New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1925, Page 5

[T WA N |’i‘|llll 7o) -ll uli "I Uniess' otherwise' Indicated. theatrieal notices and reviews W this colums en writlen by the préss ugencies tor the respect''e amusement company \ LEW ROSS REVUE AT CAPITOL The Keith vaudeville program at he Capitol now playing has as the vature attraction Lew Ross and Co, n a musical comedy revue. There hire seven entertainers in the offering ho offer exceptional talent in songs nd dances. The average ghap con- iders himself fortunate if possessed bt one singing voice, but Willie mith, who 1s called “the world's ;reatest male soprano” has two. He s absolutely the peer of double~ voiced vocalists and has a program hat is rcal entertaining; Gerard’s Monkeys are near men actors, going hrough a routine of stunts that pliows remarkable training; Fulton nd Quinette offer “A Girl of To- ay,” ‘a skit with haunting music hat has been woven into - melody nd story that might be described as hn abridged masical comedy; Stan- ey Woolf and his Vest Pocket Re- vue Is a minfature presented by four papable artists and will prove popu- ar and entertaining. Peppy, snappy, zippy, Frenchy and hll the other adjectives denoting bpeed and charm, come in mighty | andy when one sets out to describe 3ebe Daniels' newest Paramount ktar . picture. “Miss Bluebeard, phich opened at the Capitol today | Jor a three day run. I‘rank Tuttle dirccted the produe- | fon from Townsend Martin's adap- ation of Avery Hopwood's phenom- mally successful play, “Little Miss Bluebeard.” It's the fastest-moving, | Jollest little love farce you've eve keen, with Bebe Daniels as Colette, I'rench actress who finds herself with one husband too many. | | \Fa Plante, Kenneth Harlan, {Clifford and Norman Kerry, | | TODI\Y — TUES — WFD | KEITH VAUDEVILLE || Lew Ross & Co.: | 7—CLEVER ARTISTS—7 || i ln a Musical Comedy Revue | FULTON & QU]NETTE i “A Gul of Today” WI“le Smlth | \\ronld'q Great ‘Vhle Soprano || Vest Pocket Revie | A Miniature - ‘Bebe Damels ‘Miss Bluebeard LYCEUM NOW PLAYING KATHLEEN NORRIS * A UNIVERSA( JFw() CARL PAEMMIE . With KENNETH HARLAN LADIES' MATIN This Coupon and 10¢ Will Admit Any Lady To Best Seats CAPITOL — 4 DAYS BEGINN 3 sk |ing to be an honest-to-goodness sen- |several reasons |orphan sister: fup a promis i las the. young social [ter the man that she loves. [ture program, in addition to the new REXMERE ORCHESTRA, PALACE John L. Sulllvan's Rexmere or- chestra, New Britain's popular dance orchesira will be given a vaudevillp presentation at the Palace today arfd for the first half of the week. The orchestra is composed of ten musi- clans most of them local boys with the addition of g few from out of town among which is Thomas Cook, a planist of rare ability, teacher, composer and graduate of Yale Music school. Mr, Bullivan, the or- chestra's eccentric leader has an aggregation. of musicians that will surpass any band seen here in vaudeville this winter. Miss Anna Krawitz, a local favorite, will be 4 soloist and will sing ““All Alone” and “My Kid.” The balance of the bl is made up of excellent Keith acts including Hashl and Osal, in a Jap- anese novelty; Jack IMitzgerald in new*songs and stories, and Manning and Hall, a comedy couple, “The: Roughneck,” the William Fox special production, now being shown at the Palace theater, is prov- | sation. There is no gainsaying this. Likewise there can be no denial of | the fact that local picturegoers gre literally fighting to get in the the- atre to see it. There are no doubt for. the unusual popularity, but, perhaps, the out- standing cause is the intensity and frank reallsm of the love story un- ! folded so dramatically with hand- some orge O'Brien and beautiful Billie Dove as the lovers, | e | “BUTTERFLY” AT LYC M | Pictures such as “Butterfly” now showing at the Lyceum, do not come this way every day. Presented by an all star cast which includes Laura Ruth it is a picturization of a cross section' of life and love in modern high society in which the butterfly wife's flutter- ing wings almost touch the allurlm; but all consuming flame. The theme | {of the story is written around two | , one of whom gives ng carcer that her| sister may improve = her | Thegsacrifices of the | ranted and the | more dramatic butterfly even | ittempts to take from her older sis- younger own talents, clder are taken fof gr story becomes even Thursday starts a new double fca- | episode in the Benny Leonard fight serics. “Discontented Husbands,” {one of the big pictures, presents the | {male side of the domestic angle when home affairs are not as happy | a8 they might be. The other picture is a thriller, but one with lots of | romance as well. In “The Fighting American,” Pat O'Malley and Mary Astor arc paired off as the leading lights, WILL SPEAK ON “BOOKS” Rev. George J. Donahue, former curate at St Mary's church and now | pastor of the church of the Holy | Trinity at Pomfret, will give a talk | nn “Books” to the New Britain | 1 ouncil of Catholic Women next Monday cevning In Tabs' hall. The | council will meet at 8 o'clock Wed- ! nwm ever " Law, | cluded are U, | “What the Judge {illustrates the qualities NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1925, AT YOUR LIBRAR Have you ever cherlshed a more or less carefully concealed weak- ness-for detective storles? You may not have enjoyed them and they may even have made vou acutely uncomfortable but you ylelded about onde in #0 often. And that is be- cause for the purposes of a good story most bad people are infinitely more interesting than the ordinary run of harmless and highly re. spectable citizens, The swift, irre- slstible progress of an intrigue and the courage and skill of the hero in folling It have a fascination for al- most anyone though he may insist that it be described in his favorite style, “Justice to AlL" by Katherine Mayo, has just this glamor with the added attraction that its villains are real criminals and its heroes mem- bers of the Pennsylvania state po- lice. Like its companion volume, “Mounted Justice,” it {s packed full of real adventures, described with a skill which should send a thrill down the spine of the most hard- enéd diner on tales of crime, “The Crimina] as a Human Be- ing,” by George Dougherty, tells about law-breakers as the author has observed them during his long term as police commissioner of New York city. He tells of the clever stage management of crime by which suspicion is diverted by the acting of apparently innocent by- [ standers to allow the principals to make a get-away. He also describes the work of shadowing suspects, of carrying out the modern “humane third ' degree” and the psychology of the criminal. Trials are often almost as excit- ing ds the capture of the suspected person. “Decisive Battles of the by F. T. Hill, in lively nar- rative form, telis of eight great trials: of profound significance in American history., Among those in- 8. vs, Aaron Burr, Commonwealth vs, John Brown of Harper's Ferry, Dred Scott vs. San- | ford, and the impeachment of An- drew Jackson. “Romantie Trials of Three Cen- turies,” by Hugh Childers, carries one back to the days when women were “tried for witcheraft. It also tells of William Penn's experience {in court, of a parson turned forger, of the Lyons mall robbery and the trial of Disraell. “Dramatic Days at {the Old Bailey,” by Kingston, gives more incidents of the same kind. Thought,” by Parry, contains essays on Lincoln as lawyer, on the psychology of perjury, and the “future of Portia.” The psychology of the jury is very entertainingly discussed in Francis Wellman’s “Day in Court.” He, tells of watching for prejudices and idiosyncracies which might in- fluence their decision and of meth- ods of conducting the cross ex- amination, The qualifications of.an ideal lawyer and. the rewards and opportunities of the profession are | very excellently ‘brought out, “The Young Man and the Law | by Bandwin, also gives the pros and cons of the law as a' carger and which a lawyer must possess by anecdotes from the lives of some of the most famous men in this field. “The Law as a Vocation,” by Allen, contains much the same material, also in a bri understandable form. “How to Become a Law Steno- grapher,” by Mason, is invaluable to one who has to do court report- ing or much handling of legal forms. Typical examples of affi- davits, deeds, and other legal docu- ments are, included with specific di- ctions for the proper arrange- ent of a typewritten copy. There 1so a vocabulary of Latin terms |and Pitman shorthand signs for the | PALACE Today—Tues.—Wed. KEITH VAUDEVILLE John L. Sullivan’s Rexmere Orchestra [ 10—Musicians—10 New Britain’s Popular Dance Orchestra Mlss Anna Krawitz, Solmst o OT}IP R BIG ACTS 1 By ROBERT W SERVICE, auiher of The Spell o the Yokou Qv BILLIZ DOVE - HARRY TMOREY+ CLEQ MAION: AWE CORMMAL 1 20N WY . | most | social | the {and | Mott Oshorne, describes the working used phrases. When the trial is over and the sentence begins, there is usvally an end of the public's interest in the affair. Most of us haven't the imagination or the knowledge to form any picture of prison life and its offeet on the mental, moral and side of a man., There have been many attempts to make us un- derstand but most of them are so unpleasant that we ignore them or so superficial that they don't count. “Wall Shadows,” by Frank Tennen- baum, is an extraordinarily fair, re- strained and constructive analysis of prison system by a man who has actually been there. “Prisons Commonsense,” by - Thomas of the Mutual Welfare league which he established at Sing Sing and PARSONS’ HARTFORI ONE WEEK (COM. MONDAY, FEB. 16 Mat. Wed. and Sat. @, TOMMY MARTELLE 12 lough-a minute musical comeoy) SllME GIRL UQHTER’JAZE’ P‘ELOUV’ /-TIFFANY FLAPPE! WosT. GORGEUS. FRSHIONS Box office now open. All mail orders filled as received. PRICES: Night ..... 50c to $2.00 Matinees ... 50c to $1.00 5 | education, {ing which was & strikipgly successful attempt to make prison genulnely reforming, \ But even the best efforts to make over men are discouraging in com- parison te the eonstructive work of the fuvenile courl, “Quicksands of Youth," by Judge Hoyt, is a group of very human and understanding tales of thé children who have passed through the children's court in Chicago, There is the sore young radica] who was changed into a loyal citizen, the young girl who ran away from a’too strict home en- vironment, and the gasg which was switched from rowdyism to club work. Closely allled to the work of these courts is service of woraan in the police departments, ‘The Police-, woman," by Mary Hamliton, shows that her particular fleld is in deal- ing with runaway girls, neglected children and women prisoners, There s also a discussion of pro- fessional standards and training. Besides these books related to criminal law we have ones contain- ing very convenient information on business law, how to draw up a will, and a dictionary of law terms, NEW BOORKS CUSTOMS OI" MANKIND by Lil- lan Eichler. Story of mankind from the very dawn of life, through barbarism, civilization, ‘mediaevalism, and mod- ernism glving the origin of our so- clal customs such as weddings, funerals, visits, teas, and calling cards. . DAY SCHOOLS FOR YOUNG WORKERS by Franklin Kel- ler, The principal of the East Side continuation school of New York city, the largest part time school in the world (it serves 12,000 work- ing hoys and girls) tells how such schools are organized and managed. . . ESSAYS ON JEWISH LIFE AND THOUGHT (Letters of Benam- mi; second series). What do Jews think of Christ- ians? What has Judaism contri- buted to the religlous thought of the world? Do Jews make good soldiers? Is there a Jewish church? Do Jews belleve in the Messiah? To these and similar questions this book attempts answers, setting forth the Jewish attitude to many a problem of modern life, including business morality, diet and health, . e FRIENDS OF' MANKIND by Doug- las English. Study of our domestic animals, tracing them back to prehistoric times, trying to find out where each came from and to tell how they came to their present forms and uses. HOW TO DRESS WELL by Mar- garet Story. \What to wear to enhance person- ality, complexion and figure and give grace and art to one's appear- ance. Laws of color, design, har- mony and suitability of costume so clearly ~ explained and {llustrated that every woman may analyze her own physical characteristics and make the most of them. . . JOSEPH CONRAD by Ford Madox ¥ord. = Intimate personal impressions without dates or refgrences, seek- to present the man as he thought and felt, especiaily about his work, Not a biography in the usual sense but recollections filled with the spirit of Conrad. . . LONDON by Sidney Dark, trated by Joseph Pennell. Taking Mr. Pennell’s ILondon drawings as his guide and inspira- tion, Mr. Dark has conjured up visions of famous men and women who lived in each pictured place, e s POET'S PROVERBS ‘by Guiterman. Wit and wisdom newly presented in rimed couplets, all arranged alphabetically by subjects. . . APERS ON MUSICAL SUB- S by Carl Van Vechten. Some of the best of Mr. Van Vechten's early writing as a radical critic of musi¢, several of which have never before appeared in a book . illus- Arthur . ROMANTIC RISE AMERICAN by well. Story of a psor boy who became master of millions. John Wana-~ maker’s life and his success in prov- ing that it is good business to treat customers courteously and fairly. ol Wiie STALKING BIG GAME WITH A AMERA 1IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA by Marius Maxwell. Magnificent pictures of the phant, rhinocerous, buffalo, hippo- potamus, zebra and giraffe in their native haunts together with the ex- citing story of this camera sport, make a notable book, full of inter- esting comment on the habits and characteristics of these animals. PINOCHLE TOURNMENT Committees representing C beriain council, Junior O, U.*A. M. and Daly council, Knights of Colun bus, have arranged a pinochle tour ament between the two organiza The tourhament will begin next Thurss evening and will con- tinue for five weeks, the meets to be held on consecutive Thursday nings. OF A GREAT Russell Con- ele- tions. G NEXT SUNDAY — WITH VAUDEVILLE e A W TS If Mothers Only Knew ‘Thousands of Children Suffer from Worms, and Their Mothers Do Not Know What. the Trouble Is. Signs of Worms are: Constipation, deranged [l - i ?l-umhn.m. eyes heavy, short dry teeth, little red pol; fiartiog during sleep with dreams, slow fever, Mrs, H. N. Roberts, 502 Asylum St Flint, Mich., wrote: “My Tictle gl is relieved of her worms.” And in a lnur letter wrote: ““Baby is firie and It was your Dr.TruesElixir The True Family Laxative and worm expeller that helped her." Family size $1.20; other sizes 60c and 40c. PONSELLE THRILLS PACKED THEATER Opera Singer Acclaimed by Throng as a Marvel 8he came, she sang, she conquered —this of Rosa Ponscll, songbird en- traordinary, who enthralled an au- dience which completely filled the Capitol theateg Sunday afternoon, The large playhouse has never been filled with a greater con- course of humanity; the number may have been equalled at a few other atellar occasions, but it could not be surpassed, for the convincing reason that every seat in the place, every inch of the stage, all the boxes, and all standing room allowed to be utilized under the law, wer occupied with admirers of the Merideh mar- vel. Raln could not keep the crowd away from such an event; had there been a blizzard at the time the the- ater would have been just as packed. Brilliant as was the concert from a vocal standpoint, Stuart Ross, the accompanist and piano sololst, was also most favorably received. Both the singer and the planist added special numbers to the printed list. The concert, given under the aegis of the New Britain Musical club, was a pleasing success to the officers of this organization, who contributed weeks of gratuitous toil in arranging the preliminaries. Most of the audience was on hand long before the concert was sched- uled to begin. For a time the rush into the building took on some of the aspects of a crowd headed for a Yale football game. Virtually all of those having scats on the stage ar- rived early, so that while the seats in the auditorium twere filling up the territory of the drop curtains was black with an eager throng. As Miss Ponselle bowed her im- perial way to the center of the stage 6he looked like an incarnated Jenny this effect being primarily ed with the wearing of a hoop skirt—and the hoops were no di- minutive ones either, but the kind that swayed like the pendulum of a grandmother’s clock back in 1840, As Rosa sings like Jenny Lind there is no rason Why she ehould not dress like her—and to compare her vocal ability with that of the famed Swe- dish nightingale of a bygone day is no emall compliment, It is perfectly safe, however, as few In New Britain ever heard Jenny Lind sing. The arias, from Il Trovatore, Traviata, and Tosca, were Mis Pon- selle’s most exacting numbers. The limpid flxibility, emotional depth and tonal shadings she lent these well- established masterpieces of the oper- atic repertoire stamped her anew as a favored daughter of the Out of a set of spaller songs Strauss’ | “Traume” yielded a somber distine- tion of utterance. Others that she later gave with exquisite effort were Dvorak's nge My Mother T me,” Cyril Scott’s harmoni and vibrant *“Lullaby,” den’s “Homage to § selection considering the weather, Miss Ponselle re! Tackay no bad ecent mild tains the personal- Newsdealers Cannot return unsold copies uf The New York ‘imes. Consequently the public is asked to cooperate with them by ordering in ad- vance both daily and Sunday editions to in- sure an adequate sup- ply’and avoid loss and disappointment. The Nem York Times Strictly a News Paper 'Phone 1905 For Appointment and Have Your EYES EXAMINED Frank E. Goodwin Optometrist MAIN ST. 7 State School Grant May ality that was such an ald during her earller years of public performing, The ingratiating smile rarely falled, and of delicate mannerisms there were sufficlent to help the audience to understand that singing Is not al- together the performance of a statue, She talked with the people on the stagé a few times and after some laughter was provoked she re- sponded with that Neopolitan folk song that everybody knows and likes ~—0 Bole Mio, Mr. Ross, the planiet, was in as good humor as his chief and ac- cumulated much popularity during the concert, His chief solo contri- bution was the B flat minor scherzo of Chopin — the most frequently played of the Chopin scherzi—and a brace of three shorter compositions, of which Grunn’s “Rain Dance,” a vivid tonal pictare of an Indian rite, was the most striking, He added the Chopin C sharp minor waltz in re- sponse to plaudits. The concert will go down in local history as among the most success- ful ever given here, viewed from any standpoint, Miss Ponselle was In good woice, although a few slight coughs now and then suggested the weather had taken a toll of her phy- sical well-being; but this ‘'was not noticeable in her singing. She was in good voice throughout and seemed to be as finished an artist at the end as at the beginning, The next major concert of the Musical club will be that @8t Guy Maier and Lee Pattison on Sunday afternoon, March 1. It will be a two-plano recital, Messrs, Maier and Pattison being the star performers on the concert stage in this field, OBSERVE SEVENTH INDEPENDENCE DAY Lithuanians Gelebrate Anmiver- sary of Gountry’s Freedom | The seventh annual celebration of Lithuanian .ndependence was hell Sunday at Lithuanian hall on Park | street. The program was opened with | songs sung by the Varpas chorus. | Commissioner J. Mikalauskas was | chairman of the program. Mayor, A. M. Paonessa made an inspiring speech, speaking of the pa- triotism due to America and of the | fine epirit shown by the Lithuanians. | The speaker of the day was J. O. | Syrvidas, editor of a Lithuanian daily newspaper in New York. Mr. Syriv- das' theme was the advance of Lith- uania since its independence and the sehowing it has made in comparison with many other countries of recent recognition. A collection was takem, and to- gether with the money to be inade | during the bazaar this week, the sum will be sent to Lithuania for the education of Lithuanian orphans. Boost New Britain Share Tavorable action on a bill now pending before the general assembly to increase the amount of state grant for school children, will bring an ad- ditional $13,135 to New Britain for the 1924 enumeration, | The present grant is $2.25 per pupil and the proposed increase would make it $3. In the current fiscal year a payment of $39,496.50 | was contemplated, but the new rute | advances the figure to $52,742. | ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chachuliski of 160 Miller street announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss | Phyllis Chachuliski, to Anthony Podkajski, son of Mr, and Mrs. Charles Podkajski. — DANCING — EVERY EVENING Robin Hood Inn Meriden MELODY BOYS ORCHESTRA Tells of Mission Work Among Savages in East Father Puttermans, missionary from the Philippines, spoke at St. Mary's church yesterday on the mis- slonary work being dane there by all Christian denominations, He is work- Ing among the most savage tribe in the island, and, although his charges are head-hunters, he has found them | responsive to his teachings. He spoke on the customs, habits and super- stitions and pleaded for support in his work, as much remains to be done, There was sponse Father Puttermans is one of three brothers, all of whom are in missionary work. The others died three years ago in Belgian Congo. The mother, who lives alone in Bel- glum, could have taken advantage of a ruling and recalled her remaining | son from the field, him continue his missionary work. Father Puttermans belongs to the Sons of the Tmmaculate Heart of Mary missionary band. but she has let 4 generous re- engaged | Scene from BUTTERFIY” A UNIVERSAL JEWEL BY KATHLEEN NORRIS LYCEUM — NOW PLAYING Knotted and deformed by Rheumatism Try this world-famous rheumatism remedy Here's quick, genuine relief for even the oldest, most obstinate rheumatic aches. Pat on Fent]y a little Sloan’s. Its stimulating ingredients send freshly E;nfied blood tingling swiftly through the pain-ridden tissues, And thisincreased: lupply of new, rich blood destroys”the germs that cause the pain. Swelling xndmfln-paulm the achmgg mAfi Get, this com. fort"todly. druggists — 3§ cents, y Fo..0 ~kills Sloan's Liniment ™in SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! 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