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Evening sentinel, Tuesday, September 19, 1916 · page 3

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| T t—Lockvmod’a Hall—Owen Moore in “Rolling
l ones."

5 . Tomorrow—Lockwood’sl‘lali—Mae Murray in “The
i ~ Dream Girl."

; Thursday—Regent

"F AIR AND

 
 

PALACE THEATRE;

 

’ RISKS HAPPINESO TO SAVE

i CHILDREN.

——

In “The Heart of Nara Flynn” Mariel

TOday a; Tomorrow Regent

“WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN i” °

Theda Bara in
HER DOUBLE LIFE

Friday Night, Sept. 22 at 8:15

Selwyn & Co. Present

Prices 250 500 750 1.00 1.50
Seats Now on Sale

"rHohE
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is looked for as a record breaker.
The Devil's Needle. ,
Tomorrow afternoon and evening
“The Devil's Needle," a powerful
Triangle feature will be presented at
the Palace theatre. it is another of

 

the accused boy The railroad man
drops the case against the boy and in
return secures the pardon of his wife.

Abounding in thrills and iresented by

a superior (John & Harris company

ithis promises to be one of the chief
events of the season.

 

“OUR LITTLE WIFE."

‘Our Little Wife" is the fetching
title of the newest play by Avery Hop-

°°"° 7“" 'W'“ °' Another-'a E" the famous Triangles where the won- wood author of "Fair and Warmer"

rot and Spends Hours In Tears and
Sorrow, Not Knowlng Where It

j Would End. Palace Theatre Has 11

Thursday, September 21st.

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‘ Would you fight to protect the name
lot two charming children if it meant

derful photoplay helps bring out the
strong dramatic qualities to the full. '

 

uoania TALMADGE aranaso
WITH roux MARIHALL.

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last season's biggest Broadway suo-
cesa which Selwyn & Co., will offer at
the Regent theatre on Saturday, sep-

‘tember. 30th, for its drst stage presen-

tation with Margaret lilington in the
principal role. After her triumph in

""l‘be Lie" for the past two season‘s

iieapordlslng your future happiness? l“Th0 Devil's Needle.” New Triangle this “mom, dramatic .m- 1. to spin

'9 Would you shoulder the blame of

- haether woman and spend hours. in

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tears and sorrow, not knowing where
It would end?

: Facing disgrace and putting in too
pardy your whole life p future is some.
thing few people would care to do. yet
tin ‘The Heart of Nora Flynn" Marla
iDoro enacts the title role of the [Asky
production to be shown on the Para-
mount program, a part that is written
Ifrom oral life. doing this very thing.
The story is by Hector Turnbuli, turn-
ed into a photoplay by Jeanie Mec-
ll’iterson.

The story of this photo drama re.
mats glimpses of sweetness and Da-
thoa. with many strong dramatic mo-
ments and a powerful but happy cli-
max. ~

it deals with Nora. the nursemnid.
in the home of Brantley Stone, who
Is madly in love with Nolan. the. Irish
chaucffeur. They are working hard
to save money enough to bttild their
little home. Nolan is intensely jeai~
ous of her. which causes him to mis-
construe her actions.

The Sones, very wealthy en eriain
elaborately, and Nora comes in con
(not with many prominent peeple. Mrs.
Stone i~ infatuated with Jack Murray
and is one evening inadvertently seen
by Nora kissing him. Nora refuses
bribes not to tell. btzt when Nolan
overheats the conversation in which it
Is alleged that Murray is calling not on
Mrs. Stone, but on Nora, he becomes
infuriated and upraids her.

Later Mr. Stone becoming suspicious‘

'of Murray's actions comes home sud-
denly, only to sttrpirse the loving
couple. The wife's only protection is
in Nora's defending her and saying
that Murray has come to see her.
Nolan hearing this becomes insanely

Seniouu and attempts to shoot tile in:

trader.

The story is gripping in its intensity
Ind unusual in its theme. but handled
by Cecl D. de Mille it is one of the
cleverest bits of photo dramatic art
that has ever been shown on the
screen.

The ending is a happy one witl‘
iNora‘s explanation that she protected
(Mrs. Stone to save the names of thc
lino chi then her fear being that the
shooting of \iurray would lead to a
grave community scandal. She wins
her bottle after suffering many pans}
of heart agonv.

Miss Doro appears in the role of un-

1‘ usual appeal, a girl falsely accused be- ,
~ i cause she refused to sllild others.

 

 

, ,PALACE PICTURE ATTRACTS

_ LARGE caowo.

_..———.

I "The Unborn" A Strong Moral Play

With Great Dramatic

 

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' high -11;th the 039111!!!

”it ' ' Features.

Before one of the largest crowds to
attend. the Palace theatre this season.
“The. Unborn" George Eliot Junior's
big moral drama was presented last
”evening and- proved most entertaining.
show was all that; it was cracked

in be and there it it! 3““ “‘0‘
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1 gagemcm to Gordon, and marries him.|

incensed of a crime, is sentenced, serv-

Flna Arts Drama Dealing With ‘
Evils of Dru! Habit.
in “le Devil's Needle," Triangle
drama to be seen at the Palace theatre
on Wednesday. Norma Talmadge and
Tttlly Marshall are wsurred, and the
latter is seen in the kind of part in
which he achieved his greatest fame 0n
the speaking stage—that of a morphine
fiend.
it was in Clyde Fitch's last plal'.
“The City" produced on Broadway sev-
eral months after his death. that Mar
shall appeared as a victim of the “de\'~
il's needle," and gave such a marvel-
ous impersonation that on the opening

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night several women fainted and had ,

to be carried from the audience. "is
individual work was more largely rc-i
sponsible for the success of "The City"
than any other feature of the play.

in “The Devil's Needle“ written-by
Chester \Vlllley ttufi Roy Sornervillc;
Marshall makes his first appearance
on the screen in‘the role of a dope v to
tim. lie appears as David Stanley
an artist of note. Rene, his fatorite
model, played by Miss Talmadge: is :1.
child of poverty. and through evil as-
sociutions in her early girlhood has
acquired the morphine habit. This is
one thiltg she has never told Stanley,
the other llcing her love for him.

One day Wynne Mortimer. a society
girl. visits Stanley's studio with her
fiance, liugh Gordon. She falls in
love with the artist, breaks her on-

chc, controlled by evil impulses.)
when she finds the artist in love with
another woman induces him to try the
“tlccdle' as a spur to: his artistic in
spiration The habit fastened upon:

 

‘hlm, Stanley sinks lower and loner a!

ter his marriage, until his career is
ruined and his wife's heart broken. ‘

Seeking to rescue her husband from}
an opium dive, the girl is kidnapped;
and in peril of her‘life, when Reno:
realizing the horror she has \\‘r(lllghi,l
comes to the rescue and slit‘t‘t-‘(lrt in;
saving the wife from-her peril and the
husband from the deadly habit, which:
she llcrsclf has overcome after witnes‘
sing its frigltiiunl effects on the man:
to whom she has communicated it. ‘

In the supporting cast, of Miss 'I‘al--
madne’antl Marshall are. Marguerite!
Marsh, as the wife, and Howard Gaye,’l
as the jiited suitor, who plays a strouttl

land manly part in the events which

follows his disappointment.

REGENT THEATRE.

"THE HOUSE or: ones."
"The House of Glass," which will

be at the Regent theatre. Monday eve- \

ntng' September 25th., tells the tale
of a young woman who is wrongfully

es part of- her term and then break;
her parole and flees to the West". There
she meets and marries a young rail-

road man, who in the course of time is ‘

brought to New York as head of one

of the big railroad systems of the

oountry.- The husband is striving to

but behind the bars a boy; .whe" has 1 .

robbed the company. . .. *

'mance in "Mrs. Leftingwell's

. A4deoeothe comes to his liaise to:

 

essay a comedy role for the first time,

since her never-to-be-forgotten perfoo
Boo .”
She will enact a pretty little married
woman with a decided leaning towards
mild filrtations. and a decidedly yeal.
ous husband. Mr. llopwood has taken
this situation and woven about it the
series of mirthful and amasing tangles
for which he is famous. Miss llling-
ion is said to be looking forward to

playing this role with great pleasure.‘
in addition to her, the cast includes:
Walter Jones, G. Aubrey Smith, Gwen.

dolyn Piers. Robert Fischcr_ Charles

llampden tlnd Rge Selwytl. The piece

is being singed by Edgar Selwyn.

LOCKWOODB “ALL.
One of the many funny scenes in thr-

Famous Players adaptation of Edgar?

Seiwyn's celebrated stage success
“Rolling Stones" shows have Fulton
and Buck llydcr wrestling with a wine
bottle. These two "rolling Stones"
have surreptituously entered the limb-
en of Mrs. Branipatt's hoarding ltotlm

 

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and have discovered the wine bottle
on the tabdie. They proceed to have
a little war dance of Joy over the dis
celery and of coura- they shake all
the bottle so violently that it explodes
when they attempt to open it.

The role of Have u played by Owes
Moore who is winning in the pro

‘duction 'with pretty Marguerite Cour

tot. it so happens that this episode
was staged at the Famous Players stu-
dio on the hottest day of the summer
and when Mr. Moore was deluged by
the contents of the bottle it felt so
cool that Director Dal Henderson al-
most had to resort toblow's in order to
force him t take 0! the wet clothes and
don dry regatta so that the picture
could be Continued.

“Rolling Stones." which was one of

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Marie Doro in “The Heart of
Nora Flynn," at The Palace,

 

Owen Moore in “Rolling Stone: ,“at Mohavood's Hall, Norwalk.
Toni-vhf.

 

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.. and Warmer,"

 
 

".to lsee New York's greatest single

Mani attraction at lochwoods
Hall, tonight. Among the pleura
l who appear in support a Miss Connor
and Mr. Moore are Denman Haley,

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“FAJR AND WARNER." .
Belwyn & Company will bring “Fair
the Avery Hopwood,
farce which set a new pace for all'
farce: by a year-run at the Eltlage‘
theatre in New York without a racant ‘

seat at any performance. to the no?

gent theatre. on friday night ‘only.’
September. 22nd. So great was the

 

 

- momentum of “Fair and Warmer‘s"

,New York access that before its nrs‘.

sis weeks were out the whole country. .

. was curious about it, lnteresed in it,
,wd anxious for it.
All New York‘s visitors were taken

amusement center, and they went
that “Fair and Warmer" was the fun-
niest farce in the world. ‘

Selayn & Company wit present it

skillful cast of farcesre.

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l nonwaut wort GAME.

Defeated lethal Saturday, 4 to o, In
may Played Game.

The five hundred Bethel fans who
ioulnryed to Patios Held Saturday at
ternooa to witness Bethel and Nor
walk teams play oh the tie game were
Iomewhlt disappointed to see their'
team defeated, t to o.

1 0m of the largest crows of the sea-

 

lag to see the Bethel aggregation of
ball teasers Ila hands down, but they
did not count on Ohon, the Norwslk‘
apltball artist.

Slattery who caught for New C»
aasa against Bethe! three weeks ago.
'did the receiving for Norwalk. Biat-
tery is one of the beat catchers seen
on Parloa l‘lald this year and made a
great hit with the fans by hia'contln-
ued “pep."- Reilley. who once wore
a Bethel uniform. held down third base
for Horwaik and was a big factor in
the Norwalk scoring. Reiiley got four

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Alan Hale and ids Fitahugh. i ‘

 

son witnessed Saturday's game espeet- ,

 
 
 

 
 

Have Good Light
for Winter Nights

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

The
when you like to sit at home and

long Winter evenings,

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

frail, will soon be here. But what
kind of light are you going to
With Electric Light you
are assured of convenience, com.

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fort and safety. You owe it to
yourself and to your family to
have the best possible light, and

that means Electric Light.

L It will pay you to have your
house wired during our present
llousc wilting campaign, so that
you can take advantage of the
special inducements offered. Full

details on rcqucst.

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A United ilcciric
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hits out of five times up, scored two
runs and accepted three chances with-1
out an error. The box score:

 

NORWALK. 1
sh r h po a e?
nettlcy. 1-!» .......... 5 z 4 0 3 o‘
Lonrltak,“ .......5 1 o 1 3 o'
Seymour, 2b-rf ...... 4 0 2 1 0 0
Friend, cf‘2b ........ :1 o 1 1 o o
Guarnieri,cf-rf....‘..d o o 1 o a.
Smith. lb ........... :l o 012 o o
Keene.” ..... . ..... 4 0 0 0 0 0
Slatlery. c .......... 3 0 010 1 0
Olson,p ............ 411160
Totals ....”‘.......35 t 82713 0
i earner).
ab r h po 11 e
G.Lll\'dll|, ere-mus o 015 1 0
Hanna, 1b ”mums o 1 5 1 1
'Boblnson. c-cf flees-3 0 0 4 _0 0
l ...... , ..... 4 0 0 A ll ll

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Bennett,‘ss ......... l 0 1 o 1 oluuonea sun raunaarms SPEAK
Brodie. 2h .......... 2 0 0 2 l 1 “ml“!

IStuart. 3b .......... 2 0 0 ti 0 l INDIANAPOLIS. ind. Sept. 1,...
l-‘lnn, D ............. 3 0 l 0 l z'when Char,“ K. ’iu‘hms Repubuc‘,
A. inl\'alla, l'f . . . ”3 0 0 0 0 l l pmgidenml “mm speaks h”

-- - —- “w ”‘ ”lSnturday night. Char-lea W Fairbsnh‘
Tunis -"3 0 3 07 5 5' .the candidate for vice-pres. dent on the.
SCORE BY INNINGS. lslum ticket. will preside at the mesa
No. \ alk .............. 200 000 (ill—vi int; and act ., chum Announce-
Bellini ...... - --------- 000 000 000 0 went to that elect was made in
T\\'.0ba§e hit-t— Seymour. Bennett. inight.
Scratch hit~StuarL 1. Base an ball- , w. ll. 11. inner, who was one:

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‘0“ Finn 2' 0" 0"0“: H“ b" general of the United 81: tes 41
pitcl.er-— —Snlith_ Struck outwl'iy l-‘lnn, ”phloem Harrison. will be hope”
17: by Olson, 10. l' nlpire- Straiton. chairman of the misty, but [HOW

Time—2 hours. iwill not speak.
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NOTES OF THE BUILDING DE-
PARTMENT.

 

 

CHESTER, Sept'lS: George C b
mons. fiftyone years of age, wi-

a permit was issued to John J.New- km,“ thmubm‘ “mama county.-
man for plumbing is the house of has been stricken with infantile you

Charles Marcercher, of Boston street. ralygig 1“. condition ,3 ,ery m“

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

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