New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1917, Page 4

LYCEUM TONIGHT “THE TRAIL OF THE .ZOME PINE” WEEK OF FEB. 19 25th Anniversary of Russwin Lyceum he Walier Naylor Players Dinldinacy This play opencd the Lyccum 25 years ago. Make This the . Big Week. Matince Tucsday, Thursday ' amd Saturday. Prices 10c and 20c. Nights 10c to 30c. SUNDAY NIGHT Henry B. Walthall The Foremost Actor on the Screen, with Mary Charleson, in . THE TRUANT SOUL’ A Great Super Feature. 6:3C (o 10:20, Continuous Tonight ; Corse Payton Himself in “DON'T WEAKEN.” Mary Pickford in “LESS THAN THE DUST’ — { Marguerite Clark in “OUT OF THE DRIFTS% { Other Good Numbecrs !fi TONIGHT Clara Williams “Three of Many” Mrs. Vernon Castle “Patria”’ CHAPTER 2 7 SUNDAY NIGHT First Show at 5 o’clock— Second at 8. 4 : fl“orin-star Program ‘Lionel Barrymore ? ““The End of the - Tour” Charlie Chaplin ““Easy Street” Mrs. Vernon Castle “Patria” CHAPTER 2 NOTE:—Patria is shown in first performance at HARTFORD Tel. Ch. 1026 :15, 8:15 Daily Real Burlesque! LIVELY GIRLS “.ltll:flmr, Maudic hannon and 'l'EP i id the Skm 4 disfiguring blemishes, by g 1y ifying the blood, improving the ation, and regulating the habits with SEECHAM'S - PILLS ) everywhere. 'NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1917. News for Theater A STORY YOU CAN How Cora and David Temple By ZOE B BEGIN AT ANY 1TIME Her Side---and His Solvea Their Marital Froblems ECKLEY | “Dear Janet-of-Old—Will you be {interested to hear from Lucy after all these months? Think, my friend, of | it being half a year sinee I blew into vour. office with my shiny wedding ring and playved the tragedisnne! | Well, dear, it only proves that philoso- phers are right in telling us our blind- est moves often lead us into the most d light. don't mind admitting, Janet, that {1 was numb with suffering the day I left New Words camnot describe the tratail of spirit I had gone through, the battle 1 had fought to expel from my heart a love which had become a torment. I can speak of it now to vou, Janet. I could.even discuss it with Walt him- self! If my victory were not so com- Plete you would not be hearing from me. 1 write not alone for my own sake, but to set your doubts at rest, dear, and Walt's. . “1 seem to understand the alchenty of purification by flame, for on my soul, Jamet, I came through the fire cleansed of much that was evil. In renouncing cne love I gained many. In casting out biterness, sweet 2nd un- dreamed-of cxperiences have come to me. In giving up accustomed ~ work, fresh hopes have crowded in. “In the old days I used to divide men into two classes—those who were attractive and brilliant and those who were not. Now I scrt them according to characters My eves are opened to the fineness of a reaily good man. I did not know many men like Tom Haskall when I was Lucy Benton. Lifeg had” dealt me many blows and I was skeptica] of men’s goodness. Now I sec that goodness belongs to no sex. Tom Haskall/1s the best and kindest man I have ever known. N “There are difierent kinds of love, Janet. You were right, love born of respect and gratitude is as good a love to marry on as any other. Perhaps | better. I have never been so happy. York as Tom Haskall's wife. | Two Letters “Lucy, darling—Some telepathic, transcontinental wave must surely have flashed to you our joy at receiv- ing your letter I read it through tears -—blessed, comforting tcars, the kind we womehn love to shed. Walt, cursed Wwith the human male's inability to cry, paced the fioor and blew an emotional nose with gusto. fo “You ask for news. Well, I have it, thought it carries no message of splen- did victory like yours. I am lea the lesson you left nie, Lu earning how to b2 to Walt w were to him-—comrade, helpmate, working partner! Yes, madam, yet your eves bulge as they may: I am ‘be- coming a writer’ as the correspondence school puts it. T am not only collab- orating with my huskand on a gerial story, but I have written three articles on home subjects and sold them for 1€al money! “It was not easy, Lucy. In working together, Walt and I had many tilts. At irst it frightened me. I thought we were disagreeing serfously and would have to end the experiment. But our differences and disputes have been the Lest of lessons. They have made me think. They have taught me what no smooth sailing ever could. “Never be impressed Lucy, with per- scns who say they have “lived togeth- er forty vears without a cross word.’ Such people are either zero mentally-— or awful liars. Mental friction is neces- sary to strike cff sparks of wisdom. Walt and I have solved a problem by getting mad over it. Only we don't stay mad. Differences of opinion are mountains which tempt us to climb and discover néw truths, “Roy Nicoll is abread. He has been splendid. He begged me to stay at the helm of ‘Woman ’'in his absence, and I am doing it. Like you, in losing something he wanted .or thought he wanted, he has found himself—his bet- ter self. . And he has taught me the bigness and fineness of friendship. “Walt is at work on a book which we want yon to illustrate, Lucy. You As for my work, that, too, is going witn gay success! Write me quickly of | vourself. My heart is hungry for news. My hands clasp yours, dear, and Walt's i deep affcction wnd friendliness. ! equally indefatigable shopper. | long as she has the strength to stand | it but she does not stop there, { shop and instead of coming out when ! headache the next da ! cuffers more than anvone clse. must do it. The MSS. will be gent you next week. There! Ts this enough news for one letter? “Our love to you, Little Brick. CTANDIT.? - SIDE TALKS BY RUTH “Yes,” said my neighbor, “he/waits . on her very nicely when she has those sick headaches, but he is resentful about it sometimes, and that hurts her feelings. Don’t you think that's mean of him when she suffers so0? And then I gave my neighbor a great surprise. I said a flat decided »No."” And this is why, The woman in question has the sick | headaches in’ question when she has | been doing too much. She Does Not Have to Do Too Much. | And she is not a.woman who has | to do too much. In that case, she would have my fullest sympathy. She has no children excent'a grown- up son and only a small apartment ‘o take care of but she loves to be in | things and go about. She is an inde- fatigable committee member and an All of which is perfectly right sa Tor instance. she goes in town tc she is tired, she a little it longer, goes to J ¢ mare shops, comes out in a T hour, reaches home utterly tired out, and has a sick And He is 2 Busy Man, When this happens, of course she Never- CAMERON Unnecessary Illness. of the burden. To be sure, he ought to be patient when she is suffering, because that is one of the decencies that Christian civilization imposes. Buf surely one cannot biame him for being a bit re- sentful afterwards when she does it again and again, It is not fair to take other people’s strength unnccessarily, and that is just, what this woman is doing when she overdoes. She is using up all her strength and then some of his. Ana when he, who has doubtless been through this experience innumer- able times, shows that he does not think she is fair, her feeings are hurt Doubtless She Adopts the Martyr Péose, Perhaj c tries to put him in the wrong by ng aggrievedly, “If you feel that way, 1 would rather you wauldn't wait on me: I'll take care of myself some how. And then she thinks of herself as a martyr. Tn- stead of a martyr, she is a cow |it is a coward’s trick to par just | resentment in that way. i\ These thinms should be looked at in la just and reasonable way. And we | Who commit the sins of unnecessary illness shonld acknowledge them jus cknowledee other sihs, and try | as we to overcome them, heless, her husband has to bear some Essex Organic Fertilizers, Meat and high-grade chem for th t year’s crops. lizers take first placi Ask your local dealer ab: for Profitabls F e o of . e et | For Sale by T. B. ATWATER, Piantsyille This marvelous yield could only be obtained by the use of the best plant foods known. _madec out of Bone, Blood, icals, are nature’s own plant foods in highly concentrated and productive form. They rot only restore fertility, but keep the soil in prime condition The price of potash is now beyond the ty of farmers. Esscx Bone, Blood and Meat n crep production. them and write us for ‘‘Fertilizer Facta ESSEX FERTILIZER CO., Boston, Mass. Draneh of Consolidated R tering Co, rd, fof ! TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO AT THE LYCEUM “Gus” Doig was the Herald Critic who “covered” the opening of the Russ win Lyceum twenty-five years ago. Leading his review of *Dipiomacy,” the first play staged in this theater, Mr, Doig wrote: G “After many months of discussion the Russwin Lyceum theater was opened to the public last evening. It is a pretty house and a more fashion- able- audience never sat unders the roof of a New Britain _theater than that Which witnesscd the initial per- formance at the Lyceum. Ladies fashionably gowned occupied the boxes with their escorts and in the auditarium and first balcony were seated many of the most prominent people in the town. The performance was excellent, such as has not been | seen here for many vears, and the| characters of the play were indeed in capable hands.” That the characters of the play! “were indeed in capable hands” may be judged by the subjoined list of those who took part in Dipomacy, by Victorien Sardou and Squire Bancroft, Original Cast. i Henry Beauclerc . . Lester Wallack Julian Beauclerc . ..... Henry J. Montague Countess Zicka ... - Rose Coghlan Lady FairfaX ......... Sara Stevens Orloff - Fredrick Robinson | Marquis de Riozares S i A sesee - Mme. Ponisi Dora—her, daughter . 50000 . Maude Granger Algie Fairfax . .- W. R. Floyd Baron Stein .. J. W, Shannon Sravealny . W. A, Eytinge Antoine . H. Ayling Mion. vieves... Pearl Eytinge Synapsis of Scenes. Act T—An apartment on the ground floor of Hotel Pavilion at Monte Carlo, Act II—An apartment overlooking the Champs Elysees, Act III—Same as Act IT. Act IV—An official room British Embassy. of the Mr. Doig then wrote a careful re- view of the play. treating each in- dividual phase, and outlining the plot. iIsolated sentences show the style, | “Rose Coghlan as Countess Zicka was excellent. She possesses rare elocu-| tionary powers and has a magnificent | stage presence. She was polished, even to perfection, last night and ap- peared to much better advantage than 1in “Peg Woffington” which was her last role in New Britain.”” And thus | goes the reviéw of “Diplomacy” as it { was rendered here a quarter of a cen- | tury ago. The Walter Naylor Players will pro- duce the play next week exactly as it! was Tevived two yvears ago at the Em- ! pirc theater in New York by William ! | Gillette. Miss Virginia Perry will play | the @art of the Countess, played by’ Rose Coghlan. Philip Quin will play | { Beauclerc, the role plaved in the arigin al cast by Lester Wallack, one of the greatest actors of all time. Ralph Murphy will play Orloff. Miss Dor- thea Antel will appear as ‘“Dora” and {will have great opportunities in this ole. Mise Margie Dow has been cast in the role of the Marquis de Riozares, mother of “Dara,” whom “Gus” Doig ribed in his “write-up” of twenty- » vears ago as ‘“a very worldly woman.” After a brilliant “new” theater, Mr following directors: H. E. Russell, Jr., Andrew Corbin, F. H. Allis, F. N. Stanlev, J. A, Traut, T. S. Bishop and | A. J. Sloper. “The managers,” he! added, are J. Claude Gilbert and T, J.| Tynch, two papular and capable men.” 1t is significant that Mr. Lynch will gic over the reins of manager this ceason, just a quarter of a century after his start. i == Y “NEW YORK GIRL” ! NEXT AT GRAND | description of the Doig reported the i ! . Almost everybody enjo. good, clean wit. That's the sort that is pre- sented in the two-act, multiple scene burlesque, “Step Lively Girls,” which holds the boards at the Grand theater this afternoon and evening. The comedy work is in the capable hands| of Rich (Shorty) McAllister, Harry T. Shannon, Dick Knowles and Ired Dotson, ‘illie Cox, Mae \White aund | Maudie Heath head the woman con- {ingent. There are several unique | | features with this show. One is the heach and another is the scene at Monte rlo. Next week the Grand's attraction will be “A New York Girl.”’ Harry Bentley, MIi Babette (the female Lew Kelly) Wal- ter Pearson, Clare Eans and other | favorites are with this show. KEENEY’'S NEXT WEEK C Payton and Edna May Spoon- | er will close their New Britain en-| gagement this evening when they will | be seen at Keeney's in “Dont \Venk~‘ en,” the sketch in which they ‘have | been appearing all week. Payton is now making a tour of New England as a vaudeville performer and his many admirers as a matinee idol are expect- jed to give him a big reception. In New Britain during the week he has been greeted most cordially and im- mense crowds have turned out t) {see him. The sketch in which he is {appearing is taken from Willard ack’'s great play, “Kick In,” and is | one of the best melodramatic attrac- tions ever seen in New RBritain. It introduces Payton in the type of r in which he achieved his greatest suz cess, and gives him an excellent c¢hance to prove that he has lost none of his old-time power. His associates are performers of the first rank and rs Goers and Women Reader UL 2 -] muscle Bakers Cocoa For either brain or s refreshing. Cocoa contains more nourishment than beef” Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. ESTABLISHED 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS. they give an admirable impersonation of the roles assigned to them. Tonight's performance will also mark the final New Britain showing of the $300,000 film spectacle, “Les Than the Dust,” which introduce Mary Pickford in the leading -role. This is an eight reel feature and is one of the best screen attractions ever booked by the Keeney management. The cther big film feature for to- night will be Marguerite Clark in “Out of the Drifts.” Charlie Chaplin will be next week in ‘“Easy Street.” “THE TRUANT SOUL” AT LYCEUM SUNDAY seen all When Henry B. Walthall described “The Truant Soul” by saying, “It is my masterpiece,” he simply echoed the opinion of film critics. terpiece and if Victor Rousseau had had Henry B. Walthall in mind when he was writing this great work he could have made no better selection for the role of Dr. John Lancaster. Rousseau and Walthall effect a happy combination that has given to the film world one of its greatest successes. Permanancy is the test that art must pass and *‘The Truant Soul,” both in fiction and on the screen, will live un- til the earth crumbles. =5 When the directing genuises of the Gssanay company were casting about for someone for the role of Dr. Lan- caster, they had in mind a number of artists each of whom might be capable of giving a satisfactory production. But there was one only who could in- terpret and portray the intense emo- tion so necessary and that man was Henry B. Walthall. The principal fe- male role is taken by Mary Charleson, whose work as co-star with Mr. Walth- all is on a par with his wonderful per- formance. Others in the cast are Pat- rick Calhoun, Anna Mae Walthall, Mary Parkyn and U. K. Haupt. Thomas J. Lynch of the Russwin Tyceum is pleased to announce that he has secured this motion picture mas- terpiece for his theater tomorrow night. Satisfaction is guaranteed., GEORGE ARLISS AT PARSONS’ THEATER Miss Jeanne Eagels plays the in- genue role of Lucy in “The Profes- sor's Love Story,” in which Arliss comes to Parso theater Wednesday and Thursday nights with a spe: matinee Thursday (Washington’s Birthday.) Miss lagcls is an example of Mr. Ari the excellence of ‘“stocky ha graduated from the stock in Kansas City. To the advan- tage of remarkable beauty Tagels has added a successful exper ence in ingenue roles. training, Menuj ?éfiém;rrow Creamed Martha Washington W, Coffee Dinner Clear Soup ied Chicken Mashed Potatoes Asparagus I'rench Dressi Cheese anut Pudding Coffee Lettuce Waffers Coco: Supper Sardine Sald Brown Bread Chocolate Cake * Tea Martha Washington Waflles—Be: six eggs very light, stir into one quart of flour, add three cupfuls of milk, one teaspoonful salt and three table- spoonfuls of veast. Beat well, let rise over night, stirring down hefore balk- ing. Cocoanut Pudding—Butter slices of stale bread and cut them in inch dice. Arrange in layers in a buttered bak- ing dish alternating with shredded cocoanut. Make a raw custard with four eggs, three cupfuls milk, four tablespoonfuls of sugar and one tea: spoonful of vanilla. Baste this over the dish until the bread cvenly is soaked through, then bake in a mod- } erate oven. It is his mas- | { surely going to send it to George | Delief in ! Willis ! Miss 1 eic i before ¥ of her and of m | the divine thoughtfulness that mothers | keep U ! not wish to do so—that | package that I am gaing to tell you | future had -expected REVELATIONS By ADELE What Madge Did When Left Alone. Don’t you think you would better lie down awhile? This performance of 1iother’s cannot but help have; upset you. If I were in your place L' would not come down ta luncheon— I'll tell Katle to bring you up some- | thing. And I'll try to have mother calmed dowqn before \dinner.” Dicky stood in the doorway of my, roam with his hand on the door knob. He had come directly up to me when I had rushed from the living room after his mother's insulting remarks concerning Robert Gordon, and had gently soothed my jaded nerves, ! I knew that heé must have left his mother in a towering rage, and I saw i that if it were possible he preferred that she 'and I should not meet until the elder woman had recovered from the tantrum into which she had been thrown by the persistent inquiries of Robert Gordon, 1 should have acceded to his sug- gestion under any circumstances, but I was especially thankful for this un- chance of an uninterrupted afternoon.. 1 wanted an apportunity to get out a package which was in the bottom of a trunk of my dead mother's. I had scarcely thought of it since her death, but in the course of my conversation with Dicky I had been forcibly reminded of its existence and T was impatient to see it. So 1 smiled cheerfully up at him, and affected as nonchalant an air as| possible. { “You do have the best ideas, Dicky. I think I'd rather have four or five hours’ rest than anything I know. T'm going to ‘sport my oak'—isn't that what they say in English school boy stories?—and I shall expect not to be disturbed. So gcod-by until dinner.” “You shant be di Dicky retorted: “I'm soing Katie up with your lunchcon.’ “Truly, I. couldn’t eai a thing. Dicky,” T protested. ¥ “Throw it out the window then,” he returned, nonchalantly, “but I'm vou. So urbed but once,” to send long!” “Little Mother's” Last Request. He went out of the room quick 1g the door behind him. I waited until I heard his footsteps descendins the stairs before turning the key it he lock. Then I went directly to little old trunk which I had alwa kept in my own room ever since my mother’s death, and kneeling before it, unlocked it with roverent fingers.,, It was my mothe; own girlhood trunk, ane in which she had kept treasures and memento all her life. The chief delight of my child- l100d had been sitting by her side when | he took out the different things from | it and showed them to me. Dear, thoughtful, little mine! Imost the last thing she (Hdi trength failed her utterly to repucl the little trunk, wrap- g and labelling each thing it con-| {ained, and putting into it only thej things which she knew, I would not} use, but wished to keep as memories own childhood. ou to have to look | while vaur grief is she had said, with mother of | wa, i “T do not wis over these things till fresh for me,” 1 the last breath they draw.| “Therc is nothing in it that vou will| have to look at for years if you do} except one about now."” She stopped to catch the breath which was so pitfully short in those torturing days hefore her death, and { over her face swept the look of agony | which always accompanied any men- | tion by her of my father. | “In the top tray of this trunk” she said, “vou will find the inlaid lock box that was vour grandmother’s, and which you have alyays admired so nuch. T do not wish to lay any re- juest or command upon you concern- ng it—you must be the only judge of your own affs after I leave you— but I would not advise you not fo s you are in des- or until the time has come when you feel that you no longer esentment you now fecl your fathe last words h toward The through labor at strain of talki d come faintly stiffened white lips, for her packing and the otional to me concerning the brought on one of the dreaded heart attacks which were so b1} fyequent in the Jast weeks of We had never spoken of the | key | hoarsely 0F A WIFE GARRISON matter afterward, for she did not leave * her bed again until the end. 3 Is It the Time? At one time she had motioned me to bring from her-desk the old-fash- ioned key ring on which she kept her keys, ‘She had held up two, a tiny and a larger one and whispered “These are the keys to.the box and the little trunk—you know where the others belong,” and then had closed her eyes as if the effort of speaking had eshausted her; as indeed it had. In the wild grief which followed my mother’s death -there . was thought of my unknown father the bitterness which I had alws toward him. I knew that the terrible sorrow he had caused her had helped to shorten her life, and my heart was hot with anger against him. I had never opened the trunk singe her death. The exciting, almost tragic experiences of my life with Dicky had swept all my old life into the background, I could not analyze the change which had come over me. Asg T lifted the lid of the trunk and took from the top tray the inlaid lock box which my mother’s hands had last touched the grief for her which the sight of the box revived was mingled with a strange new longing to find out anything I could concerning the lock : father T had never known. ALL STAR BILL ] ON FOX’S SCREEN At Fox’s tonight Clara Williams in rama, ‘‘Thrae in the second chapter of “Patr! edies and other featui night a speeial a at this Liongl Be Mrs. Vernon C appear same bill but these are th vorites who head the My night show at Fox’s, Owing to <he added features in the show the first perform- ance will begin o1 Sunday eveaing at five o'clock shaip, the second at cight. The box office opens at 4:50. Mps. Castle will be shown in the i formance at ten miinnlos to six are many big productions hooied tie I"ox theater in the rnear Among them next \Vedne: Thursday Mr. George Welsh Fox special release, M. e i s the biggest thinz that actor has cver done in 5 and great claims are made in nce of the rele of the feature. Ramona”, the marvel of all spee- will hold the stage next s'riday urday and Alization” will for a return cngagenmient on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Mims Theda Bara in the Fox feat in six reels will follow “Civiiiz X Miss Bara’s latest production is *The Tiger Woman” and it is ciaimed out shines her triumphant success, “The Darling of Paris.” Your Family (BB From Winter Colds with Hale’s Honey Of Horehound and Tar It stops coughs before they become serious. Contains no opium nor anything injurious. Sold by all druggists. 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