New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1924, Page 23

(e o ] -M L L TALTIELT LS AL XX XL S d weitten by the press agencies for = > E g b4 a =] S REVUE CAPITOL x Mattison and Cole and their Broad- way society orchestra are the head- liners at the ('apitol tonight and Saturday and are the big hit of the vaudeville bill which shows five great Al This group of entertainers call their offering *We're Different,” anda | they, sure live up to its title as they are all together different from the usual run of vaudeville orches J attison and Cole are wonderfnl en- l"rtan‘firl and the band is all ”Ml can be expected. Manning and Class are seen in a novelty, “Wateh Your Sicp” in which they offer some spectacular tricks and daices on the tight wire; lLaughlin and West are real good in their very funny skit The Little Spectator, Norton and Brower offer “Bug House Vables,” a comedy offering that evokes twelve minutes of good clean wholesome entertain- went; and Will J. War strikes the audience’s ¥ with fine mono- logue and AT the latest “Connie com- s altoge her different rrom any- thing yet made Ly Miss The play is deseribed as American. Capitol theater, Starting Monday L. 8 3 Pand quest, Oldest Woman in Mass. Is Dead at Age of 105 Years Ware, Mass., April 11, Mrs, Dersha Howe, v reached her 105th mber S, dicd at her She was born It is now wing at the Al Moore urn again by ho Do on home Gere in Last She was bes woman in the car memory of and \World 3 ch the World waryshe s th Nt consider time CAPITOL ;. TONIGHT AND 8 F Keith Va.ixdeville fecturing MATTISON & COLE Bria way Soce «rcesra Moaning and Class Tavten end Brover COMNSTANCE TALIARGE in Y YT IV 1) L CDULCY The & & a Beautiful Dush-Bal CORE and roznr NATINLE Yrom NV A "an Vst tord Tirect ELSIE FERGUSON UL THE MOON FLOWER —with— Sidney Blackmer AR S06, 5250, <MAT. 50 —~82.00 [l s ) Unless othierwise indicated, theatrical notices and reviews in this column are H 3 3 % § 3 3 3 3 3 3 3! 3 o \,..‘/‘-' m”:c_-ctvtrccc the respective@amusement company. “THUNDERGATE"” AT When the son of a disgraces himsclf ther honorable way out, according to the traditions of the mandarin. And so when Robert Wells, an American, was taken biefore the old Lord of Thundergate, who mistook him for his own profligate son, he was handed silken cogd and taken to a room | where, according to custom. ge was supposed to strangle himself with the cord. Meantime, however, the aged mandarin dropped dead from the ex- citement and Wells was informed that he was now the Lord of Thundergate, This is one of the unique situations in the Kirst National picturization of “Thundergate,” whigh is fascinating movie.goers at the I'a theater this werk. The other reature offers ‘James- town,” the second in the “"Chronicles of America” series produeed by the Yale University PALACE Chinese peer is only one Press. LAST FRIDAY MOVIE last IPriday season 10 be The the Congregat at that wuy y tieroy.” evening movie of hown at the South al church will be shown hurch this evening and will Pickford in “Little Lord Condemned Man Twice Is Foiled in Suicide Effort Ossining, April 11 An- thony Viandante, condemned slayer of his was in Sing Ning prison tonight nte was comvieted in Syracus and a half \dand: his own 1ife cleetiic tened William strong guard was led to t wife, electroented Viand a year e twice a befo 1 last night, life of Ney prison surrcunded th trempted was | 10 take 1 1o the He also “ather A he chair the 1in, chaplain, him as q house, PALACE TONIGHT and SATIRDAY DOLBLE PEATURLS OWEN MOORE “Thundergate” omance of an Won China, YALL UNIYVERSITY Presents ‘Jamestown’ rom “Chronicles of AI‘“ ‘A’ Series hows Saiurday 18 aeningees PRREsS Matinoe and 23¢ Sunday only «— William SWHEN OoDDbs wene Russell EAENT Mondayee"WEST OF THE waTreEn ronen” Motion Picture Entertainment MARY PICKFORD in “Little Lord Fauntleroy” SOUTH CHURCH TONIGHT 730N ROBERT W. (HAMBERS “A Deautifel Love tarriet Undech “Wasily the 3 Parsons’ Theater Achievement.” At 515 sharp and Twics Daily Theresfter, o SLO-RESERY PRICES PYERY MATINEE 50 EVYERY NIGAT 500 fa 8150 EATIRE WEER This Pietare will not be hown in any Sereen's e Stors " treatest T e & TPy RARTFORD. wm EAE. APR. W0 295 and B:05 SEATS SOW SELLISG MAIL ORDERS NOW cAher Rartford Theater Thic senean NEW BRITAT DATLY HERALD, T ————— T R — OMOMMMW.M“““. OE8885600888 | FRlI);\Y, ¢ LEGION CAST GIVES ~ STINNES, GERMAN ¢ FIRST PERFORMANCE - MAGNATE, IS DEAD “Going Up” Produced by Eddy- Was Considered One of Enrope's Glover Post at Lyceum The first performance of Up” the American of “Going Eddy- o under auspices of Glover post, Legion, {given last evening at the Lyceum the- ater before an aud oughly enjoyed its: “Going Lp” has been produced by professiohal companies and it has also joined the caravan which moves into the Oas of Hollywood, but it lost none of its humor through being oifered by an hce which thor- |amateur cast. As might be expected, there were spots whiclf need to be polished and with its experience of one night before the footlights, the t &hould acquit itself with great credit tonight and tamorrow. A number of singing and dancing specialti made big hits with the audience. The principals handled their lines well and there were scarcely any “breaks™ s e usually notice- le in amateur productions. The cast of characters follows: Miss Zonne Gertrude Johnson John Gordon Manager Willi, Douglas Ciement Douglas ..... Mildred . Jules Gaillard, Their prospective son-in-law, an aviator Robert E. Loomis Douglas His fiancee Mary B. Chase Madeline Manners Helen Hopkinson Brown Her Fred W. Blankenburg Rolert Strect, Author of “Going Up” Urban T, Callhhan James Brooks His publisher Vineent K. Ringrose Itobinson ..... A William J. & I'he Gordon Inn” Humason A chronic better H. Lewis of m J. H. Mrs. Sl His wife Hellberg Grace .+ Her chum Lgan flancee sam vd Louis Humphrey Head Bell Boy nd Bell Boy trd Bell Boy . 1th gell Muldowney Louis Rosckowitz William Riee Thomas J. Donahue Boy Ernest Casperson THE VlLLAGE SEXTON Schoolhoy in Munich Suburb Writes Quaint Lssay on Uscfulness of Bell Ringer in Church, Municl hoolboyvs in a instructed pecently to write a com- position about the sexton in the loca) church and the following effort af- tracted so much atinetion that it is being reproduced in many Bavarian newspapers “The sexton is a rings the bells at fiv people know twe hours longer the bells again farmers in the hecome hungry Bavaria April 11.- useful manp, He in the nibrning they may sleep At eleven he rings indicating to the field that they should In the evening there is more bell-ringing, which in- dicates small children that they will get their ears boxed if they do not run home rapidly. Sometimes the sexton is very troublesome. einlly when he rings at night to an- nee a fire, The sexton thrives on weddings, christenings and the dead He ecarns the most money through death, ‘Therefore he is glad when many people die.” HONORARY DEGREE. London, April 11.-~The University Andrew® has conferred the honorary degree of doctor of laws on Charles Alesander Richmond, presi- lent of Union =0 the to of A telephone girl - P B far-flung economic program may have mechanician | iaillard’s mechanician | Munich suburh were | e8pe- fmost Most Wealthy Industrialists Gerlin Germany's April 11.—Hugo * outstandiug industrial | nagnate, died last night at o'clock of double pneumonia follow- ing several surgical operations, Stinnes, | There had been no hope covery for many hours, and the fore- medical skill could nothing the ravages of disease, Three major operations had lLeen | performed, the first about four wecks 5o for gallstones and it was owing to the impossibility of keeping the pa- tient quiet, a¢cording to the surgeons, that complications arose, itating further operutions, the one Sunday. It was also reported pneumonia debeloped, The death of Stinnes at very moment the process of disentangling the reparations knot secms about to enter upon its final stage is felt in of- ficial quarters and industrial circles as a distinet loss to Germany, Whatever the popular or official attitude to. wards his political orientation or his for his re- | do .gainst that the yeen, there was a widespread impres. sion that Stinnes was pre-eminently qualified to take an active part in the final adjustment of the problems on which the experts committees have rendered an exhaustive verdict. The administration of his diverging interests will devoive upon his sons, Edmund and Hugo, Jr., the latter at present in charge of his father's ship- ping interests in Hamburg, Edmund, who is the oldest son, is resident gen- eral director in Berlin of the Stinnes interetts located there, Both sons are said to be prema- turely old, due to the Spartan-like business training to which they subjected by their father, and the fact that they for the past five years have been constantly thrown in the com- pany of men considerably their senior, Richest German Hugo Stinnes was spoken of tinental Europe as the German swned everything in sight, 1 the peculiar pleasure he found in con- fiding the size of his fortune to all who would listen, the details of his vast industrial enterpri , and the ex- tent of his mining, shipping and news- paper holdings were never left very were in con- who from I much in doubt, In additi to owning outright a score or more of the largest hotels in Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen, Stinnes shared control of the iron and coul industry of Germany with his’ friend August Thyssen and a few others, and occupied a dominating position in the entire inland navigation of that coun- try, He also directed several big ocean shipping concerns, owned most of the potash deposits of central Eu- rope, and in 1520 was reported to have purchased 50 newspapers, as well as several paper mills and pulp tactories, Before thes was said war Fran Bertha Krupp to possess the largest per fortune in Germany., She pald taxes on property worth nearly 000,000 gold marks, At that Stinnes' fortune was estimated at 30,- 000,000 marks, which, according to competent caleulations, inereased during the war and the revolution to more than 1,000,000,000 marks, The “Assyrian Kin Although £tinnes proved himself to be perhapa the greatest industria) or- ganizer Germany ever produced, he was graduated, to speak, from the working class, He had the appearance and bearing of a worker, and could go about In the clothes of A foreman or a miner without attract- ing attention. His external appearance was devoid of and he scempd heavy and solid, His maesive hes s set upon a stocky teunk. (His black hair was cropped close, his face was pale and | time never ) pose, APRIL 11, 1924 HUGO STINNES Jecidedly underlined, al. A popular “Assyr- his nose his heavily beard hlack newspapoer by calling pansive; wus as as rman overnight jan King." Novelties and vith Stinnes. e the street by the sight 's pack, and if he discovered a fountain pen safety razor among the man's wares, his ex citement was almost .boundiess. Stinnes, likey most men of action, was person of few words except when asked to discuss hig financial af- and then he was verl to a > that tired the patience of his auditors, His egotism was no less pronounced than his juvenility and his love of toys. The magnate himself took no de- light in food, had no car for music, never read books, saw nothing inter- esting in nature, and seidom was seen at the theater, although-he numbered scveral of them among his possessions, He*owned his first evening suit in and was persuaded to purchase v Albert Ballin, creator of the Hamburg-American line, Before that he always appeared at dinners and banquets in what he termed his work- ing clothes. He was seldom asked to speak in public, for he invarably drifted into a tirade against the aris. toeracy, which he ed with ail the fire of his cdmplex nature, His only leroes were men who started with nothing and amassed for- tunes, Yt Stinnes himself did not with nothing. He belonged to an emi- nent Jewish family long in commerce, and received substantial aid from his father after completing his studies in a technical hool, MHe was born Jebruary 12, 1870, and from earliest boyhood was trained in the principles of commerce and trade, Peoples Party Tdol Politically, Stinnes was an hecame him the toys were a passior would be captivgted idol of slart | D |the Germaen People's party, {the nutional liberals, which said to have financed sfter the ton. During the fyrerailicd sions on the German indemnity at Spa in the summer 1926, Stinnes’ defiant stand as a national liberal was blamed the failure to come to im- mediate terms, The seemed spend he was revolu- of Ruman #de domestic. He in company fashioning new toys 1 mending old o or starching stor Muclheim for novelties, When residing in Berlin, Stinnes and bis little girl would go in the after- noon to the zoo, and there the cal- culating magnate would temper his veice with note of sadness and tell over and over again about the poor lion that' had to be iring the war hecause arce, Ca industrial most to Stinnes would of his for them of b hours the children, foorl E ‘e Not For Lusury The cared nothing for luxury, of Germany and He several motor cars, hut usually walked or rode in a trolley car. 1le was often running through the streets of Berlin like a school hoy, but no one more than glanced at him, for all knew Stinnes and his eccentricities, 1 his presence were req d at one of the miges, he might be ding along the street with a group of biackened miners, or eise clinging to a strap in a strect car surrounded by workers, who treated him as one their number. Hugo Stinnes had boasts. One was that anyone in central Kurope missing the money,"gand the that he never had seen the German emporer, and turned his head to look at the street. TELLS OF CROOKEDNESS Pat Marr, Oil Well Foreman, Tells ol prince wd no owned personal extravagances. W o o two he could buy “without other former him on “Planting” Oil in Well to Make It Seem Like Gusher. Texarkana, Tex., April 11.—Testi- mony of J. 1 n for Pat Marr at the time Marr brought in his first well in the Eldo- | rado fleld, that he (Fallin) threw oil on the derrick of the well “to make look as if/ it had come in as a mariked here yestepday: of Marr co-defendants, charged with court several {using the mails to defraud in con- neetion with oil operations. 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