New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 29, 1923, Page 4

- NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC --- NEWS OF THE THEATER W.ll IRISH ROSE ATLYCEUM ONSUN. Mothers-in-Law Opens Mon.~Mine, 10 Keep Thurs.-Daytime Wives “My Wild Irish Rose” and ful Cheaters” as well as comedy and pews reels and special orehestra mu wie, mak: pight program as one that cannol be beaten anywhere. Then on Menday for three days, comes “Mothers-1n- Law," Hte and & new and lovabledangle to the mother-in-law question, while ihe 188t half of the week hrings “Mine To Keap," & domestic story of a' young couple which asks and answers the question of “Should a young wife dance with other men if her own hus- Band in inelined to he jealoun? "8 This is Hollywood,” a Pighting Hloul atrial, hegins Monday Beginning the first Bunday night in Octoher, the Lyceum will show for four days “Daytime Wives," showing how the idle rich spend their time, gaming, drinking and dancing, with the men vamping the women and the women making eyes at the men, In this pleture too will be seen f(he amartest night cafe in the world dn. plicated on the screen. And in mak- ing future announcements, the 1. eoum adds that the following wes Mrs. Wallace Reid's great picture, “Human Wreckage,” will be shown VA sermon with the greatest inission of all time" is the way clergymen and social workers of the country have characterized this picture, “Youthful Cheaters,” a Sunday at- traction; is a dashing. rollicking com- edy drama, while “My Wild TIrish Rose" 15 in reality a three day fea- ture but will be shown only once. Tt 18 a screen adaptation of “The Shaugh- raun,” the wonderful Irish drama of fifty years ago. “Mothers-in-Law,"” which opens Monday afternoon is a Gasnier pro- ,duction with a preferred cast, includ- ing Bryant Washburn, Edith Yorke, Yola Vale, Ruth Clifford Gaston Glass and Crawford Kent, ' It is a story of a daughter-in-law who forgot her marriage vows—and of a mother- i \n-law who induced her to remember them. You'll laugh at this picture, and then you'll think hard. Some daring cpbaret acenes are fea- Youth- | up the Lyceum's Sunday | a gripping drama of domestie | ..} ¥ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HEMLD. MWRDAY. SEPTEMBER 2, l.- {tured as s some unusually spectacy- | lar dameing in Bresdway cvafe resoris | A veritable mermaid’ Such is Maris | Curtis, beautiful swimmer whe does| | some unique diving stunts in “Mine To Keep.” which epen Thursday The story Haelf has to do with a bachelor whe finally marries and fhen hecomes insanely jealous of his bfide, a former dancer. On this bill will be Charley Chaplin in “The Riak" FAMOUS MAY YOHE, CAPITOLNEXT WEEK ‘Appears With Company in Musical Revue The headline attraction at *he Capi- tol for the first half of next week presents a very notable actress in the |uo..n|nunn of May Yohe, formerly Lady Francis Hope, one time owner of the famous Hope Diamond, and petted beauty of kings and roy- | alty of several countries, Miss Yohe, was at the greatest height of her | career several years ago and was a big | favorite in this country where she has 1 in almost every city, town and and left soon after for Lon- don, England, there to become even more famous, Khe has appeared h--‘ fore all the crowned heads of Kurope | and was accepted into royal soclety | during her st there, She at first | married Sir ancls Hope, an English peer, and owner of the famous dia- mound bearing his name, and « stone that brought misfortune among the Hope family for years. Miss Yohr‘ had the misfortune later ow to be di- ‘ voreed from S8ir Francis and soon ! afterwards returned to this country. | £he has been retired from the stage for several years but has lately staged a come-back in vaudeville, Her vaude- ville offering is called “A 1623 Musi- cal Revue,” and she is capably assist- ed by her 8hell-O-Tone Synocapters, an excellent aggregation of musicians. Other acts include a good array of en- tertainment and offer Babcock and Dolly in “On the Boulevard.” Bab- cock is an eccentric comedian and Dolly is a chic littla miss, so attrac- tive she attracts attention on the boulevard as a place for their humor and songs. Fanpy Simpson and Farl Dean will delight h their comedy skit “Chop Stew: Case and Cav- ,featured by Barl Lambert and his 4uuu plece orchest i On Thureday Mauriee .nnl sea pleture, “The Isle of Lost| Ships,” will be the big altrection with PALAGE O FEATURE | ENEMIES OF WOHEN 52 555255522 il Baryior s et STRONG i STAND BY Pwe | GESSLER EFFECTIVE —_— “Enemies of Women," the Ibnnn story so gorgeously produced for the | sereen by Cosmopelitan Corporstion Pw cm m mms and which will be the offering at the | | Palace theater on Bunday for four m H.'om days, is notable, among several rea- |sons, for the quantity and quality ef | PR By The Associated Press the feminine pulehritude in the sup- -rl:n, Hont 79,2 he military dic- tatorship of Dr, Gessler for the time being seems to have put fear into the | porting cast, More than a hundrem 1l-nru of extremists both right and of the most famous professiona!| mance winding its way throughout. | heauties in New York participate in lleft, and as far as Germany outside of Bavar concerned, his powers For Thursday and the last half of the | (he fete scenes. The time of the ac- new bill of Keith vaudéville for these heauties proved a fascinat- (are expected to keep the situation -ll Cosmopolitan super-features, A [plifering of crops have been chronic SRR {same’ fine eye for line, color and at- |flnm-|u as the present government Early in the “Enemies of Women" [bitter feud with the minister of de. ‘For No Reason At All" These two were in “The Bells of & Mary” and scored so heavily that vaudeville powers helieved that they would do bhetter in their ewn aet than working in & preduction and hzruuu of this the team of Uase and Cay anaugh came inte existense, Hunni ford is a ventriloguist, and a very g#0od one at that, The photoplay fea- ture on the bill will present the Para mount pieture “Children of Jaza,' story of when the frills of 1860 meets the fapper of 1923 and just as the name implies, it is & real Jazay ple- ture, The cast is an all star one and features Theodore Kosloff, Richard Cortez, Eileen Perey and Robert Cain For the Bunday evening performance | the Capitel will present two excellent photoplay features with Gladys Wal. ton in “The Untameable,” a delightful irama, and the other offers Roy Stewart in “The Love Nrand” a breesy western story with a punch of ro. anaugh offer week Mary Miles Minter will be seen [tion is recent—ahout 1914 to 1918, in “Drums of Fate" and an entirely | e task of designing the costumes 5 Vi L um one to Mrs, Gretl Thurlow, who (righted for the presen sreates the gowns and costumes for, Saxony, where food rioting and the WOMAN' 87| ls RESGUED ‘dnn:lurr of Joseph Urban, the scenic |for a month past, presents the only lartist, Mrs. Thurlew displays lnellmmadlnu cause of apprehension, - Others faved by o m‘mnuphmr that characterizes the ere- of that state has strong leanings to Blaze That Does §20,000 Damage in \Mhr geplus of her father, Jllm left. It is mlready engaged in a [ there ogcurs a fete given by the [fense and threatens insubordination to [ Prince Lubimoft (Lionel Barrymore),(the discipline of the united socialist New Haven, Sept. 20.—Firemen and | o¢ o gtory, Mrs. Thurlow costumed |party, police heiped early today in rescuing |ipg heauties distinetly for type. The Ruhr Is Big Job several persons on the third floor of w | 5051 14 Monte as a Jewish beauty The job of salvaging financlally the tenement house In the Westville sec- | woqyg oriental green sbrocaded trous- cconomic wreckage in the Ruhr is oriv tion which was afire. Four “""“""M,.“ and bodice, overdraped with a of such herculean dimensions that lived in the house, Mrs. Margaret Ban- |y 4ji qyed vell that starts from «'Chancellor Stresemann is hardly in a ning, 87, was removed after the door| i Co0 7 Lo and finally gathers position to tackle before the Rhine- to her room had been broken down, volume into a whimsical trail The fire loas was about $20,000. ‘lfl“l‘ll‘ll ear-rings are also worn. The house wag owned by Edward A" 4100 Booth is a Swedish beauty. Toole, superintendent of the New |y jard colored velvet heavily em-| “All depends on whether Haven Water Co, | broidered in silver forms the draped |Poincare is bent on continuing his i \sklr! with grey lace employed in the devasiating tactics now ”".r: V\Q':I\F ¢ W | bodice and a lovely, virginal cool /met the pre.condition for discussions KILLED IN W. HARTFORD | 00 T o evan wanders about |by recalling the order for passive re- | |a mate, New Haven, | film, |tirely straightened out through formal |.r-gnllutln|u with the entente, Vivian Vernon {8 the Span-|sistance.” said an official of the for- |ish girl, in a luscious pink satin gown 'eign office, Lineman Meets Death When Pole |, . .0 o\iravagantly up at the left Trying To Restore Order Breaks Under Him. | side, as to skirt | Dr. Fuch, minister of the occupfed West Hartford, Sept. 20.—Richard | Then there is a pretty ingenue type |area is vallantly striving to put a sem- Kent, 21 years old, of 53 Hillside |in a gown of varfous shades of blue'|blance of order into the chaos in the avenus, Hartford, an employe of (hn’,(hiffnu the hips cunningly wag-ish occupied regions. He is already re- Hartford Electric Light company, |with their little baskets bearing real ving the active support of influen- died late yesterday afternoon at the |flowers, and the stunning black and [tial officials of all the labor federa- §t. Francis’ hospital from injuries re- | gold Mrocaded over gold cloth crea-|tions although present reports from ceived when the electric light pole on |tion worn by Miss Milar in the role | the mining sectors afford a scant which he was workjng, broke at the |of Anna. basis for the hope that substantial base, and fell to the ground, pinning | The original music score as played [program is being made in reconciling him underneath. Mnrmg its run on Broadway will be | the resieters to the new situation. Sunday Night--Excellent Double Photoplays GLADYS WALTON “The Untamable” ROY STEWART WIS, | Y “The Love Brand” — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Extraordinary Engagement! We Take Great Pleasure in Presenting in Person That World Famous Actress andithe Pet of Kings and Royalty MAY YOHE Formerly Lady Francis Hope ,One-Time Owner of mond the Famous Hope Dia- With Her “SHELL-O-TONE SYNCOPATORS” B in a “1923 Musical Revue” Hunniford The Ventriloquist With a Production Babcock.and Dolly in “On the Boulevard” Simpson and Dean in “Chop Stewy” Case & Qavanaugh in “For No Reason At o EileenPercy + U YParamount Guclure When 1850 Meets 1923! When the Frills of Yesterday Mix With the Jazz of Today Thursday Mary Miles Minte r in “Drums of Fate” PRESENTATIONS WEDNESDAY PERFECT PHOTOPLAY SUNDAY NIGHT, MONDAY, TUESDAY, THE COSMOPOLITAN CORPORATION PRESENTS o WOMEN' w“‘_ BLASCO 1BANEZ Vi LIONEL BARRYMORE"J ALMA RUBENS Birected b Seenaris Settings by ALAM CROSLAND JOMN LVNCH JOSEPH "UABAN A ((@3mopolitan Production Russia and the Revolution Form the Background for This Spectacular Drama! Staged in Paris, Petrograd, the Riviera and Monte Carlo. Original Music Score by 7-Piece Orchestra 7 Months in New York at $2.00 Our Prices—Matinees, Orchestra 23¢, Balcony 18c—FEvenings, Orchestra 35¢, Balcony 23¢ Tourneur l' Long|'and and Ruhr conflict has been en-| Promier‘ | FROM HERE AND THERE “The Jolly Roger,” a new play in | four acts from the pen of A. B Thomass now enjoying & run at the National theater in New York, would be most unlike any other Thomas ’n‘ufllon if it were not for the | fourth aet in whieh the Tho sentimentality enters and the pl saved from becoming dull, the audi. ence leaves with a mind freshened by the sweet and unblemished love thoughts of the author, \ “The Jolly Rogers” Is & romantic comedy in four aets, according to an announcement in the program but there is little gomedy in the play un- til Aet 2 veached, Here the play livens up it, snappy and witty lines are exchanged by the pirates aboard boat and one's flame of interest is set on fire. This high action does not continue through the third act how. ever, but one who enjoys Thomas' writings are wjlling to forgive all when, in the fourth act, he injects his spirit of true love and comradeship with the resuit that the play ends The settings are most unusual and | worthy of much commendation. The first act presents a acens on board deck of a pirate schooner in the early '80's. On the water can be seen th reflection of a burning ship which h been destroyed by the pirates. During the action of the entire act the flames gradually grow smaller according to the reflection on the water until, when the curtain goes down, the last bit of red is seen to sink beyond the far off horizon, The second act is the interior of the captain's cabin while the third and fourth are laid on a desert island. The sand mounds are quite realistic, Pedro Le Corboba and ‘Carroll Mc- Comas are starred in this vehicle and worthily so. Mr. Corboba is well known to legitimate and moving pic- ture theater fansé as he has appeared on the screen in many productions. He is a distinct character, at home in the role of the villinous captain and with Miss McComas and others pre- sents a series of beautiful tableau pictures presented while the audience records its favor with applause. Wil- liam H. Stephens as Van Kirk is also a good character worthy of speclal mention. . An act billed for early showing at the Capitol is the Mason-Cole revue, now playing at the Capitol theater in Hartford. . . . . There are many who will tell you | that what the critics say of a play matters not at all, and that no one pays much attention to the reviews anyway. This little theory is disproved very. well by the newspaper strike which was troubling all New York, and it is ‘“Variety,” the theatrical magazine; which does the disproving. The statement follows: “There were three openings Mon- day night when 'The Changelings' opened at the Henry Miller Theater, ‘The Lullaby' opened at the Knicker- bocker and the San Carlo opera com- pany opened at the Century. “The absence of critical opinion was immediately reflected in the sale of tickets. . The agencies particularly noted the weakness of the demand for the new attractions and the opinion in ticket circles was that the absence ! of publicity was distinctly harmful. “Indecision among theater patron- age cropped up. Ticket brokers them- selves made Inquiry in an effort Ao discern the probate merit of the new shows."” LR Hartford and New Britain lovers of the legitimate drama are promised many good things in the line of en- tertainment during the month of Oc- tober at Parsons' theater. On October 4, 5 and 6 Robert B. Mantell and Genevieve Hamper will appear in a classical repertory presenting on| Thursday night “Richelien,” Friday | night “MacBeth,” Saturday matinee “Thé Merchant of Venice and Satur-! day evening "Julius Caeser" all out-| standing Shakespearean successes. “The Gingham Girl” which played for many months at the Earl Carroll theater in New York will enjoy a week’'s run beginning October 8 with | Alice Delysla in *The Courtesan,” a| new musical play to follow. Fred Stone will reappear in the capital| city in “Stepping Stones,” the week | of October 22 while Al Jolson will| make a return engagement after an absence of three years, beginning Oc- tober 23. « . As Parsons' will present many big | legitimate successes so will the Capitol theater in New Britain present many big vaudeville acts within the" next few weeks. Special interest has been taken in ihe announcement that May Yohe, formerly lLady Francis Hope and one time owner of the Hope dia- mond will appear at the head of her own musical revue on Monday, Tues- day and Wednesday of next week. The act is billed as “May Yohe and her Original Shell-O-Tone Synco- paters.” Shaking off the hoo-doo of the Hope diamond she is headlining all of a sudden in vaudeville and hitting on all cylinders like an airplane engine. The act comes direct to New Britain | from an engagement at B. F. Keith's in Boston. Those expecting to see Mis Yohe in the role of the traditional "old timer"” in the process of achieving a “‘come- back” will net have their expecta. tions realized. Miss Yohe does not Smiles N have to come back in the vernacular serise o word, She has been in re. tirement, it is true, but It was merely & physical retirement her friends claim and her heart and spirit has slways been in the sta L] “I have travel round the world six times," sald Miss Yohe in an in. terview with a Boston newspaper man, “I have sung for kings and have heen petted gnd pampered by roysity but never have T looked forward with such enthusiasm (o any event as I am looking to my fortheoming public Bppearance.” .. “Epemies of the Women," the fea- ture at the Palace the first four days of the week, is one of the biggest Alm successes of 1923, Many of the scenes in the picture were actually taken at Monte Carlo, Every effort has been made by the Palace management to give the ilm a New York presentation in New Britain and as a result Earl Lamber of the Palace orchestra will feature the original musical score as played during the seven weeks' run of the Alm on Broadway, . Britain people are awaiting Interest the picture “Human Wreckage by and starring Mrs. Wallace Reid which will be shown at the Lyceum theater at an early date. . e “Calamity Jane,” it is to be tedTed, is _becoming a regular patron at New Britain vaudeville and picture thea- ters, especially the former and al- though she perha: 1ittle “realizes -1t she certainly spoils many a good lhow for the people sitting about her. The cards are out announcing the first act which is to be an acrobatic offering. O I can't look, I just know that he is going to fall and anyway I can't see why they ever book suech acts” bursts forth Calamity Jane to her friend as a difficult feat is well performed on the stage. “Do tell me ‘when he is through as I'm going to close my eyes." The act i{s soon over without anything unusual having oc- curred and Miss Jane is satisfied. The next number on the bill may be two young men in a dancing offering. Théy start their turn with a song and as most dancers have poor voices ‘‘Ca- lamity Jane” begins to tell her friend that she has never gseen it to fail but what dancers must start their act with a song. She knows that she can't and will not enjoy the act and “Why didn’t we call on so and so." The singing stops, dancing begins and be- fore the couple leave the stage ‘It was just the hest act ever” accord- ing to our friend. And so on with each act, singing, dancing, comedy sketches, ete,, until an orchestra number closes the bill. “I love these acts and I do €6 hope they will play ‘“Yes, We Have No Ba- nanas.” Isn't that drummer the cutést thing. He parts his hair in the middle like Jack, oh, you know his last namé, he goes to Yale—his sister married a friend of your brother's—and he won a championship swimming cup while on his vacation at the shore. Jack Doe that’s who I mean. Look at the violin player, hagn't he got the sweetest blue eyes—What's the name of that piece they're playing now, remember they played it at the dance last night. Gee, I wieh you knew the name because I want to get it for the player piane. That was a good act Mabe but let's not stay for the picture. T don’'t like" the star anyway and besides I told Jim I'd meet him after the vaudeville. Ye ain't sore are you Mabe. Come on let's go."” And the two leave the theat. ter much to the joy of other patrons who know enough to remain silent while in a theater and if an act is good applaud it but not publicly de- nounce it if it is not to their liking. New ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Bernadotte Loomis of 138 Rockwell avenue announce the engagement of their daughter, Dor- othy Mitchell Loomis, to David C. Mahoney, son of Mrs. Mary Mahoney of 346 East Main street. No date has been set for the wedding. 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