New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1924, Page 5

"BADGES' NEWEST OF MELODRAMAS Play Is by Max Marcin and Edward Hammond One' of the newest shows in New York is “Badges,” which opened 'his week at the Forty Ninth street theater. Here's what the New York Times critic has to say of it: needs no introduction, . Than hlm‘ there is no better dancer of his N BL | Kind on the stage today. Just arrived from Rurope, Five Pentleys with a novel stunt, house, the acrial also are to be at this play- The Lyceum will show at an early date such blg movies “Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall," starring Mary Plckford; “Welcome, Stranger’ taken frém the New York stage suc- cess of the same name, and “Wine" the famous Universal special, “The Love Garden," one of vau- deville's brightest little miniature “I a natlon is happy whose an- | bals are short, it may well be that | v melodrama like “Badges” 18 hap- | pler with, a short review. To tell | the story of this play of Max Mar- \ cin and Edward Hammond at the| Iorty-ninth street theater last night would be to spoll 1t, like ;onnug a puzzle with its solution. It had the | usual crook ! combinations, placed | well enough by Louis Bennison and Felix Krembs, plus a lady crook cleverly if with somewhat more than determination played by Elea- nor Woodruff. Tt had the search for stolen bonds, the existing rhythm of ietectives set to catch people, the anterns, cats and hiding places that such plays live by, Together with “Silence” ft makes two Mar- cin plays to be secn now in town. | And of this plece we may gay that | it it made you think of nofhing, 1t at least kept you from thinking of #uything else, not a bad compliment in our theater this season. But in addition to these suspend- |’ ing materials, these deceptions, thefts, love makings and arrests, there appears one genuine crea- tion, shared no doubt, about equally between the actor and the drama- tiets, This person, whose name is Franklyn Green, Is a frail and ab- surd little hotel clerk who has studied in a Brooklyn school and| learned to be a detective, and has | also taught himselt an unsuppres- | sable mastery in observation. He| has watched this girl who is being | watched and followed in every- thing she does, and he comes to| lay at her feet his services and all | his detecting and observation are | ers. It is he finally that ferrets out everything, the hond thieves, the| murderer, the hiding place, and he | who surpasses all the government | experts in these affairs. He has an oddity, a meddiesomeness, an hon- | esty and romantic devotion, that urn him Into & distinct bit of char- acter writing., And he 18 half created and then recreated by Gregory K 2 What Qregory Kelly has applied to this art of his is like that ad- “perhaps that Virgil gave to farmers, to pralse large fields but cultivate small ones. He keeps pretty much the same type in every part that he plays. His method is compoged of infnite small manner- himself and hils peculiar character- definftlon. But within this region of hmself and hs peculiar character- stics and mannefisms, Mr, Kelly works with astonishing subtlety and . His graduations in the dia- logue, his cues, his humorous in-| flections, his alm that never misses theeffect that he Intends, his quality of odd pathos, defeat and bubbling | «plrits, and the intelligent cdmment that Ie supplies along With the| convineing naturalness of his play- | g can be praised as far as you ke to go. “Badges” Legins with 1wo ladies looking out of the win- dow at a young man, ths young man presently comes on to the stage, and from that point on every the audience watches and' delights in him until the final cur- tain, some moments before which the play has paled a little in fn-| terest, but not this Franklyn Green. vice STAGE AND SCREEN Movle e certainly are ing all that is included fn the best the slient drama. Already there ave been shown here such pictures Covered Wagon,” “The Sea and several others of per- no less personal entertalning qualities but less press agented notice *Ci “North of are to be along com Ttlood” and shown, “Captain Bl batini, author of *“ starts tomorrow ceum, with J.° Warren Ke the leading role, and hrough Wednesday, Hawk,"” the Ly- rigan in continues The usual vaudeville program will accompany this eleven reel thriller s been booked owing early next month at the "alace. Manager Barrett was one of exhibitors who saw it at the Rialto In New York on Monday night and pronounces it one of the best he ever saw. The Capitol the first half week has as a feature act Mickey Tennett, screen star, appearing in person. Mickey is best known for his juvenile work in “‘Big Brother,” a prominent picture of the past sea- son. He Is here In a sketch titled- “Mickey’s Christmas supported by Vonzetta Wood Charley Bennett, of the Eve” and the famous negro eccen- He Dotson, trie dancer, also is on the bill, 3 Nights Beginning Tonight Mat. Sat. Wm. HODGE “For All of Us” A Comedy Drama 50c-$2.50 Mat, 50c-$1.50 | | Eve. SOPER'S REVUE AT \Frank Soper's Nifty ~ Girls | T | young cowboy | cattle owner. " high, musical comedy sketches, is to be éne of the acts at the Lyceum the | last half of next week. The Avon Comedy Four, well, known In vaudeville, wil} be seen ! next season In a musical comedy by Montague Glass and Jules Eckert Goodman. Nathaniel and Max Lief will write the lyrics and Fred E. Ahlert and Muriel Pollock the music. | “The Married Men,” by, Vincent Lawrence, will be placed in rehear- | sal next week by Willlam Harris. | The, cast will include Frances Carson, Ann Andrews, George Gaul and James Dale. The company lately seen in Lon- don in “The Show-Off” will begin a Chicago ‘engagement on January 4 Four more companies will be sent on tour in September. Zane Grey's “The Border Legion" and “Hold Youth Breath” are the Palace movies next week. Gloria Swanson in *“Wages of Virtue” is coming soon. PALAGE THEATER Head Bill The big attraction at the Palace next weck will be tha presenta- tion of Frank Soper's “Pretty Nifty, Revue,” a musical comedy tabloid with a great cast, carload of scenery and effects and a show worth twice the price of admission. The cast is ‘headed by Frank Soper and Boba Ackermpan, both being big favorites here with the original Hoyt's Revue sometime ago. Others includa Joe Doran, Madeline Buckley, Freddy Wheaton, Mylee Oliver, Veronica Wallace, Pauline Metcalfe, Buddy Carman, Paul Piecott and Traynor Drake. It i3 a cast that includes some of the beat singers, dancers and comedi in musical comedy today, a feature that Mr. Soper boast about with his show. Then there ie a| chorus of dimpled, dazzling, Pretty Nifty Girlies, who can also sing and dance with the best. They will offer two complete shows during the week with a brand new show on Monday and an entire change on Thursday. “The Border leegion,” with An- tonio Moreno and Helene Chadwick teatured {n the leadingsroles, comes to the Palgce theater for a run of tour days on Sunday. The picture is an adaptation of the popular novel of the same name by Zane G It deals with the ac- tivities of a band of ruthless outlaws which spread death and destruction in the gold towns of the 5 » production was filmed in isolat- ed and beautiful locations selected by the author. | 1t tells of the love affairs of a d the daughter of a There's a lovers' quar- and the boy stalks off to join the | Border I n. » girl repents and goes after him. She ia captured by the leader of the Legion and carried off to his cabin and made a prisoner. On Thursday with the change of show, the feature photoplay feature wiil be “Hold Your Breath,” with an all star c re that thriils with excitem GOTHAM HOTEL S0LD New Netherland Bought By Fred- | Re- erick Brown And Will Be modelled Into Stores, New York, Dec. 6.—The Nether- | land hotel was sold today by the es- tate of the late Baron William Wal- | « Astor to Frederick Brown, an | operator, and will be rF’mOd"H"d“ into stores and apartments stores | occuples a plot fronting 100 feet on Fifth avenue and 125 feet on the north side of Fifty-ninth street According to tha Charles F. Noyes company, which negotiated the Hotel Netherland deal, Mr. Brown paid cash for the property, which sessed by the city at §2,100, . The assessed value of the land without the building, according to 1924 tax books, 1s $1,520,000 RORETZ IN PRISON Once Worth Millions, He Begins Mis | Sentence With 15 Frayed llolllr‘ Bills And Can of Tobacco. 1 Stateville, Til, Dec. 6.—Leo Ko- retz, wizard of finance, who engin- eered the $2,00 Rayano ol bubble, came to the end of his fi- nancial rainbow at 9:15 o'clock last night when he entered the old state | prison here to begin serving sentence of from one to 10 years for three | varieties of swindling. | Koretz, once worth m s, en- tered the prison with $15 frayed bills, a can partly filled with tobac- ©o, a set of ear muffs, a box of throat lozenges and a suit as his only belongings. These were taken | from him as soon as he entered the | prison and were given tody of the warden His number, assigned as soon as he entered, s 9463 shabby into the cus- scarcely scem to short drama, in addition to this 11 |day and Wednesday there will also but treats a thoroughly modern theme fn a new way. It 18 a sensa- tional expose of the way in which persons of high soclal position vio- late the prohibition laws. This wa first published as a magazine story | and the screen cast includes such prominent performers as Clara How, Forrest Btanley, Huntley Gordon, | Myrtlo Stedman, Robert Agnew and Walter Long. This picture is taken against an unusually claborate back- ground and some of the biggest in- terfor sets ever mado for a movic were constructed in Universal City for this production In addition to plctures already an rounced as booked for showing l«l‘ 4 this theater will be “The Mine With denoribe & really good picture, but (7ne 1ron Door” Mary Plekford in | Rafacl Sabatini's “Captaln Blood,” |“Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall," which opens tomorrow night at the and “Welcome Stranger.” “This last Lyceum for a four days' run, is one |PAMAA 1 from the famous stage that admittedly ranks with the best |Success in New Y '”k "und some critles proclaim it even | AT THE CAPITOL usual comedy and news recls and a Mickey Bennett, Young Screen Actor, Coming Here GENUINE THRILLER Sabatini's Greatest Story on Soreen at Lycenm Theater Movies have been such glowing terms described in that there be words left to reel spectacle. On Monday, Tues- be vaudeville, and at none of the performances will there be any ad- vance in prices, Among the vaude- ville numbers the first three days will be The Masco Duo, a #'nging and dancing couple, I'laherty. and Stoning in a comedy sketch and Paulette and Roy, a sensational aerfal act. “The Love Garden,” a brilllant little musical comedy offer- Ing, will be featured the last half of the week. The Lyceum also an- ndunces for early showing that fa- moug picture “Wine,"” Warren Kerrigan and Jean aige have the twe leading roles in | The headline attraction Kelth for three days at the Capitol Mickey Bennett, juvenile sereen star, best known for | bis wondertul acting in “Big Broth- | “Captain Blood," in which picture er,” and which the management will there is art, acting, action and present here in person at a tremen- merit. It is different from all other dous cost. He is appearing in vaude pictures and contains a wealth of [ville in “Mickey's Christmas Eve,” those special features that are so re- |a sketch written especially for him freshing to the patron. ihy Ted McLean, He is supported hy Wine,” which the Lyceum soon Zonzetta Wood and Charlie Bennett | is to show, is an up-to-date picture in this offering which will prove a | LYCEUM SUN., MON., TUES., WED on the vaudeville bil the will known firs be the well The Greatest Love Story Ever Told | delight to Capltol patrons, [ well | wise Tta RAFAEL SABATINI AUTHOR -WNE SEQHAWK” J WVARREN KERRIGAN 2 JEAN PAIGE and’ @ NOTRBLE CAST of Pi= ERS No Advance in Prices — Also — BIG TIME VAUDEVILLE Another supporting Dotson, Money eccentric very interesting plot Light ight two fine ited be- od prese same udge in 1 a dancer other un ungerouy feature bill will be imdoubtedly the greatest lancer in vaudeville today ning and Dotson must be rel cause they both have the churacteristics. Dotson is with comedy for a side Jine, ivod Bad Boy " Kale and Indetta offer Hawalia tinuous show foll songs, dapces and have in America for @ f of time and the ind romance of their native still in thelr hearts and minds when g play mus They upy for a quarter ¢ hour Lut | in the 5 minutes it s not difficult | to imagine one's self underncath the Hawaiian skies. Clark and Crosby make n skit called “Tony Don't Understand L clever bit of claracterization L bright oit of entertainmer as played by Mr, Clark is a fan who gains his point hy ignor on the an ac with a Sunday be offer featiures one t ¢ played fr arvoll th short space land s in night Jiode lan “Tony pretendi The Five medy aer Ilurope in "nl nee are the inlists brought some time cor hest ver from Their per- bination of com ] Al 1a woman, T perfected oir exh ftevue trooy (T lewn show and cloverness. wrm]mw d of four me ars of associat V)H‘Ir team work so that t bition 1s of clocklil-e smoothness, The photoplay feature on this hill will offer Bebe Danfels and a big vhich is at th is show fand A. U. B »d for pr Herndon, regularity and e | cen ALL NEXT WEEK FRANK SOPER’S “PRETTY NIFTY REVUE”’ A Delightful Musical Comedy With a Cast That Includes FRANK SOPER BOBS ACKERMAN Formerly With the Original Hoyt’s Revue Joe Doran — Madeline Buckley i Freddy Wheaton — Myles Oliver Veronica Wallace — Pauline Metcalf Buddy Carmen — Paul Piecott Traynor Drake And A Dimpled, Dazzling Chorus of “Pretty Nifty Girls” Entire Change Thursday Carload of Scenery Twice Your Money's Worth SUN., MON,, TUES., WED. ADOLPM ZUKOR AND JESSE L LASKY PRESINT ANTON!O MORENO HeLENE CHADWICK THURS.—Thrills That Take You “HOLD YOUR BRE And You'll Hold It When You See Breath \wa SATH!” This Photoplay \lat S. 30(‘ 20¢ Eves. 40c—25¢ SUNDAY NIGHT —TWO FINE PHOTOPLAYS CORSTALCE TALM '“5G —IN— PRIMITIVE LOVER’ All Cast in “THE GOOD BAD BOY” Special Music Features ‘ I"" ._u Star MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY KEITH VAUDEVILLE 5 — GREAT AC We have secured, at tremendous expense MICKEY BENNETT IN PERSON The Famous Juvenile Star of “Big Brother” in His Vaudeville Debut “Mickey’s Christmas Eve” Supported by Zonzetta Wood and Charlie Bennett DOTSON Absblutely Vaudeville's Greatest Eccentric Dancer, in “LIGHTNING TUNES AND STEPS” F Clark & Croshy Kale & Indetta —in— i Hawaiian Folk Songs, Don’t Understand” Dances and Music “Tony TLE FIVE PETLEYS Europe’s Most Sensational Aerialists, in “COMEDY AND CLEVERNES i THURSDAY — Rod La Rocque and Jacqueline Logan. in *CODE OF THE SEA” COMING — Betty in Compson, “THE GARDEN OF WEEDS" CONTINUOUS SHOWS | For Qaick Results Use Herald Classified Ads