New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 30, 1924, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1024, NEWS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE SPOKEN STAGE SILE NT DRAMA AND MUS Wagstaff, Popular Juvenile, Is ~ ~' - An Arti{l With Rare Ability . STAGE ANI] SGREEN Dramatie Performer With Hartford Aggregation Leaving Company to En./ ter New York Musical Production Bros. & Perokas, ow gors utmest 1o please loseph Wagstaff, versatile and popular juvenile with the Poli Play *rs at the Palace theater in Hart ord, Is & 20 year old youth whe as already estabiished a name for Hmself in the theat»ical annals of vew York, Young Wagstaff is not nly a dranatie acior but is an a omplished musician and singer who ortunate enough to be assigned ) important role in a summer Wins »r Garden produetion the first year # Wax on the stage. Wagstant wil ave the Poll organization at the onelusion of next week's porform e and will go to New York to re- earse for a production, yet unnam. 1. s00n to open on Broadway This popular juvenlle's home is in Detroit where he reccived his edu. ation and where he graduated from he Universit yof Detrolt, While in he Detroit schools he became well nown as a skilled musiclan and he vas 'n demand to play at soeial af- irs In many private homes. Leaving Detroit, Wagstafl went to vww York about 15 months ngo to veure work on the s arture was agninst the sqund advie o friends but he felt gonfident that e could succeed and ventured to 'ty make the attempt, His first work |w was with the Kilbourne Gordon pro luction of “KFind Cynth ippeared In the music Tabarin® which ran | under the new name of * Byes® J. J nbert witnessed a production o al ) rin” and as 1 result offered young Wagstaff opportunity to appear in the 1 summer show at the ter Garden. After leaving the P ing Show, Wugstaff was eny« ading juvenile with the ®ast pany of “Sally, Irene and M When this company closed a_ s cessful season he was sent to F ford to join the Poli stock aggre tion. Wagstaff admits that the theatri- cal life is not a bed of roses and often recalls the time when he was stranded in New York with eight cents to his name and in search of smployment, He is no under a five year contract with a 'New York | manager who has made many of tho (8 hig stars of today and Is their per- <onal representative. His work with the Poli stock has heer so well liked by the officials of the Poli organization that a special musical comedy show has been writ- {en for him. It was intended that he should tour the country as & | guest star of stock companies ap- pearing in this production but he has been unable to accept the offer hecause of the New York vogage- ||§ ment, e, as he is better known among his profession, speaks very highly of | Hartford and regrets that he le: the city and his many followe within the week. He has made a liost of friends during the summer, hoth in New Britain and H:«I‘(fnv'd.i through his effective work, pleasing | rsonality and charming manners. ARAMOUNT NATIONAL s Shows Reason For Success | vs-Lasky Corp. Next week is g . and is celebrated by the mov. of Para- f super-quality all mount week | celebration ¢ since the formation of s Players-1 &l\y Cm]umn at large by th mount pictur {ares of historiea entertaining value daavoring to port st minute detail surrounding places, peoples and things involved in the making of such pleasur Iters sun never sets on reports come trickling through st daily of the progress of these famous pictures into China, J i Australia, South America, Mexico, every country in Europe. The big element that has mad Paramount the leading organization is the human element that domin- ates I'amous Players. Its success is based on the human element exsting in its relations with those it comes | in contact with. When Adolph Zuker and Jesse Lasky built Paramount they put into the foundation those qualities and | principles which stimulate all in the organization to bigger and better ideals. That is why Paramount has hecome a national institution and one of which we can all be proud. ALL K MATE ~Tues., \\nl Tlnln, sat. 2:15. rol, with ARTHUR HOWARD and WINIFRED & Direction A. n Van Messrs. ‘hnhflrll "Grentest Success Whispering Wires As played over 3,000 times in New York. ‘The Greatest of all Mystery Plays taken from the serial by the J RICHATID and a Big C et It ois dust Capitol the Their ¢ ave heon Vith suee vanderilte | ition In this city, T perly mark the | I of 14 acts will be week dition the manu book two of t Pighting Coward." Dave Mathewson, N Capitol orehestra New York where he hundred dollars worth of the | | musie Manuger 1 theater has securs Ve fine ings at this house | bor Duy attraction he Gloria Swanson In her Intest and best picture, OFf xpe His de-|cial interest to the |fact that the viginated from the cut in this pic Secrets” and Rudotph Val jeur Heaucaire with vy awing are Norina Yalmadge nd dack Benny open ol last August has re feville in Trookiyn ' st date the aet has had sinee New Hritain and New Londox were 1h ¥y two eities in Connee tient fortunate enough to hear the S ot ' Pan Fiteh Minstre This act pilys 48 Lhe [hy Cleveland, O, next week and in Hippo- s doors to Fop er w W At the year (ol drome ors and of the theator, have done their Incal varioty fans rewarded A result Keith a fined insti order (o pro George Tourte p and hix nine ploce orehe Pulaee the ater made an excellent impross umn N fritain theater cause o Aappropriate 1 W Americ f the t theater or ard in Ne vitain and it 15 hope Wt they will do thelr utmost to dntain their high standing oceasion present all nest soven acts cach half, In ad s huve weon fit to st pleture sue ader ety ey in efrenit iy from its 1ist in preparing Murty Dupres ho has N RN In this ety at the il of her own musieal revue, has secured A ‘ weeks' gement on the Keith | time and will play at the Capitol | ater New Year's o Her aet entire olf cireuit, I'lice excoption rrett ut the 1 8o feature films for carly show As a speciul La- will offer “Manhandied," | the will alse tour the women s the | = Glorla Swanson hob ment eomes from the of- sco that Lenore | vehiele will be Announer Pavid ¥ E days of the I‘l Irfe's new starrin K will bring Thomas Meighan in |a dramatic version of the apera his latest re- rm 1t Ix possihle that this v may appear in Hartford The last thy e Confidence Man,” Other pietures hooked for an —LYCEUM— SUNDAY, MON,, TUES,, WED. IRS., FRL, SAT. “A WOMAN 'WHO SINNED” LYCEUM THEATER MATINEE ONLY SEPT. 19 vour of 22d Year—Annivers. OUSA 2 BAND Lt.Commander JOHN PHILIP SOUSA, Conductor: SOUSAS NOVELTIES of 1924 LY TASY 'i “Music of the Minute” CUSA'S NEW MARCHES, *Ancient and Honorable Artillery” 2. Pausr and Glory"; SOUSA'S CLASSICAL [NYZ:DPPF]ATIOI( &' <Johann Strauss's Musical Master piece’ Doncluan’ SOUSA'S W HUMORESQUE, " What Do You Do Sunday, Mary ®* intro- . ducing melodies from a dozen New York musical successes, SOUSAS NEW DANCE HIT, "Peaches and Cream” Mail Orders Now Received at LYCEUM BOX OFICE Prices: 50¢, $1.00 and $1.50, plus tax. LYGEUM BOOKS TWO BIG TINES AT REGENT RELEASES Woman Who Sinned' ing Bunday night an " Mowoek t Wednes 0o | beate it Be Something l0 Talk Abont Heginn Capitol will evle ing througl Lyceum th 0.8 Ereatest plotire Fools in the D eredit for this pieture which is untd s Mivst Anniversary with big special show selected chief | Cipitol e WL e fourteen acts offored ight, | the week with s liners offered ¢ ing hailed govw to Al Bant suming chap who stepped in @ g the ght out of i that 1%, K, O knog which set the ng @ Kour in o the Mutt Moore ota I vandesite, Py Ature ach three Il their wet "One d of Harmony." The four hix men are once again ha their big volees, ‘They are k susand Pounds of Harmony of the wize or lig and Twirls” cors, whe Like 1" or are the vomody knockont great cast In which Charle 1 t Grashy and prominent, Mr, Moore iy to get com edy and not enly keeps the audience fuughing, but holds their symprthy Miss Miller s ger usunl charming self—which is all thut need he sald The plot dewls with the wmbitions wartz, who I Tom e more offerlng in * elover soxtotts Dancing proves hix uhbi Aw Yo a miblitary number modorn stepa. fashioned many ultra acts Include father's i usleal novelty that 18 & ' Sehram, o of one Percival el mueh humilinted by his business—the manufacture of the | wppr 4 two funny ho; renl talented, of in FIRST ANNIVERSARY WEEK SEPT. 1ST TO 7TH A Big Specially Selected Program of Attractions Presented in the Celebration of This Event! —— No Advance in Prices — Sunday Night—Two Excellent Features All Star Cast — in — “THE RANGE PATROL” . Aones Ayres and Antonio Moreno — in — “BLUFF” 114 KeithVaudevilleActs 14 Seven Each Three Days .Mon(la y—Tuesday—Wednesday “THE FAMOUS PRIMROSE || FOUR” 1,000 Pounds of Harmony )dmc< md hdl(h James “A Pretty Musical Novelty” Allen & Grace That classy couple in a nifty offering Weston & Schlam “The Funsters” “Ben Dover” That’s just exactly what he does! TALLMAN & KERWIN Musical Comedy Favorites In Original Songs and Dances “TWISTS AND TWIRLS” A Sextette of Clever Dancers in “DANCING AS YOU LIKE IT” James Cruze presents BETTY COMPSON| “The Enemy Sex’’ SHOWS LABOR DAY CONTINUOUS CAPITOL ORCHESTRA Direction of DAVID MATHEWSON e Punsters, THE [IAPIT[][ e ‘Fools in the Dark’ and ‘A First Anniversary Is Going to W orun of i 10 give patrons @ real treat, Thee during on hig Keith head duys, Top bill for the fivst haif of the vk is the Pamonus Primrose Four Thousaid Prim hest knows atron MPPOring cast neludes Kuthiyn \\Hllnum e Wit aniging |dennings, Wit ywn an | B FRust and Pautine On 7 of the singers, | Change and o Twistw 404 of dan- | IAmes Cruse on |G Uilate A Towirla Dresant A variety of dances including tap, old and | Jollet, 11 Other shall recely Jnmen and Edith James | bird, a wolf, an eagle, and A hiund-mude log edians and | Aed in the called | Minooka tasidermist and they Hi ln | s togeth well ust ex i PALAGE THEATER a perel sy COUple winil talk offering A ah oo complel e plio that I8 sery With their own en W 0f plelure casts, s Crtige Paramount prod Enomy By’ 1 e whieh Capitol Marmont, Huntly Gor don Lowis head th Dot Purley lush entire bill Turner The Plehting ¢ pieiure with Welrd Inheritanes Which his humming two owis, heirn n mounted w flintlock musket will of Dy R MANHANOLED AT Glona Swanson at Her Best in Leading R worth-while things in lite Thonas Meighan in his sew | mount production, “The € Man,” which will be the the Pulace theater nest supportod by an all-star cast all-=atar in vvery sonse of the Virginia Vaill, star of “A Quatity,” ia e “Rdek Home ole " elkhan 1n e CIry oot CANES 2 On nert Tuesdny morning i fl\‘ ity vourt the trinl of Alfio Rrunsts 1o nmininst Rtantey Dresek In sahy | for 1wl at 8 o'cloek, HAP Gonsborg Wil ropresent the pinine Al Dunn & MeDonough § Phiree cuses are scheduls s Wednesday as followsi i wgainat Alex Malas mid a Alfred LeWitt for ' ) A4 M D Raxe for the Aot Paul Zehler Agal ’ Ant ints plaintier tim and o sanaanmt g BNE AN Ajex | and altrae FAKIY NGHT AT THE —'CIRCLE — ADMINSION 38e, north of Rerlin on the Berlin Turnplke. 4 LCE Sunday Night, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday AD \ ‘ )Vlanhandled» ALLAN DWAN PRODUCTION ** MANHANDLED "’ is bound to be the most talked of Swan- son picture ever made! Come and give your- self a special treat! You'll see— Gloria clowning and doing a screeching imitation of Charlie Chaplin; struggling in a subway jam, her every move a hmxl posing as a 1‘ countess, gowned dlld s ingly funny. Sensa- tion? Boy! S OLPH ZUKOR AND JESSE L.LASKY PRESENT HEAR OUR NEW ORCHESTRA! ) George Tourtelotte and His Wonder Orchestra Over ture: “LONELY LITTLE MELODY” From Ziegfeld Fol'ies 1924 MATINEES At 2:15 ALL SEATS 20c iii EVENINGS At 7:30 Balcony 20c, ORCHESTRA 400 “Thurs., Thomas MeigI;an in “The Confidence Man” ‘Continuous Shows Labor Day