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THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: FRIDAY, 1915. Entertainments G. Fox Cft sCo. CLFox MAIL ORDERS CAREFULLY FILLED. THE GREAT Annual Mark-Down Sale Throughout Our Store SPECIAL FEATURES Tailor-Made Suits and Coats Fine Liiiens Choice Silks UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, CLOVES LACES, CORSETS AND ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS WINTE MID SALE THE PARSONS THEATER.

"Pinafore" With Splendid Stage Settings A'eM Week. Some of the wonders of the New Tork Hippodrome are to be brought to this city Monday and Tuesday, when Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore" will be produced at the Parsons Theater. The engagement is for two nights and a special Tuesday matinee. The entire stage of the Parsons Theater is to be flooded with real water. On this real water will ride a real ship, reproduction of an early nineteenth century English frigate.

The characters coming on board this ship from shore will be rowed across the water in small boats in full view of the audience. The chorus of sailor-men and "sisters and cousins and aunts," will be large. The sailors will sing most of their sopgs perched high in the rigging, for the masts, the spars and all the lines of this stage ship are to be entirely "practical." The principal roles will be sung by a company of grand opera artists selected with great care and rehearsed under the personal direction of William J. Wilson, general stage director of the Hippodrome. The whole production has been made under the watchful eye of that wizard of stage-craft, (Arthur Voegtlin, the presiding genius of the Hippodrome and the designer of all its marvelous stage effects.

i'Umcmlorf Lecture. The Hartford Grade Club will bring Dwight Elmendorf, the protagonist of the easy-chair method of scientific sightseeing, to the Parsons Theater Wednesday evening to present his delightful travel talk "Around the Mediterranean." The trip starts with the arrival at Medeira. Then Tangier, Algiers, Tunesia. and Egypt and the streets of Cairo are visited. The Holy Land, Smyrna, Constantinople, the Adriatic, Corfu, Cat-taro, Naples, Sicily, Genoa, Ville-franche, in the department of the Alpes-Maritimes, and Monte Carlo are visited and the lecture will close In the midst of the last great Carnival of Nice.

Each step of the journey will be illustrated with Mr. Elmendorf's marvelously clever pictures both in still and motion photography. Begins SATURDAY Morning January the Second Jerome E. Sage, 84 TO 88 PRATT STREET. Our Standard "THE VERY BEST." The Sale You'll Attend and Prevent HARTFORD FAVORITES All Merchandise Reduced in Price Excepting the Few Restricted Articles bats, one of the oldest acrobatic teams, died June 24.

Tom Mack, with Haverley's Minstrels for years and who also played in vaudeville, died March 11. Vic Leonza, known as a contortionist and wire walker, who played at Newton's Varieties in the 70's, died March 28. He was considered the greatest wire artist of his time. Timothy Cohan, who died March 9, was a dancer and Irish comedian and was with McGill's "Mirror of Ireland," at Allyn Hall in the 70s. He was a brother of Jerry Cohan.

Pearl Kytinge, who will be recalled by the early patrons of Roberts's Opera House, died March 8 at Atlantic City. Mrs. Eva Vincent, who died 'n New York, December 10, was the wife of Felix Vincent. They played with lister Wallack at Roberts's Opera House in the 70's. Albert Guy, an old-time minstrel, died at his home in Springfield, June 21.

The Guy family members were in minstrelsy many years and were well known in this STRAND THEATER. The Opportunity of the Year to Buy Staple Wares and Save TELEPHONE CHARTER 1580. Let Nothing Full Particulars TWO MENFALL ON ICYSIDEWALKS One Man Breaks Two Bones In Leg, Another Breaks 1 Bones In Hand. Two more aeciden caused sllP pery pavements were reported the police yesterday. Elton D.

Brovtn of No. 22 Bedford street, employed bvthe Orient Insurance Company, is conlftied to his home with a fracture of two bones in his left leg at the ankle. 'lie fell Monday afternoon on Main street. He is under the care of Dr. Ernest Wells.

James F. Lynch' of Nor' 60 Flower street reported to th police yesterday afternoon that'had fallen on Hopkins street ffirlier In the day andhad fractured two bones in his right hand In trying to check his fall. The accident occurred near the corner of Hopkins and Broad streets. The condition of Principal Charles L. Ames of the Brown School, who fractured his left leg near the hip in a fall on an icy pavement Wednesday was reported yesterday to be improv- ln his illness, Vice-Princi- oofn''yM is ln cIlarK oi the school.

Rev. Joei s. Ives of Mcrt! den, secretary and treasurer of the Missionary Society of Connecticut, who was injured in a fall from train while on his way from Meriden to Hartford, Wednesday, wan reported yesterday at. the Meriden Hospital to be, resting comfortablv. Resinol Soap fcr Natural Skin Beauty There can be no comparison bo- tweent a naturally beautiful complex ion ana one, the' defects of which Tml Soap helps mih ngnt Rind of skin It is a dellirhtfniix- nnn fectly suited to everyday use in the toilet and bath, yet to it are added ue noi balsams, which stimulate the pores of healthy activity, allav Irritations, and prevent or overcome the complexion defects which so easily arise from a little neglect, improper treatment or the use of artificial aids to beauty.

See Saturday's Courant For IF MARS IS LIKE THIS, LET'S Some Place, As Shown In Production At Grand Theater. GOOD SHOW HERE FOR THREE DAYS Use of American Flag Pleases Rather Than Disappoints. If the planet Mars is anything like it was represented to be at the Grand Theater last, evening, when Harry Hastings's Big Show appeared for the first evening performance of its three days' engagement here, it seems a pity that some of ns cannot jump into epace and reach that planet, instead of having to continue our habitat on this common, humdrum old earth of ours. For o.i Mars, as shown at the Grand, there were bright lights and pretty girls in costumes that caused one to look twice, and there merriment reigned suprente. Some place, all right, but we can console ourselves with the thought that maybe it isn't true, and that, perhaps, even on that other planet, sorrows are mixed in with the joys though the Billy Hasting crowd appeared to find nothing but Joy.

The Mars scene was only one of the elaborate stage settings used in the last-half-of-the-week show at the Grand. Others, including the poppy held and honey garden, were above the average. And the show and company, too, were good. In short, the genial press agent of the Grand Theater made good on his last boasts of the parting year, for he promised an exceptionally good show and the company "delivered the goods." Let's skip over the plot of "On and Off the Earth," the title of the production, for there wasn't much plot to it, in common with nearly all shows of its type. But the lines served to introduce mighty funny situations and carried bright, clean-as-a-whistle comedy, and plenty of opportunity was given a pretty chorus and clever principals to do good work.

The comedians, and Dan Coleman, with his funny Galloway whiskers suspended from his ears, was the leader in this class, provoked mirth with, lines that were really funny. There was much opportunity to laugh, and the crowd last night aided, perhaps, by a New Year's Eve abandon grasped, it and laughed early and often. Dancing was the feature of the show; it was better than the singing and up to the standard of the comedy. The principals did good work In clever novelty steps, and the girls in the chorus, fine looking girls, every one of them from the moat slender to the most chunky, gaily tripped and lightly skipped in the many numbers In which they lllled the stage. Tho introduction of the American flag into the third scene was well done and not so disappointing as most cases where the Stars and Stripes are used to win a hand.

After the flags of Germany and Austria and the allied nations of Europe had been shown, Old Glory was carried on the stage for just a moment by the prettiest girl in the chorus, without the usual, somewhat unpleasant use of the "Star Spangled Banner" drummed out by the orchestra, but. rather, as the final feature of the "I'll Follow You" song, the hit of the whole show. AU in all. it's a good production that invites patrons to the Grand Theater for the first two days of the new year. POLI'S THEATER.

The sale of seats for the current attraction, "Stop Thief," at roll's Theater, is very large and the number of reservations for the entire season has exceeded any of previous seasons, hundreds of people leaving their order for seats to be reserved for them each week. Tlie phone orders have come in so rapidly that it Iuib become necessary to make an addition to the box office staff, a girl now being there to take phone orders only. The Poll Players have made good aiid. in view of the coming attractions announced it seem destined to become a permanent organization, playing all the year. "Stop Thief," the farce of the week, has many laughs.

The quality of the attractions which will be spen during the coming months may be judged from the announcement that next week's offering will be David Belasco's masterpiece, "The Girl, of tho Golden costume production, the scene of which is laid in the Northwest in the days of when there was that memorable rush for the gold Melds. "The the Golden West" Is a human interest play. Chancing' a human life on the outcome of a card game is one of the big scenes of this remarkable play. The situations de velop in rapid succession and plots and counter-plots are overcome. The stage settings and accessories required to present this production in a wey befitting its importance have been entirely constructed by the Poll scenic and stage forces.

Manager Thatcher predicts that "The Girl of the Golden West" will prove one of the. most notable theatrical productions in stock history in Hartford. Additional interest is aroused by the announcement of the appearance, as "the girl" of Blanche Doughlas, an actress of wiile reputation, who played this role for nearly two years in a. Belasco production. Blanche Molineaux retires from the company tomorrow.

HARTFORD THEATER. Dorothy Donnelly is being seen in "The Thief" at the Hartford Theater during the last three days of the week. The settings are remarkably good, the climaxes are over what they were when the play appeared on the boards and the parts are. taken by artists who are vuluable in their support of Miss Donnelly, who is so well known in Hartford. The Thief" in picture form is a pronounced success.

"The Hop Smugglers," another drama being shown at the Hartford, is full of action. The Hartford also is presenting a funny Keystone comedy, "Fatty's Manic Pants." "Sweeney's Christmas Bird" is another good comedy and the Hcarst-Selig News Pictorial is up to the usual standard. The headline attraction for the first half of n'-xt week Is "Smashing the Vic Trut" with Charles S. Whitman as the feature. 1 9 Necrology Has' Long List of Hartford Favorites.

DEATH OF WELL KNOWN ACTORS Players Seen At Allyn Hall Roberts's and Variety Houses. The death toll of the year just closed includes the names of many old-time favorites of the American stage, who entertained Hartford theater patrons at Allyn Hall, Roberts's opera House, Joe Newton's Varieties und the American Theater, during the 60's, 70's and 80 s. Honk; of them have played at local theaters within a tew years. Following is a partial list of those that have died in Arthur McKeo Rankin, who died at Sa, Vrancisco, April 17, was seen at Roberts's Opera House in "The Two Orphans," playing Jacques Frotichard, with his wife, Kitty Hianchard, as Henrietta. He played tho leading parts in "Tho Dunites" and "49," noted Western dramas of the 80's.

Verona Jarbeau, the original Yum Yum, in "The Mikado" and Hebe in "linafore," a favorite singer in Gilbert and Sullivan opera, died October 17. Marie Jensen, comic opera singer, died March 20. Marion Manola, who sang in grand opera and was prima dona with Mo-Caul's Opera Company at Roberts's Opera House, died October 6. Signor i'erugini, who sang grand opera with Clara Louise Kellogg, J'atti, Nordica. and oilier stars died at the Forrest Home, Philadelphia, December 4.

He was once the husband of Lillian Russell. Mine. Lillian Nordica, a leading grand opera while on a tour, died at Hatuvia, Java, May 12. George Heath, who played with John McCullough and in "Old Kentucky" at Roberts's Opera House, died June 9. Archie Boyd, a leading comedian, who died April 16, was at Roberts's opera House in the SU's in Charles Hoyt's plays.

Harry Wilson gained fume for many years as Cy Prime in "The Old Homestead." He died August 2 and was 77 years old. Many old-time variety favorites that came to the. American Theater, on Market street, (luring the We died last year. James Russell, Russell Brothers, noted for their famous female impersonations in "The Irish Servant 3 iris." died January 111. He hud been on the stage with his brother John thirty-live years.

Many will recall! their Maggie, did you give the goldfish sny nnd other sayings. James Callahan, who died October i was with Callahan and Mack, leading Irish comedians for years. He was playing in vaudeville, with Callahan end St. George, and was a celebrated bagpipe player. tins Bruno of Kruno and I.essing.

fdd-lime German comedians, died Au- gust S. i Tom Nolan, Irish comedian and aii- 1lmr of the song Down Went Jilt- died in June. i Abe Lcavitt, negro minstrel and 1 anjoist. at Roberts Opera House in the early 70s. died July He was villi Madam Rente's Female Mln-Mi'pls in 1 S71.

Billy West of the old-time song and dance team of Queen and West died April 2. Hilly McAllister, end man with Cal Wagner's and Haverlcys Minstrels, died July 4. Billy Baxter, old-time minstrel and brin.io player, died July 11. Ned West, veteran minstrel, die' -t Westbrook. June 16.

John Cornalla of tho Cornalla acro HARTFORD USES 3,500,000,000 GALLONS More Water Needed For City's Various Uses. A study of the records of the Hartford water supply, as kept by the water department for the years 1913 and 1914, is of particular interest in this time of shortage. They show that the average daily consumption in 1913 was 9,093,600 gallons, whereas, in 1914, it had jumped to 9,167,279 gallons. This shows an average daily gain in consumption of 73,670 gallons, or, for the year, approximately 26,889,550 gallons. The total consumption for the year was nearly gallons.

January 1, 1914 there was gallons in storage and this had grown in quantity by April, so that, for the entire month, the reservoirs were at their maximum capacity of 2,123.100,000 gallons. From that time, however, I the amount in storage has gradually decreased until, at the end of the year, there are but 493,600,000 gallons on hand. On the other hand. 1913 began the year with only 669,700.000 gallons in storage, but Closed with 1,563,200,000 gallons. May 31 of that year the reservoirs were at their maximum capacity.

The rainfall last, year also showed a falling off. In 1913 it was distributed over the watershed as follows: Reservoir No. 1, 47.13 inches; No. 4, 42.86 inches; No. 6, 46.28 inches.

The month of October in that year contributed nearly tea inches, alone. Last year the rainfall was distributed bs follows: Reservoir No. 1 35.54 inches; No. 4 32.17 inches; No. 6, 33.42 inches.

July was the rainiest month, a little more than four inches being contributed in that. time. To offset this, however, September yielded but .33 inches. Syracuse Vni versify Luncheon. The third annual luncheon of the Syracuse University Association of Connecticut will be held at the Hotel Taft, New Haven, tomorrow at 1 p.

m. Tickets per plate. J. Robert Rubin, Syracuse University '04, ex-deputy police commissioner of New York, will be the guest of honor and the principal speaker. The program has been arranged by William A.

Wheatley, superintendent of schools in Middletown. who will act as toastmaster. All reservations for Places at the luncheon should be sent direct to Miss Ruth Thompson, secretary-treasurer, Rocky Hill. S. s.

Keeney is president and Miss Elizabeth Dean vice-president. PRINCESS THEATER. At the Princess Theater "today, a splendid holiday bill of motion pictures will be provided. Dustin Far-num, in the film picturization of Booth Tarkington's Southern dramatic romance, "Cameo' Kirby," made a hit yesterday, when it had its first'Show-ing in Hartford. The Animated Weekly, which comes today, brings views from all over the world.

Among the events and persons shown on the mirror screen will be the Prince of Wales, United States cruiser Tennessee. Asiatic troops fighting in Belgium and France, launching England's newest battleship, a glimpse of the Servian army, Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Secretary of War Garrison, views on the Mexican border, and other views. "Hounded," a Rex two-reel melodrama, has a number of thrilling incidents, including the looting of a bank, the death of the watchman in the vault, an escape from prison and the death of the hounded jailbird's wife and child. Every woman who visits the Princess during the daytime today or tomorrow w-ill receive a souvenir copy of the "Paramount Magazine." There will be special music today. THEATRICAL NOTES.

About the middle of January, Granville Barker and Lillian McCarthy will begin a season of repertory at Wallack's Theater, New York. Among the plays to be given are "Androcles and the Lion," by Bernard Shaw; "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife," by Anatole France; Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream;" "The Doctor's Dilemma," another Shaw play, and "The Madras House," by Air. Barker, himself. Daly's Theater, New York, which closed abruptly a few days ago, has been taken over by Walter and Jerome Rosenberg, who will run a moving picture program there. Leroy Drug, author of several vaudeville pieces, has writ leu a play entitled "Lady Satan," which will be produced at an early date.

of the new Ziegfeld musical skit will occur at the Danse de Follies, New York. The skit is entitled "Nothing but Girls." Joseph Urban has furnished the pictorial effects. In the cast are Ray Cox, Will West, Charles Purcell, Muriel Hudson. Sybil Carmen, Earl Oren, Marvin Grlndell, Helen Shipmiin and Blanche Wendell. There will be a big showing of iitcgteld oiris.

lite next month the Punch and Judy Theater. New York, will reopen, when "The Clever Ones," a comedy by- Alfred Sutro, is to be produced. The next attraction at the Band box Theater. New York, will be "The Prodigal Parent," by Guy Bolton and Douglas Wood. Henrietta Crosinan, her manager, Maurice Campbell, and the Orpheum Circuit have been made defendants in a suit tiled in the civil district court at New Orleans by the United States Lithograph Company, which alleges a debt of No Headache, Sour Stomach, Bad Cold or Constipation by morning.

Get a 10-cent box now. Furred Tongue, Bad Colds, Indigestion. Sallow Skin and Miserable Headaches come from a torpid liver and clocked bowels, which cause your become tilled with undigested food, which sours and ferments like garbage in a swill barrel. That's the first step to untold misery indigesl'on, foul gases, bad breath, yellc. skin, mental fears, everything that is horrible and nauseating.

A Cascaret to-night will give your constipated bowels a thorough cleansing and straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep a 10-cent box from your druggist will keep you feeling good for months. Millions of men and women take a Cascaret now and then to keep their stomach, liver and bowels regulated, and never know a miserable moment. Don't forget the children their little insldes need a good, gentle tleansing, too. COSTIVE BOWELS, HEADACHE, COLDS, TAKE CASCARETS "The Wishing Ring," a five-act Shu-bert photodrama, featuring Vivian Martin, was presented at the Strand Theater yesterday afternoon and evening before large audiences.

The story is an attractive one, and Miss Martin has every opportunity to display her talents at their best. A beautiful love story Involving the daughter of a poverty stricken English clergyman and the son of an English earl is Tadually unfolded as the play progresses. "The Wishing Ring" will be seen at the Strand today and tomorrow. The story deals almost entirely with Sally, the clergyman's daughter, and Giles, son of the Earl of Bateson, one of the proudest English lords. The time is in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Sally picks roses on the estate of a neighboring lord without asking permission. She is discovered by the gardener, who is none other than Giles, who had quarreled with his father and is working on the estate in order to conceal his where abouts from his father. Of course it is a case of love at lirst sieht. and Sally, when fche learns the identity of ner lover, noes all in her power to bring about a reconciliation. A wish ing ring given her by a gypsy figures largely tne plot, ami everything nnaiiy enus happily, other features to be seen at the Strand todav and tomorrow will include the Strand' Topical Weekly, with events in the European war, with also more than passing mention an exclusive Keystone comedy; "The Mutual Weekly." and "The Rescue." Special programs will be given by the Strand Symphony Orchestra aud on the concert pipe o'rgan, EMPIRE THEATER.

Francis X. Bushman is feu lured in the Essanay two-part special, "The Shanty at Trembling Hill," to be shown today at the Empire Theater. Richard Scott, a young politician in a Canadian city, is ordered to give up ids candidacy and take a long rest, in order to save his life. Frances W.irfield, his fiancee, when she hears of it. Is enraged and breaks the engagement.

Scott saves the. life of lairy O'Brien, foreman in a lumber camp, and goes with him to Trembling Hill to work and regain his health. There hi meets Gabriel le Boileau, a beautiful, but uncultivated girl of the wilds. They fall in love. Larry, knowing of Scott's wealth and social position, thinks lie is trifling with her, and tells him that, if he deceives her, he will break him.

Scott asks the girl the marry him, but her parents aud an aged priest fear the marriage will result unhappily. About this time Schuyler, Scott's friend, arrives with a note from Francis, asking him to come back. When tie refuses. Schuyler shows the note to the priest, who shows It to Gabrielle. She is furious and tries to stab Scott.

Lurry follows Scott to tho city, but the tangle is finally straightened out and the' two lovers united. Another feature for today Is the Lubin drama, "A Clean Slate." This tells the story of a husband, who was unhappy with his wife, and tried to find solace elsewhere. Other late releases will be shown and for them all the newest accompaniments will be played by the Empire Orchest ra. Si 11 kmk1 resolution would to pur- fa clocks. Clocks that have: MKttlT 70 PRATT ST.

WATER LILIES STILL PALACE FAVORITES Rest of Bill Changes But They Continue As Head-liners, The Six Water Lilies continue to be the biggest kind of an attraction at the Palace Theater. Their fancy div ing is as much appreciated by those that see it as it was the first part of the week. Yesterday was no exception to this rule and the applause that greeted the finish of the act was as enthusiastic us could be desired and showed just how strong a hold they have obtained on the vaudeville patrons of the city. The five new acts on tlie bill are all good. Arthur AVard opens the show with a comedy hoop-rolling act that brings to light a few new stunts in this rather overworked line of entertaining.

In addition he does some acrobatic dancing that alone would make a success of his act. Following him come the Bill and Maud, giving a lively conversational act has the funny happenings of a matrimonial agency as the basis of the fun. The little singing in the act makes one wish for more of the same kind. One of Jesse Jasky's offerings, "Kloping," is next in order. It is a sketch telling of the troubles of a young couple who are eloping and whose automobile breaks down.

They hire a horse from a farmer and the horse is one of those stage horses that dance and do many other things that a real horse could not do and all of" it very amusing. The Van Der Koors present a lot. of burlesque magic that is a good combination of dexterity and humor, the burlesque part of it being easily the better part. The "talking duck' is a decided novelty and very funny. Violin playing that embraces a wide range, running from "The Poet and the Peasant" to the choruses of a number of the late popular ragtime melodies, is what Carl Demerest has to offer.

The moving picture part of the program is up to the usual standard, the comedy pictures being especially good. AUTOISTS ARRIVE AT ELEVENTH HOUR Long Line Of License Seekers At Capitol. An excellent example of the leave-it-to-the-last-minute spirit was seen at the Capitol yesterday afternoon in the motor vehicle department. From the moment the doors swung back in the morning, the third floor of the building was filled with a never-ending line of automobilists, who, whatever speed they may show on the road, when the eagle eye cf the state police are turned away, certainly took a long time to get to the Capitol for their licenses and markers. The twenty odd girls in the office were kept in a frenzy of work from the very start and it was soon apparent that te decision of the department to extend the time during which 1911 markers might be used one week longer was a necessity.

Downstairs, where the tags were being issued, four men were kept at top speed all day. hnnding them out to the eleventh-hour applicants. THE Exchange Bank National Timely Suggestions For the coming year a cIiHse.Ano of our superior tut iim-iic, iut-, tin'' mi nn iimir uilll iva irtiaraiilwrf for vpais imurfrl mh.i in nwrin'' 1 Cult Regulators, Clock, Hall Clocks, ami I'oUliiis; Clocks for travelling, in leather eiws. 76 STATE STREET Is a banking; institution of UNDOUBTED FINANCIAL STRENGTH and with conservative management. It solicits accounts, assuring depositors personal attention and every reasonable accommoaauon.

Capital $500,000.00 Surplus and Profits $380,000.00 E. JOHNSON, President. S. Dunham, Vice-President H. M.

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