New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1926, Page 2

HEADACHES ABOUND INPRODUCING SHOW | Frolic for Audience Bt Not for| Gommittee and Cast CHRISTMAS WHITMAN’S You will find ti , glamour and | |adventure in the theater, but not| for members of the Lions who take ! ! over the arduous agonizing dutles of | |the professional producers, W. C. | French, James . O'Brien, Harry Hancock, Dr. Joseph Potts, ¥red| Macomber, Clarence Maxon, Romeo | Grise, Dick n, Lou Vogel, Harry Brown, and Dave For these men, Tea Baskets Candied Fruits Salted Nuts Hard Candies Xmas Novelties Packages delivered and | 21 arders. receiv i rmen of the mal] or delS receive SI)C committees, and thelr mnnyI ssistants, 1t is just a mat- | ter of gathering the maximum num- | ber of dollars together for the or-| «cial attention. Eph;ns and the crippled children of | | the community, through the medium ° . of the annual Frolic. chklnson Drug To insure an enthusiastic audience | . in 1928, the Frolle of 1927 must C send the foiks away with the thought that they have witnessed the finest 169-171 MAIN STREET i|va capable | production ever produced in the| city, not excepting professionals, The | Frolic of 1926 set a new high mark | to shoot at, necessarily making this | year's efforts all the more ambitious. | Hence, it can readily be seen that thess men must be tireless worke; often giving up months of time b fore the show even gets to the re- hearsal stage. The cast must be se- lected with an eye to beauty, singing ability, comedy, and exceptional | talent in general. The scenery must {be impressive in the way of lavish- | ness. The music must be the catch iest, the most tuneful and the very latest. Costumes must be more | than adequate to make the ensem- | ble impressive. With the’ principals of the cast as- | sured those in charge proceed to | | the book writers, Iyricists and com- | | posers, who are selected with the | idea of providing material suitable to the particular talent of the people {1n the cast. Then there is the mat- ‘Orr of proper scenery, noveliies, lighting and the costume designing. ‘ About a month before rehearsals R H. L. MILLS HARDWARE STORE 336 MAIN STREET ‘The “Handy” Hardware Store start, terror begins to enter the souis of the amateurs, who would ain be theatrical producers. The | songs selected do mot seem to have | | the proper liit. They may go flat. {The “gags” sound rather blah. The | talent so far selected lacks en- | | thusiasm not to mention abi omething must be done, and qu |ly. And ghen Dircctor Harry G | arrives and takes charge, and eve | body sighs with re | begin, and rehearsals :prl_\kflhly knows, are hectic affairs. | | They start oft leisurely enough, but | |as the time of the first perform m‘ draws near, the activity becon I most maddening. A glance into the | rehearsal hall provides 1nmnmv\p‘ | sidelights. The principals form | aivision unto themselves and are taken in hand by the director \\ho\ reads the script of the story or the | srrangement of the The | chorus of 150 is gathe group | around 2 -plano v and the Iyricist proc sing the words of the song. member of the chorus 16 supplied with a copy of the words and is ex- | peeted to memorize them as speed- | |ily as possible. The real work then | commences. Everybody works under | the autocratic rule of the director who has assumed the role of king. | While the director is watching the leads rehearse, he must keep I control of the chorus. He never | stops making suggestions and long | after the actors have gone home he | is on the job getting things arranged for the next rehearsal. In the meantime, costumes are | being fitted, scenery is prepared, and | the props are being checked off as | hey are supplied. A nervous tense- ness scizes the company as the da for the dress rehearsal approache There is no more leisure. Every- | thing 15 specd. Hours mean noth- | |ing. Night ater night tho tolling | | goea on. Tired, weary, and hoarse, | | the plug along. | Some who began the long rehear- sal grind are no longer with the | troups. For one reason or another | they have dropped out of the show. | | Replacements are made and easily | | itted into the scheme of things, | such as it Is, and rchearsals go on| apace. The time has arrived for a | merger of the two groups—the principals, Who have been rehears- ing by them and the chorus. | amalgama process is no| mpleted than the dress re- | 1 is held. tribulations and worries The scenery The elec- reports “gric Costumes 't complate, slippers are The musie i3 0 key om orchestra is ha ai ng the hang of some The back drop | ause 1t 1s | @ is pre- y glven| is hard| FLEX FLYER SLEDS FIREFLY SLEDS NORTHLAND' SKIS £ SRTRNITRARRIRNRINNSARINRY - \\3‘&\\\\\\\ \&\\“w;mx\\\ssa\“sx\\\‘s\x\xs\smxmx ¢ ‘Q“bb&bb&hb@&’#b-fibbb@%! [ 'o A Merry Christmas A Diamond piece which in# itself is suggestive of never: ending friendship, affection, love and a creation that em- bodies all the smartness, ele- gance and distinction whiche typify this season’s fashions. For those who seek of the highest standards of excel- lence, The Wedding Ring is the place to visit 9 ARCH ST. Thank you! FPPPOETIS £ : g § % i < STTIPICOITLIIPPIPCRTI P ORIENTAL RUGS just recelved another shipment real hand woven Persian Rugs. D.M. BENJAMIN B at sn't seem to L 07 Main St. lel. music bers lack varic ; the scen- refuses to 1 on at t fail to Y Telephone 1799 or 202 ||t tomper: ,7:‘1“1‘,'!»’.'\ ol and in of the f the troupe backstage—the gathering front—the hum of he buzz in the lobby y hunt for costumes— p of the orci on the = ~the the tuni call to pl hush out f lnst age overture—the minute f soothing . : he poundir TEL. 4185 | —the sudden dar the blare of th orchestra send C. A. ABETZ 110 FRANKLIN 8Q. g out trumphets as the show oft to ite | Mass. | fate—the footlights—the curtain go- | velops habits, for training | cows come to hustle | 3 * 3 .8 '8 b4 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926. | follow the old groove. Habit keeps men working at disagreeable tasks. Habit keeps the sailor on the lonely | sea through the stormy cold winter, and habit keeps the miner at his task in darkness and \loneliness. Habit | keeps social groups from mixing. Habit tends to keep the good with the good and the bad with the bad, and hence habit keeps men - from crime and keeps them in crime when once started. What we see and hear in a situation is determined by past mental habits, and by habits ot observation. We see with what we have seen. Children are born with predispositions to certain habits; e.g., ! the Irritable person develops certain habits easily, certain others come to | the slow plodder, the pessimist, etc. “Jf, as Profcesor James says, 99 per cent of our activity 1s habitual, it is impossible to overemphasize the formation of proper habits. It is possible for people to become au- tomaticaily good or automatically bad, to do things that are moral or immoral as ughtlessly and un- consciously as they lock a door or follow the proper method in walking or riding a b le, Habit is like a | {ban kaccount, for it may be like 8| continually growing debt. Good | | habits, e unexpected legacies, | {often st e us by blessing u a bad habits return like ghosts rse us. “Habit is altogether indiffcrent to its subject matter. Tts works alike |with the good and with the bad. That moral leaders of the past have ‘rl‘('u):n' 1 the place of habit in the | formation of character is indicated {by old proverbs: ‘Habit is either the school. He cams to the school as penman- |the best of servants or the worst of | masters.” (Emerson). OUR SCHOOLS » by Johnson & Peterson. S C. MOODY Vice-Principal Senior High School ko ice-Principal James C. Moody |'© | completed 25 consecutive years as & ber of the teaching staff of the for High school last month. With the exception of G B. Mat- | thews, musical |Urul0r )\e is the oldest teacher, in point of service at ‘Wo first make | ship teacher, was advanced to the | position of commercial department [OUr habits, and then our habits head and then to his present place |make us' ‘The chains of habit are| B et He was born in ' generally too small to be felt until | Wilbraham, 2 and was gradu- | th > 100 strong to be broken. ated sraham Academy, | (Johnson). ‘Habits are soon as- Springfleld School of Commerce and Sumed, but when we strive to strip Yale university. Before coming to them off,—'tis being flayed alive. this city he taught school in Ware, | ‘Happy is the man whose habits ar Chicopee, and the | his friends.’ (Shakespeare). Normal school of Westfield, n is nought but the formation of Mr. Moody holds t t habit.” (Rousseau). ‘Small habits being the first to organize summer | well persued betimes, may reach the classes in this city which were h(mi dignity of crimes’ (Hannah More), under the auspices of the Y. M. C, These later gave way to classes un- der the supervision of the school de- partment. Mr. Moody organized the commercial department and his students have frequently won honors In competition with other schools in the s | as brooks make rivers, rivers run to | seas”’ (Ovid). ‘We sow our thoughts | and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, we reap our destiny' (C. A. Hall). “One of the worst habits of young | lite least resistance, of doing the things, the desired things, the popu- |lar things. The habit of doing un- pleasant tasks should become auto- | matic. ‘The great thing in all our ate, ing up—the blur of faces seen through the haze—the director with uplifted baton—the first note of the cue—and the show is on at last, EXPLAINS MAN 1§ GREATURE OF HABIT |Prof. Vanghan Says It Mayf Make or Break Him litt t n n was explained at a| meeting of nan's Bible class | by Prof. D. D. Vaughan yesterday. | Habit, it persisted in, may make & | man industrious and the conquerer | of himself or it may strip him of all | manhood and force him down into | paths which lead to moral death, he | explained. In part, Prof. Vaughan | spoke as follows: “Skill 1s the result of habit. It is only by constant repetition that acts finally become automatic. Habit di- | inishes the constant attention with | Which our acts are performed; e. g., | the marksman's rapid, accurate | movement in bringing down game, | the pianist’s automatic accuracy as his eye meets the musical signs on the page. In action that has become habitual, each gew muscular con- traction is instigated, not by thought, | but by the sepsation occasioned by ! the muscular contraction just | How habit may a man up or fin- | ished. We may say our prayers or repeat the alphabet witll our atten- | tlon far away. The knitter keeps on | with her knitting while reading, con- versing, or allowing her thoughts to wander. ‘Habit fs the lubricant which reduces the friction of life to 1 point where progress is possible.’ Any animal that can bo trained de- is the cstablishment of desired habits. The milkman's horse learns to stop be- fore certain houses in the block, the the gate at milking time instcad of going to the other end of the pasture. Habits not only affect the brain, but organs of the body that act more or less involun- taril £, the stomach may be ac- customed to three meals a day or to five meals. “Habit saves society from uprising by causing people to conservatively Grip, Influenza and many Pneumonias begin as a common cold. Price 80c. The box bears this signature ©. 7 bpore Porce 1589 BB R CELE T, " Buy a Legion Tree! The Eddy-Glover Post, No. 6, American | Legion, is selling Christmas Trees at the! Legion home on Washington St., the Cen-, tral Junior High, and at 290 South Main Street. Signed:— THE COMMITTEE SRR R G R R R R B R HHLLHEH S LLLSLOSLHSHELL 5SSO SLOSH S OS O Useful Xmas Gifts Eye Glasses or Specs, Oxfords, Lorgnettes, Readers, Prism Binoculars, Field Glasses, Pocket Microscopes, Pens, Pencils, Pair of Kryptoks, for your Pa or Ma, A. PINKUS EYESIGHT SPECIALIST 300 MAIN STREET ® b 8 PHONE 570 . 3 B A T T P T P D T T TR TV 1 gitions that encourage the new way. occur until the new habit is securely says, ‘Il habits gather by unseen degrees, | s that of following the line of || easy | education is to make our nenouu}(art should be made to have good system our ally Instead of our habits result in a favorable reaction, enemy.' (James). In the reforma- er to have bad habits result un- tion of the criminal, it is not only An\orably. necessary to break bad habits, but ! |the past in dealing with prisoners, also to form good ones. Professor |as in the moral training of children, C. R. Henderson names, as causes of ' has been a mere drill in matters of | crime, ‘unreliability, irritability, d!‘-loutwlrd behavior, when perhap. honesty, lust and laziness.'” We have | within the will, habits of antagoni; here a basis for work on crime pre- were being developed; e. g., using vention. ¢ wrong methods in forcing chlldren “‘In the acquisition of a new |to attend church., Habits of failure habit, or the breaking of an old one, {2r¢ rulnous; e. g, the constitutional launch out with as strong and, de. | ffunker at school.’ cided an initiate as possible. Ac- cumulate all possible circumstances | to reinforce the right, and seek con- maximum: momentum.” (protessor | REPIOTCHOD Would Cost Dain). Never suffer an exception to| T oo s ot | S bS00, 0808, Report Sags Irving's Rip Van Winkle, ‘when Rip | ‘it won’t count this time, he might not count it, and a kind | Heaven may not count it, but it is| | counted just the same. Down among | his nerve cells and fibers the mole. Make engagements that are incom- patible with old habit, and take & public pledge. Support good resolu- tion with every known aid; in every way giving the new resclutions the Washington, Dec. 20 (A—A ten- ative cost of reproduction of $1,: 53,082,782 has been placed by the nterstate commerce commission on! {the 98 companies comprising the storing it up to be used against him | Pennsylvania railroad system, Thos. when the next temptation comes.’| W. Hulme, vice-president of the! In teaching habits to others, the ef- | system sald today on the basis of] cules are counting it, registering and figures by the commission covering a portion of the road. The value of lands held by the One of the mistakes of | group of corporations in addition he | placed at $486,964,924. Figured on the average, considering the various periods during which valuations for units of the system were made, he said supplies on hand were worth 470,063,299 and working capital amounted to $45,842,¢31 in cash. In addition the rallroad’s treasury holds secnrities of other corpora- tions, {ncluding stock in the Nor- folk and Western and New Haven railroads with a cost price of $157,- 782,580, The total of all those items, Mr. Hulme placed at $2,563,685,5668. Agalnst these assets, the Pennsyl- vania and its subsidiaries had out-| standing stocks and bonds with a total par valuation of $1,865,823,- 46 Of these securities, the Penn- ania system itself owns $485, | 418,216, By the commission's figures Mr. Hulme said the capital issues of the | Pennsylvania railroad in the hands of the public amounted to $1,380,- 52 and that these were sccured | by assets of $2,663,685,568. The company gave out the figures | in connection with the commission’s | partial figur he said “in order at a comparison may be Intelli-| gently made ag to the tentative| valuation,” The commission’s valu- ; 7 | ation was for the Pennsylvania rail« | road company and seventeen subsis | diary corporations which operata 3,700 miles of the ‘system east of Pittsburgh, and totalled $1,078,185,~ | 150, as of June, 1918. This portion of the Pennsylvania had outstapding capital issues on tho date given with a par value of | $507,275,304, while its own book 1n vestment figure was $701,528,631. | Keep Cool and Have Good Memory, This View Philadelphia, Deec. 20. UP)—If you want to have a good memory, keep cool, is the advise given students by . Dr. Edgar Fahs Smith, former prog vost of the University of Pennsyl- vania. | The formula, according to Dr. | Smith who is one of the world’s best known chemists, has been respon- sible for his own cbility to retain | names. ! “The trouble with most forgetful people is that they become excited when they attempt to recall inci- dents out of the hazy past,” said Dr. Smith. “We have no better ex- |ample than the college student. If he could look upon an examination paper as calmly as he regards mat- ters of life, he probably would have very little trouble. Fear and excite- ment get him muddled—all because ‘he doesn’t keep cool. A w ek %O’“V"fi | s J 5 @Kéfifi%fiw wWCrHO wnPprES-n—=ITO —HunmOxpr much like they used to be. I N N E B R to msure a Merry Christmas. | T A | N ¥ Come i and join' this growing club of money savers. 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