New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1923, Page 4

| we extras were at lelsure. The Disclosure Linda Confidingly Made to Madge, Linda's weak face, which once had been pretty, held the shamed grief and the mulish obstinacy of a child who has been humiliated, She looked moodily at the door through which Grace Draper had just passed, and her chin quivered with futile anger, while impotent tears vrolled down her cheeks, “S8he hadn't ought to have told the chef 1 snitched that Ilittle bit of hooch,” she said plaintivelp "It wasn't any harm, but he'll be sore at me, and he's always treated me white, 1 don’t know what made me do it, anyway. I didn't need to." She stopped abruptly and turtively, speculatively at me. “Say. You look like a good kid," she announced at last. “And you're sore at Gracie, too. lLookit. You wouldn’t snitch on me to her, would you, if I showed you somethin?" I snatched at the heaven-sent op- portunity. **Of course I wouldn't,” her warmly. She nooded her head sagely. “I knew you were a good kid,” she announced, and when she had locked the door she came back to me, star- ing at me with blinking, red-rimmed eyes. “You swear you won't tell Gracle," she said. “I swear it solemnly,” I returned. “Thass all right then,” she said, and walking to the radiator, pulled aside the exquisite hooked rug which covered the jagged hole in the floor. “Come here,” she said, with a per- emptory jerk of her head. I obeyed her quickly. “Kneel down here,” she whispered, and when 1 had done so, she took my hand in hers and thrust it into the Jagged hole in the floor boards. “I'd Like to Go to Sleep “Reach over, to the right and get what's there,” she instructed. My fingers closed upon a flat bot- tle which I drew out and handed to her. She took it with a little croon- ing sound of delight. Then, with a frightened glance at the hole in the floor, she jumped up, dragging me with her, and hastily pushed the rug over the hole. “There’'s somebody in the room be- low,” she said nervously, “and that pipe’s just like a telephone wire. You can hear just as plain. Nobody knows that but me, though, so don't you tell Gracie.” ‘With one of the freakish impulses of partial intoxication, IAnda patently had taken a fancy to me, and for the present I was in high favor with her. She uncorked the bottie, lifted it to her lips, tilted her head back, and with closed eyes and rapturous face took a long draught. Then she held out the bottle with the generous glow of self-sacrifice on her face. looked 1 assured cordially. one.” “T'd love to, a little later,” I pre- varicated promptly. ache now, and even make it much worse."” a To my great .relief, for I feared to|time she counted fourteen; the sec-; offend her, she accepted my explana-| ond tion. “I know,"” she said, head sagely. wagging her head something fierce, sleep right now,"” Familiar Voices Bhe stood looking vacantly at me for a minute, which seemod cndless, then a cunning smile spread over her 1'd like to go tell you,'" she said. “You're awful tired, Why don't you go to slecp, too? We'll both go to sleep,” 1 seized the suggestion gerly. “That will be splendid ! I said, “Only I don’t want to go to hed, I'll Just get into a negligee and slippers and lie down on the couch. But it's 80 near the fire, can't we move it over the other side of the room?" She considered judicially. “Why, yes, “Take hold." She was reeling slightly when we grasped the couch, and though T watched her furtively, 1 saw that she suspeeted nothing when I put the head of the couch so near the hole of the radiator pipe that I could reach down and lift the rug without mov- ing from a reclining position, I straightened myself with a sense of relief. “Now I'll have a nice rest,"” I said. ‘So will I,” she returned. “I'm glad you don't want the bed, for I'm going to take it. I need to stretch— out.” She watched me change to a negli- gee with eyes which she tried in vain to keep watchful. And no sooner was I ensconced on the couch than she threw herself upon the bed. I had to wait only a few moments T guess 50, she said. before the sound of her breathing told | me she would he safe for hours. Then 1 lifted the corner of the rug| listened for sounds from the room below. And when an hour had slipped by my vigil was rewarded by the sound of voices—voices which T recognized as those of Grace Draper and Harry Underwood. and | 'SLEEPY—ILM.EMI)ALES THE TALE OF GRANDMA BIG BILL RUN The day was drawing to a close. “Come! It's dusk. It's time you went into the house for the night,” Grandma Goos> calied to her twelve children. At least she supposed there were tweive, as usual. As | usual, she counted them when they . | “Have “Have a little snifter,” she invited|jaer youngster waddled | | “I have a head-| taste would wouldn't stand filed through the doorway. IFor she was a careful’ old dame. “What's thi she exclaimed. 1 made a mistake?” As the acr the She tried to count the children in- | But it was hard work. They still, She counted them again three times. The first doors. time, seventeen, and the third time, twenty. “My goodness!" she said. You'll “This stuff goes to your| have to go outside and come in once MISS BRADFORD, WORK, AT LAST FEELS SHE “BELONGS" IN THE MOVIE BY VIRGINIA BRADFORD. Hollywood, April 5—The filming of “Bella Donna” constituted my com- ing-out party in the movies. Not that it changed my status of extra—for 1 am only a piece of hu- man confetti in the picture—hut AFTER HARD | | in/ my own mind it definitely ended my/ awkward flapper days in flickerdom. This sense of “belonging,” of be- ing finally on the inside, comes to some girls after the second or third job, to others only after months of work. My debut was a Thectic party. Everyone but myself thought it was for Pola Negri, for Adoiphe Menjou, | Conway Tearle, Conrad Nagel and the rest of her supporting cast. But that didn’t hurt my feelings. It was given under a vast glass roof. Everyone came in gorgeous costume, 250 men and women, transformed from prosy folk to the most ravish- ing creatures by wig and paint, satin and tights under the brilliance of the sun arcs. On a high platform, megaphone in 3::.1, like a battle general, stood rge Fitzmaurice, director. Beside ‘him, Arthur Miller, master of cam- eras. Opposite, close to the mob, Frank O'Connor, assistant director. A volley of sharp instructions. Then a burst of orchestra music, “Lights!” and the purr ofl cameras as we danced and chatted, tossing balloons and eonfetti for the “long shot” carnival|ticular Then a blare of whistles, and |an scene. stoppage. “Kill 'em!” came the order. Tt in OF HUMAN ferred strolling flirtation with the rnival partner of an hour. For some the occasion was a mere job; for others a chance to grow by care- ful observation. A sort of segreg, tion of the wise and foolish at tie threshold of the movies. It seemed improbable that any par- extra would be observed in the melea of pretty faces and brilliant costume, but 1 tried to keep mind that in every turn of {he wasn't a decree of execution for he-|kaleidoscope one bit of glass (lways ‘wildered boneheads—merely argot to douse the lights, - tions were patiently repeated. Instruc- mon silks, sat across the canal from us, consulting her script and munch- ing bits of orange under the hover- ing attention of two maids. And now Some watched her act. hardly aware of her presence, Pola Negri, dark and exotic in sal- tainly my J 1 sludio | stands out-—and acted accordingly. Directors Fitzmaurice and nor may not have noticed me. contribution teo “Bella Donna" was obscure enough. But for the first time T left the studio with- out the feeling that the door had slammed behind me, O'Con- Cer- Others, TOMORROW ~-Does it pay to break pre-|into the movies? more, so I can count you as you pass through the doorway., There ought to be twelve of you--no more, and no lesa" S0 Grandma Goose's children trooped into the yard, turned around, and went back into the house. Again, as the last one entered, Grandma Goose counted him No, 11, “There's certainly one missing"” she | | murmured, The next thing to do Is| to find out which one fsn't here," She was quite calm, She began to L T T T iy eerg— | | | | | eSS 'l might have lnown it!® eried. call the names of her children, tell- ing them that each must raise a wing when he heard his name. - When she called, “Big Bill!” nobody stirred. Still Grandma Goose was unruf- fled. “Big Bill must be playing h\I the mud at the foot of the lane,” she said to the youngsters, ‘Stay here in the house while I go and get him."” But Big Bill wasn't at the foot of the lane. Grandma Goose looked everywhere for him—at the corn erib, | inside the horse barn, around the| pigpens. But no Big Bill did she find. At last she began to be anxious. She hurried about, asking everybody she met, “Have vyou scen my Big { B2 | Many of the farmyard folk didn't understand, at first, what she meant. Individual touches that make for, style—a new yoke that cuts down into | the tops of very short sleeves; a square tucked collar for the front of a dress; a skirt that has both #rapes DAILY FASHION SERVICK.®. New Yoke, Tucked Collar, Drapes and Pleats and pleats. These are frocks that are unques- | tionably new—made so by the slight varjation from what is usual and ex- rected. e | “Why, ygs! Your big bill's sticking | out right in front of your face,” they told her, ! “No! No!" Grandma Goose told! them. “T mean my son, Big Bill.” | “Oh! We haven't seen him,” every- body answered. But at last old dog Spot told Grandma that he had seen her Big| Bill cross the road and waddle out of | sight along the path that led to the| river. | “I might have known it!"” she cried. “He's gone to the river to see ')'u"l | wild geese. Oh! Whatever shall l“ WAY THE YOUNG LADY ACROSS THE e cmie (Copyright, 1923, by Metropolitan Newspaper Service). e B " || Gossip’s Cornex|| | — arf Sleeves es are very effective in thin materials or in Jace the same 1shade of the frock. The most ex- |treme ones reach almost to the floor and occasionally one is permitted ex- tra length so it may trail on the floor. Pleating Popular L. The revival of pleating is one of the | The young lady across the way says f’fmtstnmih\g features of this season. nicotine is a deadly poison and if peo- [Tt is liked not only for the separate | ple must smoke they ought always to |skirt tmt for the many-tiered skirt |use cigarct-holders. which fs joined to the plain bodice. Scarf sleev | Mo Gt I Emorions RevEarp IN Pprvmo Copyright 1923-1EA, Seryrce Inc | | From Mrs, Mary Alden Prescott | Priscilla Bradford. ! Do all mothers feel this way? 1 | think not. I There has always been such a My Dear Prissy: great understanding between John | It was very disappointing to me and me, and while, of course, I have and I presume you were disappointed, not secn as much of him since he | too, that you were called home by the left his home to go to Albany, yet |illness of your mother before the'l have always tried to keep in touch/ { wedding. with him by writing him letters of 1 would not write to you in this admonition and advice. fashion did I not know your mother, On the day of the wedding, how- Mehitable Bradford, very well, and)ever, when I looked at that beauti- 1 was sure you would find as you!ful girl beside him, I felt some way ‘dl«l that her iliness was more a case ay though my boy had gone away of selfishness and a desire to have from me. I knew that I had noth- you entirely to herself. You Know ing in common with his wife and I| [T tried to persuade you when you|suddenly felt that I had grown old| got the telegram that this was s0.!and that never again would my boy But you, as a dutiful daughter, felt jisten to my counsel. She was af | you must return home only to find another time, almost of another race. that my prognostications were per-!Her gods were not my gods, and yet, | tectly correct. | Prissy, 1 must tell you of a great| | Whatever T may surprise 1 had. | Prissy, of this union The night | son and Lesliec Hamilton, between a after they had had a rehearsal of man whose ancestors have been the ceremony— seemed to me al- stateemen, judges, artists and profes- most a sacrilege—ILeslie came to me | sional men, to the daughter of a man fand put her arms about me and laid whose early years were spent amid her chéek against mine. It is soft | the sweat of a steel mill, I must say| and flowerlike, Prissy. I felt a tug that the wedding of John and Leslie at my heart especially when she was very beautiful. said: | There was, perhaps, too much| “Dear Mrs, Prescott, I shall never | pomp of convention and pageantry|be able to thank you enough for give! of wealth, but nevertheless every-|ing me that beautiful desk. Already | {thing went off better than I ex-|jt has filled a place in my life that pected. ] never expected to have filled, al-| Mrs, Hamilton must have ]\ld{l'fad,\' it has brought to me the somewhere among her forebears peo- | knowledge that I am no different ple of culture and refinement. (from all the women who have peo- Leglin, as you know, is a very beau-!|pled this earth, because I know that | tiful girl. T am afraid that her beau-|all the women who have sat at that ty was the lure which drew my son's|desk have loved as I love your son.” heart to her while otherg of greater| I did not tell her, my dear Prissy, worth were passed by. that probably the women of that ro- There were six bridesmaids and a| mantic period of French history who maid of honor, with accompanying|had sat at that desk had not been escorts for each as they walked back | women of chastity and virtue. I did in the marriage train from the altar.|not want to sully her ideals, 1 almost felt, dear Prissy, as 1] Inatead I asked ker, “Have you | should probably feel if I were look~| found the secrat drawer?” and she ing upon the dead face of my son answered with a smile, “The drawer ,as ] saw him take the ring from his|is still a secret.” friend, a Mr. Sidney Carton, and| T am sorry to say that this answer | place it upon Leslie's finger. dispelied any newfound joy that 1 There was a look upon his face|had in my prospective daughter-in- that I had never seen before. Even|law, for it told me that she would to me, his mother, he had never|never come to me with her joys and given such a glance gf utter adora-|her sorrows--that henceforth T tion should walk this world alone, T cannot tell you the feeling that Affectionately yours, I had. Cold hands clasped my heart. MARY ALDEN PRESCOTT. to think, my dear between my | before the wedding, Wide Straw Sailors The very wide straw sailor, draped with a colorful scarf or adorned with fiowers or ribbon, is scheduled to imake its appearance for mid-season wear. Several Shades The use of two or three shades of silk braid, arranged side by side to form a.sort of band trimming, is fre- quently noticed on the spring tailor- mades and one-piece frocks. Figured Frocks A frock of figured silk, the figures iof which are gorgeous and gay, has a pleated jabot of the sitk which ex- tends from the collar to hemline. It is loosely girdled with a ribbon. Taffeta and Lace Lace is being frequently cembined with taffetta this season, to the advan- tage of both. Particularly in the delicately colored frocks designed for debutantes and dances do we find the union. Fancy Voiles Drop-stitch voile makes some of the most charming frocks for sum- mer, It comes in the most fascina- ting shades and needs practically nothing but a girdle, and perhaps white collars and cuffs to trim it. Leather Girdle A summer frock of green crepe is distinctively trimmed by “"not being trimmed at all, save for an organdie collar and cuffts and a beit of white kid flowers. To Flavor Bacon Before you fry the breakfast bacon soak it in cold water for three or four minutes It will give it a much more delicate favor. Curtain Rods To run a rod through the hem of a curtain place a thimble over the end of the rod and it will slip through readily. Bran as a Cleaner Warm bran will clean tapestry. covered furniture. Apply it thickly on a piece of flannel, and brush off with a clean brush. This will also clean brocade. Cleaning Paint The marks left on paint when matches are scratched on it can be removed by rubbing with a cut lemon, ‘When Chickens Are Singed Brown wrapping paper is said to be best for singeing the chicken because it will leave no blackened spots. salt and Celery You can make a deliclpus flavoring tor soups, oysters or gravy by saving the root of the celery, drying and grating it and mixing with it one- third as much salt. Onion Odor Remove the odor of fish or onions from frying pans by scalding vinegar in them, then washing in the usual fashion. Broken Glass If a plece of woolen cloth is placed on the floor where glass has been broken all the tiny particles will stick to it and thus be removed. A STRAWBERRY CAKE BERTHA E. SHAPLEIGH Of “Columbla University Separate the whites and yolks of three eggs. Beat the volks until thick and light-colored, then add one cup of sugar and beat well. 8ift one cup of flour with one and one-half teaspoons of baking powder and one- fourth teaspoon of salt, and add this to the beaten egg yolks and sugar, stirring it in lightly. Add one tablespoon of hot water and two teaspoons of lemon juice, put into a well-buttered pan and bake 30 minutes in a moderate oven, Cool, split and fill with strawberries sweet. ened to taste, On top place stiffly (beaten cream, sweetened and flavored. Another attractive way to serve this cake is to cut a piece from the center, leaving a wall one inch thick on the sides and one-half inch on the bottom. Fill the center with the strawberries and cover with stiffly beaten cream. BY W2 AT \ 'i‘l. A x Lidess otherwine | written hy th “HEARTS AVLAME" AT PALACE The photoplay feature at the Palace starting today for the last half of the week offers Reginald Barker's spebto- cular film “Hearts Aflame.” ‘“Nothing so vivid and intense as this forest fire has yet been presented in photoplay form. The scene has been remarkably photographed one can ac- tually sce the flames lick at the trees which rapidly give way before the conflagration, The cast is large and excellent, Frank Keenan is seen in the role of an old millionaire, an ex-lumberman; Anna Q, Nilsson, is the girl of the Michigan woods; and Cralg Ward makes a strong impression as the young hero. The Keith vaudeville bill will fea- ture four headline acts with the Reuters in a few thrills; Dunne and Mayo who offer original songs and patter; Georgé Mark in an excellent monologue; and “The Jungle Bunga- low" a very flne musical comedy of- fering with pretty girls, catchy tunes, and dances Friday night will bg N, V. A. night in which all the acts will get together in one large afterpiece and will clown and sign the new waltz song “Glimpses of the Moon,” after which the songs will be distributed in the audience. One week each year is set aside for the benefit of the N. V. A. which is the National Vaudeville Artists Association; who look after the welfare of aged, sick and needy actors, and for the maintenange ‘of several homes throughout the country for the actor. All vaudeville theater on the different circuits will give the receipts of Friday evening's perform- ance to the fund. “STORMSWEPT” AT LYCEUM The Londoh Gaiety Girls'’ musical comedy company continues to draw the theater patrons at the Lyceum, where a spiffy little show is being | @ staged. Beginning today and con- tinuing for the remainder of the week, the program is entirely different from that shown the first thrce days. The picture, ‘“Stormswept,” is a treat to watch. Broad expanses of the ocean, terrific storms at sea, pictures- que lightships, a thrilling shipwreck and resene and through it all a tangled romance that 1s not straight- TOBEE;E‘ESat. The Big Screen Thriller ; with “HEARTS ~ AFLAME™ Little Richard Headrick Frank Keenan Anna Q. Nilsson Don’t Miss the Big Forest Fire KEITH VAUDEVILLE featuring “The Jungle Bungalow” a clever musical comedy Monday “Trifling Women” | N. V. A. CLOWN NIGHT FRIDAY wleth, bivonte ol nocioep wiid prexs ngeneies for tho n-:w B N0 g 3 ) > « 'y i_’/ ‘e roviews an Lhis colutau ure H ctive nwusement company. ened out until the final fadeaway, s the theme of this drama. Beginning next Monday and con- tinuing for three days an exceptionally alluring pleture, “One Week of Love" is to be shown, This is regarded by many as without a peer in the line of romantic dramas and the leading characters would tend to bear this out, Miss Elaine Hammerstein, one of the noted personalities of the screen, plays the leading role while opposite her is dashing Conway Tearle. Another big picture that soon is to be brought to the Lyceum 1is “The Curse of Drink." Next week, all week, Felix Martin, formerly the famous comedian with Hoyt's Revue, will be at this theater with his own musical comedy com« pany, said to be one of the best that came out from Boston this season. CROSSROADS OF N. Y.—FOX'S Mack Sennett's latest comedy melos drama, Crossroads of New York, opened this afternoon to an apprecia« tive audlence at Fox's where it will continue as the feature movie at< traction for the remainder of the week, The four vaudeville acts are of the highest order, featuring several unique novelty stunts. Among them are the Jester Trio, Smith and Joyce, and Bradbury, the last named being a very good single, Beginning Monday, for three days The Dangerous Age will be shown, followed by The Hottentot. The Dangerous Age is an especially ap« propriate picture for this is spring« time. LYCEUM Tonight, Fri,, Sat. If You Want Real Drama Don’t Miss ‘Stormswept’ With WALLACE and NOAH BEERY MUSICAL COMEDY NEXT WEEK FELIX MARTIN With His Own Msical Comedy Next Mon.; Tues., Wed. “ONE WEEK OF LOVE” . With ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN NEXT WEEK THURS. “THE CURSE OF DRINK” With EDMUND BREESE MARGUERITE CLAYTON and HARRY T. MOREY \l‘ CK * 3 NETT' S COMEDY fi -_)YL’;.\? A Mon,, Tues., W “THE DANGEROUS AGE” THE SOFT, WARM DELIGHT OF THE SPRING will be ushered in by the thrilling HARMONX OF THE HARP played by MISS MILDRED DILLING accompanied by Miss Frances Parker Auspices of New Britain McAll Auxiliary You will come Ji Friday evening it you heard Miss Dilling play here last year Tickets $1.00 Crowell's Drug Store The World's Most Noted Harpist You would go far to hear her next year {f you come Fri- day evening. Tickets $1.00 Crowell’s Drug Store