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

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1925. I T e, NEWS OF INTERES'T ABOUT THE SPOKEN STAGE SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC FIVE JOLLY CORKS {that time were being backed by the PltAS[: NEw Y"R i f played the le .‘m.n rolé in. thi Tom English's Act Makes Hit i, | program With Golbam Audieces | ¢ A large number Uf friends of Tom | & Iinglish ot Curtis street, at the pres- '‘ ent time New Britain's outstunding offering on the vaudeville stage, skeptical about his abllity to again capture the hearts of audiences revival, with four other “o'ld timers' of the “minstrel stuff." tices by serious throughout the country, herald the act known as “The ve Jolly | Corks,” among whom is New Brit- ain's Tom, as one of the best on the |, hoards at the present time, “The crisis of the act, comes with | ils reapped ce in New York, where viudeville acts, especlal double 0o from an extraordinarily | critical pleasure seeking public. Were it not for the fact that the act is good it would not last long in the metropolis, but would be relegate 1]e .ln'lh\ to the small time where suc .; roic struggles to keep the one play | t in good repair are enacted every | day. Sam McKee, vaudeville critic the New York Morning "clegraph saw the show in which “The Five Jolly Corks” appears, last Wednes- day evening and although he is re- garded as one of the most eynical of critics, he has scen fit to devot almost an entire column to the work iccomplished by Tom English and his pals. In part Mr. McKee writes as fol- lows: “On a bill with stage of whom the I-'V'.'mrlr‘h\Hl»n Rk of the quintette, ma, the stage only 45 years ago. minded crities |, of | folk, many | e the Five | g, the baby | his debut on |d Press no- | ywouldn't “ON greatest [ ness 1 | Arligs success supports [ bri i ser s b whi nowill are young enough to he he Harry | ¢ was present. at the Lyceum, Pluyers who at “Iriendly Enonies” d in this theater, y the Cormlcan Bspeclally vhotodrama formance - nppropriate for the will be llm opening t Chord." The Lyceum announces the carly starting of a new serial, “Galloping Hoofs," Johnny Walker “Capltal Punishment” is another of the big pletures to ha shown at this theate amous Louls Mann, Mr, Mann him- at charncter comedy drama. starring B. . Schulberg, opendent prggucer of motion s In the country, will spend 00,000 on his 1 ] n| Tenee Titles of fourteen of i ighteen preferred pletures have Iready been announced and in clu iles “Shenando, the largest in r soon is the feature Bandolero, Chursday’s Lycoum features, u typleal shplay, witl lash und of old S Miss Adoree is said to be male star one of ‘I'his 18 all’ the cated Group of Equines Keith vaudevill )| for the first thre < will offer as vim adc "“‘i an Love," ¢ t John |: Were | Wome | Aristocrat. “Open that when he started out last year in a | Horses traine e e THE UNWANTED S - - Million D Vg group ribbons on poit Work,” “Dancing Days" In John rthy's ) Agee has coached them - Sunday Night Brings Double i veonee ans car Feature With Popular Stars ' with 1 bull on the 5 represent a \ly but particularly fine mens of breedl horses all thoroughbred won den's nd *“The with § triumph of his notable 1so presents Bil t the Ritz theater, animal of il include Winthrop lay te al and an v qualled by ance ! S movie features, will pr prev u i) Mix in rama I 1s amount of vo (‘u\».n Irie ple with a threo-duy f | t i A bl dram f 1 r Lol ol ph Valenti IRNAS0h as e el Girl,” a wholesome heauty iy any vious popular conventic a rollic Him 1 nds. Gertrude p blonde some fine f its wortl med from the cture mauy tars in t s a persc Ilo and Ollic niftics wl Comedy 1'our num will ik i pair of ar s Jacks and * On t} same bill erforming 1 also Bill ¥ train- 1 bull on the stage. This act re dircet comes from the Hippodrome, On ek Ct Armstrong, whose theatrical carecr { Williams, has been the longest ows, has been fac 16 otlights sinc 1 just 60 rars ago. The other three—George | W, Cunnir Tom Lnglish and | g idie Horan—laugh at the old|q \eeze about man's allotted time for | industry being three score and ten, | “Al Edward rlocutor, | y presents minstre among his fel the glare of introduces the int en the moment arrives for | vornet solo, All appear in white- wearing cvening clothes, and | are a distinguished-looki sroup of elderly gentlemen, reflecting credit upon the stage, the same as | they would upon an organization of | manufacture bankers, tatesmen, | loctors, law or college profes- sors, if they happened to be of that |’ calling, “Hapry Armstrong docs a laug song With the others joining in th chorus. ‘Handsome Harry’ as was nicknamed back in the Haverly Nort Vom stunts n attrac 1 by the poter Peter Pan®™ Next Week also asks riddies of the inter- | s ddie Horan steps zracefully in reproducin dance made famous George Primrose. Tamho “Tom English plays the tambour ina with his ha his knees, the | top of his head, his elbows and his And w melodious jingling s forth, | Cunningham {ndulges | astonishing acrobatic in of any age and seventies he s | miraculous, spinning on his head, | somersaulting backward and for- ward from an u position and | otherwise defying the imminent ri of breaking his neck and eracking | every bone in his arms, and | hads i 1die Horan comes forward | in, this time with the cane dance | which he originated and which has | listener swaying and tapping | with his nin ? At ision away da appy | Tolly Tive Corks to ne of “Yankee Doodle” Grand, gay, old 0v8, are these famous men of min- and | nose, in the most entr for a Kkid in the STAGE IND SCREEN What are the feelings of an ac- yass a9 she reposes, during a love arma of an actor she listens to his expres- g affection, which | at such ac- | to Anita Stew; submerges her slike forgets about his p. 1d looks upon him as a sver whose lov 3 1id otherwise. , she would time, are rson- © necessary : “Put it is very nerves, to ba cast in oppostie a man you detest, Still | era 1s something in screen work akes one forget likes rl; es, In an effort to get the re across. 1 guess it is the ar- femiperament rising to the it must te Infect realism | 1tn the scer “anting, | trying on the | ts com- | Mis — LYCEUM Sunday Only “BETWEEN FRIENDS” — ANNA Q. NILSSON “LET HER BUCK” —BILL MIX MON. — TUES. — WED. G B SAHUELSONS GIGANTIC PRODUCTION /AMOTION: PICTURE ASBIG AS LIFE ITSELF P/AWMOI‘UWAT[B w are draen into this 1§ | Woddbyllmpo/m/ influence of LOVE orHATE' : . < Storm bound ~ in mountain cabin § Death lurking - Why count the cost A PHOTOPLAY STEEPED IN THE TURMOIL OF NATIONS THURSDAY — ELINCR GLYN'S “HOW TO EDUCATE A WIFE” Ladies’ Special Matinee This Coupon and 10c will admit any lady to Best Seats sm]w /AT GAPITOL Thmoughlleds, A Highly B re L INEWA THRILER Al animal its kind j yom destroyer who of ul ef | cotortul Eng-|Larry Vincent at t) a merry n melange 1ght Othor includs u tional Jap who offe imagination of all land’s writers, patrons, s hinted at in the of the picce, But on the screer v different matter, enon production for Paramount | of the Barrie master-ploce, with Letty 5 g st Torrence a Brown and others 1e under ound Indians Darling uu,, W““““‘“‘ it is an entire- In the Herbert 0 b ' a comedy the all ha with amazing fidelity on | FOR PALACEFANS “The City That Never Sleeps”; for Four Day Run PARSONS’ NARTFORD Tonight — 8:175 Popular Matinee Saturday Carle Carlton presents ooz | A colorful drama of contrasting emotions by George Agnew Chamberlain EVE MAT. 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