New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1923, Page 4

1 e TR ! NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN CONDUCTOR OF ORPHEUS CLUB IS A FORMER NEW BRITAIN RESIDENT dur haa | condue, ext season and years bas five are Louise W sum- | 1880; E. Cutter John J. Bishop Will Appear With Mus Ovganiza~ 1or . s tion at Theater : - : i B Coite March 1, Under Auspices ! of New Maven, 18R-1005 of Lion's Club, idered 4 tors Georg cal Fox's go0d ree years old A elub wWhiek PEGOMY HEART AT | FIX', OPENING HON, New Rritain ma Hary Picklord in “Little Lord| ey s Fauntleroy Beginning Thursday 1, the briv 1 o P proces the be well K a form He is but and New Britay birt) faney home i L began his 1 Whe planoforte ur ) the famous Danish pianist and teach er in New York eity, and composition under Dugley erica’s best known organist poser in those In 1890 Mr. Fox's, this week, is offering a stel. ar brand of motion picture entertain. ment, coupled with vaudeville bills that are bound to please the most dis. criminating entertainment seeker T'wo stars of undoubted brilliancy will seen on the sercen, Laurette Tay- “Peg O My Heart” and Mary Pickford in “Little Lord Fauntieroy." Tomorrow night the Bunday fans will #ce o couple of fine exhibitions, Dus. | tin ¥Farnum will be seen in “Thres Who Paid,” while Gladys Walton, winsome as ever, holds the center of attraction in “The Trouper,” a comedy drama of a theatrical troupe touring the country Laurette Taylor, who won the | hearts of a million people in her fam | ous characterization of the delightful I)‘f‘z in Hartley J. Manners' play, I"l'rq O' My Heart,” will again be | seen in this original role on Monday, when the Neupert organ and Buck, Am and com or in Rishop moved to Tuesday and Wednesday picture is shown at Fox's. Miss Tay- lor covers herself with distinction through her sympathetic and tender’ portrayal of “Peg” and shades of whimsical character, not brought out on the stage, are evident in the mm} It's a tale of an Irish father | English mother and of Sir| Pee's legal guardian; and of the circumstances, amusing as well as heart stirring, that attend th’! | young girl when she leaves the little | Irish farmhouse where she was born \nd ventures among strangers to whom good form is the cardinal re-| quirement. Tt all comes about when | the vivacious, impish, roguish Peg O'Connell, who had lived happily at home with her parents and her little pet dog, Michael, gets word that her uncle, dying, has provided for her ed- | ucation. It is when her aristocratic relations take her that misery, loved disappointment and final happiness comes to her. The picture abounds in comedy sitnations, has plenty of seris ous sides and has a genuinely tender love theme. Tt has been a long long time since Mary Pickford has been seen at Fox's| but on Thurs: she comes bhack inl “Little TLord TFauntleroy,” Frances Hodgson Burnett's world-loved story, Who there who in their childhood days has neither read nor had this| read to them? A notable cast sup- ports the star, among others being James A, Marcus who played the part of Hobbs, the grocer, when this show was first put on the stage away back | in 1888, For the first time in the his- | tory of her career as a motion picture actress. Mary Pickford, in this pro- | duction, is apeparing in practically | every scene. She has a dual role, ap- | pearing as the little lord and also as his mother and by trick photography | she is made to appear at the same | time in the same scene. Miss Pickford | also appears in a greater variety and | a more novel set of costumes that in | any play heretofore in which she has | appeared. Briefly, the story starts off | with young Cedric, living with his mother in a New York flat His father had been disinherited, but later | the grandfather consents to bring up the youngster and he is taken to Eng- land. There, dressed in the clothes of | other days, many amusing as well as tragic incidents are developed which work to a climax filled with ‘nnrnJ heart-break than anythin ever | shown on the screen. His three old | cronies however, in the end biing to | both the boy and his grandfather that ‘ | versior and an Gerald Adair, JOHN J. BISHOP, Mass., where he has made Ior the past 25 vears and choirmas- Comgregational Springfield, his home since. he has been organist ter the South chureh in that city Mr. Bishop toak an active interest in the muy al f Springfield shortly rrival there and his position in the church afforded him the opportunity of becoming ac- quainted with some of the best musi- cians in that place, The Orphens Concert club was still comparatively organiz Mr. Bishop me interested in it, He has been conductor of this male chorus for the past and conductor of the annual & field Music Festival for 20 Previous to his conductorship of the Orpheus club Mr. Bishop was ae- companist for this chorus from 1§89 to 1895, The capable leader is a well known teacher of pianoforte and organ play- ing. Many prominent New gland men have studied under him and have been successful in the field of mu; ‘While a resident of New Britain Bishop was associated as accompanist with the well known Philharmonic society conducted by Richmond P, Paine. In addition to spending much of his time with the Orpheus club Mr. Bishop has devoted quite a little of his time to composing. He has writ- ten a number of pieces for mixed quartets, several of which have been sung by his chorus at the South church, and has composed severaf pieces for male voices which have been sung by the Orpheus club and other male organizations throughou: the country One of his own produceitons “Shall I, Wasting in Despair” will be sung at the concert to be given in New Britain. The Orpheus club will eelebrate its at of a new when hec years, All Next Week At WEEK OF FEB. of the Greatest Produced This Year — 2. NEW I nacle of artistic musiclanship at -~ Pauline Frederick in “The Guflty One” at Parsons Theater, Hart- ford, 3 nights, Feb, 22, 23, 24, Commencing with a matinee on Washington’s Birthday. Special Matinee on Saturday '}m\ work throughout, making it dis- tinctive and distinct. To talk of tech- nique, and standards in connection with such outstanding qualities as dis. |tinguish the work of this wonderful |player and composer would be pre. emplification of the claim sometimes {made T0 BE REAL MASTER £ i S has channels of thought never entered by any of other nationality. His play- ing of the most delicate passages Famous Pianist Will Be at Fox's Theater on March 7 throbs with color and life. His play- hope and happiness that had seem- ingly gone a-glinimering. This is a picture that will appeal to all classes and all ages. ing is that of the perfect technician vivified by the soul of genius. He is described as a very tall, gaunt figure, with the face of a sphinx who wanders onto the stage and after slouching itself atop the piano chair, unconcernedly improvises for several minutes and then commences a pro- gram, the memory of which will long be cherished by the many who were present, When an artist attains distinction such as that won by Sergei Rach- maninoff, the Russian composer and | pianist, the mere announcement vhntg he is to appear on a certain date is| usually sufficient to bring the lovers of his art thronging to hear him.| = One is, however, always tempted to add a word or two to the bare notice of Rachmaninoff's coming that those who have not yet come within the/ radius of his magic power may at least realize that here is an event not to be gverlooked. In most great artists onc is aware| of a distinctive personality. This is/ true of such persons as Paderewski, Kreisler, IFarrar, and is eminently so of Rachmaninoff. Simple and un- assuming in manner, radiating sincer- ity from the moment he steps out upon the platform, this genius of the pianoforte at once creates an atoms- phere in which his audience becomes responsive to the appeal of his power and virtuosity. The’ artist-and the man unite in a remarkable degree in the personality of Rachmaninoff, who will be at Fox's theater, Wednesday evening, March 7, under the auspices of the musical club. The famous Russian composer and pianist, Sergel Rachmaninoff, is one of the few men now before the public who combines the technique of a vir- tuoso with genuine musicianship, in- dividuality and poetic sensibility. His style of playing is absolutely his own.| Alive with color, with .expressive nuance, with dynamic rhythmical modulations and graduations of tone,| it brings vividly to the surface the emotional substance of each piece of musie. In fact, it marks the pin- the piano with a master-hand on the| keyboard. He cannot be measured by thl can- | ons hy which musicians generally are | classed. His personality dominates —PAL Constance Binney “The Sleep Walker” A Musical Comedy Beauty Lyceum - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Anita Stewart in “Her Mad Bargain” Thurs.—Rodolph Valentino and Mae Murray in “The Delicious Little Devil” 19TH—2 Pictures LAURETTE TA “Peg O’ My WED. Sunday Night-—Double Feature Program ALL NEXT WEEK--Starting Monday The Attraction You Have Been Waiting For! Linton Brothers Present The New Britain Home Town Follies HRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 19, STAGE, THE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC Snappy Musical Comedy | At Lyceum Next Week | Next week is & gnla one at the Ly {eeum theater when Marty * Dupree's | show, the magazine of revues, musical |comedies and farces, with musie in- | Dassler and others, opens a -'ul'-' . This is & musical comedy sec- | | on | ehorus. The girls are pretty, dressed, well drilied and what is more can sing as a chorus should, Marty | herself is & whirlwind of feminine vi- vacity and goes op speed, whether all through the show, The comedians are funny | and other principals equally eapable This company will present two shows, |the second starting on Thursday. One | feature of this company's effering is |that each show ends with a special |scenie effect that is not seen in the ordinary road company, This com- 'Mnr not only features its individual stars, but also it features musie, there | ‘m-m‘ twelve special song hits written especially for each of the two shows presented, There will alse be a feature pie. (ture with ecach show, that for the | first half af the week being “A Broad way Madonna,” a dramatie story of life in that great city where nobody cares. Those who saw “Broadway Rose™ should not fall to see this pic- ture as well, For Sundaynight the Lyceum offers [two very good attractions, in addiition to the usual news reels and introduc. tory comedies, Corrine Griffith ' will be seen in one of her latest starring | vehicles, “Recelved Payment,” and the | other is a Paramount speclal *“To Please One Woman." Both of these are high class dramas, dealing to some extent with social life in the big cities, but each having a certain element of mystery about them that is so entertaining to theater goers, “Anna Christie” With Pauline Lord at Parsons The French comedienne, Yvette Guilbert, wrote to Pauline Lord, star | of Eugene O'Neill’'s “Anna Christie" | | which is to be seen at Parsons’ Thea- ter for a two nights' engagement, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 20 and 21, the following fine letter af- ter witnessing a performance in New York: “I had the good fortune o witness- ing your performance of ‘Anna Christie’ the other night and T cannot resist the temptation of expressing to you my very sincere admiration. 1 congratulate you with all my heart, | which beats in happiness when T m»' a marvelous piece of histrionic art| and which suffers so painfully when ACE— Vivian Martin “Mother Eternal” of Youth, Class and With a And 135-New Britain Girls-35 Including Dancers, Chorus Girls and Soloists. You Must See Our Girls—They’re Fine You'll Be Surprised When You See Them! Usual Keith Vaudeville * Cast Of Broadway Principals ‘ i YLOR in Heart”: Charies Waldren, Charies Dalten, Henry Warwick, Noel lLesiie, Bthel | Intropidi, and Florence Edaey, 1 see our art profaned.” Pola Negrl said of American ples ture players that Pauline Fredisowek “is the mest wonderful emotional star | in this country,” & yol the falr Pauline makes the emphatic state. | ment thyt she will not return to the | sereen until pieture making improves in its method of construction and PHILHARMONIC CONCERT The fina! and most impertant con- cert of the Hartford Philharmenie or- chestra's season will be heard in Par- sons’ theater, Martford, next Monday | more sconomp is exereised upon the|afterncon and evening with Hareld time of the player. Bauer, the master planist, as the “Why spend day afte rday making | Buest soloist a picture that could be made in haif| On Monday he will be heard with the time, simply because some tem. the orchestra, Mr. Schmitt eonducting, peramental director or star does not |in Behumi s concerto for planoforte feel in the mood to be photographed |in A minor and in the usual greup or 'de the direeting of the photo. |of pleces. Lovers of Techalkowsky graph? {will be delighted to know that his “Just as soon as pieture making, grealest work the “Pathetie” sym- grows away from the eld foggy pheny will be a special feature on metheds employed today, then T will, Mr, Behmitt's fina! program. Other return to the eamera, bul net umtil |orchestral numbers are Chabrier's then," | Rhapsodie Espana and he prelude to Incidentally, Pauline Prederiek will | Wagner's “Dio Meistersinger.” The be at the Parsons’ theater for a hrief | playing of these works necessitates a engagement commeneing Thursday | reater number of musicians than the matinee, February 22nd, in her new |orchestra boasts and the society has play by Michae! Morton and Peter|arranged to augment the orchestra Tralll, entitied “The Guilty One,” an- | for this occasion. The seats are now nounced as a clean, wholesome, grip- | ol sale at Bedgwick & Casey's music ping drama of today, supported |ny’-mrr. Asylum street, Hartford, 2—of the Greatest Pictures Produced This Year—2 Monday—Tuesday—Wednesday Y but ui.l‘ zou ma; me, the dog pevsid “I guess I'll keep me dog.” Adapted by Mary O'Hara by J. Hartley Manners Directed by King Vidor lflflu Taylor created the role of Peg in the original stage play, which has been per- formed more than 15,000 times. SN L PAPABAN L R VAP S MG SO A R ApcNCaRS B S 'Thursday—Friday—-—Sa'turday MARY PICKFORD “Little LordFauntleroy”’ Once more Miss Pickford proves herself the greatest of all stars—hig enough to play the mother part, and tiny enough to play the child in a dual role incom- parable. « — . The New Britain Musical Club will hold its Annual Examination for Active Membership Monday Evening, April 16th, in Camp School Hall : Prospect St. New Britain, Conn. Examinations will be held in Piano, ‘Voice, Violin, 'Cello, Orchestral Instruments and Ensemble Singing » For further information, including require- ments, etc., apply to Mrs.. Stuart Upson, Chairman of Membership Committee, 265 Shuttle Meadow Ave., New Britain, Tel. 2279, MARY PICKFORD in “Little Lord Fauntleroy”