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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
WHAT'S GOING ON In THE WORLD
tOF THEATRES AND AMUSEMENT
POLI'S

Theda Bara is supreme in her con-
ception of ''DuBarry' in the new Fox
film masterpiece being shown at Polls
theatre. Women admire the great
screen artist Thousands yesterday
sieged the Poll doors teeming to get
view of her as the great French
adventures. The reign of Louis XIV.
probably never was more clearly
shown than in the present Offering
Books have given the idea but except
at fancy ball of the most remarkable
conception and fidelity has there
ever been such an attempt to repro
duce a past century.
There has been no attempt to cur
tail the vaudeville portion of the pro-
gram because of the big screen show
ing. Last night the six Kirksmith
| sisters appeared in their bright music
al and instrumental act. A real
court of music. Backed by superb
setting, and themselves artists intdi-
vidually and collectively they made
the big theatre ring with applause.
Bowers, Walters & Crocker, those
| 'Rubes," appear in new conception
o: artistic tumbling and dancing.
| Their routine is continuous, danger
| Gus, comic and sustained with a
knowledge of what audiences want.
They have indeed solved the problem
of keeping imitation away. 1t simp-
| ly cannot be done.
| Bob Hall, champion fun-maker,
gave varied performances last night
of his gracious art. Songs topical,
originated on the very spur of the
moment and with substance and wit
combined which make for intelligent
humor, scored on his return engage
ment. Hall is a most popular and
welcome entertainer, here, as is shown
by the applause given upon his ap-
pearance.
The Homans in an exceptionally
daring and delirious exhibition upon
the revolving ladder, afford excite
ment and general pleasure.
Baird and Inman "a we'll dressed,
classy act of the singing and piano
! type bring new costumes, charm of
manner and good songs and talk.
There is an interesting as well as
| instructive offering of animated news.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
EMPIRE

AT the Empire theatre, Sessue Ha-
yakawa appears as star in his latest
Paramount photoplay, Hidden
Pearls" from the story of Beulah
Marie Dix, which heads the program
today and tomorrow. Much of the
action takes place out of doors, and
the scene is laid in a remote South
Sea Island, of which Hayakawa is
ruler, being the son of a native prin-
cess, last of her line, and an Ameri-
can pearl trader. Falling in love
with an alluring native maiden on hiA
first visit to the island, Hayakawa pro-
ceeds to fall suddenly out of love with
the f1ashy, snobbish American girl,
whom he had formerly almost wor-
shipped.
Being called upon to portray this
sudden and violent change of senti-
ment by a twist of the story, it is
needless to say tina THE popular Jap
anese player has responded nobly tc
the call. Director Melford, who also
directed Hayakawa with Fanny
. Ward in the Paramount picture, THE
Cheat is responsible for a generous
share of the success of the production
as is the splendid cast.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
Safeguards Health
of The Children


Constipation, or inaction Of the
bowels, is a great menace to
health. Cathartic or purgatiye
remedies should never be given to
children as the violence of their
action tends to upset the entire
digestive system. A mild laxative
is far preferable. and the combi-
nation of simple laxative herbs
with pepsin known as DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin, and sold in
drug stores for fifty cents bottle,
is highly recommended. This
preparation contains no opiate,
narcotic, or habit forming drug
of any description, is mild and
gentle in it's action, and brings
relief in any easy, natural manner.
Its pleasant taste appeals to chill
dren and they take it readily.
Thousands of mothers have tes-
tilted to the merit of DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup Pepsin, and in count
less homes it is the standard fam
lily remedy. A trial bottle, free of
charge, can be obtained by writ
ing to DR.. w. B. Caldwell ass
Washington St., Monticello, IL
linois.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
LYRIC

One of the best dramas of the sea-
son will be presented next week when
the Poll Players will offer for the
approval of local theatregoers, one of
of Prey" The author has written an
exciting play around the characters
of the tango lizard" and he calls
them human vultures, the sort Of
hybrid male affecting smart fashions,
motor cars, plenty of money, plenty
of leisure-and how do they con-
sumo their time. Betting in the sane
tity of a girls honor.
And it is not fiction. Eugene Wal
ter, successful as a playwright be-
cause his plays were of life as it is,
said that his life was brutal at best,
and though in his stage plays the
truth hits good and hard, it was life
nevertheless, and had to be played as
written. Joseph Noel, who sees life
as Walter sees it, has given the stage
one. of the most striking plays of the
decade in Birds of Prey because he
goes into the haunts of these vultures
and brings them out in the searching
rays You will be thrilled by Birds
of Prey and if you are a good living,
won't believe such things could be
but they are, the pity of it all is. See
what happens when the rich mans
son decides the little hat model is
to be his
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
Observation-Disclosures
LITTLE BENNY'S :
NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE q
.sIIIllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIi

was doing my lessins in the set
paper, saying to himself, The man
that rites these editorials serteny has
an influents over the Inglish lang
widge, his motto seems to be, Never
put off on sillables what you can
hitch to 4.
Wich jest then ma came in, saying,
Wat do you Suppose, Willyum?
You desire to become aware of the
concatinnations of my sarybellum ?
Sed pop.
For mersey sakes, sed ma.
Do I understand that you are in
possession of tidings that you pur-
pose to communicate? sed pop.
1 was going to tell you sumthing,
if that wat you meen, sed ma, my
goodniss, forget wat it was now. o
yes, wat do you Suppose?
Agen I am requested to divulge the
functionings of my excogitationerry
processes, aed pop.
Now Willyum, don't keep it up all
mite, you know wen you start a thing
it woodent be so bal if you wood ony
stop it agen, sed ma
Quite the antithysis, sed pop, a
thing werth perpitrating is werth per-
pitrating to the full extent of poten-
shil potenshiality.
You may know wat you're tawEng
about, but if you do I'm sorry for you,
sed ma
Do you meen to say that the lucid
ity of my perambulaticns transcends
the status quo of your graspability ?
sed pop.
I meen to say that too mulch is
plenty and if you don't stop it i'm
meeditIy I'm going rite out and leeve
you and you can tawk krazy to your
self, you're the ony one that's injoyins
it, anyway, sed ma
But you haven't impaired to me the
PERSONALLY momentous Information
ware of you were in sutch condition
of precipitation, sed pop.
No, and I'm not going to, and be-
sides, you've made me eileen forget
wat it was agen, I'm going Ground to
the movies till you ixaust yourself
sed ma.
WITCH she did, leeving me to go with
her. and wen we came bacg pop hat
went to bed.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
TAKING ENTRIES
FOR Eco LAYING
RACE AT..STORRS'

Another race track is to be built at
Storrs' college This is made prac-
tically necessary by the belief that
there will not be sufficient accommo-
dations in the present egg-laying> en-
DURANGO run, which has been in pro-
gress for several years, because of the
new ruling of the United States Food
Administration. From February 18th
to April Goth of this year, the food
administration has granted reprieve
to all condemned biddies, provided
they are good egg-layers and likely
to have a family of little chicks de-
pendent upon them. This is the sea-
son when hens begin to pay some at
tention to the chief business in life
and likewise it is the time when the
poultry dealers are most likely to
swing the fatal axe
This is a copy of the official NOR
atorium on hens, residing in Connec-
ticut:
/ THE following rule>has been adopt.
ed in connection with special rules
and regulations, covering dealers in
poultry and eggs. Rule IA. The IL
| censee shah not, between Feb. Ill
1918. and April 80, 1918, purchase
ship, sell, or negotiate the sale of any
| live or freshly killed hens or pullets
provided however that this shall not
prevent the purchase, shipment oil
sale, between February II and Feb
%, 1918 of hens or pullets, which
were either killed or shipped prior tt
Feb. II, 1918 to markets for sale a:
food and provided further that moth
L.
chase, shipment or sale of live hem
or pullets for egg production pur
poses. This ruling is effective imme
diafe1v''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
PLAZA

Clara Kimball Young in Shirley
Kaye" or :'Miroslave and the Serbians
or Prelle's Circus or some one of the
other features on the bill drew one
of the biggest opening performance
crowds the cosy Plaza has ever
housed.
Shirley Kaye" was delightful. So
was Clara Kimball Young, as she al
ways is. The story of the play show
ed the INTERPOLATION of social life with
the high finance of today. Miss
Young in the title role showed what
a real star can do with a deserving
vehicle. She was positively radiant
in the many big scenes that offered
her chance to display her talents
and her gowns. Such play with a
good vaudeville program should pack
any theater as it did the Plaza yes
terday.
Miroslave and the Serbians scored
the big hit on the vaudeville bill.
Miroslava is pretty little woman
with a big voice of remarkable rich
ness and she had a repertoire that
gave both her personality and her
voice a chance. The Serbians, four
of them, played exquisite melodies on
their native instruments and also &C
companied their charming young
star, Miroslave, during the course OF
her performance, in a neat and clev-
er speech, thanked the audience as q
part of the great American people
for their immeasurably kind assist
ance to the Serbian race in its dire
need.
Prelle's Circus, a dog act unusua
and featuring 1.-THE Robbery of the
Overland MAIL was another big
hit. The dogs were wonderfully
trained and went through their rather
difficult feats in admirable fashion.
Tom and Dolly Ward furnished
most of the laughs to be found on the
bill and they were laughs you may be
sure, while Mccarthy and Lowering, a
pair Of pretty and sweet-voiced young
women gave a commendable perform
ance.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
FINE FOR RHEUMATISM!
Musterole Loosens Up Those
Stiff Ioints-Drives Out Pain

MuSL6IOlS AOOocAto II
Stiff Joints-Drives Out Pain
vonTl know why thousands use Mus
rerole once you experience the glad re-
lief it gives. a.. ,-o.4
d1,,e, store. It is a clean, white ointment,
made win the oil of mustard; Better
than a mustard plaster, and does not
Mister. Brings ease and comfort while
Il is being rubbed Oh!
Doctors and nurses. Millions of jars are
u used annually for bronchitis, Group. stiff
neck neck asthma, neuralgia. PleuTisy, Ih e.
mats matisn. lumbago. pains and aches Of the
back u joints, sprains. sore muscles muse 5;
bruises. chiIblains. frosted feet, colds q
fhe chest lit often prevents pneumoonia''
aOc and 6Oc jars; hospital size SOU
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15

Sixtv-three motor trucks in charge
of army engineers and carrying army
left Buffalo for New York.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
CITY OF KUT IS
REBUILT BY THE
BRITISH ARMIES
Scene of Reverse Abandoned
for Months, Rehabilitat-
ed and Occupied

Kut, Mesopotamia, Feb. 15.-(Corre-
spondence of The Associated Press. y
This city, the scene of the British
Mesopotamian army's greatest re-
verse, after lying for many months
a city of the dead, abandoned by even
it's native population, has gradually
been rebuilt in the past six months
and is now thriving town of nearly
as great population as in the days Of
peace.
| 1t was too important a center to be
neglected. 1t was a link between the
Euphrates and Persia, and accord
ingly, after it had been deserted for
more than two months, British Off
Ger arrived here to take charge of the
work of reconstructing it.
The first thing to do was to clean
the place The debris was dumped
out of the houses into the streets; the
accumulated filth was buried or
burned, the barricades >Were pulled
down, the dugouts and trenches were
filed up.
An imposing colonnade bazaar was
built along the river bank. A begin
ming was made with a coffee room
and some retail shops for the builders,
who for a long time were the sole
population. Skilled masons, natives
who had been employed by the Ger
mans in connection with the Bagdad
railway, were collected and set to
work. They rebuilt and re-roofed the
old bazaars, widened the old streets
and built new ones. repaired the
mosques, the baths and the ice fac
tory, put new engines into the -four
mill, and converted the flats and
shoals in the middle of the Tigris into
, vegetable gardens.
, Though still partly in ruins, Kut to-
day is a cleaner and better town than
ever before in its history. Most of the
people are back again behind their
: old doors. The baZaars are thronged
And the people are more prosperous
, than ever, for there is abundant labol
for everybody in the neighborhood
Some of the prominent people of the
( town will never come back. Eight o.
t them, including the Sheikh and hii
sons, were hanged by the Turks, ant
= 40 others were shot.
The house which General Town
shend occupied during the siege ha
been repaired. but the roof and bal
cony are still pitted with shrapnel
lSeven shell holes have been filed will
tplaster. The memory of the Genera
and of his principal officers survives i
the names of the new streets. Their
is Townshend Road, Delamain Road
Meliss Road. and the names of brav
regiments are recorded in Dorse
Road, Norfolk Street and Mahratt;
Row. Every association in the no
menclature of the Kut is reminiscen
of the memory of its former defend
ers.
, Especially the cemetery. The long
drawn agony of the garrison whic
fought and endured here so staunchl
: to the edge of starvation makes on
; of the most tragic stories in BIRTHS
: military history. Nearly 1,So0 soldier
! of the British army died of wound
h and disease during the siege, and al
buried together in a bare mud f1el
enclosed by a mud wall, with fe
starved palms in it, and hueless de!
olation all around,-but that is Mes'
potamia. The Turks dug trenches a
around the cemetery, but they n
spected the graves.
~ Volunteer parties OF oiaejachei
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
HIPPODROME

William S. Hart surrounded by an
All-star cast will be seen in THE
Primal Lure" at the Hippodrome
theatre, Stratford avenue, between
Carroll and Wilmot avenues, tonight.
1.-THE Primal Lure" unfolds one of
those unusually gripping tales of the
Golden West in the days of long ago.
Several other select plays will also be
shown.
Tomorrow evening: Virginia Pear
son and an all-star cast in the Fox
super feature play. Thou Shalt Not
Steal"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15

from passing gunboats have landed
and trimmed mounds of earth, which
are as clean-cut and neat now as in
an English church yard. A brick wall
is being built around the enclosure.
The place is CRASHES, it is true, but
the sombre aspect will disappear when
water is brought to the land and the
scrub palms are fortified and cared
for.
Three miles below Kut is the only
relic in the neighborlHood, an obelisk
put up by the Turks in commerora-
ton of the fall of Kut. 1t is a kind
of Cleopatra's Needle on square
plinth, all of kiln-dried brick plas-
tered over An old converted British
''cow-gun'' stands as a trophy on each
side. One of the guns has tunbled
forward and the plaster and brick are
already crumbling. The monument
was never unveiled and is still half
covered with a canvas sheeting, most
of which, however, has been carried
away by the wind.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
WEST END

Marguerite Clark in "Bab's Matinee
Idol" one of the famous "Sub-Deb'
stories as read in the Saturday Even
ing Post, is the feature attraction to-
day, matinee and evening. Alice
Howell in "Automaniacs," a scream
ing tYo-reel comedy, will also be
shown.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-15
Admission 30c.

Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of Food
Dictator Hoover, is real partner Of
her husband, whom she assists in all
of his undertakings.
DR.. Ida NJ. Ogilvie, professor Of geog-
raphy at Columbia university, is dean
of the new woman's agricultural camp
near Mount Kisco, n. Y.
To receive a bachelors degree and
lawyers degree in three years, to be
mistress of French and Spanish and
all points of corporation law and to
make it a rule to sleep only four hours
out of "a, is a record held by Miss
Helen D. Falkner of Cleveland, o.
In Korea women occupy place in
society which has no parallel elsewhere
in the orient. They are both better
and worse off than in China or India
or Janan-better off because there are
more fields open to them. worse be-
cause they are oyerworked, often i'll
treated and until recently were actual
~ enslaved.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-01

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-08-21
VIEW Of BERLIN
CONTINUED from Page One.)

eral Won Stein. with whom I discussed
the rehabilitation problem. He did
not anticipate labor difficulties. so de-
mobiiIzed soldiers will find great
amount Of work waiting TO be done. and
Will also. in n largo proportion, be. able
To take the places Of the hundreds or
thousands of prisoners now working.
Effects Of Raids on London.
Authoritative pei sons 10 whom I
spoke on the subject. accepted the JUS
tire Of my criticism OF the policy or
air raids on London. rs also my as
surance that the only effect on the
English people was not 10 create de-
sire for peace but to Increase their
war will But the point Of view they
argued in reply was
I'VE cannnt give UP anything OF
military character until We have some
security that peace negotiations are
imminent aud have some chance Of sue
cess Raids IN London are JUSTIFIED
from military point Of view. because
II we stopped them An enormous num-
hcr Of guns and gunncrS. arroplancs and
flying men would he set free for use
al tho 'front.'"
Asked for his grrcr.l impression OF
the feeling Of the German people. my
informant says they seem 10 hay" he
conviction that peace must come speed
lily.
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.ROTAR|ANS ASKED
To AID UNCLE SAM
UPPER END OF THE MARKET
AUDITORIUM MAY BE USED
FOR HOUSING SOLDIERS.
Big Troop Trains win Pass Through
This City Throughout The
Entire Winter.

f; MIR. Louis Kraft member of the no
. tary Club of this city was yesterday
! named rs a committee by that body I"
J look into tho matter nf securing r. SUI
, able rlarr for the soldiers who viii pass
! through this city during the winter
months TO sleep over night and he WI:
! report hack to the body at the next
! meeting,
I.irutcnant Frank Shields If he Mo,
tor Convoy Department OF the lnlt'o
! States Government WAS IN inc Guy thT
| first Of the week comforting with IN"
members Of the Rotary club relative L"
/ securing Il suitable place and no was
! accorded thc aid Of tho organization IN
! finding such location
IL was pointed out thu; the norm
! wing of the Market Aud Irrirm wouid
1 he tho ideal place for such quarters ana
: MS 1t is located right on m" main high
wny between thu East and the vest u
! will answer line Roum is nHcd"d Tor
: approximately 3nn men al II time and
the auditorium would i" plenty larEe
: enough for that purpose for that puf-
T, nose. 1t is steam heated. has tollt,
facilities and every comfort needed.
! Many Of the transport trains Will
PASS through the city during the VIM
Ter months and arrangements must he
made for taking care Of them III thiS
district. The Rotary club has done
much in that way I" assist them
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West Liberty Man Has
A Narrow Escape

Herbert Montgomery. we'll known
Young teacher Of West Liberty. narrowly
ESCAPED serious injury yesterday morn
ing. when his clothing caught In n
crane no was operating ut The New Dor
mitory at the West Liberty Normal
school. Mont Eomcry was hurled with
terrific force by tho crane which tore
every pie2e Of clothing from MS person
shoes. He was badly bruised about inc
body and received several bad cuts hut
was otherwise uninjured.
Montgomery was in military training
at Fort Scrcvcn. Ga. for several months
INIT was given his honorable discharge ms
hcinC physically unfit for service.
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OHIO NEWS NOTES.

..cOIJMBCS-Dr. L. NJ. H"rsNo"i'",
n.r,tx- coroner. who was r"nonllnaleo
SHst Tuesday by the Democrats. i"1
S..;oned and will enter the tecnn'ca'
SAserve corps within I'll" next rev "eeNS
:. N0IJ-NBCS - Lieutenant flchaFo
n1artin former Ohio State university
.l.tudent. and resident Of Nechan'cs
burg. has been reported missing IN ~
WON Martin. is an aviator ana was W
80 cove SQUADRON With Lieutenant w
"a Wanamaker. SON ct Judge H.
nr,namaker. reported missing IN act,"1.
sjd Lieutenant Fred Norton. Iolu'no"1
:. boy, killed in action
cOLTMBUS -William {. AYE. iu.H
,,sir carrier Of Cadiz. Harrison cou"'s
-Ton the war savings contest hSt' So.
sec Gas worth Of stamps IN one niuS
80 Iras awarded $4,000 prize helles
S oTTMR1:s-Otto A Schodorf. IN.
con OF Otto Schodorf cnie'
-Asohan,cian Of the 30Sth trench NOR.
80 battery, now, In France. died a lew
St,rtea after his mother at their notNs
arere today. The ooo'eS WIN
Sogether. . ,,arine
rand will play here at the state ia 80
Connection with naval cHniol'. - 80
ne government has consented 10 -,
coLuMRUs-william Wright Ms, MnS'
virginia negro. who shot and Xi I,.1'
local Detective William TKourSe cna,,
H;a+e his crime IN the electric cnat'
+he penitentiarS. September :"
ridges Allread. Kunkle and frN.u,ne
Of the court Of appeals held yss'e aorc
~ snr+,inins the Judgment Of the c''''
mon pleas court. =,
rEvELAND-The body OF Jonn
nsvson, former general superineenuIIi
- tbe baltimore & Ohio railroad. "h'
died here yesterday following an op
Grafton. has been sent to his home ono, !, y!
.akron. He will be buried wednesday
FTNDLAY-rhe Standard ON con.
pany has filled the positions OF st'
men at its flltnE stations in this GU!
with women ,,
RI-cYRCS - Seven local grocery
,rores ran out Of sugar yesterday am
rannot receive any more until sep
TENDER l. Local restaurant Keepers
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o,.,,, thew win have .to.close-down their

claim they viii have 'to'close-do"n 'n''r
pastry business.
DAYTON-Slx Of the nine !oe0'
breweries. operated by the Dayton
Brcwertes company. are closed in COM
nIionce with the coal reduction pro
gram. Two independent breweries Will
con,inue on the restricted coal supply
/, order.
; MAFuON--Succ eeding"for,ncr City So
lici,or +. W. Warner. Attorney J. d
/ Clark today was elected Marion county
Republican committee chairman.
\ NARIOE-Whle en- ruut" To camp
! sherman by automobile. Mr.. and Mrs
; Elmer Berry OF Marion. and John O.
, berry OF kenton were badly injured
when tho machine plunged over oahk
| and turned over twice.
GALLIPOLIS--Un ited States DIS
! .rict Attorney Bnlin ordered all I'M
! moral houses closed 1T once. This city
lis within the ten mile limit or mill
! ,arv camp at Point Pleasant. w. Va.
/ EAST LIEE:RPOO1~The state con-
vanrion or Daughters Of America opcned
! with T. reception in Elks' temple here
| tonight. About 500 delegates are IN
; attendance The business session Will
open tomorrow.