New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1926, Page 7

able and pla Here Booth, abtre s, | which lens Cono! Listory rorium m Hooley" theaters, 'n 1889, it [ED COLLECTION Handbills Noting Many Paderewskl, Bancroft, Sarah HAND HAY Foy, Lilly Langtry, Enrico Caruso, Ellen Terry, Bernhardt, Squire David i % BLUE UNIFORM 15| Belasco and scores of others, The collection tos and program all over the wo! programs at M vent Gardens a den are bills from Brighton and Co- of playbills, brei- & was gathered from rid, In the file with adison Bquare Gar- AGAIN GONSIDERED na prury - Lane, | 1131004 Outfit for U, §. Army} London, that date back as far as Famous Players 1704, There ts a first edition of Men Phineas Fletcher's “Sicelldes, a Pls- ——— catory,” a drama in verse printed in e Jan. 8 (®—For two i3l Washington, Jan, 8 M—A carefu cago, an English plas nd in his pocket an oddly-in- yed little book glven him as a jo. One day he showed it to the rarfan of the British Museum and Today the plasterer, still followling that trade, is a bibliophile known the world over and possessor of a great collection of theatrical v operatic playbills, He knows books, and the stage. ‘The playbills are part of an inti- mate history of the legitimate stage which dates back early part of the Seventeenth Cen- tury, but is most complete and valu- in its record irama and opera, In his modest Chi. cago home, Thomas Conolly has th d bills which advertised the first plays 8 in the Down through the gented the | portraits of tha actor folk, their signatures and . Llits of personal writings, are win Iorrest, e, J and are not chronicles of the stag vellowing reminders of old Madison Syuare Garden and the Niblo G in New and in Chicago, and do: playhouses that are now history. iy, of tion of rare books, came to Chicago 1o help decorate th and has - sinc for its openin e r carried of theatrical jo picking over m arned the volume was & rare| less than elgh months, most of them ‘shorthand” Bible, engraved 1n |4prond, bought them with the pocket {ygulg have to fight In their shirt | phoneties in 1686, SHBNES Ok & Dladsorol talls, in the collection are Included and by eechies o Bible" er's Bible, e and records of the London, copies of the Club; as far as the of American e cop nder amp rare forel of the Co United States. '60s are repre- . press clippings, e more rominent of and the pony many Abraham 1. tations in his 1 Eventually, probably go to | glimpses of Ldwin Mrs, Lotta oe Jefferson, the Soth- | their contemporaries revealed in the . There are Prop Chicago, Jan | extending frou to Mexico MeVicker’ Haymarket ens of York; the old eld in connec lon of the A soclatior pro Iready interested in the rama through his colle new Auditorium cn with the Audi- iec has the pro- night, when ir WO f the Itallan Opera Company, with Mme, Pattl, sang “Romeo and &e Juliet” on Dec. 10, 1889, | will make the \ conference, For - aut e i i s ot G LBOTEREIL Pz their fi mas eends them litt the profession and p! long sinee 4 tain call. Of late years he has kept | irst A ures of Robert M Asylum Q47! 1 0dd 110c Length A Personal Friends Couplers 85¢ amous characters of | . |NEW MODEX London, seeks old progra ts and each Christ- | smentos of |lari who have |have designed answered thelr last cur- |These are i n ph book, now bearing the Marlov 247 St. THESE 'RICES FOR SATURDAY ONLY TUBING Lots. Nearly all diameters Up to 7 Turns Hart & Hegeman I real buy . 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Schwab, steel magna Jan, de of rubber in vary- to th T.ots of Standard Radio Merchan tory Cost Prices 49¢ ;, list £6.00, $1.93 Cone Type Speakers $7.95 | 250 Asylum St., 579 Main St.. survey of American resources for the manufacture of Khaki breeches | has convinced army officlals that § it becama necessary to put a force of two millfon men into the field in urnals and the bills yet Tom Conolly, by this appalling possibil- industrial mobilization wing onal defense plan: ma- chinery started a study of its own, Tt found that it would be entirely poss to completely uniform two | " |million men from head to foot in | " |fitteen days, provided blue cloth in- stead of khaki was used, The trouble with the khaki outfit is that not enough cloth of famon, the the two coples of a copy of one in Ita Athenfan Society in dozens of perfect that suppressed polit : ] e color s rdinary civillan use, Great Britain |(01F 18 In or : ot Chisl '|'rhere are ampl» stocks of blue both wool and cotton fabric. | o result has been the working out tentative blue training uniform \ could be supplicd in ample volume for a mobilization, to be dis- carded as units completed their pre- liminary preparation and moved out for final training near the zone of operations, By that time Three I collection gn stamps, lontal villages betor ational mail servic spress stamps of on letters addressed incoln and with no- hand. the omplete khaki out- fits with tan leather trappings would be for them, giving them the v degree of low visibility in treasures will rical societios, The contemplated uniforms would cc button blo dre shoulder knots to L.\\u a touch, bl bleu training sist of a four 1 with . military pS; blue 1 8 (P—A ) n Northwest will be consic tion with the cor merlea 1 survey d tity of v a limited quan- an Munson last. shoes in the there are ks to be had. r has not passed as yot study stage in the war de- nto a unified extremes of partmen opening address at the |* A moon indicates frost, 1 SPATS VOR MLEN 9 (Pr—Arbiters of spurred by the popu- % an boots for women, new spats for AKERS EXTRA(T “None Better” men. 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