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< NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1926. QUEER SHAPES OF 3o N. Y. BUILDINGS “French . Paint” and “Her j Honor the Governor” also gre Observers Will See Many Things of Interestl | Willlam Owens, 63, who played Shylock opposite Julia Marlowe and the title role in “The Servant in the House,” died = yesterday after a | vear’s illness. e Louls Morrison, Ada Rehan, and Mrs. Samuel Insull were among the stage people associated with Owens. He was at onme time one of Amer- hooked. New York, Aug. 21 (P—Some of the most curiously shaped huildings | ica’s best known Shakespearian in the world are located in New |actors. York without one of them being| Born in New York in 1863, he planned as a freak. nt his entire life in the atmos: This condition arises from their | phere of*the stage. having been planned according to streets, which originally were laid | Work on the remodelled Capitol 1long twisting roads or Indian trails. | progr Numerous “Flatirons” ity it now appears there will be The Flatiron Building is the best | little difficulty in getting it read known, with its knife like edge fac- | for the opening on Labor Day ing north while the southern expos- crnoon, ure is widened in the space between converging strects. Broadway has| My Old Dutch, a similar shaped building ‘every fow | the Lyceum on Thursday, blocks up to Times Square. May McAvoy and Eugene O'Brien. Broadway bisects Manhattan Ts- |1t ran for & week in one of Hart. land from the southeast corner to the northwest. The remainder of the main streets are laid out in rec- tangular squarse, which causes the 0dd shaped lots to appear at each intersection. Times Square Formation Times Square itself is formed by a function of this sort, and is any- thing but square, being rather more the shape of a diamond, as Broad- way crosses Seventh avenue there as one ,.mn ground, of the best. with Iondon It is an ¥ as its back- of the week is in “The Freshman, of the big 19 being brought quest. Harold Lloyd 6 features that is back by popular re- It's easily one of the greatest of comedies. rfom the east and then turn north. An apartment house located at| T Riverside Drive and 116th street is { Then, starting a week hence, the built inside of a long curve of the |l-¥ceum is to feature one of the latter street, which makes the ;%0 per cent pictures of the year. building a triangle with one side | This is Hal Roach’s presentation of Rex in “The Devil Ho As Rin Tin Tin is ag a dog performer, Rex, a wonderful horse, is performer. This pic a top notcher. “ballooned” outward. The building across 116th street, a companion to this one, is built with the curve in- ward. If the strqet could be ré- moved and the two buildings jolned as an cquine is rated as they would dovetail SIS Skyline of Art Two more big movie pro The new buildings. in conform coming to the Lyceum are with the building laws, also have | out Mercy” and “The Social High- created a s ne which in the case “'r\'n:m," a Warner Brothers pic- of each building is beautiful but | ture seldom noticed from the strect. The buildings above the sixteenth or twentieth stories are pyramided to allow as much light as pann on the street, but the streets are narrow that no proper pm\mmr can be obtained to view the upper portions. One of ‘the few TEANIS CLUB WILL . STAGE TITLE PLAY . P»vl\MmFS not o i:anpn]m black stone, each insert Be S[amed Next Sfltlll‘day marked so that| illuminated at of the pyramid when the tower is night it has the appearance of | The annual city tennls cham- great pi\h of co p' nship tourney open all ten is players in the “city, conducted [‘ R vnhr the auspices of the New V' 1 Britain Tennis club, will start on ‘“ e Saturday, August 28. The tourna ment will be open to all tennis It ever a city has gone wild, or players in this city and its en- rather financlal interests of a cer- virons, Including Mapie Hill, New- tain kind wild in a_city on, - Kenswgton, Berlin and over tt Britain is it. inville. New Brit resent has the Ne Entries for the tournament may Palace a Lyceum operating. be sent to Curtis Clifford, 154 Ken- movie house, also is -w movie house is re- in Beaver ington tourament must - be en chairman of and all applications accompanied by the en street ported eopens Labor Day as trance fee which will be one dol- ‘ and the following lar per person and one dollar for | month and is scheduled to | a doubles team. open as a vaudeville hous The tournament will include On top of that, valuable property | both singles and doubles matches on Washington street has been sold |and some of the best players in recently and at once the talk goes the city are expected to clash Winners in cach tournament will receive a silver loving cup and these will probably be placed en exhibition in some prominent get into the city. Is it B. F. Keith? | window during the next week the wiseacres it is and | This will be the third annual gay no. Is it city tennis championship conducted thing obtains. | by the New Britain Tennis club And so it goes. and it is expected, in view of the Johnny Glack- | fact of the growing popularity of his plans game, that there will be a to have er number of entries this vear up and down the stem that a new ter is being planned there. Now added gossip that a new and atrical interest is anxious to Some of rs just as Loew? The Yes and no, In the meantime, en has gone ahead with in Plainville and promises wise same a movie house in operation there n ever, In the tournament in carly in the fa 924 there were 40 entries. This number was swelléd by 11 in 192 eautiful Gretz 51 tennis players entered. William Collier with | t year, from the shown in the of in- num- and the prodigal, amount ame, the > tempress as Jethe! »st Torrence as the evil one and r should be nearly doubled Wallace Beery the roister sea| It is the hope of the officials of | captaln and Tyrone Power the | the New Britain Tennis club that patriarch, “The Wanderer,” which |the tournament play this year will | opens tomorrow at the New Palace | sec many of those who play on #he has a cast that cannot be excelle municipal courts at Walnut Hill This picture ranks with *“The Ten | park entered in the play in order | “The Covered | that nd they quality of Commandments,” Wagon" and ot develop into the rs that can enter is a story of * Prodigal states competition is picture ran two months at the| C. Kron wa e winner of the iterion theater in New York at|singles tournament last year with $2 | C. Dresscl the runner-up. Those — who these matches will re- » Wanderer” will be shown at | member the gruelling fights during 7:30 and 9:30 Sunday night and{the individual matches. In the during the week, through Wednes- | doubles, Kron and N ahiont A day, it will be shown at 4, 7 and feated Dressel and E. Benson in 9:30 o'clock daily one of the finest double. sets ever - seen in this city. For Sunday's companion feature The committce of the New Brit- thers will be Tom Tyler in “The ain Tennis club in charge of the Arizona Streak.” tournament fs as follo C. Clif- _ ford, chairman; C. J. Christensen, The usual audeville will be | Roy Holtman and L. W. Vogel. shown next w and the picture SRR R SRS S Thursday will be the William Fox | 1If all of London's refuse were hurned in modern destruectors, o cstimated ~ that electricity worth Blinor Glyn fn “The Only Thing” |more than $10,000,000 could be pro- is booked for early showing at the |duced annually. CAPITOL PARK Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford TONIGHT—VAUDEVILLE BAND CONCERT FREE DANCING Sunday Afternoon and Night GRACE HARPER AND HER CHIC REVUE PRESENTING 15 SONG AND DANCE NUMBERS spectal, “The Shamrock Handfcap.” A Complete Tabloid Musical Ensemble Band Concerts 3 to 6 p. m., 8 to 11 p. m., D.S.T. Monday Night—Another Boxing Carnival—10. Bouts es with encouraging rapid- | ford’s leading theaters and is rated | he other Lyceum feature for the | nother | store | it is| |fcuity 1n the case of Eiizabetn Ryan, |who conquered Helen Wills in the finals at Sea Bright two wcel\s ago. Miss R: 21 | hat | den into ‘THE WANDERER AT THE PALACE “SHIPWRECKED' AT an won from nor*Gos <} = ok G ght 6:\1(:'35 éé::h;nyfi [Y[;EUM T[IM[IRRU (x(’[s Life in Prison S [peared well on her way to vietory | On Charge of Rohben | trac And at once piled up a game li‘dd New York » — C© 2 p. m.—Miss Browne vs. Miss ‘The Wanderer,” the parable nf‘ . however, was d-ermined to land a three pull on the line tumbled her | Negri's completion of the picture the water over her head. Ma- on which she is now engaged and the start of one on her return al- r and c«ng to the pole. | low but the three days in New went down twice before the | York. eams of children on ted Mrs. ¢ ho 1 1 Mrs. Ford, who DAMM GIRLS CHANGE NAMES e worst of it is , : 0 in the second. At this time f Cam- |carp,” was Mazie's only comment White Plains, N. Y., Aug. 21 (P eligious Piofnre I Filmed of o shaneca s e oo | Sl Owen and Joseph Schlld s | e | —ive ssters 14 0 21, entered 4 |lentiess offensive to a timid defen- o, 114t Abrisonment POLA TO 1T RUDY unanimous oancxlohs before Judge sive and from that point Miss Ryan | s ST ollywood ug. 21 (®) Bleakly day to th —_— | Today's matches are: | ere York for|the name and they said they did day film actor serious do lay. Miss Rudolph | not care to await the cooperation of various young men in changing it. The tentative substitute Gorman was agreed to by the judge who was told the old name has caused 1 ridicule and embarrassment social life, ntino, an. imatic t the prodigal son, most famous of al D i dik Ailote v oathn and thrilling, filme b Jible stor has been brought to “” e r hurricane off the coa iy ”1;\}\;:] (“1"1 \““‘1 an & “""‘l’:"“” o finals will be played Monday. | "4 ”:“"'"!”lfy‘"\“‘”"'\ ena L Sun | morning before reg ive citi- | | Joseph Schildkraut Seena Owe 59 | those that saw the picture that they | ¢ theater, On this same pro- nd hoot the | o y A‘\A]Hllq the opening | Ta wi be the tense ama of T, 10 | Mrs, Delphine Dodge Cromwell Vies |love, devotion, prisons and courts— nes i With Males In ANGLER PULL Springfield, M Hauled int Annual Gold Cup Mary Pi inday night. | the | Regatta. he Wanderers Port Wa n, N. Y., Aug. 21 screen a theme thi (- Delphine Dodge s the most tremer i vied with several ; ind most powerful ever filr veed craft in the S ce in Manhasset pris yed b ) son of Jesse ary of the mon | herd life and long: ther in this sincere es for the r Miss and their | ony o y Columbla to see the city beyond the hills, Despite the en- |12 I teraties his mother (played by |B? J Kathlyn Williams) and the orphan (Baby Shadov W tr ous stren | i maiden Naomi (Kathryn Hill) he|Greenwich Folly, G. H artist’s model whose beauty | ! ma of his father his portion of | Nui mwell T welcome il ny the estate so that he might leave for | Vit S c 1 when she s l e city. The request is finally grant- I'rolic, A \ m in another city sk | youngster and unknowing to F. Blossom; Impshi, SRR Toheit fntine fon nehiyonoe | Lol N y | bur Bah; Wate Cap, A 1 H 4 | arcits. in_company burs: Buby Wa Cap L, shoots a man aud then stips| | lrritation Severe, Could Not priestes: acts the o i "% (aboard an Orient bound vessel . ¢ vampire (pla taz Nis- | Bigelo roit Water Cap, G. I Sl L, Sleep. Healed by Cuticura, | e s the life of ury | Grou Plexus, William | ¢ & Ssipn [ S e il M\u‘)]r\, Horn, 3 is disc “Pimples were scattered all over lasts untll Jether squanders ] e tempts | fmy face and neck. The irritation e ve > ) her the ship cook’s | | was so severe that I could not do ampire for the more wealthy m ‘;' Butler I)ocs Not Want to es to her rescuc anything but scratch and my face chant (Wallace FoepsHer e RC ( andidate for Goy. Owen is girl and Joseph was badly disfigured. I could not| | of the me beautift A% i 1ttling hero sleep at night on account of the nd architectural di a1 sl the storm, is| |itching and burning. I had th witnessed upon any AP 1 and the ft to their fafe. ashore on | that many transpire trouble about a year before I b using Cuticura Soap and O and after using two cak cura Soap and two boxes of Cuf Ointment I was compls mentioned ican nor The I lonian Palace o ss Tigha is a marvel gorgeous settings. F exhibition o n city becaus g climax is reach (Signed) Miss Wanda | town upon it vho Betz is great Middle St., Chicopee Falls, Mass., warned 1 r 1 a desire to : March 20, 1926. only soul is | co e nof 1 40 years 5 Use Cuticura Soap daily for the| | e Nction 6f Babylon is | Service as head of Columbia, which, | T toilet, assisted by Cuticura Oint-| | e of work. connection with his | not ar was | [ment when requited, and bave a| | » two shows on nities as o Califor-| | clear, fresh complexion, free from ile feature t ovie shin | |PimPles or blackheads. |ing o ram. In ! et 5 and e, Taleom 1 The Wander which o | peach free Malden storm a ¥ Dy night, Tom Formear B Cuticura Shaving Stic! =2 T e shown. 1 good old r plen of ‘!1\‘J~ and com- edy for which Toy Tyler is weil Indiana Investigation (BT e 1 Wednesta Next ()ne 101' Sen‘ Reed leville. Adams and the Thompson L Ve ital oantos sisters musical Zoek- p 2 e T . Q - posers, the international f amnounced by R and Wi presentir hairman On the old,” How Suh., Mon,, Tues,, Wed. 1d Grace.” Sctomniotate BIG l EATU Rl-“ vacuuim cleaned crank CascC The new Vacuum Ventilator in the 1927 Buick removes crankcase vapors, and protects closed car passengers from engine fumes and smoke. This | is the first time this luxury has been attained. Comein and see the Vacuum Ventilator and tha < many other features of the Greatest Buick Ever Built! 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