Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-03-06

ness.
There was a rustic Of expectation,
which deepened into Il hush, ~ u cur
stage bearing in its center Il mammoth
tain gradually lowered itself upon the
square of snowy white.
This remarked one of the audience
audibly 10 another. won't be amy good,
except for the Brooklyn handicap. And
say. that's out of sight"
A. he and his companion pecred through
the du,kine>> IA read their programs,
there was Il whir of machinery, and a flash
Of light that Illuminated the white sqaure
on the curtain.
Then. rapidly, Il se.I,> of irregular little
bars and dots of black chased each other
down the square; and the audience was
informed through the medium of a cap
tion thrown upon the curtain, that The
Blank News Film company would. for the
next fifteen minutes, entertain the crowd.
The rest followed in bewildering order.
Children mt play, Niagara Falls, motor
fire engines. Il decisive engagements be-
tween the Russian army of lloboken and
the Japanese >quadronS of Snake Hill
ANYTHING and everything. A. one of the
spectators had prophesied, the Brooklyn
handicap aroused enthusiasm indeed.
But. singularly enough, the interest and
enthusiasm Of that crowd conferred that
night around the police parade Of the
Borough Of Manhattan.
~. .a,xn- thu axhibttian was auIpt and
uneventful enough. Rank after rank OF
1.-THE finest" passed IN review before the
martial critics of Bellpori and faded away
But that there had been some disorder
on the streets Of Manhattan nj the time
of the parade was evidenced by the fact
that hall way up the screen-which meant
half a block away-a uniformed officer
was pushing on before him a ragged, tat
tered object of a man.
The audience snickcred..
s.See i'm run i'm in.' said the spccta-
tors of Bellport.
the crowd could tell. for he forced his
man clear up To the front of the screen,
until the face and figure of each were
larger than life size.
AT that instant the unhappy charge OF
the New York officer looked -quarely in
to the faces of the opera house audience,
which meant that a. he had passed the
picture machine upon Broadway he had
glanced into it. a bit imprudently, a bii
despairingly. Again the Bellport GROVE
set up a laugh.
look al that geezer." said one man.
AT that instant from the very center
of the house arose a muffled scream. II
was followed by 4 subducd hubbub; then
by another scream.
Some Of the crowd rose: some cried out
the aisle.
Woman faintcdl" he inquired.
Then he plunged into the crowd that
surged and swayed about Il common cen
ter. There was a babel Of tongues.
Up on the screen. unmoved but NOV.
ing, the procession of police still marched
past in perfect order.
"What j. it, What has happened. p" in
quired the crowd.
Ii found that those men who stood with.
in the inner circle were alternately look
ing toward the screen. the picture machine
in the upper gallery. and gesturing viii
all their might toward the uSherS. Final.
" the nsher~ restored order, and then i
was discovered that the cause Of the agi.
tation was a young woman with a hcauti.
FIJI t..n In.d thnuub - .rnu NTH ..r 80
and dressed in habliments that were
tinged with ~habbiness.
''rhe face. the face" she had cried ont
Ills facet
And then. gradually. the whole thin.
was made clear by those on the inside VIII,
had heard To those on the outside who ha,
not.
Somewhere. somehow. upon the screen
this Young woman had seen u face III,
knew. II was somewhere IN that GROVE
gathered H. see the parade Of the police
at least. "a this young woman said.
My husband" ~he repeated family. IL
was his face
Little by little they learned her story
She had been married two years. Some
how or other she and her husband had be.
come separated-she had lost him: he ha,
lost her; she had looked for him in vain
nntil-until she had seen that face thi.
night.
"A public spirited man in the audienc,
ascended 10 the gods of the machine anc
asked them 10 repeat. They were glad [,
accommodate. They went back and start
ed the f%ootSore police all over again.
Suddenly there was another shrek an,
the machine gods stopped the machine.
THAT facet cried the oung girl. 'Tha,
H. III. L..