The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1915, Page 10

BRAVES WEATHER FOR WAR FILM VIEWS yette Fund, Providing fort Kits” for Soldiers, Gets a Big Lift. ite the severity of the weather d of society people turned out night and helped throng the Ferty-fourth Sieect Theatre for the @Meial benefit presentation of “Fight- in France,” in aid of the La- te Fund. The official French | Government motion pictures of the) shown under the auspices of The FACTORY POCKE TIO wath * rvoch "Watch, Lather Writ tolre Chain—amaking it ont ny ay i ae . hashing or Soave. Bold by SE hon aouiDdt PRICE, $17.50. Prices, of N.Y. sttrectivenees,. the | | World, were received with high ap- \¢ preciation. The views of men In the trenches and the appalling nature of life in them, expecially at this time of the year, caused a deep impres- | the sion. in the big audience was whether any of the particular men seon in the pic- tures are now wearing the “comfort kita,” the sending out of which is tho object of the Lafayet'o Fund Many French residents of this city were in the house, but it was not alone among them that sympathy went out to those ever cheerful Al- pine Ohaaseurs, fightity amid the snows of the Vosges, and showing by the way they were bundled up how glad the sight of a “comfort kid” would make them Among the patronesses, most of whom had large parties with them, were: Mra. John Jacob Astor, Mra. Vincent Astor, Mra, Henry M. Alexander, Mra, Richard Aldrich, Mra, Robert Bacon, Mrs, Courtland! D, Barnes, Mrs, J. Stewart Barney, Mra. J. Insley Blair, iss Beatrice Bend, Mra, August Bel- mont, Mra, Robert Potter Breese, Mra. enry Iven Cobb Jr. jorte |Curtis, Miss Mabe! Choate, Miss Ju- Nana Cutting, Miss Mercedes de Acosta, Mra, Lioyd Derby, Mra, New- bold Le Roy Edgar, Mrs, Francis P. Garvan, Mra, Charles Dana Gibson, y Gould, Mra. F. Gray Grin- Mra, John Henry Hammond, |, Borden Harriman, Mra, Archer M. Huntington, Mra, C. Oliver iselin, Mrs. Augustus Jay, Mra. Otto H. Kahn, Mra. M. Lawrence Keene, Mra. George Gordon King, Mra, G, Her- mann Kinntcutt, Mrs. Prescott Law- rence, Mrs. Lewis Cass Ledyard, Mra, P, W. Livermore, Mra. I Chauncey McKeever, Mrs. John Magee, Mra. Victor Morawotz, Miss Audrey Netison Osborn, Mra. Francis K, Pendleton, Mrs. William ©, Potter, Mra. Alexan- der D. B. Pratt M Mra. Charles Carey Rumsey, Miss Loulse Sands, Miss Janet Soudder, “| Mra, William F. Sheehan, Mra, Or- mond G, Smith, Mrs. KE. T. H. Tal- mage, Mra, William Payne Thompson, harlen Le Verrier, Mra. Charles A. Van Reneselner, Mra, H. J. Whigs ham, Mra. Francis Egerton Webb and Mrs, Payns Whitney. The entire receipts of the house, and also from the aale of pro- \ grammes, which were given for the occasion by The World, went to the Lafayette Fund. BE. Alexander Powell, through whom, as its war correspondent, the Personal As regards habits of living, that, of course, is purely a personal matter with each of us. But some folks go on for years wondering what causes their nervousness, heart flutter, biliousness, headache and various other ailments, A frequent, though often unsuspected, cause is A common thought with many | } coffee drinking. This because coffee contains a powerful, habit-forming drug, caffeine (about two and one-half grains to the average cup), which, taken regularly, finally drifts many into ill health. Think it over. Of course, it’s your own affair. If you can go on drinking coffee and feel no evil effects, why— bless your heart—keep it up; but there are hundreds of thousands who have quit coffee and now use POSTUM ’ —the pure food-drink. They know from the better health that follows that freedom from the drug, caffeine, in coffee makes life brighter and happier. Postum is made of wheat and a bit of molasses —has a rich, snappy flavor much like that of mild Java coffee, yet contains no caffeine or other harm- ful element. Postum comes in two forms. The original Postum Cereal requires boiling; Instant Postum is soluble. A level teaspoonful in a cup of boiling water makes a delicious drink—instantly. Cost per cup is about the same for both kinds. Personally, the change to Postum is a little thing todo, The benefit is great. ‘‘There’s a Reason’’ Sold by Grocers everywhere. Send 2c stamp for 5-cup sample of Instant Postum Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., Battle Creek, Mich. Simplify Home-seeking by saving time, temper and tramping. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, THE NEW PLAYS “The Weavers” Interesting Drama. By Charles Darnton. HERA js so much that ts plitia- bly and mercilessly human in “The Weavers", that no one with a feeling for the underpaid workers of the world dat the same time a sense of the theatre, could give an uninteresting production of Ger- hart Hauptmann's significant play, In bringing this play to the Garden Theatre last night Emanum Reicher achieved his best work In this coun- try as @ producer, if not as an actor. With @ simplicity an convincing as the haif-fod characters themselves, the scenes ware like glimpses of life where life is hard, The delivery room of the manufacturer to which the Weavern—some without shoes or stockings—oame for their hard-earned wages; the painfully bare aspect of the workrooms of the toflers at the looms; the riot in the home of the employer; and finally the desolation carried into the cottngs of the pious old man whose only hope wan to work his way tnto « better world—all theae eoenes were staged with understand- ing and skill, ‘The play itself, as you may know, is ttle more than an outcry against poverty, a protest against the ecn- nomic Injustice suffered by the woav- ors of a village in Silesia, Germany. mont #1) Conditions may have changed since Hauptmann wrote this play. But | here, at any rate, is the rebellion of villagers, uprising Uent workers against starvation ‘Taking the law of bumanity the wagon. fire following their headstrong course when the curtain falls upon an un- solved problem, The most dramatic, not to say pathetic, moment $s reached, perhaps, when a@ little bare-~ footed girl innocently brings to her krandfather's house a silver spoon that as to her hand trophy of the raid Here and there in the performance Ja bit of fine acting stood out. ‘There was 80) « singularly fine and sympathetic In Adolph Link's char acterization of poor old Baumert, a sensitive, pathetic and yet strangely humorous creature. With remark- able intelligence, not to mention his gifte as an actor, Mr, Link realized ;the old man who had worked at the looma until he was only skin and bone, yet at the same time could augh at his fate if there happened to be a drop in the bottle, This actor took first lonors, while Mr. Reicher Inbored heavily with th. part of An- sorge, ing his words with gut- until they meant little or nothing. Edith Randolph did o vivid bit of acting as the fiery young wife who rushed out to meet the sol- diors In the last act. But the oldest woaver of them all, Hilse, was played by Augustin Duncan with such a strange accent that “The Weavers” seemed to have been turned suddenly into an Irish folk-play. Old Hilse, who might have meant so much to the play in the end, was murdered by Mr, Duncan long before he was shot by the soldiers Tut “The Weavers," as a whole, Is fairly well acted ‘and very weil staged, so that the result is tnter- eating drama. come an a official pictures were lent to The World by the French Government, made a brief address explaining somo of the pictures, much as that of tho great battle in the Champagne and that where the polsonous gas 1s econ rolling along the ground toward the French trenches, which ts probably one of the most sensational motion pletures ever taken. Mr. Powell was recelved with enthusiasm and many of hia statements with awe eats abe WORLD PICTURES TO AID BRITISH-AMERICAN WAR RELIEF FUND TO-DAY. Two exhibitions of the lrench Government official motion pictures under the auspices of The World will be given at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre to-day for the benefit of the British-American War Relief Fund. The matinee ts at 2.30, the evening exhibitiou at 6.30, To-morrow the Forty-fourth Street Theatre will resume the continuous presentation of these pictures, the same as at the Fulton Theatre. Among the patrons and patronesses, as members of the British-American War Relief Fund, for to-day’s benefit are the following: Mrs, Charles B. Alexander, Judge Barlow, Mrs. A. 8. Burden, Alfred M, Coats, Mrs, Alfred M. Coats, Miss Mary Redmond Cross, Richard Harding Davis, Mrs. Stuart Duncan, Mra. old La Roy Edgar, Ww. arquh irs. Charles Dana Gibson, Lady Herbert, Miss Dorothy Gordon King, Sir Arthur Archer Huntington, Mrs. ©. Oliver Iselin, Mrs. Oliver G. Jennings, Mra J, Elliott Langstaff, Mra. John Magee, Mrs. Walter E. Maynard, John G. Milburn, Miss Caroling L. Morgan, Mrs. J. P. Morgan jr,, Prof, H. Fair- field Osborn, Moses ‘Taylor Pyne, John Quinn, Mra Whitelaw Reid, Mrs. Shaw ‘Safe, Mra, Ralph Sanger, Mrs, Ernest Schelling, Mrs. Robert Straw- R.'M. Thompson, Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. George Vanderbilt, F. W. Whitridge, Mrs, W. Whitridge, Miss M. H, Wiborg, R M. Stuart Wortley and Henry’ J. Whitehouse. Those official pictures are not only on bxhibition at the Fulton and Forty-foutrh Street Theatres, but at the Colonial, Broadway and Sixty- second Street; the Alhambra, Seventh Avenue and One Hundred and Twen- ty-aixth Street, and in Brooklyn, at the Orpheum, Fulton Street ni Flatbush Avenue. At these three Keith houses the pictures are shown as features of the regular matinee ana evening bills. New York has now the opportunity of sectng war just as it 1s by touring ‘on an official motion picture trip the great battlefront where 5,000,000 men ‘are in the grip of war, To know what life in the trenches ts and to get the mosphere of the battle line itt HZ bridge, Col. Our stock of Men's, Women's a: Mall the latest sty not to be found three months ago, Women Men's 312.30 Boys’ A Herbert, | Women’ 89. 75 to $65 la necessary to see thse pictures. They reveal more than has been, or coula be, told in the despatches. They are the authentio motion picture records of the events themselves. nal One of the muddest’ phases: of all| human experience t# the way a man, Just. about succeeds tn plish something that he has. to. devote to his t stomach «8 to keep going at all Do Your Eyes Ache After You Read Awhile? Does the print run together? If 60, Your sight is not normal.With correctly fitted glasses you'd be able to read without difficulty. ined Without Charge ed Eye Meher 101 Nassau, 17 West 42d Street. Brooklyn: 498 Fulton St.,cor. Bond St Genuine Blue White Diamonds $95 Per Kt. rat at Trually” sola at Bus bo Karel, Casperfeld & Cle: ¥ Theatre, nen Evenings, Crandall’s ; Baby Carriages EIT, BE ( (535) FULTON St’ BROOKEYN) CHRISTMAS APPAREL ind Boys’ Clothing is entirely new and embraces and fashions that were 's Suits 's Coats $7.75 to $75 Women’s Dresses $12.75 10 $39.75 Sults fo $35 Men's Overcoats $10 to $40 pparel $2.98 to $10 of long-pa-| into thelr own hands thoy sweep like| through the town and are still | a to the point | Musical Art Society. Gives First Concert By Sylvester Rawling. (TH twenty weeks of the muste season atill to come, it is a pity to record that one of the rarest of our annual treata ts past and gone. At Carnegie Hall last night Dr. Frank Damrosch led the Musteat Art Soctety through the first of ite two concerts. The programme was as |chotes na it was lofty, and rarely, if ever, has the choir ming so well From Palestrina to Brahms the num- bers ran, the singing mostly a capella and altogether without orchestral ac- companiment. Perhaps Luther's | Christmas Hymn, arranged by Sigtrid | | Karg-Elert, “Von Himmel hoch da | komm toh’ her,” mung with the assist- ance of the boy choir of the Cathedral | of Bt. John the Divine, Miles Farrow, | master; of Channing Lefebvre, organ- int, and of David Mannes, violinist, wan the most espectacular. It is a lovely composition and {t was worthily performed. A “Salve Regina,” the setting of which was by our own Frans X. Arena, conductor of the Peo- ples Symphony Orchestra, was an- other chotce bit. Dr. Damrosch di- rected the applause that followed '* to Mr, Arens, as he sat in one of the boxes. Besides there were two lturgical pleces by Palestrina; two mediaeval German Christmas songs, arranged by Practorius; a motet by Sweelinck; three old French Christmas songs ranged by F. A, Gevaert; an antiphon by Anton Bruckner, with organ ao- companiment; three part songs by | Schumann, and two Russian songs jby Cul, At the end came Brahme's “Love Songs" waltzes, the appeal of which is to the musician as well as to the lover of waltz tunes. In this the choir was assisted by Herbert Fryer and James Friskin in a four- 1918, time spent in training and rehearsing for this deligltfal concert the output should evaporate with only one hear- ing and t wo thust walt until epring for another such concert, and that arain, with an irely new pro- gramme, to be heard only once, Mean- while our thanks are due to Dr. Dam- rosch and his accomplished chorlsters, men and women alike, for the treat that they vouchsafed to us last night, something not soon to be forgotten. Francis Rogers, assisted by Isidore Luckstone at the plano, gave a_song recital at the Punch and Judy Thea tre yesterday afternoon, Mr. Rogera’s volce is of ingratiating quality, his enunciation is clear, his interpreta- which ran from Handel to Cowen, In- cluded songe in German, Freneh, Ital- fan and Bn and one, T Clown's Serer Luckatone, Other musical incidents of yester- Vy Goon OLD who ao seldom no’ $ appears as &n accompanist and than whom there | is no day were, in the afternoon, at Aeolian Hall, a song recital by Carrle Bride- Wall, In which ahe presented a cleverly cere ie programme i in the aftor- rave another man, English and lrench, Alberto Bimboni at the pia Lyceum Theat I noon, Yvette ( of her entra by George F tions are full of tn the Intimacy of that unique box of an auditorium great handed accompaniment on the plano, It eeoms @ pity that after all the! and War ens at the p the evening, Rumford Sinshimer Quartet understanding, and yesterday he gave to an appreciative Rogers's programme, KMBOCHe Established Io6v pleasure fence, Mr ave a recital 125th Street West Be, 700 Pairs of 9-Inch High-Cut Shoes, Graceful in Effect, at $3.50 This shoe is identical with shoes in other stores at $5.00 and $6.00 We have included in this lot, several hun- dred pairs of bronze, glace kid, patent leather and gun-metal shoes, in more conservative heights, Savings of $1.50 to $2.50 Splendid Showing of Christmas Slippers Women's Imported| Women's Felt Juliets, | Men's Opera Slippers, Felt Everett, — many | flexible soles; low herls,| Everett and Romeo, colors... several colors..... 79¢ i Women's Felt Slip-| Misses’ Felt ae Men's Tan Romeos, pets, soft padded soles, |fall toe, red and blue, | soft kidskin, light soley raised heels 95c $1.25 . 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