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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1915.
CRAZE FOR REVUE
EXISTSJNJ.ONDON
Extends From Variety Theaters to
Conservative Playhouses
(Correspondence of the Associate'' Press.)
London, Dec. 21 The craze for the
revue has extended from London's
variety theaters to conservative play
houses. Five of the leading West
End music halls took up the revue
early in the craze, leaving only three
true to variety, and now a well-known
home of comedy, which has brought
out more successful light plays than
any other in London in recent years,
has just announced a revue, making
the fourth legitimate theater to go
over to the revue as against the sev
enteen producing plays and musical
comedies. The revue has swept nil
before it in the suburban and pro
vincial theaters.
The English revue is quite differ
ent from its French original. It lacks
the wit, political satire and topical
hits of the French and simply aims
to amuse an audience of the tired bus
iness man type. In its general
scheme, it is little more than the
conventional English musical comedy
robbed of its remnants of plot a nd
Mmade frothier than ever. Its trim
mings either come from or are mod
eled on New York. A knockabout
comedian or two, a dapper actor with
a good voice for sentimental songs
and a chorus of girls, who appear in
new costumes at every entry, go to
make the current revue.
Chorus Man Disappears.
The chorus man has almost entire
ly disappeared, owing to the preju
dice against "slackers" or men of
military age who are not "doing their
bit." In one of the road companies
to appear here recently the male
chorus was composed of small boys,
dressed in the latest Piccadilly ciit.
But girls ordinarily take the place of
-fchorus men i
Revues apparently fill a niche of
their own in wartime. Officers on a
short visit from the front or just
out of the hospital or away from the
camp and soldiers on similar leave
Beem to crave mental relief of this
sort. They make up by far the most
of the male part of the audiences.
Manners are informal at the revue,
and smoking is allowed, which are
further attractions.
: American Tnflnenrs Prprlnminnto
American influences predominate in
English revues. American dances,
ragtime songs, slang and even a touch
of twang in singing are not more not
able than the strivlne- for rnnM an.
Hon, novelties and surprises in cos
tume and scene that are typical of
the American concoction. .
The word "some" in its American
'slang sense figures in many of tiltes of
sense figures in many of the titles of
these revues, and the past week a,
copyright infringement case wan
heard in court where the proprietors
of the rights to "Splash me," sued
the producer of a similar revue call
. ed "Some Splash." 'Some Glee" was
tlffe title of a revue appearing in a
district theater at the time this case
was heard.
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perception, and especially that he did
riot," as 'healer' take proper consider
ation for the life r,f his patient, and
therefore acted against duty and in
a guilty manner."
The provincial court of Berlin de
clared null and void a contract with
a Christian Scientist, saying:
"The belief that a person is able,
by the power of especial divine grace
to heal the sick, may exist in more
or less extended circles. But the as
sumption of such a healing power in
connection with its exercise as a
source of revenue is repugnant to
the general moral sense, at least of
educated circles, the bearers of cul
ture, and can therefore not enjoy
the protection of the laws."
VIENNA REALIZING
EFFECTSOF WAR
Prices of Food Advance By Leaps
and Bounds
WOMEN TAKE PLACES
OF MEN jNAUSTRIA
Female Sex Engaged Now in All
Kinds of Work
APPEAL JUDGMENT
OF TRIAS COURT
Two Christian Scientists Sentenced to
Prison for Death of Two Berlin
Actresses.
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Berlin, Dec. 24 Fraunu Hues ;i
and Frau Ahrend, the two Christian
Scientists recently sentenced to pri
son, for being responsible for the
death of two Berlin actresses, have
aycaicu iiuni lug juugmem oi me
trial court. Local legal authorities,
however, predict a certain affirmation
of the judgment, basing their view
on opinions already handed down by
the Imperial Supreme Court in simi
lar cases. In each of these the court
field that the assumption of the treat
ment of the patient and the failure
to call in a physician constitutes gross
negligence, It said in one case:
; "The trial court found the negli
gence of the accused to - exist in the
fact that he carried on the treatment
Of trie patient alone, although he
knew the dangerous character of the
.illness and must also have known
(that this illness required a prpper
itreatment, and he could have fore
seen that death might possibly be
the result of his treatment. In these
Circumstances the court could as
Jume without error that the accused
lost sight of the required care and
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HOW TO CLEAR
AWAY PIMPLES
Bathe your face for several minutes
with resinol soap and hot water, then
apply a little resinol ointment very
gently. Let this stay on ten minutes,
and wash off with resinol soap and
snore hot water, finishing with a dash
of cold water to close the pores. Do
this once or twice a dayyand you will
bo astonished to find how quickly the
'healing resinol medication soothes and
cleanses the pores removes pimples and
blackheads, and leavea the complexion
clear and velvety.
Resinol ointment and resinol soap
stoD itching instantly and speedily
heal. skin humors, sores, burns, wounds
J VI..Aim A Hir oil Arimrri at a
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SOAP FOR BABY'S TENDER SKIN
V The regular use of resinol soap is
nisually enough to prevent those dis
tressing rashes and chafings to which
Amos babies are subject. This is so
I first, because resinol soap is absolutely
pure and free from harsh alkali, and
second, because it contains the resinol
I dedication, on which so many physi
'ans rely. for, skin troubles.
(Correspondence of The Associated Press.)
Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 23. After
fourteen months Vienna is beginning
to realize the effects of the war, which
hitherto had left ilttle outward mark
on the life of the Austrian capital.
But in the past few weeks prices of
food have advanced by leaps and
bounds. Coal is becoming scarcer and
dearer, just as winter is approaching.
Clothing has doubled in price. And
altogether the immediate outlook for
the great masses of the population is
extremely dismal.
Much of thetrouble is due to the
army having taken nine-tenths of the
strong, able-bodied laboring men from
the city. Hardly any teamsters are
left, and great quantities of flour, and
provisions, and coal are lying in the j
railway warehouses and yards, caus- I
ing a serious congestion. The situa-i
tion is so serious that the city coun- !
oil is taking steps to use the municipal
street railways for bringing goods to
the storekeepers in the city. Switch
tracks are being laid to the mills and
railway yards, at a cost of sixty
thousand dollars.
Speculators Hiding Provisions.
Another cause of the present high
prices of food is the manipulation of
speculators, who are hiding large
stores of provisions, and so creating
an artificial shortage in the markets.
Immediately best fresh butter went
up to $1.25 a pound at which pTice
nobody could buy more than a quar
ter of a pound at a time large stocks
suddenly came on the market and
prices fell at once to a dollar.
Convinced that huge stocks of food
stuffs were somewhere in existence in
the city, the Vienna police have just
made a thorough search of all the
storage warehouses resulting in some
surprising discoveries. Among the
provisions concealed in these - places.
were found hundreds of packages of
rice, flour, sugar, cheese, canned
foods, chocolate, currants, tea and
coffee and condensed milk. Steps are
being taken to find out the owners
who will be rigorously prosecuted for
conspiring to raise the price of food.
Supply Very Limited.
Although the new flour is now in
the market the supply in the retail
bakeries is very limited. In the
poorer suburbs people gather around
Ihe stores as early as 3 o'clock in the
morning, and by 6 o'clock the crowd
will number anywhere from five hun
dred to a thousand, persons, mostly
women and children. The bakeries
open at 7 and the sign of "sold out"
ij generally put up before 8 o'clock.
Later comers can get nothing. Many
poor persons earn a couple of cents
by buying flour for their neighbors
who do not care to stand for hours in
the street these cold winter morn
ings. Since the military authorities re
quisitioned all the stocks of rubber
tires in the country, and even took
away those actually in use on the
cars of private owners, automobiles
have almost disappeared from the
streets if Vienna. There are no more
motor cabs; the few cars still seen
fc.re either occupied by army officers
or have some connection with the war.
No End to Demands.
And there seems to be no end to
the demands and appeals for money
f T various charitable and military
objects. The Vienna Neue Freie
.Press has started since the war be
gan, collections for more than a hun
dred different funds and have suc
ceeded in raising over a million dol
lrrs. The largest individual benefac
tion is i-he Red Cross for which the
Presse has collected $216,000. Next
comes the fund for the blind soldiers,
which receives $140,000. The other
objects for which the paper has made
collections include one for furnishing
artificial limbs for the wounded sol
oiers; for the families of reservises
called to the front, and for the Aus
trian submarines. Altogether there
are no less than 156 different funds
I. for some of which less than ten dol
i lars have been subscribed.
(Correspondence of tnr Associated Vresa.i
Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 26. With
the new levy in Austria-Hungary
drawing away yet many thousands
more men from civil occupations, the
demand for female help has been fur
ther increased. Women are now not
only welcomed, but eagerly sought for
in various fields of industry and com
merce from which they were previ
ously sternly excluded. But at the
same time they have been given to un
derstand that this is only temporary
condition, and they must be prepared
to make room for the men, when
these come back from the field.
Quite apart from the much talked
of women street-car conductors, one
sees the sex engaged now in all kinds
of work, in factories, stores and offi
ces, everywhere. In the laboratories
of great industrial plants the "Frau
Doktor" is standing behind scales, and
retorts, and bottles, engaged in the
most intricate chemical analysis. Be
fore the war she was only admitted
as an assistant, but as one after the
other of her male colleagues was
called to the army, she was permitted
to fill their places.
Work On Coal Heaps.
Coming Into Vienna on the northern
railway, hundreds of women may be
seen working on the gigantic coal
heaps, shoveling the coal into the
hoppers and performing the heaviest
kind of manual labor. Formerly
everybody would have scoffed at the
idea of a female "coalman" but now
nobody turns to look at her.
Amateur women photographers
have become assistants to doctors at
X-ray work, and in electro-therapeutic
treatment. In Grata special
courses of instruction In photogra
phy are being given for this work.
The women are taught by university
professors, and receive certificates at
testing their fitness.
No Longer At Home.
The capable housewife no longer re
mains at home; her services have
been found valauble in taking the
domestic management of hospitals,
and sanatoriums, and convalescent
homes. If living in the country, she
devotes herself to raising poultry and
eggs, or fruit growing. The agricul
tural colleges are constantly increas
ing their numbers of women students.
People who hitherto opposed the idea
of women becoming gardners are now
applying to the colleges for them.
Young women have already done ex
tremely well as landscape gardners.
A special school for them has recently
been opened in Vienna.
This problem of the effect of the
entry of women into the labor mar
ket after the war, is already engaging
the serious attention of the authori
ties in Austria and in Germany. Only
recently the Bavarian government is
sued a public warning to women
against rushing into fields of work, so
far monopolized by men. They were
told in plain terms, that as a matter
of course they would have to give up
their places to men as soon as the lat-
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For the toilet and bath assisted by occa
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liberal sample of each mailed tree with 32-p. book.
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ter were back from the army; and
that therefore they ought not to spend
money on training in business colleges
for employment which could only
prove temporary. But just the same
these colleges have gone on advertis
ing for pupils and promising them
most lucrative engagements at the
end of a few weeks' course. And the
i-ncVi nf npw annlirnnts for positions
continues, despite the warning of the
authorities that in Bavaria, at least,
the supply of women labor of all
grades is greater than the demand.
MUSKETRY SCHOOL
FOR U. S. ARMY
Will Open at Fort Sill, Okla,
Before January 1
Fort Sill, Okla., Dec. 29. The
School of Musketry of the United
States army the only school of its
kind in the country will open at tho
reservation here shortly before the
first of January- The exact date has
not been .decided upon, as the new
buildings which are to house the
school have not yet been fully com
pleted. The school is for the training of of
ficers and non-commissioned officials
of the army in directing and control
ling the fire of bodies of troops and
in the systematic handling and forma
tion of troops under fire. Individual
marksmanship is not taught. The
school was organized last July. It
was located at Fort Sill because of the
presence here of the School of Fire for
Field Artillery, with which it co-operates,
and because of the topography
and extent of the local reservation,
which is the largest in the country.
Later on, the war department intends
to instill regimental schools in each
post and then the institution here will
be turned into a normal school for
the training of teachers.
Idea of Mass Firing.
The idea of mass firing, as opposed
to individual markmanship, was first
conceived by an Italian general about
twenty years ago. It was developed
by the Germans and finally adopted
by the other European countries and
musketry schools now are established
in all European armies.
The first investigation of the possi
bilities of mass firing was made in
this country seven years ago at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas. Captain H. E.
Eames, now Assistant Commandant of
the School at Fort Sill, was selected
to take charge of the work. He
found nothing in the English langu
age on the subject. The problems
and formulas which he Worked out
now comprise the textbook for the
army. The results of test lessons
conducted under simulated war con
ditions have demonstrated the prac
ticability of the theory and the need
of thoroughly trained officers, accord
ing to army officials. They point out
that two years ago at the annual rifle
meet at Camp Perry, O.. a company
of the best civilian marksmen was
formed to fire in competition with a
company chosen at random from the
army. The army shooters, although
composed of only average individual
marksmen, were commanded by an
officer trained in mass firing. The ci
vilians were easily defeated.
Rolling Prairie.
The reservation at Fort Sill is a
rolling prairie, particularly adapted
to rif.e practice at concealed targets.
Besides being taught range finding
and fire control, the officers are
taught the art of concealing troops
from fire and the most advantageous
methods of formation in moving a
body of troops across a fire-swept field
or against an enemy position.
The school is divided into five class-
I es and composed of fifteen field offl
i cers, thirty company and troops offl-
cers, fifteen machinegun officers and
one hundred ten non-commissioned
officers. The field officers above the
rank of Captain are being trained as
instructors to command the regimen
tal schools which are to be estab
lished. Colonel R. M. Blatchford is
commandant of the school. in ad
dition to teaching rifle and machine
gun fire, the school is entrusted with
the testing of new rifles, targets and
ammunition.
the usual leather shoe. The uppers
are made of gray or black waterproof
linen sail-cloth, which at a little dis
tance is not easily distinguishable
from leather, and the soles are built
up of layers of wood veneer glued to
gether with waterproof glue, the pro
cess making a flexible, waterproof sole
which follows the shape of the arch of
the foot.
The shoes have been given
trial and are soon to be placq
market. They are said to w
the undersurface of the wod
soon develops a felt like surf a
gives little noise, and best on
shoes are said to. cost a littt
than the present price for ho!
leather shoes.
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SHOES WITHOUT LKATIIKU.
Being Manufactured In Furniture Fac
tory at HaUeran.
Berlin, Dec. 29 A furniture factory
in Hallerau before war devoted it
self to the manufacture of shoes with
out leather. These are not the wood
en shoes of the Dutch and South
German peasant but a substitute for
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lines because the most convenient way for
you to buy is by telephone.
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IN case of illness, fire, or any of those
domestic emergencies against which you
can never fully protect yourself, a telephono
provides you with the quickest means of
obtaining help. In addition to its emergency
value the telephone is a source of comfort
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