New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 28, 1925, Page 5

THELASTIAUGH OPENS AT LYCEUN First Showing in Connecticut Tomorrow Evening ‘“T'he Last Laugh,"” with Emil Jan- nings, @irect from its sensational suc~ cessor at the Rivoll, Rialto and Cam- eo theaters in New York, opens to- morrow night at the Lyceum, which showing Incidentally will be the first time this great picture has been shown in Connecticut in any play- house, It will continue through next Wednesday. The companion Sunday feature will be a thrilling sea story, The Man Alone.” starring Hobart Bosworth, Thursday's schedule In- cludes “Bread,” a great combination ot businesswoman's life, home life, love and tragedy. The struggles which an old man undergoes when young people turn against him is the theme of “The l.ast Laugh." This picture presents something absolutely new in the movie world and among its unique distinctions is that it has no sub- titles, Neither was it cut in the making. So perfect is the continuity and so eloquent the acting that des- criptive words were not needed. In this picture the old man, the hero of the plcture, gets his last laugh by at trick of fate. His pompous job, as doorman is taken from him by a liotel manager when he finds that the man ls getting old. The loss of his job preys on the old fellow's mind and then when his son-in-law thrusts him from his home he feels it is the last straw. The daughter too, feels keenly the loss of her father's company and the two pine for each other. In the days of his poverty, the old man's friends turn from him and then, in a twinkling fate changes all. Poverty is destroy- ed by a single blow. I.ove of many people, some of it questionable but love of a sort nevertheless, is scatter- ed about, happily to a delightful masterplece of human nature, “Bread,” one of Thursday's fea- ' tures, is a film version of the novel by Charles Norris which has been one of the outstanding books of the year, Busch who will be remembered for her fine work in “Name the Man,” The Christian” and *“The Shooting of Dan McGrew.” Robert Frazer, who has lately come to the fore among leading men, is the hero. Other in this distinguished cast in- clude Pat O'Malley, Wanda Hawley, Hobart Bosworth, Myrtle Stedman, Ward Crane, Raymond Lee and Eu- genje Besserer. The second episode of the “Gallop- ing Hoofs’ “series, with Johnnie Walker, will 210 be shown for the | 143t three days’ of next week. Among the pictures which are coming to the Lyceum at an early Jate are “The Thief of Bagdad,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, “The White Sister,” that great Adrama in which Lilllan Gish plays a remarkably fine role, also is to be brought to the Lyceum for a return | engagement In this city. Still another good production which the Lyceum has booked for presentation is “The Beloved Brute,” a forceful story of mighty muscled men and tender women, of fight and lovemaking. STAGE AND SCREEN From Prop Boy to star: Do you know what a prop boy is? Well, he's the fellow who is general handy man on the studio set. He ‘tends to placing the furniture on the ge and does a hundred and one other odd jobs. Pat O'Malley started in the movie business as a prop boy. A few years ago he got to playing bits and small parts. Now Pat is | playing young romantic plumbers, , aggressive cigar salesmen and amor- | ons chauffeurs—all leading parts, mind you. Sundry movie companies | pay him as high as $1,200 weekly. | Pat, begorra, has immortalized on | celluloid the “vulgarian.” Pockets bulging with cigars, running in | where “gentlemen’ hesitate to tread, Pat's Irish luck and talent for the obvious is carrying him through the | Jeading male role, opposite Laura l.a Plante in “The Teaser.” The designating of various wecks by special titles is becoming popular with local theater managers and now the itol announces the coniing of “Joy Week," when two special fea tures will be flashed on the scréen One is Jackie Coogan in “The T Man,” and the other is Buster ton in “Seven Chances.” Other nov Ities are to be announced later Kea Claudia Alba I3uropean novelty he first three days of the week, the Capitol. Claudia Alba is a phy- sical culture exponent and her feats strength are said to be amazing. Devil's Cargo” is the accom panying picture. and company act, is hooked The Starting Thursday, the Capitol will feature “Forty Winks.” one of the I"'amous Players’ best dramas and iaranteed to wake up a wooden In jan. Raymond C vrin the comedy Another big act coming* Capitol next week s Florice and company her carrying its own seven pieces, to th Claire a musical dance num hestra of | The chief role is played by Mae is rated as one of the most comical dramas yet filined, The Lyceum also announces that "“The White Bister,” starring Lilllan ‘(;lih, is to be brought back here for |a return showing as a result of popular request. It 1s to be present- ed at popular prices, Another blg production that the Lyceum has booked for showing is Douglas Fairbanks fn the famous | pictures of the age. “The Beloved Brute” also is com- ing to the Lyceum soon. This is one of those red bhlooded pictures, replete with physical combat between strong muscular men, “Bread", which comes to the TLy- ceum Thursday, includes such stars |as Mae Busch, Wanda Hawley, 1ob- lert Frazer, Pat O'Malley, Myrtle Stedman, Ward Crane g Besserer, Ward Crane Bugenia will be “The Night Ship,” a tale of the high seas. Thomas Meighan in his latest re- |lease, “Coming Through,” starts a |four days' engagement |night at the Palace. Lila Lee is in |this picture, The last half of the week this theater will present Rich- ard Barthelmess and his wife, Mary Hay, in “New Toy! The usual vaudeville program will be present- cd. Sunday | The sixth anniversary week pro- |8ram, which i soon to be presented jat the Palace, will bring 14 acts of high grade Keith vaudeville and two super-features as the movie attrac- tions. Coming Palace pictures ara Cor- inne Griffith in “Love's Wilderness,” Coleen Moore in “Sally,”” and Tom Mix fn his first eight recler, *“Dick Turpin." 'THE DEVIL'S GARG(Y - ATTHE GAprTOL Florice Clair's Syncapators the Vaudeville Feature What {8 “The Devil's Cargo? It's Victor Fleming's latest pro- | duction for Paramount, which fs the feature at the Capitol beginning Monday, featuring Pauli tarke, Willace Beery, William Collier, Jr., land Claire Adams. with ymond | Hatton and othiers appearing in sup- | port. | Wallace Beery has his greatest {screen role in this picture, an adap- jtation of the story, “The River Boat,” by Clg Whittaker. He plays the role of a massive stoker on the river boat which is chartered by the vigilantes of Sacramento to de- nort the town's undesirables. There is a mutiny pn board and Beery comes up on deck to find the cap- tain slain, He takes the little first {mate, a part played fo perfection by Hatton, and tosses him into the sea, dons the captain's ana assumes les he Thief of Bagdad This fs Fairbanks' greatest work and has | been halled as one of the wonder- 2|, Seene fromTHEIAGT LAUG N EMILJANNINGS A UFA Proouction -ReLEAPED BY UNIVERSAL LYCEUM — Sun. - Mon, - Tues. - Wed. NEWS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE SPOKEN STAGE, SILENT DRAMA AND MUSIC offering; variet lans, his wife, "“Toodl; Boston, York poli by the Boston depa la confession | Jar Betty performers; and Denby and Dawn an excellent pair of comed- a LONE WOLP MAY BE BOBE BANDIT l1New York Police Advised of Bostonian’s “Confession” ew Toy nd Co, el made s 1. Walters, held here {Lone Wolf, 28Tt vaterious er versatlle day On Thursday Richard Bathlclmess will be seen In " in which Mary Hay, and baby | " support him, New were notified | tment today of by |held his office hy virtue of a vote of s “The [the bandit [which he | who terrorized a section of the Back | Bay aparty that he w girls and one good man adrift {n the middle of the Pacific with a cargo of the lowest sort of humans imag- inable and forced to cater to the slightest wish of a mad man, “COMING THROUGH ey P cor ana ver AL Palace Theater Begimning Sunday-Keith Vaudeville featured by Tlorlce Clar and her Fght Syncopaters, Mss Clar s an o ceptional singer and dancer and her company includes seven syncopaters who are exponents of jazz and bluc music. Other acts include the Du- | ponts in an excellent varety offerng; | Some McRea and Mott n a comedy act wll four-hundred odd persons prove a sensation here as her wor will be well She s Furope woman. Her feats of strength will |after a_ year's absence In amaze the audiencs and her offering | Throu, feature photoplay cast in the role of a rough- T. Goldman of 62 Harrison street, < mine foreman who does his hest to put Tom out of the way for ps. As Joe ler, Berry aimed to have the greatest oppor- secretary of the Congregation Broth- | ers Sons of Israel, a delegate to th has been elected | first Connecticut Jewish religious and edncational |tunity of his carecr. =~ conference to take place at the| John Miltern plays Lila L s Bnai Jacob synagogue at 347 George | father in the production. He is Johr streat, New Haven, tonorrow. He'Rand, president of the scelt corp- will represent the local synagogue, | cration in which Meighan is an em- The conference will convene at [plove. Frank —Campeau. anoth sereen favorite, portrays the role of Shackleton who makes his livin the sale of hootleg liquor in the ing camp at Colton where Meig s sent as superintendent The Keith vaudeviile bill wi one of excellence and features D Mack and Daly in ating A 10:30 a. m. and the following sub- jects will be discussed: “Problem of the synagogue,” “Tha Hebr and Religious schools,” “The Jew- h Life of the college student” and i The Unorganized- Community,” all vital problems which face Connecti- cent Jews, Thia is the first confer- command. Here's the situation: Two young 1925." Other acts offer Marty Nancy in a wonderfu! original dance | ence of its kind ever to be held in this state, LYCEUM SUNDAY MON. - TUES. - WED. | adapted to the screen/| is vory difficult to perform. from Bethea's novel “Bed On Sunday night there will he two | Rock featured |bery of 2d |liner, in h third strec | tember, fesslon_seri [decided to tion as to h ' ~ Walters, [admitted a relay the information to New York for possible investigation. who is under observa- is mental condition, has Il the crimes attributed | ho made a! [to the “fone Wolf" w ty of robbing apartments oc- d by women and ill t apparent recounted detalls of exploits professed hoyhood. was & appear in support of Thomas Meig- |school in Baltimore at the age of 12, |ohtain a majority, spec cuy | vietims, ich he Ipart from his story h | life sent hundred are real honest-to-goodness | known at th miners who appear in the coal mine |alienist had decla In Bobe case, sensational vne athlete 1d |scenes of the story. The other n]li«une but of @ posesses a H ilean strength that | have prominent roles in the cast. {has not yet been equalled by any| Lila Lee, who returns to the serecn “Coming | door man, k four armed members of a Broadway gan the leading |bed Miss Bobe and her escor woman's role opposite Tom. Tt's like | ert L. Hague, marinc superintendent Mayflower with Coolidge ab With nent dis s implic ith Bobe or t, New ously, n his confession Walt and ma oard 1o the same rict ew Y apartment on last While not taking the con- Boston York, to hav ent to a time regar d he ed com President and week-end or & is |cruise anchored last night off C: | nial Beach, for acted lookout o police weeks, ted in the rob- k mil- Sixty- ating his pride he in taken According to reform that ng th whi paniol Rol ! one. presenting e X “Tosti and Found a romantic |0l times to have Lila back with|of the Standard Oil com on drama, and the other an all star cast | Meighan, Miss Lee appeared with |their return to the woma apart- in the picturization of the famous the star in many of his carlier s ment bhiGe stage play “Listen Lester", cesses, rs said his share of the §2 - —_— - Wallace Beery. whom the fans will | 000 spoils in furs, jc welr) nd oth remember for his excellent work {n articles, was more than $3,000. I. Goldman Is Delegate “Robin Hood” and In “The T . « Is the villian in this picture g To Jewish Cenference Washington, March 28 —The yacht an the man to be mormal mentality. 5, rob- Mrs, for Walters, making FIRST NATIONAL ELECTION SUNDAY ‘German People Never Before in | History Have Picked Leader By The Asso: March in its history more than a ousand years, dotted with the tur ilent reigns of margray {kings and emperors, the German na luted | | Berlin, — Ior the first |time th bu electors, tion tomorrow be given the op portunity of elect its head through the medium of a populus ballot, The late Frederick Thert, first president of the German republi national assembly in 1019, by was designated provisional president At various times during the ensuing ycars he urged that his provisional be ended but it was deemed unwise to cast the coun try into the throes of a presidential clection, and it act of the reichsiag, on 1921, that Herr E) status wus changed to a regular one, his term 10 expire June 30, 1925, Her sudden death advanced this date by two months. status was by October, rt's provisional Law Is Peculiar e law for election of lent is p ar in geve It provides a obtain a cl presi- 1 respects lidate must majority of all the votes cast to he declared elected, As there are seven candidates in the running nobody in Germany serious- ly believes that candidate can any The law there- provoke plenty of laughter as this < and has since heen in trouble With |fore provides that a second ball couple are real comedian .\rurim'i" In his new Paramount picture. m:(llmrmu( in many states, includ- |epail oo (':I{n?v (m"( V’:u::;(‘]«’lllull(a\‘o:t and Bllly Marlow will present their | 'oming Through,” which will be|ing Washington and Idaho. District |ion day has aiready heen fixed for comedy gkit “Before the Boat the feature Sunday at the Palace Attorney Thomas C. O'Brien an- |sp.q 25 b T leaves” a musical incident with [theater to remain for four days {“q-,”mi yesterday he would ask for | This time candldsto obtalning trimmings and Clandia Alba wlil Here's the wer, folks, The four 2 the highest number of votes will b red elected, a vote the various roll up in the aggre ly new candidates may b arties regardless of how | opponents ate, En- named or combina- may ti by the tions of parties for the second clec- tion, Term Is For 7 Years, president's term is 1 nd he may be he-elected as an muster the soven to vote as me and, like t1 men, to vate as men, and, like the men, obtaln this privilege on arriving at their twentieth ye Karl Jarres, vice councellor in the Marx cabinet 1 now Lord Mayor of Duisburg, is expected to head the column of rety , as he is assured undivided support of the Ger- 1 nationalists, the German peo- Va., about 65 mil oW party, which is the nomin Washington and this morning con- party of “big business,” and all the tinued fts cruise down the Potomac. |unattached minor factions which The weather cleared somewhat dur- invariably make common rause with ing the night but a brisk wind was |the conservafives, He also has the blowing. support of those German ascisti - — leaders who disapprove of General Nearly 200 sugar now are . Ludendorft’s individual entry as a in operation in Cuba. candid | - PALACE - DAY NIGHT — MON. - TUES. A SMASHING -WED. DRAMA Otto Braun, former premier of | Prussia, has a big tight on his hands | in trylng to keep intact the socalist vote, which is menaced by the u«m-i He is expected, however, to | hold second place in the final count, | By virtue of sturdy defense | of the Weimar constitution, and the | intelluctual quality of Frof. Willy Hellpach, the democratic | party's munists, lis his speeches, nominee, has easily proven | the oustanding flgure among Uw-'y ven contending candidates. Ho is little 10wn however, outside of his home state of Baden, of which he is premic \d he s presented by party which in the past has failed to cnthuse the German voter. He is viewed as a political esthete and his | campaign has been free of the parti- | san cerbities which have marked the propaganda launched for Jarres | and Braun, Hellpach May Be Proposed. | Dr. Hellpach may again be pro- | posed by the democrats for the sec- ond balloting on April 26 as joint candidate for the three liberal par- ties, as political experts are already convinced that Dr. Marx, the former chancellor, will be unavailable as a compromise standard bearer for the demotrats, centrists and Dr. Marx's position after th is still matter of con- and while he will receive the full vote of his party tomorrow * is grave doubt whether he can socialists, | first balloting juncture, y as a rallying point for the | serman liberal elements since his | red adventure in Prussian politics, Premier Held of Bavaria ning as a ably state is run- nd will prob of his home “native son the vote receive Ernst Thaelmann, the communists’ | nominee, is expected to poll at mmj 3,000,000 votes, while Ludendorff, | who has distinguished himself by not making gle campaign speech, may gather in the frayed remnants of Hitler's former Bavarian fascist guar; are, however, that the general will trail the other | contestants in the race, | SOUTHINGTON NEWS A pet ated hy the charter committec on the con solidation form of government, ask Ing for a special town meeting to act on several m, s pertaining to this new form of government, while a re -] quest for such a gathering has been| made to the selectmen, The Pextos had a cinch in I:rim.l' a Indications ion is being circu last night, taking thelr Farmington Valley basketball league game from the Co. G flve by a 52-18 acore, The locals jumped right in front at the start and held a 30-12 advantage at the end of the first half. This lead they continued to pile up in the cloas ing period, while Bristol was held to six points, Cushing had a great night, getting 11 baskets, Hartford and Larson also featured for the Pextos, while White starred for Bristol. The Pextos, ¥g ¥ ‘B Hartford, Ig. .8 0 10 Connors, s 0 4 Cushing «11 0 23 DBealtz, rf T 0 2 England, 2 0 % Cavanaugh 3 0 4 Larson, rg .3 2 3 Totals S a s 2 54 Bristol, Fr. B % TR ST ) 0§ J. Wihite pe a0 iiii o e 11 J. Riordan, ¢ 0 0o 0 €. Riordan, Ig. 1 T Carlson, g [ n 0 Ciroxg, Sl o 1 08 STolalNE et S o 8 3 18 Arreturn game will be played in town hall here tonight. The Pex- tos are game and a half behind the league-leading Eimwood five, which closed its season last night by defeating Unionville. The locals have three games left and must take all to earn a tie with Elmwood, One loss will put them out of the race. Dancing will follow tonight's game. The Plantsville onal bank will be opened for the first time Monday morning, the work of renovating its quarters having been completed yes- erday. Thres tranips were elected to the degree of fun and good fellowship at e meeting of Wonx Tribe of Hay- makers last ®vening and will take the degree next month, The selectmen met yesterday and voted to pay bills totalling $1,400, The chemical squad for the next three months will be composed of the first five officers of the fire come pany and John Miller, Charles Linke, Percival Welch, John Connors, Ed- ward Miller, Reuben Bennett, Joseph Barbier and Ernest Maynard. Charles Ray, local painter and decorator, has secured a patent on & carburetor” adjustment for automo- biles. He plans to sell the patent to a local manufacturing company. SUNDAY All Star Cast | In “LOST AND FOUND” | CAPITOL NIGHT — DOUBLE FEATURES “LISTEN LESTER” . From the Musical Play | Great Cast of Stars MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY P DIRECT FROM NEW YORK CITY FIRST SHOWING IN CONNECTICUT CARL LAEMMLE presents A UFA PRODUCTION A SCREEN MASTERPIECE | AT POPULAR PRICES ADOLP! JEssE H 2UKOR L LASKY ragsor Ernest Torrence and models will be feature ing Capitol attraction maker From Paris. “The Last Laugh,"” which starts at the Lyceum tomorrow night, is being shown in this city for the first time in any theater in Connectlcnt, after A successful run in New York. It is a foreign production and fs unique that it contains no special tities or words denoling conversatlon. It 14 beautiful n the com- Dress- in Thurs. Sat. This Coupon and — “BREAD” — From the Famous Novel LADI MATINEE 10¢ Any Lady SPEC. Will Admit fo Best Seats WATCH WALLACE BE FOR DALY, SKATING Thursday — Friday — Saturday OUR BIG RY AND JOHN MILTERN IN CAST Keith Vaudeville Featuring MACK A MARTY & NANCY — BETTY & CO — DE ” »ith LILA LEE & DALY LA 1925 BY & DAWN Supported By His Wife MARY HAY and BABY “TOODLES" ANNIVERSARY WEEK Keith Vaudeville Featur Florice 8—9S Elanda Al Europe’s Famous Feminine Athlete THE DUPONTS Dancers De Luxe Dance: Continucus Shows Her yncopaters—8 A Rousing Romance— Thriller of California in the Gold Rush Days of 49 ing Clair and Music S McRae & Mott “Absurdities” Marie & Billy Marlow “Before the Boat Leaves” Thurs.—*