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LL TT ¢ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916., iain IP cadieianaiimedaain ams rs ! offs FALLING BRICKS GIVE SCARE, |retertrinns passing that address this| Brit) Brothers Open New Store in Travena. Then, too, the unconvens| the secret of English yellow journal. | speciatiat, Mise Rose Millatein, twentys morning. Belteving that the bullding s Newark. tional morality of Kitty i« feolinely | ist —_ Whe Witte four years old, ote —<— Was about to collapse, police reserves of | Brill Brothers, the clothiers, who now and aympatheiically pt . There| In producing “The Barth" Grace and Clinton Strects Police Order Employees From) the Onk Street Station were called out, | °D*rate a chain of seven stores in New )) @ is none of the 1 seatimen bi has done one of the most In ing Gov. Whitman and former Reekman Street Butta and 300 workers were ordered from the | York and Brooklyn, will open a tality abou world well! t®resting things of her brilliant ca 1. Policeman Fleck took her to Ghey Ave Afiewes to R buldding. Saturday, morning at et lont:" Kitty's words in the last act) reer i the Clinton street PBlice | Station: whee gd Building tespecter Mehetes J. Re- [ate iets Gear dais, One = Pi ‘about che relative tmportance of the | Willatn SL, Mifitein, her, father de b . Re- | link in In, i wh s plained that the young Several dozen bricks falling from the | vitte was sent to the scene, and after ex-| store to be opened in New Jereay.. It te Grace George Achieves Great sare ae ca toned | geperaved fram her father, whe kad | ec enna BELO pecorino front of the five-story building at No. lamination allowed the employees to re-|underaiood that others will follow @hortiy has as anything 8h erneur Horpttal for observat the play has fi worthy of Shaw or of Wilde, Take, for example, the remark of a sophis- ibbler, Lady Susan Stur. | ha nasty mind and} ‘ae! | THE OLD RELIABLE & over, | brought her from Albany to consult a wit ——— where. 41 Beekman Street narrowly missed turn. a Triumph in “The Earth.” BY CHARLES DARNTON ized by Grace George at the Playhouse last night when @#he appeared straight and narrow path—but why in “The Earth.” Only an actress of real intelligence and fine instincts leave everything (o © highway com- could feel that James Bernani Fagan's play is out of the common, and in it riepen st at Md ig gh] ee cate Mias George achteved noting short of a triumph. intercating plays of the year. More In adding “The Earth" to hor reper-® | than this, it ts acted as no other play tory Miss George established herself) This English owner of newspapers DY Miss George and her company as the mpst intelligent actress on the| has been painted with a rolentions) haa been acted. Americah stage. Fragile as @ deli- | a ae | OPPENHEIM, GLLINS & G touch by the author of “The Eart With @ charming touch of Irish Mth Street—New York Final Clearance—The Remaining Stock of Women’s and Misses’ Winter Coats To Be Closed Out at Extiaordinary Reductions About 295 Coats, this season’s entire accumulation of Broadcloth, Seal Plush, Duvetyne, Wool Plush, Mixture, Zibeline, Broadtail Cloth and other materials. iieeee Formerly sold to 25.00 | 0.00 15.00 Women’s and Misses’ Coats Women’s and Misses’ Coats...... Formerly sold to 29.75 Women’s and Misses’ Coats...... Formerly sold to 35.00 20.00 Women’s and Misses’ Coats. ..... Formerly sold to 40.00 25.00 GIMBELS Broadway at 33d Street An Announcement of Exceptional Importance WE have just secured 2,000 pieces of Underwear, made by a celebrated manufacturer for a well known and internationally famous medical man, who markets it under his own - name. ‘This underwear, produced along the lines dictated by medical science, has (we believe) no superior, Our purchase consists of $3 Pure Linen Mesh Shirts and Drawers, each, $1.15 By special request, the name of the doctor referred to is not given here—although, of course, it is to be found upon the garments. We have short and long sleeve and leg models, in stout or regular sizes, ranging in shirts fom 34 to 50, and in drawers from 80 to 50, This Offer is MOST Unusual and May Not Occur Again GIMBELS—Main Floor Fine Linen Table Cloths From Scotland— Unadvanced Prices All linen, full bleached, hemstitched sets in four stripe and floral designs, in the much favored soft “Milo” finish, ready for use 1 Cloth, 63x63, and 1 doz. Napkins, $5.00 Set. 1 Cloth, 63x81, and 1 doz. Napkins, $5.50 Set. 1 Cloth, 63x99, and 1 doz. Napkins, $6.00 Set. Scotch All-Linen Dinner Sets Full bleached, heavy damask, hemstitched, in several pleasing and effective designs: 1 Cloth, 70x 70, and 1 doz. Napkins, $8.00 Set. 1 Cloth, 70x 88, and 1 doz. Napkins, $8.75 Set. 1 Cloth, 70x106, and 1 doz. Napkins, $9.50 Si Scalloped Irish Damask Cloth: ; Extra heavy, all linen full bleached Tablecloths, in an excellent variety of new circular designs, Size 70 inches in diameter, Odd Cloths, Exceptional Value, $4.25 Heavy and closely woven all linen, bleached damask, hemstitched Tablecloths, in the famous soft "Mio" finish; in sizes 10x70 and 70x 88, and in seven beautiful new floral and striped designs 4 $4.25 Turkish Towels, Dog., $3 Big, heavy and absorbent Turkish Towels, in plain white or with neat colored borders. $4.80 Turkish Bath Towels, Doz., $3.75 Snow white bleached, heavy; the very absorbent kind. Size 262 60 inches. All-Linen Twill Kitchen Towels, Doz., $2.75 With the word kitchen woven in centre. Hemmed. Size 22x34 inches. GIMBELS—Second Floor ” “Cretonne! CRETONNE has become a word to conjure with, so insistent is the demand and so widespread the appreciation of its dainty prettiness, its durability, and its artistic possibilities, We are showing About $30,000 Worth at 18c up to 95c a Yard Among the hundreds of attractive offerings now on sale at much lower-than-you-could-expect prices is a shipment of Over 20,000 Yards of 25c to 50c English Cretonne at 18c and 25c ‘This fabric is in the desired 31-inch width, and is of the BEST quality. 85c French Epingle 31-inch Cretonne, 45c Yard Cretonne Window Curtains, $1.95 Width 36 inches and length 2}4 yards, with separate valance, Trimmed with woven edge, hemmed and headed ready for hanging. Bedspreads to match in single ar double sizes, at 4.95. Slip Covers, Shades and Awnings Made to Order, GIMBELS—Sixth Floor Women’s and Misses’ Higher Cost Coats At Proportionate Reductions ately-turned vase, she managed, nev- ertheless, to put strength of charac- ter into the role of the Irish countess brave enough to face the world with a lover. Grace George has turned the trick again. If the public ts intel- ligent enough to appreciate the gifts thus offered it will find its way to the Playhouse In large numbers and thereby pay tribute to an actress who thinks before sho speaks. Though Mies George carried Major Barbara” to success, {ts only fair to say that “The Earth” is much better suited to her, She has never 4p- peared in a modern play with so much success as she achieved last night. First, ond last, she wos a woman—a wornan brave enough, though married, to face the world with her love for a man equally will- ing to give up his political career for her. The only question is whether the American public can be interested in @ play dealing with English politics and newspapers. For its dominant figure “The Earth" has Sir Felix Janion the owner of several influen- tlal newspapers and many more pub- Meations. To him power is every- thing. He finds a means for exer- cising this power to defeat a Wages Bill when he sees the champion of the measure, The Righ Hon, Denzil Travena, M. P., Kissing the Countass of Killone, He i shown in all his forcefuin Prictor who stops at nothing to carry his own ends, Opposed to the Wasen Bill, he is determined to kill it, and gocordingly he threatens its cham- Plon with a scandal that will make him the co-respondent in a divorce suit that seems inevitable, ‘Travena'’a Dill is designed to make the govern- ment regulate “business” and to pro- teot women and children from “sweat ed” labor conditions, But to save the “good name” of “Kitty,” whom he to Travena is willing to with- his bill, He has not counted, er, on the pluck of Kitty. She office and tells him that she will give and in this way make him #hare In the ruin that will resnit. Janion is shrewd enough to see that | he is outdone, so he bows to Kitty, | yet at the same time declares he will never be beaten as a great factor in the game of English politica, ‘There is strong conflict in the play. and the clash of wills is as dramatic | as the action, Mout of all, there is a clash of ideals, with the materialism of Jantoi CASTORIA For Infants and Children IN USE FOR OVER 30 YEARS Always bears eo Signature 4 The New Blouses Are Arriving and energy as the newspaper pro- | faces the newspaper owner in his] o¢ the whole story to a press association pued to the idealism of | brogue, Miss George was a Kitty of irresistible appeal. Hut it waa her unfailing Intelligence that made her impersonation an artistic triumph, {She was as clear-cut as a cameo, Though occasionally uncertain in his lines, Louis Calvert reatized the cyni- cal n@wapaper owner, brutal, relent- Jess and jndifferent to finer things ex- cept as advertisement, yet good- natured, enthusiastio and genuine in his attitude toward the world as he saw it, If Conway Tearle looked a bit too young and therefore not quite authoritative enough for the states. man intent upon a scheme to help mankind, he gave a surprisingly good Performance. Charlotte Granville was capital as Lady Susan Sturrage, whore more or leas profesatonal knowledge “soctety” left her with no illu sions; and though manifestly miscaa' Ernest Lawford managed to be am ing as an Irishman who had loarne { 5911060 STREET 2 LEX.TO 32AV fui ons ROYAL |. BAKING POWDER Absolutely Pure MADE FROM CREAM OF TARTAR Whioh Experts Declare Makes the Best Baking Powder. (—————-At Bloomingdales’. Cold Weather Merchandise Wearing apparel or house- ho!d goods for zero weather in great variety and at moderate prices. At Mloominodates Aside from the fact that the Modes are new and distinctive, the Blouses are made of the most fash- ionable silks—the materials that are now very scarce and expensive. But as our orders were placed early, These Low Prices Cannot be Repeated The following is an example of these Blouses— or e B 7) Louiselke Blouse, $5 This oeclE sy chic and smartly tailored Blouse of heavy white Crepe de Chine is fash- ioned with tiny box pleats. Its collar and cuffs are lined with flesh-colored taffeta—a new and dainty note. In White, Flesh and Maize. Illustrated at right. GIMBELS—Third Floor Now in Full and Most Active Progress The February Sale of Furniture “With Initiative” OPENED at the beginning of this month with over half a million dollars’ worth of the finest Furniture in America, this Sale has proved one of the signal These, However, Are in New Styles Summer wear, and we secured his cloth dresses at a big reduction. Materials are mostly French serge of dependable quality. Colors are navy, Copenhagen, green, brown, wistaria, also all black. New Serge Dresses, Extra Values, °10.75 This item represents a special purchase of dresses made of materials and by the same maker who furnished us dresses selling at much higher prices. This maker has converted his entire factory into making cotton dresses for Designs are five very late styles, with new model skirts and hand embroidered, | successes in the history of the Store. Every day new merchandise is arriving, every day the appeal becomes STRONGER, and every day more and more people appreciate the fact that they save from $10 to $50 on every $100 they spend. Excellent Reproductions of Period Furniture $550 Louis XVI. 10-Piece Mahogany Suite, $370 An attractive model in beautifully grained wood with full mirror-back China Closet and 54-inch Dining Table. The Chairs have cane seats and backs. $305 Sheraton Mahogany Suites, $230 Inlaid with satinwood, Ten pieces, $350 Queen Anne Mabogeny Suites, Chairs have blue haircloth seats and cane panel backs, Ten pieces. $300 William and Mary Fumed Oak Inlaid in checker design. Ten pieces. $225 William seats and panel bi $75 Golden Oak Co! juites, $210 $40 Golden Oak Sideboards. ........ $8 Jacobean Oak Side Chairs $15 Jacobean Oak Arm Chairs $445 Jacobean Oak Suite, $287.50 Heavily carved and of massive design, with twisted rope pillars. 66-inch Buffet. and Mary Fumed Oak Suites, $170 Fitted with drop handles and Chairs have leather cks, Ten pieces. Separate Pieces $80 Mahogany Colonial Sideboards... » $66 lonial Sideboards The China Closet has an all-mirror back. The Chairs have Spanish leather slip seats and cane panel backs. GIMBELS --Seventh Floor Sizes are 14 to 20 for misses; 34 to 44 for women. Choice at $10.75. At Bloomingdales’ A Sale of Separate Muffs Marked at Almost Their Original Cost Undergarments Plenty of Winter weather yet before you to wear furs. Luxurious and Inexpensive The prices are so low that you cannot afford to overlook this A woman ex- opportunity. claimed to her |e shopping com A Special Lot Reduced to $3.95 anion! #8 es 125 separate muffs in new melon and pillow shapes, » ried a good quality black French Coney, Manchurian Wolf (black bs a flea teseiin if | | dog), Kit Coney and Natural Lynx Cat. ay wee i Heduced to incident{p Mink Marmot, $4.95 | | took place at in Bloomingdales’, ig Sable Fox, $5.95 cies lane 5 Civet Cat, $7.95 and necessity fy) \@ Natural Raccoon, $8.95 | | “re marked at Me Muskrat), $10.50 are c Skunk (dyed), $10.75 | | “ve Silk Bloomers, $1.39 3 inforced at those points sub- Black Wolf, $11.50 ayers to herdest wear; white, pink or blac Black Fox, $14.50 \f plead ae Glove Silk Vests, 98¢ | White Fox, . , Tailor band tops; reinforced arm- a In many cases these muffs can be | | "@le* Pink or white, i matched with scarfs which are very Glove Silk Vests, $1.29 \ heavily reduced. BBA NAA aca eserieiiariasiemiatiaimmeamend Second Floor At Bloomingdales’ Glove Silk This Front neatly embroidered; rein- forced armholes; pink or white. At Bloomingdales’ —$____———__—_----_— Dollar Shoe Sale Women’s, Girls’ and Boys’ | Shoes and Low Shoes | N Bargain " - C. en ps $1 00 psi | | Kayser’s Union Suits, 48 ea a e pray | | Made of fine cotton, with French ae ements | ig | hand tops, reinforced: tight or um This is a clean-up of odds and ends of our regular stocks. Women’s | | brella style knees; regular or extra sizes mostly 244 to 4!». A twice a year event. | | ses, dite, is EON FOOT eee Mit Bor, J "y 50TH TO GOT mi PRNMARARARNOROME TASKER *ro BLOOMINGDALES’ Wax 19 So AVE: Bi Glove Silk Union Suits, $1.98 Reinforced to increase wearing quality; pink: or white. Stlk-Top Union Suits, 79¢