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New Britain herald., 1919-05-23
What Mother Graham started to DO
 to COmpIicate Matters.
host of the past!'

"A ghost of the past!'
 l The words haunted my waking moments, and said , themselves over @Rnd over in my dreams during the Hays following my outing with my Father. the day which had ended so &anpIeasantly.
 I think they were all the more fore 8bly impressed upon my brain because 7 Df the fact that from the moment my Father had uttered them he had never
 Rgain referred to the woman whose *nsolcnt recognition of him had so up- &set him upon the evening of our eel Vibration" dinner together. Of course,
 E had never even remotely approached $Lhe subject with him since, tried to xbyoid even the appearance of watch Eng over him. But I couldn't help
 seeing that he was distrait, palpably
 worried.
 It was the second day after our ex-
 perience that my mother-in-law, who
 always takes a childish pleasure in
 being first to receive the mail and dis tribute it-indeed, she watches for the
 postman when she's able to leave her
 room, for fully an hour before it is time for him to arrive-called me
 aside with a much injured expression. Whatever has gotten into your fa- liner, Margaret?" she demanded cross i ly.
 Filled as I was with the memory of
 the upsetting incident at the cafe I 3felt Qua1m of something very like
 terror at her question.
 ''Why! what do you mean? ?" I stam-
 mered.
 Madge's Inspirations.
 ''Wel1, what's the matter with you ?''
 she retorted, fixing me with an in-
 Quisitive eys. You're all pale and
 wobbly. I think the whole family S got the high strikes. Your fathers going around starting at every ring of l the doorbeu or the telephone as if it were a summons to the scaffold. He runs to answer the telephone as if he were 19 and expected his best girl to talk to him, and he watches for the postman like a hawk, is out at the gate to meet him and no one gets even a glance at the mail until he has looked it all over.
 And he told Katie today that IS she had so much to do and he was only 1oafing' he would answer the doorbell hereafter when he was in the house. Of course, Katie's delighted, and I can just imagine the time I'll nave SSIJluS Her uTOhSu HI to dQSW eT- Ing it again when he gets tired of his freak. That ape always takes an ell when you give her an inch" I knew that Mother Graham didn't mean her apparent harsh stricture against Katie, but that her irritation against my father had to vent itself E somewhat. I tried to summon what shreds of boise were left me in order to give my mother-in-law a plausible explanation of my fathers actions. "Why, I think the explanation is very simple" I said at last slowly. Father is very much better than was, and, as you know, he never has entirely severed his connection with the secret service, although for a long time he has done very little work. But don't you think it entirely probable that he has something big on hand?'' A Strange Question. had struck the right chord with my mOther-in-laWi 1 mentally blessed
 as an inspiration the thought of her
 childish romantic entbuS Si3 for
New Britain herald., 1919-05-23
PALACE THEATFR.

March's Musical Merrymakcrs scored an unqualified hit in The Three Twins at the Palace theater yesterday. It is a laughing show from
 beginning to end and there is action galore. A number of pretty songs were introduced including "Yama Yama' and "Cuddle Up a Little Closer" The girls wear pretty cos tunes and know how to sing and
New Britain herald., 1919-05-23
PARSONS 'THEATER
HARTFORD.

NEXT WEEK.
 THE NEW OPERA PLAYERS
 Gala Opening Production
 ''K ATTN K A A fiawIess incomparable musical gem! HEAR-Phil Ryley sing "Sl>iddel&i- ditch'', Florence Macl<ie sing Marry a Quartette," Irene Rowan sing ''Racketty COo".
 Evenings, 25c to 75c; Matinees 25c and soc; Matinees Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Seat sale now on.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-23

child and leaves the woman unharm- ed and in the far off hills he finds a. home for himself and his little son and happiness. Power and novelty are the two big features of the pie ture. It differs from most Hart pie lures, yet it has all the dramatic strength and emotional quality of his best work. Tomorrow there will be a continuous show and three perform ances. The vaudeville will be on at 3 o'clock, 6:30 and o'clock.
New Britain herald., 1919-05-23

Every proper wardrobe must in clude at least one voile frock this season-and here is a particularly charming model, in pale lavender and white striped voile, with a front panel of plain white. crossed with strips of plain lavender. The collar and cuffs are white also and the f1uted ruffles are of plain lavender voile. The front panel is picot edged and tackled to the rest of the frock, fas- tening at one side.
Evening star., 1919-03-02

using the dramatic form primarily be-
cause it was the first at hand and the
most familiar. Maeteriinck wrote the
play within a week S time. 1t was
tossed Off with the speed that is at
tanned only through the driving force
of tremendous and overpowerlng m
Spiration. Then, quite naturally, pc
cause 1t did not represent him in ms
usual manner, the poet laid the work
aside, Apparently the writing mad
eased the SORROW, or at least had al
ieviated it faEIhe time being.
But he returned to it. not for elaoo-
ration or for the subsection of it to
writthe Maeterlinckian theories OF play
writing; and ultimately he deemed 1t
worthy of publication and of produc-
ton. The translation of the English
version was intrusted to Alexandra
TeSeira de Mattos. Indeed. the play 8
first production was IN England last
January. From there it has come to
America
"In the presentation of his story
Maeteriinck has relied upon those
methods and that manner which IN All
his other plays were conspicuous by
the absence, indeed antithetical TO
his entire theory of dramatic compo-
sition. The manner is realistic. even 10
a Photographic representation or ire
The play reads and plays, we are told,
like a slice of life. Facts are present
ed in all their bald realism. The little
Belgian village of Stemonde is repre-
sented in the play by its chief citizens
and by members of the invading Ger
man armies. 4 human document pure
ly and Simplyn'
Evening star., 1919-03-02
NEW NATIONAL.

Klaw & Erlangers 1.-THE Rainbow
Girl" will come to the New National
Theater tonight for weeks stay.
This is the musical comedy which was
presented in the New National last
season prior to it's presentation in the
New Amsterdam and later at the
Gaiety Theater, New York, and the
Illinois Theater, Chicago. 1t was one
of the three attractions which ran
through the entire summer. Since it's
stay in these houses it has visited
ten or twelve other cities, and re-
turns with the entire original cast
and production, including Beth Lydy,
as Mollie Murdock, "The Rainbow
CirP': Billy 3. Van, as Buck Evans
his Characterization of the "Bish" has
now bscome a popular figure of the
metropolitan stage: Sydney Green
street, who created the English but
ler; Harry Deli. recently returned
from the Navy, and Lenora Novasio,
the froIicsome footman and house
maid, respectively, of the Bennett fam
ily, with Harry Benham, leading male
juvenile; Robert G. Pitkin. Laura
Hamilton, Georgia Sewell, Miriam
Medic, Jane Burby and Margaret Mer-
riman in prominent roles. and what
is claimed to be "the most beautiful
chorus in the world"
THE Rainbow Girl" is founded on q
comedy by Jerome K Jerome. The
four sets are by Urban.
Evening star., 1919-03-02
SHUBERT-BELASCO

Adam and Eva" a new comedy by
Guy Bolton and George Middleton,
who wrote Polly with a Past" be-
sides many individual successes. will
be presented at the Shubert-Belasco
tomorrow night and all this week
The production is under the manage
ment'of T. Ray Comstock, who has
assembled a notable cast, which in
cludes Ruth Shelby. Otto Kruger,
Courtenay Foote, Ferdinand Gott-
schalk, John Flood. Roberta Arnold,
Reginald Mason, William E. Mack,
Adelaide Prince and Jean Shelby.
Adam and Eva" should not be con-
founded with the first inhabitants of
the Garden of Eden Both Adam
and Eva are modern characters and
the comedy is modern. The authors
have undertaken to write of domestic
relations in the home of a wealthy
man from a new and unusual angle.
1t is claimed there is a worthwhile
thought in the comedy. Its authors
comprising hard-worked and hard
headed chief, two daughters, a SON
in-law. a hypochondriacai mother-in-
law, sister-in-law and a jewel of a
maid The outsiders are titled
suitor for the unmarried daughters
hshAlST thc An-Ahbs pHs5iCldbJ WHO IS
also suitor, and Adam
The play was staged by Robert
Milton. That Mr.. Comstock is the
producer should be a guaranty that
the new comedy is clean and whole
some
Adam and Eva" is having a brief
preliminary tour before opening in
New York. 1t began its career two
weeks ago in Detroit, and last week
was played in Cleveland
Evening star., 1919-03-02
POLI'S.

At the Poll Theater A II. Woods will
present tonight, in an engagement for
one week, Mary Nash in The Big
Chance an extraordinarily success
full comedy drama, direct from an en-
gagcment of five months at the Forty
eighth Street Theater, New York
The authors are Grant Morris and
willard Mack. Mr Morris, a news
paper man, has just returned from a
years war work in France. The orig
inai draft of the play was written
within sound and sight of the great
world tragedy. 1t is described as a
play of love and regeneration.
The story concerns the moral re-
demption of group of wastrels and
proiiigates who found the big chance
for salvation" and took it-and "a
woman showed the way" 1t was Mary
Delano, a mill girl, whose goodness
finally made men out of Larry Thorn
dyke. an Irish remittance man, whose
people over there" paid him to stay
over here; Eddie Crandall, a race
track tout, who claimed that life
didn't give him an even break, and
"Pinky'' Crandali, a young million
aire, whose chief ambition was to
burn gasoline and chase the girls
About these strange types the authors
have woven the drama
In the cast supporting Miss Nash
are William J. Kelly. William 4. Nee
han, Ben Hendricks, Annie Mack Ber-
lein. Katherine Harris Barrymore,
Ramsey Wallace and Harry Roberts.
Evening star., 1919-03-02
CONCERTS, ETC.
Samarof- Philadelphia Orchestra

The concert by the Philadelphia
Orchestra Tuesday afternoon. at 4:3o
o'clock, when Nine. Olga Samarof
will be the chief soloist, will be the
last concert in the Washington series
this year.
Nine. Samaroff will play the second
Concerto of Brahms in 3 fiat, A work
of profound beauty and inspired mu-
sical thought, which she has present.
ed with great success in Philadelphia
and New York the present season. In
it Nine. Samarof reaches a new level
Of artistic distinction, emitting her to
rank with the great masters of the
keyboard. The occasions when Nine.
Samarof Tin private life, Mrs. Leo
pold StokowskD plays under the
baton of her distinguished husband
are events of unique interest, never
falling to attract large audiences.
The orchestra itself will play the
well known overture, "Leonore," No.
3. of Beethoven, and an unfamiliar
work by one of the modern Russian
composers. Gliere's symphonic poem,
Les Sirenes." In this composition the
writer has painted an effective musi-
cal picture of the sea and the sirens
with whom mythology peopled it. Mr..
Stokowski has presented it several
times this season with pronounced
success
Evening star., 1919-03-02
B. F. KEITH'S

Louise Dresser and Jack Gardner
and company will be the extraordi-
nary attraction at B. F. Keith's this
week. presenting here for the first
time musical comedy. by Jack Lait,
which gives them their first chance
to appear in the double harness of
stage life. Mr.. Lait's comedy is de-
scribed as along new lines of the in
timate, tete-a-tete life of married
stage stars. The action occurs in a
New York fat. There are songs,
smart conversation, drollery, a dash
of sentiment and an entree of fancy
steps. The added feature will be the
Four Mortons (second edition), Sam,
Kittie, Martha and Joe. The four
will be seen in Then and Now" Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmie Barry will play a
bucolic satire entitled .e'Fhe Rube," a
battle OF wits between the hick and an
actress. Cara Morton. la Petite vi
vandiere," will offer solo songa-
logue." The Rita Mario company
will present ten charming girls In a
wide variety Of instrumental selec-
tions- The Harold Dukane trio will
dance futuristic themes. and Ben
Boyer and Augusta will give laugh
able and novel wheeling The Pathe
News pictorial and other permanent
features I'LL up the measure
At 3 and 8:15 pm today the pro-
gram will include the Greater Morgan
dancers, Stuart Barnes and the other
acts of last week.
Evening star., 1919-03-02
THEATERS NEXT WEEK.

SFURERT BELASCO. - Maurice
Maeterlinck's new drama in three
acts, "A Burgomaster of Belgium"
inspired by an actual incident re-
corded In the Belgian White Book.
The play Is given in America by
special arrangement between the
dramatist and the producer, w K.
Macdonald and has been staged by
Capt Max Montesole of the British
aviation corps. The company, en-
tirely English, includes f. Lyan
Swete, Eda Farmer, Leonard Wiley,
Henry Herbert, Walter Kingsford
Alan Wiley. Frank Reyde and Ray
mond Sovey.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Hitchcock In
''Hitchy Koo, 191S.'
POLTS-William Elliott, F. Ray
Comstock and Morris Gest's produc-
tion of George V. Hobarts celebrated
play Experience" picturing the
path with Pleasure, where he meets
Beauty, Fashion, Intoxication and
Poverty. until the voice of Love leads
him back to Happiness. The cast Will
include Frazer Coulter. Raymond
Van Sickle, Marie Horne, Dorothy
Bernard, Marion Holcombe, Ebba
Andrus, Mary Smith Hall, Duncan
Harris, Blanche Crossan, Harry J.
Lane and Billy Belts.
B. F. THS.-Edna Goodrich
Rooney and Bent and Mr.. and Mrs.
Jimmie Barry as stellar attractions
in a vaudeville bill that includes also
George N. Brown, Lieut. Pat CBrien,
the daring aviator: the Miiiette
sisters, Wilfred Dubois and company
and more to follow.
COSMOS. - Lady Carmen's Min
strels." six old-time minstrel men
with fair interlocutor for contrast,
constituting one of the finest
organizations of its kind in vaude-
Vile. Lehr, Edwards and Mark, three
boys from overseas, in surprise
offering which is expected to prove
rare treat; L'Estrang and Batiste, in
a high-class vocal number; Halliday
and Neville in ''The Battle of What's
the Use?"; Charles Innis and Maud
Ryna; Sherwin Kelly, and d. W.
Grifnth's big film spectacle, "The
Romance of Happy Valley" as
matinee feature, with Never Too
Old" a comedy, the Pathe News and
other attractions.
GAYETY-The Golden Crook Com
many, headed by Billy Arlington. in
buriesque entertainment, including
George Douglas, Eleanor Cochran,
Harlie Mayne and the Pail Mall trio
with featured beauty chorus in
.aThe Ballet of the Allied Nations
The company is handsomely equipped
with scenery and costumes.
LYCEUM.-'The jolly Girls bur
lesoue production, featuring Al
Martin and Lottie Lee. with a large
feminine contingent in two 1aughable
burlettas, interspersed with vaude-
vile novelties.
Evening star., 1919-03-02
COSMOS.

Ten imperial Japanese entertainers,
including two wonderful midgets, sare
included in the Royal Yeno jap
troupe, the headline attraction at the
Cosmos Theater this week in what is
declared to be the largest and finest
aggregation of oriental entertainers,
in every line of their art, now in
vaudeville. It is an extraordinary at
traction for the Cosmos. A supple
mental bill of varied and delightful
specialties will present Arthur Pick
ems and company in His Wedding
Morn" a great comedy sketch; Demo
Scanlon and Demo, in a novel dancing
interlude: Dunley and Merrill, in
songs and witty chatter; frankie
Wilson, in THE Mirage of Light
presenting a famous artists model in
an act beautiful, and Billy Edwards,
a black-face iaughmaker. with some
thing new in material for laughter.
The matinee photoplay, presented
daily from Monday to Saturday at
lis and 4:45 pm only, will picture
Wallace Reid in 'The Dub" while
"The Rip and Stitch Tailors." Mack
Sennett comedy will furnish laughter
at all performances, at which also
will be shown the Pathe> war news
and Bray Photographs.
Today's entertainment, starting at
pm, will present a fine bill of
vaudeville specialties of high merit
with attractive film features.
Evening star., 1919-03-02
oZzde7T@ T@z71ck

the usual n1atinees. It was written by
Mark Swan, who wrote also "Parlor,
Bedroom and Bath" and Keep 1t To
Yourself one of the current New
York successes.
'She Walked m Her Sleep has had
a six-month season of success in
New York. It has been described as
full of lively situations, negle in
name and treatment. and with just
enough paprika in its mixture to be
uproariously funny. Its situations
center in the somnambulistic mean
derings of a good-looking young
woman in a New York hotel. Clad
in a pink silk nightie she walks the
outer lodges of the hotel enters rooms
occupied by other folks and proceeds
to cause enough complications to
boom Reno She also exhibits SOM
nambulistic tendency to throw her
arms around the necks of the married
men. whose wives, inclined to an easy
suspicion. walk in just when least
expected. Added to these complica-
tions are a maid and an inventor of
high explosives. the somnambulist's
hat and a tube of melinite, all of
which produce trouble in large guam
titles. OF course everything ends hap
PLY.
The original company is promised,
including Isabel Irving. Helene Lack
aye, Eva Williams, Leila Frost. Mar
Jorie Davis. Robert Ober Arthur
Aylesworth, William Walker, Arthur
De Lord and Joseph Crehan-
Evening star., 1919-03-02
Maeterlinck's New Play,

w. R Macdonald, who is responsible
for the American production of Maui
rice Materlinck's new play, "a Burgo-
master sof Belgium has issued the
following foreword:
Since those days when the storm of
war first broke upon an unforseeing
world and deluged it with a cloud
burst of blood, We have been made
to understand that our entire life and
that our art. which after all is the
mirror of our life, would undergo
radical changes. In the sphere. of ART
ltself there have been many prophets
who have eSsayed to tell what the
effects of the war will be; how the
spiritual and social disturbances will
resolve all art forms into other and
new ones.
'At last, however, there has come a
genuine manifestation oa the war
upon an artist of the first rank The
man is Maurice Materlinck, his work
"A Burgomaster of Belgium
"A mystic, symbolist, an ayoider
of life, deliver into the hidden mys-
teries and above all the father of a
cult likened unto the Ibsenites. such
was Maeterlinck when tae war broke
out. And such he remained through
the creation of the sequel to the Blue
Bird The Betrothal,' which was pro-
duced only this winter in New York by
Winthrop Ames.
While nothing definite can be
predicated as to the way of the
change, it is clearly recognizable
that Maeterlinck, the impressionable
artist, must now disclose something
to reflect the agony so sensitive a
soul as his must have suffered these
past four years when misery flooded
the world, but no part of it more than
his own country.
ga Burgomaster of Belgium must
speak for itself. But it is possible to
judge much from the facts of it's birth
and the reports of it's kind. Maeter-
linck was inspired to write the play
from reading an incident in the Bel
gian White Book, one of those many
Incidents that told with such vividness
and yet with such sincere lack of all
melodramatic characteristics the story
of a people wronged and oppressed by
the Juggernaut of GermSn militarism.
In any one of the hundreds of such
tales was there material for novel and
play What more natural than that a
playwright of Belgium should be in
sired thereby, but what more unnatu-
raj than that Maeterlinck should be
the man?
Under. deep stress Of feeling and
Evening star., 1919-03-02
John Galsworthy to Lecture.

John Galsworthy. the eminent Eng
i1sh novelist and playwright, will lee
ture here next Sunday afternoon.
March 9. at the Shubert-Garriek. His
theme will be ''Briton and American"
In the dramatic. as well as in the
literary, world his name is well
known. His plays, dealing with So
Geological problems. have drawn large
audiences from the better class of
theatergoers- John Barrymore's per-
formance as the hero of Justice"
his great prison-reform play, was
considered by the critics to be one
of the fine histrionic achievements of
recent years.
Mr.. GaIsworthy began writing at
the age of twenty-seven; he is now
ffty-one. Speaking Of the future
of art in America, he says: America
is at the commencement of a period of
new and vigorous art You have
enough material here in America for
painters and singers, for drama and
story that would drive us in England
crazy"
Evening star., 1919-03-02
GAYETY.

'"rhe Best Show in Town" is the
name given a two-act musical enter
tainment. in twelve scenes, at the
Gayety Theater all this week. COM
mencing at today's matinee. The
organization is one of five companies
on tour this season, under the direc-
ton of James e. Cooper The stars
are the three comedians of original
methods. Frank Hunter. Bert Lahr
and Frank Wesson. The book, writ
ten by William K Wells, and said to
abound in witty lines and sparkling
situations. is entitled Some Town"
and the twelve scenes present ex-
amples of the progress of stagecraft
Hal Dyson is responsible for the mu-
sical numbers
In addition, several vaudeville spe-
cialties will be presented, including
the Davenports, in a posing act, re-
producing masterpieces of sculpture.
The cast includes also Lynn Cantor,
Virginia Ware, Norris Lloyd, Helen
McArdIe and Margie Winters. The
chorus OF twenty IS one Of the chief
features of the show
Evening star., 1919-03-02
Famous Jewish Cantor Coming,

Josef Rosenblatt. the famous JEWS
cantor, who win be heard in recital at
the Shubert-Belasco Theater Sunday
afternoon. March 1s, under the direc-
ton of the ona B. Talbot Fine Arts
Enterprises of Washington. is a re-
markabie singer. His normal voice is
robust, tenor. but he has notes in
his lower register which have a vol
ume and quality almost like a basso,
while with sort of falsetto he can
mount to extreme heights with a tone
OF surprising sweetness. In these up
per ranges with mezZo voce he Sc
cures effects that are simply astonish
ing. He has as clear, and even triu as
any coloratura soprano, while the
runs and turns with which he en-
broiders the music are declared the
last word in vocal technique. Orders
for seats as being received at the
theater box office.
Evening star., 1919-03-02
LYceum.

A burIesque aggregation OF merit
will be the Lyceum Theater attrac-
ton this week. beginning with to-
days matinee at o'clock, when
Charles NJ Bakers "High Flyers" will
present two burlettas full of pep and
action.
Heading the cast Is Bert Bertrand.
In supporting roles are Charles Cole,
Frank Hanscum, Miller Evans. Ger
trude Ralston, Barbara Douglas and
Margie Hilton. with prize-winning
chorus of eighteen as a strongly en-
phasized feature
Twelve changes OF scenery occur
during the two acts. and the electri-
cal effects are said to be unusual and
startling. All the latest song hits are
put over with vigorous punch Mat
inees Will be given daily.
Evening star., 1919-03-02
Nine. Louise Homer Thursday.

Nine Louise Homer. leading con-
tralto Of the METROPOLITAN Opera. will
give her only recital this season at
tho National Theater Thursday at
1880 o'clock. under the managem ent
of Mrs wilson-Greene. for the fourth
concert in the Philharmonic course.
Nine. Romers program will include:
God in Nature" Beethoven: He
Shall Feed His Flock" from Mes
siah," Handel; My Heart Ever Faith
full" Bach; Les canaris de Verdun.'
FEWER: LA Procession" Cesar
Franek; "Air de Liza" from "L'Enfant
-ProdiQue," Claude Debussy: Ito Rus
Evening star., 1919-03-02
Folly.

The Peacemakers'' at the Folly
Theater. this afternoon and this week
will offer a burlesQue show. in two
acts and four scenes. featuring cos
tuning and lighting effects. Gus Nor
timer VIII lead the comedians. assist
ed by Charles Snuffy Gramlich. Austin
King and Bert Lester. Vivian Law
renee is the prfma donna: Ruby Gill
more, the ingenue. and Billy Kimes,
the soubrette. The girls of the chorus
are pretty and accomplished dancers.
Daily ma tinees will be given. Wrest-
ling will be a feature Wedne esday
night ~