A Gamble { ram on these days so the childre | in “Threads of Fate” any thlng else which requires a lflnC fire. b’ should be lmnsd on the wrong side, because heat ap- plied directly to the color is apt to change it. Colored clothes Cornstarch added to the flour for pie crust will make it more flaky. Add one level tablespoonful to evegy cup of flour. If you want to leave the mll stew and be sure that it will not burn put a marble in the vessel; it will do the stirring. i’ Individual bread puddings can ?a % made, and will appeal much more b the family palates than the ordinary "g large pudding. “ The tops of jelly glasses or mus- tard cups will be easy to remove if the glass is turned top down in hOC water for a few minutes. . AT FOX'S THEATER @ At Fox's theater tonight and tomor= row Miss Dorothy Dalton in the Trl= b Souls” is the feature. A special add=t ed attraction for Fridey and Saturfg: only is “The Life Of Buffalo Bill* This feature was added to the might he able to see it on th school holiday Saturday afternool Two good comedies are on the sai program. Sunday Miss Viola Danu will be the fel ture. The Fox theater managemcil has had the Metro features under cori tract for the Sunday shows and the} will start Sunday this week. On ‘tne Metro program in the near future will be Miss Ethel Barrymore, Julius Ste- ger, Mabel Taliaferro, Mme. Petrova, Lione] Barrymore and other stars equally well known to theater gobrs.. On Monday and Tuesday Mr. Douglas Fairbanks, the popular Triangle star$ will be at Fox's. Two high class feature attraction have been contracted for the Friday and Saturday show and both will ba added for the balance of the seasom beginning Friday and Saturday ‘of next week. These features will k) announced tomorrow. The first show | Sunday evening will start at 5:39, and this change in schedule will ensure those attending the second show at 8 o'clock good meata