New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1923, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, U, OF P SCIENTIST FINDS BONES 8,000 YEARS OLD. D, Hall Believes French Are Those of Beast-Like Men CHIGAGO BEAUTY IV | PALACE FEATURE Mary Philbin Plays Lead fn/ “Merry Go Round" What Universal believes s worthiest cinema offering up to date comes to the Palace theater Bunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, It is “Merry-Go-Round.” “"Merry-Go-Round"” was in produe- tion for a long time, being a spectacle motion ploture of ten.reel length, telling a simple love story, but invelv- ing the great tragedy of Austria, the downfall of its pretentious glory of before-the-war days, “Merry-Go-Round" is the story of A count and a peasant girl, but it isn't a fairy tale, They don't fall in love, marry and “live happlly ever afterwards” without any obstacles, It requires the war and its grim lessons to bring into being the consummation of their desires. Thé players In “Merry-Go-Round" are Interesting Individually and ns an assemblage of famous talent. There 15 & newcomer for whom YThe crities who preview the picture predict the greatest success: Mary Philbin, Three years ago she was not yet out of high school in a Chicago suburb, Two years ago she went to Universal City nfter winning honors in a big beauty contest. She played just two Im- ‘portant parts before “Merry-Go- Round," and neither of them was an) thing like as big as the leading role of the latter picture, which is that of the peasant girl heroine. Norman Kerry, who plays opposite her, bas been marked by the leading | crities many times as one of the real- ly promising young men of the screen. He is cast as the count in | the story. The orchestra will iginal music score as played during its long run in New York. Other features on the bill will be th episode of the new chaper pla Cleveland, Dangerous Path” with Edna Murphy. | Simmons, a semi-pro catcher of Its plot is of ten blg problems of life | Washington, D. C., was signed by the that faces the modern girl. The at-|St. Louis Browns here yesterday after traction for Thursday will bring Wal- | he had been chosen the world's cham- lace Beery and a big cast in “Bavu”, [ pion sandlot player at a tournament a thrilling melodrama. of the National Baseball Federation. Hemams Philadelphia Oot, 6.~HBones' ana other relics of a race of men believed to have lived approeximately 80,000 years ago, have been unearthed in France by Dr, Henry U, Hall of the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Dr, Hall, who returned from Burepe, sald the raee was only a step above the animal, “They lived in the Old Bone Age and polished flint implements,” “The relies 1 found were in 4 clay bank at the foot of a hill They probably had heen washed down from an esearpment, where there probally Lad been a settiement.” In addition to the human | Dr, Hall sald that he also unearthe the hones of animals, evidently killed by the prehistorie men He sald the human hones resembled those of the | Neanderthal l)‘pe. Palacolithie used crude, he or un- sald $30,000 REAL ESTATE DEAL Louie S, Jones Buys Property on Lin- coln Street of Howard L, Plait For Home Site Devel nt, Papers were signed today for the transfer by Howard .. Platt to Louie Jones of ten acres of land on Lin- coln street, The deal is sald to have Involved §3 Mr, Jones intends to develop the property for home sites. It includes ahout 40 lots. Buyers will be re- stricted to the erc of one two-family houses, street, to be known as Ten Acre road, will be cut through from Lincoln to Shuttle low avenue next week. The prop- was formerly owned by Willlam SANDLOT Ohio, Oct. 6.—John BROWN AR. ‘Sunday Night, Mon., Tugs., Wed. The Photoplay That Astounded New York! '»% Starring the ,screen’s new sensational beauty MARY PHILBIN and the screen’s handsomest lover NORMAN KERRY Supported by a cast of ex- ceeding brilliance in the great- est love mlory ever told. It's love that makes the world go round; it's love that makes the “Merry Go Round”! The fas- cinating story of a love that out- lived the command of an em- peror and the fate of nations! The picture of the year! NEW YORK WENT WILD OVER IT! Press and public alike welcomed it with loud ac- claim. Read what the' New York newspapers said of it! The New York Times: “A scintillating, fascinating picture!” The Morn- ing Telegraph: “Really great, something decidedly different!” The New York World: “Produc- ed on a lavish scale; it is big, enormous; go and see it!” “One of the best pictures that ever adomed the screem!” says the New York Herald. A Year in the Making—Cost a Fortune and Worth It! Don’t Do Anything Else Till You See'It! $2.00 in New York! OUR PRICES: Bal. 18¢ Eve.~Orch. 35¢, Bal. 23¢ Mat.—Orch. 23¢, EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION The New Chapter Story “HER DANGEROUS PATH” 10—Big Problems in a Young Girl’s Life—10 What Should the Girl Do? See It—It Might Happen To You Sometime! and | L | than aloplay | present the Wil seellent cust of € elever arists muse you. Th attraction for this hill Paramount special “The Pour Faees” with an ¢ stars headed by Richard Hetty Compson. The teresting and is on the “Within the Law,” and For Sunday night twe feature wil HONG KONG FOLLIES Orientals Show How They Enter- ' {ainin Far Bast Waomas Dix type of as fine and plot is very in (N" |\ |.. ‘ photo- | SATURDAY, OCTORER 6, 1928 - STORIES GONFLICT Gets Under Way | S issaniis plays will be featured with geed mu | The Capitel sie by the Capitol orehestra Apitol amain nest week will| posnand will be in feature a very fine biil Keith [ or she Mounted. vaudeville afferings 1n yeoniunetion | soa Kathiyn Willlams with an exeellent Paramount and David Terrence wi play that should make this show the leading roles in “Trimmed talk af the town, The yaudeville bill an ewellit melodrama W will be headed by “The Hong Kong interesting plot and story that Follies," a real Chineso offering with | (oo {00 tin fina Ning Toy and five Chinese girls in the out Thursday's attractions cast, These iental maids received headed by The Mason-('¢ their education at the Chinese mission | ApPY, classy in Ban Francisco and advancing them- | 500" selves above what was taught to them | " < ' in the sehool they trained themselves Boy Skates in Front of seen of wie phote et seatl the for the stage and are now trying to out-Ziegfeld Ziegfeld by presenting a Follies in the style of a minfature revue, The cast includes Ning Toy, the Lee Twins, Helen Long and Paul- ine Sing, all genuine Chinese, It jeertainly a novelty to hear and see a group of oriental maids disporting themselves in a combination of sing Ing, dancing, music and rovelty and it is even more of a novelty to he their native music, Mermalds belong to another age, but there Is at least one in these parts, She Is Niobe, any exceedingly attractive young womun who is more of & fish than any fish, in fact In her huge glass aquarium she disports herself with a flock of fish, doing many things under water which | they can't even attempt, She breathes [as they do, swims as they do, and also |sings and does other remarkable yN(IlnIn under water, her being | very audible in any part of the audi- ence when she is submerged, Niobe is | truly remarkable, both from a scient!. | fie and amusement point of view; Jean | La Cross, the nightingale from 1.’||l~‘ fornia will display a wonderful clear |toned voice which has made her a| favorite on the Kelth circuit. With a | great voice, personality, and wonder- | Lo S T q ful wardrobe Miss La Cross will be| BECREATION PARLORS LE/ {well liked here; Jimmie Dwyer and The Commercial Bowling alleys irace Orma offer the comedy skit [ billiard parlors at 514 Main “Just Playmates,” which is guaran- | have been Jeased by teed a laugh a minute. These two |[John J. Walsh, I'red | vaudeville performers are very clover | Odishoo David for | comedians, very true with the female | rer for the first haif of the act as one look will con-|be $2,400 a year, for anvone that they are in for|years $3,000 a year, “The Explorers” is the|tour years §3,600 a ye received a evening anutomobile and ington st the arm carly was strack by an intersection of Lafayette streets, The car, which by George Peterson of § West stroet, struck the youngster had skated direetly in front of car, slowly. Mr. the Britain and reported the mat Peterson took the' Genernl NG D, A R, ME} The 30ln state Daugpters of the American I tion will be held in the Cong tional church, Cheshire, on Octob 12, Members of Stanley chapter wishing to should | retary, Mrs, John C. ay, October 8, Members may as a large attendance meeting of volee guests sired Holfeldey 10 3 thre the 1 for the ar. years | vince J some fun; SUNDAY NIGHT--Two Great Photoplay. Kathlyn Williams, | WILLIAM DESMOND Roy Stewart | y i David Torrence !_ MeGUIRE OF.PHE MOUNTED” MON., TUES,, WED —BI6 TIME ACTS—3 KEITH VAUDEVILLE Featuring ‘THE HONG KONG FOLLIES With NING TOY And 5—Real Chinese Girls—5 JEAN LA CROSS Cahformas Sparldmg ana I)onna in ‘TRIMMED 'IN SCARLET’ | E AMERICA’S AQUATIC, MARVEL In A Sematloual Surprlse JlMMlE DWYER & GRACE ORMA in “Just Playmates THE EXPLORERS in a Desert Novelty “THE TOMB SEEKERS” with 5—Clever Artists—5 Melodrama—Thrills—You’ll Like It! (B ‘lr \Illo Goes to Hospilll | who attended her *_gam Jackson, aged 10, of 329 Wash- fracture when nt the Main was driven Pearl after he the | of he which witnesses sald was golog boy to hospital, v to the pollee. | the | pvolu- Friday, Esther attend notity the corresponding sec- l.oomis by Mon- bring Is de- ASED str Rosa Podesta to and The will next three William | MeGuire a northwest tiriller t art be seen il the Rear- | ith Keeps ! fade will Revue, fostival of songs and | gation whieh will open Monday Two of of Mrs, Gers wealthy soeiety from & yes Oct, & the ocase Webh, woma o have d poison a ago last Tuesday [Verday issued statements and eounter statements regarding the causes of [ Mrs, Webb's death and the ading up to it, while the authorities the grand jury investi New ¥ | principals i trude ork Gorman eged week prepared for Two statements were made by Mr Charles H, Webb, husband of the {dead woman others were lssued by Dr. Willlam J, Meyer, the physiclan for a month prior {10 her death Mr, Webb said overcome bLy the » of his wife the death that he Fould her again when the therefore went Into another pray | Dr, been appear- her had kened night before not bear end came room he we and to Meyer | that M. difference toward had remarked when told Was near, that “one day doesn’t make any differen “I am convinced that the polson in the Is that of ous tongues and those who want to make Mr. Webb's lawyer sald has been und in Mrs, organs though in what qugntity not yet been ascertained,” said Meyer, While back and had proviously stated Webh was callous in his in- that death danger- a scandal” has Dr, the case was being ar forth, and the authorities were preparing for the grand investigation attorneys for Mr and for his wife's atives were documents preparatory to a fig her estate estimated variously at from $1,500,000 to $3,000,000, Surrogate O'Brien heard argument by attorneys for the relatives who will fight the ten Jine will leaving the estate to Mr, Webb, on application for the appointment of a temporary administrator of the estate, Webb's father who has filed tions to the probate of the will ya lamong those in favor of an appoint- ment, Webb filing nd t, MISS KALLBERC Miss Anna Kallberg street was tendered | shower at the home of her sister, Mrs. Carl 1. Johnson of 68 Lake | Poulevard, Thursday evening, in hon- or of her approaching marriage to Gustaf A, Bloomquist on November at the Iirst Lutheran church. About 50 of Miss Kallberg's friends were present. of many gifts. The house was prettily decorated in orchid and white crepe paper and lavender dahlia SHOWERE Wells a misc DENIED FULL COMPE Steve Mikis of this city | before the compensation comm lat Hartford yesterday, | pensation for the tota s {his right arm. His petition was dis- missed. A petition for compensation | for partial logs will be considered at a later date. The petitioner suffered a compound fracture of his arm. while at work in the lLanders, Frary & Clark facto | SATION oner ; com- QUAKE DOES DAMAGE, Railway Tunncl In Tokio Wrecked. The Assoclated Pre: Tokio, Oct. 6 earthquake Thursday which was one of the most severe of the recent tremors caused | considerable damage to the tunnel on the main line of the railway near Mount Fujivama. Traffic was stop- ped for 24 hours before the damage | was repaired. " A larg: part of the Honjo disprict of Tokio, where thousands perished [ in the great carthquake of last month, [sank about one foot as the result of Thi lay's trembler, according to the 15 Partly | By Greet Signora Mario Calderara, | who's the wife of the newly appoint- €d air attache of the Italian embassy, |Commander Calderara. The beautitul | ‘.flrnnrn is the only daughter of the | widpowed Countess Gamba Chiselll land was Ttaly's first aviatrix, Pleased llvnyrw-h’\: his dying wife and| She was the recipient | IN'WEBB MYSTERY | - | Meanwhile Legal Fight on Wil femmliooeas . VeNnta [ nds were unheard of things in those w0 | to see| nmn- or less | seemed only | the cvil desires of | with the type of offering she was pre- | line offering at the Ca “Mercury | Webb's vital | jury | ht over | gratis by the proprietors. | discharg | making his home in the lancous | following wred | Hartford stock fans will certainly be | | | time and 1t doing | is one | trouble. E | time opening at the | companies appesring in - NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC - \ NEWS OF THE THEATER FROM HERE AND THERE red & hit|assoclation with Philip on the | with Madge Kennedy and W, €. Fields popilar st Lthe Apollo theater, New tergoers at tie 1t is one of the big hits of the first half of this stately, prime Yohe as she n w theater aet of jns May Yohe in staging American with New Capito week and happy-go when she has indeed s baek"™ proved Goodman, A “eome stage and Hritain 1 fer the i the same uecky May first played old Keeney years ago, Her different as is playing York seasan Camel's Baek," Maugham play, neat week Foreign wyns will time 1924, Mile rbvue Other new plays “Htella Dallas, the new Reo nerset goes inte rehearsal B was Hritain at th pome 15 Ccourse attractions whieh the Rels & over about Christinas Andre Charlot's Revue of aind the famous Spanish artiste Raquel Meller in a new type of 17 was entirely Was not as Yas it It was bell, The will net voles this time, appearance, days. Although her powerful, was upon her first and rang as true orchestra n great asset admit but a pleasing part of the was that Miss Yohe, herself, enter. tained in truly her own style with a number of &% popular with young perhaps under way are # dramatization of the novel of the e name, and “Meet the Wife,” a comedy, which the Sels wyns will produce in assoclation with P'hilip Goodman, Later in the season they will offer dramatization of people a d or two ugo. “Old Gal| "Sweet Pepper,” and A. A, Milne's of Min# “In Dear Ol Georgin” | latest play entitled “Success.” brought the memories the B A days when vaudeville was coming into New Britain picture fans will await ita own and certainly proved that even | with interest the showing in this efty songa of that type are popular today |at the Lyceum theater of “Human and can compare with any our | Wreckage” with Mrs. Wallace Reld modern hits. The boys In the | and “If Winter Comes,” a Fox pro- ohoheston serve a lot of wdit f duction which recently closed a suge putting’ the act across, using stage STl run at the Times Square theas parlance, and all rformances it » New York, a8 though th people could The nct wus well The “Hong Kong Follles,” an act Miss Yohe wore gowns| with six people Including a number of becoming and in keeping | real Chinese girls will be the heade aplitol theater on | Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, For | the last half of the week the famous lUnlh Kids now playing at Poll's os., and Perakos owners, and C.| Palace in New Haven will be featured Barrett, manager of the Palace, thea- | With the Mason Cole revue which ter, Dr,WCharles E. Burker was able | scored heavily at the Capitol in Harte to deliy 1 address at the theater | ford recently, Thursday afternoon for the mothers | T iy and daughters of New Britain under e auspiecs of the New wriwin | HARMONY AGAIN REIGNS Rotary Club. The theater was given | Di Pace Sisters or-man- lyim: his | clear s was we ,, a b of of at ter dressed and which were public. senting to the Through the courtesy of Contars DR : Decide To Agree After James Cormican, forme of u stock compar Superior Court Hears Testimony on the Lyccum theater has been | d from St. Francis hospital | in Hartford where he was confined for a number of weeks following a fall at Bronson Hotel in this city when | received a broken leg and is now ager name Iheir Disagreement, After a judgment had been renders ed for the plaintift in the suit of Con- cetina DI Pace against her sister, Al- y“d Sidotl, in which a partition of pro- pefty in which they are co- tenants hdd been sought, a settlement was ef~ tected yesterday afternoon and the at the Palace theater; in|matter was disposed of without this summer while Irank | executing the judgment. Juvenile, as at the I\n'«p!(M! The e was tried in . superior an operation for throat|court, Attorney D, L. Nair of this city ch “Herald” review w | appearing for the plaintiff, posted on the bulletin board backstage | The parties to the suit are sisters at the theater. Mr. Cormican s aid{whose maiden name was Di Pace, ter he had clipped them from his|They marricd Sidoti brothers, Conges copy of the paper received and in turn | tina retaining her share of the proper- given them to a member of the com- |ty under her maiden name. They pany. have been living together in the house | but after a dispute Concetina brought an action for partition. the he Mr. of many company Hartford McHugh, Cormican made the a members of the Poli stock . . tumor has it that Frances Wil- liams, popular member of the Poli players, now touring in a four people vaudeville sketch, will play the Poli “apitol in Hart- New DBritain and . Report French Discussing Terms With Germans Paris, Oct. 6.—Methods of resum- ing reparation deliveries of merchan- dise and for reviving the Ruhr in- dustries were discussed by Gen De- | goutte the rench commuander in the | Ruhr having Stinnes and other Ger< man industrial leaders at yesterday's conference in Duesseldorf says a Havas dispatch from Duesseldorf to- day. ford. Many of her on hand to give her a rousing recep- tion. . oxox Hervewith is a brief summary of the attractions that will be under the di- rection of the Selwyns this season: By October 15 there will be five| “The Fool.” * companies is now break- . at the Selwyn theater in Chicago. The fifth company opens in Bridgeport, Conr Ogtober 15 Other companies are in preparation. Jane Cowl is breaking all house records in her trans-continental tour | Queen E in “Romeo and Juliet. She will re- turn to New York in November for a | Of Princess Louise has caused the litt- production of “Antony and Cleopatra,” | N8 0f a ban that existed for more ta be follofveil, by artath assic play, | than 20 years against the return of With “Romeo and Juliet” Miss Cowl | the eldest daughter of King Leopold 1 then_ have a repertoire {hree | to her native land. It is now under- ic dramas for the following sea- stood that Lou_m\ is free to take up her residence in Belgium if she so desires. An allowance her to live comfortably | granted jthe princess. The first in- stallment of this annuity reached her on Tuesday in time to permit her to bury the body of Count Mattachich, the Austrian nobleman, and army of« ficer, for love of whom she sacrificed everything 27 years ago. Louise an- nounced that her first care would be the erection of a monument on the count’s grave One of the: ing all re TO BELGIUM, CAN RETUR) [ Princess Was Driven Out After Love | Affair 27 Ycars Ago. Oct. 6,—The intercession of zabeth of Belgium in behalf on | Paris, of Players from olic theater, » Grand Guignol Paris will open at the I New York, on October 15. Irene Castle's Fashion Itevue is now oqn a trfans-continental tour. She is in the south with her company at this a splendid busine “Spring Cleaning,” a new play by Frederick Lonsdale, now in Chicago, of the big successes of the sea- sufficient to enable has also been son. “Partners Bernard and on tour doing the mess of last season. “Battling Butler,” a musical plece of English origin, in association with George Choos, opens at the Selwyn theater, New York, on October §. It was presented under the | title of “Dancing Honeymoon" when offered in Chicago. “Poppy,” another Again with Barney | Alexander Carr, Is again | same record busi- | DANCE BLUE RIDGE CLUB Odd_ Fellows Hall, Sat. Oct. Geo. Marlow's Orchestra It will be the first appenrance this season of Marlow's Serenaders, for- merly with Tinker's. musical play, in —PARSONS THEATER— Hartford, Monday, Oct. 8. Conn. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday ¥ One Week Commencing Direct from a Solid Year on Broad Schwab & Kusell Lyries by Nevife /Teeson Dances Staged by Sommy lee ‘Best MusicaL CorMepy New Yorx Has SEEN IN YEARS' AUANDALE /n NY American. ———————————————————— th a dustinguuished Cast and the e famous Chorus _9?" l’ancmg Dedvutantes. G0c to $1.50. Saturday Matines Bbe. Mail Orders Neow. Evenings: S0c to $2.50. Wednesday Mat. Seat Sale Friday