New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1925, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATUKDAY, APRIL 25, 19-;). NEWS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE SPOKEN STAGE, suéfif' DRAMA AND MUSIC QUO VADIS' TOBE STAGE AND SCREEN FEATURE AT PALACE To,Be Shown ot Fowr Days | Only Mannger apitol John Contarls of the obviously intends to go |Wrough awith his “Taka-Chance |Weck™ program without announc- {Ing just what it 1s to be, hig features, he declined to name them specifically other than to say that five headline vaudeville num- bors will be shown each half of the | week and that both feature plctures | will be top notch A new and gigantie production of “Quo Vadis” has just been com- pleted and is lo*m shown by First Nutional at the Palace theater be- ginning Siinday night, I'or stupen®®us size, both in cast and scencs; for super-thrills and for rare beauty of photography, th fiim version of the Sienkiewicz cla sic 1s proclaimed an unequaled mas terpiece of screen artistry. one for the first half of the week will feature Glorfa Swanson. It was filmed in Paris and intimate views of the home of the original | Napoleon, the houdoir of \Imll‘ An- tionette and other scenes tured, Furthermore, this |was fiimed in Paris, but feature whether P | during Glorla's recent visit or at a Pyl Jacslape Chotltor S 1”[“'|~r-\loux visit, the manager “would | e L i o'y TN the eash | ¢ ginte, ~hun, e havo: the! atar, which is said to number more than 10,000 men, women and chilaren. . |PUt not the name of the production. The scones, staged in Rome on the | actual site of Nero's tyrannies, are| Concerning the photoplay for the cnormous, The Palatine, Circus [1ast of the weel the Capitol manager Maximus and the Rome ftself of |18 cqually mysterious, He says that Nero's time, half a century after the [the sky will be the limit in'thrills, hirth of Christ, form the l)mk),wuml‘“"1"" indicates that t picture for the drama, may. be one with aerfal novelties. Tho historle debadchorles of Nero | Warner Baster, Billy Dove of Pefer and his eourt and the terrible cruel- | Pan fame and Douglas Fairbanks ties of the despot, as vividly pictured, | Junior will be featured players. are tempered by the tender love of R the Pagan Vinicius for the beautiful | Christian girl, Lygla, and the un- yielding faith of the followers of 1e The Shuberts announce claho productions of “Ruddigore,” "I of Penz: H\rl “Pinafore,” to fol- Peter, the Apostle, even when burn- |6 tho present productions of “The od at the stake and thrown to the | Mikado” and “Princess Tda," lions in the arena of the Circus. | Jannings, as Nero, has given an | N | “The Knife in the even more impressive characteriza- | te Wall,” closed at the Frofic theater last night and et ey i l]xlll:(m;.”I‘lmluilt}‘-:lmlvv fepansatina Lasgaléithsator nECHt: always. Yet he was inordinately | C*EO on Monday. vain, fopplsh, childish in his self- | eyt admiration, It was thus that Jan-| “Qh Mamma!" a comedy with nings has portrayed him, Nero, dead | Music. adapted from the French of 1,900 years, lives again—on the [l.0uis Verncul, by Wilton Lackay R | win open in Boston on May 18, Alice He causes Christians to he burn- | Brady will be starred, and the cast ed at the stake, as “flowers” at his|will further include Kenneth Mac- garden party; and hundreds of oth- |Kenna, Edwin Nicander, Catherine crs to be thrown to the lions in the | Willard, Richard Temple and John Circtis Maximus to appease the pop- | Cromwell. X ulace for his crime of incendiarism The Keith vaudeville bill will of- r good entertaining acts featuring 15 the headliner, “Boyd's Revue of Million dollar movies comeordinary oc have be- *nces in Hol- |lywood, The big studios have an o fine song and dance offer- | syerage production cost areund Ing Wilh 8 cast of elght talented |g50,000 pey movis, Yet thore bob| s Other acts will ofter g“”"‘u\ry now and in the embryo nks and Co,, in a Immnro. song cvele that is original with its for- mer musical comedy star; Guilly and Jeanny will thrill the audiences with | {geniuses who go forth into the hy- | ways and byw with a movie camera, a ‘“commonwealth” cast Asked for ‘ thelr sensational offering “On the Ilifel Tower;"” and the Guy Bartlett I'rlo, an excellent offering will prove yery versatile with comedy, s lance featured. (which means no s: , but a cut of possible profits), and hope in the | earnest endeavor to make a suc-| “The Miracle' Man"" |$100,000, and other great hits were | made far under the usual cost of the | | feature movie. | Tom Reed, a young writer at Uni- | (‘Ost CROSSWORD DANCE Newington Grange Peerless Orchestra FRIDAY NIGHT | versal City, | hts spare time, His location trips— on Sundays—are made possible by the use of a special train contributed by a rallroad for the advertising ac- CAPITOL THEATER NEW BRITAILN, CONN. SUNDAY, APRIL 26th, 1925—2:30 P. M. Grand Vocal Concert ~—Auspices of— ST. JOSEPH'S LODGE, No. 1032, PROGRAM O. F. d'L in A, 1. Aria “Erl tu” (Ballo in Maschera) ... 2% e omusnne - o0 VErdi Mr. Zagaroli 2. Aria “Una Voce Poco fa” (Barblere di Sivighs) \ymui. Rossini Miss Erbland 3. Aria “Flor di Carmine” (Carmen) ,...... seeernatiesssss Blzet Mr, Guerri¢r 4, Duet 3rd act from Rigoletto ..... veeas Verdi Miss Erbland, \ll‘. 7.llgnr<)ll 5. “Improviso (Andrea Chenier) ,........ LT3, = Glordano Mr. Guerrieri 6. Aria “Caro nome” (Rigoletto) sesmune s aeeas Verdi Miss Erbland 7. Prologo (Pagliacci) .. veeressssass. Leoncavallo Mr. Zagaroli 8. Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermore -......., . Donizetti Miss Erbland, Mr, Colon 9. Duet “Solenne in quest’ ora” (Forza del Destino) Verdi Mr. Guerrieri, Mr. Zagaroli LYCEUM SUN. — MON. — TUES. — WED. "BAREE” SON OF CAZA THE FAMOUS Wolf Dog With Anita Stewart A James Oliver ,Curwood Story LADIES’ SPECIAL MATINEE This Coupon and 10c Will Admit Any Lady To Best Seats is making a picture in | cruing thereby, His actors cost him nothing, They work for glory and for speculative interests in profits, The laboratory does nega- tive developing and . printing also [ “on spec ‘ film—threé reels—alreads have been | “shot,” Reed tells us the total cost is not over—8$17.50! If this kecps on the plutocratic movie will be a thing of the pust land they'll be renting shows at | Woolworth's over the counter at §- 10-15 a print, | The new movie era is here! | - “The Triflers” anc of an Aching Heart” are two ple- tures coming to the Lyceum soon, as 18 "Playthings of Desire.” James Ollver Curwood_is one the three most widely read authors |in America today. And “Barec, of Kazan,” which opens at {he coum tomorrow night, | two million cople “The Mansion of Son Ly- has sold over | Davia 8mith, who dir [tain Blood,” is the dirc | icture and Anita Stew | role of Nepeese, the | Jack Curtis plays the vill of McTaggert. Donald pears as Jim Carver, | hero, ted “Cap- tor of this rt oine, has the while rous role Keith ap- the outlaw- Peggy Joyce Hopkins has exper- icnced all sort of love making, but |after watching Willlam Haines in | one scene of ““he Midnig press,” she said she envied any one ving love scenes opposite him. This pieture, with “The Price | Paid," opens at the Lyce | on Thursday. um theater e Palace opens a showing of Quo Vadis tomorrow night and the management js ex- plicit in saying this picture will not be held over, It filmed in Rome |and a cast of 20,000 worked in some of the big scenes, Finil Jannings has the rale of Nero, Other scenes show Christian martyrs heing burned the stake, *Christian being thrown to the lions, gladiatorial con- tests, ete. On thg same hill Mon- jday will b® a Keith headliner, “Boyd's Revue of 1925." The regu- |1ar vaudeville program will be sho¥n and the usual prices will pre- vadl, four days' girls For the last half of the week Palace will present as a fu | Pasetta and Rydell’s |and dance novelty with a cast of cight, The will be Fd- win Carowe's “A Son of the Sahara. This picture was taken in Algier Bert Lytell, Clalre Windsor and Montagu Love are featurcd. In one scene there are 12,000 Arabs, camels and 2,500 horses, the Revue, a song photoplay | The Palace announces the showing lln~‘ and though 3,000 feet n«‘ She | 1ture act | 8,000 | ;nlflrllug May 3, of ‘Weber and Pelds, | famous comedians of the stage, in “Friendly Enemies. This 1s the first time that stage succoss, made amoug by ALouls Mann, has been done in the movies, ‘TAKA CHANCE' AT CAPITOL THIS WEEK - Yo'l Be Surprised--What's There ? 7 © Capitol management s o Ing a new innovation for Yts pa next week in the form ! Chance Week.” In the rons L local t hr~ aterd have specialized In many kinds and forms of special designated | weeks but the Capitol’s announce- ment of ka-Chance Week" something entirely new to this city or elsewhere in these parts. The idea of *“laka-Chance Week" I8 rea novel inasmuch #s none of the at tractio Imvh Keith vaudeville nor photop at will be adver- tised w\\\h-‘ . In fact you will go | into the Capitol next week without knowing in advance what you are £0Ing fo see, you sce the manage- ment Is asking you to ‘“Taka- Chance,” and knows and feels € { in your ability to be perfectly s fied with what you sce inside. | This will be your first thrill in go- ing to a show and not knowing what you are going to see. You have many times, perhaps, put your hand into a grab-bag and brought out a polka- dot ncektie, have punched a punch-| board for a prize, have been to a church bazaar and taken a chance| on things Which the pretty girls| smiled you into taking, but you have | never yet bought a ticket for a show | but what you knew in advance what | you were going to see. This time \uu | will buy your ticket for the Capitol | but you will not know what to ex- pect to see once you are Inside, It all a secret, except to the mans ment and house attaches. You kpow the fine big shows the Capitol has given you in the past and this spe- is- Meial “Taka-Chan show will be greater than ever. You won't have to | worry about taking a chance as they've got it fixed so you can't lose. Oh, yes, ther they're letting o just and it came out HESTCOLDS Apply over throat and chest —cover with hot flannel cloth. VICKS Over 17 Million Jars U Jano Rus ¢ SRS 52 aceldentally, so we will let you 1, [*The Price She Paid” Of course'wild animals fighting and living in Klniing Sunday night ang (or the will bo shown and at overy per- Wild and just as vicious, first half of the week N—(HIHM ‘ S 2 o3 o e e i e B formance there are the latest news| How would the dverage person of the picture, but Jesse Lasky, the rcelg and selected comodies, | udge o mother who practically auc- | head of the Famous Players Co., For sheer scenle beauty <'Baree, | tions off her daughter to the highest {snys that 1t s the greatest in which Son of Kazan™ cunnot bo excelled. | bidder, as is done in “The Price She | i popular star has yet appeared. | o " IFor dramatic merit it ranks with | Paid?" Al this sacrifice of soul and ‘ o8, she u..,x\ it while in France and Ba]ee’ S(]fl 0[ Kaza[] Ofle (][ the best and it is without doubt the | desire in for vanity, gold and soclal al spots where the fa- | reatest dog story every fiimed. The | standing. This pleture ' is a dramas | heus \‘ ‘.v”,” won fame, The| ) i story s closely knitted with | tle picturization of the mother, the tery and we can't toll you a le! d women of the north, There are | lawyer who arrives in time to bring about it, only that it will be real A 2 Indiuns, trappers, hunters | the pathos of the situation to an good us It hug been selected by tho | The Lyceum's usual Sunday night [tcams and wolf packs—in fact | amlable conclusion h 1d booking manager of the Kelth | hrogram of movie features will be | everything that adds to the lure o Phyllis Haver, Elaine Hammer- xchange, who has also sald, “They | cion more intere ting tomorrow | that country. The seenie back- | stein, Pat Harmon, Lloyd Whitlock are not taking any ¢ 8 with this| jight with the showing. ns one of |ground makes the spectator actually | Willlam Haines all have fine show, believe me,” the headliners, of James Oliver Cur- | hear the rush of fcy winds, the | parts in “The Midnight Kxpress." There will also bo a new all sur- | 40 tamous story * of | mournful cry of the wolf and mala-| This play. in its stage version, was prise show on Thur With the en- | oy 00 This picture wi 1| mute and the spectator will see the | one of the leading melodramas of tre change of program PO L over through Wednesday, and on|deep snow drifting over hut and | the professior foriinpeaiill g continuousaallyeliny gy i Hatliill ‘ahages tepea—great silent, mysterious for - Come on, folks, let's Taku- ".phe Midnight Jxpress,” a ests and Tordiy mountaing white and| Owners of Tost srticies fnd Ahem GUAL melodrama star dainty Elainé | cold, frozen rivers and rushing black | most quickly through ads in the | Hammerstein, Alma ens In | waters, 50, there will be seen | Classifled columns, No Doubt About It Rolling MADEANEW WOMAN OF HER ThatIs What Lydia E. 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We're calling it TAKA CHANCE WEEK BEGINNING SUNDAY NIGHT am my AND RUN G THROUGH URDAY and SUNDAY NIGHT—MON. - TUES. - WED. Here Comes The Bride! the the eal- Over 200,000 women have so far re- plied to this question, ‘‘Have you re- ceived benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound?”* 98 out of every 100 of the replies say ‘“Yes,”” and because the Vegeta- by druggists everywhere, bleCompu\md has been hel; women 1t should help you. ping other For sale WITH GUILLY “On the Eifel Tower” SUNDAY NIGHT — MO (Positively Four Days Only) NEW GIGANTIC MASTERPIECE OF GE:—A Thousand Thrills in This, Greatest Drama. Broadway To Regular Prices! GIRLS IN SONG GUY BARTLET TRIO A Smart Offering and O’nc the World’s Direct from You N. — TUES. — WED. ALL TIME! 20,000 in Cast! At Our KEITH VAUDEVILLE BOYD’S REVUE OF 1925 8 CHARMING and JEANY! AND DANCE SADIE BANKS & (0. “Vaudeville Jesters” ADOLPH ZUKOR JESSE L LASKY PRESENT. In Her Latest and Greatest Triumph! It Is One of the Greatest Pictures That Has We Ever Been Made! It Is— Know We've Seen It We'll Say It's the Best the Capitol Has Offered All Year! We're All of New Britain and Vicinity's Gamblers to Taka Chance Screen And Paging SH-H-H-H — 1 BETWEEN we KEITH VAUDEVILLE Show FRIENDS is being their F. hooked by E head booking manager under the per- sonal supervision of Mr. Albee, President of the Keith Vaudeville Exchange WHAT KIND OF ACTS? HOW_MANY? — THAT'S TELLING! TAKA CHANCE! You know the fine Big Shows the Capitol has offered in the past, and we are prom- ising that this one will b You don't have to worry about “taking a chance™ because we've got it fixed so you Can't Lose LETS GO! TRY AND GET IN! e greater than ever. Show —Thumsday Continuous Shows Every l Big All New Surprise Day