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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-12
WEST SALISBURY

Mrs. clark Loomis vas III Benning
ton Saturday
Jessie Snow CT Sandgate is visiting
his sister. Mrs. II. n. Dyer
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt Hewitt have
purchased the David Niles farm.
Gladys Coulter was a week end
guest OF Bessie Amidon and Helen
Ross.
Mrs. Clayton Reed who has been
in Troy fortnight, has returned
home.
Abbie Niles is employed at the
home OF Samuel Allen in White
Creek.
Mrs. Mary Harrington and neice.
Jennie Nash spent Friday with Mrs.
Clark Loomis.
Mrs. Russell Tinkham spent Tues
day with Mrs. Joseph Stanley in
SALISBURY Valley
Mr. and MIS-. IL. n. Dyer and jessie
Snow spent Sunday in Buskirks with
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Burch
Mrs. John Huntington and Mrs.
Truman Amidon attended the meeting
of the Fortnightly in Bennington
Saturday afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Perkins and
MIR. and Mrs. Floyd Sherwin and
children were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Perkins Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs Newell Bennett. Miss
Margaret Hyde and Anna Niles at.
tended the entertainment held in
South SALISBURY Monday evening.
Last Friday evening a party in
Guiding Elmer Amidon and daughters,
Gladys Coulter, Bert Perkins and sis
ter, Sarah enjoyed sleigh ride to
the home Of Mr. and Mrs James Nc
Cart in White Creek.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-12
SALISBURY VALLEY

Charles Cannon is saving wood in
the Valley.
Miss Eva Stanley visited in Ben
nington Saturday
Ellis Bouplon has accepted posi-
ton on the Jermain Hill farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bouplon visit
ed in North Hoosick recently.
F. w. and c. H. Fuller were in
West Hoosick on business Saturday.
The farmers are harvesting good
quality CT ice from John Benefits
pond this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Durham of
North Bennington visited relatives
in the Valley Sunday
Miss Celia McKnty, who was a
guest of Eva Stanley last week, has
returned to the Oneonta Normal
school.
Miss Susie Lake and the Mrs. John
Bennett and Frank Fuller attended
the missionary meeting at the home
OF Mrs. Burton Sisson in SALISBURY
Thursday.
Mrs. Mary Monroe, who has been
seriously i'll and cared for by Mrs.
George Hunt, is better and returned
to her home.
The White Creek telephone COM
pany held their annual meeting al
Elon Sweets Jan, and elected Step
hen Sweet, president, successor to
John Cottrell
Mrs. Phennor Bennett - confined to
the house by illness.
Sullivan Center was Iii Remington
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-12
SHAFTSBURY

Miss Stella Bates has returned to
her home in Bennington.
The Ladies Aid society will meet
in the paror OF the NJ. +. church Fri
day afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Galusha visit.
ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. w B.
Randall last Wednesday.
Mrs. Flora Bates of Bennington is
spending several days with her
daughter, Miss Gertrude Bates.
A number of friends from Arlington
rendered Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Mont
gomery a surprise party Wednesday
evening.
On January l4th the quarterly con-
ference will be held at the NJ. f.
church at l3G. All the official board
is requested to be present. District
superintendent, Mr.. Kent. will be
present.
Ira Williams, who would have been
90 years OF age in March, died Mt the
home OF Gideon Simkins Saturday.
The funeral was held Monday morn
ing at II o'clock. Rev Peter Heller
offlciated. lnterment was in Ever.
green cemetery in Arlington.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-12
on business Tuesday.

]. F. Stanley attended the telephone
meeting at Elon Sweets Wednesday
evening.
Truman Amidon OF SALISBURY was
guest of his sister, Mrs. S. Center
Tuesday
Mark Rice and Floyd Bouplon of
South SALISBURY visited at the home
of James Bouplon Sunday
Sleghing has been extra good in
this section since early part OF De-
cember mercury has registered below
zero only four mornings, but had
plenty of wind.
Miss Alice Bouplon, native and
resident OF this place for several
years, but now residing in Troy, n.
Y, had very successful operation
on her head at the Troy city hospital
last week She was taken with grip,
which settled in both ears. A piece
OF bone was removed from one and
the bone scraped in both ears. Doc
tors said had she waited two days
longer there would have been no help
for her. At this writing she is com
Portable and doing as we'll as can be
expected.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-12
PERU

Mrs. NJ. ]. Hapgood Went to Albany
last week
Mr.. and Mrs. W. II. Burroughs OF
Rutland spent Sunday at w. B, Sim
monds.
The Ladies Aid society, OF the Con.
regational church meets this week
on Wednesday afternoon with Mrs.
Wallace West.
There will he Cottage prayer
meeting on Thursday evening at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Stone.
Subject, up to Bethel
There will be a social in the hall
over the North school on Tuesday eve
ming with refreshments, music and
games. Admission free.
Guy Bert Crawford and Miss Bertha
Violet Moffitt were united in marri-
age at the parsonage last Wednesday
evening by their pastor, Rev. Ar. $.
8. Wood.
Congregational church, Rev. Step.
hen S. Wood, pastor. Morning service
at IL O'Clock, sermon, "A Hard
Heart" Sunday school ut the close of
the morning service. The school is
preparing an entertainment of diaio-
CUES, drills. recitations. songs and
tableaux to be given in the near fu-
ture. Christian Endeavor on Sunday
evening at 1880. Subject, How to
Work with Others" Leader, Mis-
Lena Blodgett
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-12
GREEN MOUNTAIN VALLEY


Simeon Dean is much improved in
health.
Robert b. Young was in Bennington
Saturday.
David Hill is drawing his winter
supply of fire wood.
Mrs Ralph Smith visited her people
in North Adams recently.
Mrs. Martha Elwell has exchanged
her farm for village property.
William Sargood has sold span of
young horses to Allie Stratton.
Walter Lyons has returned TO
Wells, VT, where he is teaching.
Mr. and Mrs Myron +. Stratton
visited at George Galusha's recently
George Robinson and wife were i'll
Bennington the past week on bust
mesa
Mrs. b. Shimlentzsky and son Har.
old we're in Green Mountain Valley
Tuesday.
Florence Mallory has gone to Essex
to reside with an aunt and attend
school.
There will be lantern slide lee
ture and entertainment at the Red
School house later.
There was service at the Red
school house last Sunday conducted
by Howard A. James. w. l. Hare OF
Bennington accompanied MIR, James.
Miss Charlotte SJratton is improv-
ing from her recent illness. She was
81 years old the Sth of this January.
She has a good memory and able to
do some work and goes outside daily.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-01-12

Mrs. NJ. j. Hapgood Went to Albany
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Mrs. clark roomis vas III Benning
ion SATURDAY.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
WILLIAM A. BRADY
TURNS TO THE SCREEN

The World Film Corporation, announces
that William A. Brady, has definitely de-
cided TO devote his producing genius to
the making of feature motion pictures
From now on the manager will practical
ly desert the stage and center his entire
energies upon screen direction upon a
big scale. His productions in which will
appear such noted stars as Robert War
wick. Alice Brady. Frances Nelson; and
many others. viii be released exclusively
through the agency Of World Film, which
as recently recorded in the newspapers,
absorbed the Equitable Film Corporation
and added a million dollar capitalization
to the already titanic concern
/ The advent Of Mr.. Brady as a film pro-
ducer marks a distinct epoch in the his
tory OF motion pictures
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
ACROSS THE NEW YORK FOOTLIGHTS
By GEORGE JEAN NATHAN.

father. This moment produces the nee
essary prole etarian spine tickel but the
balance of the manuscript Is not suf-
ficientiy fertile In imagination or ver-
nal force to make positive the effec-
tiveness OF the melodramatic situa-
tion. There is a fairly good scene be-
tween the wife and the gaudy woman
with whom her husband has scandal
ized himself and the opening act dis
closes traces of the old Walter touch
Yet the bulk of the evening Is bald
and of the rougestick sticky. Joseph
inc Victor plays the part of the wife.
a part originally handled by Charlotte
Walker, when the play had its pre-
miere last season In Washington under
the title of The Better Way" Miss
Victor poses all over the stage.
clenches her hands. rolls her eyes up
to the gallery, italicizes every third
word and similarly disports herself
after the manner of a nature unsuited
to the role OF the mill-hand become
millionaire. And this actor, too, over
plays, The rest OF the company has
in its roster George Stuart Christie, as
dreaming young Pole; Frank Mon
roe. as the usual detective; Miss Rose
Winter. as the creature gaudy; Walter
Wilson as the Judge; H. II. Herbert as
the crooked lawyer. and John Arthur
value OF the somewhat elaborate first
act setting. showing the smoking
chimneys of the mills and the glowing
furnaces in the valley-with the
houses on the surrounding hills light
ing up as night falls-ts to consider
able degree ruined by the slip-shod
species OF illumination which casts
the shadows of the characters against
the far sky and against the mountains
supposedly miles away.
The Walter who wrote 'The Easiest
Way" was Walter other than the
Walter who wrote this play Just a
Woman" There is a quality to THE
Easiest Way" that is not to be mis-
taken To -Just a Woman" there is
also quality that is not to be mis-
taken. But. alas, another quality-the
quality. to wit, of life as 1t is seen
through the box office. Mr.. Walter
looked on things with a different and
a more tonic and prosperous eye in
the play that made him famous. ,
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
newman TrayeIogue.

When z. NJ Newman started on his
journey around South America last sum-
mer. he planned to cross the continent
from Bnenos Aires to Valparaiso on the
Transandine Railway. But when he ar
rived at Buenos Aires in July, the rail-
road was blocked by snow and It became
necessary for him to go 1000 miles out
OF his way. through the Straits of Magel-
Ian Despite the extra time required and
the rough weather encountered, he has
never regretted the journey. as It enables
him to reproduce for his fellow-travelers
the singular beauty of the mountain.
bound straits. which remind one of the
FJords of Norway. and also the Falkland
Islands and the worlds southernnnost
eity-Punta Arenas. These places win be
portrayed In Mr.. Newmans third travel
talk. at the Belasco Theater. this evening
and tomorrow afternoon at o'clock. In
Chile Mr. Newman visited Santiago
Valparaiso, the port. and Conception and
Valdivia. In the most picturesque parts
of the republic. He also made pictures
of the scenic grandeur of the Andes,
which. together with Montevideo. will be
part Of this Photographic journe.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
MARY PICKF0RD's
FABULOUS SALARY

All doubt conce~ning the future af-
nliations of Mary PIckford has been dis
PEELED. This foremost star OF filmdon
has rejected the greatest offers that have
ever been rendered to any actress in the
history OF the stage or the screen. de-
Gliding to remain with the Famous Play.
ers Film Company. the first feature or
ganization with which she was identi.
fed. All OF her pictures will continue tc
be released through the Paramount Pic
ture Corporation.
The new agreement into which Miss
Pickford has entered with Adolph Zukor
president of the Famous Players Film
Company. includes the formation of the
Famous Players-Mary Pickford Company
for the making of feature productions In
which Miss Pickford Is to be starred. and
in which the star retains a half inter.
est
One year ago at the expiration of her
contract with the Famous Players. Miss
Pickford was rumored to be on the point
OF signing contracts with three other
concerns When her new arrangements
with the Famous Players was finally an
nounced and 1t was learned that she
would receive 100000 a year. the motion
picture industry gasped, and those who
were not in position to know the facts
remained skeptical
This year the film world was stirred by
the news that Miss Pickford had received
an offer of $500 per week in recognition
of her position as the greatest motion
picture star. In the face of these ru-
mors which have since been authenti-
Gated, Miss Pickford decided to remain
with the company with which she has
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
THE CURRENT WEEK.
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

the United States. under a special per-
nit from Secretary Josephus Daniels.
The supplementary attraction will bring
to the screen Harold lockwood, who will
be seen in The Man In the Sombrero," /"
a Western drama.
On Tuesday and Wednesday "The Sub
marine Pirate" will be continued, but Mr..
Lockwood and May Allison will be seen
in another Aim play The Broken Cross. s.
adapted from Rupert Hughes story. On
Thursday. Friday and Saturday Mary
Boland will make her camera debut in
Thomas Ince's photo-play "The Edge OF
the Abyss" Miss Boland's support in
cludes Willard Mack. Frank Mills, Robert
McKim and other triangle stars The
added feature on these days will be THE
Knotted Cord
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
By GEORGE JEAN NATHAN.

In the thester, the Cinderella story
is as omnfpresent as the kind of actor
who plays the role OF Bowery dere-
hct In patent leather boots. Yet IL
Is worthy OF record that OF the three
new productions made during the
week past upon the stages of the met
ropolitsn playshops the Cinderella
story Is a jart of only two. The sig
niicance Of this low average Is to be
appreciated when one recalls that. a
season ago at this period. Cinderella
was running up a score as high as
seven times out of possible eight.
The fable has now again made its
appearance in a play by Edward
Chiids Carpenter called The Cinder-
ella Man (on the stage of the Hud-
son) and in a play fashioned out of
Helen Martins novel "Barnabetta" by
Marion De Forest and called ''Erst-
while Susan visible on the stage Of
the Gaiety). Both pieces had their
practical premieres in Washington and
have already been reviewed in these
columns.
just woman
At the Forty-eIghth Street Theaterl
we have Mr.. Eugene Walters melo-
drama -Just a Woman come now
into New York after a devious cam
psign against the thitherward cities,
OF story in the essentials the same as
that narrated in one of Emerson
Hough's novels. in. ''The Governors
Lady" in The Lady from Oklahoma, =
ct cetera. the play discloses itself TO
be a purely theatrical exhibition of
largely theatric emotions. The evening z
opens in a mill town near Pittsburgh.
We have before us puddler and his
wife. Years elapse. The puddler has
become a man of affairs. The wife has
Jagged behind: she is still the plain
woman OF yesterdays years. The hus-
band tires of her and seeks to hypoth-
ecate divorce evidence against her.
Excursions and alarums. Epilogue and
reconciliation.
The play has evidently been directed
by the author solely toward the
achievement OF a scene wherein the
wife seeks to retain possession of her
child by shouting out in the court
room that her husband was not its
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30

err" which will have a special pro-
duction. under the auspices of the
Stage Society of New York.
A. H.i Woods will produce shortly a
new drama by William Anthony Nc
Guire. OF Chicago, entitled Fools
Mr.. Mcclure is the author of 'The
Heights" a play in which Frank Kee-
nan appeared some years ago, and
The Man without Country" a
dramatization of Edward Everett
Hale's story. which is being presented
in vaudeville.
The cast OF Thomas T. Hoyne's
newspaper drama. Tn Cold Type" in
cludes Jane Marbury. William Riley
Hatch, Eugene Powers, Warren Cook
Charles Hallock. VIII T. Chatterton
Adelyn Wesley and Frank wupper-
man.
Frank NJ. Ford treasurer of the Gayety
Theater. is the proud father of a baby
boy, who arrived late Tuesday evening
OF the past week. Mr.. Ford is the son
of J. 7. Ford the theaterical man of
Baltimore, and grandson of the late ]. T.
Ford. who built and operated Ford's S
Opera House on Tenth street.
In this weeks production of '"The
Dummy" Ralph N, Remley will be seen
in the role played originally by Ernest
Truck. who first came into prominence
as the youthful husband in "Over Night, "
and subsequently was seen in David Be
lasco's production The Good Little
Devil"
Zella Russell, leading woman at the
Gayety this week is a washington girl
having been educated in the local schools.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
in LOCAL HOUSES
crandaIr.--.aThou Art the Man.

Thou Arr the Man" spectacular
production. heads the list OF attractions
at crandairs this week. being sched-
uIed for showing both today End tomor-
row. Virginia Pearson and Joseph Kill
gour are the featured actors. Thou
Art the Man" is a story of Angio-In-
dian life of the present day. written by
George Cameron. author of "a Mil
lion Bid" and is an original manuscript.
written especially for motion picture pro-
duction, founded on the Biblican story of
"Uriah." The scenes are all laid in
India, and depict the life of the resident
Englishman. with glimpses of the fever
ridden districts where the white man
finds 1t impossible TO exist
For Tuesdays and Wednesdays per-
formances. Molly Mcintyre late star of
'sBunty Pulls the Strings is to be seen
in "Her Great Hour" an original story
of the seamy side of life. Alice Mrady
in The Ballet Girf' will be given its first
local presentation on Thursday and FRI
day.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
WHAT ELTNCE DOES
WITH HIS OLD GOWNS

I Perhaps no star now before the pubic
spends greater amount on wardrobe
than does Julian EitfnGe. When EltinEe
went into the business Of distinguishing
himself "a beautiful woman he realized
that clothes must play an important part
in his presentations.
~ clothes make the man. it was obvf-
ous that the finest raiment was neces-
sary to transform mere man into q
stunning member Of the opposite ser, 80
Eltinge began spending large sums for
gowns Each year this sum has been
Increased TO keep abreast of the fast
changing styles until his yearly expendi-
ture for this detail now is said 10 approx
innate $4,000
A question often asked is: what doe,
Eitinse do with these dazxlins creations
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
Crandarl,. Apollo.

"Esmerelda," the Paramount produc-
tion in which Mary Pickford achieved one
of her greatest successes. heads this
weeks program at Crandall's Apollo to-
day. OF all the successes of Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, "Esmeraida" Is the
most tender and fovable characteriza-
tion ever created by this gifted author.
In the name part, Miss Pickford renders
a most touching and sympathetic screen
impersonation. The program for the re-
mainder Of the week is as follows:
Monday, sweet Alyssum," featuring
Katherine Williams and Tyrone Power;
Tuesday, THE Alster Case" featuring
Ruth Stonehouse and Bryant Washburn;
Wednesday, "The Masqueraders,' feat
uring Hazel Dawn: Thursday. Geraldine
Farrar in Carmen" and other photo
play features will round out the weeks
bill. s-a
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
Burton HoIme. Trayelogue.

The third and last travelogue to be
given here this season by Burton
Holmes Tuesday afternoon at the New
National Theater will relate to his
experiences in California and the San
Diego Exposition this last summer.
In this travelogue, Mr.. Holmes will
take his audiences from Coronado "a
Mount Shasta. and will even make q
little journey into. old Mexico. there
to attend a bull fight. In addition tc
colorful collection of photo-scenes
the lecturer will show a number oi
motion pictures of bathing at Coron-
ado Beach; a bull fight at Tijuana;
pictures taken at the United States
aviation camp; journeys over the
trails of the high Sierras. the famous
falls and Cascades of the Yosemite
Valley; scenes taken at Lake Tohoe
motion pictures taken within the
grounds of the San Diego Exposition
and others of California.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
Nothing Easy About This.

Henry WalthalI and Edna Mayo. who
are playing the leads in Essanay's ff-
teen episode series, THE Strange Case
of Mary Page" declare that the work
is the most exacting Of anything they
have been through In photoplays Es-
sanay is pushing the thirty reeler rapidly
to completion, and the actors are work
ing all day and into the night.
Added to this is the fact that the play
is fun of intense moments and dramatic
situations which require concentration
of effort that Is exhausting
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
CONCERTS AND LECTURES
New York Philharmonic.

Schumann's Concerto for the piano
and orchestra in A minor. op. 81, will
be among the musical offerings to be
played by Harold Bauer. soIoist. with
the New York Philharmonic Orches-
ira at the New National Theater on
Thursday afternoon.
Other selections to be played at the
second concert of the season, under
the leadership of Josef Stransky, are;
Symphony No. in G major
(Dvorak); (D Allegro con brio, (2)
Adagio. C3) Allegro grazfoso, (4) Al
legro ma non troppo; overture. 'Ro-
meo and Juliet" (Tchaikovsky); "Con-
certo in A Minor. Op 81" for piano
and orchestra (Schumann)) U) Al
legro affettuoso, (2) intermezzo: an
dante grazioso. CD Allegro vivace
CHarold Bauer); Hungarian Rhap-
sody No. 2" CLIszt).
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
CHILD FILM STAR
FoRSAKES DOLLS

Little Jane Lee. celebrated child ac-
tress, who has a prominent part in
the william Fox 100000 Annette Kel-
herman production being made in the
West Indies. has transferred her affec-
tions from dolls to animals. Ever since
she was born, until she made the ia
maica trip, Jane has been a fancier Of
dolls. She took with her on the voyage
a trunk load of dolls.
The waning of James Interest in her
large family of insnimate little people
became noticeable soon after her ar
rival at the island of Bermuda.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-30
with New York symphony.

Frteda Hempel, leading eoloraturs
soprano Of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, who will be the soloist with
the New York Symphony Orchestra at
the Belasco Theater, Monday after
noon, February 81, affected her pre-
miere at the worlds greatest opera
house three years ago as Queen Mar
guerite de Valios. in The Hugue-
nots," the role in which she made her
debut at the Royal Opera in Berlin
Before the close of Miss Hempels first
winter in New York. she had estab-
lished her popularity with the exact
ing musical public.