New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1923, Page 5

- NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT DRAMA AND JACKIE COOGANAT PALAGE NEXT WEEK Famous Biy Gonedlan Srs i "cquus Days” "Starting Sunday night the Palace willystart its new poliey of big pho-| toplay presentations and will feature| as the big attraction for the first four days of the week Jackie Coogan in his greatest d costliest photoplay, ireus Days,” All of the big plotures released for the new season will play the Palace exclusively as contracts| have now been closed for the biggest and greatest productions that the | movie world has produced this year. | The Palace will now be able to pre-| sent the pictures that before could )| never ' be shown here on account of their length and costly price and so starting Sunday night Palace patrons can expect the biggest pictures with special musical interpretations by an| augmented orchestra under the direc-| tion of Earl Lambert. Mr, Lambert promises some excellent music which | will be a feature with each and ‘every | show., The prices of admission will be reduced starting Sunday night with the' scale going back to pre-war prices. “Circus Days,” Jackle Coogan's lat- | and other demands, according to local | ful service as a leading member of est First National picture, is coming to the Palace theater Sunday with an unusually strong cast appearing in| support of the little star. | In this pieture, whic his adapted| from James Otis' celebrated circus| story, "“Toby Tyler,” Jackie has the| stellar role of Toby, who rums away | from an unhappy home to join a cir- cus, becomes a peanut salesman and | then, in an entirely unexpected man-| ner, the star clown of the show. | Jackie has an exceedingly Iuvclyi and talented little leading lady in the| person of Peaches Jackson, a dainty| miss who enacts the role of the Uny' equestrienne star of the sawdust ring. Barbara Tennant plays the role of| Jackie's screen mother, while Russell | Simpson Is to be seen as the mean-| tempered uncle whose actions cause| the boy to run away from home. | " There will be short subjects on the program with the popular of Bugton Holmes pictures of "Tokio | and Yokohama before the recent/ earthquake, There will he a special | showing of Jackie Coogan for chil-| dren after sehool each day for ten cents and all attending will receive a bag of cireus peanuls free, MOVING T0 KOBE y— American Ambassador Wood and His | Wife Will Take Up Their Residence | There Temporarily, < By The Asshcisted Press, 4 Tokio, Sept, 28.—Mrs, Cyrus E.| Woods, wife of the American ambas- | sador and her mother have gone to Kobe where they will reside tempor- arlly, ’ American businessmen who left Yokohama by the ' first available steamer after the dispster are drift. Ing back to Tokio having altered thelr previous view that businegs would move to Kobe and Osaka, Modern offies buildings that escap- ed the fire are being repaired rapidly. | Bulldings beyond repair are being {dynamited, Marine Workers Strike to Get War Prisoners Out | Chicago, Sept, 22.~The marine | transport workers branch of the I/ W. W, has called a strike effective last midnight on the Great Lakes and similar strikes are In effeet & will pe called in Gulf and seaboard ports for the release of war prisoners | officials, TLocal steamship officials | sald no strike was in effect to the knowledge, Columbus Woman Retains { Crown as Horseshoe Queen’ Cleveland, Sept, 22.—Mrs. J. .| Irancisco of Columbus, retained the women's horse shoe pltching cham- pionship of the United States by de- feating all opponents in the national | tournamgnt here, Twenty-eight ‘v!u,\'-: ers divided into groups of seven‘each | lined up today in the semi-finals in the men's tournament. | “"—_"-— | L) Madero’s Brother Wants | To Be Mexican President | Nogales,” Ariz, Sept. ’.'2.-—[!!\0"]‘ Madero, a brother of the late I'ran- | cisco Madero, revolutionary president | of Mexico, is the latest to announce Pathe | his candidacy for the presidency of |former chairman of the News comedies, and a special showing | the republic in the forthcoming elec- ]nminnul committee who was brought tions, it was Jearned here today. | Berfect Photoplay Presentations SUNDAY NIGHT—MON.—TUES.—WED. i ted . . The Greatest Show On Earth b C’'mon everybody—Circus days—Circus fun— Circus thrills. Clowns, Freaks, Elephants, Acrobats, Horses, Lions—“A mammoth aggregation of all the marvels of the ages.” Jackie’s Greatest Photoplay ! Special showing for children after school each day—10c. Circus Peanuts FREE to each child attending matinees ! Reduction in Prices Back to pre-war prices starting Sunday Evenings: Balcony 23c Orchestra 35¢ 7—Piece , Matinees: Balcony 18¢ Orchestra 23¢ WO‘rcrhestra,—7 with special music interpretations EARL LAMB — Thursd THOMAS MEIGHAN in ERT, director ay — ; “HOMEWA'RD BOUND” | which | E ty EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1028 Boston Symphony Ensemble New commanding unususl attention Britein on Thursday, September 27, |throughout the United States, will be noteworthy reason of th ers of the Noston Sym- eminent conductor, Augusto Van- |phony ensemble are artists of note nini, the brilllant personne! of the or- | They are sololsts on their instruments chestra and the wonderfully attrac- |and the various' compositions chosen tive program which has been are|display thelr marvelous qualities and ranged. technic and tone. Such a combing- Maestro Vannini is known through-[tion of artists presenting a program out the country for his long and muu'n! the greatest variety is a reason for the wonderful interest shown in the forthcoming appearance In Britain by the Boston Symphony E semble, The full program will be announced very soon. They will ap- pear at the Central Junior High school auditorium. The concert to be given in the Boston Symphony orchestra with organization he has been as. soclated for over 30 years. As of the prominent members of the ingland Conservatory of Music facul- , he has developed artists who are Dudley P. Felt Hurt in Amherst College Rush Dudley P. Felt of this city, a sopho- moregat Amherst college, sustained o fracture of the left elbow while taking part in the annual freshman “rush" last night. Felt was with a erowd of second year men who stormed & freshman dormitory and in the melee he received the injury. AT : ill at his summer home ry comfortable Tobey attend- was every ing strickén lin Hyannisport, was v today. Dr. Harold € ing him, said that th prospect for a speedy recovery. 'Code Messages Again May Be Wirelessed to Japan San Francisco, Sept. 22,—The Radio — |Corporation of America office here announces receipt of advices from Thomas Taggert Toda‘v IS Tokio code messages relative to Reported Much Improved |anking and commercial transactions Boston, Sept. Thomas Taggart, [will be accepted for all points in democratic |[Japan except Tokio and Yokohama, {.\H other messages must be in plain to a hospital here yesterday after he- llanguage. Sunday Night—Excellent Phot’oplay HOOT GIBSON . WILLIAM DESMOND i in in ‘Shootin’ For Love” ‘Shadows of the North’ MON.—TUES.—WED. 5—BIG ACTS—5 BIG TIME Keith Vaudeville FEATURING The Royal Venetian Five in “A'V gnetian Musical ‘Melange” . + HECTOR IOROS & JEANETTE A wonderful dog The‘Frenchman & the Flapper The Scintillating Broadway Star Laura Ordway & Co. In a new idea of Vaudeville Presentations EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION Ernie & Ernie “Three Feet of Comedy” * Hope Hampton E. K. Lincoln Lon Chaney m ““The Light inthe Dark’’ ;\ Plnyr 7t97 Rg‘g(‘h All Hearts ! Thursday—SCHILTL’S WONDERETTES | ‘A | | NEWS OF THE THEATER & - Few people have the honer of travs eling aboard boat and becoming in timately dequainted with two eele. brated stage and movie stars. Charles | ¥, Mitehell of Cheshire, well known |in New Britain, recentiy crossed the Atlantie on the “Aquitania" and| while en board boat had the dia- tinet pleasure of meeting . Rudolph Valentine and wife and Mr, and Mrs George Arliss Mr, Mitchell has since returned to this country and often remarks of the splendid conversations he enjoyed with each celebrity Rudolph, e says, I8 a charming fellow with pleas- ing manner and an attractive dresser, He 18 not too showy in e, the Cheshireite said, but dress neatly and conservatively George Arllas is a person most anyone would desire to become ac- quainted with, Mr, Mitchell says. During the course of conversation |the theater was mentioned and the | well known actor remarked that among the many plays he has ap-| peared in “The Green Goddess” was the one he liked the most. Mr, Ar- liss opened in London in this play shortly after his arrival in England, and will remfain on-the Brit- | ish Island until he has completed a | run in that production. Willlam J. Fallon, pfominent Main | street business man, was busy renew- ing acquaintance at the Palace the- ater the first three days of the ‘week when the team of Nolan and Eperry | played there, Mr, Fallon and Mr. Sperry are old friends and each en- Jjoyed seeing the other again. Nolan and Sporey presented a neat singing, talking and dancing act which mdt with the approval of the Palace patrons. - The act has played the Keith time and previous to com- ing to New Britain completed a tour | of the South American variety houses. | | Many an actor, after having played |any vaudeville house in New Britain, is heard to remark that thig town cer- tainly is a hard one to play. Seldom, they claim, do:the people applaud as they do in the bigger cities and even in many of the smaller towns in which the acts play. At Hartford, New Haven as in New York, if the particular number which a specialty st is performing, is good the au- diénce will applaud while the artist is in the middle of his number. This is not done very often in New Britain where the people seem to wait until the number is completed. Many acts now piaying here are deserving of ap- plause and how is the management of a theater to know what kind of acts kis audience want unless they show him by applauding the ones they ke, ! Irene Richy who for many seasons starred in Fox pictures, is the latest player chosen to play a prominent part in Warner Brothers screen ver- sion of Clyde Fitch's play, “Beau Brummel” in which John Barrymore will be starred. Miss Rich has been assigned the role of the Duchess of York. As soon as a play achieves a great | success, the imitators start in. “The Fool,” was published in London by Brentano's nearly a year ago. On [Monday, Aug. 13, at the Theater | Royal, RBristol, I'red Wilson London Players produced a play en® titled “The IFool,”"” by Comber Wyatt. | It is said to he about as close to the | |Channing Pollock play as it is pos- sible to get. Archie Selwyn imme- diately cabled Charles Cochran who | will produce “The Fool,” on Christ- mas night at the Princess theater in | London, to spare no expense nor effort in taking legal steps to stop the Wyatt play. There have been a number of motion picture imitations of “The |Fool,” in this country and the Sel- |wyns have gotten after them all The Expositor remarks that the ays of great conversions are not o\ er pointing out three recent remark- |able conversions which came about | by the reading of the Bible. They are | Channing Pollock, author of the re- | markable play, “The Fool,"” Fred | |Stone, a popular actor, and Giovanni | Papini, an eminent Ttalian poet, nov- |elist and scientist, and the author of | {a life of Christ, which is having a | 1\\'1(]»- reading. | | The Selwyns have again started Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr | on the road toward a second eeason | |of success in “Partners Again.” Their | |tour will take them to all the im- |portant cities in the east and middle west, and finally to the Selwyn theater in Boston in May for an indefinite Istay. * | The Selwyn¥ are again sending ont |Chauncey Olcott in “The Heart of |Paddy Whack,” by Rachel Crothers, | {over a route that takes in the middle | west and the south Mr. Olcott's season will open at Reading on Sep- |tember 24. “'Sally’ is a gay, riotous, colorful embodiment of the peace on earth and good will to men theory of this holi- day season and one cannot perforce leave the theater without absorbing | |the seifsame spirit,” wrote a reviewer | {for the New York Telegraph when that musical comedy was produced at | the New Amsterdam theater on the | |night of December 21, 1020, and, after | nearly three years, with the |show back at the same theater the | |same réviewer is able to reiterate | what he first said about “Sally” with- | out a single reservation. | “Sally” returned to the New Am {sterdam Monday for an engagement |ot. two weeks duration under Florenz Ziegfeld's direction and it is the same gay, riotous, colorful,, glorious enter- {tainment it was upon its first appear- ance here. In fts two years and nine )n\onlhs of wanderings since that time “Sally” has lost none of her charm {8he is quite as fascinating as of yore |and certainly just as tuneful, witty land perfectly appointed | The same company has been kept |intact, too, all through {ts long career. |{And so we still have Marilynn Mil WYork and the |+ same | 8§ FROM HERE AND THERE and Leon Errol as the co-stars, with Walter Cartlett furnishing the chief support in his original comedy role For the first time in two years Nichard G, Herndon will place his Belmont theater at the disposal of a hrother producer on October 1 when he turns over the keys to the eurtain to - John Cromwell for the presenta tion of “Tarnish," the long-awaited drama by Gilbert Emery This play was tried out early in the summer in Newport, R, 1, and was so favorably received that Cromwell at. tempted at the time to gpt immediate bookings for his production In New He found it impossible to get # house exactly suitable for the type of drama Emery had written, how. ever, and so he has had to curb his impatience Fania Marinoff will be seen in the lcading role and Tom Powers will have the chief male parts, Both were seen In the original production last summer. Ann Harding, too, will be a member of the cast “The Irish Jew comedy by John MasDonagh, open next Sunday night in Detroit and, if the plans of the management are further carried out, the show will arrive here about October 15 for a run, \ In the cast are Morris Waxman, Thomas Shearer, Pter Lang, Harry O'Nel'l, Angela Jacobs, Dorothy Dunn, Chester Herman, Joseph W. Smiley, Fmmett O'Reilly, Thomas E. Walsh, Sam Lowett, Ricca Allen, Maude Al- len and Alonzo Adams, Charles O'Brien Kennedy, dramatist and actar, has revised the play and staged the production, TROUBLE IS AVERTED Greece and Italy Have Another Near , & new dramatic Clash As Mail Guards Try to Cross | Over Frontier. Preveza, Albania, Sept —An at- tempt to send Italian carabinecers on Greek soil to. protect the mails be- tween Janina and Italy, for a time threatened another conflict as ithe Greeks stoutly refused to allow the Igalians to cross the frontier, The president of *the boundary mission however intervened and sent the carabineers back to Vallona. The international mission investi- gating the assassination of Gen. Tel- leni and his suite sends its report to the inter-allied council of ambassa- dors today. It is understood that the investigators are convinced that the | Gréeks are innocent of the critne but are guilty of negligence jn seeking out those who committed ““the murders The Japanese, French and British delegates it is said conclude that the assassins acted from vengeance rather than from political motives. ON WORLD TRIP Reuteer News Chief Makes Inspection Trip to Visit Correspondents and See Organization. London, Sept. 22.-—8ir Roderick Jones, head of the Reuter News Agency, will arrive in the United States shortly for a*brief stay prior to crossing the Pacific to the Far East and India. The object of this tour is to visit the Reuter correspondents and in- spect the Reuter organization in each of the countries through which passes. Throughout India and the Far East Reuter's have a large corps of correspondents and a number of offices. Their operations have in- | increased greatly during the last few years, and have included the enlarge ment of important subsidiary concerns which do not appear under the Reu- ter name, Sir Roderick’s inspection trip will occupy about nine months. He will be accompanied by Lady Jones. Mexican Town z‘loséd in Anti-Gambling Crusade Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 22-—Because of the alleged resumption of open gam- bling in Agua Prieta, Mexico, just across the line from this city immi- gration inspector Antonio Gabilando closed the Mexican port of entry last night on instructions from President Obregon. HELD FOR BLACKMAIL Boston, Sept. 22.- of New York, charged by Mrs. Na- thaniel Franklin Emmons, Boston so- ciety leader with a $10,000 blackmail attempt, was held for the October sit- ting of the grand jury in $5,000 bonds in municipal court today. Mrs. Em- mons is a cousin of Bishop William Lawrence ROBIN HOOD INN MERIDEN Roy Ward's Colored Band Dancing Every Evening d Good Food A La Carte Service St. Andrew’s Church FAIR AND BAZAAR LITHUANIAN HALL Park Street Dancing and entertainment each evening — Tickets at Door — MUSIC - will | he | Arthur Lebarron | GAPITOL FEATURES LON CHANEY DRANA “The Light in the Dark” Tops | Film Bil | The Sunday night performance af [the Capitol will feature two excellant photoplay attractions specially seleet led for their entertaining qualities. |Willlam Desmond will be presented in “Shadows of the North", a gripping drama of the snow country whieh will nold attention to the very end, and Charles "Hoot" Gibson will be seea in “Shootin’ for Love," a breezy story {with "Hoot" again at his very best. Short subjects and special musical in- terpretations by Dave Mathewson's Capitol orchestra will complete the Starting Monday for the week another corking ¥ Keith vaudeville bill |will he presented with five acts that will more than please. Hector, the | dog wonder, is the title of a very good act opening the bill with a fine nove o'ty offering, Hector is the most in- (telligent dog in vaudeville and with his mates offers a very entertaining 19 minutes, Laura Ordway & Co., pre- sent @ real good variety offering and one that can he guaranteed as to its cleyprness as Miss Ordway is & popu- [lar Brogdway favorite and late star of many big musical shows, Ernle and | Ernie offer an act that will be well liked, The two work harfl and crowd many unusull features in their skit “Chrec 1eet of Comedy,” closing the bill is the Mg Keith headliner “Royal Venetian Five,” in instrumental and song numbers, rendered with the fer- |vor of the Halian artist. They are all operatic singers and also play very well on the violin, guitar, and saxa- phone, offering a colorful musical treat that will be heartily enjoyed. A motion picture that marks an- other milestone in the progress of the siient dramatic art will be the piece resistance for patrons of the Capi-, tol theater starting Monday. It is the screen version” of William Dudley Pelley" rat story, “The Light in the Da presenting rnot {enly a plot of great dramatic vigor * |and fascinating romance but intro- ducing several scenes in color. Hope Hampton is the chargping star e Light in the Dark" and with ill be seen such famous players las E. K. Lincoln, Lon Chhney, There- sa Maxwell, Conover, Dorothy Wal- |ters, Charles Mussell, Edgar Norton |and Dore Davidson. ! The star por.rays the role of Bes- |sie MacGregor, an orphaned country |girl, who goes to New York to make }hm- living. She obtains a position as |a check-room girl, but an automobile accident takes her from rather drab |surroundings to a home of wealth and social standin®. There J. Warburton | Ashe i§ fascinated by her charm and |beauty gnd makes love to her.® She |pelieves him, but when she. learns of |his deceptjon she leaves. i The finding of a strange cup in an | English forcst, however, leads . Ashe |lack to the girl in the slums of the | East Side. Around this cup is woven la powerful story, in which romance, ":rugmly and stirring advengure figure. program [first half of the |good big\time |of | Rer w PALAIS ROYAL. | Barney Rap and his orchestra, for= | merly Paul Whiteman hits and record makers, are the biz attraction at the Pal Royal, Hartford, all next week. | This orchestra, considered ~the hest | musical attraction in the east outside | of the famous Whiteman himself, was |ayranged for at no little cost for the | ehjoyment of the dance lovers of Hartford and vieinity. | With Barmey Rap, New Haven boy who organized his orchestra ~and made fame for it on Broadway and in many western cities, Ray and Char= lie Trotta of New Britain, playing the {cornets, Ray Stannard of Hartford playing saxophone, Marty Giaquinto playing banjo, and the balance of the & team well known New York artists. Rap's orchestra is million dollars' when it comes to dance music, DANCE NORDEN’S BUNGALOW Foot of Arch Street — Tonight — Sataline’s Society Orchestra LET'S GO VERYBODYS IS- GOING DNBIRYFAR \ HARNESS RACES \\ AUTO RACES NEW FIREPROOF PALAIS ROYAL Wethersfield Avenue Hartford WEEK OF SEPT. 24 The Dance Attraction BARNEY RAP and his ORCHESTRA Keith Vaudeville Stars Formerly with the famous Paul Whiteman Phonograph Record Makers Regular Prices Phone 5-0521 Parking Space