New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1924, Page 5

Ifi?éfééting [dttings From Backstage and the Theater Bernice and Helen Swit. aughters of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Switasky of @ Whiting street, are now appearing ‘with Jack Conway's Bon Ton Revue at the Park theater in Miami, Fla. The trio of local girls left New Britain within the past few years with the Hoyt Musical company, an aggregation of performers which scored a hit at the Lyceum and Fox theaters, The girls first ap- peared in the cnorus with this show but later when the organization toured the wast they were given ap opportunity to pey leads, They made a favoraple impression npon the manager and continued playing leads until they left the company in the sprins Closing with Hoyt's they returned to their home in New Britain for a rest but were not home long when they received a telegram to join the Conway_show in Georgia. The Florida engagement i§ for a perlod of ten weeks after which the show will tour the eastern states possibly playing in this vieinity, Robert Middlemass, a native of New Britain, and Raiph Locke, popular membey of the Cross stock company when it ap- peared at the Lyceum theatcr, were recently seen in a new play “Tazy" at the Lyceum theater in New Lon- | don. The prdduction is «cheduled for a New York run and judging from reports given by local people, who witnessed the show in London, Troadway. The Pennsylvanhia Diamoni Syn- copaters, an aggregation of {en plavers will be the headline Keith attraction at the Capitol theater the first three days of next week. These l.oys are exponents of jazz harmony ano should prove a drawing card at the theater. On Thursday, Fii- day and Saturday Ruth Budd, the most beautifully formed girl in PALACE HARTEORD ALL THIS WEEK Mats.—Tues. Wed., Thurs., Sat, 2:15. Evening 8:15. The POLI PLAYERS with ARTHUR HOWARD and WINIFRED ST. CLAIRE Direction of A. H. VAN BUREN {in the Buv.mlnl Irish Musieal Melo- drama “IRISH EYES” WITH THE GUEST STAR \ Bernard Daly EXCURSION to New York $2.25 it s o ] Sunday Sept., 14th. special Train Lv. New Britain .. Lv. Bristol .. Due New York . R, ROUND TRIP FARE Lv. Due m-lnol . Tickets at Railroad Station The N. Y, N. H. & H. R. R. Co. e e e e LHBLLHHLHLLHH85900080 00 HOLY TRINITY G. R. FAIR DUDJAK'S HALL Sexton Street Sept. 13, 15, 20, 27, 29 Benefit Church Building Fund Entertainment and Dancing FP00Peee FAMOUS DANBURY FAIR Oct. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Harness Races First 5 Days Running and Hurdle Races, brook’s Rodeo and Geers, Peter Manning on Saturday. PARSONS’ THEATER NOW PLAYING Pop. Mat. Saturday, WINTHROP AMES Presents “OLD MAN | MINICK” Alfred | New | it is due for a long vun on | ORURCH | 4 O. P. HEGGIE and a distinguished enst PRICES:—Eves.—30c. to §2.50.—Sat. Mat 800 to §1.50. i America, and a blg time Kelth headliner, will be on the blll with “Southland” a muslcal act carrying six . people. Of gpeciul importance is the announcement that Willlam Farnum, for years a Fox star, will soon %appear in a Paramount pro- ductlon at the Capitol, Farnum has a big following in New Britain. “In Love With Love" will be the farewell offering of the Poll Play- ers at the Palace theater in Hart- ford next weck. In this production all of the players il he seen to advantage and will e afforicd an opportunity to bid ‘helr 1any fol- lowers and frlends goodbye, Frances Willlams, Arthur Howard, Bdmund Abbey wil go to New Ifoven, Bert Smith and Richard Tishop go to Waterbury while A. H. Van Turen and Miss Winifred St. Claire expect to go to New York, The' management of {he Palace theater announces that Para- mount’s, big" picture “The Covered Wagon' will be shown at that thea- ter for an entire week beginning Sunday night, September 28. ‘There will be reserved seats evenings only. New Britain theatergcers have heen asking for® latest and biggest film releases, The management of the Palace, since opening (he theater as an exclusive movie house, has endeavored to bring the best here and it Is up to the public to sup port the fiims of they want a con- tinuance of the same brand. New Britain saw “Secrets” before Hart- ford and “Robinson Crusoe” played in this town before opening in New York. “Wanderers of the Wasteland" at the Palace Sunday night and the first four days of the week, is a film done throughout in natural colors, It Is a James Cruze pro- duction and reputed 10 be one of the best releases of the year. Col- leen Moore in “The Perfect Flap- per’’ will feature the last half. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, ITALAN FILM I8 BOOKED BYLYCELM “Messalina” Will Be Screened First Four Days ol Week One of the most gorgeous films that ever came to thrill the patrons of the Lyceum theater, will be shown In the playhouse on Sunday night, Mondgy, Tuesday and Wed- neaday of next week, when “Messa- lina” will be shown, “Messalina" is a colossal story about the most en- chanting and alluring vampire in the world. She {8 a heart breaker and is baid "'to have had more scalps to her credit than the justly famed Cleopatra. The story of “Messalina” is laid during the daye when the Roman empire was at its height. Messalina was a woman of rare beauty but of easy virtue, who ljved In the Imper- ial palace with her husband, Clau- dius, who was a nephew to Emper- or Caligula and a counsel, The em- peror was a great tyrant and Messa- lina took advantage of the hatred of his people to make 'her husband em- peror. Her friend and cqmpanion was an Fgyptian princess, until they both fell in love with a young slave, a famous chariot driver. The jeal- ousy between the two, the plot to outwit each other and the hate of the princess for a young girl slave, brought about intrigue and drama which reached the climax in the death of the princess and Messalina, with the two young lovers happily united. This picture played Water- bury at increased prices, but will be | shown here at the regular Lyceum scale. Commencing Thursday and for the last three days of the week, “A Girl of the Limberiost,” Gene Stratton Porter's great novel, will be the fea- turc attraction. The scenes of the book made famous by the word painting of the authoress are now revealed on the screen, interwoven with a romance whose pathos and tender sentiment will make the pic- turé as well remembered as the or- iginal book story, P.D. ORCHESTRA (DNING 70 N.B. Pennsylvania Diamonds. Are| Booked for Capitol Heading the Keith vaudeville bill at the Capitol the first three days of next week the management pre- sents the celebrated Pennsylvania Diamond Orchestra, an aggregation | of musicians who have made,a big name for themselves throughout the country as a Kelth vaudeville \WANDERER OF THE Palace Has Colored Film for headliner and also for their special work in several of the big hotels in the leading citles of the country. The orchestra is composed of ten musicians each and every one a wiz- ard on his particular instrument and each very versatile being. able to| play more than one instrument. They offer a great ‘selection of mu- slcal numbers with special novelties worked in also. heir appearance here for three days is a good mu- sical treat and lovers of good miusic | should not miss them. Other acts | ivclude Eddie Montrose, a sensa- | tional gymnast; Howard and Ben- | nett, two pretty girls who ‘offer “Songs As They Should Be Sung"; Col. Jack George and Mae Nor- mandie, a corking good blackface act called “Two Bits"; and Holmes and Holliston, variety artists. | With languorous and beautiful | Mexico as a background and a | thrilling story of lgve and intrigue set in it like a jaw®l, Mae Murray is said to have the best role of h career in “Mademolselle Midnight, her Jatest picture, which will tome | to the Capitol theater for a three- days' run beginning Monday. ademoiselle Midnight” Miss Murray plays two character roles— that of a French lady in the court of Napoleon ITI, and that of a daughter of Mexico, a senorita famed for beauty, wealth and clev- erness, The supporting cast is made up of many, favorites, among them be- and Monte Blue, Robert McKim, Robert Edeson, John Sainpolis, Otis Harlan, Nigel de Bru- lier, Nick de Ruiz and Evelyn — LYCEUM — SUNDAY + This $2,000,000 Preu MONDAY — New York City TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY “ion Which Required 2 Years to Complete Is Still Playmg Thursday “THE GIRL OF THE — Friday By Gene Stratton Porter Saturday LIMBERLOS' Nearly Two Million Copies of This Book Have Been Sold and Read 246 MAIN STREET Dan Nolan’s Ukulele Class Meets every Monday Evening at 7:30 o’clock C. L. Pierce & Co. Music Store A GOOD UKULELE AND COURSE OF SIX WEEKS’ For Those Who Own Their Own Ukulele, Course of Six Weeks’ Instruction $4.00 Ukuleles from $5.00 up ¢ Private Groups on Application C.L. PIERCE & CO. INSTRUCTION FOR 'Phone 497-3 $6.00 | unbelievable hardships in their hunt | thousands into the desert—a hunt, Opp. Monument SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1924, Selble. Robert Z. Leonard directed and personally supervised the ple- ture for Tiffany Production, The SBunday night program ure Katherine MacDonald SOUSA'S BAND AT There are three continuous shows | offered every day during the week. Fal]]OllS Leadfl‘ Appears ifl' Person will in A tour by Lieut. Com, John Philip Sousa and his famous band, appears at the Lyceum next Friday) would not be complete without WASTELAND HERE a (who | new march, and for his thirty-second| annual season at the head of the or- ganization .which bears his name, | Sousa has written “Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company March,” a march expressly written for and dedicated to the famous mili tary company of that name, the old- cst organization of its nature in' America, The march will be public- ly presented to the Ancient and Honorable Artilley Company at a| great public ceremonial to be held | in Boston on September 21st, during [ the 1924 tour of Sousa and His Band In the new march, Sousa for the | Feature The first motion picture to be done entirely in natural colors is the Zane Grey Paramoutit production, “Wan- derer of the Wasteland,” which was produced fn the original locale | described in the' book, the desents of Arigona, by Trvin Willat, Jack Holt, Kathlyn Willlams, Noah Beery and Billy Dove are featured in the prin- cipal roles, According to Jesse L. Lasky, first vice-president in charge of produc- tion of Paramount, ‘“Wanderer of the Wasteland” is Zane Grey's favorite story and the most popular of all the books he has given to the Amer- ican public. | This staff took with Jt into " the desert all of the intricate parapher- nalia necessary §or the photograph- ing of cglor pictures, the entire pro- ductlon company spending several weeks in camp, as practically tall of the picture was photographed in the desert. “Not only becausa of the color photography but also because of the dramatic story, which Zane Grey has written, we expect ‘Wanderer of the ‘Wasteland’ to prove one of the out- standing pictures of the year.” “Wanderer of the Wasteland,” | which will be shown Sunday, Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday at the Palace theater is a story of the great American Sahara, where men braved ANNOUNCEMENT FALL OPENING OF MID-WAY WEDNESDAY SEPT. 17th DANCING 8 to 11:30 p. m, Music by WHITMORE CLUB ORCHESTRA By Plainville trolley—stop at Barnesdale THE MID-WAY Corner W. Main and Wooster St. Good Time Guaranteed to All e for gold—a hunt, which brought from which mere handfuls returned successful; many never did return at all. The mere fact that this Zane Grey novel sold over a million copies, is evidence enough of the popularity of the story. On Thursday Colleen Moore will be offered in “The Perfect Flapper.” Choicest Photoplay Presentations SUNDAY NIGHT—MON.—TUES.—WED. Here’s a photoplay you'll rave about! We guaran- tee its the most “remarkable photoplay you every saw! ADOLPH ZUKOR An® JESST L LASKY Mecvomy ZANE GREY’S ‘Wanderer of the ? Wasteland’ n IRVIN WIuATplodudion Zane Grey’s famous' ad- venture-romance, entire- ly in natural colors ! More than a picture—it’s life itself! wrTw JACK HOLT KATHLYN WILLIAMS NOAH BEERY BILLIE DOVE MZDE ENTIRELY IN NATURAL Ci LORS / DID YOU HL \R THEM' PALACE WONDER ORCHESTRA They're the Talk of the Town! Ov eltme "‘\lmmng. Noon and \lzht —Suppe What Kind of Girls Do Men Like? SEE COLLEEN MOORE i “THE PERFECT FLAPPER” Thursday—Friday—Saturday b\ enings 20c and 40c first time In his career will fncor- |new Sousa suite is “Looking Up porate an older melody in a compo- [ward” and the anpual humoresque sition of his own. “Auld Lang Syne" [is founded on “What Do You Do 18 the officlal song of th# ‘@nclents” |On Sunday, Mary?" and Introduces and it will sing through¥the new |in the Sousa style the song hits of Sousa march, | New York musical comedies of the “The Ancient and Honorable Ar-|DPast scason, tillery Company March” s but one | of the new original compositions or| A, arrangements which Sousa has pre- | ared for the coming tour, y of greatest intercst are the Sousa foxtrot. “Peathes and Jones and Merris Green, diroctors of the Bohem- Probab-|jans, announce that the sixth first | “Greenwich Village Follies” will am” | open Tuesday, Scptember 16, at the and the first Sousa arrangement of | ghupert theater, New York. Vine syncopated melodies, “Music of the | cent Lopez and his oréhestra with Minute," & collection of popular|tpe Dolly Sistors will feature in numbers in syncopated time. The | {his, new edition. | L. managing FRIDAY MATINEE ONLY Sept. 19, At 2 o’Clock ANNIVERSARY JUBILEE TOUR 394 Season—70th Birthday of the World’s Most Popular Conductor and Composer— The March King—JOHN PHILIP SOUSA . AND OUSA HIS A Lt; Commander JOHN PHILIP SOUSA; Conductos The Greatest Programs Ever Offered Complete Change in Style and Structure SOUSAS NOVELTIES of'192'4» SOUSA'S JAZZ FANTASY *Music of the Minute” SOUSA'S NEW MARCHES, " Ancient and Honorable Artille *Power and Glory”; SOUSA'S CLASSICAL i %’ Johann Strauss's Musical Masterpiece’Doncuan’; /EW HUMORESQUE, "What Do You Do Sunday, Mary intro=i ducing melodies from a dozen New York musical,sucoesses; SOUSA'S NEW DANCE HIT, "Peaches and Cream”. y With the Following Soloists: / Marjorie Mood: Mr. John W, Bell.......Plccolo Mina Winreed Mr. Pdul 0. Gerbardt. it 1 Mr, §. C. Thompson » ¥....Xylophone Mr. Joseph DeLuca..Euphonium Mr. Howard Goulden.Xylophone Mr. J. P. Schueler.,. ..Trombone Mail Orders Now Received at!” C. L. PIERCE MUSIC STORE * and AT NIGHT—DOUBLE FEATURES J. B. Warnet in ‘WANTED BY THE LAW’ SUNDAY Katherine MacDonald l in “THE LONELY ROAD” MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY Keith Vaudev1lle 5 ~——— STERLING ACTS Featuring The Pennsylvania - Diamond Orchestra SY COP TLR\ 10 EDDIE MONTROSE | HOWARD & BENNETT ! ) A in “Songs As They Should Sensational Gymnast ‘ Be Sung” Jack ‘ emge and Mae Holmes and "Holliston \'arieh' Entertainers In Her Latest ’hotoplay Success “Mile. Midnight” CAPITOL ORCHESTRA David W. Mathewson, Director DAILY ~——— 3 CONTINUOUS SHOWS