New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 15, 1923, Page 4

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928 - NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT DRAMA\ AND . ~McHugh, Hailing From Ptmbamll - Becomes Stranded in Connecticat - Popular Juvenile With l‘oll Stock Company Had His First Stage Appearance in Little Town of Seymour, A Pittshurgh hoy with ambitions (o suceeed becoming strAnded in a small Seanecticut town at the age of 1) years is the unusual experiepee of Frank MeHugn's first appe he stage. Mr. McHugh is the tile and popular juvenile with foli Players at the Palace theater in Hartford, who has made hosts of ‘riends during this past summer, hoth Hartford and New Britain through als gffective work on the stage, hi pleasing personality and his charming nanner, My, MeHugh was born the toal felds but when a mere youngster Jecided that he should follow the lootsteps of his mother and father, who were both professionals, and benceforth started in search or a ca- jer upon the stage. His mother plac- M him with a all company which played the “hick” gowns in which three members of the McHugh fam- Iy Nad already settled, “For Chil- fren's Sake" was the name of this nelodrama in which Mr. McHugh nade his first appearance hehind the lootlights One of the company's Irst engagements was in the town of leymour, Conn, where it became #trandod. Later in life Mr. McHugh joined nock company after stock company versa neur where, he said, he gained nothing but | raluable experience which could never | §e acquired in a schoo! for dramatic “deting. Although he hds not appeared b a New York production he has slayed in stock, in vaudeville, musical tomedy and repertoire. While engag- ¥ in the last mentioned work he dlayed many seasons throughout the middle west where repertoire com- vanies are most popular. Having acted for a few seasons, Mr. McHugh suddenly changed his mind | and though that he might like to be tome a lJawyer so he discarded grease saint and powder for the thrilling life of & crack attorney at law, but soon gave this up when the lure of the lootlights became too strong for him. “Work in stock is mighty hard but it is the best school for those with higher ambitions and who want to succeed on the stage. It is compara- tively easy for the beginner who is Interested in his venture to learn his part in any of the manuscripts but the study becomes harder for those of experience who hayg somewhat lost that first,interest they acquired for tHe stage and have become hardened to the life of a stock artist. It is a wonderful field, however, and 1 thould just hate to leave it.” Ifr. McHugh, with other memhers NORMA TALMADGE “THE NEW FIGHTING Prices—Matinee, 18¢, 23¢ rance on | the | " | engaged, |even from the wedding feast, | moth to a candle, | {of the company, will bid adiey ln Hartford next week when the Peli players will elose their summer sea: | | son of stock in that eity As a fare well attraetion “Her Temporary Hus: band” will be offered and in it Mr MoHugh will have one of the hest | | roles of the season, POLANEGRI STARS IN ‘HADLOVE'--PALACE ‘Famous Film Favorite Appears 4 Sappho Pola Negri has been seen in Amers iea In & number of photoplays, such a8 "Passion,” which made her name & household word in this country ul- | most overnight, followed by “One Arabian ght" (made from Max Reinha s wordless play “Sumu- run') ypsy Blood," adapted from | Prosper Merimee's “Carme and | “Vendetta” but never in anything lquite*like her new Goldwyn picture, “Mad Love,” which will be the at- traction at the Palace theater for |three days, beginning Monday, As Sappho, & beautiful and notori- ous woman who, in the argot of the day, would be called a vampire, she lets loose the flood of her personal | magnetism, that sensuous lure of beautiful flesh, beautifully moulde: which hu! heen the characteristic of the wofld's most wonderful women, In “Mad Love" Pola Negri guthers up Inte one strand, in her impersona- tion of Sappho, all the wiles and lures that centuries of practice have taught to womankind and spreads the net successfully over two brothers, Of the first she tires and drives him oit | of his mind. The second comes to mean the whole world to her and she strives to hold him even when he|“Circus Day which is claimed by hears that she was the cause of his| Broadway critics to be the crowning | brother's mental condition. |achievement of the season's big pho- Her lover flees from her and mar- [toplays. ries the innocent girl to whom he was —— but the lure of Sappho, the ~ |Selwyns Offer “The Fool” At Parsons’ Sept. 24 matyre love that she has When the present their brings him back to her, like a | production = of Channing Pollock’s great play “The Kool at Parsons theater for one week beginning Mon- day night, Sept. 24th, with the usual matinees, theatergoers will realize that it is something different, some- thing entirely ncw, and something daring—daring in the light that it is a radical departure from anything at- Hill and Co. who offer an excellent [tempted heretofore, in the theater. variety offering entitled “Fools Para- |Its treatment of a theme that few dise.” drarnatists would have cared to un- On Sunday night the program will |dertake, required a man of force and feature two fine photoplays present- | determination like Mr. Pollock, who WGPl Guest, and an all Man She fiton in “The Midnight corking good melodrama; star cast will portray “The | Brought Back,” an exciting tale of the Northwest Mounted police, On Thursday the entire bill changes and brings as the big feature the pictur- ization of Peter B, Kyne's novel “T P'ride of Palomar.” Coming soon is Jackic Coogan’s greatest photoplay full-blooded, given him, Selwyns The vaudeville ))HI for Monday, | Tuesday and Wednesday will include four excellent acts with Nolan and Sparry, a pair of happy youngsters who are real good entertainers; Haley and Coleman will be seen in a com- edy skit ealled “Now T Ask You,” Ed. Morton, vaudevilie’s pleasing singer will be heard in an excellent selec- tion of songs; closing the bill is Paul ing Grace Darmond and Mahlon Ham- I never falters once he has made up SUNDAY SPECIAL AT LYCEUM—MO. + | problems of capital, putting a punch of the solar| ‘THE BROKEN WING 0] LYCEUM MONDAY Norma Talmadge and Herbert Rawlinson Sur Smday ‘ Round 12, the final allment of the Witner series of Fighting Blood, will open a four days' shewing at the Lyeeum in copjunction with the Sun- | day night double feature program whieh includes, besides orchestra se- Jleetions, news reels and comedies, | Norma Talmadge in The New Moon and Herbert Nawlinson in Nobedy's | Mride. For the first three days of | next week the feature will be The | Rroken Wing and the final half will | feature ‘The Hpider and the Rose, Two weeks hence the Lyeeum starts 1lhr second series of Fighting Blood, The NewsMoon, on tomorrow night | only, is the tale of a Russian princess who flees to a neighboring provinee | when her castle is attacked, Stunrt | | Holmen is the Cossack villain and the | | plot in exciting in its rovolutionary | scencs, and beautiful in its rnllrl, scenes, An underworld story that I .| not_entirely one of thrills is Nobody's MIRIAM COOPER AND KENNETH HARLAN IN “THE BROKEN D PICTURES, —TUES,—WED. He fought for what he be- and - succ has his mind. lleved was right, been his reward I'he sensation that ‘“he 1"oo0l" has created everywhere is due to the way in which the author has taken hold of this powepful” theme—modern soclal labor and ligion plexus varlety into his play at every opening: grappling with capital and {then with labor until religion tri- umphs over Both in the sense | success is never truly earned without |the brotherhood of man entering fully |into the bargaining. A very strong cast is necessary to give full expression to this.extraor- ary play. Among the principal 's are Dorothy Shoemaker, Har- . Browne, H. J. Herbert, Oscar I'igman, Clarence Handysides, Hale Norcross, David ILeonard, Beatrice Kay, Alice Hastings, Elizabeth Shir- ley, Maude Rowland, Blanche Sharp, Virginia Norton, Hamilton Mott, Frank Conlon, George Farie Craddock, George Earbara Cooper. Sea W riday. Beginning Monday “Sally” with Marilyn Miller and lLeon Errol reopen a two weeks' engagement the New Amsterdam theater, York. HERBERT RAWLINSON in in MOON” Sunday, Monday Tuesday, Wednesday BLOOD Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday B.P. Schulbelg presents Thursday, Friday, Saturday “THE SPIDER AND THE ROSE” with — — sASTON GLASS and ALICE LAKE Evening, 18¢, 23¢, 35¢ NOBODY’S BRIDE ROUND 12 re- | that | Greenberg, | right and | will | at | New ; Bride, | Miriam Cooper and Kenneth Har- |)an carry the leads in The Broken i Wing, the thriller that opens Monday. | The story gets away to a spectacular | I start when Philip Marvin,” a New | Yorker, undertakes a record alr flight. | Near the Mexican border his plane | goes bad, Ms mechanic falls out and | <h|~ machine, with a broken \\Inx,\ ! crashes Into the home of Tnez Villera, | |a handsome Spanish girl who has | glven the powers above 30 days in [ whigh to send her an American hus- | | band that she may wed and not have | [to marry Captain Santos, outlaw | leader, The girl nurses the American | to health and wastes no tinre in con- | vineing him he is her king of hearts. | 8antos in the meantime decides to | hold the rich American for ransom | and the latter, his memory gone, is | unable to send for aid. The girl finds | | the initials B. V. D, on some &othing and thinks they are his. The two are married, Santos is bested in a thrilling | to hand fight and the young couple are happily married. But | here the picture is difterent. Just when it seems that all is settled, the | American returns to the states and his memory is restored when hg finds his own American wife waiting for him. There is a complication that is straightened out in a most interesting manner. One of the most beautiful love stories ever written for the screen is enacted in The Spider and the Rose, which opens oy Thursdiy. | hand Keep Flies Away A sponge saturated with oil of la- vender will keep flies away. St. Andrew’s Church FAIR AND BAZAAR LITHUANIAN HALL Park Street Dancing and entertainment each evening — Tickets at Door — ’TBHNBURY:‘FHIR - \BACKSTAGE.". - Beginning Sunday, September 2§, the Palace theater will eliminate vaudeville and become a straight ple- ture theater leaving New Rritain with put ene home of vaudeville, the Capl. {tol on West Main street, which was [recently epened. Rigger pletures are |promised at the Palace and the hest |in vaudeville at the .Capitel hy Cen- taras Bros, & Perakos, owners of hoth playhouses, There will be a general reduetion in priees at the Palace and an augmented orchestyga will he one of the features of each pormrnum-n.‘ A pleture promised for showing soon is “The Covered Wagon," Paramount’s greatest hit of the year, Carl Bhaw and mmp-n). an orches {tra of six pleces, will be one of the feature vaudeville acts at the Capitol the first three days of next week, Or- chestra acts score in New Rritain and the management of this theater has received geveral requests to present Another novelty num- » Four Philips” who recontly completed a tour of the Keith and Orpheum big time houses of the west, Arthur Howard, former leading man with the Poli Players in Hart. ford and Miss Mary Ann Dentler, present leading lady, will be reunited after the close of the Hartford stock season next week and will open soon with a southern stock troup, The pupils of one of the Iargest schools for the blind in New York have been given permission by Wag- enhals and Kemper to present “The Hat”, undoubtedly the greatest m tery.play ever written, at a speclal An All Star Cagt in “THE MAN SHE BROUGHT BACK” A Northwest Police Story MUSIC - —— e e performance this fall. My, Kemper has agreed to help the teacher at ‘u.- play. Just as “"Peter Py has become & vegular Christmas attraction in Len- d “The Fool" may become a regu- Ia ristmas attraction in New York On aeccount of the enermous demand for seats during the last two weeks of the New York run and the necessity of leaving at the height of its sue- cess, the Belwyns have arranged for the play to some hack te New York, It will open an engagement, limited to eight weeks, on December theater to he announced later, It will be a glittering revue of musie, dance and fashions that the Belwyns will present Irene Castle in tifis season, Khe will open her tour at Joot Guard hall in Hartford to. night, Arrangements have heen completed by Florens Ziegf8ld whereby Miss Fapnie Price will appear in the new Ziegfeld "Follies of 1923," the eight. eenth of the series which is to he pro- duced nt the New Amsterdam theater the weak of October 8§, Miss Brice has always been one of the greatest fentures in the Zlegfeld “Follies” of the past, Her appearance means A postponement of her starring tour in “Lavghing Lena,” the Ring Lardner- Gene Buck-Ttudolph Frinl, musical comedy which Mr, Ziegfeld has had in preparation for some time, All of John McCormack's concerts for the coming season will be given at the Century theater. The first is | seheduled for Sunday .evening Sep- ,tember 30, Mr, McCormack has us- I.nllv given his concerts here in the Hippodroma, which has been .taken over for Keith vaudeville, Sunday Night—Excellent Double Features Grace Darmond and Mahlon Hamilton in ‘THE MIDNIGHT GUEST’ ’ A Thriller \‘QCTOBER: 123456 HARNESS RACES \ AUTO ACES NEW FIREPROOF N M) ANDSTARS 2 Pol's PALACE HARTFORD THIS WEEK—STARTS TONIGAT The POLI PLAYERS With MR. TOM MARTLLEE ALY | | Twpersonator, Rival es By America's Greatest Female Jalian Kitinge's Only o Comedy With' 1, ROY BRYANT | “The Fashion Girl” You saw him in the Widow,” nnd in the “Gay | Now' sce him in his Intest. e ————— S IITIIE L ITITILIILILLLIILLLISIILILLLLLSY” ROBIN HOOD INN MERIDEN Roy Ward's Colored Band Dancing Every Evening Good Food A La Carte Service Wmm&:mn “Fascinating Young Bride.” “MON.—TUES.—WED. A story of love and passion ! An expose of the love adventures of a heautiful wanton in the palaces of highest society. —VAUDEVILLE — NOLAN & SPARRY Pmr of happy youngslcn "~ ED MORTON Vaudeville’s pleasing singer HALEY & COLEMAN “Now I Ask You.” PAUL HILL & CO. “Fools Paradise” Coming—JAC 0 [ [ [ | | | | | | [ A KIE COOGAN " AMERICAN LEGION ANNOUNCES FRENCH VILLAGE — TONIGHT 8:00 P. M. — ARCH STREET ARMORY DeVito’s Music EVERYBODY COME! Admission 50¢ - S p——