New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 29, 1918, Page 4

IMMORTA L THEDA ' TODAY AND i e vl ’ The oro who witnessed the with Theda Bara as the Siren nl‘ \het ! Nile, were all unanimous in lhcirl verdict that it is the biggest screen spectacle that has ever been presented | :in New Britain The picture is so big that one is Don’t Fail to See This Wonderful Spectacle o el v ak i asiian : { HARTFORD. '" Square as a Die! ‘ That's the way we do business. You have your | entire purchase CHARGED and pay us a Dollar a Week That is all the expense there is to it. Nothing HIDDEN —all des strictly confidential. ; “NO EXTRAS"—WE MEAN IT! HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS Of the very latest styles in very large assorments. Garments for Women and Misses Suits $16.75 to $65.00 Coats $12.75 to $75.00 Dresses 7$77*98w 5553 00 Skirts _ $3.98 to $25.00 ’ ; Hats $2.98 to ‘Sla 00 DrREcTioN WitL AN Fof Shoes $4.00 to $12.09 REVELATIONS OF A WIFE “= ™ P o o "%, in each scene which appears on the | s By ADELE GARRISON screen, and the spectacle simply beg- | gars description. The Fox production | Madge Orders the Bars—What Hap- | searched for the wild fiowers whnwl flawless in its setting—magnificient | i an | haiints. T rembmbered seyond compare. The performance of | A i i | Pete pattered alang by my side, and | Theda a is at all times vastly in- | It's a five minutes' walk if one|after | reached the open country, the | teresting. Never has Miss Bara | speeds one's steps from our house 10 | 4imost noiseless faotsteps of the dog | 100ked so regally beautiful, and if the | j the post office, which is the geograbh- | were, beside my own, the only sounds | original Cleo was half so lovely as her | leal, clvic and social center of the an- |1 neard except, of course, the sweet| Prototype we do not blamo Antony | clent village of Marvin. But If one|familiar noises of the woodland whieh | for renouncing Rome. The pagean- | | | No Vaudeville or Pictures Mon. and Tues. walks slowly, as L did, enjoying to the | gtrotched on either side of the road. | try Is inspiring, the crowd scenes are THE T. A. B. SOCIETY PRESENTS utmost the carly summer day, the | {ianaled with Sl and there =g . A. D. | time consumed stretches to 10, even | Into the Woods, IS e iRa e (5 bl “ B i 5 s e 2 g : ; 45 MINUTES FROM BROADWAY. [to 1 minuten, © gl THo road was deserted, save for | ret maval hattle where Cleopatras RC o T 24 5 | p, e - .| complete fleet of eighty vessels are by the wayside than the mere enjoy- |} °te and me. As far as I could see in | burned to the water's edge. A visit ment of the out-of-dogrs. If my sus- | front of me not a person or even an | ot Cleopatra and Pharaoh to one of the correct, then one of them would al'fi]nnked P s There was the|and the scenes in Ro: re trium- 3 pear somewhere along the road. | e, -essive, the assassination 5 2 same emptiness, save that far o | Phantly impressive, the a atic MAETERLINCK But there was no disturbing pres- 2 ¥ Bl e e R e it SR et o iy “the | ence anywhere, although I kept a |distance a horse, whose rider I could | thirq and and burning and sacking of | “ y B , , sharp lookout. 1 went to the post of- \ scarcely see, so far was he away, was| Alexandria in the eighth both being | ) m-gi |~l'c(':1|vm;.: only a pile of the inevi- | cantering along the road i thrillingly portrayed. Fritz Liebe 4 table advertising circulars for my -, played with the g L0 ard Wl et Tial'to cauue | wHo s cant ¢ pesar, playved with pains, and drecpped in at the local | othing in this to cause 7.0 25 M ansficld for years, in | Berdware stove aevees the:way o am | Die alarm, for T had seen dozens of ers S S P the same ¢ cte range the putting of ion bars upon | Cdlestrians passing our house during | ' gne banauet sceme at Tarsus which | | | the windows of my room. ‘H\o oring du Bu( my nerves had | o, e zed to impress the | “Many R . | Roman Antony was a social affaiv of | Many Rumors, | new nelghbors that T aa o hiddes ooe | no small dimensions, the wily queen | ver ¢ ¥y moveme o . 3 L} Biieh ])f ol ,(1“‘"‘;””“ In every| well knew what she was doing—her | had bought many mall article e LERO.VeC Lo Keep A WALY oy being not only to tempt Antony | | grinned broadly when I gave him the | ":”t f:’: ]”"‘ Dorseman until he pas: to dazzle the eves of his large | order. : ; iiphes Sleltioi Lehide ) [ retinuo o s, and to have re- | | shortly. e g % “What's the matter with all you | X . | ports of her wealth and beauty freely § o ; $% l § | folkcs up in that section?” he wheesed. | | ““}]“:‘“: ek “’_"h‘ the thing he didn't | (v 004 among the Roman legions. Sho R s > g * . . . . p 8| ‘Got a burglar scare or are you afraid I%, ANhoush ‘henever I turned I)y,0w (hat a hundred tongues were the Germans will get in when you ©° ‘_‘5 ’“T;;m‘“; Sl‘\ ;‘I‘ the r;’"'“ “:”"‘ better than one when it was a ques- aE ef' 1ne ain’t lookin’?" o S antsen gk ! > spreading the fame of Egypt > Istitt at such a. distance that I coutdn:t | 4°P OF P! Soai | resent Geo. M. Cohan’s Musical Comedy Success M| “Why?' I asked, smiling, citHougnl B2 IRE 8 g bmcs thist Hoor over the Mediterranean. Altogethe An_ ordinarily the salesman’s loquacious tho | it is the greatest spectacle that has : outline of his figure. ! familiarity would have annoyed me o B’ ever been put upon- the screen. The N} | But his question had fathered al His homse was evidently a spirited| _ pine ana the pyramids were built | AT THE LYCEUM one, for I could see the animal pranc-| " ! startled query in my awn mind, one | o0 1508 imal pranc-| co. jt Great Egyptian and Roman to which I wished an answer. ing impatiently. The rider was evi-| ji.c were erectod to stage scenes l"f a dry sermon it developed into a “Why?” he echoed. ‘Jest because|d0ntly putting him through his paces, | 1107104 thousands of peaple in them, | virile presentation, sparkling with vi. ,’ B vours is the second order I'vo had to- 7"’,",.“” xl ad were a railed-in train and above all the story is true to the | “THE BLUEBRIRD | vacity. In adapting this work to mo- day for iron bars on windows. That|!N8& &round. i g . main facts of history, showing i tion pictures, director Maurice Tour- there Jap what works for the folks| 1 don't know from whence came the i e (10" 0 tirul queen using her LYCEUM WEDNESDAY’"”""‘ who steged the production for | that's rented Mis' Durkee's house, he 5{‘““]““ impulse :“ !“"‘“»’_“'""” the. ov to juggle with the politic 1 Arteraft, has carried out the iden of early this mornin' and or- | W00ds to wait until the horse and rider /4 v 6f Rome and Egypt | “The Blue Bird”, an Arteraft pic- | the author In making the photoplax' 1 e 2 o ane vore turned away from me, and then ! dersta 2 bars far every window andj Were turnec 3 2 - - — WS SRR Ry = understandahle. He discussed the loor in the house. toubaly infosthenrgod iutishol ids oL1 Oatmeal macaroons can be made ours, il he enomm an Hha Locelm e oiion ikt inta tiny actors, who are B “He can sling English fast enough |the road and to crouch down with; <8 o cake butter, thickeneq | theater Wednesday, Thursday, Friday | theoretically the. leading characters. 4 : Pete in order to see the horseman| With sponge cak ’ @ | and saturday. Tt is an adaptation, balitving that it thess~children: ekw when it comes to ordering things, but | with rolled oats and dropped on bak- P | when I asked him what they was|When he should come past our ]mhng.i"" e Charles Maigne, from Mueterlinck's | grasp the story, the average patron afraid of he shook his head the way | Peace. masterpiece which has attracted wide | of a moving-picture theater, with the ] an . . an 4 Chink laundrymah does when| - e s - - - e attention in the dramatic and liter- | aiq of the Iucid titles which embel. i ary world. While it dealt with sub- | lish the film, should easily follow & you havn't brought your laundry A | 2 ticket along, pretended he didn’t un- jects of great pr_ol'undn_v in an alle- | play and understand the allegory. gorical manner, it was easily under- The result is a unique play, of stu- Matinee Monday. issi . A B | derstand. But you bet he did under- B Y: MR J0oand Sac stood. - The great author took for his | pendous magnitude, in which 1§ in- stand, Jright— didn't want to 5 | T ) | answer, the pesky heathen! center figures a little boy and girl, | corporated the highest technique of Some G Seats Left at Kenney & Leghorn’s 5 I was glad wpe a direct an and for them he drew aside the cur- | photographic art, with multiple film EVENING AD T | swer under cover of this tirade tain of life, delved into the past and | axnosures requiring inflnite care and MISSION 25¢ to $1.00. B e e o i ees e v e lenonin ) patience. B | wanted, I decided to forestall any BY RUTH CAMERON eyond. Settings of colossal size and en- WEEL | curiosity he might have concerning = In the form of a play, as produced | sgembles of hundreds of people mal { my own order. in London and later In New York, the | thiz photoplay a mighty spectacuier story teemed with dramatic interest i P Ny 7 E “There have been many rumors roT | ofraxing: in’ which ‘the artistic deteils b | burglars lately, Mr. Smith,” I & e g . coon | We have corresponded.’ hut fitrany | S0 1nstead of a heavy preachment | haye been carefully looked after. have not and I'm foolishly nervous, I suppose, A friend whom & EENE i ,S b i | because there is a porch easily climbed | for several years paid us a visit, re-|and ‘“41"““1‘\14‘"" \‘im;d m;w-.; l.\\.‘»o 7 ST d | TRS r v T just beneath my window. I hope you | cently. many subjects touched on slightly, in | jects we had falled to touch on, and | « THURSDAY, MAY 2—One Night Y It was only a brief visit and the | that correspondence, which we had ‘ brought them up that night. | “45 MINUTES FROM can fix those bars today.” Only, Charles Dillingham's Production The old man beamed at me in re. | day after she came she appeared at [ewch looked forward to amplify nw! “T Forgot the Most Important BROADWAY” TONIGHT (of Irving Berlin’s Best Musical Com- i % - ) n o g od speec e )r his gra s the breakfast table with a list in her | in the freer medium of speech Thin, | | edy—STOP! TLOOK! LISTEN! etelus i e R e e g ; S Usually when I visit with fricnds | BIGGEST ACT IN Prices 25¢ to $1.50. Seats on sale. | i uipylo o giner otk | “‘Shopping?” we ask WeARIdH Tl Lo Jiva MIBUCSROR O, i o esive by il From el sucrndat | VAUDEVILLE | FRIDAY f:!\'{_‘ N\'!'\'RTU}\Y,)MAY B Pt on S bt the it “Oh, no,” she explained, “this is a Each Subject. | few letters are filled with such | (Matinee Saturday. 7 s S i . = » sure . sordingly, Jld tho | Phrases as, “How ab 8 d . . » = o5 B | till 1 git yours done. Serve ’em right | list of the things I want to be sure Her list, accordingly, held the | Phrases as, ow about such anc ttle Miss New York | | CHARLES DILLINGHAM presents | for bein' so blasted top-lofty.” and talk to you about.” nemes of the various people about.|sich a thing? I meant to ask you : | The old man in charge, of wham After several weeks of diligent re- hearsing of the cast and chorus under 25 People 5 £ l,‘lf"""’\ = | nk you so much, Mr. Smith," | Not So Funny As the Fact We think | whom she wanted to ask me or to |when you were here” or *T forgot the direction of John J. Mullin, the Elaborate Scenery i T s 1;'1(\:"1“1 returned, although I knew his decis- Them Funny. teli me news, and brief suggestive | the most important thing 1 had to | play, “Forty-five Minutes from Catchy Songs S jon and my ceptance of it wera Of course it scemed a funny idea, | headings of several topics t sho | asy you; where is—etc,, etc.” Doubt- roadway,” to be presented by the Gorgeous Costumes faulty ethics. “Good day.” at first, but so do many things that|wanted to hear more about—a trip |less, even with the list, we have for- T, A. & B, society &8 a war benefit In another moment I was on tht|aren't half so funny as the fact that|we had taken, what we were doing in |Eanm Lo things, but 1} ands t0 | for the members in the sapvice. Js ST _— ek 'y > street again, my face turned toward | we think them funny. (The daylight |our town in the way of war work, | reason they will be much fewer. D TR E0 the BLOHE: & Song of the Soul” i ¢ . the “open road.” bill, for instance.) ¥ of0r. atC, 1 have long advocated Keeping | ises, judging from p:evn::ls rl(hex."ix;‘:r::q Featuring Y : I { I walked briskly now, for the lura| We came originally from the same| Naturally, we did not down and | jcitings of topics to be touched on 1| held at the Lyceum, to be the great. ICE JOYCE y : Mo A1 | of the open Was upon me. I'd been t00 | town, and had the same group of | talk for five minutes on each subject | One’s lotters. 1 rospoctfully recoM- | ost sugoess ever attained by amateur AL NG PRI busy for weeks to take the tramps I|friends. She has kept in touch with | She simply brought out the - list, | riend this as an extension of that! players in this ofty. Altheugh the eral Comedies 3 love so well, T was eager to get to!some of these, I with others. Then | showed it to us that morning, laughed | plan, first sale of tickets all but taxed th Other Features 2 g the woods, to find a certain fallen oak [ we have each visited in the other's|over it with us, and then, the d be- ! capacity of the theater, the‘re'm le S. STANLEY HORVITZ, 1 knew by the side of a brook, to sit | home and each knew something of | fore she went home, looked over it M‘ --——-M-—d L few tickets to be had. A nm‘ T | Optometrist 327 Main St. Optician | there and “invite my soul” after I'd | the other’s present circle of friends, | ngain to see what important sub was glven thil ablemioon, L it T