New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 5, 1924, Page 4

Albee, Keith Vaudeville Head, Helps St. Stephen’s College Theatrical Magnate, Pr—esented With M. A. Degree For Uplifting Work in Vaudeville, Gives $100,000 For New Dormitory Building. LEGION GOMEDY 1§ LAST THREE DAYS It is seldom that a college, rhuch less a church college, honors a theat- rical producer, manager of magnate with a Master of Arts degree for the | uplifting work which he has done in fulfilling his office. Edward F. Albee, head of the Keith Vaudeville cireuit, has been granted that honor by S Btephen's college, an Episcopal church Institiution, at Annandale-On-Hudson, To Be Presented at Lyceum KX, do fecognition of e vewark- | Thure Friday qud Saturday Ing vaudeville from the dubious thing | It was 25 years ago to the great and | dignified profession it is at present. The show “Going Up” to be given The Capitol theater of New Britain is |at the Lyccum theater Thursday, Fri- & Keith booked house. | day and Saturday of this week under Although B. F. Keith was directly the auspices of Eddy-Glover post, yesponsible for the raising of the stan- | American Legion, Is a musical com- fards, Albee was the brain behind the edy written about Old Massachusetts. project as he was then Mr. Keith’s | The play was written in Lowell and guiding star and personal fricnd. The is one of the best and most popular development of vaudeville {s the of recent productions. . development of one of the fine arts in | A peculiar coincidence econnected entertainment and also the N, V. A. with the local preduction is the fact an association which provides for the |that the leading female character will human welfare of the people in the |be portrayed by a recent resident of business. | thé city from which the play originat- After the conferring of the degres ¢d. M ion Chase will be the Mr. Albee became a member of the |leading lady and although she is now board of trustees of the college be- |a resident of New Britain, her home tause of his interest in St. Stephen's | for some time was in Lowell, which he calls “a human college.” Arting with her will be one of New Mr. Albee finds the large universities | Piltuir's most popular young ladies uninteresting because the aim is the |whosa ability before the footlights imparting of knowledge rather than |has been brought out on more than the development of personality. This fon: occasion. She is Miss Helen Egan 1s the basis of his support, according | whose work in a number of the T. A. to Rev, Bernard 1. Bell, president of | B. productions and especially in the thé eollege. Mr. Albee says that the |last one, “The Little Milllonaire” primary factor in success is poised | brought her much praise. personality.. | Miss Gertrude Johnson, one of the His criticism of most colleges is stars in “Hits and Bits of 1923" pre. that they do not produce it and that | sented by the A. D, 8. recently, and in most places men are not dealt with | Miss Mildred Hellberg, of the cast of as individuals but integers. This does | last year's Legion show will add niot hold true at St. Stephen’s where | much to the produetion. the size of the institution permits each | The male characters will be well student to become intimately ac-|represented and will consist of the quainted with members of the faculty | hest that New Britain can offer in the and the other students, amateur line. The leading part will Mr. Albee has done much for the [he taken by Urban Callahan whose benefit of the institution. A short ability as a nimble footed actor needs time ago he gave the college a mov- | hardly any mention here. His im- Ing picture machine which Is an exact | mense successes in recent amateur duplicate of the one installed at B. F. [productions and the naturalness of his Keith's Palace theater, N, Y. He also |actions in portraying the various parts equipped the stage, used in the per- |he has represented has stamped him ag formance of dramatic productions, one of the best actors New Britain with lighting facilities which ald im- | s produoed n some time, mensely in the production of plays Clement Lewls 1s well known in This spring he was anxious that|New Britain, having taken part in facilities at the college be enlarged 80 | many entertatnments here, He was $hat 200 men could be cared for In cast as one of the leads in “May- Bomfort, therefore he gave $100,000 |tjme" a few years ago and this year for a new dormitory which {8 now |ne has succemsfully directed and under construction, It will be named | gtaged the A. D. 8 Alumni associa- E. F. Albee hall. Mr. Albee is | tion's show “Hits and Bits of 1923 member of the Episcopal church and | yyo has been a member of the L4, & vestryman at St. John's In Larch- | New Britain's leading entertatners, mount, N, Y. since it was organized two scasons ago. Robert Loomis, one of the most talented singers in the city, has also had leading parts in amateur pro- ductions in this city, Masonic and | Leglon shows have had his name as one of the principals and he is also |one of the members of the L4, He | has a pleasing voice and is well cast in this year's production. Willlam «Scheuyd will have the op- portunity again of turning the house into an uproar through his comedy parts, His work in the T. A. B, pro- ductions will not be forgotten in a hurry by those who witnessed the shows and if there is a laugh in the audience, “Bill" can bring it out. William Humason has also gained a reputation as an amateur actor and his work is expected to add much to ‘s:’“LlEl.n the production. - OWJm‘E_T George Nash, well known on the WITH THE ORIGINAL NYCAST | |#peaking stage, has been engaged for Frofoction Bustgned an important part in “Janice Meres - by Dolle Terey )} dith,” the new Marion Dasies film, PARSONS' THEATER, Hartford 3 NIGHTS, BEG, THUR. APRIL 3 MATINEE SATURDAY Mat, Sat. 50c. $1.00, $1.50, 52,00, §2.50. The Selwyns in intion with_Adoiph Klsaber present JANE Another Great Sunday Afternoon -Concert CAPITOL THEATER — HARTFORD ' APRIL 6TH, AT 3 O'CLOCK Robert Kellogg presents the World Famous Italian Tenor —GIGLI— (Pronounced Gee-Lee) of the Metropolitan Opera Company Prices (including taxes), 87¢, $1.15, $1.73, $2.30, $2.88 Tickets at McCoy’s Music Store (office of Robert Kellogg) 89 Asylum St., Hartford ’'Phone 2-0375 Mail Orders Now MASCOTTE GIRLS AT GAPITOL NEXT WEEK ‘American Ballet to Top Vaude- ‘ ville Program | | 1 The Capitol next week will show a splendid array of entertainment in the presentation of five Keith vaudeville acts and photoplay features. Head- lining the bill for the first three day: of the week are the Eight Mascotte Girls. Most people think-that ballets ! ‘are all English but here’s one that' | was originated and produced in the| United States, and making a big hit| everywhere. They are wonderful| {dancers and the dances are of a wide |varlety, as they feature eccentric, | (high kicking, novelty, buck and, wing, and old-fashioned dances are | included in their program, The glrls{ !work in perfect harmony and in fact | it is as if sixteen feet are working| as one. In grotesque makeup the Camille Trlo offer a comedy bar act which contains as many good feats 1"A! it does good laughs. Only the most skilful can perform on bars in a dare- | devil way and it is their apparent dis- jregard for risk from which they de- rive most of their comedy. Lizzle Wil- son is one of the stage favorites our grandparents enjoyed. She was the original Dutch Gir! in vaudeville and first appeared at Tony Pastor's thea- ter twenty-five years ago. Miss Wilson has been featured recently the vaude- ville offering called “Stars Qf Yester- day” {in company with several old timers and now she is doing a single vaudeville and making a big hit at| every show. FEckert and Trencis offer “Another 8'message,"an offering of fun and songs delivered by two capable comedians, The Norvelle Brothers are melodious tumbling clowns and their offering is a real novelty, Rex Ingram, master director, has| completed another picture for Metro, “Where the Pavement Ends,” which ! comes to the Capitol theater on Mon- | day. The showing of a new film pro- duced by Mr, Ingram is an event wel-| comed by every movie-screen in the country, The fine artistry which went into the making of “Mhe ¥our Horse- | men;” “The Prisoner of Zenda" and| “Trifling Women,” On Thursday the entire bill changes and brings Constance Talmadge in| “Duley” and five more Keith acts| headed by Mattison Cole and the Broadway Soclety Syncopators, Sunday night two features will be offered, one being the Elinor Glyn story, “All the World's A Stage” with Dorothy Phillips #nd Kenneth Har-| lan, and the othér offers an all star| con!n “The Way of The Transgres. | sor," | “THE MOON FLOWER" Zoe Akins who has made the adap- tation of “The Moon Flower,"” the play opens the Parsons theater, Hart- ford Thursday, April 10th for the re- mainder of the week with Elsie Fer- guson as its star and Sidney Blaock- mer as the featured player is one of America’s most distinguished and most successful authors, Her first play “The Magical City" was produc- cd by the Washington Square players in their first season when they were struggling for recognition, The pro- duction of this play won recognition for the players and for Miss Akins who was immediately halied as the writer of romantic and poetic drama, and an author with a gift for sit tion. A satirical comedy, “Papa” was Miss Akins next production and this satirical comedy disclosed a new tal- ent, and with the production of her play “Declasse” in which Ethel Barry- more played for two seasons, Miss Akins was established as one of the | authors from whom the publie ml)‘i expect work of high quality and an | always amusing turn., LEGION O, K.'s “WHIPPING BOSS” | Based upon the sensational Tabert case, the facts of which were recited at great length in the daily press, | “The Whipping Boss,” heralded os | “the most unusual photoplay ever produced,” s arousing publie opinion | throughout the United States against barbarous penal systems. “The Whipping Boss” will be ex- hibited for the first time in the city at | the Lyceum theater, beginning April 7 to 9. It will be presented by Eddy- Glover Post of the American Legion. upen theme, picture. The film is crowded with action and is tense but not harassing. To reljeve the story's tenseness, somewhat, o love theme has been, woven into the | seenarin, The cast 1a headed by such | #tars as Lioyd Hughes, Barbara Bed. | ford, Eddie Phillips and Lydia Knott, Tt will be recalled that the Ameri. can Legion played an important part | in the investigation into Tabert's death. The Legion Post at Langdon, N. D, cooperating with the Commer- | elal elub of that citly, collected funds for the investigation and prosecution. | | FIFTH ANNUAL CONCERT For the Benefit of THE CHILDREN’S HOME MME. INGA ORNER, Soprano Formerly with the Metropolitan Opera Co., United States Opera Co., and MR. GOSTA NYSTROM, Tenor Covent Garden, London £ From the Royal Opera, Stockholm. Reserved Seats at Hultgren’s 57 Arch St., and at the door, Sunday. Tickets—T75¢, $1.00, $1.50; Loges and Boxes, $2.00. has given the movi Sunday at the Palace. I I Il i I Il The Legion has engaged the Ly- their Broadway Society orchestra will ceum for next week so the regular sound the keynote of jauz. house attractions will not be offered, but on resuming among the other big pictures to be presenterd will be “Three o'Clock in the Morning” and | “Broken Hearts of Broadway.” Helen Kellar who comes to the Capitol week after next, is one of the world's most tamous women. The fact that she was born deaf and dumb as well as blind, but despite that she has learned to talk, stamps her as re- markable, But her wonderful ability at “Seeing” through her fingers is her most unusual trait. Her vaudeville career has been most. successtul and her stand in the world of letters also is high. She is an authoritative writer and her articles have appeared in many of the yorld’s leading pub- lications. The program at the Lyceum thea- ter for the first haif of the week will | be varied one under the auspices of the American Legion. The matinees will consist of comedies, Pathe Week- ly and “The Whipping Boss” while oa Monday evening, the Mohawk min- | strel troupe will perform. The troupe has appeared several times in New Britain at fairs and other entertain- ments and has an entirely new change | of program for Monday night. - Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, the people of New Britain will be treated to one of the best minstrel | trcupe gotten together in the last week. The state department minstrel troupe of the American Legion will furnish the show the two nights.' This troupe has been together for the past eight years and is composed of a group of professional entertain- !ers who will delight those who will | The troupe has given | listen to them. their performance in many cities throughout the state and has been welcomed everywhere, At the matinee on Saturday after- noon, the Legion committee will have as its guests the children from the Polish Orphange apd the Children's home and the little tots will be treat- ed to the best that can be given them. Hall Caine, novelist whose works have as their setting the Isle of Man, s another drama " which opens For the final three days of the week this theater has two features, “Jamestown,” In fn “Name the Ma the Yale University Press serics; and Owen Moore In “Thundergate.” The Palace is to make a special ob. servance of Holy Week on April 17, 18, 19 by the showing of the colored picture “From the Manger to the Cross.” This is a story of Christ's life and was filmed in Palestine. Al Moore's band, the mbsicians who played for the late President Wilson on his return voyage from France, will play a return engagement at the Capltol beginning April 14, Next Thursday, Mattison and Cole with GIGLI IN HARTFORD SUNDAY The tenor volce of Benlamino Gigil is regarded as the most beautiful that is to be heard in opera. “A volce of lIlmpid quality, golden in its medium and ringing silver in its upper register; a mezzo volce which no tenor has equaled since the hey-day of Enrico Caruso, so soft and caressing is it; an extraordinary com- | mand of lagota~these are the quali- ties of Bignor Gigll.” In such terms a New TYork critic has described the great tenor's voice. It is a notable fact that in the eriti- cism of Gigll's voice the music judges of New York are wont coupling its greatness with the voice of DeResvke, Mario or Rubini. Signor Gigll does not often accept concert engagements and only the most important of the cities have been favored with the opportunity to hear him. necticut eity to be favored with a Giglt concert. He will appear at the Capitol th: ter in that city Sunday to Alwuyni speak of it in most flattering terms, Hartford is the first Con- I “The Song of Love,” Norma Tal- madge's latest picture, was taken in | the romantic country of Algeria, This "ls coming to the Capitol soon. Two Hérvard prize plays are being {shown in the metrbpolitan area. {“Nancy Ann" is at the 49th Street | theater and *“You and I'" is being pre- |sented in Newark, Louis I, Tsquith and Walter Brooks have entered the fleld of theatrical producers. They wilk present “Plain | Jane,” a musical comedy, late this “mfinth. The book is by Phil Cook and McElbert Moore, and the music by Tom Johnstone. Another new theatrical firms is that of 8. K. & B. 8 Knauer, who are about to begin casting *The Right to Dream,” a drama by an American vhose identity is being kept secret. PALACE SUNDAY NIGHT MON., TUES., WED. Patsy Ruth Muller Hobar t oswor th Alleen Pringle g b ™ | OF MAN' SirHall Caine frnapunyii Direct A Goldwyn Picture, LR YA Distriduted by Goldwyna-Gosmopolitan We Want Every Mother | and Daughter’ To See This Picture So Ladies’ Bargain Matinee MONDAY This Coupon and 10¢ Wil Admit Any Lady To Best Seats THURS.—OWEN MOORE in “THUNDERGATE” “JAMESTOWN” Prices This Week |l Matinees ..... 23¢ and 18¢ Evenings 35¢ and 23¢ EXTRA ATTRACTION '} ‘The Leather Pushers’ Hale | American Legion Week Eddy-Glover Post will present at the Lyceum Theater April 7th, 8th and 9th, that picture should be The Mohawk Minstrel, Mond: This Unusual Photoplay ri_th_isr-‘ , April Tth The Legion State Dept. Troupe-— Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8th and 9th “GOING UP” April 10th, 11th and 12th MA AND MUSIC - Barbara Bedford and Lloyd Hughes appearing in the Ameri- can Legion’s photoplay production “The Whipping Boss” at the Lyceum theater, April 7th, 8th and 9th CAPITOL Sunday Night—Double Features DOROTHY PHILLIPS and KENNETH HARLAN in “THE WORLD'S A STAGE” By Elinor Glyn ‘All Star Cast in “THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR” MON.—TUES.—WED. 5-BI5 TIME OFFERINGS-5 'KEITH. VAUDEVILLE Featuring 8-MASCOTTE GIRLS-8 Class Personified in Original Novelty Dances e — - LIZZIE WILSON Dutch Comedienne ECKERT & FRANCIS | CAMILLE TRIO Another S’message | Bar Comedians NORVELLE BROS, Tumbling Clowns ALICE TE RAMON 1IOVARRO REX INGRAM’S PRODUCTION Where The Pavement Ends A Picture Pulsating with the Romance of the South Seas. TALMADGE in “DULCY” Mattison Cole and Broadway Syncopaters WATCH FOR THE U. S. JAZZ BAND