New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1917, Page 4

LYCEUM THIS WEEK iThe Walter Naylor Players ving a Fine Performance Kleschna | 4 IT WILL PAY YOU TO SEE IT Week of Feb. 5 THE NAYLOR PLAYERS Offer fiiThe Funniest Farce in a Decade e Misleading Lady By Chas. Goddard Hickey A et Your Reservation Now. This will be the big week of the Season. Seat Sale Now. Mat, 10c-20c. Nights 10c-20c¢-30c-50c, and Paul § ) i graphed upon the retina of her | agony. Ne NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY. 3, 1917. ws A STORY YOU CAN BEGIN AT ANY 7TIME Her Side---and His Bow Cora and David Temple Solved Their By ZOE Marital Problems BECKLYY Janet Stedman carried as if photo- eye the picture she had seen as she en- tered the great hall. In a normal state of mind, seeing her husband with Lucy Benton, the illustrator of his books, would not have strugk her with But Janet was hideously over- wrought. She viewed nothing nor- malily. Her western speaking trip had been one horrible struggle to keep her working hours free from thoughts of her own unhappine: The sudden rush back to-New York to preside at a gathering such as now confronted her was almost more than she could bear of added responsibility. And now, as if to mock her with the impossibility of escape even for an hour from her personal problem, there were Walt and Lucy, arm in arm—Iliving symbol of harmony and true partnership! It did not occur to Janet that the picture she presented as she stepped from Roy Nicoll's li- mousine filled Walter's heart with even greater bitterness. Inside the hall Janet's duties as presiding officer wrenched her mind temporarily from her own problems. From long practice, she was able to go through the motions of welcome, congratulation and other courtesies 5,, Tonight Only John Barrymore in “NEARLY A KING.” Other Good Films. High Class Vaudeville. TONIGHT DOROTHY DALTON “A GAMBLE IN SOULS” THE LIFE OF BUFFALO BILL ———————————— ' SUNDAY NIGHT First Show at 5:30 Metro Feature VIOLA DANNA “THREADS OF FATE” ) Coming Next Week Mrs. Vernon Castle 1. Ch. 1026. SIARTFORD his Week—Two Shows Daily BARNEY GERARD KNOWS HE HAS “SOME SHOW” with EDMOND HAYJE:! /Burlesque’s Highest Salaried Comedian Superb Cast and Chorus. Ladies’ Matinee 10c. THIRD ANNUAL PROLIBITION BANQUET Wednesday Feb. 7th, 1917 AT T P. M. { Junior Mechanics’ Hall Hungerford Court J. H. WOERTENDYKE of Los Angeles will be the speaker. bper furnished by the W. C, T. U. TICKETS 50 CENT: EDWARD T. LOPER Maker and Repairer of MUSICAL IN STRUMENTS & violin repairing and bow hairing specialty. Over twenty years ex- dence. All work guaranteed, Other fds ot fine repair work. due the distinguished feminfst from England. It was not until the meet- ing actually opened that it came over Janet with a rush of terror that she was physically and mentally incap- al’fie of making the introductory ad- dress. In panic shé realized she could not control her thoughts. She could re- member nothing but Walt and Lucy— Walt and Lucy—Walt and Lucy! Her cheeks flamed with the effort to con- centtate. Her hands grew icy cold. Her throat went dry. As from a dis- tance she heard Nicoll's voice: “All ready, Janet.” Dimply she saw him look at her and nod his head as a sig- nal to begin. On/limbs that seemed made of tin- foil. Janet rose and stepped forward on the brilliantly lighted platform. Twice she moistened her lips and swallowed. At last came her voice, and, with the sound of it, a little con- figence. . ‘Habit helped her. So long as she kept to the more or less stereotyped formula of remarks such as precede the speaker of the evening all went well. But it was on the program that The Fiasco. j “Janet Thaver Stedman, editor-in- chief of the famous feminist publica- tion ‘Womar will preface Mrs. Gor- don’s address with a few words of her own. Mrs. Stedman has just returned visited many women’s clubs, speaking at each.” There is probably no more hideous human sensation that that of mental panic, with which Janet now fougit. The harder she struggled for self-pos- session the more evident her confu- sion became. She.had caught sight of Walt and Lucy in their balcony seats, and could see no one else, think of nothing else but them—and her- self. She forced some sort of words from her lips, but they conveyed nothing of her usual originality, nothing of charm or wit or poignancy. Her sen- tences became involved. She found herself staring at that spot in the ‘gal- lery where her husband’s face and the dimness. She struggled . on for a time, say- ing nothing, and saving it badly; then started’ to introduce the famous lady from England., As she prepared to prenounce her name cluded her. Tt was as if the machinery of her brain had gone dead. stant she stood, lips parted, finger tips to temple, feeling she should die of mortification. Then she heard Ni- coll's voice pronounce a name in a distinct whisper, “Mrs. Lawford Gor- den.” With a half grasp and a smile Janet repeated the name, bowed and retired to a chair near the back of the stage. The lady stepped to- ward the footlights amid a burst of applause. Then, in a full, splendid voice, began her speech, her confident bearing putting the last touch of con- trast to the two women. Janet, slipping through a small exit from the back of' the platform, found | herself in a large, dim plade, evident- 1y a sort of office and property room, furnished with a dusty-looking desk and some wooden chairs. She stood a moment with her hands pressed to her burning face, then dropped to her knees, laid her head on the dusty desk and cried hysterically, broken heart- edly—as she had not cried since she was a child. She did not even hear SIDE TALKS BY RUTH So Busy. “I'm so busy,” said m¥ neighbor the other day, ‘“that I don’t ‘know which way to.turn.” She looked harassed and her voice was, tretful. One would have felt very sorry for her but for one thing. She wasn't forced into this position by poverty or illness or any of the in- evitables. She isn’t a widow support- ing her children or an overdriven mother of sick babies. She is a young middle-aged womarn with plenty of time on her hands. And she, of her own accord, has in one way or another filled that time so full that she “does not know which way to turn.” Why She Docsn’t 'Know Which Way To Turn. She president of this society and chairman of that committee. She has a finger in this lecture series and a whole hand in that woman’s club. She belongs to a bridge club and a i Roy Nicoll come into the room. A I ‘ for. It doesn’t pay ‘o tear yourself into bits.” But the Busy-ness is Not Vital. And how often one hears people speak of being so busy they don’t know which way to turn (or wofds to that effect) when the busy-ness is of their own creating,—and not vital. It is good to keep abreast of the times to try to help the world along by philanthropic work, it is good to meet often with one’s friends. But it is not good to try to do so many things that they overlap and leave no time in which to call one’s soul one’s own and to possess it in peace. “If you crowd all being alone out of your life, you crowd God out, and how rare it is to find a soui still enough to hear God speak.” e C CAMERON neighborhood club and entertains or is entertained frequently at dinner. She is interested in settlement work and likes to keep up with the latest books and plays. None of these things are bad in themselves. Some are very good. But it is bad that the sum total instead of Dbeing happiness is unhappiness. You all knew the old saying that if a man makes ten shillings a week and spends ten shillings he may be happy but that if he spends ten shi lings six pence he will always be mis- erable. Don’'t Try to Spend More Time Than You Have. It is the same with time. If you try to spend even a little more than vour time income you get misery. to overspend their time income, one pities them. r | But that is comparatively seldom. she is let my- simply time ing house without a rpaid, vet seldom overdriven. “T won't self be,” she says, “T have dropped the interests I hadn't Be Careful —to keep the stomach well, the liver and bowels regular, by the timely and helpful aid of 'BEECHAM'S _PILLS Largest Sale of i ST veryiiore, o bores, Toun Jerd When people are absolutely drl\'en‘» | I krow a woman who keeps a board- | ) ~ NEW BRITAIN CHILDREN NOT AT FAULT others Are Careless. Children are not to blame when , feverish, not eating right, sleep- , nervous and all out of sorts. If mothers are on the job and notice tho little danger signals, they will find the tongue coated and the breath hot {and bad, a sure sisn of overworked | and loaded acid stomachs, indigestion and cloggad intestines. This condition can be stopped in a | few hours with a good dose of a sim- ple old Temedy that has been handed down for generations in thousands of ! families, “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing | Syrup,” a harmless but sure laxative which a mother worked out and used | for her Like all good things which have small beginning it spread to all the neigh- { bors and still it grew until now vou can get it in any good drug store in the world. Millions of mothers today swear by { “Mrs. Winslaw’s Soothing Syrup” and | the children love it, they like the taste and it heals, kills cramps, sweet- | ens and cleanses their sour i stomachs gently and thoroughly Give the little ones a chance, mother, go to your druggist and get a bottle today; the grain of dope, “Mrs. Winslow’s Sooth- ing Syrup.” Sold by good druggists everywhere. For sale in New Britain by Seltzer's Prescription Pharmacy. from a western totr, upon which she | Lucy Benton's made a pinkish blur in | For one hideous in- | little ; laxative without a | { voice steady, | good pretense at eating, although (e — S—— REVELATIONS By ADELE How Lillian Unerwood Decided a Bet. | I had no chance to puzzle over the | unexpected behavior Lillian Ur- ! derwood “vhen she heard the name of | Robert Savarin, artist, | | | the famous who had been lost to the world for 15 veurs, and whom we had found during | | our outirg in the Catskills, i Neither Dicky nor Lillian’s husband had noticed her emotion, and Dicky's ! flow of reminiscences of our trip was | not to be stemmed. He quite pri(lefil himself upon his ability to tell a story ; well, and he was making the most | of our thrilling experience: | Several times during Dicky's vivid descripiion of the scene where Robert Savarin faced the woman whom he thought to be his wife, and who had | ruined his life, I saw the fingers of | Lillian's left hand dig into the palm. | But it was the only indication she | gave that the story she was hearing held anything more than ordinary in- terest. Ier eves were smiling, her and she made a very 1 could see that it was only a pretence. 1 felt anxious for Dicky to finish the story, so that we might turn the conversation to other topics. There was a tenseness in Lillian’s attitude that made me unaccountably nervous. It was a real relief to hear Harry Un- derwood’s rollicking bass in mocking comment when Dicky finally brought the tale tc an end.with a triumphant tlourish., “This is all very fine, my bucko,” Mr, Underwood boomed, as Dicky Jooked around with a what-do-you- think-of-that-air, “but it doesn’t let you off the payment of that bet to me. _ | We'll admit that as a storyteller you've nervous got Stevenson and O. Henry backed off the boards but you're not slick enough to get out of paying me that $10. Remember, vou bet that you could \fish for trout in the Catskiil after the season ended, and get away with it. Well! you didn't get away with it, you got arrested, and it doesn’t matter to me how much compounding of felonies or bulldozing of helpless female ‘vitlainesses you did afterward to squirm out of it, the bet is mine.” “You mean if Til says so,” Dicky amended, “Lil's the judge of this,” | the Paris children and grandchildren. ! In the Dressing-Room, “Fight it out between you.” Lillian advised curtly, rising from her chair. “If there’s enough left of either of vou when Madge and I get back I'll decide the question then. Come on, Madge let's go over into the rest room, it can’'t help but be cooler in ther This place is beastly hot. It's mak- ing me faint.”” Both Dicky and Harry sprang to their feet solicitiously, but before they could speak Lillian waved them aside impatientl “Don’t be idiotic!” she said, “I shall | be all right as soon as I've gotten out | of their air. Go on blackguarding each other and don’t mind me.” I knew that the two men did not suspect that she wished for a little respite in order to regain possession of herself, and as Ifollowed her swift- Iy moving figure to the rest room I was filled with curiosity as to the meaning of the emotion which had =0 stirred her at the mention of Robert Savarin’s name. As soon as we reached the rest room | I swiftly caught up a chair, turned it | toward the wall in the most out-of- | the-way corner, and said, in a matter- | of-fact a manner as I could: #! think I've found the coolest spot | here, Lillian, sit down.” As she sank into the chair and saw | that T stood behind it with my back | turned toward her in such a position | that I effectively shieldéd her from any idle curious gaze, as well as from | my own observation, she caught the hand that was nearest her and pressed it. Underwood | “You blessed, understanding chila!" | she murmured, Tt was fully five minutes béfore sho spoke again. Then her voice held no trace of the feeling that T knew must | have swayed her as she sat rigid, silent, with her face effectually hidden | by me. “I am not going to say ‘thank you, she said: “empty words like those are useless between you and me. Some day Ishall tell you why I acted like an idiotic schoalgirl tonight. Come, let's go back to the boys.” She was her own gayv self again as we sat down at the table. “Now I'm ready to give my decision about that bet: Neither of you won it, <o you each will hand $10 over to us, and we will see that it is expended judiciously in a nice little party.” A howl of protest went up from both Dicky and Mr., Underwood, but Lillian was inexorable, and they sheepishly counted out the money. I “Perhaps you'll know enaugh next! time to settle your own bets without bothering me with them.” Lillian said | cooly, as she slipped the bills into a little compartment in her bag. “Madge, the next time T see you we'll plan a blowout with this.” Harry Asks a Question. Harry Underwod rugged shoulders resignedly. “Talk about Apaches,” he said, “Lil would be a shining light in their gang. We've kissed that moncy goodby for- ever, Dicky-bird, much we'll ever see of any party—they'll buy silk stock- ings with it, “Go on w sk his h what you're telling me about the mysterious millionaire who so admires Mrs. Graham. I'll prob- ably have to kill him before the win- ter's over, so I might as well get all the information I can about him.” I started in dismay. I certainly wished no conversation between Dicky and Harry Underwood on the subject of Robert Gordon. I had never told Dicky about the mysterious stranger’s annoying espionage on me, and I was afarid that With Harry Underwood's malicious shrewdness interested mn the subject he might pounce on some- for Theater Goers and Women R — ————————— i 4 | ! OF A WIFE GARRISON thing Dicky, 149 1s not that I was unwilling for Dicky to ‘know of the elderly man’s queer spying on me, but I felt intui- tively at it was subject which Dicky and 1 should discuss by our- selv OFF WITH THE DRAMA, ON WITH THE COMEDY which would reveal the truth to Tonight marks the close of the dra- matic success “Leah Kle: which has occupied the boards a weck ‘at the Ty On Monda¥ night the Walter N - players will prove their versatility by turning from WALTER S. NAYLOR Directing Genius of Local Stock Co. this five act drama to the lighter me- dium of entertainment, “The Mislead- ing Lady.” Walter Navlor, directing genius of the ‘organization which has won such favor by its work at the Lyceum has selected in ‘“The Misleading Lady one of the most popular plays that ever occupied the center of the theat- rical world. On Broadway it ran for :n months. In Boston it played 400 nights. There are so many scream- ingly funny situations in the play that it affords one continuous roar of laughter. It is 2 house party on the Hudson that furnished the pivot for all the tion. One of the youpg lady cver cvinced a desire to be an s One of the men guests Rappened to be a playwriter and the leading part in his play was that of a siren. The young lady made a wager she could play the part, and, for the purpose of ingout her agrcement had to exhibit her histron arts on one of the unsuspecting guests, a genileman just back from Patagonia. What hap- chain of fun. Perry the leading lady of the Naylor players will essay the role of “Heien Stecle,”” the young Jady who causes all the comr:otton, even to the extent of driving the ob- ject of her vity to the Adironda~k mountains. will set forth the good natu sorcly annoved itor from Pata “Jack Craig And to voung Ralph Murphy will fall the main comedy part in the play, that of “Boney,” the poor Le- nighted gentleman who is lahoring un- cing s that he is no other | der halluc | an, “Th2 Little | he Misleading Lady” Mr. N Jor hopes to he able to set forth a {-1) nie prodvetion that will nvershadow any previous attempt at the Lyceum. The possibilities offered for (‘I‘\lmr}:\vq scenery are infinite, and every cffort bent toward novel scttings. has been ITALIAN MUSICIANS VAUDEVILLE FAVORITE | Closing their New Britain engage- ment, Magda Dahl and Signor Con- stantini, with their Italian musicians, will give their final performance to- night at kcene offering the specialty which hi attracted so much attention during the week. 1t is a high class musical attraction and 1 pleased much during the weel. It high class musi- cal attraction and ha pleased Jarge audiences every day. Miss Dahl is an operatic singer c¢f marked abil- ity and her sclections form one of ths most pleasing features of the show. There are other good acts on the Progr and they give complete sat- isfaction. Tonight's photoplay bill will be topped by John Barrymore in “Near- Iy a King,” the comedy drama which made so pronounced a hit yesterday. | a is BOMBS HAD NOTHING ON THES London, Feb. 3.—Despite the scar- city of eggs and the great demand for them there are still in warehouses | thousands of cases of American eggs left over from last spring, according | to a wholesale egg merchant. He ! says this is due to the fact that the American eggs fell into disfavor with the public because it was found that they burst when boiled. Their ex- plosive quality results, he says, from the method adopted for their preser- vation. “In one form or another,” he adds, “I have no doubt the British public will yet eat these eggs.” One pair of stockings will make a capital ironholder if split and folded neatly into a square quilted and bound round the edges. Slip a piece of as- bestos cloth between the folds and the heat will not pass through so readily. ea ders ESR TENTH ANNUAL W\OMOBy;, P sHow 'HARTFORD ADMISSION 25« FOX’'S FEATURE “GAMBLE IN SOULS” At Fox’s tonight Miss Dorothy Dal- ton and William Desmaond in “A Gam- ble in Souls”; the western feature, “The Life of Buffalo Bill”; the new comedy, “The Lisle Bank,” and other SCENE FROM'THREADS OF FATE¥ VIOLA DANA At Fox’s Sunday Night features. Tomorrow Sunday night the hour of the show has been | changed and hereafter the first show | will start at 5:30 insuring good seats for the second show at 8 o'cleck. The Fox Sunday headliner is the first of | the new Metro featur presenting { Miss Viola Dana in “Threads of Fate.”" | As Dorothea in this,five act drama Miss Dana has a role that gives her a chance to show all of her wonder- ful talent that has established her as one of the greatest of America’'s screen | and stage stars. Since she appeared in the spoken drama in the title role of the original Broadway production of “Poor Little Rich Girl” and was hailed as a great juvenile actress, Miss Dana has never had a part that was better suited to her personality and charms than that of Dorothea in | “Threads of Fate.” Startling next Friday, Saturday and Sunday and continuing on these day of the week throughout the Vernon Castle of ‘“The in the Fox program in the serial sen sation of the present season ‘'Patria. In the quest for a big feature for the children show Saturday ‘‘Patria” was selected on account of the immense popularity of Mrs. Vernon Castle ag well as the dash and thrill in the fea- ture which is sure to appeal to every- one. Douglas Fairbanks will top the Fox program Monday and Tuesday. : Menumom‘onow Breakfast Cereal with Cream Brown Kidney Stew Hashed Potatoes Waffles Coffee Dinner Carrot Soup Roast Chicken Hominy Balls Scalloped Corn Celery Mayonnaise Pistachio Ice Cream Coffee Supper Cheese Toast Canned Fruit Clkes Chocolate Scalloped Corn—Put a layer of canned corn into buttered dish, then layer of bread crumbs, little salt and pepper; then another layer of corm, and so on until dish is filled. Fill up dish with milk, put some pieces of butter on the top and bake in hot oven for twenty minutes. Carrot Soup—Clean and cut from six to twelve carrots in slices and, with two sliced onions, teaspoonful sugar * and two sprigs of parsley, fry them in hot butter. Add one quart good stock, cook slowly till tender. Strain, then rub vegetables through fine seive. Add enough of this pulp to good cream. 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