New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 20, 1917, Page 9

DIPLOMAGY’ COME BACK T0 LYCEUM Drama WellfiGiven by Wembers of | Walter Naylor’s Company “DIPLOMACY" A drama in, four acts by Victorien Sardou Cast Of Characters Henry Beauclerc.. PXilip Quin Julian Beauclerc. . the Wallace Count Orloff Ralph Murphy . Steffon 5 K., Hamilton Algie Fairfa .Victor Beecroft Antoine. ... ..Charles Ludwig Shepperd. . .. Mr. Hamilton Baron Stein .Orrin Burke Lady Henry Irene Antel ..Miss Dorothea Antel -Miss Virginia Perry .......Miss Ruth Miner Produced under the pers Synopsis Act I—Apartment Monte Carlo. Act II—Henry ment in Paris. Act ITI—The same. Evening. Act 1V—Office of the British em- After twent y: “Diplo- ’* has lost none of its charm. It was the first play ever staged at the Lygeum by *F. J. Lynch this week gives up active management of the theater. Last night it played to an audience some of whom witnessed it here wwhen Rose Coghlan was in her prime. The Walter Naylor play crs; have struck their gait in the old | Cirama by Victorien Sardou. The story of “Diplomacy” is so well known as scarcely to need elaborate treatment. )Its four acts filled with dramatic situations. The Ma auis de Rio Zares and her charminz Jaughter “Dora” are living in Monte Carlo. They are sore pressed finan- ' cially. They arve seeking an outlet | from their indebtedness . when the voung Captain Julian Beauclerc hap- pens along. He is in the English diplomatic corps, and very wealthy. The mother has designs upon him for her daughter. There is an obstacle in the person of Count Orloff, a Rus- pian agent, with whom Dora is in love. Also another in the Countess in a hotel at Beauclerc’s apart- | PLE who | from Dora. !'lian believes his wife i This week / in 5, 10,25 and 50 lb, cotton ag d in 2 and 5 Ib. cartons | Peanut Brittle is a food | confection—when you Sold b “‘Sweeten it with Domino’ Granulated, Tablet, Powdered, Confectioners, Brown ,J —————————————————————— through a very serious illness and who is in love with him. Dora, however, discovers that the Count is married. She then falls in lové with Julian, he with her, and the tables are | turned. The Countess Zicka who is a spy in the service of the Russian govern- ment adds to the complications that follow thick and fast throughout the play. On the wedding night of Julian she steals from his portmanteau a set of plans of fortifications at Con- stantinople, Before that she has suc- ceeded in having Count Orloff arrest- ed upon a visit to Russia. This she does through securing information The Count upon his re- turn tells Julian and his brother Henry how Dora has betrayed him, she being the only one who knew of his infended visit. The resultt Ju- a spy and a thief, and his mother-in-law, the Mar- quise de Rio Zares, an accomplice. It remains for the clever diplomat, Henry Beauclerc, to bring about a happy ending to the play. He unravels the mystery that surrounds Dora, clears her name and that of her moth- er by a clever ruse in which the (aiiecr o | Countess Zicka is trapped into a con- fession and the Baron Stein, her ac- complice,-is stripped of his arrogance. Patrons of the Lyceum were intro- duced ta a new member of the Naylor players last night in the person of Smythe Wallace who played the lead- ing male role, Julian Beauclerc. Mr. Wallace was exceedingly good in the part, one~that calls for intense ®cting every minute of the time. Playing opposite him in role is M Dorothea Antel as Dora. by far the best oppor- tunity Miss Antel has had to really displa her histrionic ability. She plays a very good Dora. As her mother, the clever woman of the world, the Marquise de Rio Zare, Miss Margie Dow is exceptionally good. Philip Quin as the astute diplomat, Henry Beauclerc, who saves Zicka has nursed Captain Julian ' veryhody at | m February 25th h authful brother Julian from many C The Co-operating Churches of New Britain are uniting in an appeal to public, asking them to attend some church next St_mday, Feb- rua\ry 25fh, it being the first Sunday in Lent. These Churches will follow a common program of sermons and ad- dresses during the Lenten season. May we not ask everybody who stands for uprightness to co-operate in this movement. the leading ingenue| / . ®#EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1917. | Brings Its Toll of Sickness to New Briitain People. Chilly damp, hard on the kidneys. Even more irritating are colds, grip aild pneumonia; They congest the Kkidneys; They bring backache and disordered kidney action. For weak kidneys use a tested rem- edy. New Britain _people Doan’s Kidney Pills. Mrs. J. Young, 95 Elm St., New Bri- tain, says; “I have used Doan’s Kidney Pills for bachache, which seems to come on from a cold. They have al- ways given me relief. I think they are a good medicine and that is why I recommend them to others.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that | Mrs. Young had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. recommend pitfalls and errors, is seen at his best. Ralph Murphy as Count Orloff has very little to do but does that little | well.. It is Miss Virginia Perry who i has the really difficult role in the play, the scheming, spying Countess Zicka. Miss Perry plays her part in an exceptionally clever manner. She might be a bit more dramatic in the closing scene, in the real climax of the play, The minor parts of the play are in capable hands. Harry K. Hamilton | plays two aof these parts, Victor Bee- croft is seen as an attache of the em- bassy ,and Miss Irene Antel has a slow moving comedy part from which she extracts a few laughs. Orrin Burke as the pompous, pugnatious Baron Stein is all the part calls for, a bom- bastic overbearing diplomat. Miss Ruth Miner is very good as a French maid. The settings are exceptionally good, Especially the second and third acts. { It is doubtful if there has ever been la more magnificent scene at the Ly- ceum than the apartments of Henry Beauclerc. Then again the apartment fo the Marquise de Rio Zares is well appointed. To Mr, Naylor must go a | great deal of credit for carefully stag- ing this play which marks the jubilee celebration of the Lyceum. The gowns of tHe leading ladies, toa, are worthy of mention. Miss Perry dis- plays some creations that are well worthy of a Parisian setting. Miss Dow in the opening act wears an evening dress that hearkens back to the good old days when styles were more wanderful, if anvthing, than they are today. Miss Dorothea Antel wears a gown that will’immediately create envy in the very noblest of feminine hearts. Altogether, “Diplomacy” s revived to the queen’s taste. The fare- well week for “Tom’” Lynch at the Lyceum is at one and the same time diplomatic and dramatie. hurch yjez Alenaqa g veryhody at (Church Sunday Attention, Mr. Automobile Purchaser Subject, Dodge -Bros. Cars,—Production of Master Minds. Touring, Roadster or Sedan Models of 114-inch Wheelbase. £ Econcmy, Strength, Quietness, Comfort, Beauty, Speed, Durability, Lightness PRICE $785, F. 0. B. DETROIT Until Further Notice for DODGE TOURING and ROADSTER. 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Phone 1136-2 or 488 for Bl:isto] Newington and changing weather is many yvoung ladies who are willing to hours upon specified days, to the general cause. be requested to tabulate and arrange D, GRS WENTHER \WOMEN OF THE CITY 10 AID N TAKING MILITARY CEN The general committee, in charge of the military census, 1S will need give their services, for at least four These young ladies will lists of names from._ information which will be furnished them in order that the actual work of interview- ing the men of New Britain may progress more rapidly. found a blank which volunteers may fill out and return to which will hand all blanks received to the committee. hag at least four hours to spare she is Spaces have been left for the volunte Below will be the Herald, Unless a volunteer requested not to fill out a blank. er to designate the day or da she is willing to work and whether she can best afford to spend mornings or afternoons in the_office. It is desired that some of the volunteers be good typists, but places will be found for those who are not. Volunteer Clerica_ll Workers’- Blank I am willing to give my servi to the United States by aiding thc named below: NAME Days You are Willing to help Mornings or afternoons? [y Please fill in blanks and return to the Herald office as soon as Should your services be required you will be informed of possible. the time you are needed. SWIFT DEATH ENDS BRILLIANT CAREER OF GEN. FUNSTON (Continued From First Page). mand until a permanent successor is named by the war department., / Mother Il at Emporia. Emporia, Feb. 20.—The mother of the late Maj. Gen. Funston may be unable to attend the funeral of her son. She is ill and confined to a bed at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. A. Eckdale. The news of her son’s death was conveyed to her last night and the shock aggravated her condition. Mrs. Funston's home is at Iola, Kas. Tribute From Pershing. El Paso, Feb. 20.—Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing assumed temporary com- mand of the southern department last night, filling the vacancy left by the death of Maj. Gen. Funston. _ Speaking of the death of Gen, Funs- ton, Gen. Pershing said: “We can ill afford to lose his keen | mind in the niilitary counsels of the republic.” Since the Civil war the United States has had no military commander Wwhose fighting qualities and brilliant exploits so endeared him to the people as the little red-headed Kansan who fought with Gomez against the Spaniards in Cuba and with the 20th Kansas Valunteers against the Span- iards and the Ladrones in the Philip- pines. From the day when he took com- mand of Gomez’s artillery until the hour of his death Frederick Funston was the name most likely to pop into an American's mind at the suggestion 'of military prowess. Yet ane of the greatest services he rendered to, his country wad in time of peace. ‘When San Francisco was falling into charred ruins and its inhabitants gath- ered on its hills, it was General Fun- ston and his regulars who brought ornder out of chaos, supervised the refugee camps and quelled Jooters with a stern hand. He was in cam- | mand of the troops in the Presidio, and San Francisco speedily awoke | from its homeless, lawless state to find | itself under martial law, tent sites| picked with a view to sanitation, water supply under strict guard and food conserved and distributed with the strict impartiality of army rations. But it was the capture of the crafty Aguinaldo that enshrined Funston as hero in the hearts of Americans. Tt was his campaign agalnst Aguinaldo that won him the rank of brigadier general, and though by a less sensa- tional route he had attained the rank of major general, the boys who used to hum— , I’d like to know who's running this shaw— Is it me or Emilio Aguinaldo? looked forward with the utmost con- fidence to seeing their hero regenerate to the army of their country and win i | i census of New Britain for at least four hours a day on ces to the city of New Britain and ose who are taking the military the days Can you supply one?.... position. He was twice sent for botanical burposes to Alaska. In the second expedition, aftor his companions had aided him in building a canoe, he made alone the perilous trip of 1,- 500 miles down the Yukon river. As he was nearing the end of his jour- ney the boat capsized and he itruggled for his life'in the icy water. He succeeded in saving himself only to be threatened with death from cold and starvation, but fortunately he came across a missionary outpost. As i? was, he nearly died from pneu- monia, ‘With Cuban Rebels. His adventurous spirit next led him to Cuba. There he enlisted in the in- surgent army and served under Gen- erals Gomez and Garcia for eighteen months. He soon became commander of Cuban artillery. In leading a cav- alry charge he was wounded in both lungs. His horse was shot, fell upon him and crushea his right leg. While he was endeavoring to crawl to the Cubans a party of Spaniards captured him; but his ready wit served him a g8ood turn. Immediately he told them that he was an American and had ! joined the Cuban army but had had all he wanted of it, and had come over to the Spaniards. They believed his story and allowed him to leave the {island. On reaching the United States | he was obliged to go to a hospital, where he remained for several months. | When hostilities with Spain began i he offered his services, was commis- sioned colonel of the 20th Kansas and | sent to the Philippines. He had not been on the other side of the world a great while before reports began to &r- rive of his brilliant exploits. In March, 11899, fighting before Malolos, he found | himself with part of his command on one side of the muddy Marilao river ‘and a force of Filipinos on the other side who had a good position and were gBalling the American troops by their constant fire. Calling for volunteers who could swim, Colonel Funston selected twenty men, told them to follow him, and, holding his revolver up, swam the stream. The men put their guns on logs and followed, pushing the logs. On the other side the little force charged and captured eighty Filipinos. He was the first man to enter Ma- lolos after the capture. He was the first American officer to cross the river at Calumpit. In May, 1899, in con- junction with General MacArthur, he dispersed 800 insurgents who were in- trenched near Santa Arita. And so it went. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers on May 2, 1899, and in November of that vear the “Little Hero of Manila’ 'and the “Fighting 20th” returned home, and his regiment was mustered out. The people of Kansa$ presented a $7,- 000 sword to General Funston. Returns to Philippines. On November 23, 1899, he sailed from San Franciseco on his return to the Philippines to continue the fight. against the insurgents. In April, 1900 with a detachment of the 34th Volun- teer Infantr, he captured Baler, on the Pacific side of the island of Luzon, a little north of Manila. In March, 1901, General Funston captured Aguinaldo, the leader of the insurgents, in his secret hiding place jn the province of Isabella, Island of new honors. Information for Otis. Stubby, red headed, indomitable, he was a figure to capture a boy’s imagi- nation and hold his place forever and to make the hearts of men beat faster. It was easy to picture the regard with affection a red-headed man, barely five feet five inches in height, his very beard bristling with pugnacity as he replied to General Otis’ query: “How long can you hold your position, Funston ?*" Jntil my regiment out!” After his exploits at Vera Cruz and his mastery of the border situation, both of which seemed but a part of the fateful conspiracy to keep Funston in the thick of things, it was nat difficult to conceive of a second Chapultepec, of a Mexico as peaceful as the Philip- pines, perhaps of an invading army driven by some Funston miracle into the sea. General Funston was born in Ohio in 1865, son of Edward Hogue Fun- ston, formerly representative from Kansas for nine years. Young Fun- ston was taken to the latter state in 1867, studied in the common schools and attended the Kansas State Uni- versity for two years. Then after teaching for a while he began news- paper wark on a Kansas City paper in is mustered 1890. A year later he was a botanist {in the United States Death Valley Ex- T.uzon. For this he was promoted, on March 30, to the rank of brigadier general in the regular army. The capture of the famous Filipino was accomplished by strategy. Through intercepted cerrespondence he learned the strength of Aguinal- do’s force, and also that he was await- ing reinforcements. He conceived the idea of arming a number of native troops to pass off as part of these rein- forcements, ‘and thus by craft trap the Filipino chieftain. Letters were forged in the name of Lucana, one of the Fil- ipino generals, telling Aguinaldo that troops were on their way. Aguinaldo was deceived. When Fun- ston at the head of his force came within eight miles of Azuinaldo's camp he sent word to the Filipino president that he should send aid. Aguinaldo, supposing them to be his newly arrived troops, went in person with a small bodyguard to meet his friends. Then the deception was abandoned. Fun- ston’s men fired into the bodyguard of the Filipino leader and made him a prisoner. On the return to this country during the following vear General Funston found himself a popular hero. Geeral Funston was not without his decriers. Even his capture of Agui- naldo was attacked by sentimentalists as partaking too much of treachery. General Funston married Miss Edna Blankert in' San Francisco in 1898. § HE WON THE INTERNATIONAL CHAM- MR. JOSE! Right in your midst at 676 North Main St., lives a man that has made history in the billilard world. Mr. Cronin’s is well known to all and is one of the billiard experts of the country, in fact, in the world. 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