New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 23, 1923, Page 4

PUUTUTIIUUPSIUPPRUISS NEWSY theatergoers in this vieinity and are| ARTHUR HOWARD ap- roundly applauded upon their first pearance at each performance, On Stage at 14, Miss Dentler is as charming a per- gon as one would care to become ac- quainted with. Attired in a pink georgette gown previous to her ap-|! pearance on the stage for the third act in “Lawful Larceny,” Miss Dent. ler consented to tell a representative of The “Herald” what work she has done on the stage. NOTES POLI PLAYER LEADS BOTH AGREE PLAYING IN STOCK IS HARD WORK quarters, first swooped down on Tulsa Thurs- day and | voung Indian attorney and Con van, reputed to be a gambler known oxer being held in Muskogee until furnish |U. 8 part of the loot obtained in the $2,- 000,000 mail robbery in city to officers. worth of alleged stol(n bonds. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE .~ BACKSTAGE.". past two years, disposing of millions of dollars worth of honds stolen at various places over the country, fed. eral officers were moving today to complete their roundup, Seven or eight additional were forecast The ring leader of the gang, accord- ing to the ofMicers, wns taken with the rest yesterday of Ed King, banker | t Shidler one of the mushroom towns in the ofl fields of the Osage nation. | It 15 in the Ogage country that some | SeASONS, assistant manager at of Oklahoma's most eMcient modern |theater, will jeave tor New York on bank robbers make their head-|Monday where he will enter the em- |ploy of the Fox Folly theater in Simultaneously with King's ‘",M;Hroukl,\'n as assistant manager, Dell Willlams of Pawhuska was talen | e into custody. Both men were heid at | all week renewing old whom they had met in New Britaln |on their previous appearances in thi arrests city, Miss Ackerman, when here last | was plaving In the that time has advanced to Ingenue of the company, Jacob Finklestein, for the past two able to leave §t. Francis' hospital fol. |lowing an operation on his | While at the hospital he became ac quainted with James Cormican, who jeonducted a stock company at the L | eeum theater in this city for two sea- These two are|sons. they pre——— each fixed by a The officers on the trail of the gang arrested Walter Chitwood, Kullf- the southwest, $7.500 bond commissioner, Bonds worth §14,000 alleged to be Beginning Monday New Britain will have but one theater playing vaude- ville, that being the Palace., The Ly- ceum has already adopted a summeor policy of pictures while the Scenic has been the home of the silent drama. New York in October 1921 were found in he possession of Sullivan, according Willilams was sald to have $5,000 Moving pictures taken in New Brit- F THE SPOKEN STAGE, Jack 8heehan, Frank Boper and other {members of Hoyt's Revue were husy acquaintances 1 chorus but since Fox's Frank McHough, juvenile with the first big one on a salmon-fishing trip Pawhuska last night for removal to| Poli Players in Hartford, has been!on Cain's river, New Brunswick. the federal jall at Muskogee, throat. | ain on Memorial day and previous to| . 1028, 23, e i . Ol b . e e Al A THE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC l There will be st RSTREESEOF =i DCTURE AT LYGEUN 1ers later jreus #f the season on Wednesday of in “For Al of Us” a new William Hodge production, This show had a short run in Chicago this winter, triangles are glven a somewhat dif. ferent twi in this pleture and the | plot {5 quite different from the ordin. ary run | But these two features Sunday | night simply introduce another week of wuperior picture shows, for which FOX Fox's theater, CLOSING BILL one of the leading lo- |the Lyceum is rapidly earning a ¢al playhouses for the past decade, ‘Iname. During the first three days closes Sunday evening with a double of noxt week beautiful Madge Bel. feature movie bill; after which the [lamy, regarded by Harrison Fisher as Fox interests will have no representa- the prettiest girl in America, will play [tlon in this cit General Manager opposite Lloyd Hughes In Are You a |J08eph Leo of New York, however, has Fallure, a comedy drama that has the |Eranted the use of the theater to Winifred ¢, Blair of 8t, John, N. B, 15 not content with being Canada's nte |beauty queen (she's called Miss Can-|ciements of comedy so mixed with ReV: Thomas Leyden of the church ada), but is striving for the pisca-|those of heavier acting and even of 8t, John the Evangelist, for a spe- | melodrama as to make a wondertul [¢/8] bencfit show Monday evening. picture. Then for the last three days | This church has purchased the organ After that It is be. of the week in breezes Johnny Hines |, o ¢y o thonter will be closed until (torial championship. 8he caught the from the theater, lin Luck. | & & F | As a sure cure for lonesomeness the }“".:10::'1;":,::‘5“:;?:“;:"' 155 aliaw STUDENTS IN STRIKE JOBS | theater manager recommends Are |, TORIERL CORCIUAT TRe JOT] oW — You o Fallure which will have its |2 S% HOIER FETUZ FHCH thelr meoioat Men Out alpremier local showing at the Lyceum e thore will be the final showing |on Monday afternoon. Advance no-|o¢ Richard Talmadge in “The Speed tiees show thiz picture to be one of |naman. |50 Coilegians Replace :‘ Year in P. R, R. Olean Shops Olean, N. Y., June 23.—Fifty col-| ay, { ghe, love and life. It is crammed night's double fe; e dents . P 8 2 featurcs lege students are replacing strikers, | yj) of unexpected twists and surprise |bring Teddie Gerard and Boris Karl- out sinee last July, in the shops of|giunts that keep the onlooker strug-|off fn “The Cave Girl," and Virgii the Pennsylvania railroad here. More gling between laughter and cold chills. than 200 will work this .ummer, said A rare combination of youth, wver shop officials. They are students of leatajity and talent combined in a pic- Pearson in “Wildness of Youth.” ON LIQUOR Purdue University, Pennsyivania | tyre that is heralded as the biggest State, Ohio State and teciinical [jaugh getter of the season, will make | Ottawa, June 23.—Exportation of schools. its appearance at the Lyceum on intoxicating liquors from Prince Fd- ward Island, or holdicz it for export, except by prewers and distillers duly authorized by the Canadinn govern- ment {s prohibited as from August 31 The first strikebreakers were housed | Thursday in the persons of Johnny and fed on rallread property, hut the!Hines and Violet Mersereau in a pic- ‘ents live in private houses in the|ture called “TLueck.” Incidentally, this cily. There have been no Jdisorders|marks the return of Miss Mersereau 70 STINT [/l[llCAl MOVIE TO BE FEATURE AT PALAGE The la performance under the this week and judging from the at : R < A Fox hanner to be given at Fex's tendance at the pight performanece the lag Adevoted s o the € ] i 8l Arthur Howard and Miss ¢ his ife (o the theater theater Will be staged on Sunday people of the city sull like to visi ) : . s Eagl . 0440 line Palace theater bullding will he = ) Mary Ann Dentler Each | ons Jao fonowing the Jate war an 8 SRS s, © Had & Successful|Poried wun vioer Hemmg tn-raree | 1, 10, M0 P88, [, SHINAYS8 rison-Great Shows Next : e B % | wration wding and_ wher , - Next Week | City in Film Have Had a Buccessfl| buces easr™ which ran o tull season |t'onion’in sepiomber the theater A Queen’s Catch | 0 Theatrical Caveer Begin . Pt e o e ool (be knawn as the Capitol. Fov's thea § S ® | vinite " N theater in rord. | or was o t a decade ago . He alse played in "Daddy Leng-lLegs ‘\' “:’ h.l'"‘:‘m" "l_ opere u" ‘:u | Sunday pight patrons of the 1o #arting funday night for & rua of fl'nl as (hlldl’l‘“ h‘ lh(‘ 8 ¥ WaE v»\.‘flv‘ Willlam Collier in “Ihe | york vaudeville and motion picture ‘:"eyumlzhcu:f: ‘”IIINZ“\QIH.';. up;::;l‘l\:.ll. 3 week the Palace will show axaly. ’ Mr. Howard has played i stack tn | MagRate: With six acts of vaudeville anywhere of one of the lat sively the etficial moving pletures of West, R INC.CR Mae :I:;‘n anrl-;.mr- ,‘;,'n... 1 It eontinued o o b il o e kg e New Britain 1983, These are the ones — with the Hyperion Players and at one | oo o0 ,.‘ \.,] .“.M. .v‘,.\ i 'umwu ::\: on the sereen Making Geeod, starring taken under the supervision of Mayer Playing in stock is hard work, It time conducted his own company 8t | poiine nicture theater and the organ | Pete Morrvison, This film has enh {'aonessa’s commitiee and show & yequires time, careful study, constant | |10C0 ol Mo expecta to 'vistt his|RAA inctalled, Later it was agair :”S:m'n‘:nn ::::;‘I:“":":]':':::‘. :k;th:::. e seneral review of our eity, its people ot definite he expects to visit his p D Nigh o eoncentration and & thorough unders oo Cacol O W o el Bis sen. |100M0d advimbie (o open the hotse ing will be the first not u'nl)' in this fire department, police dapartment, standing by each Individual, not only| oo Lok ];, Hartford ““:)' will | a8 the home of popular priced vaude. bo 1By s Sk Vgt - I city fathers eity offiel and the ¢ thelr respective roles, but the « . wtoc artfe hich ville. This was four years ago and ¥y ol ¥ n eountry ’ of their resp sops Both Mias| Probably closs in September lsince that time the theater has housed 15 & western drama, filjgd with aetio) Devoration Day pa The pletures :'," B tadlng . weman m— Ifour aets of vaudeville each half eof and with sufficlent romance to pleas (ume out fine and are as clear as & B s boil piayers at the Palace BON ROBBERI n BB[NG the week with & feature moving pie and, aecording to the producers, it stal. The pletures are In four theater in Hartford and Arthur How | 0] [ture and an exclusive photoplay bill should be a knockout success froi 1e0ls and “"h"u."wnu an “vdlfi: oo 3 the very start, Of course there wi iitraction with the regular vau Bes, Wading man agree o thesel CLRANED UP BY ARRESTS (" " "= __ b oeveal Mool of news fantires and und movie program. ~ For - Moaday, polats | also a short preliminary comedy ani Tussday and Wednesday the photo- Porhape it is because these two — The theater will now be the home the second feature pieture of the eve Iplay feature will present Agnes Ayres players have udhered to these rules | p 4o omeers Working in Oklahoma (©f Kelth vaudeville and it is being ming will be Burning Worgds, enacted ROBERT MIDDLEMASS the charming Paramount star in her ©of the theater game that they have planned by the new owners to run byanall star cast. Burning words s e Sitass |new production “A Daughter of Lux. been a success on the stage and Oil Fields Uncover Headquarters | 1ve acts of vaudeville with a comedy, soclety drama of the type that Is | w tobert Middiemass, son of Mrs.|ypy« th h their untiring efforts and { saen y e 3 S & society LI ype that I8 | wijjiam Middiemass of 25 South High | . . roug ) {news reel and feature pleture as an 50 populur and some of the seenes In | srreet, one of the fow N Mary Fenton, the role plaved by hard work have hecome favorites with | of Alleged Gang afternoon and evening's entertain. it are sald to be unusually EOrgeous, | hoys 'wh" have left ‘:h’ w B"""‘!\ Ayres, is forced to pawn her Bartford and New Britaln people. Al-| 0o g gy gy (ML whilo| the 0oMUMAS WOFR By 8am6 OF | £ oL irerg e ks SN iy ANS [ Jmbaalia t0 gotthed. -3 6 & scefiy eompany they have won the hearts of has operated in this section for the| Afiss Robs Ackerman, Peggy Raby, that will make a hit with any woman ing a dramatic season in Chicago, He | iraed and a little more 6!\ it. The audience, The usual soclety eternal | will open in New York In September |\ nrella, along with an expensive |sult and medish hat she w she | had kept when her status changed {from a once wealthy gist to a jobless and penniless occupant of a hall bed. {room. Her parents died and Mary's expected inheritanes did net material- ize, The suit and hat she clung te be- |eause she knew that she would have |a hetter chance of getting a fob in {kmart clothes than in shabby attire. | One bright day she saved herself from Lunger by pawning ner umbrella. 8o |an umbrella comes in handy on a bright or rainy day, anyway you take |1t | The | story is & comedy drama, adapted by RBeulah Marie Dix frem |the play, “The Impostor,” by Leonard | Merrick and Michael Morton. | The Keith vaudeville bill will be featured by four excellent acts. Vie- |toria will be =een in a very good variety novelty offering: Ward and Bohiman offer a delightful singing and talking skit: Hazel Cox, direct ,from a big Rroadway show just clos- ed, is a comedienne of note and will ‘he very well liked here; and Gordon |and Kinney will offer a variety act |par excellence. For Sunday night only two feature photoplays will be shown in conjunction with the New | Britain picture. Wanda Hawley will he geen in “Midnight,” a pleasing !rom-dy drama, and Frank \faye will |be starred in “The Flaming Hour," a very dramatic feature with plenty of pep and action. Starting next Thurs. day for a run of three days, Richard | Dix and Helene Chadwick will be fea- between students and strike sympa-lto the screen after a long vacation thizers, from the movies. LYCEUM Wednesday by an order in council published to- d ay. fured in_"Yellow Men and Geld Born and brought up in Denver, Colo., she gained her first stage ex- perience at the age of 14 years and that day will be shown at the Palace | HI[iH BRI"EE T ftheater all of next week in conjunc- [tion with the regular attractions. | Many from New Britain are plan-|g ning to attend the garden fete which | will be glven Thursday afternoon, | June 28th under the auspices of the| Connecticut Children’s Aid soclety at| Hillstead the home of Mrs. John Wal. | lace Riddle of Farmington, auspices of the Connecticut Children's Ald so- clety to raise funds. An attractive program has been arranged which |f will include a one act play by "The| Jitney Players” under the direction of Bushnell Cheney and Alice Keating. | Scenes for “The Smile of a Child” the movie which has been written ex- presly for the Connecticut Chil- SUNDAY NIGHT and ALL NEXT WEEK Extra Added Attraction “THE OFFICIAL MOVING PICTURES of NEW BRITAIN 1923” Taken Under Supervision of Mayor Paonessa’s Committee 4—BIG REELS—4 See Yourself in the Movies ! Monday, Tuesday, HOYT’S has been on the stage since that time. She has played in vaudeville, produc- tions, stock and moving pictures. With Miss Ann Orr and “Skeet" Gallagher, Miss Dentler made her first appear-| Y 4 ance on the stage in vaudeville, sm'N k Eflg w [ toured many of the largest houses 1ni ew or meer ams 0 the country for three vears with this : fii keten movadin the o1 pont nouse in | POSSIDle Bomb Plot During War Hartford which was on the site of the present Capitol theater, . —— Played in “Everywoman."” New York, June 23.—"The day we Later she played in “Peg of My|gave the German ambassador his Heart” and Youth in the famous pro-| passport we shut the water off in the duction of ‘Everywoman.'” Miss | aqueduct going over High Bridge,” % ~—————— | sald E. A. Byrne, chlef engineer of the department of plant and strue- B R ture, arguing at the meeting of the ::::;MA::hn:mr':,:’m:‘;g‘ e board of estimate yesterday for the| (ot i Ol P p | destruction of that historic pile. *Tt|ETER (L FNTEED 5 . ‘1‘,,,',:’“,["-'.""'!“ Eanigotiss fplce o B‘Kakcvl a professional _director, Guy Mayor Hylan expressed no pan»nre;g"ldr‘“:dof ‘:]h: “";‘ t:"’"" 1?"50‘"' {with a large delegation of eminent arge he production. he pic- engineers who pleaded for another ture will be exhibited in local thea- week in which to prove to the city| == it would be cheaper to save than to| scrap the bridge.- They declared it would cost $500,000 to tear it down| and $1,000,000 to build a tunnel for| the Croton water to take its place, while to remodel it so as to free na igation would:cost no more than §700,000, | “Maybe we won't need- this water, | ling,"" remarked the may: “I don't| think it is working now, | | Col. Merritt Smith, chief engineer| | of the water department, assured him it was not only in use, but needed | badly to help out the Catskill system. —With— Sunday Night Only—Biggest Show in Town ! MISS MARY ANN DENTLER [ Then it was that Mr. Byrne, whos Dentler made her first stock appear-| department is anxious to tear High MADGE BELLAMY Slor \d in San Fran. | Bridge down, said it was considered | 2 ance with Florence Reed in San Fran- | Br 1, said was con FRANK MAYO WANDA HAWLEY eisco and later had the privilege of| ‘angerous to cawry water over if, —in — —_— I — was a vulnerable spot in time o playing with Miss Reed in her New '\ 5 a thanal dCe ha el York s of “The Mirage.” She War, that a r river > ek s » S0 B e soatans I stock ang| Would have to be bullt anyway. DICK TALMADGE in Thursday. Friday, Saturda “The Flaming Hour’ “Midnight” most of this time has been with the Col Smith did not back this up M “THE SPEED KING® @§| Y Y y e bl Poli interests, | and \nmpn;m;:r r‘mu: pnl:tndr 'mn: ’ Her stock « gements under the | that the Ashokah dam or the Croton) S Sy Poll banner have been at Worcester, | 150TS0I would be just as vuineravle. | SUNDAY NIGHT ONLY ° MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY By ford. | W id 'k, as was| P - sy VR Bt But she ctrong Loostep 10 PAY for the property taken for the| ;:: \l};:r,)({,’,.' "“ . SELL dind ‘;’1" " Willard Parker hospital in 1907 “The Cave Girl” | 0 nny lnes ¢husetts city. In moving pictures Miss | [CMPtTONCE Cralg refused to vote on | 3 J Dentler has playcd opporite Carlyle| ' A7 Frasident Huthert of the board | All Star Cast | Supported By An All Star Cast in Blackwell in two productions s Wil il Mr. Howard Hates Conceit LB Ul S L) | : . BB it iow ey moateceryans ) in His Latest D ht f L Bikret that rully two thirds of the . ildnessof X out 66 A people who atte the theater in this Waterbury Man, Held For Wife Heat. Fl‘flh“‘i"g ,, ; R ‘ ing, Goes Home To Get Som But VIRGINIA PEARSON | 3 we are off the ATe egEniar Ansonia, Junc 23 Leaving the city | . B reion a0 ¢ e company of |courtroom {0 ot his son Who had Poli’s PALACE ; The Only Vaudeville Show in Town ! non-ihe « ¥ well as those heen immoned as a witness in a | within our own sphoere.” chargr against the father for wife gy | VICTORIA WARD & BOHLMAN A Roy M - n hilip ydan ven o his . The popnlar | ‘ man gained hi ‘m,“, ‘,"; ‘1 ',Ill-,},,"j'nvl .:m: v",. ‘mm"'n" ALY THIS WEEK | p f C d D GORDON & K[NNEY HAZEL Cox firet stoge vhile playing ing and committed suicide by swal-| What would son do it you found another A WOndel' u] omedy vUrama QR o bone 11 an orchestra which [owing carboli acid, When Foden | somes, 2eg [hell Jo0 SL Q0 NrW et : i mmh With & roal production faled t return. the case seainst him oy e i Pri Thursday—Richard Dix and Helene Chadwick $ e mi ¢ west several was continur o onday 2 10~ P » F, p— — > B BEO: An actor in the play was endds ice instructed to look Boden up. Te Starring ARTHUN HOWARD and MARY rices in “Yellow Men and Gold” Y taken i1l and as no substitute could pwas found dead by O William | - ANN B rondnny Raccoss | be engaged immediately, Mr. Howard | Ahearn whe went to the man's home. b 3 N i e me e vl ek LAWFUL LARCENY § Mat-23¢, 18¢, 10c. Eve~30c, 23¢, 18¢ 1ts as Cool as an Ocean Breeze at the Palace onsented to dn his wife on various occasions and Mrs. | spammoth Stage Seftings. A Visual Treat. . . * Btage he reluctant #2is “bit” and since that time he has|Boden was compelled to leave home. | An Unusual Play.