egent-
I‘ONIGHT at
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Harry Morey with Betty Blythe
In An Amazing Mystery Drama
“A Game With Fate”
AND THE OFFICIAL WAR REVIEW OF THE
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7:15 and 9 O’Clock
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UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE
AND ITALY
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
31” The Greatest Woman’s Picture Ever Produced
“ WOMAN AND
THE
Based on the intemationa
tic case, which shocked not 0
America, ah well It follow
far off Chile to its dramatic c
Island court-house. .
the heart-rendering experlt‘lit'
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It depicts in a terribly realistic manner
woman, who married the big
. . Also Showing Wednesday .
BURTON HOLMES TRAVEL PICTURES
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llv sensational De Saulies domes-
1111 the United States but South
the story from its inception in
liniax in the prosaic little Long
es of the little South American
Yule quarterback.
i or of the Fox Forces, it presents a p18.
Today
' Scanda ”
Starring
Carmel Myers
.. 11- unatic Thrill Whereby 11 Doc-
11 the French Front Learns
Faith in Women.
Wedfiay
Olive Thomas
Starred in
‘Madcan; Madge”~ ~-
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' REGENT THEATRE rooav
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"A Game of Fate" Starring Harry Morn.
ey and Betty Blythe
Torn Terriss director of Alice Joyce
l Broadway.
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ture of timely and pertinent interest to
'everyone. ,
l Based on the international sensation
1:11 De Saulles case, which so shocked
ithe United States and South America
and which was discussed in every
home in the country, it is said, the
i thrilling moment when woman who has
1 slain for the sake of her child faces the
jury lwhich is to decide her fate, delr
lets a situation to hold the moat hard-
tned play goer spellbound
Meeting a beautiful! heiress in South
Amrrica. a young Americah college
iman marries and brings her to New
York.
i For 11 time all goes well with them
The bride is happy in the home, which
,'her husband has made for her in the
Igreat city and she is slow to realize
howh e is bored with her company and
. longs for htsIold companions of too
gay life of the city.
After :1 child is born to them he soon
wearies and makes life hideous for her
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passions leap to the surface. she kills
him. and is forced to face the law. It is
left to the jury to decide her fate. The
question placed squarely before every
Epersou 11 ho sees it is thrown upon the
screen:
Are there pro1ocations which Justi
lf_1 :1 women to kill?
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And the jury decides to a sense that,
5 811%me her tothe .- d
’ lust as one has consented very reltict-
antly to marry a man for whom she
does not care. ' She is arrested but not
Iseatenmd. The disgrace causes her
father to drive her from home and she
goes on the stage. Kendall volunteers'
for medical service at the front and
-.-. there amid scenes of valor and wonder-'
‘= ful devotion of French women he
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learns the res peel the lack of which
had caused bitterness in two lives.
“A Broadway Scandal, " the Bluebird
photoplay in which Carmel My era will
be seen at the Palace Theatre today,
icontains a strong supporting cast, in-
EIEcludingfiron Chaney, Andrew Robson.
Frederick Gamble, all well known to
photoplay audiences.
ISILVERMINE BENEFIT FOR RED
' CROSS
To the (‘itizens of South Norwalk:
Vl e, the Sill ermine Players Jr, want
to help the Red Crosa, so are giving
next Saturday at‘ sun— down an open
air performance of an original sylvan
(uilicjj that never before has been
performed. its title is “s‘leViD bed too-
salt .” and in it we try to show how a
certain boy was initiated into the my!
teries of wood-lore by Pan and his lot
lowers. The plot was our own idea, but
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we have had the great good luck to se-
' cure the help of George Mitchell, whol
you know is a writ plays for chil-
dren. Mr. Mitchell is a mighty busy
man these days, as he is the song lead-
er at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but he
has stayed up nights to write our play
i because we want it for the Red Cross.
We know you will agree with us that
we shall give a first rate perforaianoe;
Dr Dover Byard has helped us. too."
by slowing us to set o'er sylvan comedy
NORWALK
Edward Rooney. and family, of 13.91111.I
d_ict.street, have moved to Osborne!
avenue.
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Mr. and Mrs Eugene Devine are now
occupying 1hei1 new residence on Wil-
liams street. ‘
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Van Schaick,
'Edwin August W. H Bainbridge and,snd familt have moved from Osborne
avenue to Winfield street. 1
1‘ Mr. and Mrs. Cortland D. Ferris, who
have been fishing Mr. Ferris' mother
on Van Zandt street. have returned to
, .their home in Hartford.
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William Banks has resigned his
position as driver for Louis L. Bean,
the Van Zunt sires milkdealer, to ac
cept a position in the Remington Arms
plant in Bridgeport.
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Edward Brennan. of the Naval Re-
a former East Norwalk resident.
spending a five day furlough
'home in this our.
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The members of tile East
Devon; Steven Stone, Camp Devens:
"Wilfréil D. Taylor, Camp Devens; Wll
:thva Redfan. Camp Devens; Har-
old Taylor. Camp McClellan. 111111111011,
William lerow Camp Devens.
1111. the grmmds of his SllVermino bone.‘
‘W’Greymcks There is a" little pool 11'
one corner that makes Just the right
setting for our play“
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'Plavers 11.111111 111111111111, we aim Blythe East Side Comunity 11in have‘
been placed on sale. The proceeds ol‘
to glue plays only for our parents no
friends in Slivermine. Our first plai'
(which also was written by Mr. Mitch
» oil) was given for the Silvermlne neigh
bors. The nice things they said about
it spread so far that just the other day
we were asked if we would repeat it
for the benefit of the Red Cross in New
Canaan.
But meantime we hace been working
hard on " s‘le1ll) nod toceaM”. rehearl-
lng, making costumes, etc Now we are
anxious to have a fine big audience noI
with his escapades with notorious wo_ that our gift to the Red Cross may 00 place at the result! “199““ 9' “1°
men. She hears with him until he takes large enough to be of real help. Won'tI I31“ 01 Columbia Circle, Commnlon.
iher child from her. Then the elemental you come and see our little sylvan of the Forest on Thursday “emu.
comedy if onlv for the sake of the Red
Cross? And won‘t you ask your friends
to come. too? The performance begins.
at 7:45 p. 111. next Saturday, August
17111, at “Gre1rocks,” Silver-mine; ad.
minim 50 cents We promise to give
you our best that you may be glad you
have come.
Respectfullv yours.
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Tickets for the ca‘rd- party and dance.
,Norwalk
Tobacco Fund have prepared'packages
of smokes for the following boys who
recently left this city" and are now in‘
the service: Richard Raymond Camp
Ala'; Michel Galbo, Fort Slocum‘ and
Howard Scott has him visiting “rela-
tiVes in the village.
Mrs. George W. Stevens. of Mditinley
street, has returnedfrcun a 1isit in
Estamford. '
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’Harry S Bryan, who has had a pain-
iful col-bunch: for some weeks, is now
reminding;
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’R; I. Waterbury, of McKinley alike
has taken aposition at the Norwalk
Iron Works,
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Constablefouver 1. Clark. of PennoY-
er threat. has returned from a cruise
to Long Island.
The barn owned by Horace Tinker.
on West Side avenue. is being re- shing-
led and rem”:
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Junior Heldenant‘Wllliam I. Stev-
ens is receiving congratulations De
lug appointed senior lieutenant ,%
serve force stationed at Pelham Bay. his stay in Norfolk. Virginia. "
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Charles Gager, who has been enjoy-
,ing a weeks' vecation~from his duties
‘ as teller of the National Bank of Nor-
walk. returned to his duties this morn-
ing. - '
Private Raynor Wei-me, who is lo-
cated at Ctmp Devens, Ayer. Mass.
spent the week-end with Mrs. Worms
the home of Mr. suture. Elbert T.
Marsh, on Highland avenue.
lira. John ll'llnt.1who has been spend
lug several weeks in 11.0an the
guest of her sister, Mrs. E. H. Avery.
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the mm a series of such events, to of Pennoyer street. expects to tears
be 51"! under the “mm“. of the East for her home in Detroit. Michigan, this
When we organlied .15 Silva“ W T053000 ““4 ”a ““3“” 30' week.
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Ensign Punk R. Stevens is spending
this affair will go towards cigars, clg. 8 19' days furlough at his home on
arettes, pipes tobacco. candy and chew Rouxtbn avenue Ensign SteVens is
ing gum. The work of this body or a member of the merchant marine, and
East Sldcrs is 1ery commendable and has made several trips across the
it is hoped will be well supported fln- ocein.
anciallv. . ,
on sale at Dunne' 11 Hardware store and
‘ from the. early iudicatiuons a record-
breaklng number of tickets will be dis- weeka' vacation from her duties in theE :1“ “nWlltlnxly. at that About 5: 30 a.
posed of.
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The installation of oillcers will take
The tickets have been placed
Miss Florence L. Moore, of Pond
street. who has been enjoying a two
lattice of the Southern New England
Telephone ocmpsny. returned to her
work this morning
Ir. and Mrs. Edwin Thames andI
daughter, Wilma, of Jamaica, Long is-
land. have returned to their home after
M Ispending some time in Rowavton. the
'guests of Mr and Mrs Earl F. Thames,
of Rowayton avenue.
returned this morning to her duties in
the once of the Boston store. NorWslk.
latter an enforced vacation of several
’ through the Naugatuck Valley and the
,the siding and pushed the freight
Miss May Savage. of Raymond streetI
wrote “AaGame With Fate, " the Vita
months due to illness
will the ion: in the memory of eve11- 1
Her: manyI
graph Blue Ribbon feature, which wii
today.
' faith of a girl.
has the featured role.
makes her first appearance as a lead-
ing woman in the Biire Ribbon features vision
playing opposite Mr. Morey, and othersf
in the cast are percy Standing Denton
Vane, Robert Gailiard and Stanley W ol-
polo. x.
AT THE REGENT THEATRE
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
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“Woman and the L v," Based on the '
Sensatirnal De Saullea Case.
The struggle of. a woman for her
child and the lengths to which she will
go for its protection are picturized with
tremendous dramatic intensity in the
William .li‘ox photopiay, "woman and
the Law," which will b‘é the attraction
at the Regent Theatre on Wednesday
and Thursday. Written and staged by
It A. Walsh, the brilliant young direct
Roion Point
Park
Shore & Chicken
Dinners and
A la (latte-Service
? BATH ING
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Mr. Terriss W10” met on the screen in
play especially for Harry Morey, who new T"
Betty Blythe
1 one who sees it.
be the attraction til the Regent theatre
it is a fascinating story of a
young millionaire who bets he can get
himself convicted of a murder which Olive Thomas Stars'
never was committed. He wins and lsE
saved from the death chair onl1 by the the "Follies
AT PALACE THEATRE WEDNESDAY
1n ‘Madcap Madge"
Oli1e Thomas the former beauty of
" is seen for the first time
"Madcap Madge. " the
innate play at the Palace Thea
.Smith 11’nd produced under the super
of Thomas H.1nce.
In “Madcap Madge" Olive Thomas
appears as Madge Flower the daugh-
ter of a wealthy broker. She is a
wholesome, mischievous girl who gets
1 expelled from a young ladiesrflnishing
Ischool so she can join her mother and
older sister :11 Palm BeaCh. '
One of the most nmusing scenes is
where she makes her entrance on a;
ballroom floor on roller skates, much
to the dismay of her parents. Mother
and sister are angling for an English
nobleman who is traveling incognito.I
He turns out to he a dodderlng old gen-
1 tleman and not at all what they expect-
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Those appearing in the support on
Miss Thomas are Charles Gunu, Dor-‘
cas Mathews, JackLivingston, J. Bar-
ney Sherry and‘others. The production
Was directed by Raymond W. West.
PALACE THEATRE TODAY.
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Carmel Myers starring in “A. Broadway
Scandal”
David Kendall and his father run a:
private Sanitarium and '1 hospital to;
which in the dead of the night a young
French girl Nenette Bisson is brought
with a bullet wannd in the shoulder.
The cilicumstauce is suspicious, but
young Kendall who i§ usually intoxics,
ted, does 1101? report to the police he .
she recoiters, Nanette 111111.111 love with
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the handsome inehriate and he would
have fallen at love‘ vwltbher except that 1;
he had'a notion that 1111‘ French women
were shallow, 1111 or tional and not
discovers that
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tor Wednesday. t was written by Cecil .with 9“ amendment by Senator Reed
SILVERMINE PLAYERS Jit.
FAVORABLE TO
MAN POWER BILL
WASHINGTON. August 1.3 —The
Senate M' lltary- committee today vot-
ed to report favorably at once the Ad-
ministration Man P011 erbi |l extending
draft ages to from 18 to 45 years. but
of Missouri. to tune the Go1e1nment
pro1‘Tde two years’ education [1 cc for ,
all boys under 21 years old.
given after the war.
Senator Chamberlain announced that
tlza bill would be reported TlluisdavI
and that if a quorum is present in re
spouse to the request for seniors tol
return at once. the unanimous con- '
sent agreement under 11 hich the Sen'
ate recessed until August 24. will be
'set aside and consideration of the
measure taken up next Monday.
to be
Scene from “ Game With Fate" at
the Regent Theatre today.
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l friends are happy to see her back once
more.
' The Greek American Boy “coats
band. of New YOrk city 1" a verY,
interesting concert at Rc‘ :21 Point park
Sunday afternoon. There was a good
“attendance at the grove in spite of the
threateningweaihcr and the playing
of the boys was much enjoyed. Many
of the boys are very small, but play
their instruments with considerable
skill.
The Mahonlng. the freighter, which
was struck last week by the Bay State
off Roton Piont, and which put into
lRoton to preVent sinking, has been
pumped out and repaired by a wreck-.
big company, and has been headed for
New York The boat, which will un-
doubtedly soon leaVe, has caused much.
interest he1e.owing to the fact that
she was suitably camouflaged, which is
a queer sight for a boat in the Sound.
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Milton— S. Rowland, of Crockett
',street who has been at his borne on 45
left today for Camp
Hancock, Augusta, 6a., where he _is are
tior'ted for the present. Milton has
fully regained his health tut-e: a se-i
"vere illness of spinal meningitis and
will now make one more! effort. on _re-E
turning to the camp, to be sent OVQ‘l‘.‘
. , 3.115.119 is enlisted as a machinist in
‘ _ the aviation smack of the Signal Corps
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This evening the ladies of the Wo-
ineh’ Bluest y class of the Roway-
on-hlethodisthpiscopai church will
bid s-picniesuppet t ..Doto ; Point
e w ther isI
pleasant and , The ladies
invite their husbands and ““454
oped that there will be a
it ndance. and thus make the
supper a success ' The time is,-
will have
lady is asked
' 511 _or an!-
rlnlring
. back to Stamford. Nobody was hurt.
The engineer immediately applied the
lbrakes, but the fireman jumped from DANCE FESTA 7‘
the train. and landed. unhurt. in the At Old Mill Farm. Weston
railway west of the tracks. The on For Benefit of the Workroomfoi-
glneer stuck to his post. and his ITALIAN WOMEN
lwsht partly under the height 11111111111:
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(I f‘ e a e I I I u I I p I o w n w a u e o s e e A a n a s a
Ijustment to the rails and the bum
' The freight building has not been m
paired as yet. incidentally, this at“;
be a good time for another appeal t.
the New Haven road to give Spring-1
dale a new station, for it will cost 0°!”
siderably to repair the old one, the one
of which would make it scarcely worth
the expenditure.
Snappers are biting well oi! Athe FREIGHT STEAMER
Cove, according to repons heard thisl I GROU D5 [N m ,.
week. I415}: fig‘lsdli’rlfr MT August Ila-—
———' rs ran
1.111111 Elsie Hoffman, the popular on me New
clerk in Dr. R .A- Rose' s once. Stam- heavy fog today. The tide was was;
g1.9111. has returned from a motor trip ‘38 at the time and obscurers 11.11.11.111
the vessel to be in dahg‘erous positing.
One re art was th 1 th
Berkshire Hill‘s. She was a guest of ending!) a GemanZubgafi::mer 'w'
honor, last night. at a party given in A late report was that the arm
Darlen by Miss Nelson. iwhich was laden with sugar bad In!
lher way in a fog. Coast guardsw
We were promised by the weather- '1” went “08m declined to “Y MI
the captain explained being so far fl
man that we were to have I new 10‘ 0‘ his course. The vessel. they saithm
hot weather for Sunday with possibly resting on a sandy bottom about“
a higher temperature than we had ex {99¢ from tho"-
penanced during the past week. Bar The steamer, forihefl‘i' °‘ 0‘
ing the week large numbers of p°":.ilf1iirm(;b1z::mt::?wm tight)”
pauses were seen playing of! the Now- entered the 1:11..
ton beeches. Those who saw them willl
have noticed that they were working"
easterly, which showed they differed
from our human prophet, and promised ,
us bad weather from that quarter for'
the week-end. The aquatics appear to
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come on New Boys,
one was Tun ..
have done the best guessing of the
two.
For a number of years the people of
Springdale have been appealing to the
New Haven railroad for a new freight
and passenger station on the New
Canaan branch, but the railroad itself
did more toward making a change in
the present building there Sunday
morning than all of the appeals—and
. mu ms «em 1
, smo.c1.n« 1110an
~ 011le Stun ,Pwlrllml ‘Il
w A “on: Mama 8
(.0er i h
‘Ilill‘fi‘flfl 0‘.
All the tricks in drying". ‘
ran in the free drying book the . 1
tioual We: Garden Commission ‘
Washington will send any reader“
thiI Paper for a two cent stamp
on postage
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so easy To Loci
.the switch motor from Stamford,
which had been taking empty freight
cars from the sidingnt Springdsle, had
completed its work, and, after adjust
ing the train at the switch above the
lSprlngdale cemetery, it started full
speed for Stamford. Somebody neg-
lected to throw the switch at Spring-
dale, and the train of five freight cars
behind the motor ran full speed into
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building about the feet southwards
from its old position. The siding rails
were disarranged, the motor was dam-
aged considerably, and the overhead
wires broke and tell It required all
Sunday for the wrecking crew to get
the track and wiring in condition
again, and the motor on the track and
There is a brakeman on this train, and
it probably was his place, or his asist-
ant'a to throw the switch when the
train had left the siding. The fireman,
with the engineer, was in the motor
when the two realized that the train
had run into the siding instead of con-
tinuing to Stamford 0n the main track. '
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oldlnthefree canningbookw
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in the b‘arnese Palace, Coprarole
Italy, by the late Mrs. Fiomnol‘
Baldwin, and continued in her mom--
cry by her friends through the ' '
erican Red Cross in Italy. '
SPECIAL PROGRAM:
Booths, Refreshments, Concert,
Dancing.
For route see posters.
brakes worked in splendid fashion, so
that the speed of the train was ma-
terialiy slackened when it hit the burn
per at the end of the sWitcb, else the
people of Springdale surely would
have had a. new station, for the train
would have gone right through it. The:
sudden stopping of the train when it
struck the freight station, pushing the
bumper ahead of it. jolted the engineer
some. but he soon recovered. The
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freight building is about 40 feet in <- WEEK .
length and 15 fet wide. It stood about; Rm." Corned Beef IIIIIII . _‘I _ .181:
three feet from the ground, on wood: TU“ Corned Beef ________ é
piers. The space around the piers was Rurnp‘ Corned a”; IIIIIII "326' "l'
boxed in The impact pushed it along Sugar Cured Hams.
the piers southward about live feet on smoked Shoulders. . . _ _
top of a big 608‘ hin, which W93 bmk‘ Dlxle and Yankee B Bacon. .
en, allowing the coal to spill. A pole. . L0“ Limb
users-scenes...-
Which. held the overhead wire. and L3“; chops ‘7 389' aInId
which was south of the building was: 350m" 31,”;
snapped as the building traveled south— Lamb stew . , , . .. ,' , , ,
tiara audit tell. carryina the 11 Dorimuvs Veal ..... ....22 b.
volt wire with it. Trainnfien said that
a short- circuit occurred somewhere
when the wire broke, which- caused a
circuit-breaker to throw all power
from the wire, else the engineer might-
have slider-ed from electric shock 1111
the train. The forward truck 11: the
switch motor left the rails eh rely and . ,
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