New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 1, 1923, Page 4

- NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC -~ JAGHIE CODGANIN COSTLIEST PICTURE Youthinl Star fo Be Seen af Capitol Next Week heralded Mstro produc King,” starring come to the Pa Particular is latest film first pro- contract The long tion, “Long Jackie C‘oogan ace theater next Live the wil Monday. as it is his jon dollar honus es (Corporation e King” was Hollywood e Palace thes ates allotted 1 hout co eted a its engagement at t is among the early few houses From various sources of was current that a money was heing spent of this ilm and nitely fix the sum as $600,000 huge amount two-t spent on the constr rificent sets which phere of “Long Live the which surround Jackie #plendor. As is known to millions of read- ers, “Long Live the King” was adapt- €4 for Jackie Mary Roberts Rinehart's novel the same name. “Long Live King” was di- rected by Victor Schertzinger from the adaptation by C. Gardner Sulli- van and Eva Unsel There will be special day after sc for « which they will b cents eceive throt sum n the making reports defl- Of this rds Wwas mag- rnish the atmos- King,” and with regal recent nearly shows each ren for ool SAnitted otoplays Gihson in ncan WAYTINE PICTURE COMING TOLYGEUM Three Days, Beginning Monday-- All-New Britain Game on Reel attraction at night added orrow Wednesday, motion pic Wast Sides-New Britain t Willow Brook Memo- November 11 depict Mayor Pao- ff, the scoring plays of the stubborn and close As a specia the Lyceun also through tures of the game played rial park « These and will be showr nessa Kicking o the New Brit efonse of M alti boys, Lte ups of The big at tomorrow team to this for o crowds a ght wantic drama the filling actio throughout Walto Esin, ) % ad f the Sea oce: wit] and Gladys 1 er star Ramsay Wa & mar ave lier nte a exgula » oncerns pri of the rum Florida eoast ini and the RBahamas On Mornday, and Thursday, the eaxcellent [a vaudeville program will be pre super three op hetween 4 the Island of Bim- cha agal amonnt ted with movie in conjunction bill. That of the first the week is the greatest play ever enacted on stage “Maytime.” Tn the leading roles are Effle fhannon Harrison 1'ord For the last half of next week the big surprise 1 o for fans wi be “The Brig ..w. of Broadway which graphically and vividly tell of the ladder on New York's great way. lays of musical-love and the white MARTINELLI IN FI“I! ORD ™ enient Mar Ope Few musc munity have had a co tunfty of hearing Gios tenor of the Metropolitan New York, sing, either in opera, and his ra offerel. Robert Kellogg the Kallogg Concert ( sent and of the serics soneerts at the Cay ford, Bunday afte The engagement eoneart negot mand of t Appr music and who desire the Tistening 1o the great tenor quasts have been almo Reca nse nu Martineiii's Appearanc Kelloge has made mepts for the adva are now available a addressing orders tame to 89 Asylum st ~MeCoy's music store wale is progress. TV will reeeive immediat serving ar an pre permit, recog rremsed prefarcrcos will aigo recelve attention 2-8147 e ————— orers com oppor- anni tinel ® A conse . ed by who ” concert specia 1 may in as the tion clephone nrdare et is Pfeiffer’s Dancing School .. W C A Every Monday Evening Mitchell’s Melody Orchestra Admission 50¢, tax included DANCELAND 252 MAIN ST. SURPRISE ATTRACTION TONGET A ro- | NFW YORK'S 13 BEST Plays which racorded longest runs Dramatic Name Performance Able's Irish R 839 feventh Heay “Rain ‘Aren’'t We Al Little Miss Blueheard" M Comedies Wi r{Fn“er’ “Adrienn Helen o Vanities of 1923 “Little James’ Artists and Models” . have cal Troy. N. Y." Tessie GLORIA SWANSON IN TAZA' AT CAPITOL Feature Getting the French atmesphere “Zaza,” Allan Dwan's new Paramount production of the famous play with Gloria Swanson in the title rele, which comes to the Capitol theater next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 1o simple task for the property men at the company's Long Island studio, where the picture was filmed. Gath- ering the properties for one scene in I’Odeon theater,” a cafe chantant, took two weeks' time A partial list in pertics for \eh water E matc sauce salad coffe thre coffee plates, rcolators, suail forks, canned snails, two dozen pepper mills, one dozen oil and vine- gar castors, three dozen absinthe bot tles and spoons, 10 dozen I'rench eig and cigars with spccial Zaza lubels, two ¥French taxicabs and hard two dozen real Holland gin lua small est of all, Lottles. Ior th the Zaza's love nest town of St. Etienne, France, it was necessary to obtain dozens of French gimeracks, china or old-fashioned f interior of car ity naments, rniture, French piano and ot the miniatur amental Zaza Du DeBr task and wnit ancy o nishing algo giving the Dufresne’s time and the temper chatean casy proper itmosphere 1o partn 00k considerable first half stunning musical ' fea- the five bill t offex of the Keitk novelty a the anters turing Ma Muriel Gibson and five other rming yound ladies wonder saxophons ecil offer ng pair comedians; will offer a comedy Re and satile artists the f1 \atters are eccentric v and are funsters o mnies nd As a special added attraction ‘The IFour Horsemen,” which is not a mov ing picture t an offering that will GOSSIP ALL NEW was | LYCEUM BRITAINS V8. WEST SIDES PLAYED AT MEMORIAL JOHN BARRYMORE IN “HAMLET’ It is doubtful if in years | gratifying announcement from Parsons’ theater, Hartford, |the one conveying the Arthur Hopkins will |John Barrymore in “Hamlet” i city on December 20, 21 and This presentation was the |standing feature of last season | New York, where . Mr. his | shattered all prior records for than ‘nat that company will present suc Teddy Claire, who appears with his company of 11 at the Capitol theater on Thuraday, Friday and Saturday of [the week of January 7, will sail for|the Prince of Deumark. To next week, is sald to be one of the|New York in two installments, one on |the unabated interest of New York best female impersonators on the|December 12 and the other on De- |theatergoers in this portrayal Mr. American vaudeville stuge, Claire |cember 17, | Hopkins 1s again presenting the star will certainly have to look to hils - at this time at the huge Manhattan honors in New Britain because of his| Two plays of mystery will be v"_‘Operu House and following the en- playing here shortly after Olln T.an- o . | gagement Mr. Barrymore will visit drick, who appeared with Arnam’s)""t®d at Parson’s theater, Hartford, 1,404 which is numbered . among week. minstrels a short time ago, lL.an- drick was about the best impersana- | hold the boards Tuesday and Wednes- | the production this season. tor seen on any New Rritaln stage day and “The Cat and the Canary” on Owing to the anticipated and in many ways eclipsed Julian El-|the last three days. The weck follow- [demand for seats special arrange- tinge and Tommy Martelle, known ' ing “Sally, Irene and Mary” will be| ments have been made to open the both in vaudeville and on the legiti- presented. This comes following a|mail order sale for Mr. Barrymore's mate stage. Claire has an excep-|long run in New York and Boston. |engagement on Monday next. tionally good act, out of town reports| state, and is supported by Lada's Louisiana orchestra of 10 men. The first half of the week will feature| “The Four Horsemen, satisfy | next heavy Famous French Play for Fillm sictore vuc a <anaeviiie novelty . on New York | the same bill will be “The Enchan-| ters” featuring Kinkaid's Melodists. An act billed for early appearance is “The Juvenile Frolics of 1024, Symphony Orchestra 100 MUSICIANS With WALTER DAMROSCH, Conductor CAPITOL THEATER SUNDAY AFTERNOON 3:30 O’'CLOCK Positively the Greatest Event in New Britain's Musical History—Music Lovers Should Take Advantage of the Op- portunity to Hear One of the World’s Greatest Orchestras Brought To Your Very Door By New Britain Musical Club Prices Only $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50, Box and Loge Seats $3 Tickets Now On Sale at C. L. Pierce Co. Bebe Daniels will not have to hiber. nate nor make a personal appearance tour during Lasky's 10 weeks' sus- pension. She has been signed for the | e role in a modern treatment of he Taming of the Shrew” which Bennie Zeldman is making for Prin. cipal Pictures corporation. William | Beaudine will direct the picture. pter of Hadas- special meeting on December 3, at the «t which time » rthe con The New sah will Monday Talmud Brtain hold a ing, Torah ever ternoon | theater Gutman, noted soprano, wi program of folk songs of all lands. The proceeds of the concert are to be donated to the Headassah medical organization in Palestine. when Miss Still in the process of fliming, D. W. Griffith’s "America” which he is| making at the request of the Daugh- | ters of the American Revolution. 1s/ already getting recruits from Uncle Sam's army It is the first dramatic photoplay ever used for American re- | crulting purposes, it 1s claimed, The Finest Achievement in the Americam Theater Vitagraph's request tomotion ple- ARTHUR HOPKINS ture editors to help that company tacl Sabatini novel, which it will pro- duce, has brought hundreds of replies r * heve heen submitted are: | R. 1on Navarro, lLewis Stone, Doug- “H ! I l % liam Russell, Richard Talmadge, Bert | Lytell, Jack Holt, Richard Barthel. | D 20 21 22 At Parsons Theater, ec. 20-21- select the actor best sujted for the | presenis from all over the country. Among the las Fairbanks, Hobart Bosworth, An- iness, Conway Tearle, Lon Chaney, J. Dec, 22 title role in “Captain Blood," the nn.: .]M B tonfo Moreno, Thomas Meighan, Wi1l. Warren Kerrigan, Rudolph Valentino, | Matinee, Saturday, NOW ' Theater, prompt promptly, € received 15: Bales HARTFORD MAIL ORDERS money orders to Parso to insure safe Milton Ciiis, Willlam B. Mack, Theo- | dore Kosioff, Wallace B«“br\ Holbrook Blinn and House Peters, Ploturegoers who have a favorite lcading man may | send their selections to Vitagraph Btudios, Rrooklyn, N. Y Pleuse enclose self turn of 1 s will oh mped envelope ve Evening price S288, %2000 Vamily LMK Bale 0, $1.78; saturday Mat! tax: Orchestra, nTe Fami 1 Andre Selwyns have been notified by Charlot, the English producer, | SUNDAY ONLY GLAPYS}VA’LTO\ Special Attraction—Starting Sunday OF HARTFORD FOOTBALL GAME NOV, 18 OUTLAWS OF THE SEA FIELD, SUNDAY, Come and See Yourself in the Movies B. P. SCHULBERG presents "~ MON. — TUES. — WED. a GASNIER production The Six-year Stage Succe;s, Nw A grcat Motion Picture AYTIME with Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Wm. Norris, Clara Bow and At last! A new story in Motion Pictures. Thrills - Laughs Hollywood’s Twelve Most Beautiful Girls. and a Tale of Sweethearts told Beautiful Settings, as never a story was told before. Feom the story by Rida Johnsom Yowng PARAMOUNT \Al I)LVILLL THURS. — FRI. — SAT. “BRIGHT LIGHTS ON BROADWAY” Scenario by Olga Printrlam. “Vghispering Wires” will | eight cities that will be favored with | i ST. JOHN'S FAIR more | has come information | present | of attractions are to be found there his out- | plenty of in | There's not another place Barrymore | where |or a blanket can be bought “London Revue of 1924 in New York | cessive performances in the role of | |dime, but that's what those articles are going at at the fair. As a speeial attraction tonight Francis (“¥Fritzie”) Egan, the popular young tenor, 80 All kinds|well known throughout the state as a hallad singer of great merit, will en- and from the time the are [tertain with some of his newest num- opened till the very last dance there's| bers. Vincent Ringrose, another pep and entertainment. | geod singer who needs no introduction in town|[to local people, will also appear. a traveling bag | “Sammie” Gross’ popular orchestra for a!will furnish the dancing music tonight. to speid John's The best place in town Saturday night State Armory. your out-—§t, tair at the doors a floor lamp, Capitol Theater, Hartford SUNDAY AFTERNOON, Dec. 9, at 3 o'clock ROBERT KELIOGG Presents The Famous Italian Artist MARTINELLI Leading Tenor of the Mctropolitan Opera Co, Prices (including taxes)—87c, $1.15, $1.73, 0 Tickets at McCoy's Music Stoge, 89 Asylum St,, Hartford. mail orders to Robert Kellogg, 89 Asylam St., Hartford., Phone 2 Address -‘Hi Sunday Night-'Two Big Features HOOT GIBSON - iR - “OUT OF LUCK” See Hoot in the U. S. Navy ! WILLIAM DUNCAN — “THE MAN OF MIGHT" Starting Monday For a Week o By MARY ROBERTS RINEHART Directed By VICTOR SCHERTZINGER Under Personal Supervision of JACK COOGAN, Sr. THE BOY THAT IS LOVED BY MILLIONS IN HIS GREATEST ROLE SPECIAL SHOWS FOR CHILDREN AFTER SCHOOL EACH DAY 10¢ Jackie Coogan Balloons FREE to All Children ! I \Dl ES’ B\R(.Al\ MATINEE MONDAY R Th|< ( oupon aml 23¢ Will Admit Two Ladies to Best Seats Clip This Coupon and Present At Box Office S N AR R N AR A O S e e e PRICES THIS WEEK : Matinees: Orchestra 23¢—Balcony 18¢. Evening: Orchestra 35¢—Balcony 23ec. e e Coming—MARION DAVIES in “Little Old New York”