New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1924, Page 4

.uW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAHCH 22, 1924, :- NEWSY NOTES ‘OF THE SPOKEIV STAGE, SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC - PSYI]HIG WONDERS, CAPITOL NEXT WEEK Famous Mercedes to Demonstrate, His Weird Powers Patrons of the Capitol theater will have an opportunity of seeing Mer- cedes, the Psychic Eighth Wonder o the World next weck Monday wh this famous gentleman begins an en- gagement ther. Mercedes is one of the greatest living marvels of the | present day and in his offering is as- sisted by e Stantoneg the marvelous mystic. Mercedes is the possessor of a strange faculty that enables him to| transfer his thoughts to Mlle. Stan tone, In his offering he goes into the audience while Mlle, Stantone is scated at the plano on the stage. While in the audience he picks people at random and asks them to name him any musical selection, popular jazz, grand opera, hymns, national airs, any kind of music at all and be- fore he is through with the conver- sation Mile, Stantone plays the named piece on the plano, Mercedes claims that he transfers the thought to the pianist by telepathic waves. Their offering is very entertaining and in- teresting from an educational stand- point, Other acts on the bill include Owensg and Campbell and their Golden Gate Syncopaters. The first named | are an excellent dancing team offer-| ing a routine of different and difficult | dances to music by their syncopaters | who are also a clever aggregation of | musicians. The other acts are all| good and up to the wusual Capitol | standard, The photoplay feature for the fi three days will offer Pola the Paramount production * of Paris.” Pola in this picture gives the greatest acting of her entire e h sy weaih :fifi"«fimopum Comediine Returns Ior oo Week's Engagement Starting next Monday next as an Apa terror in the most notorions underforld den in Paris. | Married to the Pollce Inspector of | Paris she at night goes back to the Apache den and there lives a double | life. It is most thrilling and spec- | tacular. Included in the cast are Charles de Roche, Adolphe Menjou, Gareth Hughes, and Vera Reynolds. The Sunday night program will pre- | sent two features, One will offer| “The Lariat Thrower,” a story of the new West, and one that hands out plenty of thrills and laughs. On Thursday with the change “of | program “Boy of Mine” will be the | photoplay feature with Henry B Walthall, Trene Rich, and Ben Alex- ander. ‘ “ MARTY DUPREE BACK <. - AT PALACE THEATER =% will present for a week’s engagement, Marty Dupree and hér musical follies, just abounds in: whole- soma comedy and comedians who know how to de- | gav a big hit earlier in the season and in bringing them buck for a return engagement the manage. ment assures its pat shows than they appearcd in here he- That will bs a hard thing to do as Marty's shows here fhe last time |were the best ever seen in this elty, | ns of Marty Dupree at Palace Next Week new show with news which will be movie-goers everywhere, and_ Wednosday, each coming welcomed But lhfl(l‘ Her newest Metro picture, ench Doll,” which will be at | ce theater on Monday, is undoubtedly | ! week, | hearsals will be held at i the bulldln( fund of the Leg!on | | | | dred Harris, with a {‘ headed by The FFour Funsters, a quar- change | That's | by | “‘Phamom Justice” and “The! | action in the Canadiah backwoeds, and | “The Grail | for the last half of the week is “Phan- | even while you are being entertained the beautiful star's most elaborate and tugcinating production, This startling Miss Murray’s own record geous gowns and luxurious were igns in New York, | ® and they represent | the last word in luxurious apparel, Thursday's photoplfly feature Tom Mix in the Fox sp . avishing costumes the Palaco n her own de Paris and Vienna, offer duction “North of Hudson night's program will features presenting Wagon,” 1 ered Wagon” and “The sage," all star cast, pretty girls better AMERICAN photoplay offe companion to Night thrilling melodifama with an | 8he has been marrd to the man, when | from to LEGION SHOW. "The general committee in charge of breaks for gor- | settings, m!dl\ will | fal pro- sun- r two) Lone “The Cov- | Mes I'the stdr who never looked or acted | forms the bas but beginning next w 0dd ¥ hall on Arch street four times a Week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and ¥ri- day nights. The profits of the week's entertainment will be used to enlarge BY DIVINE RIGHT | COMING TO LYCEUM White Sin” Other Features mpa s The Devil's Partner,” teeming with Dustin Farnum in a western drama will be Sunday's offerings | at the Lyceum, while on Monday the | program switches to “By Divine Right,” starring Elliot Dexter and Mil- vaudeville bill tet that is just what tiee name implies good singing sclections this above the | By their good humer, ma happy choice of | quartet has raised itself singing and dancing breeze, inter- spersed with some funny quips, and -ho Ungar and Romao, a couple of { musicians who offer a wido variety of selections, Their program. goes from jazz and popular ballads to semi-class- ical and operatic airs. The photoplay tom Justice” and the following week Madge Bellamy in “The White Sin,” will be an attraction worth while, A picture that will make you think, to the nth degree, such is “By Divine Right.” Incidentally this is_ Elliott Dexter's own production. It i human, full of beauty and drama and Les two great thrills. A remarkable cast pre- sents it, Mildred Harrls is beautiful in the leading role while Grace Carlisle, Anders Randolf, DeWitt Jeonings, 8id- ney Bracey, Jeanne Carpenter and othersymake a wonderful support for better, | In announcing “The White Sin,” the yeeum is bringing out a picture that should prove a record maker, The William Fox star, Madge Bellamy, has | the leading role. which in itself is a | sufficient trademark to assure success, { | In a brief sentence, the story s one of those involved society versus slums| pieture. In it an innoeent young girl } from the poorer classes is wooed by | n unscrupulous young man of wealth | nd position, ¥he is led to believe that a8 matter of fact it was but a mock | marrlage that was pecformed. This of what turns out to| bo a gripping plot and the end is/ | reducing the bu: “Miss Physical Culture,” a charm- ing miss who -is endorsed by Ber- narr Macfadden and his *Physical Culture” magazine has been engaged tor a special feature act at the Cap- itol early this spring. Miss Physical Culture, during her stay here, will answer questions relative to health, including such things as reducing weight, gaining weight, complexion, dieting, exercises, care of the eyes, developing the bust, reducing hips, care of the hair, what to eat, personal problems. The Golden Gates S)ncomtorw coming to the Capitol the first three days of next week, .combine a jazz orchestra offering with a dancing specialty, Among the dances fea- tured i8 the well knownm “Paris Apache,” which'is said to be inter- preted just as the Montmartre cab- aret performers do it. Admirers of physical { perfection | g 1’1;:1‘!’”‘:51 xl.::nl:{\;::“r(‘ul:l";d/\:;:;:nh:h:I,\nn be interested in The Castillians, {tributers, there have been more than Robert W. Chambers is one of Amgerica’s leading novelists who has successfully capitalized the sex ele- ment in his stories. One of his best | sellers, “Common La'w,” has been flimed and booked for early show- ing at the Capitol. Tommy Levine, who for several years has made anunual visits-to the Lyceum as head of his own musical comedy troupe, has disbanded his | company this year but has not _quit | the stage. Tommy, his wife and®an- other couple, have worked u ody sketch known as- the rommy | Levine Four.” The act will appear lat the Lyceum next week. Veterans of the Spanish battle scenes which are to form part of the picturization of the 'life of "rh-vorn Roosévelt. According to of- | ficlal statements issued from the of- ces of the United Producers and Dis- | who are booked for the Capitol be- 150 appiicacions for jobs from veter- ginning Thursday. This quartet, composed of two men and two wom- | en, have been acclaimed by experts as practically perfect in physical de- velopment and their act, “Artists and Models,” is designed to this. . PUTTING PRICE ON FOOT Farrytown Jury Will Fix Damage In- curred When Marble Statue s Damaged in Transit, Tarrytown, N. Y, March 22.—~Mrs. Stanley W, McCormick, daughter-in- Jaw of the late Cyrus H. McCormick, will learn Monday the value of a broken marble foot in the eyes of court jury has heard ce in her suit against the Am- city which evide lerican Express company, Mrs, MeCormick values the foot, which is that of a Jife-size statue given her by Gordon Mackay, of Bos- ton, ‘at $2,000, One jury falied to ngree last January and a second heurd the case yesterday, both plaintiff and defendant gave their estimates of the loss sustained by the wealthy woman, They varied $2,600, The jury's wealed verdict is to be épened Mon- day . The foot was broken when the statue was shipped to Mrs, MeCor- miek by Mr, Mackay, The statue was | when experts for | | engagement four weeks instead of two {in New York this scason as there is lans, D, W, Griffith been invited by a | | syndicate of Italian bankers to visit | | ¢ e B emphasize | Rome and confer on the production | of a series of pictures to be' made | there. The Italian government has epproved the movement, It is under- stood that the plan @lls for a picture dealing with Italian history, similar t: Mr. Griftith’s “Ameri which s proving one of his greatest successes, The Selwyns have once more ex- tended Mrs, Leslie Carter's stay in| Boston for another week, making the | at first planned. Mrs, Carter is playing in “Stella Dallas” and is being | received with as great ucclaim as | aver. She will not be seen in the play no theater available, “Andre Charlot's Ttevue of | which the Selwyns are preseating at the Times Square theater in New York, is the tion of the scason in musical comedy, Tt is now ap-| proaching the beginning of its fourth month in New York, Managers of local vaudeville m.! -Pa a com- | | it adntind 5 A)le‘@&bbh’hmubb&bl“&“ = | The company feures a cast of 1§ people including Benme Drohan and the forthcoming pr *Qoing Frank Murray, those funny com- Up” under the auspices of the Am edians, Madeline Boland, a prima don- icaf Legion, met last night, The cast ne with a great voice, Tew Caron, ‘has been selocted and the show will Brown and Wallace Melvin, | be heid at the Lyceum, April 10, 11 ‘s chorus is also a featured at. | amd 12,owith a Sdturday matinee, traction with the show as never be. George B, ¢, Lérd® of PBoston will fore has such a sparkling array of direct the show. He is well known, | shapely, beautiful girls been scen here | having provioWkly directed “King | in any chorus. Excellent vaudeville | Dodo,” "The Ginger Bread Man” and features are Introduced during the “Don't Ask Me ‘The first three days [show with Marty amd her dancing | of the week of March 7, 8 and "9, |ish rcpresentatives to Italy to watch roup, one of the strong features, I3dd 6, will also put | the approaching eltcoisn. One of the | Marty's $how will remain at the Pal- on a bill of local and state vaudeville observers, Hagry Snell, a labor mem- ace for two weeks, changing thgir land an American Legion movie, ber of parliament, alrcady has been |program twice weekly, on Monday chearsals are progressing well, |selected, The second will be chosen end Thursdays and wilk present & |The cast has been meeting twice alfrom the trade union congress, |® shrouded with suspense until all | threads of the story have been un- tangled, “The Telephone Girl,” a new bi. weekly serial, will show its second in- stallment the week after next. yduetion SUNDAY NIGHT Special Photoplay Program ‘ DOUBLE FEATURES “THE LONE WAGON” Companion Feature to the “COVERED WAGON” § —:— SUNDAYONLY ~=i— Big Cast of Stars THE GRAIL—DUSTIN FARNUM The Devil' “THE NIGHT MESSAGE AY—TUFSDAY—WEDNESDAY A Thrilling Melodrama With a Punch! AN Star Cast "TIONS, London, March 22.-~At the invita- tion of the Itallan government Pre. | miler Maedonald s sending two Brite REGULAR PALACE PRICES Announcement To New Britain Folks The Bow and Arrow Inn at Meriden 1= now under new management STEAKS AND CHICKEN A SPECIALTY Novelty Dance Saturday ning, March 22 Spocial music — Be at home away from home at the Bow and Arrow 1 Mile East of Meriden on Middietown Road | ALE Parsons, Hartford Three Nights Beginming Thursday, March 20 Matinee Saturdar fossrs Richard Bennett - “The Dancers” The Scnsational London Success by Sir Gerald da Manrier 4 { Shubert Prosent | BIG VAUDEVILLE THURSDAY—FRIDAY—SATURDAY That Heavy Drama “PHANTOM JUSTIC SUPPORTING COMPANY OF 40 b, $2.50. Mat. e, $2.00 LYCEUM THEATER Partner—All Star Cast the work of 8. Albano, executed in 1882, and is considercd one of the hest, examples of the Post.Canova school. All Next Week FIRE AT WILLIAMS Willlamstown, Mass, March 22— | Iire, whigh broke out at three this niorning badly damaged Morgan hall, Willlams college, Al the students quartered in the dormitory escaped without injury, The fire started on the second floor and worked ita way | about $5,000. AND Musical Fol UDEVILLE W Bennie Drohan Madeline Boland Lew Caron — Mart aters will, without a doubt, caution actors against attempted comedy at the expense of local persons or fig- ures, following the incident of the past week, Ostensiby, the actor who pass- ed the remark at which offense was taken meant no harm by it, and those guilty have probably suffered remorse tor their actions. Another of Sir Hall Caine's drama- tic H!fll’l(‘fl of the Isle of Man, “Name the Man,” hds been dramatized for the screen and the Palace is to show it at an early date, Another picfure of note coming to | that theater is ig Brethar” with | Tom Moore, It was this picture that ! was responsible for the starting of the | so-called “bi¥ brother movement” by the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs about {the country and these organizations have endorsed the picture heartily. Tom Mix, the virile William Fox | star, will plunge into%action on a local | seréen in a couple of weeks when “North of Hudson Buy"” #hows at the Palace, American | i war will be much in evidence in the | Marty Dupree and "her troupe play a return engagement at the Palace next week, with two new shows. “The Covered Waugon,” which in- cidentally never has played in this city and still is running in New York, probably will not be brought here for a long time, due to the high However, the Ly- ceum management announces a pic- ture which they say is simi theme, It is “The Pion Trai | the last half of the week. ”ml‘b‘h.hbbb‘lbb“m' American Leglon — Show — LYCEUM § April 10-11-12 § ""'VVV'"'"'""'"".' el ACE - Starting Monday Your Favorites Back Again! . ¥ V) ‘m the roof before it was put under | mmrul The damage is estimated at HER Comedy lies FEATURES ith > — Frank Murray - 'Wallace Melvin (eorge Brown y’s Fanious + Hand }’mked.Chorus e iy All New Show s—--(hanged Mon. and' Thur. 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