HURRY ALONG, SIR! men's furnishings, at 20 PER CENT, DISCOUNT. 4 * ot Aliaewavde 1 Will be loo late, Weve made & wliole army 2 ing buyers during sale, and many a house. obepay Joe up from Grandfather down to the little man. Have you been in? No? Well, sir, you are a very un- or man. Better to come than to wish you had. to-wear ote. eter, (blue and biwck sults excepted), and all = Hardships, 3 Besides laying just claim to being an athlete battery, the 72nd Battery is generally conceded to be a bat- i tery of some of the finest types of id 10 have pution the King's uni- Fully eighty per cent. of them are boys fréim fine homes and have sac- i rificed large salaried positions. to | serve--not in the tallor-made unt- the nephew of complexionod ADE "Put with the prin- form Gf an offic ces in the ranks, For instance, thereyis a young rosy a western premier, who Is taking his gruel in the ranks and never los- IH! es nls smile, Then, there is a minister who left an important church and his wife and baby to th _ himself Into the Great ht. wag accused of. falling from grace during a night alarm, and wis sald to have softly sworn an alibi when he attempted to pull on his riding breeches over his big issue boots, The legal and banking professions are most largely represented in the 72nd and at meal times or in spare periods the discussions, ' wise and otherwise, cover.a wide variety of topics, Iahging from Church and. State to the spread of temperance and the itch among the Fiji Island- ers, . MILITARY SIRCLES | A garrison smoker under the au- spices of the Khaki Club is being held for the soldiers in Ontario Hall on y evening next. Word has been received that G. 8. Bowerbank, who left here as-a lieutenant in the 21st Battalion, has heen promoted from the rank of cap- tain to that of major in command of a company of the 21st. Major Bowenbank was in the Bank of Mont- real before going into service. He has been in continuous service at the front since that battalion" went to France. Major Bowerbank is a son- in-law al [Brig Gen. T. D. R. and Mrs. Hemining, whose son, Capt. A. K. Hemming, who went overseas as adjutant of the 21st Battalion, Is now on the sick-list and is at Witley, England. Major G. I. Campbell, . chief recruiting officer, stated on' Wednes: day that the 235th Battalion recruit- ing campaign wak coming on splend- dily. Every business man in Belleville had thrown open the door to agents. Between Saturday and "Monday the major made seven récruiting .ad- dresses one being on the street and one to the shell makers. The fore- ll! man in the Belleville munition plant said to the major, "I believe that all work on 4.6 shells can be done and certainly by men over tec the certain difficulty of We anticipal heavy purchase moriths ago. You of our early buying in share these stated that he has E| talipn. made unusually - y the military "age-limit." A mass meeting for women brought twelve recruits to the battalion. Lieut.Col. Walter MacConnell, =: commanding 256th Railway Con- struction Battalion, was in the city on Wednesday in conference with Major Campbell. The colonel will have desk room at the base recruit- ing office on Princess street. He just returned Ei 'trom a trip to the Atlantic coast and found bright prospects for the bat- The physical standard for men to this battalion is lower than to infantry units, » . The smoker being given by the El Knaki Club in Ontario Hall on Sat- urday evening promises to be a most successful event. Major R. R. Carr- Harris, commanding 72nd Battery, has allowed the members of that bat- tery to organise for a concert for the E! evening. ' The Lindsay Post says: The Pog was Informed to-day that Lieut.-Col. Glass, O.C. 252d Battalion, has no- tified ier-General Hemming, 1 G.0.C., Third (Military District, | Kingston, that he wished 16 be rellev- od of his command of the battalion at being recruited in Victoria | wis in Belleville and Cobourg on is samé minister, | second episode of the great new seri- fering of high-class vaudeville. THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1917. command of the 73nd Battery; vies' Majer E. C. Barrett, Lieut, Harty Morden, 252nd Bat- talion, Lindsay, wag at headquarters pm on Wednesday. S.A. John -of British _ Guins, is the first colored recruit to the Can- adian Army Dental Corps here. He was principal of the British Guina Public school. = Understanding war % conditions he is anxious to take ad- g vantage of his dental training, R ' Lieut.-Col, G. Roy left on Thursday for an inspection trip through west- ern Ontario. He is inspector 'of ar- tillery for Canada, Lieut.<Col. W. J. Brown, G.8.0., Thursday on duty. THEATRICAL NEWS To-night "The Masqueraders." Theatrical fare befitting the po) son is promised at the Grand Opera {I House to-night In "The Masquerad- a in which Guy Bates Post is star- ng. a dual role, He did a similar char- acter or set of characters in a dra- |g matic version ot Cooper's "The Spy" some years ago. In "Mr, Jekyl and 'Mr. Hyde" we have what is usually considered the most famous of dual ij characters, but in fact it was lech- nically not one for it was supposed to be one man all the time although he changed characters, It is sald that in "The Masquerader' Mr, Post will be able to show his admirers a phase of his art' unfamiliar to many of them as he has been playing the romatic Omar for some seasons. At the Grand. For to-morrow and Saturday a very select programme 3¢ vaudeville plotures bas been arranged for patrons of the Grand. Valeska Suratt, well-known as an" interpreter of difficult roles, will be seen 'in a big six reel Fox successs, "The Straight Way," a story of throbbing interest around a woman's quest for love. A two reel Universal feature, a good comedy, and the Pathe News will also be screened. On the vaude- ville bill Brown. and Brown will be seen in a singing and dancing spec- falty which is sure to prove a treat. Glenn West is billed to présent a high class musical novelty. "Aladdin--And Wonderful Lamp." ju preparing the famous English pantomine, "Aladdin--and His Won- derful Lamp" for Canadian tour, F. Stuart Whyte has been 'careful to preserve ail of the traditional set- tings and "business" of the old coun- try show. The scenes are laid in China; the Cave of Jewels, Willow Pattern Palace, etc., have been re- produced for this production éxactly as they are staged in the Drury Lane theatre in London. "Aladdin" was given its Initial Canadian presenta- tion at the Walker Theatre, Winni- peg, on Monday evening, September 25th. It comes to the Grand Opera House on Wednesday, Jan. 31st, matinee and night, ¥ At Griffin's. The secret of the sudden trip of Cecil'B. De Mille, the Jesse L. Lasky Company director-general, is solved in the production of 'Unprotected,' a Paramount picture which will be seen at the Griffin theatre on Thurs. Friday and Saturday, with Blanche Sweet, the beautiful Lasky star, in the stellar role. During the summer Mr. De Mille, after a brief visit to New York, sud- denly disappeared, - and was next heard of ina small town in Alabama, and later returned to the studio, but refused to divulge the reason of his southern visit, Later the Blanche Sweet company, under the direction of James Yonng, disappeared from the studio and did not return for three weeks. Not until the picture was shown: before the members Qf the Lasky stock company was the mys- tery solved: Mr. De Mille had gone into. the southern states to investi- gate the conditions of the southern convict camps. Upon his report Miss Sweet and her company were sent down there to film the convict camp scenes for "Unprotected." - The story is based on an actual in- cident, and shows the terrible effect of leasing convicts to private firms for labor. The management also shows the emt i er LL LL al. 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