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Liberty theatre for gro consecutive performances from March 3rd, 1915 to February, 1916.
 While this phenomenal record is still in the making in New York, other organizations presenting the spectacle throughout the country upon the same scale as it was ori- ginally brought forth in New York have been piling up an unprecedented return.
 The road rout es were not fully un- der way until the middle of October. Since then fifteen different companies have been touring in all sections of America Everywhere the record has been the same and the combined re- ceipts up to the end of March reach the grand total of $5,432,7S6.
 This means that in less than six months over five million people have paid from soc to $2 to see t'Way Down East which is a record never before dreamed of in the history of show business for any one attraction The assertion that it is the greatest success ever known in theatrical an nals in the world seems amply proven
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By Ann Lisle
Copyright, :1s1s, King Features Syn
 dicate, Inc

world began" The tune Jim had hummed the night he came home from giving Val Cosby her first party-the party at whicI' present. For a second Jealousy had me by the throat again-but in another second conquered it. And, then I knew that at last my love for Jim was great enough to cast out doubts and fears
 what do you hate to tell me ?-' Jim insisted ignoring Evvy's innu- endo.
 What that cat of a Stoughton has ferreted out and will probably blazon to all the city, replied Evvy heaving a little sigh.
 why, she said what she had fer reted out was a romance-somethi about May and December and that you'd asked her to write and get. So now if you don't want her to tell whatever it is, she probably won't" !" interposed.
 I caught a heetnig something in Jim's eyes that seemed like twin kIe-- Then Evvy leaned across to me and spoke with slow, sirupy venom: C My dear Anne-you force me to be explicit When first I saw the Cosbys I remembered the name something mysterious about it that couldn't place. Then Tom said she had been a Miss Democrats, the one time fruit kings daughter. I almost remembered again. Then came Mrs. Stoughton and she remembered Lane and not Val So I wrote to a friend
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CHAPTER CCXLI.

Don't you remember me, Mrs. Harrison? I'm Mrs. Stoughton. We met when you were spending the weekend at Mason Towers. I don't think I know this nice young man though?'' the woman who had ap- peared so suddenly at our table raced through her sentences with the effect of being perpetually out of breath
 How do you do, Mrs. Stoughton,' ,'' [ said, conscious that Evvy was hur- -rying Jim desperately in and out of gaps on the dance floor as if she were in a great rush to come to us She seemed to be trying to signal something, but Evvy's motives and desires didn't interest me, so I went on to present Neal, My brother, Mir. Hyland."
 "Oh-Evvy's young mani" gurgled Mrs. Stoughton just as Evvy got to the table, Then She offered elaborate congratulations and in moment or two she was sitting with us and cry ing out how very glad she had been to get Evvys note that morning and not to have to wait for the formal newspaper announcement.
 All the while she was rambling on, I was conscious of tension and tense ness on Evvy's part. She seemed to be trying to head off her garrulous friend from some danger point. But Mrs. Stoughton was not to be stopped nor stayed.
 ''I just noticed you dancing" she
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WHEN A GIRL MARRIES

said. And then I saw Mrs. Harri- son and figured you'd be at her table as you were with Jimmie Harrison. And I hurried right over to tell you certainly did attend to writing that letter you asked me to send to the coast, and the answer came this morning in the same mail with your note. And everything is just as you said. It was CoSby'S first wife, I met. This is the second Mrs. Cosby. Isn't it romantic? Too sweet, I call it, for May and December to find true love together'-
 q know" broke dn Evvy at last, managing to stem the flood of elo- quence. 'I had a letter too this morning. It was just like you to take so much interest Oh, there's dear MT. Stoughton! I positively must have him meet my Neal''
 Thus Evvy managed to get Mrs. Slough away from our table. The instant she rose to pilot the evidently unWelcome guest and Neal over to MT. Stoughton, Jim turned to me ex- actly as if Evvy and Mrs Stoughton had never been.
 Now we can waltz, dear,'' he said.
 So I finished the waltz in Jin's arms. This was my moment out of cause I knew it was Jim's too.
 When we came back from our dance Evvy And Neal had already re- turned. Evvy was distrait, irritable. Suddenly she turned and flashed one
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PART TWO

federate-and even that one glance had told me how dangerous a. man guard while the Professor had at tackled me. From a distance, un- seen by me, he had been a witness of his friends death and of my es- cape. He had waited and then making his way round to ff1S top of tn cliff, he had endeavored to sue ceed where his comrade had failed.
 'I did not take long to think about it, Watson. Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone I scrambled down on to the path I don't think I could have done it in cold blood. It was a hundred times more difficult than getting up. But I had no time to think of the dan ger, for another stone sang past me as I hung by my hands from the edge of the ledge. Halfway down I slip ped, but, by the blessing of God, I landed, torn and bleeding, upon the path I took to my heels, did ten miles over the mountains in the dark ness, and a week later, I found my self in Florence, with the certainty that no one in the world knew what had become of me.
 'I had only one copidant-Iny brother JMycroft. I owe you many all important that it should be thought I was dead, and it is quite certain that you would not have writ ten so convincing an account of my unhappy end had you not yourself thought that it was true. Several times during the last three years, I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your af- fectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret. For that reason I turned away from you this evening when you upset my books, for was in danger at the time, and any show of surprise and emotion upon your part might have drawn attention to my identity and led to the most deplorable and
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out on the Coast-I can't help it that Mrs. Stoughton wrote too. F'ortu- nately she doesn't know the whole story.'
 'Is the whole story-any of our af- fair?'' asked Jim suave1y. Then he caught himself up and added: "But of course if it weren't you wouldn't tell it."
 Of course not,'' agreed Evvy, turning to him all wide-eyed inno- cence. Those Democrats people are just melodies now They had money once, but lost it all and make their living running a boarding house on one of their mortgaged fruit-ranches Lane Cosby and his invalid wife came to stay there one Summer. And that's how Val met him. She went after him because he had money. He. fell in love with her and later he put his wife in an insane asylum. That's all my friend knew. But it's enough. don't have this-Demerais person pouring out my tea-''
 Poor old CosbyI" said Jim, his face inscrutab1e even to me as waited breathlessly for his reaction to Evvy's cruelty and the hideous- ness of what she had hinted about the Cosbys.
 Poor old Cosbyi'' he murmured again. Then he turned to Evvy and his eyes challenged her-heId them Do you mean to insinute that the poor creature out in that asylum is still aive?''
 Gro Be Continued.) '
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of her vivid blue glances at Jim:
 Jimmie, I'm in a hole." she said coaxingly, "and I count on you to get me out. I know you'll think of a way"
 What's the matter with your nat ural protector?' Jim voiced the ques- tion I was formulating.
 Evvy put her hand over Neal's possessively and dropped her head so she could look up from under her lash'as at him. In a second she whisk- ed his hand to her lips and then dropped it with a quIcK jerk of her white shoulders. If anything Nears face went a shade paler.
 E"This is way out of my boys line,'' said Esvvy at her purriest. And it's right in yours, Jimmie. These CoSbys have taken you in, too. I can't have that Cosby woman pouring at my tea. And some one has to give her a hint that society won't tolerate her. So I thought''-
 "so you thought what, Evvy ? What does all this nonsense mean ?'' asked Jim lightly enough. But his lips were tight at the corners and there was a flash in his eyes.
 "Oh, Jimmie, I hate to tell you be- cause I know ho chivalrous you are where pretty '-Jmen are con- cerned,' said Evvy.
 All about us was the warm press of people dancing. Of a sudden noticed the orchestra was blaring.
 Hindustan, I met her and my
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-01
All Rights Not Gained By Women In Some States

Chicago, March 25.-Granting of woman suffrage has not yet given the women full rights with men in a large part of the United States, it is indi- cated by a survey of the middle and south west made by the Associated Press. In only a quarter of this ter ritory, it appears, do women stand unmistakably on an even footing with men.
 The discrimination where they exist are, however, for the most part small. The chief disability lies in the right to sit on juries.
 The stumbling block in this case is generally a constitutional provision that jurymen must be males. Re moval of the disqualification. has been urged in a number of legisla- lures this winter.
 Other exceptions women are under in various states include these:
 In Iowa, they cannot sit in the leg islature.
 In Wisconsin. they cannot serve as a legislative employee.
 In North Dakota, they do not pay poll tax.
 South Dakota women are regarded as barred from jury duty by consti- tutional provision or statute.
 In Nebraska, although an Omaha woman recently sat on a jury, exist ing law makes this irregular. In
 
 circuit judges believe that the use of the masculine in the statute does not bar women from jury duty, as women have served on a circuit court jury in Jassamine county and on both petit and grand juries in Laurel county. There has been no opinion by the Kentucky general or the courts.
 In Minnesota the attorney general has held that women cannot serve on juries, but several district court judges have held otherwise and ad- nitted them to juries. In Illinois untir the Supreme court rules defi- nitely, judges are permitted to de- termine for themselves whether wom- en shall serve jurors.
 The North Dako kota legislature re- gently passed law permitting wom- en to serve on juries but not requir- ing such service.
 In Indiana the legislature has just received a discrimination by enact- ing that the father and mother joint ly, if living shall be the natural guardians of their children, instead Of the father alone.
 Iowa women contemplate effort to have their inability to sit in the leg is1ature removed through an apr poaching constitutional convention Otherwise they enjoy full rights with
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dresses that either accenuafe her beauty or distract from possibly none too perfect features by the cultures own ma gnificence.
 In other words the coiffeur is the manager that stages Iniladys face he studies her features. particularly her forehead, nose and chin and the shape of her face. Then by clever manipulation of the dresses he builds the hair so that it balances properly with the profile or harmonizes with the oval or roundness of her face; he enhances the broad, high brow with ringlets and dips, or reveals the mar row brow by turning back the locks. And the tool of such artist is the comb.
 Perhaps the most ornate cultures ever accomplished without the aid of false hair were those executed by the Greek and Roman women. Their
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-01
What 'SWay Down East'' Has Done

D. W. Griffith's elaborate produc- ton of "Way Down East which as the world knows is a new art form treatment of the basic theme of the play of the same title has proven it. self the greatest attraction ever pre- scented within the four walls of theatre
 It is the public estimate expressed in plain figures and facts which war rants this assertion
 Starting with it's premiere in New York city at the filth Street theatre last September, by the time tn s reach CTS Your eyes it will be approaching it's 45Oth consecutive performance in that playhouse. The 400th presentation was celebrated on Monday afternoon, March 21st. Despite all unverified and silly claims of other attractions this is with one exception the longest consecutive run played by a super motion picture spectacle in any city in the country. The record is still held by D w. Griffith's first S2 mo- ton picture triumph ''The Birth of a Nation" It ran for AT weeks at the
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RcVieW.O


 An exceedingly interesting book is New York's First Music Work, writ ten by c. M. Tremaine, able director of that splendid organization, the Ma tional Bureau for the Advancement of Music, with headquarters in New York. Recently issued, MT. Ire maine's work is happily apropos, for New York's Second Music Week is to be celebrated April 17-24-
 In a succinct but comprehensive foreword to the book Charles Schwab says:
 ..Whatever is beneficial to New York is beneficiatin a proportionate degree to every community, large or small, in the United States. This is so in business. It is so 1n art u is so in music
 '@The potent influence of music for good in the everyday life of the na- tion is but beginning to make itself felt It will spread with the appre- citation Of music's benefit to mankind. '
 It Proved 8 Truth.
 New York's First Music Week took place the first week in February, 1920 Says MT. Tremaine of it. ''Its chief importance was not that it affected -a.-great metropolis or even a great nation The great signifi- canoe of the demonstration lay in the fact that it proved a truth which af- fects the whole world. This truth is that the people as a whole-not some people or some. classes, but the people of every class and of every variety of circumstances music. And this is the truth that the book starts out to demonstrate and then to prove. ''MuSic's Broad Scope" is amply and forcefu11y touched upon in a carefully written chapter; then fol- low a description of the aid that is given to music by the churches, both
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'sNew York's First Music Week.

clergy and organists; the co-opera- ton given by commercial and indus trial houses, by music teachers, com servatories and music schools, col leges and universities, schools, both public and private, music clubs, wom : ems clubs, musical organizations, civic organizations, music managers, motion picture houses, hotels, theaters, con cert halls, welfare organizations, pub lie Hbraries-the support and encour- agement of this innovation that was gwen from every quarter of the the city.
 State and municipal authorities placed the mark of approval on New Yosk's Music Week in letters and teIegrams cram1ned full of good wishes. Many of these came from all over the country. from Florida to Maine.
 Fitted to Bridgeport.
 In his excellent book MT. TremaiEe statement that may be fitted to Bridgeport as well as anywhere else:
 ''The character and extent of the participation in this celebration make 1t certain that there will be hundreds, even thousands of similar demonstra tions not only over our own coun- try, but throughout the world. . Music Week G92O) has passed on, but not. without having left it's mark on the consciousness Of the city. The ideas implanted in this public snind. strengthened as they will be by other Music Weeks in other cities. and the general increase in the use of music in our American life, cannot fail to still further affect favorab1y the peoples altitude toward that art described by Addison as almost all we have of heaven on earth "
 Irrelevant this may be, but potent.
 Why can't Bridgeport have ! Music Week? F. B.
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TODAY'S INSTALMENT.

He knew that his own game was up, and was only anxious to revenge him self upon me. We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horibler scream clawed the air with both his hands. But for all his efforts he could not get his balance, and over he went. With my face over the brink. I saw struck a rock. bounded off, and splashed into the water
 I listened with amazement to this explanation, which Holmes delivered between the puffs of his cigarette.
 But the tracks!'' I cried. 'I saw with my own eyes. that two went down the path and none returned"
 Tt came about in this way. The peared, it struck me what a really ex- traordinarily lucky chance Fate had placed in my way. I knew that Mor- iarty was not the only man who had sworn my death. There were at least three others whose desire for ven creased by the death of their leader They were all most dangerous men. One or other would certainly get me. On the other hand, if all the world was convinced that I was dead they would take liberties. these men, they would soon lay themselves open. and sooner or later I could destroy them. Then it would be time for me to an nounce that was still in the land of the. living. So rapidly does the brain act that I believe I had thought this all out before Professor Morlarty had reached the bottom of the Reichen- bach Fall.
 ''I stood up and examined the rocky wall behind me In your picturesque account of the matter. which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall wa0
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, irreparab1e results As to Mycroft, I had to confide in him in order to obtain the money which I needed. The course of events in London did not run so well as I had hoped, for the trial of the Mariarty gang left two of it's most dangerous members, my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty. I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa, and spending some days with the head. Llama. You may have read of the remarkable ex- plorations of a Norwegian named Sigerson. put am sure that it never occurred to you that you were re- ceiving news of your friend
 then passed through Persia, look ed in at Mecca, and paid a short but interesting visit to the Khalifa at khartoun, the result of which I have communicated to the Foreign Office. Returning to France. I spent some months in research into the coal tar derivatives, which I conducted in a laboratory at Montpelier, in the South of France. Having concluded this to my satisfaction, and learning that only one of my enemies was now left in London, I was about to return when my movements were hastened by the news of this very remarkable Park Lane Mystery. which not only appealed to me by its own merits, but which seemed to offer some most came over at once to- London, called in my own person at Baker Street. threw Mrs, Hudson into violent hys- terfcs, and found that Mycroft had preserved my rooms and my papers exactly as they had always been. So it was, my dear Watson. that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old aruishair in my owh old room. and only wishing that could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned"
 Such was the remarkable narrSa tive to which I listened on that April ,evening-a narrative which would have been utterly incredible to me
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combs were of divers shapes and va rious materials, totally gold, ivory and boxwood- The golden combs were often studded with precious Jewels and sold for fabulous prices
 At different ages the comb, the fancy comb has returned to grace the .coiffure. At present the vogue is the Spanish comb of graceful fan ming lines. Miss Manhattan can scarcely filrd them big enought She 6oes not cover her tortoise combs with :l:e Spar ish lace mantlla, however, but with the tuile>of her dress: This she puts over her comb, winding it's ends around her throat and arms. In crimson tuIle black tulle the effect is bewitching.
 These combs are worn with gowns of slender lines. but perhaps more appro pria te1y with the short bouffant skirts of brilliant hued brocade that
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The Adventure Of The Empty House

sheer. That was not literally true. A few small foothoIdS presented them- of a ledge. The cliff is so high that to climb it all was an obvious inpos- sibility, and it was equally impossible to make my way along the wet path without leaving some tracks. might
 it is true. have reversed my boots, as I have done on similar occasions. but the sight of three sets of tracks in one direction would certainly have suggested a deception. On the whole, then, it was best that I should risk the climb. It was not a pleasant bus mess, Watson. The fall roared be- heath me. I am not a fancfful per son, but give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss. A mistake would have been fatal More in my hand or my foot slipped in the wet notches of the rock, I thought that I was gone But I struggled up- ward and at last I reached a ledge several feet deep and covered with soft green moss, where could lie un- seen in the most perfect comfort There I was stretched, when you my dear Watson, and all your folEowin g were investigating in the most sym pathetic and inefficient manner the circumstances of my death
 At last, when you had all formed your inevitable and totally erroneous conclusions, you departed for the ho- tel, and I was left alone. had m agined that I had reached the end of my adventures, but a very unex- pected occurrence showed me that there were surprises still in store for me huge rock. falling from above, booned past me, struck the path, and bounded over into the chasm. For an instant I thought that it was an accident, but a mo- mert later. looking up. I saw a mans head against the darkening sky, and another stone struck the very ledge upon which I was stretched within a foot of my head Of course the meaning of this was obvious. Mo EnrH hAd not been alone. A con
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When the first prehistoric lady peered into a hnlpid pool nd saw her self therein she undoubtedly patted ta7T hair into a becoming arrange ment, first trying it this way and that, studying each ensemble long and seriously. And then when she found something peculiarly suited to her prehistoric beauty and calculated to make the wild men wilder sine set about to find something to keep her treSses in place. So The comb was invented and the art of the coiffeur.
 The comp is as old as the hills anyway, as old as the hill dweIlers or the cave dwe11ers, or the tree dwell lers or tho lake dweilers-as old an ornament as the necklace and the gir6le.
 Thanks to the comb. milady has been able to create fantastic head