New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1925, Page 5

T II| i !h [ rv' b ...IiU \ HATEDS | nph l se indicited. theatrical notices and reviews W this coluimn are . written by the press hgencles for the respect ' ¢ amusement company o ) 1 7 o o - o 20 YTHEHEAT DIVIDE," CVAPITOL ‘There have been few pletures which have brought so great a mes. sage as that{which 1s presented In the scrcen at | the Cap'tol theater where the Mot production, * being shown, today, Wednesday, How three ‘men gamble for a girl, with one ultimately coming ouf. vie- torious, how she is then bought for o string of gold nuggets ‘and how she struggles to regain her freedom Dby getting possession of the nuggets i8 told in a forceful way, Heading the Keith \mn]t\lHl bill Is' five sterling acts presénting “The Alamo Club™ with a cast of five en- tertainers; Dulmadge and Kitty in a bieyele novelty; Conn and Albert in a song and dance offering Mannes, Pollard and Knecht ofter a musical playlet ‘Milestones” und James B, Donevan, “the king of Ireland” Mary Lee, “the danc “Doing Well—Thank You." are continugus shows daily, Tuesday and PALAC ge's genius at han- dling the mother the pletures is proverbial. | Forgotten n ne in motion | cellence; Bob Walters, “The Great Lover;” Goldie and Thorne, a very fine pair of comediennes, and Car- ter and Cornfsh, the fastest dancing act In vaudeville., On Thursday Charlie Chaplin will be offc in “Tillie’'s Punctured Romance” on a double feature program with Mary Astor and Jan Kelth in “Entice- ment.” The vaudeville will be fea- tured by Jack Linton's West Point Cadet orchestra of ten pleces, “ISN'T LIFE WONDERIUL” David W, Griffith's sn't Life Wonderful” is the attraction at the Lyceum the first three days of this week and on Thursday the bill will | ,ho changed to bring two big fea. the « Galloping {last half-week Harry Carey in der” and Madge Wife.” yond the Dorder” is latest effort which Hoofs serial, The features will be “Beyond the Bor- Bellamy in “His Harr, for nd romance puts all his othee | pictures into the background. | “His Forgotten Wife" is a |angle to the eternal triangle. concerns a husband, his wife new It and his [tures as well as the latest episode in | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1925 SLAYER OF SEVEN PROBABLY CRAZY §t. Paul Woman Included Own| Family in Poison Tragedies 8t. Paul, Neb, April 20,~Mrs, [Della Sorenson, 28, who yesterday ixuhnnlod killing with poison seven persons, including two of her own children and her husband, probably Wll be placed in an asylum for in- sane, it was announced today by County Attorney Dobrey, Dobrey said an investigation had shown that Mrg. Sorensen was mentally un- balanced. If she should be re- | loased within two or three years, the |attorney sald, the murder charges | ngainst her could be revived. Investigation into the series hs extending over seven years | was started three weeks ago follow- |ing the serious illness of two small ixhnrlnn to whom Mrs. Sorensen zave some poisoned cookies. | In her confession Mrs. Sorcnsen |said she had killed two of her chil- | _ ldren, a baby, Delorls, and her three huu old daughter, Minnie; Deloris use her crying and fretting ir- ritated her mother and Minnie be- cause she was ill with St Vitus dance, and "I could do nothing for 'her.” Her husband, am, the woman said, |after a quarrel. Mrs. E. Wilhelmina Weldam, Mrs. Sorensen’'s mother-in-law, died of poison administered by the avcused woman, according to her | sion, in the summer of 1920. was feeble and childish and a bur- she poisoned of | Joseph Weld- | confes. | “She week-end with her parents, Mr, und\ | Mrs. Benjamin Goodale of Robbins | avenue, Miss Sally Rowley ux\hr!uluwl about 40 of her friends at her home | | Saturday evening in honor' of Miss Goodale who is home from Boston. | At the party, Mrs, Hester Hall Luce |annunced the engagement of her | daughter, Bertha B, Luce to Ray- | mond L, Stoddard of New Britain, (iuests were present from Boston, Hartford, New Britaln, Berlin and | Newington, Games and dancing | were enjoyed and light refresh- menty were served, An interesting lecture was given | last evening In church by ‘Ralph Colling {ford. Tor his theme,.he descril his trip around the world. By wo ing the greater part of the trip, he | carned all of his expenses. . Col- | Iins had several interesting and un-‘ usual adventurs | Miss Betty Francis of Danielson spent the week-end with her cousins | the Misses Dorls and Bertha I'rancis of the center, | of Hart- d New Parachute Fails; Jumper Meets Death Tuisa, Okla, April 20, — D, D.| Kople, 38, a professional parachute jumper, was instantly killed at a fying fleld near Tulsa yesterday aft- | ernoon when his chute failed o re- main open. Kople jumped from an | | airplane and the parachute, a new invention, opened and cheeked his | fall apd then closed, allowing him ‘lu plunge more than 700 feet to earth, | ‘M.l.wv(‘u d sent in to the iice the Congregational | e ; Yine street Tha ten dollar prize for the best Herald of- | £, Conrad, 86 aple | Conrad, as you can see | , read the Vo, 9 in the Herald “Autos and ‘rucks For Sale,” To comment on | Mr, Conrad's ad for the benefit of thosc who send in unswers this week the classified department generally “Tel.” instcad of “Phone” it Is shorter and means the same thing. We are p 1 to note that he uses numerals instead of spelling out a number, His reason for selling Is logical, and the ad iiself is a model o and he has covered all the selling points in Icss than 5O words. Many of the ads submitted 2 good also, but we think you will agree that Mr. Conrad deserves the first prize when you read the following Herald classified ad: gocs to A, Mr. prited ad street, by the heading | uses neatness, IFor the ten next winners, who will receive {wo passes to ter are: W. G, Re Smith street; Mrs. H. Herre, 102 Dorothy Arnold, 198 e Palace field, 126 | when a cable 0 A E CONRAD GETS HERALD AD PRIZE Writes Best Offering for This Week--Read It | NE IS KILLED, 7 HURT WHEN BRIDGE COLLAPSES Suspension Cable Broke When Chil- dren Jumped (o Make Bridge Vibrate, Baltimore, April 20.—One hoy was killed and seven other persons were injured yesterday afternoon knapped on a suspen- sion bridge at Orange Grove, about 12 miles from this city. The bridge is 400 feet long and iy used by pe- destrians over the Patapsco river, According. to witnesses, 42 per gons wer crossing the spun when a number of the childven in the cen- ter were pumping to make the Lridge vibfute. A large cable snapped und most of the pedestrians |u|u,\n into the river, a drop of 25 water I8 about five feet p and jugged with large rocks orman Hunt, 13 years old, was killed when hit by the falllng cable: Other persons suffered broken arms and logs in falllng upon the rocks, | HAMMAR IN SIGMA X1 Hammar of 74 Maplc a memberof the injor ¢ depurtment o at | Hammar is also a member of the Delta Tau fraternity, ‘ wore School in Pomfret Is Destroyed by Flames Pomfret, Conn,, April 20, == The rectory school of Christ Eplscopal chureh, a small boarding schoel for boys here, was totally destroyed by ‘mv yesterday while the bullding was closed, The fire, which was believ Hill [ed to have started from a xh‘((-mlw 18 | chimney, caused an estimated Joss mee cal $20,000, Worcester 1 !l- | The Rev, F. H. Bigelow, who con- 1 by ducted the school, announced that 10 classes will be held at the rectory of Christ church until arrangements 1ew gchool building are made. ‘arl avenue, th in of nic Tnstitute clectlon 1o Hig ving hag boen e Xi. Election ternity is this particular f1 hig) ity to use difficult engine olustic nment 1 abil- | for a r An oyster can I ay 60,000,000 cggs, Individua ri WIN THIS WEEK! The Herald Offers $10.00 IN GOLD First Prize in a Unique AD-WRITIN CONTEST For This Picture!” ‘Hangs Self Follo\\'ing iple street; Anna Czoch, 164 Oak Fatal Auto Accident |strect: Alma Hanks, 51 Drighton 4 |street; Russell Walter Jackson, Lancester, Ky. A April 20.—After | o avenue, Bristol; H, | “I'wo children of Mrs. Wetzel Coop- | brooding over an automobile acci- 436 Ohurehl steoct: ‘Jobn s scheduled fer, Mrs. Sorensen's sister-in-law, | dent last Monday tn which he struck ;¢ 100 (A Pee A ia Con= |for the Capitol theater starting Sun- | were killed because Mrs. Cooper had | and Killed a little girl who made a | 0c i e FOREEE R ACe, Mol day April 26. The event is the first | offended Mrs. Sorensen, the confes- | pyiile attempt to save her pet chick- | o™ o S0 S S0 program of its kind ever staged at |sion said. “E ime T gave Pois- | an from being run over, Mason H.| =~ 6l oot S lace are a local playhouse. Not a number on |on to one of Mrs. Cooper's children, Pollard, 52, wealthy farmer Niving | A9 th 1“r ¥ i ’ uld {the program will be advertised al- (I said to myself, ‘Now I'm going 10 | o0+ yiare yesterday ended his tife | O B0% ": t ““ oLk uweL Mol though advance notices have it that | get even with you (Mrs. Cooper) for |\, "yapoine Tiimsclf in a stock barn. 1:’ ?:::n[,::\tqo Ao 1':’:,‘\:{‘1‘]1“1;::1’ it will be one of the most elaborate |what you have hout me'y” the | i N ctim of the accident was Min- Th'l' S e "Z"mm staged at the Capltol this s on. | confession re £ 4 nie Shearer, small daughter of & qo (5o | hewnihRat oo i e laa 10 can have the $10 for a bric You know what the Capitol has done | The last of th neighbor of Pollard's, &t the Herald, in the past and it is not much to [to Mrs. Sorcnsen was Ifebruary 20, ask you to gamble on the manage- Rulh, baby daughter of Mrs. “57 the wontest abbenn ment's ability to entertain you. ina Brock was poisoned “be- (aniehiE T sy | c 1 felt sorry for the poor child, and Thurs The | because its mother did not care for et ot A Horenacn) suld. ite it f all answers were in by Fri ) n said that she had kb L made her confession voluntarily, and 150 receive “pecause I want to tell the truth and because 1 am sorry for what 1 have done.” County Attorney Dobry stated to- day that Mrs. Sorensen will be tak- {en to the state insane asylum at | Hastings today in accordance with a report by the Howard county in- | sanity board. No formal' charges will be filed, and no prosecution will |0 “\o ¥ e i Tian (o ‘attend the _ | be carried out against the woman, | (oo O authorten annouwneed. - © 0o KL Dillevences Seem fo Be Meanwhile Sheriff Scott was p'a ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED ) Near Adjustment ncee and these worked into an amazing plot. He rose to fame by threnSiore of Vera Gordon as the ghetto mother in “Humorcique,” apd he accomplished an even more poign- |“TAKA-CHANC ant m«"(urt of wother love in “Se- | “TakaiChance” W 8. his direction | {den on my hands, I waunted to get ther out of the way.” the confession | | continued. | “Write A Want Ad well 'EEK, CAPITOL in “The which opened at the e the ater last night, the “Borzage touch™ is again evident. The mother theme is strongly fo the fore in “The Lady" and Norma ha& an opportun- ity to display an exceptionally wide range of characterization. he Keith vaudeville bill has four very clever § featuring the Pow- ell troupe, five wire walkers par ex- ngs attributed 4 visit T TTE arry C. Jackson and W. W. T. Squire of this city are chairman and vice-chairman, ule)n on cnmn\mu‘v life 5th annual session of the Connec- ti(‘m Conference of Social Workers, which will be held in St. John's parish house, Waterbury, on April 27, 28 and 20, Probation Offi- cer Edward C. Connolly4s a member of the exccutive committee, Mr. | Squire, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Connolly, | and Miss Cora M. T s, execufive socretary of the Welfare Association WILEL " it Mrs. CAPITOL | TODAY—TUES.—WED. v evening. ceived Jast time, this time, | ning to make an exhaustive investi- |yl FR Lt SE RN GE Stantey || zation into the purchases of POISON |y oot announces the engagement of by the woman. r daughter, Miss Bernice I'rances | Keeney to Vietor Devokaitis, son of Joseph Devol is of Rhodes street. The wedding will take place some time in June. e NEWINGTON NEWS Miss Mildred Goodale, - who ning to become a nurse in ctor Brigham hospital ! Doston, been spending 1s A the in the April ~Premier Pain- the part of the night ing the minister atement of new government lines 1 at Jast cvening's cabinet meet- ing, wh 1 minister gave h LYCE views as to the order in which the various q should figure. Upon me the bes: jent has dra th |[}APITUL L\DIF E-S AND GENTS We Take Great Pleasure new ting NOW PLAYING Presents At.Last/ the immortal stage play v motion pictures LICE TERRY - CONWAY TEARLE CG Y reat Keith Vaudeville “THE ALAMO CLUB” 5—Clever Entertainers—5 1e mo hing the being comple at cabinet this morning and it ready Jefinite approval cond meeting with President D mergua this atte WONDER"". tention tinue the d Jimple Romance of Love and Potatoer a mec be in Announcing & \emer policy ¢ the financial sity the term of militar question of s raine Premic its pr Greate; 0 W NEIL HAMILTON | i i | In the Most Gripping Role of His Career | ‘Has learned the Griffith teick of smiling through grief.” —N. Y. EVE. WORLD. ! ""Neal Hamilton ts great.” This Coupon and 10c Wil Admit Any Lady To Best Seats. “Where Can I Find Work” that thix man work, and that it is a matter of family ad that will help him secure employment again? ad in this case will do the It's easy to see is out of cern. Can you write a war A “Situation Wanted Read the rules—then $10.00 if your ad is best. con a piece of paper and test your skill. You will win \& S$ STARTING SUNDAY APRIL 26 And we're pagi'ng all of New Britain and vicin- ity’s gamblers to “Taka- Chance” on the CAPITOL this week. Duln\'\dgc & Kitty Bicycle Novelty (.. HERALD-TRIBUNE *“Surpasses himself." —N., Y. AMERICAN LADIES' MATINEE =N, i Gonn & Albert in Songs and Dances Ads Ads “Position Wanted” Rules of the Contest “Used Car for Sale” f ’ Melody Boys’ Orchesira ROBIN HOOD INN Meriden MANN I?b—P()LL \RD—I\\ EC HT in the musical playlet “MILESTONES” e o N NN N NN N N N N N BN N R- N N N N K ¥ ] J\MLS B I)O\()\ \\ and MARY LEE The King of Ireland The Dancing Butterfly In “Doing Well—Thank You” —PALACE— TODAY—TUESDAY—WEDNESDAY NORMA'S GREATEST PHOTOPLAY! — CONTINUOUS bHO\\ Every number is a secret! And the whole show will be a HIT! LET'S GO! You know the fine big shows the Capitol has of- fered in the past, and we are promising that this one is greater than ever, and don’t need to worry about taking a chance—"CAUSE WE'VE GOT IT FIXED SO'S YOU CAN'T LOSF CAPITOL THEATER NEW BRITAIN, CONN APRIL 26TH, 1925 — 2:30 P. M. Grand Vocal Concert Auspices of LODGE, NO. 1032, 0. F. d'. in A, G. Gurrieri, Tenor M. Erbland, Soprano *Zagaroli, Raritone P. Colon, Flautist : Maestro G. M. Curci at Piano Tickets on sale at C. L. Pierce Co., 216 Main St. SUNDAY, Ad---You f]ay Win YOU'LL LAUGH — YOU'LL CRY — YOU'LL SOZ KEITH VAUDEVILLE 5—POWELLS—5 GOLDIE & THORNI BOB WALTERS CARTER & CORNISH THURS—LINTON'S WEST POINT CADET ORCHESTRA