New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1924, Page 5

v 1 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. SATURDAY, 'MAY‘ 3, 1924, _:- NEWSY NOTES OF THE SPOKEN SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC - * POWDER RIVER, U. 8. WAR FILMS--LYCEUM Begin Thursday-"Poisoned Para- dise” First Threg Days of Week | “Lost in a Great City” and “The Valley of l.oa", fauls” for Sunday vening: “Poistnied Paradise” for the | first three days of the week and/ “P’owder River,” a graphic and offi-| cial panorama of the great war, in- cluding the .battles of Cantigny, lhe“ Argonne, St, Mihlel and Chateau ‘Thierry, for the last half of next week is the alluring photoplay bill | that the Lyceum is presenting to its| patrons. “Lost in a Great City” is a great old melodrama, replete with more thrilling scenes than have been wit- | nessed on thes creen in a long time, ‘I'he theme has to do with a wealthy Alaskan prospector who returns to the vast to seek his relatives who, at the | time, are living in squalor in a great Ci, “The Valley of Lost Souls” u" n citing drama of mystery and su- | perstition and is as good a detective | slay as one could wish. Kenneth Harlan and Clare Bow a catured in “Poisoned Paradise, ~hich is from the story by Robert!one that has toured Europe playing | Service, which exposes the famous gamblihg resorts of Monte Carlo: The | story takes place in Paris and Monte | 'arlo and there are many beautiful | cixerior scenes of the Monacan har-| bor taken from the high cliffs over| the town. Carmel Myers plays the part of the vampire adventuress. | Thursday, Friday and Saturday and advance notices claim this to be the| most genuinely exciting film ever shown the public. These pictures are ! the only official films of the world war. They are complete records of svery division that saw service in I'rance, The camera men were the) members of the U, 8, signal corps and | heir cameras were clicking while the | machine guns were rattling and the i3ig Berthas belched forth death and | Cestruction, But the bloody battle tields are not all that are shown.| I'here will be wonderful views of the | ruined art palaces, razed cathedrals and leveled villages. But there is nothing gruesome about ‘“Powder River,” and no one need feel at all apprehensive about goin City Items Fred G. Russell of 86 Hart street has returned from New York where » recently took part in a reception to Cardinal Hayes, who returned from Rome. Mr. Russell was one of the inymen who acted as an escort to Car- linal Hayes, 3 Columbia Records, $1.00. Pierce Co.—advt, ¥. B. Hungerford, acting for Den- amin Solgmon, has filed a judgment lien against property at the corner of West Maln and Bradley streets, al- leging that a judgment for §206.80 znd costs of §85.79, rendered in the court of common pleas against Israel Jacob, reamins unsatisfied. Visit new exclusive dress shop, Mar: Elizabeth, 87 W. Main, Prof. Bldg. advt. Mrs. W. A. Welant of South Bur- ritt street is resting comfortably at the Charter Oak hospital atfer a recent operation. Try our chicken or steak Dinner Soda Shoppe, 289 Main St. C. L. The Y. W. H. A, will hold an im- portant meeting Monday evening at 1 o'clock. Nomination of officers will be held at this time, Barn dance, 0dd Fellows' Arch St, Monday eve. Adm. Prof. Gates prompter.—advt, Semm— AT Odd Fellows FAIR Will Hold a RARN DANCE MONDAY EVENING Professor Gates will Prompt. Prizes given for most original costume. to-lady akd gent. Admission 10c Fair, 10c. PALACE THEATER Hartford ALL WEEK POLIPLAYERS “LITTLE OLD NEW YORK" Conceded to be the best Stock Company ever seen in Hartford Matinees Tues, Wed., Thurs, and Sat. Dajylight Saving Time . PARSONS’ 3 NIGHTS BEG. THURS, MAY 18T Matinee Saturday. JEWETT and BRENNAN, present “THE BRIDE” with PEGGY WOOD Prices: Wrve. B0c.. $2.50. Sal. Mat. Soc., $2.00 SEAT SALE TODAY. “Black Oxen,” one of the “best sellers” and a book that has been barred from many libraries about the | country, has heen done into a movie and 1s to be shown at the Palace for four days starting Sunday. inne Griffith has the part of the demi- monde who later reforms. Conway Teagle is the leading man. The Palace will soon bring Jackie | Coogan in “Boy of Flanders.” “Alimony” with Warner Baxter and Grace Darmond is one of the latest pictures booked for showing at the Lyceum. Another for the Lyceum is “My Man,” starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Dustfh Farnum. J. C. Morton and family, one of the best known “entire:family groups” in vaudeville, will open at the Capitol Monday, Starting Thursday a big time feature—"Tom Smith”-—will be presented, Tom is a sort of second Joe Cook, putting on an entire per- formance all by himsgif. “For Pity Sak one of the old- est sketches on the stage today and nine months at the Palace in London and whole year at the Scala thea- ter, Copenhagen, is soon to be brought to the Capitol. This act is kpown to the profession as “the old home- stead” of vaudeville, * An unexpected family reunion was slaged backstage at the Capito! last Monday when Douglas Flint & Co., presenting a sketch, bumped into Bevan and Flint, a comedy team. The Flint of the former was the fath- er of the INint of the second and it was not only the first time that the paths of the two had crossed on the stage, but also was the first time that father and daughter had met in three years, It was entirely unexpected too, nelther knowing that the other had been booked for this theater. Bevan and Flint were booked last October and the other man's act was rushed in at a last minute’s notice | when another had to cancel ita book- | Maurice Tourneur's latest photo production “The "White Moth” in | Which Barbara LaMarr and Conway !Tearle are featured, will be released Monday, May 5, It is a drama of Parisian theatrical and American so- | clety life, | Plans have been made for the pic- [ turization of “The Mine With the Tron | Door,” Harold Bell Wright's novel, latest Old time fight fans will remember Barl Mohan, the middleweigid, who ’lmmrd some of the best of them in {his day, He is now being featured | by Hal Roach with Billy Engle in a series of one-reel comedies for Pathe | rel Ll The T. Four quartet, composed of Cor- | j CORINNE GRIFFITH | IN “BLACK OAEN | GIRL SCOUT NEWS Mrs. l.eon A. Sprague, formmission- er, addressed the meeting of the lLa- dies’ auxiliary of the I, O. B, B. ! Britain Girl Scout camp and is anx- ious to help In furthering Scouting for New Britain girls. | The Girl Scout drum corps will play and give an exhibition drill at the McAll auxiliary French fete Sat- urday afternoon. Irene Haligis, drum miajor, and Dorothy Bauwens, ser- geant bugler, are spending the week- jend in Boston and will attend the try- out of all Massachusetts Girl Scout drum and bugle corps. They will give reports and suggestions to the Britain corps at drill next Iriday. Every member should be present, { Mrs. Leon Sprague, Mrs, Charles | Spring and Miss Lois Shaw will at-| tend the Massachusetts rally, May 1 | in. Boston, The Connecticut Girl Scout confer- ence committee will meet at Bedford | house, Westport, May 16, 11 a, m. All | council members and captains are | welcome to attend this meeting. Ar- rangements can be made at the Scout office. A preliminary meeting to form a troop at the Central Junior high schoo! was held Wednesday, It was |decided te hold meetings Thursday after scheol in room 219, Junior high | school girls, not attached to other | troops, may attend these meetings. The meeting of the St. Joseph's troop will be resumed Monday at 3:45 p. m. Mrs. Carl Hagist will be the captain of this troop and will meet every girl who has attended previous | meetings. | Miss Shaw, director, visited Troop 11, of the Newington home for erip- [plea children Wednesday evening. | Perfect inspection was reported by Captain Roth,, How many other |troops can make this report? The | girlg of this troop are planning to make their own Scout uniforms, which will give them credit for the needle- woman and dressmaker merit badges, | Every member of the junior troop 10 was present at a May party held at | Mrs, Sprugue’s home in Maple Hill | Wednesday, Fach girl received a | May pasket, Games were played and refreshments served. Mrs, R, 1. Doane will be litutenant of Troop 10, | taking charge of the senlor members, It is planned to hold a joint supper | meeting soon, Troop 4 had a May Dag supper at | the Berlin Community liouse Thurs- | day. Supper was pleasing to all, es- pecially the apple pie with iee eream, “ At each place was a tiny May basket, | while a large basket filled with home | made candy was placed at Mrs, Good- | win's end of the table. Dancing and | games snded a happy evening for the | troop members. | Paul lucas, Robert Loomis, Dwight | {Tatham and Clement Lewis, will fur- nish the entertainment for Kiltonie post, No. 72, American Legion, in the {town hall in Southington, Raturday evening, May 17. The quartet ap- ipeared during the past week as the fun producers at the Kacey fair on | Arch street, | “Dancing Mothers” a new play by | Edgar Selwyn in association with 13d« mund Goulding, was produced Washington, D. C., recently, with Mary Young, John Halliday, “rances ing roles. Modern life and the econ- |the basis of the story, | — of Mra. Minnie Maddern Fiske in “Helena’'s Boye,” &he and her com- pany will move on to Boston, while Henry Miller brings back “The Changelings” (o lus theater, “Plain Jane,” the new comedy being produced by |l~quflh and Walter Brooks, is report- musical Ing its arrival in New York May 12. Charles Kennedy, who played in “Little Old New York"” and in the screen version of that play with Mar- fon Davies, “The Tantrum.” “Unguarded Women, fo many ministers are subject of “Outward Bound” for |sermons that Willlam Harrie Jr., has prepared slides of his drama for their use. He has figures showing 1,500 the play. { The revival of “The Emperor Jones” York will be Timéted to a single week, It will open next Tuesday. Roy Royston, well known on the Shuberts to Richard Herndon for the leading male role in “Peg o' My Dreams” which comes to Jolson's New York theater next Monday night Biythe Daly is at present out of the | east of “Spring Cleaning,” euffering from pleurisy. Her role is being play- | ed by Audrey tham. Eddie Cantor, according to present plans, will become a theatrical pro- ducer next season. He will present a play entitied “The Bulldog 1 - | FIRST DEATH IN FAMILY OF 1%, | Potistown, Pa., May 3.—The par- {ents of 17 children, Mr. and Mps. John M. Berkes, of Linfield, for the | first time have had death in their home. A ten-year old son died last night. All except one of the remain- i'n‘ 16 Tive at home. | The. American tobaceo ecrop last |_\-mv was estimated at 1,462,000,000 pounds. i in | Howard and John Craig in the lead- | ditions governing it are said io form | Next week will be New York's last | Thursday evening. This organization | plans to send two girls to the New | New | \Atberton Novel on Palace Screen| f Next Week More than aroused by ordinary interest the announcement that | Sundelius, House and Patton | | | is | the management of the Palace theater | has contracted to play Frank Lloyd's “Black Oxen,” a First National pic- ture featuring Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle, starting Sunday for this photoplay is the screen version of Gertrude Atherton’s novel which ‘becnme the best selling novel of 1923, As a book the revelations of the Atherton novel made “Black Oxen” a | meteoric triumph and as a film play, |enhanced by living characters, Lloyd play is said to be an | greater hit. In transterring the old romance of Lee Clavering, a cynical newspaper { writer and budding playwright, and Madame Zatianny, a woman of 58 who appeared to be no more than 30 years of age, Mr. Lloyd has surround- ed his leading players with a cast of unusual brilliance and given the play- jers an elaborate and artistic atmos- pherical background for their action. Miss Griffith, gne of ‘the screen’s most beautiful and talented stars, is seen as Madame Zatianny, who, re- venated by a glandular treatment, finds her true iove in the autumn of life, and Mr. Tearle plays Clavering, who, although active in social circles for many years, finds in the charm- ing Zatianny his ideal, and whose de- votion is unhampered by the discov even Boston Festival Orchestra To Play Again—“Seven Last Words of Christ.” For the past cight years The. New Britain Choral society has been giv- ing to this city choral singing of a high order and for its ninth annual spring festival concern on Sunday {afternoon, May 25, in the Capitol the- | ater, has chosen a work of tional merit, “The Seven of Christ,”” written by the excep- | French composer, Dubois, the | | [ | | | | | [ ery of his sweetheart's true age, Clara | Bow, a newcomer to the screen es- |says the part of the flapperish Janet Oglethorpe, a debutante with modern |ideas as to her own behavior and her | prospective husband. | On Thursday Lon Chaney, Dorothy | Mackaill, and Richardo Cortez will be seen in “The Next Corner” from the novel “Almost a Sinner.,” | Coming soon is Jackie Coogan in his taken | tiful composition rich in orchestrs tion is replete with dramatic uses, entrancing solos, duets and trio: The work is not a long one and will chor« MARIE SUNDEL greatest photoplay “A Boy of Ilan- |gceupy the first part of the program, ders."” BISHOP FERRIS NAMED Rochester, N. Y., May 3.—Rt. Rev, David Lincoin Ferris of this city, was | | | unanimously elected coadjutor bishop | of the Kpiscopal dlocese of western New York at a meeting of the dioces- an council yesterday. Bishop IFerris was suffragan bishop of the diocese. Unexpected Retums | A certain statesman recently be- came a parent, On announcing the | news the doctor exclaimed gleefully: | "1 eongratulate you, sir; you are the 1fn|h0r of triplets” The politician | was astonished. “No, nono," he re- plied with more than parliamentary ! eloquence, “thers must be some mis- | take in the return, I demand a re- [ count,”—Tit- Rits. N#he thousand years ago the site of Stockholm was beneath the glacial chfl sheet, .\‘imdny Only! “VALLEY OF LOST SOUL and “LOST IN A BIG CITY” MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDA Ohe secret of knowing how o WIN! To win at love, at the gambling table or in / business —to win; that’s everybody’s ambition And hare’s a picture that tells how. A fascinating story of the hectic life of Paris and Monte Carlo Louis 1. | |ed to be thriving on rural fare, pend. | has joined the cast of Richard Dix has been made a star | by Paramount in its new production, { using the | ministers of New York city have seen |at the Provinctown playhouse in New | English stage, has been loaned by the | B. P. Schulberg presents a GASNIER production with a Preferred Cast KENNETH HARLAN CLARA BOW RAYMOND GRIFFITH CARMEL MYERS Scenario by Waldemar Young from the fascinating novel by Robert W. Service Preferred Pictures Thursday — Friday — Saturday “POWDER RIVER” U. S. GOVT. OFFICIAL WAR PICTURE You Will See the Real World War DON'T Played Boston at $1.63 MisSs IT Here — At Popular Pri (are all artists of the highest rank I'he second part will be given over to solos by the visiting artists, sclee- tions by the orchestra and will close with the glorious “Lost Chord,” most effectively arranged for chorus and orchestra, The Boston IFestival orchestra has been re-engaged and the excellent playing of this organization is so well known to New Britain audiences that further comment I8 unnecessa y The soloists that have been engaged nd will meet with universal approval as all have a large host of friends admirers here, Marie Sundelius, prima donna soprano of the Metro- JUDSON HOUSE politan Opera Co., has been singing leading roles with this renowned or- ganization for several casons and her singing led many ¢ to mention her a worthy suc or to another Swedish soprano of a gen- eration ago, the famous as | Nilsson. | nd | Patton, baritor Judson House, tenor, and Fred FRED PATTON who have appeared in previous scasons a combination that cannot with the complet soclety Christine !he surpassed and with these artists ito assist the socicty a great concert is assured. | Choral Society Concert May 25 jM[]RT[]N FAMILY IN ‘THE BATTLES OF 1924 Famous Acrobats to Appear at Gapitol Next Week James C. Morton, a favorite com- edian many years recently dis solved a theatrical partnership of long standing and now with the assistance of three members of his family, Mamie, Edna and Alfred Morton, he is seen in a comedy travesty of his own. Mr, Morton is the kind of a come- dian who gives a good account of him- under and condition and in any company, With his family he is said to be funnier than ever as his act i one big laugh after the other. The Wheeler Trio began their careers by playing circus in their back yard, there doing mar acrobatic stunts and receiving many bumps. Now they are in vaudeville still doing acrobatics in their own original day and are among the leading acrobatic troupes of today. Inglis and Winchester of- fer “The Man of the Hour,” a fine skit that blends good comedy with song and ter, Foxworth and Francis are a pair of colored enter- tainers noted for their fast stepping fand harmony singing. Barry and Rollo are variety artists having a splendid noveity act to offer. The ! foature photoplay for the first half of the < offers the picturization of | Rex Beach's famous story “Flowing old," drama of the oil fleids in which this pair of talented stars are seen in their best efforts. For Sun- ¥ night double features will be of- fered. One presenting “Scars of Hate,” a drama of western intrigue, L and the othe ring “The Forbidden Lover,” a tale of romance. RBoth pie- tures boast of all star casts that will more than please. The Capitol makes the announcement at this time of the coming presentation of the biggest act in vaudeville numely, “For Pity Sake," with Charles Withers and a cast of ten performers, A sixty-foot baggage is carried for the stage settings its four acts, scenery, and other This offering has been | a nheadine act on the Keith Circuit | for ten years and are just returning from a two years' contract in Enge land, France and Australia, for self we ol | for parapherngl So great is the demand for raw cot- hosiery and cloth clippings in Germany, that they are not only al- lowed freo entry into Germany, but are totally exempt from customs duties, —— e —— ton, —CAPITOL— "~ SUNDAY NIGHT—DOUBLE FEATURES All Star Cast in “THE FORBIDDEN LOVER" MONDAY TUESDAY “SCARS OF HAT A0 A stirring drama of western m(rlxueA " Y WEDNESDAY 5—BIG TIME OFFERINGS—5 —KEITH VAUDEVILLE— Featuring J. C. MORTON Assisted By MAMIE, EDNA AND ALFRED MORTON in “The Battles of 1924” Foxworth & Francis Colored Entertainers Charl —Billie—John Barry & Rollo Variety Artists WHEELER TRIO Rex Beach’s Famous Story “Enter Inglis & Winchester “The Man of the Hour” taining Entertainers”