New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1923, Page 4

P | | MOTHER, LONG A SOLOIST, HER SON IS NOW ORGANIST AT ST. MARY'S | Mrs. Mary T. Crean Has Sung in Church Choir for More Than 40 Years—Son John Crean, Now Choir- master, A e of the choir at Bt Mary's church for more than 40 years, and snloist at the church for 35 years, in the record ot Mrs, Mary T. Crean of 13 summer street, mother of John Joseph Crean, now organist and choir- master at the church. Mrs, Crean cften times helps her son John in the selection and angement of the sl programs for the . Cream is a native of New Britain and has spent all of her life in this cit She first started to sing st St. Mary's church when it was lo- ated on Myrtle street. Rev. Dr. Hugh Carmody was pastor at the time and she has seen Rev. Michael IMerney, who later became bishop; Rev. Willlam A, Harty and Rev. John T. Winters as pastors of the church. Woman as Organist. Mrs. William Dobson was organist at the church when Mrs, Crean first started to sing in it as a young girl. Since that time Thomas O'Brien, J. I McGurk, Benjamin Zolliner, Miss Celia Hurley and I, K. Harmon have been the organists, Rev, William A. Marty was pastor and Mr. Zolliner organist at the church at the time the ) morning | " | interest, in a love story in which the| | | & B, society, the Knights of Columbus |and produced the large musical ex- vaganza presented at Fox's theater ing the time of the war for the of the soldiers at Camp | tra | dur! benefit | Devens. Mr. Crean is a teacher of pianoforte and has a number of scholars at the present time, He conducts a studio |at his home on Summer strect, THE DANGEROUS AGE FOX'S FEATURE MON. ‘Beginning Thursday the Hottentot " Wil Be Big Attraction | Two banner movie attractions, The Hottentot, the famous racing comedy drama in which Willie Colller starred for two consecutive years, and The Dangerous Age, are slated for Fox's next week, while the Sunday night double feature bill offers two excep- | tionally appealing daramas. Heart's | Haven is one of those sincere, appeal- |ing romances that ends so peacefully; | while Divorce Coupons brings forth | Corrine Griffith in a drama of human | | villain does not pursue the heroine, | | but acts purely through business mo- | tives while the villainess becomes an unknown heroine and pays a penalty. The Dangerous Age opens Monday for | three days, with a well balanced | vaudeville program, and on Thursday The action surrounded Hottentot, NEW BRITAIN. DAILY HERALD, STAGE, THE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC ~ NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN |ZELDA SEARS, Author of “Minnie An’ Me,” Mitzi’s New Star- ring Vehicle in Which She Will Be Seen at Parsons Theater, Hartford, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, April 12, 13, 14 a 'cnn\o to Parsons theater, Hartford for SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1923, ———— e Three Black Diamonds w/ll present n surprise act that will be the talk of the town as they are very talented; Anker and Packer are a very fing comedy team who sing the new songs and have an qriginal line of bright patter; The Four Madcaps who close the bill are one of the best dancing acts In vaudeville and ofer hara shoe, soft shoe, and too Aances. Starting Thuraday for the last halr of the week Harold Lloyd will be seen in his new five reel comedy “Dr, Jack" which is a scnsation in comedy | films, | The Sunday night show will offer Constance Binney in “Room and Board” and Wyndham Standing and | George Fawcett in “The | Doubt."” dancers and beauties, and a sextette of operatic male volces, The scenes and costumes are lavish and reflect the perfect taste that always distin- guishes a production sponsored by Henry W. Bavage, Mail orders now, Seat sale opens Tuecsday, ‘TRIFLING WOMEN IS A PALACE FEATURE All Star Cast in Ingram Screen Sticcess Discriminating motion picture pa- trons will have an opportunity to wit- ness one of the scason’s most notable screen successes, the latest produc!lon' by Rex Ingram, the brilllant directqr | who made 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” “Turn to the Right,” “The Conquering Power,” and “The Prisoner of Zenda." The new Ingram opus is entitled “Trifling Women," and the name of the director is as- soclated with it in several capacities in addition to that of producer. This photoplay is based on an original story' by Mr. Ingram, and it was he who provided the screen adaptation. It comes to the Palace theater on Monday. “Trifiing Women" is a story within | a story, In order to point a moral to| his ~ pleasure-loving and frivolous daughter, who ignores a devoted Victor Schertzinger is now directing lover, her author-father reads to her |'The Man Next Door” by Emerson |the manuscript of the new novel, the Hough, author of “The Covered Wa- story of Zareda, the crystal gazer.| &on” at the Vitagraph studios in Hol- He recounts. the woman's terrific|lywood. A splendid cast has been af- fascination, which leads brother to|forded Director Schertzinger. Alice conspire against brother, and father|Calhoun will play “Bonnie Bell.” against son. He tells of-Zareda's hola | ."BACKSTAGE. " Miss Katherine Wells of Newington will appear in the play “You Never Can Tell”” by Bernard Shaw, which |has been chosen by the Connecticut !Cnllege Dramatic club as the play to be given at the Junior prom and com- mencement. Hartford is assured of a new theater and there is still hope of New Rritain having another. Talk in regard to the is quite possible that something may come of if. Reports from Hartford indicate that a new theater is to be built in the Capital City and will he located om Btate street, directly opposite the trol- ley waiting station, Vaudeville and moving pietures will be the probable policy of the house, The Selwyns will cover the entire country next season with their multls ple companies of “The Kool” which has aiready been completely routed, The plans call for the original com- pany remaining at the Times Square, New York, for the major portion of the new season, but virtually every |stand, large and small, in the east, central west, south and Canada, has Isle of| crection of .a theater on West Main | street, west of the Professional build- | ing is again going the rounds and it | on an old Baron, whose son Ivan, too, The first rehearsal for.the minatrel been hooked. What is rated a record hooking is 'the cxtension of engagements. in stands known to have but limited draws, Whereas last season ‘Lightnin’ * was made a two-weck attraction in one |week stands, and some three day towns played a full week, “The Iool" has been spotted in one day towns for a week. ‘Such bookings include Lowell, I 17all River and RBridgeport. Some- thing like a run will be made in the biggest week stands. Ten weeks are pllotted for Philadelphia and four for Detroit, The latter town has not herthed an attraction for more than {two weeks, Cleveland will have “The | Kool” three wecks while Baltimore, | Washington and Pittsburgh are down {for two wecks cach. BAND AT PALAIS ROYAL The best known group of musicians in Honolulu a few months ago, play- ing at the Royal Hawaiian hotel, the | leading stopping place for tourists in Hawali, the Manaku's Hawalian band, s which is to be the special attraction lat the Palais Royal in Hartford next | weelk .has won equal popularity in the United States. With them comes Princess Waimanalo, a Hawailan dancer who is ranked with the best in the various sensational dances of | the Hottentot races across the silver | | sheet. The Dangerous Age shows Lewis| | tone, Cleo Madison and Ruth Clifford | lat their best and is a straightfor- race horse, and the big scenes occur |three nights and a Saturday matinee at the sensational steeplechase races. |beginning next Thursday, surrounded In order to get the moving picture |by an imposing cast and a rare en- rights for this drama, Thomas Ince|sembie of dancers and singers. | The role played by the charming the islands whose music and dancing have won them more fame than any other feature, shares her favors; of the young man's [show to be staged by Everyman's Bi- departure to war; of the Bnron'n‘m:- class at Fox's theater on May 21, death at Zareda's instigation; of Ivan's| will be held on Friday night of next returi and his discovery that she has | week in the banquet hall of the Y. M. JOHN J. CREAN ward drama of everyday people. It/ | deals with a couple who themselves| |are at the dangerous age. It con-| | cerns an old wife of 38 who does not | |want to know everything about a coung husband of 40, It tells of the| fe who put romance away with her| ! baby's first shoes and who mothers her husband instead of sweethearting | {him. It really is a picture that every| | wife should see—with her husbana. | A race across the continent to intev-| | cept a letter that will break up =a| home, a railroad train and an auto| { speeding Jlong neck nd neck, is one ot the thrilling scenes. Most emphati- | cally, it is not a flapper svory. the husband of 40, upon fatling to in- terest his domesticated wrre in thea-| Fox's shows the reels, | New Britain, and the Peggy comedies also is being shown. |is to be shown at Fox's Coogan latest and best, Daddy. | hailed {than Oliver Twist and | star at what undoubtediy In 1o|8PEX of his carcer | lead. had to separate Mimself from 21,000 [cold American dollars—but the laughs | Mitzi is the most varied of her caree the picture produces and the corres- | ponding drawing power that it is more than makes it worth while, In addition to the feature pictures, very latest news bringing world events right to series of Baby One of the great pictures that soon is Jackic even better ows the child is really the juvenille by all critics as as. a ter, dancing and other forms of galety, | Mitzi in “Minnie and Me” | iooks elsewhere for his companions. | Headed by Douglam slacLean and | | Madge Bellamy, the Hottentot speeds | | through its several reels with the| | smoothness and comic gi nticness | (¢ == |that marked famous Willie Collier's|Hen At Parsons’ Next Week | motif of nie A8 musical p lling plot 2 W. Savage's nev edifice on Main street was destroyed | stage presentation of this same play. |duction in which the dainty Mitzi w by fire. Besides her church Mrs, Crean has sung in many cities about ritain on numerous ar e has sung in At Christmas time visits the inmates at the Town home ings for them. Considercd Youngest Organist John Crean the youngest ganist to play at St. Ma and 1s is known i3 or youngest in the state, He horn in New Britain and has received all of hig musical education in this city. Appearance at Six. consider work, oceas local theaters. each year she o of the rean wa 1 an student @ his fir public aj was at the then so- ie piano year soid m e called Casino on Church street. entertained at that time with and vocal seleetions. He has never had an opportunity to study music but through Thard work and plenty of ambition he has made a name for himself in musical circles thronghont Connecticut and has a record of heing one of the of the younger musicians in Fngland, s chureh, | Monday Tuesday Wednesday LYCEUM Where Everyhody Goes ¥ HOYT'S POPULAR IRISH COMEDI/ Felix Martin ‘ HIS OWN Musical Vaudeville Revue Pretty Girls—Funny Comedians Mr. Crean has studied under many § i A REAL SHOW and was a scholar of Harmon, former organist at St cht whom e succeeded. He is now studying under competent teachers and is planning to further Bbis study of the organ. At St dohn the Six vear he was ganize a choir at the John the Fvangelist and local teache Mr. M ivangelist asked to of year church one church During the war he served in the 423rd Supply company, and while in France had the opportunity of play- ing in the cathedral at Chateau Du Loir. He conducte the midnight and 10:30 o'clock m a Christmas day in this cath Upon returning to this country he again was organist at the church of St. John the Kvangelist until tember of last year when he we pointed organist at St. Mary which is the largest Catholic church in New Britain. Introduces Orchestra Music Mr. Crean is the f anist at the church to introduce orchestra music with the organ at St. Mary’s church and his progr: at masses on Christmas day of I and Faster Sunday of this ye caused considerable favorable ment from New Dritain music lover: He has successfully produced my cal comedy shows for the Y. M. ehurch, the Hartford’s PALAIS ROYAL Special Attraction Beginning April 9. MANAKU'S HAWAIIAN BAND Featuring PRINCESS WIAMANALO In Native Sensational Dances Native Songs by Entire Troupe GREENWICH VILLAGI ORCHESTRA 900 Wethersfield Ave., Hartford For Reservations phone 5-0521. Free Parking Space For Autos, The Biggest Romance Picture of the Year ‘One Week of Love’ » was appointed organist of this § With ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN and (O} AY TEARLE THURSDAY—FRIDAY—SATURDAY | “The Curse of Drink’ With 5 Stars HARRY T. BREESE, MIRIAM BATISTA, MOREY, GEORGE FAWCETT, EDMU MARGUERITE CLAYTON It’s the Biggest Melodrama of Them All GREAT SUNDAY NIGHT PROGRAM PETE MORRISON in “The Better Man Wins” COMING Betty Compson “The Green Temptation” ‘Top O’ the Morning’ With GLADYS WALTON and HARRY MYERS COMING “Poor Men’s Wives”, It’s A Preferred Picture I 4a 100 is in turn wistful and whimsica humorous and serious, sophisticate and naive, and dance in a wide numbers, prepared for her by |Sears, the anthor and lyricist, and b |Harold Levey, who at 24 is regarde + composer notable cast 11, Sydney Jeanette - MacDon: ulkner, John Hendr , Bertha Ballengi Birney and Nircka, comprises B Greenstreet, 'V d, Worth s Adria , Ruth Leigh Noveltie Rial, girl instrumentalists, quartettes . | She has a chance to sigg| i . | Fitige bf Huslod | their lives in the Sorcerer's tower. | Miss | as perhaps the most promising of our cqlla Marr, of the ensemble include a sextctte of [exceptionally clever novelty that in- of | troduces FOX'S r. 1, d | married a wealthy Marquis for his money; and, finally, of the illicit love of Ivan and Zareda, costing them ‘| A perfect cast has heen assembled o | by Mr. Ingram to enact the roles of ;| the photopla Among them are =a | quartet who appeared in “The Prison- |er of Zenda'; Lewis Stone, Barbara Edward Connelly and | Ramon Novarro. «| The Keith Vaudeville bill will have | 1 \ four very fine acts that are guaranteed | h, | to please you in every way. Opening 4| the bill is Will Morris who offers an some good comedy; The DAY Wonder Heart-Hits AGE” THE BIGGEST, BOLDEST THING EVER MADE! thousands honest in BIG VAUDE THURSDAY SEE THE HORSE ! Fed on Dynamite Who can’t even stick on famous jockey. Don’t miss DOUGLAS MacLEAN TUESDAY A Drama of Wandering Men and Get ready, for all you can think of in drama, “THE Because it isn’t afraid to be honest, it makes Every wife should see it—with her husbhand. FRIDAY And Now for the Yells of Your Life THE HOTTENTOT SEE THE MAN ! ride “The Hottentot” because the girl thinks he’s a the Big Race!! with WEDNESDAY ing Women and Thrills in their tears and smiles ! VILLE SHOW ! SATURDAY EE THE GIRL ! Crazy about Horses a rocking horse, but has to and MADGE BELLAMY man’s Biblc class has authorized Fred W. Macomber to expend $1,000 to make the minstrel show a success if that amount is needed. C. A, The show will be produced un- der the direction of 1. W. Irving, H. Y. Stearns and ffred C. Macomber. FAMILY IN DUAL CRASH Ralham, England—Just after Harry W. Fenwick was taken to the hospital in a motorcycle accident near here, a car containing four persons met with a similar accident at almost the same spot. When they were taken to the same hospital it was discovered they were close relatives of Fenwick. - The executive committee of Every- Next Week We Are Proud To Offer To Our Many Patrons A Show Which We Can Heartily Recommend and Indorse As An Entire Bill of Extraordinary Merit and Quality. The Photoplay Features and Keith Vaudeville Acts Will Blend Together Into a Show That Can Be Called One of the Best That We Have Offered This Season. —The Management. SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY Excellent Double Features Wyndham Standing and Geo. Fawcett in “The Isle of Doubt” Constance Binney in “Room and Board” 3 Days Only--Mon., Tues., Wed.--3 Days Only Rex Ingram Presents “TRIFLING WOMEN?” A Story of Three Kinds of Love! With An All Star Cast Including Barbara Lamar, Ramon Mouarro, Lewis Stone and Pomeroy Cannon It’s a $2.00 Photoplay at Palace Prices! Laughs! — LARRY SEMON — Laughs!| in “THE COUNTER JUMPER” Keith Vaudeville If It’s Keith’s, It’s the Best Show in Town! WILL MORRIS ANGER & PACKER 3-Black Diamonds-3 A Real Surprise . 4—MADCAPS—4 Vaudeville’s Best Dancing Act They’re Wonders! THURSDAY—HAROLD LLOYD