New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 9, 1918, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1918, News For Women Readers and Theatergoers——————— e - MY SOLDIER SWEETHEART Adele Garrison’s Continuation of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE How Madge and Dicky Said Their Last Good-by. Dicky's “hunch” was right. His dron was on its way to France another week's end.” literally sat by hone during the days following Dicky's Jast visit home for fear that 1 would lose a single moment in re- ceiving . the carefully camouflaged message fram him which he had warned me how to iaterpret. Bach morning I made a most careful toilet, putting on my very best suit, for I was resolved that Dicky’s last sight of me should be as pleasing a one as I could possibly contrive. I knew his pride, the fastidiousness which he made almost a fault, knew also that there would be many other women at the camp to say good-by, aad was determined that Dicky should have no reason to be even unconsciously criti- cal of my grooming. It was on the Wednesday following his Sunday at home that the message came, and in spite of my constant ex- pectation the actual realization of 1t left me faint and trembling. ‘“That you, Madge?” Dicky’'s Voice came over the 'phone with elaborate carelessness, but I, who knew his ev- ery intonation, detected the excite- meat in his voice. “Are You Very Busy?” “Yes, dear,” I answered quickly, pnd then waited, tensely, with one hand gripping the edge of the tele- phone stand, for his next wards. “Are you very busy?” “Not particularly, why?” I tried to popy his careful casualness. “Y wondered if you wouldn't like to “befor I almost the tele- MABEL NORMAND “THE VENUS MODEL” ‘Wins Her Fortune in a Bathing Suit She NEW VAUDEVILLE TED RIELY Presents “The Heart Breakers” The Classiest and Sauciest Act in Vaudeville EVA BARA FOREST AND CHURCH KEENEY’S FEINID BENNETT in “A DESERT WOOING.” “THE YRON TEST” “Soothing the Heart of Italy”. Comedies and Weeklies. VAUDEVILLE ~—3 BIG ACTS— COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAM MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS. TONIGHT MAMMOTH DOUBLE FEA- TURE PROGRAM MAE MURRAY and KENNETH HARLAND “HER BODY IN BOND” HERBERT ~ RAWLINSON n “‘Smashing Through” A GRIPPING OLD STYLE MELODRAMA—6 REELS v AUDEVILL MIL1ON LANE AND WATTE FOSTER AND HIS DOG COURTING DAYS COMING THURSDAY THE FUNNIEST MAN IN VAUDEVILLE. FRANK BUSH rua up here a little while. T have two or threc hours of leisure, but not | enough to go hame.” “I'd love to come over,” I replied promptly, “and fortunately I'm all dressed for the street. I'll be there in just a short time, for I'll get Doran.” It was extravagance, 1 knew, for me to take the village taxi across to Mineola when I could h gone by trolley, but the trolley trip would have taken the greater part of an hour, while by taxi I could get to the camp in less than 15 minut Ana every extra minute with Dicky was h its weight in gold to me. hat's the girl!” Dicky replied fondly. “Good-b. I telephoned Doran and got his | promise ta be at the door within five ‘ minutes, then went upstairs to put on my hat and fu “Tell Mrs. Graham I went out 02 an errand, Katie,” I said to my little maid a moment later in the Kitchen. I was thankful, indeeed, that Mother Graham was out walking with the baby. She had bidden Dicky good-by when he was home, not feeling cqual to going to the camp, and:I knew it would be much better for her nat to know the exact time of his real de- parture. The Last Wilk Together. Doran made unusually good time on the trip over, but the scant quarter of an hour seemed many times its length. But at last I was in tho quarters where Mrs. Durkee worked every day as a volunteer information clerk for the airmen, and where Dicky and I had always met each other upon my visits. He was waiting for me, and my heart thrilled with pride at the sight of him. The aviator's uniform trans- forms even an unattractive man into some one distinctly worth looking at, while Dicky’s handsome face and lithe figure in his smart equipment embodied for me the romantic heroic visions of my early girlhood. | Mrs. Durkee was visibly perturbed. I guessed that she knew of the im- | minent departure of Dicky's squad- | ron, but her loyalty to her position would not let her betray her knowl- edge. | “Perhaps 1 could manage to clear out this little office for a few minute: after awhile if vou've anything spe- cial to say to Madge,” she said in a low voice to Dicky. “Indeed, no, dear Dicky rejoined, while I Kkissed he warmly for her thoughtfulness. “Madge can’t stay very long, and we'll just stroll arouad a bit.” | “Get along with you, then,” she said hastily, and I suspected that she ! couldn’t bear to loo kat us any longer, that the thought of our im- ' minent parting brought back to her| the day when her son Alfred left her for “somewhere in France.” Dicky caught hold of my hand as we turned away, drew it up into his own and so held it all of the time wo were walking. But the little endear- ing touch caused not even a curious or amused loak. Dozens of other coii- ples Were promenading in the sam fashion. Lads with their mothers men with their swecthearts or wiv were scattered all over the walks of the camp, all absorbed in their own affairs. But to the eternal credit of Ameri- can womanhood I saw but few red- dened eyes, and but one or two wo- men frankly weeping. The strain, the torture of separation was mirrored in their eyes, but their faces were calm, even cheerful, their volces composed. “Now, there's one thing I want you to promise me, Madge,” Dicky said, as our time together came to an end, and he stralled with me back to the entrance from which I meant to walk to the trolley, “and that is you're not to worry one bit about the passage | over. If I were goiag on a fishing | smack or a tanker it would be diff ent, that's about the caliber of those { devils. But you notice they haven't gotten any transports to speak of. We're so carefully convoyed that there isn’t any risk to speak of. When we get to the dock we'll be allowed to | write short messages home telling of our safe passage. They will be held there, and as soon as the officials are cabled of our safe arrival in Franc they’ll mail those messages. But it will be two weeks at least before you get any message, and in the mean time promise me not to worry least any more than you can help’— he finished whimsically. “I can promise that much,” T re- plied with a smile that I'm afraid was very much of a travesty. “And now, sweetheart,” Dic looked around to see that no one was in immediate earshot, ‘we said all there was to say the other night, so don’t bid me good-by. There's a bit | of superstition in me, you know | “Never good-by, but godspeed, my | darlin I whispered, as his arms | closed round me, and T lifted my face | ta his. The next momeat I was outside | the entrance, and my soldier hus | was striding back to the camp. little friend,” | | ana | dainty little dramatic star |'she appear THEATER BILLS TONIGHT FOX’S THEATER. Double features—Mae Murray and Kenneth Harlan in “Her Body in Bond,” and Herbert Rawlinson, in Smashing Through,” the Pathe News four big vaudeville acts offer plenty of entertainment at Fox's for the first half of the week. “Her Body in Bond” is a tense drama of society and stage life with dainty Mae Murray as the star. was last seen here at Fox's in “The Bride's Awakening” and in her latest offering she equals her former excellent per- formance. In “Her Body in Bond" a little vaudeville actress, struggling at the bottom of the ladder, just like hundreds of other girls, only Polly was a little more at- tractive, more talented, more in- genuous, and her whole heart was wrapped up in her husband, Joe Blondin, portrayed by Kenneth Har- lan, a former New Britain stock fa- vorite. 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The vaudeville will be varied and | well balanced, consisting of Milton, novelty act, Lane and White, | comedians, Foster and his dog, and “Courting Day: a blg musical comedy sact. The length of this per- formance necessitates starting the | matinees at 2 o'clock—The Pathe News, Topics of the Day, and Smashing Through will be shown be- fore the vaudeville and Her Body in Bond afterwards. LYCEUM THEATER. A great treat is in store for the Lyceum patrons for the first half of | this week. Mabel Normand, irresist- | ibly charming and radiantly beautiful, | reigns like the little queen she is in “The Venus Model,” her newest pic- ture. The winsome artist delights in her new role. She regards it as the | best she has yet portrayed in motion | pictures. *The Venus Model” giv her versatility its truest test. In parts she is the winsome stranger girl in a | bathing sult on the beach—a come- | dfenne unegualed on the screen—and in others she offers further demon- strations of her ability to make the multitudes laugh, stamping her as the most versatile motion picture artist ot | the day. The manager predicts that Mabel Normand's thousands of local admirers will find her more delightful- i 1y charming and appealing than ever in this story of a girl who wins a for- tune in a bathing suit. { The vaudeville bill is a good one. It includes Forest and Church in a com- edy variety offering; FEva Barra, pre- senting a high-class singing offering, and a good vaudeville act is presented by Ted Riely, “Heart Breakers.” | KEENEY'S TH TER. Today's show brings ck to Keeney’s the ever popular star, Enid Bennett, in her latest success, “A Desert Wooing,” ane of the strong- est and most interesting pictures in which this talented actress has ever appeared and in which she does some of the cleverest work of her career. In addition to this picture the latest epi- sode of the wonderful serial, “The Iron Test,” will be shown, together with several comedies and a weekly. The vaudeville is af high class order, three big acts being on the bill. Starting this week the management has arranged to give an entirely new show each Monday and Thursday, so making a complete change of pro- gram twice each week. The pictures being shown at this theatre are of first caliber and many big produc- tions are already booked for a show- ing here this winter. The vaudeville will always he of the best and v o treat is in stare for patrons Keeney FUND NOW TOTALS $30,000. The Polish citizen committee zivés out the statement that the Po- lish war victims felief fund now amounts to $30,075.14 The quota set for New Britain 1s $48,000. ARE YOUR WINDOW SHADES SHABBY Full of pin holes, cracks and faded spots? How often have you hung your windows with brand new shades, only to see them quickly hecome streaked and faded from/sun and water- so unsightly that you felt them ! Shade your windows this time with the Un- filled Grade of Brenlin Window Shades. Sun cannot dim its beauty, even in the water cannot spot it. to you in beautiful colors in ments_and estimate on make every shade by hand and hang them, Rackliffe Bros. Co. Inc. Hardware, Wall Paper, Window Shades, etc. 250, 257 PARK STREET NEW BRITAIN the girl he loved and for the man who | , spread | coast, Think of what this will mean shade economy ! We have this material in &ock widths up us call and show you samples, if you wish. PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER SINGS TO 3,500 AMERICAN SOLDIERS Paris, Dec. 9.—Miss Margaret W, Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, arvived at St. Nazaire yesterday and ng before 00 American soldiers who will sail for home in a few days. Miss Wilson will sing at different cities along the seaboard while await- ing the arrival of President Wilson. Y POGROMS, POLES DE! Jews in Switzerland Also Declare That German Stories Are False, Geneva, Dec. 9.—The Central Polish bureau at Lausanne has received a telegram from Berlin to the effect that there have been no pogroms against the Jews in Poland. Reponts that they have been carried on were especially by the German press, which, since the armistice, has begun an anti-Polish propaganda, the dispatch adds, in order to calumniate the new Poland before the eyes of the Allies in the peace confer In the meantime, Polish Jews re- siding in Switzerland denounce the accusations as German methods to bring about disunion among the Poles tn order to prevent the formation of a strong Polish nation in the future, which Germany fears. Former New Britain Man Dies at His Home In Seattle. The. many Preatice will 1 he passed aw home in Seatt in Gilead, Conn friends of Frank A. arn with regret that December 6, at his , Wash. He was born 3 vears ago, and his first position was with Landers, Frary & Clark. He was a member of the Kenilworth club. He went to Seattle about 10 years | ago and for several years was pur- chasing agent for Frye & Co., a large wholesale coacern on the Pacific until rccently, when a mew company was formed to take care of their outside holdings. Mr. Prentice was appointed president, which posi- tion he held at the time of his death. He leaves a wife and two children; also a father, mother and brother in the east. S. DISCIPLINE. Swiss Authorities TImpressed With Work of American Soldiers. PRAISES U Geneva, Déc. 8.—A mild ‘Sensation has beeri caused here by the arrival from Lyons of two American sanitary traing €6" “take réleased ' American prisomérs ~ back. The chief of the Geneva Red Cross said that since the beginning of the war he had seen 550 trains of prisoners of all nation- alities pass through Switzerland, but was forced to give the palm for morale and enthusiasm to the r Senzel, of the Swiss army, was astonished at the dis- cipline of the new American army. JOINS MERCHANT MARINE. 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President Poincare Honors ¥Famous General at Historic Metz, Metz, Dec. 9.—President Poincare vesterday, in the presence of a large crowd on the parade groundy here, presented General Henrl Philippe Pe-~ tain the baton of a Marshal of France, | thus carrying out formally the eleva- tion of General Petain, the announce- ment of which was made last month when he entered Metz. Great thusiasm prevailed during the pres- entation of the baton and later when the troops of the garrison passed in review. The occasion was a notable one. President Poincare was accompanied en- | by Premier Clemenceau, M. Dubost, president of the senate, and Paul Des- chanel, president of the chamber of deputies. To witness the event, Mar- shal Foch, Marshal Joffre, Field Mar-+ shal Sir Douglas Haig and General" John J. Pershing made the journey to Metz. 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