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HISS ME AGAIN IS BOOKED AT LYCEUM Sterling Movie Program-An- other Stage Produckion Coming A gem of wit, vivacity and sophis- Yication—thus 1s summed up “"Kies Me Agaln,” the movie headliner for the Lyceum for the first of next wuek and starting tomorrow evening. 'As an added feature on this program will be athletle Gegrge Walsh in “llue Blood." For the last of the week the movie features will be Johhny Walker and Virginla Larry Semon in the famous coinlc ‘opera “The Wisard of Oz." Marle Prevost, Monte Blue, Clara Bow, John Roche J.ouls are the leaders in the cast of iss Me Again.” It is a subtle, disarmingly frank comedy drama woven around the young Floury 'faniily who have become bored with the humdrum of married life and are on the trail of romance and ad- venture, Loulou, the wife, is swept away by the ephemeral Jove for F¥erriere, a famous musician, and tugs at the marriage bonds. Here the story changes materially and in- stoad of the usual angry husband and his blood and' thunder threats and actions the author has produced & dvcidedly novel solution to the problem that becomes more and more absurd, “I3lue Blood” is a typically dash- ing \Walsh story. A million dollar mail robbery, a desperate gang of 'smugglers, a daring smashing, fight- ing hero and a beautiful girl are the ‘component parts of the picture. Theatergoers are all famillar with the old comic opera “The Wizard of Oz, which has been offered in this city in recent years by amateur talent under a different title. Larry Semon is without doubt one of the world's greatest comedians and he is at hig best In this comedy, which starts off with a cyclone and finishes with'a tornado—a veritable storm of smilcs, ances the program which cludes the big city love “Lilies of the Street.” 1"or the 30th and 31st of October, Wiih a matinee on Saturday after- noon, the Lyceum presents Richard Mansfield Players, Inc Ahe famous stage success: Goose Hangs High.” This is a thon oughly modern story—of a father and mother who also in advantage. When misfortune over- takes them, ig s the reaction on the children that.makes this such a powerful story. As good as it was in the movies, on the spoken stage it i far, far superior, PARSONS' HARTFORD One has almost lost count of the number of times that the musical versfons of “The Charm School” have been hooked in Hartford but the arrival is finally close at hand for Thursday night the Messrs. Shubert will send to Parsons’ thea- ter une Days,” which Is the mugicil version of that charming- Iy vouthful and romantic fale of a Bir's hle voung man. J McGowan Wl play the yonth who inherits a £ school. Wyn Ttichmond will be scen am the most charming of an Benefit Concert AT ODD FELLOWS' HALL 141 Arch Street SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1923 At 5:30 p, m. MISS DE VICINO, Soprano. MR CASSOLINI. Raritone, MISS POWER, Planis, MR, ROSENBERG, Pianst, MR. ROSANO. Violinisf, teserved Seats $1.00 and T3c. Gallery 50¢ Y ruraTek HARTHORD MATINEE SATURDAY EVES. 30c. to 82,50 SAT. MAT. £2.00. W "MARRY ARCHER'S ORCRESTRA i ¢ IXE DANCINGEST CHORLS OF A Mon., Tues., Wed. Oct. 19, 20, 2 Matince Wednesday Boothe, Gleason and Truex Present SHEEPMAN” By Charlotte B. Chorpenning Staged by James Gleason A Romantic y the Old West. Cast of Uncommonly Fine Players SEATS NOW Eve, 50c-82. Wad, Mat, 50¢-81.50 ———— et -~ [ MARTINE Lee | Corbin in “Lilies of the Street” and | and Williard | This Thursday plcture bal- | in- | drama, | the | doting | sacrifice | their all to give their children every | { and Jay C. Flippen, quietly working, most humorous black-faced clown, lends color as the school gardener, It was Mr, J, J, SBhubert who in- sisted from the first that Alico Duer Miller's plot should have mu- sle, and several verslons and casts were trled In the plece before both Mr. Lee and Mr. J, J. Shubert were entirely satisfled, “June Days" will appeal to the flapper of elghteen to eighty, to say nothing of her “boy friend.” Seats now selling. [0 COMMANDMENTS CAPITOL ALL WEEK Oecil De Mille's Sensation Starts Here Sunday | New Britain has seen “The Cov- ered Wagon,” “The Birth of a Na-|' tion,” and “Way Down East,” the | three greatest photoplay features | of our time, and now through the | progressiveness of the manage- | ment of the Capitol theater, New | Britain now has its opportunity to | see beginning Sunday night for an entire week, Cecll B. DeMille's greatest photoplay of all the ages, “The Ten Commandments.” Coming from its record breaking | run at the Criterlon theater in New | Yorlk, It has broken all records.in | the clties it has played in the last few wecks. That there is a reason for this will be scen when the | photoplay shows here as it s posi- tively the greatest ilm drama Hm[i has ever been made, bar none, It cast includes such an all star array as Richard Dix, Theodore Roberts, Nita Naldi, Leatrice Joy, Monte | Blue, Agnes Ayres, Charles de Roche, Robert Ideson and 2,500 | others, 1t has come to us with more superlative advance nolices than any other picture which has even been shown fn New Britain, Oddly enough, this pictu serves most of these adjectlv is great, stupendous, colorful, and moving. It has comedy, spectacle and drama. A perfect cast, a fine story, and inspired direction. What clse could one ask fo The production takes over two hours to show. It is di- vided into two parts, ancient and modern, In the former the picture opens on the Istaclite slaves build- ing the city of Rameses in Egypt. They are being éruelly treated hy the Pharaoh, and things look dark | a little until Moses emerges to lead them. || He asks for thelr liberty, and! when it is not granted ten plagues | are visited upon Egypt. After Ra- mases' son s killed in the last of the plagues, Rameses orders the Hebrews to leave, They go with { one purchasing tickels, a Inl'hlm,' bodies and glad hearts over B — NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, the desert sands, This part of the picture I8 done in natural colors and in its sweep s overwhelming. The Capitol presentation will feature un augmented orchestra, effects as produced in its Broad- way run, and will be shown four continuous times datly. It will posi- tively start at 2:30, 4:30, 7:06 and 9:15. There will be speclal shows each day for school children at 4:80, BLANCHE SWEET IN FEATURE AT PALACE “His Supreme Moment” Sched- uled for Next Week Blanche Sweet never requires | the services of a double In scene where she is called upon cute difficult solo dances. Miss Sweet learned to dance al- mosty as soon as she learned to walk, mastering the difficult tech- nique of the terpsichorean art un- der the direction of her mother, Pearl Alexander, a former stage dancer, to exe- In addition to Blanche Sweet and | Ronald Supreme Winton, wick, Ruiz. ¢ May will be Colman, the cast of Moment” fncludes Belle Biennett, Cyril Chad- Ned Sparks and Nick de The stor an dginton's new First Nationul's screen of- fering at the Palace theater next Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, There will he ville bill on the lass attractions. The companion pieture for day night will offer Kdmund in. “The Brass Bowl. Thursday night will be and $100.00 fn cash uted in pa “Hie Jane novel, and a fonr act vande- program, all first Sun- Lowe will be envelopes to the irst 600 people purchasing tickets to see “Rugged Waters” Beginning Monday the Pal will gi ey, must be saved, for, at a speci- 1 time, the keys may fried in a lock to be placed in the thea- ter lobb®% The holder of the Kkey that opens this lock will ‘receive free a I'reshman k TO PORTI RUSSI Moscow., Oct. 17 (B authorities have decided to rious places in the Soviet union tists to paint pictures of local revolutionary events, por- tralts of local leaders, scencs of abor processes and other social features of present day life. The expedition will include a number of noted artists, They will visit (he Crimea, the Urals, the Ukralne and the northern nees. A number of artists abroad for the same X Lire Hoviel edn send to are to he sent purpose cene ftom.“KI ME AGAIN" i o « A Warner Picture Lyceum—Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday STAGE AND SCREFN “The T ‘IH(' worl ture epies, opens a adaptation ! | tube radio set. During t ' he g the So tremendous was the undertalk- “The Ten Command- ments” that eight months' prepara- More than ing In filming tion w people scenes, feet of were Costun quired the Nationalitics of players in this pic ture included Arabians, Palestinians, | Turks, Greeks, Thirty nations in all wer B the fir required, were employed in the 5 anded:15 daily, | Fifteen tons i es nged in this pieture r 16 mikes tons of leather were used in making 0 set of E 00 tons of Tumber, nails and 7 Cancasians, 5 miles of calle of plian chariot har- | Roumanians eenm in years, management number of ot} Among t High” on Friday ¢ fober 80 matinee hese and an S Gl 1e great sneeess of 'V hite Ca road 1l with 0 n Commandments,” ‘one of ‘s truly great motion pice k's enguge- ment at the Capitol tomorrow night, week anf augmented or- | chestra will furnish music and spe- cial sereen settings will presentation e use tl Showings w 3iblic of pou and wi cloth, Thy Mesopotamians and presente attractions e Goose Hang: Saturday, a Saturd, modeling | Moors, 1o, tage attraction at the Ly- 18 encouraged the 1 he is hooking (e Richard Mansfleld Players, Inc. a theatrical production company head- ed by the wife of Richard Mansfield, who during his lfe was one of the stage's foremost actors. Incldental- Iy, Mrs, Mansfield enjoys a wide per- sonul acquaintance in this city. Among productions for the screen which the Lyccum has hooked for d, fearly showings are “The Limited as | Mail,” with Monte Blue as the melo- il dramatic hero; Rin Tin Tin in “Me- and “Drusila With a |low the TLine" | Millfon." Pletures s00n coming to the Capitol inder the Great,” with Tom Meighan fn he Man Who Found Himselt"; nd “The Merry Widow." starring the vivaclous Mae Murray. | are rion Day = The Palace offers the usual Keith wideville program for next week {and starting tomorrow evening will present as a movie feature “His Su- preme Moment,” a love drama of all % | nations. B | Cotman are nst. r the last half of the week at ilace Joseph C. Lincoln's sea “Rugged Waters,” will be shown, 4. |and Warner Baster head the cast, Coming at{ractions at liter this thea- include Nazimova in "My Son,” “Ihe Lucky Horseshoe” and “The | a|Tony Express.” One of the most pretentions musi- offerings of the season to be of- ay [fered in Hartford Is “Land of Ro- | mance” at Parsons’. A notable cast of 100 performers and a symphony orchestra of 25 musicians are to ap- B school run by a too persona- | Mon—Tucs—Wed, JRE EATL Continnous Show Daily PROGRAM 4 G’I’ HANS KRACLY anErnst Lubitsch Production v ' MARIE PREVOST MONTE BLUE Crara Bow.Jom Roene Witazo Louss s ErnsT LuBiTscr Come and Hear Ben Irving and Hi: Orchestra LADI MATINEE This Coupon and 10¢ Will Admit Any Lady to Best Seat CHILDREN'S MATINEE, 10c BLANCHE SWEET and RONALD COLMAN A Love Tale of All Nations With 'VAUDEVILLE { — ALL STAR ACTS — 4 ; Sunday Only—Edmund Lowe in “The Brass Bowl” FREE--Complete Radio Set--FREE Each person purchasing a ticket beginning Monday will receive a key. Save your key you may have the “mysterious key” that will open the padlock! At a specified time you will have an opportunity to try your key in a lock. If your key opens the lock One Key with Each Ticket THE Bl TUBE FRESHMAN RADIO SET IS YOURS! Save Your Keys Radio Now On Display in Star Confectionery W indow BIG CHARLSTON DANCE ARCADIA BALLROOM TONIGHT MUSIC BY ARCADIAN RADIO BOYS Topular Songs by Billy Milue DANCING LADIES 35¢ 870 12 GENTS 30c Ga kP o IR Tt Iy LLI THURSDAY NIGHT $100.00 IN CASH GIVEN FREE TO THE FIRST 600 PEOPLE PURCHASING TICKETS TO SEE “RUGGED WATERS T WORLD’S GREATEST TENOR pear there during the week of Oc. tober 26, “June Days" ls one of the most tuneful and cleverly stepped of musi. cal comedies. It captivates young and old for its Ingredlents are | melody, comedy and dancing. Fred Stone with his daughter, | Dorothy, in “Stepping Stones” is one ot the November bookings at Par- sons' theater, as 15 also “White Cargo.” The latter has been play- ing In New York city for over two years, [ | is | Pat Rooney in “Rosle O'Grady” a November booking at Parsons. ARCADIA BALLROOM Tonight 13 the regular Collegian | night at the Arcad and a good | colleginte time is assured everyone who attends and the Arcadia Radlo | Roys sure to please you with | their snappy colleglan numbers, | Dancing will be in vogue from 8§ to 12 p, m., and remember that Arcadia is only five minutes' walk from the Center on Glen street, or fake Arch street bus to Rockwell avenue and just a few steps and you are there. Watch for our signs. Admission, ladles 35¢ and gents b0, with plenty of king space for those with cars. Wateh our adv| in the THerald for big attractions and the Hallowe'en costume party and dance. We wish to announce that the winners of Wednesday night's foxtrot contest were: 1st prize, Joseph Renock and Miss Agnes Abra’ n: 24 prize, James Magrath and Miss Sophla Cook. This was the second week of the gold watch contest, 666 is & prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue. Bilious Fever and Malaria. It Gills the germs. WEINGARTNER'S CHOICE Serves With Frenchman On League of Nations Commission For In- tellectual Collaboration Berlin, Oct. Weingartner, and the equally famous I'rench philosoplier, Henrl Bergson, have boen elected chalrmen of the newly founded League of Natlons commis- sion for intellectual collahoration, Weingurtner was born in Dalmatia in 1868 and called to the Berlin Royal Opera as conductor in 1861, In 1598 he Munieh to conduct guest perforu 17 (P—1elix the famous musician von went to a scries of a You're just about 2 minutes Cooking Oats. “baked-in" flavor. Toasted oat That "allnight cooked” flavor in only two nche Sweet and Ronald | I.ois Wiison, Wallace Beery, | Cecil B. Cinem W With Richard Dix, Theodore Agnes Ayres, Monte Bl Faye, Nita Naldi, Leat Robert Edeson, Cha WEEK BEGINNING The Greatest Dramatic CAPS OPERATIC CAREER ‘ alternating chief | from breakfast when you reach for a package of New Style H-O Quick The new cereal with the wonderful that cook into granular catmeal. Smooth— firm in texture—never sticky or pasty. ! SUNDAY |1y also in Vienna, without the Bu mission of Count von Hvra it von that thime the intenduant lin Opera. “Thereupon Huclsen churged von Welngarting | with having broken bis contruvis ruled that “vom 1o be prohibitea The court inally | Welngartner was in Berlin for the from conducting |term of 16 ycars, | In 1893, however, he severed this Gordian knot by giving a serles of symphonic concerts in Fuefstent walde, a suburb just beyond the pres cincts of Berlin, The event at that time was the talk of all Germany/ Welngartner was mnarried to the | American singer, Lucllle Marcel, who died in 1621, ‘ Lots of times antiques appear for at the price of second hand furniture, in the Herald Classified and subsequent- | away flakes mimtes NIGHT! Spectacle of All the Ages! DeMilles asterpiece _THE TEN (OMMANDM Roberts, ue, Julia rice Joy, rles De Roche, Rod La Rocque, Estelle Taylor and 2500 Others! STORY BY JEANIE MACPHERSOR s 0 ADOLPH ZUKOW JESSE L LASAY | 4-BIG CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY—4 Augmented Orchestra — Effects — Our Regular Prices Picture Will Positively Show At | Special Show For Children Each Day 2:30 — 4:30 — 7:05 — 9:15 At 4:30 Auspices of New Britain Musical Club. Capitol Theater, Sunday After- noon, Nov. 1, 3:30 o’Clogk. Ticket Sale Oct. 24 at C. L. Pierce & Co.

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