New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1925, Page 21

S g44@L@M ¢ :\a T e V. oo Xisw 5 nles otherwise indicuted. theatrien) written by the press agencles for SMPTY HANDS" AT CAPITOL The, Paramount production “Emp- ty Hands" opened a three-day ¢h- gagement at the Capitol yesterday and was well llked, Jack Holt and Norma Shearer are at the head of 4 dlstinguished cast of players, The plot 18 interesting and novel and will be enjoyed by all.. The Keith vaude- ville blll has five good acts offered, featuring the Three Pals, three ju- venile performers who offer a good song and dance offering; Warman and Mack are “Two Magnetic Chaps" with songs at tbe piano. ,They sing and entertain quite pleasingly; Gib- son and Price arc jugglers and offer an act that is a real novelty in their vartiedlar line; Nat Liepsig 1s a comedian and hus a wealth of bright and witty sayings interspersed with nnmml( songs, The closing agt of- fers Madame DuBarry, the nofed operatic singer and her company of six singers.. They offer a real good singing act that is really a fine treat in singing as they all posscss won- derful voices.. On Satutday only a new episode of the serial “Idaho” will be shown. * Beginning Sunday night Jackie Coogan will be offered in “The Rag Man."” GO A ARG "TODAY AND SAT. Continuous Shows A e e ettt st il g e e e b o o o o 2 - 2 1 1AL ll'l |i!-ln (LA CY ng iy PALACE AN NE) notires and rev the respec’ o NIV | | The With a monster show under contract |tor this gala occasion. In the past |years the anniversary performances at the Palace Dave been the best |that money can buy and this year |the management is fortunate in be- ing able to present a’'show on both {halves of the week that will eclipse any anniversary show seen there he- fore, in fact it will positively be the greatest show that has ever been of- fered in this eity before. To give an ldea of the greatness of®his show, Alr. H. A, Carlin, chief hooker of the Keith Vaudeville Exchange com- pleted arrangements and contracts for the 14 acts of JKeith vaudeville to be shown during the weck and he remarked, “If Barnum and had this show, they'd call ‘it the Greatest Vaudeville Show on Rarth,” Among the 14 acts booked is the offéring of “The Lazy Bar Blue Blowers,” an aggregation of musi- cians and entertainers, who have made a hit with their “blues” or Jazz numbers. Another big time. of- fering is Marion Sunshine with Henry Marshall at the plano. Miss Sunshine is ome of the members of the faomus act of Tempest and Sun- shine, Keith, Proctor and Considine Circuit stars for a good long while. They were at one time very popular in many of the Ziegfield Follies and other musical shows featured are all top notchers and will be announced later. The photoplays to be shown on the week have been selected from will celebrate its sixth anniversary all next wecek | Bailey | The other acts | JACK HOLT miany as two of the best of the cur- reng releases. For the first four |days of the week, Tom Mix will be NORMA SHEARER “Empty Hands” KEITH VAUDEVILLE |- 3 PALS | Wnrma—fi & Mack Gibson- & Price Nat'Liepsig and Company of SIX SINGERS i Sla;tinx Sunday Nighi | JACKIE COOGAN In “THE RAGMAN” Saturday—“Tdaho” —————————————————————————— |secn in “Dick Turpin.” This is the first Mix picture to ever play a Broadway theater and it is Mis first PALACE TODAY AND SAT. Continuous Shows HARRY CAREY - N — “ . R ‘Roaring Rails KEITH VAUDEVILLE Jura & Sisters T Stanley & May T Tom Gillen . Doi'man & Stginiey Beginning Sunday TOM MIX In His First 8 Reeler Dancing Every Evening | Melody Boys’ Orchestra ; ROBIN HOOD INN | Meriden | “DICK TURPIN” 14 ALL STAR 14 | KEITH ACTS BIGGEST SHOW EVER nppearance in an eight reeler, The story of “Diek Turpin” 1s well known to many and with Tom in the role of the famous bandit of Merrie Eng- \and, movie fans will have a real treat, ‘ The other feature will offer Col. } [teen Moore In her greatest perform- ance, “Sally” from the famousg Zieg- fleld stage play and with Leon FEr- vol, the famous comedian of the play, in support of Miss Moore in the photoplay version. BELOVED BRUTE—LY( M The Lyceum today s running. a continuous showing of Gouble fea- ture plctures, serial, news reels and selected comedies, “The Tenth Woman,” o dynamie drama with an clement of mystery, 18 one og the top notehe while the other is from | the novel “The Beloved Brute,” Tt/ Marguerlte De LaMotte, Mary and Stuart Holmes, while Victor | Mclaglen, heavywelght boxing | champlon of the British army, also has a big part, The plcture is made Alden | doubly exclting hy strenuous physi- | .\ | Re cal encounters and a near lynching | | bee at the climax is another thril- | |ling moment. “Galloping Hoofs," the current serial, is being shown, | Starting Sunday and continuing ail | next week the Lyceum I presenting | the famous Douglas Fairbanks' mas. | terpiece, “The Carpet of Bagdad,” by | far his greatest effort and one of the | | reatest pictures of all time. This| {is the same picture that has been {featured in the -leading playhouses al lover the country at advanced OFF FOR ASYLUN Dorothy Ellingson, Adjuged Insane, Is Taken to State Hospital in Cali- fornia Today. San Francisco, April 10.—Dorothy Ellingson, 17-year-old matricide to- | day confronted the thing from which all her tears and pleas and emo- i tional outbursts could not save her— | the beginning of a new life as an in- | mate in a state hospital for the in- | sane at Napa, northeast of San Fran. | cisco, where she shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Anna Ellingson, A jury yesterday, by a vote of 11 to 1, declded she is insane, She ar- | rived at the asylum shortly after. ®he will be kept under observation several days before assuming her definite status in the asylum, The girl's departure from the courtroom after the jury had re- turned fts verdict was dramatie. She fainted when the jury an. nounced its finding and, upon her re- covery, found the courtroom com- paratively deserted. Only the m: trons, a janitor and several new: papermen remained. As soon as she was able to regain her composure the trip which she vigorously had fought against—the Jjourney to the state asylum for the insane—began, Rumania to Permit | Importation of Wheat Bucharest, Rumania, April 10, — The Rumanian government has agreed to permit the importation of wheat, and 15,000 tons are being or- dered immediately. * Only once be- fore for a period in 1919, has wheat been Imported into the country, | Recent advices from Bucharest re- | ported that bread was being made | from a mixture of wheat, rye and | corn heeause of the peasants' refusal | to sell wheat at the price decreed by the government, and the gbvern- | ment's refusal to permit wheat m- portations. 1t was said that the government was prepared to order Wheatless days rather than permit foreign wheat to be brought into the country, Charlie Chaplin's helght is 5 fect 4 inches, and his weight 1s nbout{ 125 pounds, i | ou! NOW PLAYING THE BELOVED BRUTE—STUART HOLME TENTH WOMAN—JU E MARLOWE ipplness ALL NEXT WEEK STARTING SUNDAY NIGHT, APRIL 12 must, ¢ ‘earned stars such actors as William Russell, | | “SHALL MEN FOR PLANES crulting For Alr Servico—Scores Dr, Knud Rasmussen, Dayton, Ohlo, April 10.~Donald B. MacMillan, aretic explorer, who | lectured here last night, declared | he would favor selection of “little men" to man airplancs which will explore the Arctics, “If | have my own way," Mac- | Millan added, “the navy depart- | |ment will start immediately to eliminate every applicant who s | not under b fect, 8 inches. Big men are like dogs, they wear out | too quickly. “When we set out this summer, want men who are not hampered by families and who will not spend their leisure time contemplating on the plight of their dependents. We must have contented men.” | He scored statements of Dr. Knud asmussen, Danish explorer, that disaster is certain to come to the party by landing on snow sheets, “We are quite familiar with the conditions we will encounter in the north,” MacMillan sald. “Perhaps better so than Rasmussen, whose expeditions have been confined for the most part'to within 500 mifes of the north pole.” | O'Mahoney Is Held for | Superior Court Trial | Greenwich, Conn,, April Iu,»—[ James A, O'Mahoney of New York charged with murder in the first degree, following the fatal shoot- | ing of Miss Beatrice Donnelly of New York in the woods here last Sunday, was bound over to the| next.term of the superior court at | Bridgeport without bail, at a hear- | ing in the borough court here yes- | terday. He was taken to the Bridge- | port jail last night. | Through O'Mahony’s counsel, George A. Voss of New York and Willlam Mulville of Greenwich, a demurrer was filed but this was overruled by Judge James R. Mead. | | was advocated last night by Viscount WOULD SCRAP “SUBS” MacMillan Favors Change in Re- | Viscount Lee Feels This Is the Only | Practical Way to Bing About | ‘I Disarmament. s Philadelphia, April 10~A now arms conference that would = give particular attention to the scrap- ping of submarines and abolish their manufacture in the future, Lee of Vareham, first lord of the admiralty under the Lloyd George coalition government, at a dinner of the Philadelphia branch of the English-Speaking union, “Land disarmament s not fea ible,” he said, “for it was shown by the last war that large armios can be mobilized quickly. Alr dis- armament is not practical, either, for the manufacture of airplanes is necessary to the commercial ad- ance of that indystry. So far as naval disarmament is concerned, I think this question was dealt properly by the ference, * Abolition of th& submarine is the proper angle from which fo ack this great problem. that America and England come to an agreement in this mat- ter, but Irance would pres: a problem and T think the United States is in the best position to take the matter up with that country,” Compounce Forest Fire Visible From This City Meriden, Conn,, April | spectacular forest fire visible from | both Meriden and New Britain, sev- eral hundred acres of brush and tim- berland on the west end of Water- bury mountain in the Lake Com- pounce section of Southington, were burned over yesterday. Defying the best efforts of a hundred or more | volunteers, the fire at dusk jumped a highway at the foot of the moun- tain and spread into the Southington Valley. At midnight, wtih the aid of a brook and several back fires, the conflagration was declared un- der control, Volunteers were credited 10.—In a; with | Washington con- | T feel | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, | with saving between six and eight —and Figures Don’t Lie Above is a vivid picture of the tremendous buying demand created throughout the country by the Nash Special Six and Advanced Six models. Total automobile sales monthly are registering severe decreases as contrasted with corrésponding months last year. On the other hand Nash sales are monthly sweeping far . beyond the records for last year. It is a dramatic and convincing national tribute to the downright superiority in beauty, in performance, and in . value of the Nash product. Have evet seen a Magic Rug Soat above the city b:lr'(: a Thief and a Princess? Have you ever seena White Horse with wingsfly thr_ough theclou Have youeverseen the Magic Rope, live dngon_s andats £ bigas elephants? Have you ever seen an “Invisible” cloak? LYCEUM PRICES — MATINEE 3 A $2.00 Picture First Time At Low Prices 5¢—25c. EVENING 50c, 35¢, 25¢ GOOD FRIDAY—CONTINUOU S SHOW Meriden Man Victim | farm buildings in Southington from | . | destruction. The flames burned small | i Of Escaping Gas acres in Bristol and Wolcott, Meriden, April 10.—William E. Smith, about 55 years old, was found | dead in a rooming house here late vesterday. The medical examiner sald that death was due to gas es- caping from a heater and accsdent- al. Smith, whow as a gate tender at a rallroad crossing here, formerly lived at 309 Ann street, Hartford. The Hartford police have been asked to locate his relatives, Park Zoo today King, Jack and board in deciding the cubs’ mother |beasts, completes | cas A ON SHOP e Hise of Deafionable Allery, AVOID THE GENUINE PERSIAN RUGS o NOTE THE PRICES! IN é l E é i é i AFTER- Hamadans 5x4 " feet .. $35.00 THE NOON Mosuls 6x4 feet .. $50.00 Nemsn Skl teat L Son 0 ' MORNING MILLINERY Co. RUSH Sarouk x4, feet .. $140.00 3 2 Arak feet ..... $250.00 177 MAIN STREET Sarouk 12x9 feet ..... $750.00 You Can D9 Better By Buying Your Rugs of B. Y. JONES Phone 285 or 2 % 385 COMMONWEALTH AVE. Our Fulfinish service removes the washing worr: tirely. Everything is caref tifully ironed Phone us to call t} from your ho y washed ang s week, i i} Write A Classified A Win A Prize! $10.00 in Gold and 20 theater tickets to the % B Capitol are being awarded this week in The Her- | ald’s big “Write A Want Ad For This Picture” Con- test announced Monday. Just a few minutes’ time—write a Ad for the picture described in this issue—and you may be among the prize winners. Contest closes Saturday night of this week. Enter now! THE HERALD April 10.—The four lion cubs born Monday at the Swope dently had a poker flush in mind, for —_— “ PRE-EASTER BARGAINS Have You, Madam, Plenty of Time? Could you use a day a weck if we gave it to R L you? Even if you have.the family washing done will save consid at iome, it usually requires your supervision Large and small Most of the day you must stay around the rabl im N house when you might be doing what your fancy erable time by prefers, gives you a day off, and 1e en- beau- FULFINISH 20c¢ a pound J- a SPECIAL SIX SERIES—ADV!/ NCED SIX SERIES ‘Models range from $1095 to $2290, f. 0. b factory A. C. HAWKER 52 ELM ST. J. B. MORAN, Asso. Dealer 3131, CHURCH ST. i were named Ace, Deuce. The park on the names, evi. as “Queen” of the the hand In the Easter Trimmed 52-4 | $3.95 L Hats for every $5.00 Hats for Miss ; and Matron. You type of woman, head sizes--Large shopping here and small Hats Saturday | BETTER HATS | $6°75 to $15 As usual, we have the largest vari- ety of exclusive models in the city CHILDREN'S HATS You will do well to bring the kid- dies here Saturday. From our large stock' you will find just the hat To Complete the Easter Costume GOTHAM Classified 0LD REG. U.S.PAT. OFF RIPE + Silk Stockings that Wear Regular and Sheer Silk $1851.$3.00 30 Colors Finest Stocking Made