New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 28, 1917, Page 4

d Weekly—13 Big No Increase in flle Wives sensational seven-part ar- nt of thc women of to- before the court of com- o morality. : "%Art THOU the Woman?"” SEE IT AT FOX’S SUN., MON., AND TUES. (No increase in prices. IN RASPUTIN “THE BLACK MONK” . COMING! WM. S. HART KEENEY'S ODASS VAUDEVILLE 2 —o— —BIG DOUBLE BILL— he DESIRE OF THE MOTH” .with RUTH CLIFFORD and MONROE SALISBURY 2 “BELOVED JIM” with HARRY CARTER AND PRISCILLA DEAN o Pathe Serial “HIDDEN HAND” with DORIS KENYON AND, SHEL- DON LEWIS e | HIGH HARTFORD'S FUN OEN RANID HARTFORD 8 . WEEK, TWICE DAILY ' | | BERT HAYES “Beeman’s Big Show” ARSONS’ THEATR (o] ~—Hartford— - Nights, Beginning Tenight at 5—Mat. Satarday, 2:30. ‘MARY’S ANKLE Nights, 25¢c to $1.50; Mat. Best Seats, $1 Entire Balcony 50c. i i DECE! 3 U v} v —~—— News For Theatergoers and Women Readers o~ - HARTFORD CORNER CORNER MAIN and CHURCH STS., Hartford OUR GREATEST JANUARY SALE IN-FULL SWING SMART DRESSES AT JANUARY PRICES. LOT 1. ~ Regular Prices Up to $15.00 Serge and Satin. VReguIar Prices 7 Up! to $19:755. - ¢ LOT 8. | . $9.98 Good quality Serge, Satin and Velvet. LOT 3. Regular Prices LB ol 1 D A e S R IS E $14.75 Serge, Satin, Georgette and Serge combinations. LOT 4 Regular Prices Up to $35.00 Wool Jersey, Satin, Serge, WINTER SUITS AT JANUARY PRICES 7 REDUCED Prices Now $12.50, $16.50, $22.50 WINTER Velvet. 145 to 3 COATS AT JANUARY PRICES. - LOT Regular Prices Up to $19.75 . Plain and coseibie fur collared. . $12.50 LOT 2. ‘Regular Prices Up to $38.50 &ifin s veveoaionoanntonai.. $19.75 Wool Velour, Pompom, American ‘Woolens and a few LOT 3. Velvet Coats. Regular Prices Upiitor$89. 50 e e - Broadcloth, Wool Velour trimmed. Regular Prices Up to $45.00 ........ Baffin Seal Plush, . ‘Broadcloth, Bolivi and Pompom. . $29.75 a, Pompom, with $24.50 Handsomely ‘LOT 4 large fur collars and some lined with Skinner’s Satin. HIGH GRADE COATS REDUCED 1-2 TO 1-3. WALSH AND HART ' ON FOX PROGRAM George Walsh, the big boy with the happy smile, and Bill Hart, the tall, quiet fellow with the twa six-guns— those are the two stars of the current Fox program. And they are the two best that money can buy, represent- ing, as they do, the popular choice of every red-blooded man and woman picture-fan in the United States today. Georgle comes in his new' Fox hit, “The Pride of New York,” and he certainly does look, well in olive drab! It is a regular Red, White, and Blue picture, showing conditions in Amer- ica today as a result of the war, and it brings certain truths right home in a clever way. It tells the story of two young men—one a fine, roilick- ing example of young American man- hood, as played by George Walsh, and the other an effeminte fop. Both are drafted into the huge army that is now being raised, and in the service uniform Georgie surely puts it over Reginafdl for looks, and for a ‘whole lot of: other things, too. There is some great comedy in “The Pride of New York,” which is to be expected of any picture in which this star ap- pears. It is a typical Walsh picture, and George gets himself into some great mix-ups. He doesn’t even get serious when they put him in the Y NEW YEAR ATTRACTIONS | trenches, but tries to figure out some —DEC, 31, JAN. 1-2.— atinee New Year's and Wed.) . “4 QUEENS” 7y Nights, 25c to $1.50; 25c to $1. Seat Sale Aetna g Alleys way of making a fool out of the Kaiser. He is quite disappointed to learn that Wilhelm is spending the winter in Berlin, some miles from the front. But there's one thing he does accomplish, and that is the rescue of a fair young Red Cross nurse from the hands of a bunch of barbarous Huns. And it's a mighty thrilling Tescue, too. ! William 8. Hart is with us in “Between Men,” which is quite a dif- ferent proposition from the other feature. Tt tells an exciting tale of the Wild West, where the man most respected is the man who is quickest -the dsaw. And we'd like to meo anyone pull a ‘“gat” with any more speed and less ceremony than Bill Hart. when the proper circumstances present themselves. b “Over the Falls” is the title of the thirteenth chapter of “The Seven Pearls,” and it shows how Mollie King, as Ilma, having apparently failed in her mission of recovering the pre- clous jewels, is captured for the Sultan and is being brought back to the -Orient to live in the Sultan’s harem. During the episade she is in danger of being thrown over the fhalls of Niagara. The Ford Weekly and the latest chapter of the Pathe News wil complete the big show. BAAE ¢ Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast Cereal With Milk Poached Eggs Milk Biscuits Coffee Lanch Currled Fish ‘Raisin Pie Tomata Soup Baked Mackerel Mashed Potatoes Egg Salad Tapioca and Cocoanut Pudding Coffee Raisin Ple—Take one cupful seeded raisins, juice and grated rinds of one lemon, one cupful cracker crumbs and water. Steam the raisins for fifteen minutes, add all the other ingredients. Line a pie tin With a thin crust of good paste, Pour in the filling and bake in a moderate oven for twenty- five minutes. Bgg Balad—Cut six hard-boiled eggs in halves, lengthwise; put yolks into a basin, add an equal amount cold cooked chopped ham; moisten with cream dressing, return to the whites, and serve on a bed of shredded lettuce. Serve with eream dressing, Peas. ' A Momentous Question. i which I was truly grateful, | that trembled in spite of my effort to ' keep them quiet, and walking up to | my mirror looked into it as I mentally REVELATIONS By ADEL® To Whom Did Dicky Telephone? “Is there anything the matter with our telephone, Margaret?” Cousin Agatha asked the question hurriedly as she came in from the | walk which she took every morning I unless the weather was impossibly in- clement. Her whole manner was full ! of suppressed excitement, and there | was a speculatively curious look in her !eyes I did not like, and that warned | me to be careful in my answer. | “There may be,” I replied non- committally. “I haven't had occasion to ask for a number this morning.” I refrained from mentioning that Mrs. Durkee had telephoned to me but a few minutes before. “Well, you’ll probably find out that there is,” she said, “for as I went into the drug store just now, Richard was in a booth talking away like mad. He didn’t notice me, and, of course, I didn’t bother him.” “Oh, that wouldn’'t prove our phone was out of order,” I countered smoothly. “If you had lived in the same house with Dicky long you would know that he is an inveterate telephone fiend. He went out for a walk a few minutes ago and I sup- pose he thought of something he wished to jsay to someone in New York, and you know his impatience. He would never wait to come home. But I will test the telephone if yaou are worried about it.” I walked steadily to the telephone, took down the receiver ,and when I heard the operator murmur “Num- ber?” I said courteously: “Will you give me please 7" “Nine forty-eight.” “Thank you. I hung up the re- ceiver and faced Cousin Agatha’s crafty eyes. “The telephone 1is all right, you see,” I said with as indifferent an air as I could manage, and going to the tables where I had laid my knitting I gathered it up and started leisurely up the stairs. the time, I was conscious Cousin Agatha’s eves were fixed ‘upon my retreating back, and I heard a malevolent sniff. But she didn’t say anything more, far and I reached the shelter of my room and locked the. door behind me before throwing off the semblance of non- chalance I had so carefully assumed. I laid my knitting down with hands questioned myself. It is a queer habit of mine whenever I am troubled thus to face my own reflection as I study out my problems. It is t6 m@ as if the reflection in the mirrar were a very real person who could answer my questions. There was but one question con- fronting me, but it was a momentous one. ‘Why had Dicky rushed to a tele- | phone as soon as he could get out of the house, after telling me that he couldn’t reach by telephone'the people with whom he had an engagement for the evening, but must acquaint them by a note of his change of plans There was only one answer, there could be but one. He did not wish |me to know the identity of the peo- | ple with whom he had the engage- | ment. | That it was an engagement he very ' much wished to keep I knew from the manner in which he had received my announcement that Mrs. Durkee ,and her son were coming over to spend the evening with us before Al- fred’s departure for the officers’ train- ing camp at Plattsburg. He had been very much put out at the thought of their coming, although the Durkees are old friends of his, and he is very fond of both Mrs. Durkee and her son. There were two possible explana- tions of Dicky’s behavior, and neither ! of them was calculated to bring any- ' i thing but humiliation and sorrow to me. The person -with whom he had | the engagement, and whose identity | | he was carefully shielding from me, ! must be either Grace Draper or FMith | Fairfax. Dicky kney that I didn’t ob- | ject to his having social engagements { which did not include me; indeed, to have accompanied him to the ‘par- tles” of some of his studio acquaint-! ances would have bored me infinitely. ‘While he did not make a practice of | oing out socially without me, vet | there had been a number of occasions when he had done so, and he always' told me all about his plans. Can It Be? Grace Draper’s name had not been mentioned between us for many months. If it hadn’t been for the re- cent photograph of her I had found tucked into the box of Dicky’s posses- sions which was hidden behind the rafters of the Brennan house, from where we had moved, I should not have thought of her in connection with, this strange behavior of Dicky’s, dan- gerous as she undoubtedly was, de- termined to make trouble between Dicky and me, I knew her to be. Dicky’s friendship with Bdith Fair- fax, the Virginia art student, whose studio was in the same building with his, had grieved and had annoyed me by the secrecy which Dicky had seen fit to throw around it. But as I looked at myself in the mirror I knew 1 would give a great deal to be as- sured that the person to whom my husband was telephoning was pretty, inoffensive BXdith Fairfax. I did not dare analyze the fear that consumed me as I faced the possibility of Dicky's again meeting the woman 1 so dreaded. It invalved something far more important that even the sta- bility of Dicky's Jove for me. I was very sure that Grace Draper was in the employ of our country’s enemies. My husband had shown a curious apa~ thy, or so I had imagined, toward tho entry of America’into’the’ worla war. | With e little shudder L flung my bands | novelties, OF A WIFE GARRISON over my face as I stood in front of the looking glass. I couldn’t look into the reflection of my own eyes and see the terrified doubt mirrored there! “4 QUEENS” COMES TO PARSONS’ HOUSE Believing a new, merry, farce to be the real thi New Year holiday season, the man- atement of Parsons'’ Theater has secured Mr. Franzee's latest farce hit, “Four Queens,” for three nights be- ginning next Monday, New Year's Eve. Matinees will be given Tues- day (New Year's Day) and Wednes- day. “Four Queens’ is from the pen or Emil Nyitray, also author of “He Comes Up Smiling” and “The Ty- phoon.” There are three acts and three new and unusually elaborate stage settings. Mr. Frazee announces that he has spared no expense in the preparation ot this production, either in the matter of stage effects or in the selection of capable players to Perform the piece. A cast of well- known farceurs, such as he has al- ways given his tarces, is promised. “The Teacher of Goshen Hollow” “The Teacher of Goshen Hollow,” which is to be presented at Parsons’ Theater on January 3, 4 and 6, is a comedy in which Mary Ryan will be seen as a New York girl, who finds her romance in a small Connecticut village. It is a role that calls for courageous treatment, yet with hu- morous passages ano tender moments that give a nearer insight to the real Mary Ryan than any play in which she has been seen. Then, too, “The Teacher of Goshen Hollow” is peopled with a rare group of human characters who relate ‘a story that might have happened in | real life, a story that is at once clear, clean and convincing. “THE BYACK MONK” | AT THE LYCEUM snappy for the Important SUIT SALE Beginning Today $19.75 For All Suits Horrierlydriced Up to $47.50 No Extras | Pay a Dollar a Week The picture magnificent, the- story they are all talking about, the great- est possible presentation of the mas- sive subject on a massive scale—''Ras- putin, The Black Monk’ has reached New Britain, and at its first presen- | tation yesterday afternoon at the Ly- ceum before an audience the receipts from which were given to the Polish war' relief fund] it measured up to' the high standard with which it was accredited in advance notices. Here | is a case where press notices followed closely the path of truth, and no ex- aggeration was brought into play to describe its wonders. The story of Russia’s inner work- ings that led up to and included the preliminary steps of the great war is ‘here told graphically. The story of how a peasant with no ‘mark of dis- tinction to bring him out superior to hig fellow-creatures rose to a position in Russia that made him the real ruler, the veritable king without a crown is interesting. It is no or- dinary story. which a certain, few players are moulding the plan of its future exist- ence. What led up to ‘its present state of chaos is what interests the | world. Who is behind it? Who are | some of the men whose influence ' caused this condition? These and other questions until now perplexing, | are answered, not in a guesswork manner, but with the best historical ; references to back up the producers. | “Rasputin, The Black Monk” is the | recognized story of Russia, accepted | as true, because it is true. Rasputin, whose influence counted heavily in Russta’s fortunes until he was killed, | is the center of interest, with Ke- | resky and others whose names are now familiar in the daily newspapers playing the parts they really enacted during Russia’'s stormy session. Seven reels of stupendous effort, with seven of the motion picture world’s greatest stars taking part are | the outstanding features that should | be remembered. This is a picture ! that has played the biggest theaters in the country and has been viewed with satisfaction by historical experts, students, and Jjust plain common folks. It has an interest that makes it attractive to all and to miss it means the loss of a wonderful op- portunity to get a greater and broad- er understanding of Russia as she should be understood. It will be at | the Lyceum today and tomorrow. On the same program is the Key- stone latest comedy, the Lyceum Weekly, giving all the latest war news, and happenings in this country and other countries, besides other- inter- esting pictures. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, the man- agement will usher in the new year" with William S. Hart's latest picture, ‘“The Silent Man.” The marked dif- | ference between this pictures and his | older ones that are being re-shown serves to point out the great develop- | ment that has been experienced by the star. FADS AND FASHIONS A very pretty dress has the sash and shoulder yoke of silk in contrast- ing color. Silver lace is used over shimmer- ing satin, in making a charming even- ing dress. Capes haven’t a particle of sedate- ness-absut them; instead they are all jand were ! All Women’s and Misses’ Sizes A good assortment of col ors—all the fashionable, wanted sws: terials, Wool Velours, Broadcloths, Ser; Gaberdines, Pep' lins, etc.—to be closed out at this one low price in accordance with our policy of NEVER carrying garments over from eee. season to the next. SIDE TALKS Night, The Some friends with whom we had been taking dinner and spending an unusually pleasant evening recently urged us to stop for the night. We had rather a hard trip home ahead and it was a temptation. (I say a temptation because one accom- plishes so little in a day g! to begin it by going home.] housemate steadily refused urgings. Afterward I asked why. But my their | Mornings Are ‘Always Anti-Climaxes, “Because,” sald my housematey “we were having such a good time enjoying each other so much, I didn’t want to spoil it. Morn- ings are always anti-climaxes. I'm a different person in the morning and I think most people are.” And when I thought It over I agreed. We should have awakened in an entirely different mood. We should have tried to take up the thread of our night's gaiety and ut- terly failed. And then we should have been constrained. As it was, we carried off a pleasant memory of congenial talk, and when we meet again we shall take up the thread naturally and easily. All People Are Divided Into Two Parts. I think every human being is di- vided into two personalities, that per- sonality which gets up in the morn- ing and that which begins to come out toward evening. Doubtless that is one thing which distinguishes us from the animals; they sleep in the evening and thus have only one personality. i Night is an intoxicant to most of us. It removes some of the inhibi- tions. We become more fluid, talk more easily, think more quickly, feel more vividly,. We see things in a larger way at night. Small difficul- ties dwindle out of sight. Night is the time for social converse, not only by the laws of convention and con- venience, but by those of psychology. Night is the time for generous im- pulses. One reads some story of suf- fering and need at night and one plans to make some.big sacrifice. And then comes morning with its cold common sense, its readjustment to an every-day world; one reminds one's self that other people are not making such big sacrifices and one decides to think the matter over more thorough- 1y, and not to be too hasty—with the inevitable result. Common Sense and Uncommon Sense. I"think people are wont to dis- | trust this night personality and to one has' i put Intoxicant consider that their truer self is matter of fact, light-of-common-di person. It is a familiar warning believe I have quoted it myself) that aone should never mslke an important £ decision without lamnz both person-~ “ alities think it over. & And yet I wondef sometimes If wouldn't do some things better it ices emphasis on the oot sense of our workaday selves aad i gave more heed to the uncomm £ sense of the rebel self. 'y “BELOVED JIM” IS KEENEY'S FEATURE' > “Beloved Jim" one of the two big features presented at Keeney's thea- ter today, is one of those rare strong dramas that will bring tears to the eyes of many. ‘Beloved Jim” is a study of a noble character, and the story rests entirely upon him and t! sympathy he must naturally arouse ' the hearts of the audience. The Christ- mas spirit during the early part of the picture is strongly emphasized is thoroughly in accord with the ge: eral trend of the story. Prisci Dean as Mary, provides not o“ny ‘a very charming picture but also' offers her part in a manner that speaks well for- her dramatic abilities. T - Carter as “Beloved Jim"” must be seen to be appreciated. g Ruth Clifford end Monroe Salisbury - in “The Desire of the Moth" a five- reel Western story, that is alive with breezy action, brimful of healtsy sen- timent, pathos and humor, and the - L ‘Western atmosphere is developed and maintained in an artistic style, Mon- roe "Salisbury, as Christopher Fay, Is handsome, dashing and every inch the hero; Ruth Clifford finds the role of , Stella Vorhis Wwell adapted to her charming personality and splendid support is rendered by the other mem- bers of the cast. Three unusually good vaudeville acts conclude the program. Prunes or raisins are excellent steamed cornmeal pudding. £ The best €ook in the world u&i not do’‘mileh with-third-clads “iie=: terials, 2 e |