New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1918, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 191§, = News [or ‘Women Readers and Theatergoers MY SOLDIER Adele Gar REVELATIONS What the Long Distance W Brought to Madge About D and His Fate. “Mrs. Underwood?” Allan Drake’s voice came over the long distance wire from Washington s I sat in tense expectancy of the news of Dicky told me he would get at the first op portunity. I knew the suave, rather languid intonation with the hint of steel underneath coon as the first sound reached my e It is a volce one couln't easily for especially one who had heard it under the dra- ot, matio circumstances when I had Us- temed to it “No, this is Mrs Drake,” I returned. “Mrs. Graham!" note of surprise woood there “Yes, but n't vou give your mes- ge to me?” I asked, all the terror of Dicky’s fate reviving at his request to speak to Lillian. Mr. Drake must have bad news which he feared to gtve to me. There was a perceptible instant of hesitation at the other end of the wire. The conviction seized me that raham, Mr. held a Under- His iz voice Mrs. TONIGHT PECCY HYLAND GEO. I;UN NY I “Caughtin the Act” A GREAT 5 PART COMEDY WM. 8. HART “Truthful Tulliver” ‘ DRV LN E 4—Big Acts—4 AT COMING THURS. Mrs. Charlie Chaplin in “BORROWED CLOTHES” 6—GILITTERING REELS—6 ALI RAJAH & CO. Rajah the marvelous mind reader—Ask Rajab—Rajah Will Tell You What you Want to Know. GERALDINE FARRAR She plays for love stakes and Won in ‘THE TURN OF THE WHEEL' also “A FOOSTER ROMANOCE” with THOMAS JEFFERSON The pest vaudeville yet shown Hear MARY GARDEN’S Comedy Songs THURSDAY Charlie Captured Kaiser.” and BARBARA CASTLETON “JFUST SYLVIA.” KEENEY’ “Heart of the Wilds™ Starring ELSIE FERGUSON THE IRON TEST—COMEDIES AMERICAN RED CROSS FEATURE 2 parts VAUDEVILLE MLLE. WANDA. World’s Renowned Mentalist, Tells your Past, Present and Future. DELLAMORE TROUPE Acrobats. MILLARD BROS. A Clever Rube Act—You Will Have to Laugh. “How the in on’s which Ldllian had SWEETHEART Continuation of OF A WIFE Dicky had been kill- he feared to give me the Alen Drake new | | | ed. and that 1 faltered el am { | But My me your Drake,” 1 news quickly. I fully prepared for the worst. don't keep me in uspense.’ But it’s all right came the quick answe: Tniost shouted over the vire L B m live, slightiy hy but in no dar r I would have told you at once. but T didn’t 1w how much Mrs. Underwood had 1 vou, and T to shock you.” couldn’t answer (or a moment My heart 1w too choked with the 1dden hlessed rush of relief. Lillian who had come swiftly toward me the telephone summons, put her hand shoulde dear!’ can sec is upon my “Steady, ingly T pod news. when vou've want me to message?"” I signalled heard Allen this time with anxiety. ‘Are you there, Mrs. Graham? Are you sure you're all right?" Tow Dicky Helped. said encorar- your face it's Don’t go to pieces been so brave. Do you listen to ihe rest of the by now negative as I again— note of a decided Drake’s voice a decided firmly. me all returned please tell “Quite sure,” I And won't you bout it “You shall h news T possed 1 have just (uarters, wh T was privileged to read a dispatch from a correspondent { of the Continfental wreck incidents, a part of which is devoted to an exploit of Lt Graham. Of course you would better not say ave every ' he said res scrap of uringly. print. It will be in all the afternoon papers, where you can read it at your leisure. But I will read it to you now if you wish.” “If T wish, hurry.” “The paragraphs Graham run thus.” pressed the receiver closer to my car that I might miss no syllable. “Among the most striking incidents accompanying the loss of the Almi- nana was the exploit of Lt. Richard Graham of an 1 squadron, whose home 1s at Marvin, L. L, in rescuing Capt. John O'Brien of the Alminana, one of the best known navigators in American sailing circl Capt. O'Brien, who is well past middle-age, true to traditions of the sea, was the last man to leave his ship. but Lt. Graham, who had done wonderful service in transferring the survivors to the lifeboats, preceded him only by a minute. and heiped the elder man to an impoverished raft, which the only refuge left them, all the avail- able lifeboats having been sent away heavily loaded. Safe and Well. “The raft drifted rapidly away from the boats, and several times the two men were thrown into the water, but managed to Scramble back to safety. Lt. Graham saw that the elder man, who only recently recovered from a serlous illn was becoming ex- I repeated devoted to L. he said, and I captain to his own in such a manner that if the elder man were to lose his | grasp upon the raft should it be cap- sized again, the young lieutenant of the air service would go down with { him if he could not rescue him. “He had scarcely accomplished this when the unseaworthy piece of lumber '\\hl(h was their only barrier death again threw them in the water. But Lt. Graham, with the weight of | the almost unconsclous captain hampering him, managed to cling to the edges of the raft, and to guard his companion’s h2ad and body from | belng battered. He was almost un- consclous himself when plcked up by one of the destroyers hurrled to the scene, and was painfully bruised. the surgeons have pronounced him in no, danger, and believe that the cap- tafn, although serfously ill from the exposure, will eventually recover. “It. Graham insisted upon the tmprovised hospital as soon as he had been revived, and is now assist- ing In the work of rescue and identifi- cation.” | TROOPS REVIEWED UNDER STATUE OF EX-KAISER. Paris, Dec. 17, (Havas.)—Gen. Le- comte, commanding the Three Hun- dred and Thirtieth corps of the French army, entered Wiesbaden yes- terday morning at 11 o'clock.. The troops were reviewed from the steps of the city hall, opposite the statue of former Kmperor William with left the censor’s head- | [saet™ Press, a story of | ] i George anything about this until you see it in | | were 'Oh, please | | turou | “bad | rottea doin previously. | i and hausted, so he buckled the belt of the | | four vaudeville ¢ from | But | ving | | it shows through | t | \ | for Scene from “A Hoosier Romance” Sclig-Mutual Production LYCEUM THEATE | on evening THEATER BILLS TONIGHT POX'S, THEATER. | Double features at Peggy Hyland and George Pun- “Caught in the Act” and Wil- liam Hart ia “Truthful Tulliver. They certainly did Jau W today at| the initial showing of “Caught in the the latest William Fox comedy starring P Hyland and, Bunny. The plot of this/ starts a whilrwind voung hat almost to pieces and a man's trousers also torn was caught nail—both oa the same street Both found their way, al the same time, to a mending shop where ona of the mast delightful romances of modern days was woven. Thelr ap- parel was mended, and so were their | hearts, but not before the herolno ! goes through a multitnde of adv experie Pegzy Hyland is ably assisted by George Bunny and a capab st of Fox comedians. | “Trithful Tull * with William 8. | Hart, the added ature, deals with man” mir town of 50 vear clean-hearted, hard man by accupation and wan- | drifts into | Fox's tonight] ny in S. drama when gir young when offering blew a he on a ces « and a sort of kn derer by incling “Glory Holc' te Red hot edi- | some of the leading | from his pen and he| confronted by two he must take himsclf | out of Hory | vid the town of the who like neither his | Thone Bill decides | up his shooting irons | into adventures and | the course of which | only a reputation At the end of | a great struggle Hart and his two| room lit only deadly six climax to tern pictur s are Cyeling Hodge and Lowell, | and King, | ntertainers, nst blaze himself oing on. finds choice and Hole” or h indecont element or hi He oil aper must thrilling fe: the editor wias not but a bride as well. “Truthful Tulliver” aged between ies in a dark flames of the ing it a fitting dramatic we ener the mal edly son, the comedian; singing comedian and the Three balanced and excc bill a well! SCENTC R the at 1 ternoon and last d the production of tation”, a r picture with eugenies and which has paramount object the instilling in the race of the nec for eugenic mar- riages. The vor e One of assembled terday ¢ witne: udiences theater ever nic ves- evening “Pemp- o dealin as its picture handles this subject in plain and striking manner. principal actor, a youns man vowed to practice eugeni s taken through the garden of temp- tation and there is put {o every tost in order to ascer n his fitne: The picture is by no means im- moral, though many thought that such would be the case but, instead the picturization of the human for the beauty of mind and body and teaches that after all it is only the evil thoughts that cause is picture is 2 one for thinke men and women, who sce in its pro- duction something more than the out- ward pictt and cvery citizen who did not witness the production vester- day should take advantage of the last opportunity to do today. | A Live, Bright, Admission, | Thoma. LYCEUM Geraldine 1 THEATER. i wrrar malkes her first | appearance in new pictures, the play | chosen for “The Turn of the Wheel,"” When the international celebrity appears at her being by Tex Charwate. the Lyceum today and tomorrow, it is aid that she will have a roll of her own choosing, which means that “The Turn of the Wheel” is a play of today, the star having announced that she means to appear only in modern roles. The story of “The Turn of the Wheel” a highly dramatic one, beginning at Monte Carlo, where Rosalic Dean, an Americanégirl, is sojourning with her aunt. At the Casino she sees a ranger, also an American, playing recklessly, and he loses. Feeling a powerful attraction, Rosalie follows him and stops Maxfield Grey when he on the verge of suicide. Like all | amblers, he is sure that he could everything if he could hay one more chance. Rosalie insists he take that chance with money gives him, and Grey does win back— | everything, At the moment of his triumph arrested, charged with the murder of his divorced wife in New York. Remanded to the | Tombs, Grey refuses stubbornly to say anything to clear himself. His attor- | ney helpless. Grey savs that he | visited his wife the night she was shot, | but beyond that will tell nothing. Rosalie’s belief in his innocence never > work in uncover- erer brings a thrill- ting conclusion. On this same theie also another d Romance,” with Jefferson in the leading role. The vaudeviile bill is a splendid one. | Zspecially good is Mary Garden, who has some clever and new com- edy The other two acts are a we! wort seeing. Thursday brings “How Charlie Cap- tured the K and “Just Sylvia I ara Castleton. Grey is is in Her ast real mur intere bill waver ing the ing and is ture, Hoos very songs. THEATER. d to beat the show first It will el Keeney's part of this week, | the both photoplays and vaudeville being | Ip to the ented g highes andard. The tal- | nd beautiful star of Filmland, | Elsie Ferguson, tops the photoplays | the greatest picture she has ev appeared in, “Heart of the Wild: All w0 have seen the great actress | n these out-of-doors pictures in | which she excels will surely want to | sce her in this thrilling story of love and life the atest episode of be shown comedies abtr; in big Northland. The The Iron Test” will tozether with several short | and a weekly. An added ction will be an American Red Cross picture reels—a picture all trie Americans should see, for vaudeville there are three clever acts, the kind evervone likes to see, and a g00d variety at that. Mlle. Wanda, the world's greatest mentalist, will | read your past, present or future. For marvelous ability in this line she is astounding. A roaring rube act—Mil- two | lard Brothers—will keep vou roaring with laughter during their stay on the The Dellamore Troupé, acro- and workers in black and white posing, complete the hill. Next Thursday a complete change of pro- gram. IT IS DISTINCTLY UP TO DATE e CC AIRIRY ON’° == Unusual Playlet Parish House, South Church, Wednesday, December 18th, 8 P. M. Under the Auspices of the Young Women’s Auxiliary 15 cents | lutely | cake FADS AND FASHIONS Torpedo turbans are still with us. rra. cotta fnshionable color. Conservative styles coats liked in Open squares brnament the newest veils. Fox ate, quieter but furs predomi colors in Paris making of tringed rjbhon is hats entirely supple foam.’ A very light as They with ¢ are t ed lace, mming G ribbon is for milli- purposes. osgrain nery Checks and plaids demand sports skirts are in Brilliant satin is used in making the | smartest suits Buttons are not considered smart wraps. A new homespun looks nmuch like knitted fabric. 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