New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 12, 1927, Page 11

ke ki g R T s A B il NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SAT URDAY, FEBRUARY 1927. ——|LONDON English Play So Funny That Audiences Laugh So Much They Wear Out Seats jn the Theater. < London, Feb. 12 GP—Plays that cause laughter wear out theater seats much more rapidly than does serious drama. Consequently, when audiences rock with mirth night after night for three years, as Lon- don folk have at “The Farmer's | Wife,” Eden Philpotts’ comedy of Devonshire rural life, which has just | ended its long run at the Court theater, the joke is partly on the owners of the theater. | The Court Is closed for a month | while new bottoms are put in the seats. Then another Philpotts play, | *“The Blue Comet,” will be pro- duced. Not even Bernard Shaw can boast | that any of his plays ever wore out scats in a London theater. His lengthy “Back to Methuselah,” was staged at the Court theater—one act a night for four nights in succession constituting a performance—but the red plush seat cushions showed lit- tle if any wear after the play’s short | run. Miss Evelyn Hope played Aramin- ta Dench in “The Farmer's Wife," ,300 times in London without miss- ing a single performance. “Toward the end of the run I hud | a strange obsession that I could mot utter a line of my part,” Miss Hope explained after laying aside the make-up of the rustic part. "I think nearly all the members of the cast got the same way. We imagined we | had dried up and couldn't say the lines. In fact sometimes we did for- | get. You can know lines too well | and say them too often. But every | actor knew the lines of all other | members of the cast and there were plenty of prompters on the stage to pick one up. It is strange that one ; forgets one's lines, but can always | remember the other lines in the King George and Queen Mary | went to sea "The Farmer's Wife" several times during its long run Tiden Philpotts wrote the come several years ago, but had difficulty in inducing a manager to give the | “hick” play a tryout. They all thought the day of rural comedy was | gone. Sir Barry Jackson finally | staged the play and it had to be | nursed along for many weeks before | it blossomed into a perennial which | has been surpassed in the length of | its London run only by *“ (‘)\\1 (,hm Chow,” “The Beggar's Ope and “The Mald of the Mountains,” ail musical shows.- | o i “General Knowledge” | “Joan of Arc was canonized by | Bernard Shaw,” wrote a pupil in a | general knowledge examination r‘on-‘ ducted in a London school. | Other pupils wet their pencil | points, groaned, produced the fol- Coming Into Favor in Fr: | the country. PARIS Bigophones, World's Most Primitive Musical Instruments, lowing: “The population of London is a bit too thick.” “They gave the Duke of Welling- ton a lovely funeral; it took six men | to carry the beer.” “Shakespeare wrote Widow." “Lipton Is the capital of Ceylon.” Plans Gay Home Number 145 Piccadilly will be one of the brightest homes in London “The Merry when the Duchess of York takes up | residence there on her return from | Australia. The interior will be mostly blue and white, the favorite decorative scheme of the duchess, blue paint | being on the walls instead of paper, and white enamelling on doors and | windows. The duchess’ own boudoir, originally a conservatory with a dome, is blue throughout with blue- painted fittings and blue lamp | shades. Jockey Writes Novel Stephen Donoghue, Britain's Earl Sande, and rider ©of several Derby winners, and most famous English horseman now living, has written a novel, “The Gentle Grafter.” “The Gentle Grafter,” is the name | of a horse, but in this story of the turt there are other grafters of few- er legs and less gentleness. A stable, a fight in a night club, | an airplane crash, and a bad crash on a race course are a few of the | incldents Steve Donoghue tells us | about, and relates, too, in an exceed- ingly entertaining manner. Many Buying Relics People in country towns have been unknowingly purchasing for small ‘<um¢, odd pieces of china, old plC-l“hlmgnr | tures, small pieces of furniture and other oddments which at one time are believed to have belonged to Queen Alexandra. home and examining the articles is he discovery of an engraved ‘“A" and occasionally the royal arms. It is said that after Queen Alexan- dra’s personal belongings, jewelry, heirlooms and more precious person- al relics had been disposed of in ac- | cordance with her wishes the ques- [ tion aroso of what to do with the ms aluable articles collected dr.in, long life. Many were her given away and are now finding their way into small auction sales around It is no unusual thing for articles originally belonging to royal personages to be seen in shop and a collector recently bought in this way several water color sketches done by Queen Vie- | toria which had been disposed of by relatives of the possessor. window: ance Again. 12 (A—Baffled Frech- associate cold fe- womanly Paris, Feb. men are trying to male logic with uh and having a d time of it. ict logic and inexorable cold- il mark the tone of girls' com- positions on subjects woman's supposedly senti- mental nature, a government report from authorities in charge of wo- men's examinations for French uni- versity degrees, recently announced. Some of the topics which drew the coolest analysis we ‘the beauty of ideals,” the “pity of life,” and the | caleulated to| rouse —_— e | i3 virtually unknown. less themes shocked the older gener- 1 of scholars who read them. The juries were amazed at the suc- cess with which the young women hid their emotions, if they had them. Women Play Chess The women of France are taking | up chess. The first * club” justified its existence at its public tournament. Leon Martin, the organizer and pres- ident, has found many excellent play- ers. ADK PRINTERS AND " 66 CHURCH INS STATIONE: S STREET SALE on ITING PAPER Popular Brands The first inkling | | they have of this fact is on reaching | } | | | . | 1)[0!“‘3 CARD PLAYING | | ‘eminine Chess No marvels have come to the front yet but Madame | Their piti- “imisery of mediocrity. Chopin Partly French Chopin, the great composer, is! suddenly “discovered” to have had | a French father, a fact on record in reference books for the better part | of a century. | church in Maranville, in Lorraine, is credited with unearthing the fact so | long known. The new family tree, ronu(nmted’ from the town records, shows—as d | encyclopaedias—that Chopin's father | Nicolas, was born in France and | | went to Poland, where he married | |and where the composer was born. | For weeks the story of the new | addition to French claims to culture | has been going the rounds of news- | papers, none apparently recalling | that Chopin spent most of his life, | |and died, in Parls and that his French parentage is undisputed. The Bigophone i The Bigophone, the world's most primitive musical instrument, is !coming back into favor in France. The recent national congress of Bigg- phonists brought this village amuse- ment to the loud notice of the cap- | |ital and the delegates returned to l!ht"lr country homes with well-exer- clsml lungs and new enthusiasm. | The Bigophone 1{s claimed as | French, but it also is sald to he the | same sort of affair as were the trum- pets that blew down the walls of | Jericho. The Bigophone is the logical evolu- tion of the American child’s comb with a plece of paper folded over it. It is a sort of cardboard megaphone thet gives a nasal twang to, and The Abbe Evrard, cure of the little L”‘ {The French demand —— BERLIN | the air hummed into the It is of all shapes, from magnifies, small end. la pocket-size to the dimensions of a bass horn, several feet long. It is molded in the image of snails, fish, |cornucopies, or anything else. Bigophone societics have existed France for generations. They meet regularly for competition and congerts. Occasionally they take themselves quite seriously, drill | themselves Into go and get as a mem’ ér, one musician | with a regular horn, preferably a | | trombone, the pitch. All Men Brothers Unemployment is breaking bonds o° *“Internationalism" makes all men brothers. the that Toreign workmen are targets for abuse and even violence now that Frenchmen are being thrown out of | work. onomic observers comment that the Communists, who are num- | erous in factorfes, scem to forget hours and reduced staffs are in view. that workmen be discharged before any rench pay-check s touched. Tn by cases foreign workers are un- im der contra | French. This incites trouble, For- eign foremen have been attacked in al Instances. en the official red newspaper, “L’'Humanite,” is momentarily luke- |warm in its attitude toward practical internationalism, and proclaims that France ought first of all to provide work for her own people and that foreign workers ought to be sent |home as soon as possible. seve || Effects of War-Time Hunger Blockade in Germany Have | Not Yet Been Entirely Wiped Out. | Berlin, Feb. 12 () —Effects ot the blockade” imposed upon Germany during the war have not ot been wiped out, Henry Hirtsiefer, | Prussian minister of public health, | s in a survey upon which he based his request for an increase of 500,000 marks in appropriations to | combat dise ijans died as a result of the blocka brought about a slight decrease in | the death rate after the war, he | ment ten years ago has reduced the | vitality of the people an’ impaired | their power to resist disease. Tuberculosis and typhoid fever, he said, have increased. | decrease in the birth rate from 28 | per thousand before the war to 20 per thousand last year was such, he | declared, that unless a concentrated | effort was made to decrease infant | mortality there would be no surplus (ll birth over deaths. Pollute drinking water sources and antiquated sewage disposal me- | thods he blamed for the spread of | typhoid which in the Hannover epi- demic alone caused more than 200 deaths. The epidemic was such a drain on the city treasury that a ate loan of 3,000,000 marks was necessary to pr Card playing as the favorite indoor | sport of the German people creasing with a vengeance. The num- ber of factories turning out cards has increased from 19 to 22 in the last year, while 1,000,000 or 20 per ment, more decks were sold in 1926 | than the preceding ye: The feder- al government has an interest in see- | of card sharks in- | the number case because a tax of 30 pfennigs (about 8 cents) is imposed on every deck sold, The playing card revenue | increased last year from 1,400,000 | marks to 1,800,000, | big game in Germany. Ecarte is pop- | ular and contract bridge with its complicated scoring system reign: preme over auction bridge. EQUAL CHANCE FOR ALL In the young German republic the idea that every citizen has a chance to become a president is still so novel that an advertisement playing upon this fact is regarded with curi- | osity. A weekly illustrated maga- While the fact that §00,000 civil- | aid | | that the effects of under nourish- | The alarming | ent a deficit. | is in- | Skat Is still the | Poker | | zine contains a half page ad depict- | ing a strapping barcfoot boy in oyer- |alls carrying a basket filled with | packages ot a certain breakfast food. The caption reads: “This pesident of the German Reich cats | a plate of this every morning.” So far as is known this is the first time that the “from e nd bhoy to dent” slogan has been made u: |in an advertisement. COUN » ATTRACTIONS wumerican sharpshoote: | varian suds will be counter attrac- tions next June during the annual “Bundesschiessen™ or shooting tour- {nament in the gigantic Theresia meadow, Munich's popular pla | ground for young -and old and the scene of many stormy revolutionary meeting in 1918, For the first time since the war American riflemen and Ba- | ticipate in the tournament for which 189 ranges will be laid out. TFlank- which several dozen difterent b of Munchner will be dispensed. | beer halls will be left standing until | October for the ~annual “October | feaat. nds CIVIC OPERA SETTINGS The city of Berlin is proud of the | st_ge settings provided for perform- | ances of notable works at its civic opera and is turning them to adver- tising advantage. In one of the win- dows of the large city information bureau which the municipality main- | tains near Potsdamer platz some ially good sets are reproduced miniature. The brilliantly illuminat- 1 tiny stages with diminutive re- productions of the settings all place inevitably attract the eve of | the passer-by. A lilliputian figure or j tvo ot wcters from the opera ! being advertis | scene. CHIID IS HONORED | Trieda Froehlich, 9 year old El bing school girl, has been made th youngest honorary citizen of Dant- | zig by the municipal council in | recognition of her rescue of two resi | dents of Dantzig from drowning. Th two, a father and his daughter, were skating from Jungfern lake (Maiden lake) and broke through the ice. In to their calls for help sted them in clambering "back on the ice. BOULDER CANYON DRAWS ATTENTION {Proposed Dam Stirs Up Battle Royal Phoentx, Feb. 12. (®—An inno- cent-looking river canyon on the Colorado river in the southwestern part of the United States is the source of an inter-state fight that bas reached «cross the continent and into official Washington. { It is Boulder Canyon, on th Nevada-Arizona boundary line, nn-l a bill embodying provisions for the | censtruction of a water-diversion | and power dam there has become & congressional bone of contention. The imbroglio, which is Colorado river, whose waters and those of its tributaries lap the feet of seven states, dates back to the drawing up of a sev | state compact at Santa Fe, in 19 | providing for an apportionment of | the waters among Arizona. Utah, Colorado, California, ‘Wyoming and New Mexico. Arizona refused to sign the com- pact. California put pen conditionally. The rest of the states set down their signatures. Behind it all is the California- Arizona fight over the construction of the dam, lifornia wants a dam at Boulder Canyon, principally for flood protection for its Imperial Valley to the south. Arizona doesn't want a dam at Boulder Canyon. Arizona has filed claims on several dam sites, among them the sites at Bridge Canyon, and Glen Canyon, both further up the river and, incldentally, on Arizona soll. Arizona contends the Boulder Can- yon dam site 18 in an earthquake belt and that a dam there would, through the backing up of the water, submerge a dozen or so dam sites in Arizona. California says Arizona s unable to develop the water herself and is not wanting the | muddy | Nevada, | to it— | anyone else to develop it. The lack of sympathy = beiween California and Arizona is occasion- | 1 in a large measure by the fact hat California’s attention i riveted on flood-control and the | surance of a good domestic supy | of water for Los Angeles. Arizona eye is on the prospect for irri tion water and on money from power revenues levied again Southern California for pow | derived from a Colorado river dam. SIDEWHEELER 1 ~ BEING REBUILT {Famous 0Id River Steamer to Used Again ) ! | : Memphis, Feb. 12. (#—The ro- | mance surrounding Kate Adams, the famous old Mississippi river | | sidgwheeler which was burned re- cently, may blossom again. Her owners have announced their inten- | tion of rebuilding the hoat, the last of her type in the river service. The Kate, as she was familiarly | known and who bore her swanlike contours in the big river 28 years, | will be reconstructed more for the memory of the past than for fu- | ture trade. “Cap'm” Gus D. Phil- lips, who piloted the boat 16 years. once more will have his command. Royalty enjoyed the experiences of river trips on Kate Adams, al- though her passenger list also shows the pauper, gentlemen of the | old Southern school, whe were wont to prey upon trust- ing victims, and the riore modern proletariat and aristocracy. never was a boat better known or more beloved on the Mississippl. Now her bell, into which were cast a hundred silver dollars for a clearer tone, and her famous whistle | may sound once more, tune-makers | to set the pace and give | their theories overnight when shorter | foreign | and fare better than the | future | in | ed add realism to the | riyer gamblers | When Kate burned, callous old river men cried unashamed. She | was the third of her name and ENGLISH WAR VETS | HONORING LINCOLN| Survivors of 61 Abroad Pay| Tribute to Nemory | ( 12 (UP)—Of the s of war veterans in | nging in age from the to the late nineties, | forty-nine who are proud veterans of > Civil War of America. \r those among this diminishing list of veterans who_are ble to get about, salute the Amer- ican and pay homage to the cause for which they served. On Lincoln’s Birthday they muly .ay wreaths at the statues of Abr Lincoln, one in London, opposite Westminster Abbey, and another London, | many ti England, r arly twen Twice a e prominent one in Manchester, and cn Decoration Day they visit the graves of those who might have Len their grandsons, Americans who | died in {he World War and are bur- | 1 ied at Brookwood cemetery. 4 | There is no G. A. R. branch in | England but the veterans of the | Civil ¥ zed in 1910 a American Civil War Veterans.” prime mover was a London City found such comfort wi can pension that he tried to a others in their claims. He rou erans nrolled, st | nded | of the Civil War, | and aided them ; ng pensions. | At the time of the Civil War were lads secking adventure, | G A T O in | American po or travellers who | | became interested in the struggle. i “We are now only a little band | |'of men,” Comrade A. W. F. Smith | [told the United Press, “and the| | growth of our society naturally has | its limitations. In a few years we shall all be gone. But we are proud | of our servics to America and to have given a hand in our way to hat great country. The gratitude 1 These forcign vetcrans are Eng- I | of America has ben expressed to us for many years and many of our comrades find the pension money very helpful til the end, s which we & TURNER GUILTY OF MURDER, GETS LIFE (Traveled 8,000 Miles to Kill We s ting the ved.” Il carry on un- foreign flag | | have signified their intention to par- | 1 Man He Hated ing the rangers will be beer halls in | min H. Turner of Mj Ia, the conscientious objector to war and ieserter, who came 3,000 miles from | Mexico City to kill James D. Hallen | five years afjer his al of the! murder of a Mex whom he killed with the same rovolver, found guilty of murder by a late yesterda Turner was sentenced to state | prison for life and will be taken to | | Thomaston in a day or two. 1In an| nte-room, soon rd, he was | heard to remark: “Well, this is another example of American jus- | tice."” His counsel was given time to file | a bill of exceptions in the event it is declded to appeal. The jury was | out just an hour, reporting at 3:37. Turner, whose trial began in su- | perior court on Monday, admitted he | . killed Hallen at the latter's summer home at Falmouth Foreside on last cptember S, after hav en- snced” him to death five years ago, but claimed he had a moral right to | 1o so because Hallen, like the Mexi- | can, had defrauded him out of a few hundred dollars and left him for two years in a Mexican on penniless, almost friendless and alona. PAGAN GEREWONY HELD IN SCOTLAND ’Bummg oi the Clavie” Eve'.‘“‘ ; Spring Feb, 12, (A ttracted to Burghead, Scotland, Many tors have bee! aing of the clavie,” a Plets cus- tom predating Christianity. custom i revived every Spring, and, according to tradition, the effect of scaring away evil spirits that might bancfully influ- ence the coming year's fishing, upon which industry the prosperity of the village depends. | The “clavie” a tar barrel, tilled with combustibles and attach- cd to a six foot pole with a pail curiously fashioned by the local blacksmith. It is driven home, according to ancient usage, with a huge stone On the stroke of six in the after- noon of the day the ceremony takes place, the “clavie” is set alight by a peat supplied by a who hiave performed this duty ations. It is then borne to an emin- ence known as “Doorie Hill” whese it is fitted into a stone socket and | of Berlin had the O NEW BRITAIN ATIONAL Lincoln grows upon the American people with every passing year. His homely humor and sound political philosophy, his infinite patience and inexhaustible sympathy have won for him a love that deepens into reverence. And there 1s not a man, woman or child who will not profit by contem- plation of this great American and con- sideration of -what the world owes to him. The more we think of hlm, the better citizens we shall all be. His birthday should be a day of thanksgiving BANK NNIAL ELECTION Editor Herald Representative C. W. Stevens has introduced a bill in the legislature asking the right for the town of Berlin to hold a town election once cvery two years. He is quoted as saying that it was presented on the spur of the mio- ment, dared in merely to have it calen- ase the people favored it Now Rep. Stevens the right to present any bill he may see fit, but before a bill is presented it should have the majority vote of the people in said town or ci cerned and not the opin minority as in this cas the way is all office holc of being ousted. This bill reminds me of the time when the vote on prohibition was | taken in the legislature. The town ctober previous voted license by over two to one wnd our representative, at that time, voted in favor of prohibition, repre- the m an the office, | URGES AUTO FIRST-AIDBOOTHS DL i€ st election an ' phat first-aid dressing stations or oft conducted a vigorous campai for a « \ office ana POOths be established at dangerous was nominated and cted. Now points on highways to care for vice hich this man he is out when this board to was elected is in session of town The this bill favor men like this to hold office. If th are as interested in the town's wel- as they try to make you believe v don't they find out commission ap- has never tims of auto accidents, was the rece ommendation of a coroner's jury in Selby, England, at the inquest of & motor crash victim recently. It fure ther urged that a list of the nearest doctors be posted in every dressing room, and suggested that the plan be brought to the attention of the minister of traneport of the British government, proponents of why buildir two years port. 21m if Mothers Only Knew| cd of tment to this | s o enari| Thousands of Children Suf- S ih What commit- fer from Worms, and Their Nes et el ety Mothers Do Not Know What A el the Trouble Is. Again T say the minority in favor | 3 : AL o e Signs of Worms are: Constipation, d ged stomach, swollen upper lip, offen- e breath, hard and full stomach with pains, pale out majority of voters arry man who has failed to the wishes of the in town meeting assembled | o : | senting the minority as is being A St \ll‘fl_“tl_!lfl burn 0"“' the fire wor. | done in this case, Tt this bill is passed the town of q'lh"_n Inf@rfl; 111;,(;\,(.‘1‘-:)\.:;1 the| I think before Rep, Stevens -e- ' Tierlin instead of progressing WL nfrs. 11 N. Roberts, 502 Asylum St., e el and. finally scramble | 86nted this bill ho ahould have call- i deteriorate Elint, Mich., wrote: »\1!'"“"1; girl B e and | any remaining | ©d & special town meeting and have | Thanking you for the above space, | is relieved of her ot Afil; in: or the ashes Ay et for wse | taken from the table this very same | T am | later letter wrote: “Baby is fine an “"K’l“*l bh ‘l‘ L ":‘n -]” Wotnare o i ANTIMONARCHICAT it was your laxative helped her. ‘)“‘0 I‘;‘ all O\I:’zr ‘uw world If he will go back a few years he ' - | D o & DRSS e % will find this same question came up | ROYAUTY ENJOYS THE MOVIE !’ rues THAT'S THE BECHO fica town mosting.and Iwasiabled | e Prings ot Wales znd Bl 2 pimnere's o wondertul ceho about| %o "l ctoction was closo ana | Mary haye recentty tormed the nabit - 'The True Family Laxative EbiS SatE de 1o the ! ceiting due to the women taking ©f “slipping” into ihe neighborhood ; calking in the lak ¥ AU and worm espeller man who was walking fn_the lake | (080 I B0l ® 0w why (ry to cut movie theater near Buckingham d ipe district, “but you have to shout ¥O¥ | short any activity that is for the |Palace and enjoying the pictures| «f¢ gure has done wonders for my loud. Now you just yell WO | hetterment of the town. witho being recognized by the ietle girl."— Mrs. R. Newell, Cone 1‘“%_']-‘ o h"'\"v] 5 " What we need is complete |audience. Whenever royalty, visits tral Ave., Hummonton, N. J. he man shouted and then Ms-|change of town officlals. Let us|the theater the event usually fis tened forget whether a person is a demo- quickly told to the world, but the Family stse $1.20; other sises 68c & M. 1 hear no echo,” he said, finally. crat or a republican and plac in | prince and princess, it just has been Oh, well.” said the guide, “here | office the best man possible, a citi- |learned, hava been attending the Iit- | comes the innkeeper with our beer, | anyway."—Tit-Bits, London, . zens ticket in other words We believe the office should seek !tle movie house once a \'\N‘k without ) it belng known. l 1