New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 9, 1924, Page 4

- NEWSY NOTES OF —— e o MRS. LESLIE CARTER HAS STAGED COMEBACK IN PLAY Star of “Heart of Mary- land,” *“Zaza” “Du Barry” Appearing Now in “Stella Dallas,” and Ihe present day in the theater ‘orld is marking the passing _reat masw old time favorites, hut at the same ume, it also marks the re turn to public favor of a certain few of the of other days. Among these 1 be counted Mrs. Leslie Car ter, , an actres probably was Letter known to New Britain theater- goers of 25 years ago than any other. Those who have admired Mrs. Car- ter as long ago as the days when she won fame in “The Heart Mary- land,” "Zaza,” and “Du Barry,” will have an opportunity again soon to re new acquaintance with the most popu- her new play stars who lar star of tho days in “Stella D: idapted to the stage by Gertrude i Wag staff Gribble by Olive Higgins Prouty ed in this new and by Selwyn & Co. Mrs. Carter, who have seen chosen for her i of the drama, arc ing that she posses and ability to plea past. The Washington Stur in comgment. ing on her appearance says, “Mother ove {8 the great underiying theme Mrs. Carter's mastery of emotional acting is revealed again.g There is misery, sacrifice, tragedy—but not the misery and tragedy of the woman who has loved too much and de as in the past in her former parts is the sacrifice of a mother, a sacri tor her daughter, triumphant for her daughter in the end at a bitter cost to the mother. “It is a part in which shows once more to the public her artistry Despite the tragedy, there is a wealth of amus ing incident and clever lines and good character sketching in the pls The Washington Post says Mre Carter smiles at years in 'Ste Da las’ and stages another ‘comeback’.’ The Herald of t city that “she has found a remarkable oppor tunity in a powerfnl and distinctive play that befits her in a characteriza tion that affords her an epportunity to employ her artistry, varicolored and compelling.” This announcement will be received with pleasure by @ large number of her admirers in this city ut that pleasure will again be tinged with r grets that New Britain remains on the outside of the charmed circle wherein dramas and other stage eircles rotate, Memory creeping backward, can pic ture Mrs. Carter, in the height of her career, gracing the boards of the Ly. ceum theater in the greatest triumphs of the day. The passage of years, however, | scen the finish, definite, it scems, the presentation to the public of this city of any of thesc favorites, Purcell and from the nove sent omising venture e wil pr to eritics, the role sensation nimons in say the same charm s she did in the according h portray s new Mrs. Carter theater-going sy as Parsons’ Theater HARTHORD Thurs,, Fri. & Satsat. ARTHUR. HOPKINS presents Ethel arrymore " her success .THEtheUGHIl:g”uAUY Matinee, Nights Floor—83, §2.50; 2nd Pal.—$1 Sat. Mat. Floor—$2.50, $1: 20d Bal 3th ANNUAL BALL Given by Eddy-Glover Post No. 6 American Legion STATE ARMORY FRIDAY, FEB. 15 Admission $£1.00 Tax Free Super Photoplay Originated Catholic Art Association of New York. Given at St Andrew s hall, Church St Saturday afternoon at2Zp m Saturday at 8 o'clock by Church for children only on and Sunday evening “I Love You” = Simply irresis- tible as played by The Columbiane in fox-trot time and sung by Lewis James on Columbia Records A-3989 st Bal—8§2, $1.50: BRENS-MARTIN AT THE PALACE Thomas Heighan Features thd Silver Screen of Romance Monday Lew Brems and Felix M the Ttevue start their Palace, patrons rtin in Imperial wcond and final week | where they will at th have been big On Mon- | Ielighting and drawing owds all this past week Il offer 4 complete change and Thursday shaw I be offered. Brems Murti more langhs and the sup- will aiso be week several On be a chorus local m again on ew ) many patrons introduced Wednesday evening there will contest, 7 v a Friday garter girl's ¢ on offered evineed a keen of imaten Booth interest in the ‘Pied Piper Maione, Thomas Meighan, the Paramount pieture which the Palace theater Tuesday and Wednesday, 1 the *dnring the greater part of the ston fitmiy story, for the to Monday, was on | his written star of comes Sunday, *se filmi scenes story Althongh 1 ng T of a v the | everal of Mr. Tarking- have been put into pic- ture form, this is the first ene he has written eriginally for the und the first one has had a working The ton's nove creen actually of the interested nimch--he when his working out nario by Tom Geraghty Hoosier author wanted to be the characters we “Pied Piper me” is a the New | shipping Cidport sailorman’s others in pporting the on spot of of tule town romance ‘Itisa on s the s equally prominent RBoys and will rejoiee at the I o woman cast girls of all ages, evory. news of the airbanks, “Ste. where presentation Nonglas Tr.s first Paramount picture at the Palace thea. The one ter next Thursday of a tvpleal American boy, a high school™ pupil Stephen Harlow, Jr., like naost redshlooded boys of his & \ story is as an aversion for text books tory Constantineple, where his bim to study Turkie pectations progresses Stephen father | history. nople tnll of excitement for Stephien—if o res the kid- napping of the Sultan's son and street fights galore count for anything “Stephen Out” is a fast-mov. ing comedy throughout. It is a pi ture all will enjoy. Theodore Roh. erts is featured the star ar others in e Harry Myers and Joseph Henabery Constanti 18 olution, is support of nde Frank ( was the Beery, rer cast in rector ture industry is start. ing a campai ong the studios to suppress silly and harmful rumors which despite their falsity gain the | dignity of facts through wide and re. reated cireulation 8o much e |geration in the nature of magnified losses arise among the actors that the be igned to impress talk The motion p cotures wil h the might cause, Ithem wit harm such loose B ' ] ' ' Lew Brems at the Palace Next Week THE LULLABY GOMES T0 LYCEUM SUNDAY Jane Novak's Gripping - Epic of Mother Love Here Four Days Mother Jove—untiring, magnificent b all consming —that is the has eme running the tremendon t through “The Lullaby intensely dramatic offering starring Jane No- vak, which comes to the Lyceum to. morrow night, to be continued through Wednesday 5 a specia Sunday fea will be W Russel] | drama, “Times Have Changed.” ddition to Tk Lullaby” the We an diences through Wednesd lso a bang-up good vaudeville bill, featuring the Sensational 1 Oric dare-devil. ' This performs a1l manner tinally sliding head first a taut wire from the second| baicony to the stage Coldi and Thorne a couple of dainty misses with 1 musi number and | Arthur and White in Doctor and the Maid’ a one com teh that is a riot of fun, The finale | The Ball Family,” rated as among world's greatest acrobats and aer- workers. There re four in this daring act of next we (¥reckles) | Kid,” while onsiderablc a there also a comedy n d liwm day will ing stunts, down o The 1 people | management takes | pride in announcing for| early release D, W. Griffifh’s “The White Ros st ing Mae Marsh While “The Lullaby"” is a mot love picture, its theme 18 new whergas other mothers' dominant thoughts have been for their erring children, in this pleture Miss Novak has the part of a new movie mother «a mother who comes to this country 4 Days Only February— 17-18-19-20 Seat Sale Now Going On! Al of theAge.' antics but himself and turns the tables on his| big city friends Every time D. W. Griffith puts a pieture it is easily the best in fts|could star in an ordinary production. | s true | Renee Adoree, who is a comparative | latest, as they Het,” gvptian queen In the anelent story Fgives u superh is almost perfeet, according to those who have written of the charming in the when necessary thoughts turn to Antony, al of the Shakespearcan drama comes a success when an actress of Miss Cowl's abllity plays the leading role, (Freckles) edy drama, wonld be supposed, Barry has the tol theater Monday. part of the rural rustic hoy who fer |superbly handled and keeps one en- | a time is the butt of all jokes and |thralle: who eventually gets onte|foldment, Barry in from her native Ttaly, hopeful | joyous, upen whom time and exper- | lence stamps its furrow of care and | suffering. The Thursday change vaudaville novelties and also Wi THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT and brings new oy | other supreme dramatic his latest com- “The Ceountry the top class The wonderful tion Boston, Cleopatrs presentation have acclaimed Wer even during the did Her LYCEUM SUNDAY - MON. - TUES. - WED. ‘BIG VAUDEVILLE Featuring SENSATIONAL TOGO “ORIENTAL "DAREDEVIL” Wiste 1R mystery for an early showing, nd this one of Griffith's | neweomer Also “The Unknown Purple,” | Grange, the tempestuous little French | is slated | Canadian, gives a performance play, Kid." As out making one of in the representation love LADIES play. presenta- her latest, of the 8ho is seenes, gueenly but tender, when her The revive be- vaudeville prepared and | the top of the ladder las the devil-may-core Bucky O'Hara, | i('h,lu‘l‘. | periormance | 8kin." [ Lenoir, s cast as an adventuress, as | run of “Jue|ghe was | Bwicl MUSIC -- — e DRAMA AND by a stage hand. Soup bolls with a click, but with no steam ner raising of the pot cover. A lover has his last look at his sweetheart in the middle of the Stage with a bright, | unshadowed light,. instead of at a | moonlit windew with some semblance | of sentimgntal beauty.” The war is | on- 4 | § P of a terrific storm, drew an audience | The Lyceum, which now books its that overtiowed onto the stage, A”arfis through an agency operating of- the conclusion of his program, he was | fices both in New York and Boston, encored again and again, until he|DaS engaged a blg novelty act for finally had te. raise his hand and an- | Monday which while not a headliner, | nounce “Just one’ more.” A famous |8 @ good one. It s off the Shubert critic remarked that he is possesséd circuit and is “The Sensational Togo hat daring Jap who slides dewn a |wire onfo the stage from the sécond | balcony. Those interested in singers of note would do well to watch, the progress of a neweomer in the ranks of tal- ented vocallsts, He is Reland Hayes, remarkabie negro artist, who is sail- ing at once for his fourth tour of Europe, hfter completing a concert at Carnegie Hall in New York. His last performance, given during the heigh! voice, native devploped artistry of foreign enthrall his of a beautiful natural emotional power, and a pure enunciation texts which combined hearers, “HUNCHBACK OR N T DAME" Unusual interest attiches to- the presentation of: the Universal special “The Hunchback of Notre Dame, «at the Palace theater on Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20. For many months it has been widely heralded as the last word in cinemsg art, but this was taken with the proverbial grainof salt until after the world premier at the Astor thea- ter, in New York cit. The Gotham critics, shattéred all precedent by wsing up more adjectives of praise | than even thé most Intrepid press agent dare employ. Lon Chaney, one of the greatest character actors on either stage or | screen, plays the difficul t role of “Quasimodo,” the hunchback. He is | supported by such well known play- | ers at Patsy Ruth Miller, Ernest Tor- | rence, Norman Kerry, Nigel de Bru- Among the big pho!onl.} attrac- tions booked for early showig at the BY REQUEST THEY 1ba.n‘l." or “The Flaming Passion,” | | “The Tiger Rose” and that greatest ‘Capitol Fans o Greet PEATSON, nown Furpie "rrvs waveiers e Newport and Peason ~ |=voken arama. ran for two vears on Broadway as a Maurice Tourneur, the eminent mo- tion picture director, takes a direct Neat week the Capitol has an shot at the stage and has caused & | celient bill of photoplays and Keith | sensation in New York theatrical cir. it features cleg by saying that the stage has not [the return engagement of Pearson, |progressed in many years and that it Newport and Pearson in “Rhythm™. | needs the film producer's enthusiasm This trio made a big hivh h‘nr:‘; (e\xt and intelligemce, Soms of the flaws Imenths ago with somewha, erent fin present productions, even furniture s | dancing and it was at the request 41 are painted on the back dreps. Rain | '¢" Tully .'\!d.rsl?n,?l. Br’:;:rlon Hut;n; | many that they are being brought |deesn't look like rain at all, but like | "4 Gladys hml;“eu: . \,er:ha.r: A [back to again perform. Other acts ' water poured from a sprinkling pot | Principals and,500 extras n“ e cast. linclude Art Frank and Margle Bar- Reserved seats are now selling. [ron in *The Hick and the Chick”; | Lawten the Juggler; Kenndy and Pet- | erson in “Hokum and A La Carte"; | and “Youth”, a juvenile offering with | nine future stars. | Reginald Barljer has done it again ! The man who made “The Storm” arfl “Hearts Aflame” has added an- achievement | to his eredit in “The Eternal Strug- |gle,” the Metro picture at the Capi- The story is ex- Sunday Night—Excellent Double Features “A Glorious [ “The Breathless Adventure” Moment” with ‘ with Lady Diana ; Manners & | WifllliamkDesmond MON., TUES., WED. . 5—KEITH VAUDEVILLE ACTS—5- - Featuring the Return Engagement of Pearson—Newport— lhrough(sln the entire un. | is in keeping with the for each one of | who | The cast superior direction, lthn players s a top-notcher to the films, as Andree | that among the great stars at t O'Malley, | ranks her st work of his’ surpassing his superlative in others Under the Barbara La Marr, as Camille does some of the 1 in “Trifing Women” and Prisoner of ~ Zenda,” and she | performance, Barle | Walluee Beery, Josef | | and Anders Randolf com- plete the excellent cast. | On Thursday the big feature will be “The Petrograd Entertainers,” and | Baby Peggy in “The Darling of New | “The Pea_rson Coming is the Hometown Minstrel | in Follles with a cast of local talént — “RHYTHM” — You Marvelled at Their Dancing Here a Short While Ago—See Them Aggin___ Kennedy -- Peterson | “Hokum a la Carte” ‘ “The Juggler” ART FRANK and MARGIE BARRON “The Hick and the Chick” MAUD DANIEL PRESENTS —“YOUTH"— . : A Juw_:_nile Ofl'g{ing With 9 Futu;g Stafl ‘GRIPPING EPIC SPECIAL NEAT WEEK — MON,, This Coupon and 10¢ Will Admit Any Lady to Best Seats WORLD OF MOTHER /o 9he REGINALD BARKER Jroducton e ETERNAL STRUGGLE 08 g gl et With RENEE ADOREE PAT O'MALLEY JOSEF SWICKARD WALLACE BEERY BARBARA LA MARR EARLE WILLIAMS 'TERTAINERS Babyrl’eggy in “The Darling of New York” ;—Hometown Minstrel Follies MATINEES TUES., WED.