New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1925, Page 5

1eel ble- am, hite . alt. ntil ani on- oth. thes nto 1bs, on ol 5 i > y N | - \ NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1925, v g e ——————r NEWS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC EARLE BEAUTIES AT TH ECAPITOL California Musicians With Fa- mous Banjoist Burt - Earle, celebrated banjoist end entertainer, will be the big at- | traction at the Capitol for the first half bf next week with his Californ- nia Beauties. The last named Is an aggregation of beautiful girl musi- clans. This octette of charmers from the golden west is probably the best woman syncopaters in vaudeville to- day, Several of the girls are also soloists and with Mr. Earle they of- fer a real musical treat. Another star attraction will be the presentation of Olyn Landick, late star and big hit with the famous Van Arnam's Min- strels, Olyn Landick is vaudeville's most surprising entertainer and after several seasons of big success with the minstrels now entered vaudeville as a “single” where he is repeating his successes. I'reda and Anthony are still another headline attraction, These two boys are real comedians and are known as Fred Freda “World's Famous Guitarist,” and Jack Anthony, “The Itallan with the Irish Fee! “Bartcha Kaloop,” and you can be assured of plenty of laughs while they hold attention. Harry Gribbon, formerly a movie and stage star is now in vaudeville and on this prog- yam in his new act, “A Meeting in the Dark,” a comedy singing skit in which he is assited by Mae Emory, a muslcal comedy star. Never have hats been made to do the things the Darkleys make them do. The Dark- le; are three brothers and call themselves “The Mad Hatters.” The photoplay on this bill is to be a fine one, “The Woman of the Jury, drama of the law courts and a wo- man jurist novel plot is spun. It is interpreted by a I'rank Mayo, B Hobart Bosworth, ie Love, Lew Cody, Mary “unday night double features will be red. One will present Jack Pick- 1 in “The Hill Billy,” love for Women.” in* “Love the shawing of the new 1925 speed drama “Oh Doctor” with Reginald Denny in one of his daredévil roles for which he is famous. Natural color photodramas ture lepgth talking movi iikely such pictures? they call their skit a around whom quite & big cast of stars including , Henry I*. Walthall and Sylvia Breamer. On and the her Helene Chadwick and Montagu | on | ‘Chursday with the entire change of | program the management announces ? Fea- | ? 1s it that a popular demand will | = force the creation of- programs of | Brooks’ novel, for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, “Escape” is lald in Parls and the province of Brittany. Allce D, G. Miller collaborated with von Bternberg on the adaptation, Hobart Henley is about . to begin “Nothing to Wear,” an original screen story by ‘Samuel Shipman, hose “Cheaper to Marry,” directed by Robhert Z. Leonard, is released this month. B. P. Schulberg, head of the B. P. Schulberg Productions, Inc., has just signed Francls » Feeney to a | five year contract as a juvenile star, under the stipulation that Feency ladopt Donald Keith as his screen name. | B, P. Schulberg has placed in \| production *The Mansion of Aching Hearts” which follows closely upon the completion of “The Boomer- ang” and is the second of the Pre- ferred Plctures on his 1925 sche- dule, For this production Schulberg has brought Ethel Clayton back to the screen, after retirement — filmically speaking — of a number of yefrs, during which time she re- sisted the tempting offers of many producers for a return to “picture making. The Lyceum has booked “Butter- fly,” a big Universal Special, for an early showing. Rin Tin Tin, famous police dog of the movies, is the featured play- er in “The Lighthouse by the Sea,” a gripping melodrama which been booked by the Lyceum man- agement, Bearing the title of Thomas Di on's story, “The Foollsh Virgin the picture form will come to the Lyceum theater Thursday. It is a faithful performance featuring ine Hammerstein with Robert raser and a strong supporting cast, | 1t makes a very gripping tale with big sets and interiors and a most thrilling forest fire. “Producers have learncd that money s not a substitute for brains land this year is going to sce less time and money spent on sets and mobs and more on stories, scripts and dircetion.” made by B. P. Schulberg, producer of “The Breath of Scandal” Ga: nier's latest Preferred Picture com- ing Monday to the Lyceum theater. | John Miltern, as he is known on | 1 stage, but John Sheehan as he lis own to the old town folks here in New Britain, has an important | role in the cast presenting “Tongues [of Flame" at the Palace, starting [ “Frivolous al with Eugene | 0'Brien, Mae Bus Alexander, is the t half of the w ature for the at the Palace. f A coming Palace vaudevil at- | traction wili be Johw L. Sullivan and | has | This statement i8 | h and little Ben | Htamford last night. A benefit performance for the 8t. Vincent de Paul vacation fund will be given at the Selwyn theater Sunday night, February 15. Lupino Lane will be master of ceremonies, and of course, Eddie Cantor will appear, The Capitol announces for the fiest half of the week one of vaude- ville's best orchestra numbers—Burt Earle's Californla Beauties Is is a musical act with 11 women, Earle himself is one of the leading banjo artists appearing In vaudeville, Alden Landrick, who was the fe- male impersonator with Van Arn- nam's minstrels, return to the Capltol Monday in an act of his own, Marion Davies in Janice Mere- dith,” a plcture that has been show- ing at advanced prices elsewhere, wlll come to, the Capitol in congine- tion with a vaudeville bill within the next weeks. Pat Barrett and Nora Cunnean, two popular vaudeville comedians, have an act at the Capitol starting Thursday. “Ihe Creed,” who i3 soon coming to the Capitol, when first taken in- cluded 100 reels, It was originally intended for a seven hour photoplay, but has been cut and cut until now it is the regulation length. Other Capitol movie features an- | nounced for carly showing are Alice erry in “The Great Divide” and Jlinor Glyn's “The Wife of the Cen- taur.” WANT ELECTION RETURNS North Carolina Will Not Have to Wait a Week or More for Late Reports, 1f Women Have Say. Charlotte, N. C.,, Feb. j(?:\rulin:}. will not have to weck or more for the results of the next general electiof, if the women have anything to say about it. ative council of omen of the are making a fight to have the stralian ballot adopted for the state at large by the general as- »mbly now in session. A builetin issued By the council, which is com- posed of the Federation of Women’s Parent-Feacher association, ness und Professional Women, League of Women Voters and other organizations, sets out the benefits to be gained by the Australian bal- lot and the disadvantages of present wide-open system in vogue the | TOM MEIGHAN IN ‘TONGUES OF FLAME' John Miltern of New Britain in Supporting Role ongues of Flame,” adapted from the novel by that name by Peter Clark Macfarlane, brings Thomas Melghan to the screen at the Palace theatre for 4 days begining Sunday night in the kind of a role in which the public likes him best, In the Paramount picture, direct- |ed by Joseph Henamery, the man who made “A Sainted Devil,” Tom [plays “Hell Tire” Harrington, re- |cently returned World War veteran | who takes up the practice of law in |a one-horse town. And it is only | half-heartedly that Harrington en- |ters upon this profession. He has been “over there,” seen all there is |to lite, as he thinks, Anything that happens now is of little consequence. 1t is not long before Harrington |discovers that he has missed the most wonderful thing In life—ro- mance. And it's a double-barreled romance, at that! Harrington’s posi- tion in the firm of John Boland, the town capitalist, brings on a delight- ful affair with the millionaire’s beau- tiful daughter, Billie. The other girl in the case s a little Indfan school teacher who worships Harrington in silence, Boland's business tactics are not as straightforward as they might be and-Lahlet, the little Indian girl tells | Meighan how her people were once fswindled out of their land and she |fears the same thing is to happen |again, Harrington premises to pro- tect them. And it is this promise that starts all. the trouble. Boland tries to “frame” Harring- ton and from this point on “Tongues of Flame” builds to one of the most lgripping “smash” — climaxes ever |seen in ‘pictures. | Bessie Love plays the role of the | half-breed girl, Lahleet. Eileen Perey is cast as Billle Boland and Burton | Churchill is her father, Cyril Ring, | Nick Thompson and others complete | the strong supporting cast, It will be {interesting to note t John tern Sheehan, a former local resi- dent, appears in this photoplay in {one of the roles. week will be headed by nolds, and Sexton in a mus | Other acts include J. land a cast of four in * a comedy skit; Russell and Hayes a clever pair of dancers; and Garfield | in 83 of the 100 counties of the | state, At the general election last No- cach polling place in the state, ex [eepy where the Australlan ballot is {in use, there were eight baliot hoxes. [In many instances ballots were not connted, according to reports, until Directoria | leaders — the erea-| . S oo ove orchestra of . ten | lriday or Saturday after the elec- tive minds of the motion picture | io e will be the second sKit tion. mvlusllry = q!fli"“n‘{h{‘l'\fi“n e O | ot local talent that this theater has P e G9at the plonecring alrendy| P niad Sihe e Boen Jone by the technicolor among na- | G il e b L0l Tom Mix'a first eight @ DIk | Kaiser William's Tome o Uater de Forres ¢ alk- | pin, s hooked for early show- | jes” has established @ sound | oo paace, Tt has'been at the | den Linden Thrown Open to the premise. tupert Julian, Ralph Ince, peMille and Irvin Willat are dctive production factors who have contributed to a (et} the nposium of ac- color-movies | Piccadilly theater in New York for the past Lwo weeks. company of “The is being organized A Chicago Student Prince” Roy Cropper and leading complishment in the (development, while Dr. Lee de Lor- | rest is the first to commercially ad- | by the Shuberts. Olga Cook will have Public by Government. | Berlin, Teb. 10.—Dr Hucbner, of {the Ministry of Finance, has just published a book on the Berlin castles of the Hohenzollerns which explains the disposition of the property form- i " roles. vocate the “talking picture | Dorothy Francis and Odette Myr til, of “The Love Song” are plan ange roles at a forth- Jackie Coogan i3 going to sponsor | \ company for the manufacture and | used by Kaiser William the vember there were 14 ballots and in | Secondeand his family The castle of Kaiser William the | First, on Unter den Linden, has been | and Smith in “Comedy Bits of Vaudeville.,” Tor Thursday with the new show the big photgplay is a notable one, “KFrivolous S: with t |cast that features liugenc O'Brien, |Mae Buseh, Ben Alexander, and Mildred Harrs. PARSONS', HARTFORD One of the foremost columnis {he New York papers wrote to Ray | mond Hitchcock as well as to num- | the public eye and requested an ex- to what in his opinion test achievement of the “I ‘point with pri@e’ at t achievement of the ycar highest of- and—of pression | was the g year 19 the greate 11924 the election to the fice in the land—or of any the budding voung statesman Calvin | Coolidge by the greatest popular vote in the history of our beloved United States of America, As I ve the extreme felicity of teliing | my audience who nightly do me the to view my performances of p' (usual yuletide matinees) rn in office spells return to It | honor Th : 5l ning to jexc thrown open to the public as @ |normaley in all things. means iistrlbiHoftin AIac e ,‘fr,q‘;hr:g,‘,‘;“,f”"“”fl matince. muscum and will remain just as it [ peace, confidence and—a reduction clatmodBto b et | e | \as under the empireg The castie of iy the fax on the widow, the or- pletiits fenmepanais ‘;" T‘t and | e ReNGBAREES @ week Of o ibijjou, built in the beginning of | phan and last, but not least, caught camera 18 & Swiss m.‘",m;".'\ | “Pigs” will be glven at the "“H”}'ln' Aghteentth century, 18 known as | woing and coming’ ‘I view with one was recently presented the boy |, . N. Y., beginning next week. [y} pohenzoliern Museum, and 1S |ajarm’ any form of legislation that Metro-Goldwyn star by the inventor | | rilled with velies of the former rule at Geneva, | “Silence,” in which H. B. Warner {,,o < 'or the former arown Jackie's latest Motro-GoldWin |y (iarring, reached fts 100th per- [t Moy heen tarned over to the picture is “The Rag Man," &n OM&l- | (ormance at the National thealer National Gallery as an annex, and na! Willard Mack story, directed by Jast night. 13ddie Cline under Jackle Coogan, Sr.'s, supervision, Gertrude Purcell’s new comedy 1gletoe, with Mildr Joset von Sternberg has started |1.0q and Morgan lar production on *“Escape, LYC B. P. Schulberg 7eBR MO‘\'DAY—-VT[' l-];s‘r;:\'-—-\\"liu\' ESDAY FA ; [] |the former kaiser's palace is used |as 2 museum for applied art. |""The Charlottenburg Castle will \ Mac- | Lrobably be turned into an Idustti= |0 (ho title of acto | y in the |, school and museum for Wearing | ...q Alden | 1cading roles, had its premicre at|ypparel. EUM SUNDAY ONLY—DANGEROUS PLEASURE, Also BUDDY ROOSEVELT in CYCLONE BUDDY fm}h Betty Blythe ~ LouTellegen ADIES Patsy Ruth Miller ~ Forrest Stanley Preferred Pictures A GASNIER PRODUCTION SPECIAL MATINEE—THIS COUPON AND 10¢ WILL ADMIT ANY LADY TO BEST SEA Hitehy will be Sap at Parsons’ th ext Monday, Tuesday and wy with 2 matinee on Wed- does not look to it. ater, scen | Ha \ ford | Henry Miller wear the croix de terre of the American stage, bear- director and and as F ois Daure althy historical writer in his the wi The vaudeville the first half of the | new play, “After Love-?" adapted from the French book by A8 E. Thomas, coming to Parsons’ theater. Hartford, February 12, 13 and 14, Mr, Miller has found a part and ajso a play that promises to give him as much distinctive applause as did the character of Stephen Ghent in the famous production, “The Great Di- vide,* The new part of Lat it embraces all of the most Interesting high lights that were cmbodied in the character lio ropresented in thoe “Mollere,"” ‘The Famous “Changlings,” “Pasteur, “La Tendresse” and Mrs. Fair,"” The title of playwriter may also be added to Mr. Miller's titles he col- laborated with Charles Klein in ‘ ‘Heartscase” and with J, Hartley Manners in fra.” WITH METROPOLITAN Carmela Ponselle, Sister of Rosa, Has Been Signed to Sing With Organization Next Season. I'eb. to 7.—Carmela appear in New York, Ponselle’s ambition today when it became known that she has been engaged by the. Met- ropolitan Opera company o sing next season. The sisters used to sing in a church' choir in Meriden, Conn., to- gether and later vaudeville, After Rosa had achieved a position with {he Metropolitan opera they aid not again togethor public until a few weeks ago when they sang @ Sunday night con- cert, at the Metropolitan op house. Carmela was credited with giving up her ambitions a fow years ago in appear unique in Metropolitan records. ed the offices of the National Specu- Jation Co. at' 1441 Broadway and held up five men eseaping with $131 | in cash and a diamond pin valued at $220. Matthew Suckerberg, pro- etor of the concern which m e subscription work, was 1 loser. Four of h W lined up but were not robbed. salesmen | |Last Sur ivor of Dickens’ crous other people more or less in | |IPALACE | | Tondon, Feb. 7.—The dpath is | nounced of Edmund Plummer, age 03, last survivor of the boy: | the tyrannical schoolmaster Squeers” at Dotheboys hall, as pic- Philadelphia Mystery sur- tured in Dickers' “Nicholas Nickle- |rounds the death of a fashionabliy- | by dressed younz woman, whose body | Today is the 113th anniversary of was found yesterday in a supposc aly 11 — GIRL MUSICIANS — 11 Dick birth, | vacant room in a cen al city room- 5 A Typical Meighan Stc Greatest Novel- BESSIE LOVE JOEN MILTE in | does Nicholas Nickleby Dies n-| s under .| Death of Young Woman I Fighting Hero of Peter Clark MacFarlane's Suppor of New Britain VAUDEVILLE BREATH OF SCANDAL Vingin” Next Week Attractions has been o anged for thy d with “The [ 3 ath of Scandal,” a story which takes pl city and which stars Betty Blythe, Lou Ruth Miller, Phyllis ‘.\'IUVHIHHI, Jack Mulhall a Then on the three days of the week another big double feature | program brings Hoot Gibson | i'l' | Elaine Hammerstein in | Virgin,” of a young woman who caves little for the conventions of socicty. last a story has been rewarded, it was learned |*“The Dangerous Pleasure and Buddy | a s0-4 Roosevelt in “Cyclona Budc |clety drama and a western feature respectively. lom is a rs brought into one picture |as in “Breath of |has a wig part. | such ser story desire of the public to possip, The play takes place in a [suburb of a big Ameri |when, through a strange |circumstances scveral |thrown together frequentiy, begin to talk dal” and its effect on the people othe; lives of al to insure Rosa operatic career. 4 The date of her appearance on her |CONCerned makes for an cxciting 3 roles in the Metropolitan has not |decidedly human story. The charm- been announced. The sisters sing- |iN& Betty Biythe, dainty Patsy Rutl ing together, it was said, will be |Miller, matronly Mrytle Stedman, ti Lou Tel indsome romantic gen, Armod Robhors Loa[and otersait v zoo fars o 8 JACK PICKFORD | HELENE CHADWICK B the scenic and stage ¢ 2 % Offices on Broadway [srixt. i i s MONTA;U LOVE New York, Fab, 7.—Three armo pe Thursday picture with Hoo! ‘ PRSI, roble v tho B of Gt v 0 sesine waten f “THE HILL BILLY” | “LOVE OF WOMEN" of famous Universa | funniest romance his screen ca rer and with the ranch riders. Among the big pictures listed for | at the 1. by the ntally, |early showing [*“The i “Buttegfly ture “Th by the an unusua sting on the famous dog, 1tln Tin Tin, has part that is superior to any other in which this famous dog actor has y¢ ad, I Mystery Surrounds E ory With Tommy As the ing Cast Includes EILEEN PERCY RN (SHEEHAN) I LYCEUM FEATURE Hoot Gibson and “The Foolish | An exceptionally bill of photoplays | scientists Receive Litth Lyceum patrons next week, starting on Mon- » in a fash- fonable suburb of a large American | “orrest Stanley, d others. in a y romance of the great outdoors and dainty The Foolish | capricious The Sunday | grand ‘opera with her sister, Rosa, |night bill presents an all star cast in coliection of | scandal” and each is from Edwin Balmers' novel and the theme is woven around the almost universal fashionable an city and mixture of This “Breath of Scan- ! and in it connection with international cons gresses, though the world was is over according to a compilation of facts presented by the German Universl- ties association, During 1923 and 1924, the repogs points out, 91 international sclentific and technical congresses took place. In the case of 69 of them no Gers mans were invited in the case of the repaining 38 certain allied coun |ing house, Physichuns sald that death [had been caused by a polson but at |a late hour tonight the police had | been to determine whether |the caso was one of sulcide or mur- r. A single bonbon found in the |room was turned over to the city | chemist to see whether it contains | The woman wore a wedding ring | with the initials “H. G, D, to J. L. unable September, 1916, and a platinum |trics, notably France and Belgium, ring with a large diamond setting, | e¢ither refrained entirely from send- ing delegates as soon as it became known that German also were to particip or else sent unrepresens tative delegations, d the Herald Want Ads, GERMANS ARE IGNORED lon With Congresses, Feb, 17 rman still belng ignored in| T Connes Gocttingen, selentists are Tellegen, Patsy Haver, Myrtl PARSONS’ HARTFORD 3 NIGHTS BEGINNING MONDAY POPULAR MATIN W NESDAY HILARIOUS “HITCHY" HIMS RAYMOND HITCHCOCK IN A NEW COMEDY “THE SAP” With 1000 Laughs and Many a Blush, ighter Can g Dad and Mother Direct From Apollo Theater New York EVE.—b0c, $2.50 Seats Selling MAT.—50c, $1.50 CAPITOL SUNDAY NIGHT — DOUBLE FEATURES P 1) | MON. — TUES. — WED. KEITH VAUDEVILLE An Exceptional Bill of Headliners BURT EARL The Famous Banjoist and Entertainer and His “CALIFORNIA BEAUTIES” ' t | Wonderful Syncopators THE DARKLEYS f “MAD HATTERS” o vi W RIBBON CO | in | ‘A Meeting in the Dark’ an “The Italian with JACK ANTHONY FREDA ous Guitarist” nd the Irish Feet” Late Star and Featu Van Arnam re of the Celebrated Minstrels OLYN LANDRICK With a Great All Star Cast Inciuding Frank Mayq, Lew Cody, Bessie Love, Mary Carr, Hobart Bosworth, Sylvia Breamer, Myrtle Stedman, Henry B. Walthall. THURS. — FRI. — SAT. The New 1925 Speed Drama { — ENTERTAINING - ACTS — 1 With Healy’s Musical Revue THURS. — FRIL. — SAT. Eugene O’Brien — Mae Busch — Ben Alexander in “FRIVOLOUS SAL’; LD DY “OH DOCTOR!"”