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Benny Loonard H8
‘Battling Butler’ Ill
Stamford Saturday
Bonny Leonard.’tho world‘s great-
est lightweight champion. will ap~
pear in "Mr. Battling Butler." at the
Stamford theatre. Christmas matinee
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PALACE
NOW PLAYING 1:15 a 7
SAM LIEBERT & CO.
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“The End Of The World”
and night. Battling Butler is the
snap” musical comedy. which had
otter a year’s run at the Beiwyn the~
sire. in New York. it hippos: that
the comedy was notseen in Stamford
before its New l’ork opening. so the
holiday attraction is new to the city
with the added interest of having
Benny Leonard as its star.
Mr. Leonard has met with splen-
did success as an actor and Hurtig
and Seamon. his managers. feel
greatly elated over having secured
and
4 Other Keith Acts
on THE SCREEN
Dorothy Revier and
' George I. Arthur
”In...
“When The Wife’s Away”
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RIALTO THEATRE
TODAY 2:15. 7:15 and 9
George O’Brien and
Jacqueline Logan in
“Thank You”
FRIDAY
Mae Busch and
' Open Moore
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CAMILLE of the
BARBARY COAST
SATURDAY
TOM MIX in
him for their musical offering.
l “The Great K. & A.
Mr. Leonard's part in “Battling
Butler" fits him perfectly and pat-
rons. interested in a good musical
comedy well executed. will be ns
pleased as those who come to see
3}
actly as
hich is in its, fifth year in New
ork city. it will be given here ex-
ln New York with a
COMPANY.
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lighting fume.
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A splendid assortment of
Women’s Pajamas.‘ in Flan-
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Cotton Crepe. Rayon Silk and .
« Batiste. $1.95 to $2.98.
THE N. 1:. RYAN co
so wasnmorou eraser
soars seaward:
included in the cast oi’ Mr Hat
tling Butler are a number of Broad-
way favorites: Bert Matthews. Nana
Eldred. lieu Jones and Al Knight.
There will also be a squad of talent-
ed “Junior Principals." each one of
whom does a specialty as well as
appear in the chorus numbers.
Seat Sale Opens For
“Abie’s Irish Rose”
Tomorrow Morning
The seat sale for “Abic's Irish
Rose.” opens at the Regent box of~
rice tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.
“Abie's Irish Rose." will be seen at.
the Regent Monday night only slid.
those who are planning to attend
should obtain their tickets payl.§10
telephone orders accepted or- so
splendidly trained company of play-
ers. This is the only opportunity
Norwnlk will have of seeing this
play at home as no return engage-
ment will be made. regardless of the
demand.
THEATRE NOTES
W an
The greatest laughing yhudevillo
show C\Ol presented at tha‘ Palace
imbeaire this afternoon began its on-
gagement of three days. This Keith
Karnlval of Komedy will send you
home smiling all the way. every~
time you think of the many amus-
ing things you have seen and heard.
it will awe you and keep you well
”applied with pleasure. Sam Liebert'
lu”‘t’.l‘he End of the World." gives
the biggest laughing spell of the
show. He is assisted by Archie Leach
O I
103'-
luwing up with a. rapid fire out-
pout of the laughing potions and
Viola May 6‘s Co. in "Miss Dumhcll." .
cap the climax with their offerings
screen will be seen "When'
The Wife's Away." A hilarious com-
On the
running through it.
Tomorrow Mae llusch and 0m-
Moore come to the lilailo in
millo of tho Barbary ('Ionst.”
woman of the
armor of paint
face. cunning ores that
tb
:lllll rouge.
of the dance hall rhythm.
Then Camille the real woman.
heart of sold.
Bob Fisher the duke .of cork
adds to the comedy with Murray &.
Alan Jesters of 3.600 years ago fol-
Train Robbery”.
and
another chapter of the serial
"'.'Im ilmm- Without a Key”
“I'n-'
(.1 The sen-en's groan-st lover in the
‘lTI‘l‘l‘Iils greatest romance. with
I-lsit‘llt‘ Taylor
by “I'itophonc”
Barbary coast in her;
fiery of:
gleam. herj
body swaying to the Tom Tom boot
the glamour of the' -
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
Lloyd Hughes and Mary Astor
win—
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"rm names 7'
LIE ‘ ELWELL in ('amdenviile.
Ind.. one night In October of infill.
comes MARTHA DALTON. a
nurse. bearing a woman who had
fainted on the train or which
Martha had been traveling.
. Elwell Is an artist. He has a
son. JIM. aged 5. hate that night
twin girls are born to the woman
who dies without revealing her
name ' i‘hs Elweils adopt the girls.
The story then mores forward
18 y.esrs The twins. now growing .
to beautiful womanhood. have been
named MARGARET and ELIZA
BETH and nicknamed RUSTY and
BETTY.
America enters the World War
and Jim Elwell enlists. ‘I‘wo nights
before he leaves he discovers that
one of the twins lavas him and he
in turn loves her. He tells his
mother. but does not tell which
one. becaus’e he wants her to love
both of them the same in the event
he does not return. .
Two months later he sails lor
CHAPTER xv
HEN Jim woke up an army
doctor was dressing the wound
on his leg.
"0h." said the doctor. a young
man with a freekled face and s
‘ shock of fiery red hair'. ”so you want
to know what it's all about. Well.
you got a nice little nick in the shoal
a little hub with your ieg..~ You're
lucky—lost a lot of blood but you'll
get that back." ‘
And so it came'to pass that Jim
‘got a nice little rest in a hospital
. lm had what the English called
couple. of "bllghty wounds. " Only.
”wag separated from blighty by the
A Lupus instead of the English
nnel. he remained at Vaux for
conyalescenco instead of going home
And back in the little Elwell home
‘ in, Camdenvllle the folks got a nice
”"long letter from Jim. telling of his
company‘s and his first big engage-
ment in the war.
incidentally he mentioned. too.
that ho had been massed up a trifle
and was recuperating for a while in
the hospital. Nothing serious—Just
a machine gun bullet in the shoulder
and a little scratch in the leg. Es-
pected—or hoped. at least—to be
back in action inside a month or two.
“Oh. I‘m so sorryl" burst from
East as Prof Elweil finished reading
the etter. "Why couldn't be have
been hurt enough to keep him in the
hospital until the nasty old war was
ever? It won't be much longer now
till it's over since the Americans
have started to 'dght."
Betty added her quota to Rusty's
statement with a vehement and
blood cttrdiing utterance.
“I wish he'd get both legs broken!"
She paused. "Aadhls triggerJlager
shot off and a sword out across his
cheek that would leave a nice war!
Then he'd have to be-what do you
call ltt—invalided hauls home. That
would have been glory enough for
me!’
Mollie was shocked. "The way you
girls talk!" she exclaimed. “isn't
Jim hurt enough?”
But. the twins argued. they didn't
want him to be discharged from the
hospital only to go back In!!! and
run the rlsl: or being infused all over
again and who killed.
Inasmuch as the twins' viewpoints
renyding the fortunes of war al-
ready have been explained. it will be
seen why the information contained
in Jim Elmll’s next letter. which
melted the house on September 10.
was digested by Betty and Busty
«tin some worry but-1‘ were: well
moaned with the «uses of plinth-
ful philosophy: ‘ ‘ . =
der. and a hunk of shrapnel raised I
Maybe now we'll get to see him
again with all his legs and his head
still on!"
For Jim did develop the tin and
his hospital discharge was delayed.
For a time he was a very sick sol-
dier. but he pulled through the darn.
ger acne and, tired and drawn and
weak. was told he had nothing to do
new but he still and get well.
A letter received from Jim late in
October told the family that he was
still in the hospital and getting along
line but had been told that he
wouldnt be discharged. probably. for
another month.
Therefore. when‘the big news of
the armistice broke on November ii
—the news that almost turned the
whole world upside down with
thanksgiving-,the toy that bubbled
from the hearts of Jim Elwell's
mother and father and the‘twlns
Betty and nasty. was a lay that
fairly shrlelred for expression.
Had not their last letter from Jim
informed them that he would not be
discharged from the hospital for at
least another month? And wasn't
the war over now? That meant that
Jim was still in the hospital and soon
would be on his way home.
' So they wit the house and went
down town where Camdanvllle was
shrieking itself mad and an im-
promptu parade was marching
through the streets. led by the cam-
denvilie brass band that bed blered
so doletuliy on the occasion of Jim's
farewell.
That night the Eiwalls served a
special dinner. and a place was re
served for Jim. all decorated up with
dogs and flowers.
While they were alternately laugh-
ing and crying with thanksgiving.
while they were eating their celebra»
-butlet usgobaektoOotobet-as.
On this date two American divi
stone. the 17th and 80th. with twenty-
iour British. against thirtyoae Ger-
man divisions. won the Battle of the
selle.’wsicb beau October 11.
in this battle which. incidentally.
was the battle that broke the Hindus
burg Una. 10.000 Germans were tab
Their own fire was me! with a steady spill of
lien diabetes soldier been la France min
tr.
ans asked how he was feeling.
"Fine. thanks."
"Feeling strong again?"
“Yes. sir. Feelin' well enough to
go back again."
“That's fine. You going to dis
charge you."
Jim had made a speedy recovery-
The blood was back in his cheeks
once more and his legs were strong.
His weight was almost back to where
it was when he had come in the hos
pits! on a stretcher. and altogether
he was fairly happy at leaving the
hospital even though it did entail go
log back to the front once more.
The prospect was not one that he
faced with unalloyed Joy. He had
had one taste of war and knew what
to expect. What lay in store for him
now he did not know. but after his
experience in battle and in the hole
tsl it was fairly easy to picture.‘
Nevertheless, Jim, although he
was not a story book hero. was a
man.
Three days later he went back to
the front. He found Pershing's First
Army beginning its rhsb to Sedan
and Montmedy. He found. also. that
one of his new company mates. John
Powell of Newark. New Jersey
locked enough like him to cause the
men to call them twins.
Jim himself acknowledged that the
likeness was almost perfect. Powell
looked enough like him to be his own
brother.
“In which event." Powell said. for
he was a new man and a little nerv-
ous and looking for someone to quiet
his nerves and his suppressed fears
“you and i might as well start 'out
by being friends."
Inso‘dzn ”Id JIm.
Powell went on to say that. Il-
though h.» was no cry baby. he didn't
d confessing that he was a,little
shaky.
"You' ve been through it. What
wast like?"
Jim shrugged. “Not so, bad as
you‘d imagine. Don’t let anythlns
worry you. You'll never see the but
let that tags you.”
It was on November ‘I that the
devils or war and elreumstancs took
seats in the me along with Jim
Email. and began to shuffle their
cards.
some my mama menu
machine gun pills.
dealt Jim on this occasion he drew
a fat little joker. This joker looked
good to him—then. it was in the
form of an order to take command of
a machine gun squad of five and find
a covered position likely to cover
some nest of "pill guns.”
"You‘re comin' with me, Powell,"
Jim told his new friend. And Powell
smiled. but his face had gone and-
denly ashen and his lips trembled
nervously.
The squad found the position. This
was in a little ravine where the hill-
top overlooked Montmedy with the
Belgian frontier in sight. it was not
far from the extreme point of ad-
vance of the American army in the
Battle of Sudan. the last battle of the
war and the one that brought on the
armistice.
it sure was a “grand position“ fer
machine guns. as Jim remarked to
Powell. But the latter laughed queer-
ly. '
"i'vo got a hunch." he said. “he
got a hunch that something'a going
to happen to me today. if it does.
l've got two letters sewed up in my
coat. one's to my mother and one'a
to my girl back in Newark. if l’m
bumped off. buddy. i want you to
mail ‘em."
Jim consented but. laughing. told
Powell he had better shake his
huncl.
"Hunches don't fit in with a ma-
chine gun squad."
“All right. Jim. maybe i" at only.
But—"
“Forget it." And thus the subiect
was dropped and the little detail be-
gan pouring bullets into a bunch of
underbrus‘n down the river bank
which "2 .. thought looked like an
enemy p ll box.
He was right. Their own lire web
met with a steady spill of machine
gun pills. Jim's men. ‘however. were
in a snug position in their little ra-
vine. with a creek at the bottom.
Finally the pill box seemed to
Have shaken itself empty. After an
hour and passed and no further rb
turn had been made to their lire
Jim Eiwell raised up to take a look.
l'i‘o Be Continued)
John Powell'- beach was right
and Jim-but read the next lasts!-
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‘ let. him show you on the screen in
his rollicking comedy treat why
7 there "ain‘t." This picture will take
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spirit into you. Other attractions are
“Sons of Crnlrai Europe." ll‘zSt‘lt‘t‘It‘d
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TWO Of Three
Overdue Vessels
Sale In Harbor
Two of the thrc'o St. George Pa-
per contpnny pulp schooners whose
arrhnl here with cargos has been
long overdue nrc laying at anchor
in the harbor today ready to be
tnlten to lilo dock. The Frederick
11.. which left St. George, New
Brunswick. on Decem‘ ,l. 4. arrived
last night. with the Minus Princess.
which left on December 16. close
on its heels. coming in fills morning.
The third of the hosts. the Minus
Prince. is still unheard from it
stands beaten 10 days on the trp
already by the Minus Princess.
The'l’rincnss left that many days
later from the Canadian port.
Some time today the Frederick II.
will be towed up the i‘lorwaik river
by the tug Theodore Smith but the
Princess may be left in the bar-
bor for several days as loading
facilities at the dock are not suf-
ficient to handle the two at the
same time.
Head winds on the long trip down
the coast are blamed for the late ar.
rival of the schooncrs. ‘
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