New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 12, 1923, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1023, AR AR A AR . ~—— -~ - ] SPOKEN STAGE, THE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC | e NEWSY NOTES OF T. B e e e N A $100000,000 Estate Tangle e WILLIAM D. CORBETT HAS PLAYED IN STOCK, DRAMA AND PICTURES New . Britain Slfl" Has [;HAS. RAY IN fiREAT remembered as “Grandma,” is alse |the Lyeeum management has seeured ¥ # And there I8 the funniest [two big time motion pleture features drank™ we have ever seen in films. which star Her t Rawlinson and In order to accommo the | ftoy Stewart, each of whom is backed orowds the first night the ma ement [ up by an all star cast has arranged for two shows, one at| oy Stewart appears as the leading ‘l.ul»l ;wl other at %:30, also special | man in “The Innoeent Cheater,” a shows for sehool children at the ma: | grama that has a eertain element of Without knowing his real fden. [tinees on Man,, Tues, and Wed, at| o000y ahout it, consideralle exelte. tity, the ranchman turns the father|4:15, With this photoplay there will | oo ' e ment d venture Nl fine of the sirl he loves &nd wants t{be feur Rets of Keith vaudeville guar. |TMeNt 8nd adventure and & In ieh is a story western plaing, Mix is assisted nd his horse, Toy This is Miss Hennett's first engag ment Miv's leading lady In brict, it is A story of the western plaing dealing with the eutwitting of rustiers by a young raneh this stay this, w of i seen Alma Beanett st A BuNg The next big | Achieved Fame in the Great Worl' of Make Be- lieve—Once Toured With Own Company, Wiliiam D, Corbett, now touring the western const with & dramatic pro duction, is another son Jeave New Rritain and make a name for himself in the great world of make-belie Mr, Corbett has hee the owner of his own dramatic shows, has played opposite some of th greatest stars of the theater and has appeared in many successful moving victures, native In T. A, B Plays, Born in New Britalr sehooled in the public schools of this city gained his first theatrical experience while appearing in the amateur Y. M T. A. and B, society plays. For sev. eral seasons he appeared as the lead ing man in all of the Tab productions until he was offered a chance to trav- ¢ with the Seymour-Stratton Stock company, then one of the leading companies of its kind in the United States. After playing one scuson's Cngage- ment with this company he joined the Leonzo Brothers company “Brother Against Brother In play he was the leading man and lowing a tour o1 the country with this show Mr, Corbett joincd the Corse Payton stock company. He traveled| with this aggregation of performers! for two seasons and then joined ‘the Dick Ferris players in Minneapolis where he remained for onky one sea-| son. | Toured United States, | Following this engagement he tour- ed the country for a few years with/| various dramatic companies playing | more than 100 character parts. De- siring to enter the stock field again he joined the Poli stock company at Washington, D. €., remaining there for one xeason Having appeared in stock and road shows Mr. Corhett decided to enter the field of vaudeviile and for some time | toured the Keith and other big time circuits out of New York in a sketch called “The Man Without a Country, In this playlet there were 11 actors, all of them having wide experience in the stock world. In Moving Pictures. Mr. Corbett then entered the mov- | this fol ing pictures and one of his first big | tute one of the best shows to be pre-| dred is sweetness personified. |sented this season. | nal and ever entertainng bered as the western star, Tom Mix, will rideinto|gailor Made Man. productions was “The Christian’ pro- duced several vears ago by Vitagraph. He played the part of John Storm. The picture of that name in whic Mr. Corbett played was seen at Fox's ipagt picture, “Three ‘Jumps Ahead,” debut and gets into the apiri theater vears ago. He has also played in support of Nance O'Neil in moving pictures and one of his greatest successes was “The | J'ace To the Window.” He is now/ touring with a dramatic production in the western states. YRR a cat 1sle (;f Man has produced without a tail. Among the Kaching, a tribe in Burma, girls wear their hair hohhr-di as a sign they are unmarried. i MON.-TUES -WED. (ONEDY FILN-FOX'S Alias Julins Caesar Begins Mon- Starting Monday with the inimitable Charles Ray in his latest and bhost comedy drama then switehing to a brand new west. ern drama, “Three Jumps Ahead," with Tom Mix and his pony, Tony, loing the jumping, Fox's next week will offer a motion pleture program that 18 hound to appeal to the lovers of all that 1s most entertaining In the silent drama, In addition there will he the usual four acts of the best wort of vaudeville, changed on Thurs- duy Sunday night's bill presents Willlam Hussell in “Good-by Girls,” & thrilling story, vibrant with drama, tinged with comic situations, both of them blended with startling action and col- ored by vivid love romance, The other, taken from an E, Phillips Op. penheim mystery story, is “Pligrims of the Night,” featuring Lewis Stone and Rubye de Remer, mystery, made more compelling hy the fact that the mald s asked to marry a man who confesses to having a “past” but who refuses to divulge its details. Among other things, the { picture shows how clever crooks hide themselves among the throngs of humanity. Taking the elusive dangers of the | great harvest moon as the theme for picture, Charles Ray has evolved a rollicking doclety crook comedy drama in “ANas Juliue Cae- sar,” that comes to Fox's Monday for In the case of “Alias Julins Caesar,” Ray uses the lustrous harvest moon as the lure by which the suave soclety crook fascinates his vietims and despoils them of jewels. The yaudeville bill for the first three days of the week will consist of four headline acts. Reed his latest Alias Julius Caesar," | overcoming the It 18 a baffling | {shriekad and Mayo in & qpare s a real story-—a marry over to the gang who are de termined that he shall pay with his ife for his resistanece, Then follows a serles of thrilling facidents before Mix routes the rustiers, saves the old anteed to please you, attraetion announced for an early run the Palace s Rupert Hughes' ‘Houls for Bale,” with a cast of 43 fumona stars |Ed Wynn at Rarson In “The Perfect Fool” Playing to record patronage every: The feature photaplas for the last | 8 0 b very. half of next ur’:k “"-.A"M Ascends” | Where, Ed Wynn, the Perfect oo, his successful tour, His Is with Alize Brady, Nita Naldl, David |continues ) | Towell and Robert Ellis featured, the sort of bright, snappy and zippy LYGEUM FILN STAR staged by that master hand, Jullan | Cast-Aside Wile of The Shelk ln‘ Picture Mon.~Ben Turpin Thurs,| Fool" ds in a class by itself, True, | — man and effects a reconelllation with the girl HAROLD LLOYD IN 7 REELER-PALACE “Safety Last” a Hurricane of Humor { Rice, Jay Velle, Cass Burt, John Dale, | Flo Newton, Janet Velle, Edna Ham- | el, Anita I"urman, Estelle Penning, :'l'lw Meyako Trio, hat Girl Quar- {tet" and Wynn's justly famous Wynn- | [ing-Wynn-some chorus of charm and | beauty assist the inimitable Ed Wynn in the fantastic fun.making. FE(d and his merry offering are coming to The location is twelve stories above | Parsons’ theater, for three n|lhlnf the atreet. Clinging to the slde of the | joan Acker, Rudoiph ‘..“,“"M..;:'r;'l:;- uhg:'('l‘:::‘." "l'"l:l::l::) May 17th, | bullding, two-thirds of the way up, , 't oo’ icarded that he : b [ with a dozen pigeons roosting on his . ; | head is Harold Lioyd, The crowd be. Might marry Winifred Hudnut, mil-| . low, amuscd but frightencd, watch |lionaire perfumer's daughter, who! Fate m Doubt ) with him Meriden on breathlessly while the apectacled | joncad omedinn ¢ ‘i camedinn continues his upRArd eimb | 31y g, has been engged for | hilarious cbstacles, the Lyceum theater on Monday, Tues- | This is just one of the impressions | day and Wednesday when she will star In the feature photoplay “The | | Woman in Chains," a dynamic drama you get after viewing Harold Lloyd's seven-reel Pathe comedy “Safety Last"” of life and love and oppressed beauty. | Mrs, Valentino, No. 1, hersell a screen in at the Palace theater starting Sun- day night for four days. And what a comedy! Never has an audience! with such uncontroilable | laughter, There have bheen riotous| two-reel comedies produced in the past by master comediang, but never before has one heen seen In seven reels that moved at such a fast pace. How Harold Lloyd performs his thrill stunts is a mystery. It is cer- tain that he did them himself, for his face is seen plainly in ev hazard- ous predicament he encounters. When a voung man attempts to climb the side of a twelve story building in the place of a real “human fly"” and meets their | ijarious trouble every foot of the way the result is a continuous run of uproarious laughter, RBut the comedy is not all thrills. delightful | singing and dancing revue, Beile ""'{s'or;‘ with pretty little Mildred Davis | ver whose manner of putting over | _ now Mrs, Harold Lloyd—the young blue songs has won her great fame, jaqy in the case. The Versatile Trio who present an get called “Vaudeville a la Carte” thing. The orif town Thursday with his latest and which presents a series of thrills that As The'Boy, Harold Lloyd is at his | and | pest, He has a huge bag of new tricks Brown and Flaine in Bits of Every- yp his sieeve and a recklessness in These four acts Will consti-ifacing danger that is amazing. afil- Then Noah Young, weil remem- hard-boiled gob in "A Bill Strothers, a makes his screen t of the Westcott B. Clarke s there 1§ real “human-fly"” fun splendidly lexceed even the previous attempts of | the fipor-walker, and Anna Townsend LYCEUM MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY | YMrs. Rodolph Valentiro ¢ The Woman in Chains A Powerful Ph(.)to-leama of Romance, Adventure, Love and Suspense IN . DANCE ATURDAY, MAY 12 Odd Fellows' Hall Music by teo. Marl Bellwood aders. Featuring Prof. Marinelll, drome Accordion Soloist Seren- poii's PALACE Hartford's Home of the Spaken Dramn TODAY AND TOMORROW “Why Men Leave Home” Mora) PLAYERS A Comeds Drama With a Big PLAYED BY THE \EW Starring ARTHIR HOWARD ANS DENTLER with a Sapporting € ast rov MARY 100 yer cont VAUDEVILLE SHOW “FIGHTING BLOOD” Thursday — Friday — Saturday Mack Sennett Presents . BEN TURPIN ‘THE SHRIEK OF ARABY’ Miss Edna Richards, Who Appeared With Great Success, at Lyceum, Will Be in Vaudeville Thursday SUNDAY NIGHT—THE BEST SHOW “THE INNOCENT CHEAT” With Roy Stewart “MAN-AND HIS WOMAN” With Herbert Rawlinson star, was divorced by Valentino a| number of months ago after which he | raced to Mexico where he wai mar- ried to Miss Hudnut Wife, No. 1, contested the divorce and for a time| it appeared that the hero of The| Sheik would be arrested for bigamy, The coming of the screen star is eagerly awaited by New Britain fans. | Four high grade vaudeville acts will | round ot the program which on Thursday will he changed to bring one | of filmdom’s funniest characters in a big five reel comedy. Ben Turpin, he, of the cross-eye fame, will be seen the last half of the week in “The Shriek of Araby."” In “The Shriek of Araby" Ren Tur- | pin reaches heights of comedy here- tofore never obtained by this popu- lar Mack Sennett funnyman. On the all star vaudeville bill which | begins Thursday the shining light will | be Miss Edna Richards, premier so-| prano soloist who first appeared here as the prima donna with the Tom| Carroll musical comedy Co. Misg Richards has left that company and | has signed a contract to appear to start upon her vaudeville tour. WILLIAM RUSSELL —in — “Good-by, Girls” m MONDAY happens to Charlie ! REED & MAYO Song and Dance Revue Not in|1,0rne vaudeville in a singie act of her own | pearly two years. and her loecal appearance will he ”‘"}h\m last before she leaves for New York Wrangell Island, north of Siberia, de- {claring the island to be British ter- For Sunday evening's ]\er(ormnnc«:rlmr_\: That was Sept. 15, 1921, |--FOX’S- ENING ONLY The Biggest and Best Show in Town ! ! 3—EXCELLENT FEATURES—3 ~ ADDED ATTRACTION l BABY PEGGY in “TAKING ORDERS” , And last but not least our | 6—MUSICAL HOUNDS—6 | In their latest musical selections ; | | TUESDAY Charles Ray in one of his very best ! ‘Alias Julius Caesar’ All he wore was a bath curtain and a grievance. His girl didn’t love him; he was mistaken for a crook; they jailed him as a maviac. Yet, the slaughter of Caesar was nothing compared to what Smiles—Chuckles—Roars—Guaranteed GREAT VAUDEVILLE SHOW !! VERSATILE TRIO Vaudeville A La Carte has been heard from arctic explorer, in The last mail from proclamation . from a word Knight, was a —eer “PILGRIMS OF THE NIGHT” All Star Cast WEDNESDAY BELLE KOVER Singing “Blues” BROWN & ELAINE Bits of Everything T SR e S S Thursday—TOM MIX in “3 JUMPS AHEAD” The utmost secrecy guards details of the suit filed by Lady Hyde (above) for an accounting of the $100,000,000 estate of the late Lezi Z. Leiter, pioneer Chicago merchant. names as defendants her brother, her sister, Mrs, Nancy Carver Campbell of Santa Barbara, Cal. | Others, high in British royalty, are said to be involved. In her suit she Joseph Leiter of Chicago, and PALACE Sunday Night—Mon.—Tues.—Wed. The World’s Happy Lad — in the — THRILL-A-MINUTE LAUGH-A-SECOND 7—Reel Comedy Cyclone—7 See the Prince of Skylarkers, in his latest iurricane of Humor filled with frills, spills, chills and surprising sen- sations. Harold - Lloyd afety Last | athi:camed See him climb a twelye story building. You'll get a spine thrill and a big howl each step of tRe way. The Sky's the Limit On Loughter. Manager's Note: Specially reinforced seats straps for hysterical patrons. Doctor in attendance at all shows. with 6% 0 o D P O OO > In order to accommodate the crowds that want to see Harold 2-ShowsSunday Night-2| Tand 830 P. M. IF YOU CAN'T COME EARLY—COME AT 8:30 * Special showing for school children at the matinees 4:15, admission 10c. KEITH YAUDEVILLE Jean Hollis (Henshaw & Avery Johnny and Mabel Dove — Bell & Gray Thurs.—Alice Brady, N David Powell in “ANNA ASCEN