New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 12, 1917, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12 LYCEUM He Scores a Triumph Geo. M.Cohan IN “SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE” BESSIE LOVE IN “POLLY ANN” MONDAY Billy Burke “The Mysterious Miss Terry” Nothing But the Best at Holiday Prices Today Mat. 10c Eve. 10c 20c Madge Evans In the Pulsating Drama of an Extraordinary Child Chapter 15 FATAL RING It’s Nearing the End! MUTT AND JEFF ™ “THE JANITORS” PATHE NEWS : e Continuous Tomorrow SUN. MON. & TUES. MAE MARSH OLLY 8 GREAT PARTS KEENEY’S ALL THIS WEEK! «IN THE WAKE OF THE HUNS.” Thurs., Fri., Sat. HOUSE PETERS &l Fen “HEIR OF THE AGES.” Coming Soon. EMILY STEVENS in the special production De Luxe “THE SLACKER” e HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE | GRAND HARTFORD —ALL WEEK— JACOBS AND JERMON'S Big Burlesque Review With HARRY K. MORTON and ZELLA RUSSELL. | News For Theatergoers and Women Readers | | | e A e N ———— REVELATIONS By ADELER Mother Marvin. How Dick Dicky ‘‘sorted” his collection of books, papers and magazines assid- uously for the space of half an hour | in the living room from which Katie, Jim and I had just hurriedly removed the furniture and the rugs to keep them from the dust which had ac- cumulated upon the “collection.” He kept Jim busy traveling from the attic to the denuded living room bearing huge piles of the old things he had accumulated there. When the last one was down the room looked like nothing, so much as a combina- tion of second-hand book shop and rag picker’s dump, and Dicky in the midst of it, was evidently happy, but dirty and dishevelled to a degree I had not believed it possible for my fastidious husband to achieve. I didn’t go into the living room at all, for 1 was still smarting at his in- considerate action in bringing the dusty things into the room without even asking me whether it were con- venient for me to have them there, in- deed, over my protest that the furni- from the dining room, where I was helping Katie bring some semblance of order out of the confusion into which the unexpected introduction of the living room furniture had thrown the usually well-ordered room. I caught glimpses of Dicky at ‘“work’” which afforded me a great deal of quiet amusement. . “What Do You Mean?” He would rush around from one pile to another, selecting books or magazines or newspapers from each. and placing them in neat little piles. Then something in the printed pages before him would strike his fapcy and down he would sit upon the nearest read the thing he had found. The first two or three times he left the routine of sorting for the fas- cination of the printed page he ap- peared uneasy, read whatever he had found hurriedly, and then returned to nis work. But, after a while he abandoned all pretence, and impro- vising a couch from the piles of newspapers, he lit his pipe, and half sitting, half reclining, gave himself up to a regular orgy of delving and read- ing. “Dot look like old times,” chuckled Katie, as she caught a glimpse of him. “What do you mean, Katie?” I asked, forgetting for the moment that in the days before I knew Dicky, Katle, then a raw immigrant Polish girl, had done the laundry work and cleaning in the apartment where Dicky and three other artists kept bachelors’ hall. “Vy dot joost de way he alvays do at de flat ven he and dose oder boys lived dere,” she explained. “He always have lots books and papers, an’ ven dose oder fellows tell him dey chuck dem all out if he no feex, he alvays get dem out an’ den sit an’ read all time—I bet he dere all day. Katie’s Prophecy. “I bet something else, too,” went on and her face was full mischievous enjoyment. company coom today.” “Oh, Katie, don’t even speak of such a thing!” I said, aghast at the very idea of guests in so disordered a house. “I'm sure no one will come. The Durkees know we are moving, and the rest of the people here don't know us well enough to call. And I am sure no one from the city will be here today.” “I bet you somebody coom,” Katie she of “I bet some Undesirable ““Men show their character in rioth- ing more clearly than by what they think laughable.””—Goethe. A great deal can be sald in praise of laughter. As much, to my mind, can be sald in dispraise of it. There are so many kinds of laugh- ter. There are desirable kinds of laugh- ter such as the laugh of a child, the hearty infectious laugh of an unself- conscious man, the well modulated musical laughter of a woman (one of the rarest things on earth, the gift of a musical Jaugh is about five times as rare as that of a musical voice nd you know how far from common that 1s) and the pretty laughter of young girls (“which is and always was,” says DeQuincey, “among the most delightful sounds of earth.”) And then there are kinds of laugh- ter not so desirable. There 1s the apologetic laugh, the coarse laugh, and the nervous laugh. The latter is the one I especially want to speak about. No Nervous Habit Worse Than the Nervous Laugh. Of all nervous habits, none is any more to be avoided than the nervous laugh. I used to know a woman who laugh- ed constantly. She laughed at every- thing and she laughed at nothing. She would make a plain statement of fact such as ‘it is a pleasant day” and then Jaugh at it. she laughed for almost a minute. I dreaded to hear people make jests in her presence. On all occasions when | other people smiled sho laughed. I Returned to | repeated obstinately. ture and rugs would be ruined. But | pile and, relaxing himself in comfort, : OF A WIFE GARRISON “My bone, I feel dot in. I tink we get dinner right avay qveeck, den it all over, ve no hav to feed dose folks.” “We would better have dinner early anyway, Katie,” I said, amused at Katie’s persistence and knowing the absolute futility of combating any idea or superstition of hers once it be- came lodged in her brain. “You no tink I know,” she chuckled. ‘“You joost valt une see.” Her assurance made me uneasy in spite of myself. I am foolishly sen- sitive about the appearance of my house. I know it, and have tried to to acquire some of Lilllan's splendid indifference to circumstances. ~She can be a regal hostess in a perfectly ordered and appointed home, and she would make guests equally welcome, entertain them with the same ap- rid myself of so silly a feeling, tried | parent zest, if they should come un- | painters, plasterers and carpenters at work. To have visitors with my furniture scattered all over the house, and untidiness in the living room, was a catastrophe not to be thought of. I was compelled to think of it a little later, however, for the Marvin taxt rolled up to the door, all persons in the world—deposited in slightly rumpled, but still dignified state, my mother-in-law. COHAN AND LOVE ON LYCEUM BILL popularity of George M. Cohan was pald yesterday afternoon and last eve- ning when he appeared at the Ly- ceum theater in a picturization of his own play, “Seven Keys To Baldpate,” and was greeted by a packed house. expectedly to her home when she had ! Dicky ensconced in such disgraceful | and—of ! A wonderful tribute to the local “POLLY OF THE That his efforts did not go without notice was indicated throughout by the willingness of the audience to show appreciation of his wonderful acting. Differing from most pictures of its Kind, “Seven Keys To Baldpate’ dares to mix a little sentiment here and there with really dramatic moments, and the unending changes from trag- something new each moment, gives the play an aspect of a comedy-trag- duction. Cohan is in the thick of fidence of a man who had been born and brought up in a motion picture studio, instead of being a novice. The female reporter, with the in- head in the many impossible plays whose action has been centered about her, comes back strong in this Co- | hanesque production. She acts like | a regular fellow this time, absolutely | refusing to prevent railroad wrecks or jump from fast moving trains. Anna Q. Nillson, who enacts the role of a female news hound, does her work in such a cool, calculating man- ner that one acquainted with the proper way of doing newspaper work wonders whether or not she ever: worked at the newspaper business. i She certainly appears as though she knows what to do. The story deals with the experi- ences of a nowvelist in an inn that was supposed to be deserted, but which turns out to be a regular hive of activity. Shots are fired, money —— SIDE TALKS When anyone made a jest | is stolen and burned, detectlves *“‘butt CAMERON L t Laughter. | don’t know that I ever saw her smile. At first I judged her whole ter by that laugh. Later I that it was nothing but a nervous habit. When she was more nervous than usual from one cause or another, such as overtiredness, shyness at meeting strangers, etc., she laughed more than usual. I Think I Should Go Insane. I really pitied her for the unfortun- ate habit.. And yet I think I should go Insane if I had to live with anyone like that. I could hear that laugh coming and something inside me shuddered. Perhaps other people do not feel as keenly as I do about this habit but I am sure most people find it more or less offensive. The very fact that laughter is nor- mally the expression of mirth and happiness somehow makes it more hideous when it is twisted out of its normal use. Nothing More Horrible Than a Maniac’s Laugh. A maniac’s shrieks are bad enough charac- realized | mendous success in every city { which edy to comedy and back again, with | edy if there is such a class of pro-! | Ins p things all the time and shows the con- | LLirantaneous { the child, Polly, who was born and dignities heaped upon her suffering | | ers. { some by entering her circus horse in | | of Deacon | the village. 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Caldwell, 456 Wash- ington St., Monticello, Illinois. ree of in,” and the secret service agents pay a surprise visit before Cohan ag George Washington Magee, novelist, | triumphs. Then comes the big sur. prise when the action is explained and Cohan has a chance to show himself | as a sentimentalist. He does that | little job with a thoroughness that characterizes his work throughout the picture. Bessio Love is on the same pro- gram in “Polly Ann,” a quaint story | dealing with the efforts of a girl to help a man she loves. Miss Love plays the role in a sympathetic man- | ner and wins her way into the hearts | of all who see her latest production. | A Keystone comedy, “Uncle Dudley,” | will also be seen. This big prograns will be at the Lyceum today and to- morrow. On Saturday there will be a continuous show. CIRCUS” COMING HERE A picture that is guaranteed to sat- isfy lovers of the unusual and spec- | tacular, and one that has been a tre- in it has appeared, is “Polly of | the Circus,” the huge eight reel Gold- wyn production in which the popular and dainty Mae Marsh is starred, and which will open at Fox's theater for three days on Sunday night. Miss Marsh’s work in this picture even sur- ; passes her splendid triumphs in “The Birth of a Nation” and “Intolerance,” in which masterpleces she sprung into popularity with the millions who witnessed them. The story of the picture has to do with raised with a circus, who, following the death of her mother in an acci- dent, is raised by an old clown, Toby. She becomes a bare-back rider, and, after being injured by a fall during | her act, is left behind in a little town, while the rest of the circus goes on. | When injured, Polly was taken to the nearest house, which happened to be that of a young minister, John Doug- las. Here she stays during the long months of convalescence. She is six- teen, and beautiful, and as the clergy- man is"but twenty-five, and a bache- lor, the town gossips are soon busy, and what might have been a pretty romance, is twisted into malicious scandal by the narrow-minded villag- Pressure is brought to bear upon | the mi er, and, listening to the voice of reason rather than to the call of the heart, he tries to maka | her understand that she must go. She hears that her old friend and foster father, Toby, is dangerously ill, but, having no money with which to has- ten to his aid, undertakes to raise the big annual races against the horse Strong, the biggest and most crabbedly important citizen of The racing scene which | ensues is beyond doubt one of the best and most exciting things that | has ever been done into pictures. But | it is only one of a dozen big, thrilling spectacles. The circus scenes are | especially worthy of note. Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast. Cereal with Milk Broiled Bacon Waffles Syrup Coffee Lunch Toad in the Hole Peaches Cocoa Dinner. 5 Stuffed Fish Fried Tomatoes Boiled Potatoes Celery Srlad Maple Sugar Ple Coftee Toad in the Hole.—Put into a basin a quarter pound flour, and pinch of salt; beat one egg well, and mix it with three quarters pint milk, pour gradually among flour, beat it with a spoon. When smooth pour it into a pudding dish; then put in half a pound of sausages, bake for three- quarters of an hour. Maple Sugar Pie—For each pie take one cupful of grated maple sugar, one Crullers but nothing in all the world is more horrible than a maniac’s laughter. And the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind is even more imbecile than the fool's most foolish utterance. Watch your laugh. Don’t let yourself get the habit of nervous laughter. 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GOLDENBLUM MILLINERY GO, Little Star at Fox’s Today add To- MOoTrrow. | a hard time getting along. When her mother dies, she runs away from the orphan asylum in which she had been placed, and joins a circus. But while she is suffering under the hard- ships inflicted upon her by the cruel owner of the outfit, she is found by emissaries of the earl, who has re- 188 MAIN ST. Y. M. C. A. BLDG ceived hews of her mother’s death, and decided to bring his only grand- child up, thereby filling an aching vold in his heart and life. lle cer- tainly fills everything when Madge ar- rived, even more than he anticipated, for she assumes full charge of his estate, and refuses to take any orders from any one, even the earl himself. She early made the discovery that her grand-parent had the gout, and all that was necessary to make him accede to any wish of hers, was mere- ly to twist the afflicted foot, and keep on twisting until he gave in. The picture is not all comedy, however. 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