New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 3, 1923, Page 4

NEW , BRITAIN NAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1923, ~ | NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE, THE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC o~ bhe a four aet program of elaborate vaudevitle, speclalizing in the latest feats of entertainment, J including comedy, soig and d The ples ture has a great appeal, Some of the big thrills are outlined above, but .‘ |} the story is equally eempelling, It | deals with Dan MeDowell, for 27 yearg driver of a fire engine, but dis- Is mx THRI[[ER carded on & small pension Wwhen Robert Mid Mrs, Wilham Middlemass of 2 High street, has written for the ald” an interesting story on Britain and the Theater” as it w when he was a boy and how it is t day Mr. Middlemass is one New Britain hoys eity and achieved fame on the Ameri can stage. He many yeay past, played leads in some of 1 greatest New York productions in ad dition to appearing in moving pi tures He is a graduate year of 1909, after which he enter in business in Boston. While In the Massachusetts city he was afforded un opportunity to join the John Craig dramatic company thep apeparing i that city, Ever since that time he hu been on the oft 1t has, for of Harvard in tl Drew in “The Liars." , . ‘ It was from the front row of the Mr. Middlemass ap red at the % 3 Lyceum geallery that I saw Johu Lyceun theater in September, 1916, Drew for the first time. The play when he was playing lead in “Th was “The Liars,” an English com- House of Glass.” Other production: dy, and T am afraid that most of its he has played in are *“Back Hom numor was over my head for T can with Phoebe Foster, “Buddies” avit secall very little of the play itself, Pegey Wood, “Good Graclous Anna ut I do recall John Drew and also belle” with Lola IMisher, and “For Al the beautiful Ethel Barrymore who of Us.” He is at present in Chicago. was just starting out. on her brilliant Like Other Cities, ~ | carcer, “New Britain and the Theater'— |theatrical story at all, But I do in- | that's not a4 bad title for an article to reminisce—to recall olg mem- | of much greater length and wider |ories of evenings spent at the Lyceum stage Py B 't g d tb Th t 29 |we were ail at the East Main street | down a thiek gloom seitied over PAI ";E FILM Blll ise Talmadge, The Good Old Days, and whe, after 25 years, cannot re- T less contributed to the ehange nat [the gallery door of the Lydeum te Of course there were many other an effort to keep his boy in college, | £ WL e (Mlbo Bes ved This City, cradus - the Best Played Ve|thess things her guad W . t'::.-t.l‘ll” gallery. Up close o the door natural- Henchiey of Life calls it, And what | stage auccess of the past decade, with | »" discarded as useless. The son, dis- |1y meant a seat in the front row cen- | fun these minatrels shows were! i & record of two seasons on Hroad- ln me Namo 0' me hw Thm- hureh was considered good, for this | the evehing we used to gather in been dangled before the longing eyes A plcturo that has the - endorse- | ,m “arn gounds, The old horee, ‘est Main stfeet in front of the the sweet sentimental soni “fihe | day, Tuesday and Wednesday at the Alarm," a plcture still being shown | wpo ove imprisoned, The climax i1 il ten times’ . i 4 realism ever projected on the sereen’ qaqiy not only with life in the under- that! But such things are gone for- |covered old jokes are still with UA | Tuimadge when Joseph M. Schenck streets, the devotion of the old fire- | the moss fsn't even scraped off, |18 regarded as the choicest selection. phant return of “Bullet,” the dis-|the most celebrated books of New gether. One fearful windy, snowy | for both in her native China and in|goodness climax that puts all others!| O My Heart” several years ago was ex-convict who made good, featuring| pany for several scasons and it is she MIDDLEMASS. Lights" was playlng at the Lyccum |the role of Ming Toy. lar public appeal is to be shown, “In|did see it 11 enjoy it the more to scope than the story that I am writ- |and at the Opera House. These mem- | Hood;"” Sousa’s Band; Alice Nielson park and the railway station we|altracts unwelcomed syitors in Amer- A N armory cheering Barney Dougherty | everybody, 1 have assured him many T Ep——— « \ hrough the entive list f SOWh SateNgn entive JIst 0F OUF | wpnem were the good old days!” | member seelng & more an;oy.blv&m {ance Talm Stars in LODs 0 L e the theater in Nesw |open at 'seven thirly, And with ma- | things beside musical pieces. Min- he takes-® job digging In the street; f b | e, I h covering his father's plight, leaves rom the theatrical pieture ut this Brie And West, lew|Way alone, has reached the screen, would insure. @ seat not farther back | front of the Russwin hotel and wait | of motfon picture producers, and will | ™ent of city officlals, especially firc- | rrom pnanit dashes away and at th > 3 Ay, p L J Japtist ehurch and around onto Main | May Have Seen Better Day The | Palace theater, on Broadway, 1y one that no movle | oyoantionally dramatic and satistying. { E y used to be, 1 have often thought 8. 4'he minstrel show has gone,'that number will enjoy the most 4 pany used to be, 1 hav J jokes. i i a hundred scones of stunning drama | woeq hut alse with the activity of ever, Nowadays theaters not only do | Anyone who goes to musical comedy | suecceedd fn getting “East Js West” | man, the loyalty of his devoted wife, | also has contracted two more of the Theater Above All, This is all the more true when Con-|carded firehouse and his heroic dash ! England life, with . quantities of night he and I were dispatched down- | America, to shame. Ior tomorrow night two | the most talked about play on the 3 Eugene O'Brien, The other is Elaine | who likewise has the same role in the that n¥ht and Mr. Parsons gave us; TFresh from an Oriental back- s the Name of the Law.” review it omce again on the silver ing can possibly t Let me explain. |ories are wonderfully vivid and ple in “The Singing Girl;"” Frank Daniels | wouldn't have been half so pleased. |ica as it did in China., a matter which —— e ————————————————————————— leads to thrill after thrill well and finging derisve taunts at l.nnallum-u that there was one in that Well Known Actor, Former | it v setivitcs > ’ | Wonderful Memories, Many u time and oft we stood in | musical piece, Local Resident, Remem- Oriental Drama p pels A e or, Wi there he meots his old “Bullet,” the Hritain and some have not, but side |thematical preeision we had fghired | strel shows, however, would perhaps \ ; ] - ‘,; ‘_.,||, \“:., .I.“, ‘,,‘\\,h,;,,m nt '“,.M“ out just how various positions in the come under the same general head-— fire horse he used o live, drawing & Pige . . ter; any place in the line out as far ' Henry, college and qum the fire department, : What | In0agd to. i SAE ek !... the entrance from West Main street | Dockstader, Arthur Deming, Neil| Constance Talmadge finally securod | O1d Dan s freed of a charge of 3 v meén and fire commissioners, all over than the third row center or perhaps | for the band to come out and play | be seen as Ming Toy, the lovely hero- | W Sountry opens & lhr;:dayl‘ vun | five old Dan, mountin the first or second rows around on the | before the performance, Then wu ine, when this First National attrac. steed, dashes into the flery furnace " fan e d , The, " " street, Sometimes it went as far as|Blue and the Gray," “After the Dall, | Two million persons have laughed "“. ‘:;" “,:%:‘l :.:I::r:, "’::;ynfl::::‘fl In the Name of the Law" is one the Bovercigns Trading company—or | “Just Break the News to Mother" and | of the popular pollce-crook dramas how the heart of the manager of the | supplanted I suppose by modern vau- | scintillating of screen stars on the |y, swist succession, the reat build- | X travelling company must have leaped [deville, and the sweet sentimental ! siiver sheet, ing bursting Into flames, |A|’w thunder- | :::;l:x':::;ln:lln;’n 'r:;:x:r?;ll‘\tp::lllnrl‘um 2 not have gallery lines and gallery | will bear witness to this. Nowadays| rop yer the mammoth fire scene, the wonder- | stellar pletures of the year—"Quincy cods, but they do not cven have gal- ' these old jokes are sometimes dressed Of the vast array of material avail-| ful rescue on the scallng ladder, the Adams Sawyer” and “Peg O' My Unconsciously I assoclate Howard | stance' Talmadge is visualized in the|through the wall of roaring fire, All' homely, clean comedy, It is by far Wilson with all those old days of the-|role of Ming Toy, the heroine, whose | these and many other soul-tingling| one of the most “really worth while" town on some errand. Before, re-| Constance Talmadge crowns adandy dramas are to be offered. | stage. Miss Laurctte Taylor played turning home we stopped in George meteoric career with her tempera- Hammerstein in “Under Oath.” Then | picture. These who did not see this Many Stars Here. two tfekets in the:.front row of the/|ground Ming Toy is plunged into the|for the last half of next week other | play on the/stage can see the real Francis Wilson in “The Little Cor- | orchestra! st complexities and complications of lifo ,‘ Vith “The Third Alarm' there will| screen. Suppose that New Britain, in the title 'ant to me—perhaps I can bring back | in “The Wizard of the Nile." De-| Without stopping to consider that we | . 1 have laid gdown, represents not only |to the minds of some of you who read Wolf Hopper in “Wang” and VEIl| were down down town on a mission . / > AN EXTRAORDINARY BILL OF WONDERS! . lol-i graybeard of mine to rise up and | than usually nervous and the audi- ‘ Rohrt M’ddlema” Te’ls About |say that 1 am all wrong beeause of | epce was entirely unresponsiye o/ An unusually big ecast of lnn- fact that on the date I mention | that when the final eurlain rang known players is seen in support of John Wiley | audience who was most appreciative fome of these things. have doubts l1ine in the cold and snow waiting for Minstrel Shows motor apparatus came into use. In bers When Nothing But| PR o~y \Great Fire Dept, Melodrama Mon,; » these things has 20 the |line corresponded with rows in the | eye and ear entertainment as Hob East Is Webt,"” the outstanding " by | dump cart—man and beast had heon 1] waldes It all puldn’ 5 - b - nd beldce It reafty wonldet Letween the bank and the old Baptist O Brien'and all the others. Early in ! the most coveted, play, which has stealing “Bullet" just as a third ide, The line used to extend down|would go inside and lustily applaud'tion is shown here on Sunday, Mon- at Fox's Monday, ~“The Third} .. saves his son and his fancee, and thrilled with Ming Toy on the ' ;..." . vin & | where the Soverelgns Trading com- such, and the sturdy moss covered old ' speaking stage. E % xhibition of twentleth century| g0 ‘nay a kick in every reel, It with joy when he saw such a line as | song has gone, but those sturdy moss 1t was @ signal triumph for Mss ! ing engines plunging throu Ba i Sl e AR The management at Fox's theater pepeld up a little differently, but generally | haje for the screen, “East Is West” | crash of the great safe, the trium- | Heart. The first named is one of | ater going—he and I usually went to- | beauty is a thing for men to Iigll!'lhri”x terminating in one honest-to- | pictures released this season. “Peg 2 {One is “John Smith,” a story of an|the lecading role in the original com- Parson's bookstore. “Northern | mentally brijliant interpretation of big picture with a universally popu-|thing in t movies, and those who poral The Bostonians in “Robin! If he had given us Walnut as it is lived in America. Her beauty the Connecticut city that we all know | this story happy recollections of plays | Capitan;” Jefferson de Angelis in'we dashed into the theater and but also every other medium sized4and players that you had forgotten. |“A Royal Rogu and in “The Jolly | proudly setiled down to an evening city all over the country. Then if | Unfortunately 1 have no memofan- | Musketeers.” These are samples of | of thrills. “Northern Lights” was a we stop to reflect on the condition of [da of any sorf to guide me, and al- | the theatrical fare that was spread |lurid melodrama .full of soldiers and the theater in all these places we |though my memory is fairly accurate, | before New Britain in those days.|Indians and fighting and horses and must realize that it is a much differ- |it is possible hall make mis- | Jefferson de Angelis and I are now | everything—it was wondgrful. Wil- ent institution than it was, let us say, [takes in nam dates I hope that | great friends, except around the bil-|liam Courtleigh, who is now pla_yinE 6 years ago. It egin to seels 'none of New Britain's oldest nhabi- | llard table, and many times we have |in New York in “The Last Warning, causes for this change we discover |tants who may chance to see this story [ joked about the time he played New [played the Indian Swiftwind. After that many other things have also will be too severe in checking me up. | Britain With “The Jolly Musketeer.” [ the performance Howard and Iy changed—in fact, our cntire methods | For insta it T sa 1 do say, It was the premiere of this opera— | plowed our way homeward full of en-| of thinking and living. Before we |that way back in the middle ages— |a Monday night—and the company |thusiasm and excitement over our, ad- know it we have opencd up avenues | February 29, 1896 to be exact—Dan | had spent Sunday going through a|venturous evening. Our high spirits| of speculation that include the rise in | Norton and I went to the Lyccum and | dress’ rehearsal, which is always a|were somewhat dampened, however,| the cost of living, the amazing growth [were mystitied beyond words at Kel- ghastly affair. Jeff tells me that on i of the automobile and motion picture |lar the magician, who produced rab- | Monday night the company was more industries, the phonograph, auction |bits and chickens from silk hats and bride and modern dancing, radio, the | made roses grow in empty flower pots | wonderful popularity of golf and its|—if I say this I don't want Howard attendant country club life, and so on | Wilson, or any other contemporary & MONDAY —_— TUESDAY NE - MAN WOMAN | LW B v — ABELING | § . MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 3 e ‘ v The Outstanding Motion Picture Sensation of the Century SUNDAY NIGHT (Continued on following page.) BY RUTH AGNTF: “I think I've never seen anything| T — A more summery and lovely than you| Y “—\".!‘ii“““.,!,'n F ':;rT‘"’“‘ two girls,” she said as she Kkissed DAN WARD, has a visitor, Dorothy and took Alice's hand. »It CHINATOWN ALICE, who says Dan was|seemed natural th e should Kiss | father of her child, Dorothy. In spite of the little shej§g DOROTHY. Kate 1s much perturbed. A‘]”I 98 hr_ the oald Had Tew aven later she and her father, had seen of her, the chi ad come to mean something to Kate, JUSTIN. PARSONS, find near thelr liome the unconscious victim of an auto crash. | Dorothy was in white with a but- JAMES LATHAM, and carry him fnto theltlyo g0y ot the back of her frock. home. He rccovers and woos Kate. It develops that he knew Dan and helps Kate to find a trunk he thinks may con- tain papers throwing a lght on the,lat- ter's hut they are disappointed. De- termined to see if Alice recognizes the trunk, Kate writes to her at the laundry svg'fr,' LOY, where she works, asking her to visit the Parsons home with Dorothy. Alice accepts. GO ON WI HE STORY While Kate waited on the platform of the frame station until the train bearing Alice and Dorothy should ar- rive, she felt a thriil of anticipation. Her desire to test the girl, te trap her into betraying something, had been replaced by a feeling of real friendship. Kate almost wished she ad put the trunk out of sight so that by any chanc it ever had meant anything in Alice’s life, it would not recall it. Kate knew the gir life SEEN THAN YOI ANYTHING TWO “I'VE NEV MORE 1OV GIRLS. had not been an easy Another huge bow poised at the side | | of her bobbed head. Alice had on | { dark blue dimity, dotted in white had never looked so much a i 80 much a mother before, thought. “You didn't find it hard to get away trom your work today?" Kate asked. Alice looked squarely at Kate, It seemed her eyes had lost some of their » laughed-—it was an al- augh Kate hardness, S most girlish ng lLoy,” she said, “is the kind- est man I've ever known. 1 have to watch myself all of the time to keep from imposing on his good nature “Why, yon know, the first day I worked at his place three years ago, he asked me, when I was ready to leave in the evening, it 1 had money enough to get along on and he of- fered me a roll of bills! ! “They're like that,” Alice continued, hinese are. If they like you they'll |Bive you the shirt off their hack, and |} |1 don’t helieve they'd ask in return for it | Sing Loy never has,” she said, ]‘ixlhl he has done enough for me to | anything feel that he has some rights' Dorothy danced along heside the two women like some lovely elfin | thing. Occasionally she broke into | their conversation by bringing them to a halt at a bed of moss or a few | flowers growing in a fence corner | Justin came down the ‘rom the cottage as the three figures ap- | proached. Dorothy jumped into the arms he held out to her, She squealed with delight as he swung her to his shoulder and marched into the house “Oh, what a lovely Kate had just opened the door of the room prepared for Alice. She window, looked out across the stretch of woodland, then, as she turned, the trunk caught her eye, path place!” (To Be Continued). (Copyright, 1923) NEA Service), WATCH ron li She watched as the train pulled in and the passengers left the rnarhn!,‘ She was startled when finally Alice and Dorothy appeared. FOX’S MON. TUES. AND WED. went to the @ “The 3rd Alarm” | Endorsed by Fire Chief Noble of This City: A Feast of Thrills, Drama and Humor Get Set Folks for the Greatest Picture Time of Your Lives! Endorsed by Fire Chief Noble of This City " BIG VAUDEVILLE PROGRAM Thursday, Friday, Saturday “IN THE NAME OF THE LAW”| The Picture With a Sou DRAN A FEAST OF THRILLS, 8 Reels of Evérything Entertaining! A Sensation on the Stage!--A Stunner on the Screen! Warner Oland in Cast KEITH VAUDEVILLE Featuring -LEW NELSON & (0. ; . 20th Century Wonders See him pull a Cadillac automobile with his teeth in front.of this theater CHARLES KEATING & CO. Return Engagement of the Famous Char- acter “Huckleberry Finn”—He made you cry last time he was here—~Remember? STANLAY AND MeNABE ;‘ln the Movies” WATCH OUT FOR Monday noon at 12:05 LOU WELLS “The Saxophone Fiend” “THE FLIRT” N e T e . e —— BRING THE WIFE! BRING THE KIDS! \ 1A D HUMOR BRING YOUR BEST GiRL! IBRING THE WHOLE FAMILY