New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1925, Page 5

NEWS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC ' LYGEUM PICTURES GAIN ATTENTION “Tess of the D'Urbervilles,” “Recoil,” “The Early Bird” Another big double: feature . bill for Thursday, Friday and Saturday of next weel iy scheduled at the Lyceum theater, while the program for the first half of the week-brings one of the strongest of photoplays, “Tess of the D'Urbervilles.” Sunday night's usual two feature program will be again presented. One of the | pictures gives Eva Novak and Wil- liam Falrbanks starving parts in “Women ¥irst,” a race track thrill- | er; while the other introduces Wil- liam (Bill) Mix in a dashing .west- ern, “Reckless Riding Bill” The nsual selected comedies and news reels are shown at each perform- ance and the last half of the week | brings the second installment of the | Benny Leonard serles His greatest pleture! That is what many people have termed Marshall | Neflan's plcturlzation of the novel “Tess of the D'Urbervilles.” The performance of Blanche Sweet, as the unhappy and ill-fated Tess, sur- passes even her work in “Anna ‘Christie.” Conrad Nagel is a fault- less Angel Clare and Stuart Holmes | as Alec D'Urberville is a typleal vil- lain, The exteriors of this picture were taken in England in the actual | locations described by Hardy when he wrote the hook. “The Rarly Bird,” with Johnny Hines, is an amazingly funny ple- ture and suits tife star to a nicety for it gives him one of those charac- ter roles that he always is o anxious to play. In this picture he has a comedy part, that of a milkman, | and around this is woven the come- | dy. Edmund Breese also has a big | part in this picture, ‘Rex Beach, who writes stories of the most griping sort, is the author | of “Recoil,” and the leading woman in this thrilling story Betty Blythe never was more charming. | The settings also add to the enter- taining qualities of the picture sin they include Monte Carlo, Deauvil and other of Iurope’s famous sorts. The tale itself Is of an Am ican girl enmeshed in the silken web of Europe’s gilded pleasure haunts where beauty goes to the| highest bidder. The story has a | mysterious twist to it that emplo the uge of a clever detective included in the cast is Fred P Mahlon Hamilton, Ernest Hillia VERI and | 40 AUTOS D White Plats, N. Y. Forty automobiles were destroyed | early today jn a fire which demolish- od the Jenkins garage at a loss esti- | mated at $150,000. Exploding gaso- line tanks made the work of t firemen hazardous, but no, one wus | hurt. ! PAL SUNDAY NIGHT—M You'll Thank Your Lucky Stars You Saw This Picture! STAGE ANI[SIIREEN Local talent in a vaudeville skit will be a speclal added attraction at the Palace theater next Thurs- day, Friday and Saturday when The Serenaders wil) step before the footlights to do thelr stuff. The Serenaders are the same four young men who made such a hit with the rccent Hadassah show at the Lyceum theater. They have appeared at numerous entertain- ments and soclals during the season |and thelr vandeville act is regarded as an excellent one, The personnel s Bob Loomis, Clem Lewls, Dwight Latham and Walter Carlson, They feature popu- lar ballads, novelty songs and a bit of humorous dialogue. This s their first honest-to-good- ness professional appearance. Sunday the Palace starts a four s' showing of “Cheap Kisses,” As the name implies, it is a drama of the jazz mad modern age, Cullen Landis and Lilllan Rich are fea- tured, Tom Mix in “The Heart Duster” is the last half week movie offering at the Palace. The Capitol theatet has booked a number of exceptionally good vaudeville acts for the near future, and starting Monday will be Louis lLove and a company of six in a Bohemian gypsy song offering. Mr., Love writes all his own vaudeville sketches and this one is no excep- tion. Then on Wednesday one of the new features will be Tracey and | MeBride in a comedy offering. N Tracey has starred in Lew Field: productions and also has been with the Zigfeld Follies, while Mr, Mc- Dride starred in “The Icho” and “The hree Twins” He also was | formerly with Yhe team of McBrid and Giavanno. “The Grea a world famous athlet be on the last half bill. His sketch is in three parts, first, a physical demaonstration, ond, feats of strength, and lastly, a rcal comedy treat. Chartes D, Keating and company in Huckleberry Finn is booked for carly showing at the Capitol. Mr. Keating features his famous crying scene in this act, He is one of the famous Keating ~ family- of stage | performers, Still another big time act coming to the Capitol is “The Four Jans- leys.” The elder member of this family originated the vandeville Jan. 31— | oquilibrists’ stunts. Originally there | were five of the same family in this act, but two were killed. Recently, however, the survivors have added another young man to their act and now appear as the quartet. This original act appeared at the ACE ON.—TUES.—WED. Kisses! The men all like me! I'M A GOOD SPORT! W soaked dinners—jazz dances—theaters—cosey little te: with highballs and cigarettes, and plenty of them—and a little cuddling on the way home! the beach—the floating bar of caresses—and I GIVE! GIVE! Moonlight bathing on ff shore—scandal—secrets— GIVE! VAUDEVILLE 4.-ENTERTAINING ACTS -4 Thurs. Vaudeville Fri, Presentation o\ “THE SERENADERS” New Britain’s Own Quartet Messrs. Loomis, Lewi is, Latham, Carlson NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925. Palace theater here about five years ago. The laughing movie sensation of the year, “Oh Doctor,"” now showing at the Plcadllly theater in New York, will come to the Capltol the week after next., Reginald Den- ny Is the featured star, much discussion in the metropolis | where it will finish out the current season before Mr, Selwyn sends it | on tour, AN ORGINAL STORY Movie Photoplay for Pauling Frederick's Talents When Doris Keane is seen in New | York next month in Gladys Un- ger's new play entitled , “Starlight’" she will renew her alleglance to the portrayal of women of European birth, During the entire history of her brilliant carcer Miss Keane has | had but one opportunity to play an American woman on the stage, In | her long triumph in “Romance” | el rima she portraye 1 an ]m’mm prima or the first three days of the donna. Following that ‘she pla X, 1 é Rl -, -, jweek, Topping the Keith show is “A | Catherine of Russla in “The Czar-|pomance of Romany. Love and ina,”” Then came her one and only | poman o oo st ) 2o A B ance should be one and the chance to impersonate a woman of | o Hi F0 ; 8 same thing, They ure when that Jove her own counfry in “Welded is Louls Love and' the romance is a | opportunity which was short-lived. | o =i LeVh i the romance ls « | Now she will be seen in the stellar |, e Or | AL RS AN a company of five assoclates includ- | part of “Starlight” as a great R > o4 | bt . ing Jean Spence offers a singing and French actress, as Miss Unger un- | g0 o’ ov o5 hon wa Romanee of folds the comedies and tragedies of Romany.” The company is really a her professional ci soxtette, there being three men and John Contaris, one of the owners of the Capltol-Palace theaters, re- turned from the sunny south early this week. He chooses an unfor- tunate time to come back, at- mospherically speaking. 8till, John can make the boys envious with his fine coat of Florida sunburn, | The Capitol grade vaudeville features next {with the | Fires” f attractions as the week photoplay *“Smoldering Conrad Nagle and Blanche Sweet is the combination featured in the Lyceum movie drama, “Tess of the D'Urbervilles,” starting Monday. | This 1s & story of honor rooted in | | dishonor and was photographed in the rolling English farm country of Etonehenge.” Betty Blythe is featurcd In the Lyceufn plcture, “Recoil,” to be shown the last half of next week, The cast includes the so-called “ten I most beautiful women of Europe.” BOSTON SYMPHONY, A program which should reveal to Radlo has yet played but lttle | particular advan manifold in_the plot of the movies, but in |uaiiiiey of its new leader 18 to be “The Farly Bird,” with Johnny | i Hine, which comes to the Lyceum |Presented by the Boston Symphony : . under Serge Koussevitzky eek, 1t he Drehest eX rek, it ha - e :)1;‘;;.:: ;:,: xt week, 1t has an im- | % e Capitol theater, Hartford, to- | morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. The | principal number on the program The Lyceum has booked for eavly | i be Tchaikowsky's Fifth Sym- showing “The Breath of Scandal” |phony fn B Minor. The truly mag- nificent and deeply moving interpre- The new freedom for women, |tation of this'great score by Kousse- which grew out of the conditions | yitzky on the occasion of a Pension surrounding the World war, is the |yund concert in Boston last Decem- novel theme of “Enticement,” a hep proved an outstanding event in new First National photodrama by |the very remarkable Symphony sea- the Thomas H. Ince corporation. |son. Koussevitzky will begin the con- In “The Redeeming 8in,” a new |cert with a Concert for Orchestra in Vitagraph special, 1s a remarkably | D Major, for string orchestra, by faithful reproduction of the famous | Philip Emanuel Bach, the most tal- Parls sewers, with boats actually |ented son of J. 8. Bach. The score coursing through them. "The pro-|was edited by Maxmilian Steinberg. | duction company loitered in this |The reading reveals Koussevitz passageway for some time one day |peculiar power of revivifying the so- while certain necessary props were |callod classicst® Berlioz “Roman being arranged. Suddenly, J, Stuart | Carnival” overture is chosen from Jlackton, the producer, was sur- the program of Koussevitzky's prised to find scrawled on one of | Ameri debut last October. Two the walls, a cross word puzzie, The | Russian numhbers of particular definitions were in French, but, |charm are also to be played. The translated, and made to fit English | Prelude to “Khovantchina,” by words, they read: “Iirst personal |Moussorgsky, and “The Flight of pronoun, singular; a five letter word [the Bumble Bee,” a Scherzo from meaning ‘love’; an adjective in four "Rimsky-Korsakov's fairy 6pera, letters meaning ‘not that,’ and a ar Saltan. e picces have noun in seven letters meaning ‘ta- | heen introduced to our public by the bleau” “Yes, I did it,” the star, an leader. Nazimova, admitted, when charged ts and Joges are now on sale with the art work, “and I mean it.” [ at Sedgwick & Casey's music store, | Nazimova, it appears, is a cross|139 Asylum street. The man- | word puzzle fan. |agement earnestly requests that patrons be seated by 3 o'clock, as no one will be seated during the progress of a number. songs are lighted by unusual effects, Other acts will include Donahue and It”; Booth and Nina in "A Tw tieth Century Novelty”; Arthur A ler in a conglomeration of new son and stories; lino, Lizette and Kokin in a ty offering. “The : the harder they i an aphorism of the prize ring. 'he older they are the harder they fall” is the conversation of the aphorism that might be used to aphorize * Iires,” Uni- versal-Jewel-Clarence Brown pro duction to be shown in the Capitol theatre comencing Monday. Pauline Frederick and Laura L Plante are co and the reference to aphorisms will be understood when it is learned that Miss Frederick takes the part of a middle years devoted solely to business a fairs falls in love with a youth half her age, and, to return to the ver- nacular, falls hard! Malcolm McGregor has the lead- ing role in the picture and others prominently cast are Tully Marshall. Wanda Hawley, Helen Lynch, and George Copper. The ‘Surday night y have two features one offering Buck Jones in “Winner Takes All” and the other Bryant Washburn in * and Get It.” -— ry Jdgar Selwyn 1s now writing an- other play which is a comedy to be called “Something to Brag About.” and which is being written in col- Jaboration with William Le Baron. PARSONS’ Hartford Sel production of “Dancing | Mothers” has just passed its two hundredth (200th) performance at Maxine Elliott’s theater, New York, where it has proven one of the most brilliant successes of the cur- rent theatrical year, with Mary Young, John Halliday, Henry Stephenson and Dorothy Burgess in the four leading ‘roles. Because it | goes to the root of the marital un- R —————— Capitol Theater Hartford THIS SUNDAY AT 3:00 P. M. SUPREME MUSICAL EVENT OF THE YEAR . Trank A. Sedgwick Presents BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA And Debut of SERGE KOUSSEVITSKY Conductor Eve, $1.00, §3.00 Mat. 2 Nights Beg. Next MONT r » Matinee WEDNESDAY Fves. 0. K MAIL ORDERS NOW _SEA CHARLES FROHMAN presents (he Smartest Comedy of This or Any Other Season— THE BEST PEOPLE By David Gray and Avery Hopwood with Superlative Cust of Comedians. Months in the Lyecum New York. PRICES—S1, $3 (plus tax) Seats At Sedgwick & Cacey's 139 ASYLUM ST. Hartford Direct from 5 ] ot —— ]| Theater, LYCEUM~— MON,, XUES.,, WED. —LYCEUM. — SUNDAY ONLY “WOMEN FIRST” — EVA NOVAK “RECKLESS RIDIN BILL” — WILLIAM MIX MONDAY — TUESDAY -- WEDNESDAY The Tragic Glory of a Great Love Blanche Sweet Stuart Holmes as D'Urberaille PR.ODUCTION _ SS of the DURBERVILLES Starring BLANCHE SWEET With a Distinguished Cast Including Stuart Holmes Victory Bateman LADIES’ SPECIAL MATINEES This Coupon and 10c Will Admit Any Lady to Best Seats PRICES — MATINEE: I5¢ - 20c. EVENING: 15¢ - 25¢ - 30c. Conrad Nagel Courtensy Foote George Fawcelt Joseph J. Dowling arred in the picture, | aged woman, who after | rest of the present generation, ‘\ll‘h" | s ¢ et iz, ‘SHOLDERING FIRES' | PROMINANT SPERKERS will offer five high |and animal life. and a visit to a real in conjuction | thirtieth annual r Love with | three women whose dancing and | John D, Clarke Morgan in “The Long and Short of | Gifford Pinchot in srogram will | that here is an actress who has had | | matin ors, Syduey De Gray, Michael Dark and Tom Ricketts, In addition there will be a.bill of vaudeville offering four entertaining acts, On Thursday the bill will change and brings as one of the ate tractions, *“rhe Serenaders” New Britain's own quartet, composed of four local hoys including Messrs, Loomis, Lathan, Lewis and Carlson, The photoplay attraction will offer Tom Mix in “The Heart Buster." ‘CHEAP KISSES' 1§ HEARD 1N HARTFORD PALACE FEATURE New Photoplay Expose of New York’s Jazz Days Conncetient Forestry Assoclation s Holding Thietieth Annugl Meeting Hartford national Jun, 31 prominence, Speakers of |Boy Sleuths Catch Dog Which Destroyed Sheep gpurred on by the promise of a wrd offered by George E. ntice of Berlin for the capture g that is alleged to have kills of his sheep, John of 104 Miller street ansl zulowiez of 170 Grove tin search of the canine. The hoys locats ed the after a chase it taxed their endurance fo the limit, they succeeded in catching 1t | and turned him over to Prentice, entice has notified the sate offics the dog's capture and ree uested that a man be sent to dis- of the dog. moving pic- tures of state parks, forest tracks | “Cheap play by ¢ Kisses," the ney r #ullivan Produc Palace 4 plioto- features of the Gurdy eting of th assoclation | Sunday, Is a y t Ktail-drinklng, pe and it forms a pretty rom logging camp we i 1 comes Lo the inE the \\}m\] It who were thrown | Walter Connecticut being held here At a business mecting this after- noon a proposed wmendment to the constitution changing the name the Connecticut forest and park sociation will he 1 on and of- ficers for ti eleeted Col. Henry § an of the has been nominated Among the spe: t the after- noon session will b Congressman of New York, and irt, Penr close ass0C that sta American forestry today young pe ez to Grav of w Haven, Yale for school, for president, mali animal and lin and ‘!,m‘ 1y I e try Kers lals of of Li | Rey ips ton, Major R, Y. § Cullen stat Sma forester o and a ] ] s high officer in Stedman, Kat work in There were ers, hoth at the lunchbon this noon and the banquet to he'held tonight. PARSONS, HARTFORD. is a certain finish to Mar- garet Dale's performance in he Best People,” which the Charles Frohman company will present at Pardons’ theater, heginning Monday, I"ebru 2, for three da with on Wednes a sort of surety and carefully halanced pre- cision that leaves one with a feel- ing of complete satisfaction. Here, one fecls, is an actress who has learned the technique of her aft, a player who combines intelligence with good taste, and the result is that quality of acting which is of the best that our theater produces. It is not because the character she portrays is an ‘excellent study of a certain type of American social leader that draws,attention to that part—we have scen Margaret Dale in more important roles—but rather The an exc on the how to lent and thorough training e, and one who knows 1pply her fund of experi- ence to whatever character may be assigned to her. New Britain’s Own Quartet—“THE SERENADERS” Messrs. Loomis — Lewis — Latham — Carlson Who Will Appear in Vaudeville at THE PALACE NEXT THURS., FRI. AND SAT. —CAPITOL Sunday Night Only BUCK JONES ————in “WINNER TAKE ALL” BRYANT WASHBURN in “TRY AND GET IT” | MONDAY TUESDAY ——— WEDNESDAY KEITH VAUDEVILLE FEATURING A Romance of Romany With Louis Love and Jean Spence and Four Romany Dancers DONAHUE AND MORGAN “The Long and Short | of It” ARTHUR MILLER BOOTH & NINA | ‘ In Songs and Stories “20th Century Novelty” MELINO —— LIZETTE —— KOKIN Something New! “Variety Wonders” Something Different ! A Photoplay Thriller of the Senses! “Smoldering Fires” With LAURA LA PLANTE PAULINE FREDERICK Whether we win it to hold it, or only win it to lose it, or never win it at all, the greatest thing in all the world is— LOVE!