New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1926, Page 5

3 1 VARIETY 1S THE PALACE HEADLINER Love Scenes, Thrills, Pathos| and Langhter Featured The greatest forward step in the motion plcture industry was taken when “Variety” was made. *“Vari- ety" made in Germany has been heralded by our own critics as the most remarkable film ever screened in this country. “Variety” went into Broadway unheralded and the fol- Jowing morning every newspaper and magazine in New York express- | ed in their columns the amazement that possessed them upon seeing the picture for the first time. “Variety” is a life story featuring the eminent European actor Emil | Jannings who needs no introduction to American audiences ability {n character roles. “Variety” has everything that its name im- plies. There are love scenes such as you've never thrilled to; scenes such ag you've never dared hope for; mammoth sets such a: you've never dreamed of. “Variet is a gripping, colorful romantic- drama that will never be forgotten. The work of the two featured players will hold you as though in a vise—unable to move. Never has as to his | Punch | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926. with every succeeding foot of film, | | hilarious baug at the helght of | dizzy, hysterical, screamingly funny BE AT THE LYEEUM | chase. It is this high-pressure mix- ture of cyclonic action, farcial com- {“The Fighting Marine” Starts Monday—Clara Bow Sunday plications and broad comedy gags that make “That's My Baby” quite Clara Bow, Alice Calhoun, Rin Tin Tin and last but by no means the brightest and liveliest photoplay least, Gene Tunney, who fights | the current season has produced. Becauss of the tremendous crowds expecting to see “Varlety” the management of the Palace has placed the reserved box and loge | seats on sale now and orders will be accepted by telephone. CAPITOL PARK Jack Dempsey next Thursday, are Capltol Park, the big amusement | fOUr names connected with the resort on Wethersfield avenue, will | PTOSTam at the Lyceum that can- only be open Saturdays, Sundays DOt fall to stir movis patrons. and Mondays until further notice | Starting tomorrow night this pl and for tonight, the management |house presents “Two Can Play,” has arranged a monster all star |an ultra-modern flapper romance amateur boxing tournament that |starring Clara Bow, Allan Forrest, should provide Hartford boxing fans | Wallace MacDonald and George with the best set of bouts seen this | Fawcett, and Rin Tin Tin in “A season, and that is saying a great |Hero of the Big Snows.” In this| deal. Last Monday's bouts are atill | picture also appears Miss Calhoun, being talked about locally as the |Leo Willis, Don Alvarado and finest exhibitlon of amateur boxing | Mary Jane Milllken, These pic- witnessed in many a year, elther |tures continue through Wednesday here in this city or any other place. |and for Monday, Tuesday and Wed- | Eight bouts produced =six knock- | nesday and on the same days for| outs, with milling in almost each |the next consecutive nine weeks | bout of the most excifing kind. To | will he the latest movie gerlal, hear the cheering one would think | “The Fighting Marine,” with the that the world's series was being | heavywelght challenger in the played in the park. For this Sat-|1eading role. urday night, three state champicns| There are ten knockout chapters will present their wares, Bat Batta- | iy «The Fighting Marine” showing lino, State champ in the 126 Ib.|(ne clean-living, fair-fighting pride class will meet a worthy opponent | there been a scene to compare with the one which takes place when Jannings, Miss De Putti and War- wick Ward, are shown on the trap- |in Jimmy Siattery of Providence, | | eze, hundreds of feet above the | i | | | Jos Howard, state champ in the 170 | 1b. class will hook up with Sonny | f (colored) pride of Danfelson, | and the other stat echamp, R Strong, Hartford holder of the 118 | Ib. title, will mect Al Cromack of Unionville. Another big feature on the program will be Abe Bodine in | the 135 Ib. glass, who will meet an- | other Providence boy, Jack Cho- | quette, heads of an immense audience. Looking down the camera has transfered to the screen an impres- sion that a thousand eyes are look- ing right in to the camera. Here is one scene in a million. And the tre- mendous mob scenes are wondrous to gaze upon. “Varlety” will be shown at the New Palace with vaudeville thus be- ing one of the very few theaters in the country that are running vaude- ville with this super production. ay night there will be a | 1 MISS LAMPONE'S CLASS | Miss Mary J. Lampone has an- | Inounced the opening of her daneing | |classes for the coming season. In | ddition to the Friday afternoon | double feature program. The com- |classes for girls in aesthetic, inter- | panion feature with “Variety” will |pretive and ballet dancing, Miss be Douglas MacLean in his latest | Lampone will open a class for boys farce “That's My Baby” which is|and girls in social dancing. laughing dynamite, pops merrily | The Friday classes will be held as along, gathering comic momentum |usual in the Y. W. C. A. auditorium | |and the Saturday sessions in Grot- Jw hall, Miss Lampone has studied with 9 |l Alexis Koslofr ana Kobeloft, noted | !is already famillar in New Britain, Tn:xl.l‘;‘l{l.’rrrg¥r;;m | On October 1st between 4 and Popular Matinee Saturday p. m. at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium | o Playshop, Inc., presents pupily can register for any of the L LA L |classes and on the opening day, Oc- ‘(owr 9th, a program 0( Ym!chm] 1k {ed puplls, This program will giv The lovable, Isughabie crook melo- | [those not already familiar with the | drama direct from 1 year at Klaw || dancing taught in the class an idea Theater. = 5 : B0c.-§2.53: Mate B0c.-§1.50, of the season’s work. | SEATS SELLING T T TS 4 | At Everest. in the Himala 20,002 feet above sea level. CAPITOL PARK | Wethersfield Ave. Hartford TONIGHT i Sept. 15th | (Auspices A. A. U.) | ALL STAR AMATEUR BOXING CARNIVAL Featuring BATTALINO — HOWARD — BODINE Others Jimmy Slattery, Providence; Sonny Mays, Danfelson; Jack Choquette, ’ Providence; Eddie Camp, Ray Strong, Hartford; Joe Peloquin, Danielson; Al Cormack, Unionville and six others. THE FINEST AMATEUR CARD EVER OFFERED i Admissions Including Tickets to Rides Band of Hartford I AFTERNOON AND NIGHT H Free Gate F a | MONDAY NIGHT, SEPT. 20th ANOTHER AMATEUR BOXING CARNIVAL Note—Capitol Park is now open enly Saturdays, Sundays Mondays unless otherwise advertised. and . Two Shows Sunday Double Feature FOUR DAYS has already taken the key cities of America by storm Has its first showings in the leading Theaters of Connecti- cut Sunday EMIL JANNINGS Love Scenes Such as You've Never Thrilled to Punch Scenes Such as You've Never Dared Hope for Mammoth Sets Such as You've Never in vain if we should try to tell you the wonders never forget “VARIETY.” SUNDAY Two Shows—Double Feature “VARIETY” will be shown at 7:30 and 9:30 COMPANION TEATURE FOR SUNDAY is Yes, Sir, We've Decided— No, Mam, We Won't Hide It. DOUGLAS MacLEAN In His Latest Uproarious Farce \hmm “THAT’S MY BABY” - Laughing Dynamite—Gathering Comic Momentum to an Hilarious Being MO. “VARIETY” Times D Call | mystery and adventure serial ting- | the Canadian | Rin | then | are two rivals for the girl's affec- | come stranded on an island. | himself sitting pretty | in the sunshine STAGE AND SCREEN | tonight, opening of the Strand, now in pro- |cess of construction. | pre sent plans thi: will open about November 1. ville | said. be old rose, gold SUN.—MON.—TUES. The World’s Most Sensational Photoplay which has placed the industry 10 years ahead Dreamed of You will not be satisfied until you have seen “VARIETY” over again it will only be of “VARIETY” in must see it to appreciate—For “VARIETY” is big—“VARIETY?” is different—You'll —TUES.—WED. VAUDEVILLE Boxes and Loges Reserved Evenings 103 for Reservations of the Devil Dogs in a fast moving ling with red blooded action. The story gets off to a flying start with Tunney, as a news reporter, being assigned to a difficult story which develops into a sensation of tlivty. The story of Hollywood and a little desert | town and each episode is crammed | 1 | also is an organist of with romance, moving scenes, breadth escapes. “A Hero of the Blg Snows” has woods as its focale and deals with a young wasirel who saves Rin Tin Tin from the brutality of a trapper. The dog strikes up an acquaintance with a dog owned by a charming girl and this opens the way to the romance. Tin Tin engages in several spectacular fights and rescues and | some really sensational incidents occur, Don Alvarado makes a | handsome leading man opposito Miss Calhoun. “Two Can Play” {s a screen ver- sion of a Saturday story by Gerald Mygatt. fons quickly arise for the theme brings in a hero who is a villaln and a villain who is a hero. For- rest and MacDonald are the mixed | heavy amd hero. The story con- cerns a flapperish little miss who fell in love with a man whom her uncle hated and denounced as cad and fortune hunter. The uncle engages a daring av whom he admires for his app courage, to thrill his neice. He suc- ds apparently, and adventure, fast- crises and halr- Complica- there then | tions. Events cause the trio to be- Lover No. 1 is snubbed by the girl who uspects him of an affair with an- other woman. Lover No. 2 finds and basking of the girl's smiles. comes, however, reverts to type, the girl and is thrashed by the discarded The climax when lover No. 2 tries to attack soundly | woer, With the opening of the Capitol patrons of local theaters now look forward with relish to the According to | vaudeville house It will have a seating capacity of 2500 and n appearance will rival any vaude- house in New England, it is The interior decorations will and ivory. cum has booked ut serials of the s The Fighting Marine,” one of son in which is to Britain’s Vaudeville Theater —WED. LYA DE PUTTI this hoace—Yon will be shown Three aily—4—7—9:30 with M. 2: 15—5—8 ‘10 has a background | Evening Post | | ing. Wednesday. Gene Tunney, swaps punches with Jack Dempsey Thursday night is the hero of the picture and, incidentally, is said to show up mighty well in his movie appearance. For the last half of next week the | Lyceum will featurs ‘“The Lone Wolf Returns.” Bert Lytell is the star In this crook drama of Parls. “The Lone Wolf,” both as a story and picture, is well remembered and proved so popular that a sequel was brought out. Up in \hhels Room,” a farce comedy starring Maris Prevost, is| coming to the Lyceum soon and so | s “That Model from Paris.” This incidentally, is Tiffany's first produc- | tion of the year. Tomorrow night's pictures at the Lyceum are Clara Bow in “Two Can | Play,” a typical flapper pictura; A Hero of the Big Snows, t Tin Tin dolng his canln- best. and | Rin | “Tin Gods” which opens the Cap- | itol tonight, has just opened on Broadway. It presents Thomas Meighan and the female co-stars are Renee Adoree, star of “The Big Parade” and Eileen Pringle, heroine | of “Thres Weeks.” The Capitol's policy will be single | features the first half of the week and double features the last three | days and for this coming week the attractions will be Gilda Gray, world | famous dancer, in “Aloma of the South Seas” and Lloyd Hughes in | Pals First.” Willaim 8. Jetfs, who comes as leader of the Capitol orchestra, has | had conslderable experience direct- ing movle theater orchestras and plans to feature his music in con- junction with the pictures. Mr. Jeffs ability and will be featured at the console at | the Capitol. The new orchestra is a | ten-piece aggregation. Manager C. J. Barrett of the Capitol already has booked some of the best obtainable movie attrac- | tions, including “Don Juan’s Three | Nights,” “The Bat,” “Man Trap,” Lon Chaney in “On the Road to Mandalay,” Milton Sills in “Men of 1” and Lois Moran and Noah | Beery in “Padlocked On Monday evening members of | the city government and especially | invited friends will be the guests of | the Hoffman Brothers Theatrical enterprises and Contaras Brothers and Perokas at the Capitol opening. “Variety”, which new week at the New Palace with Emil Jannings being starred, comes be shown on Monday, Tuesday and | who | this first | jon a train to speed east and becomes | Stone, who has the rola of Sebastian | Moore. | figure | ular here absolutely uncensored just as it was shown in New York. When this | forelgn made movie was brought to this country critics predicted it would be a flop. It was a sensation on Broadway where it still is show- They then predicted it would fail on the road, but this far it has made a great hit. Incidentally, the | New Palace and a Hartford theater | are in C showing this for the first time | nnecticut, As a companion feature ovening with “Variety” the Palace offers Douglas McLean In “That's My Baby.” This is really a regular feature attraction. Sun New | | the best paid | from |8 some 2,600 Ia in the United States and judges, LYCEUM For the last half theater will offer Richard Bathelmess in his latest picture 16 Amateur Gentleman,” an old nglish romance. Vaudeville, chang- ed twice weekly, also is booked of the week Among the attractions to he brought to the Capitol soon will be William Fox's “The Three Bad Men,” which opens next Sunday night, Ford Sterling in *The Show- Gloria Swanson in “Fine Man- ' Buster Keaton in “Battling and Lillan Gish in “Nell Dorls Kenyon no sooner becomes a bride in reel lifs than she steps a bride in real life. Milton 8 She is now working on scenes in “The Blonde Saint” and in the movies becomes the bride of Lewis Her husband is Miss Kenyon is Anne Bell- amy in the movie—Marion Fairfax's adaptation of Stephen French Whit- man’s romantic novel, “‘The Isle of | Lite.” The mammoth caves of the Santa Cruz Islands, as beautiful but less famous than those of Kentucky, will prominently in Priscilla Deans’ new plcture, “Jewels of De- sire” which Paul Powell is directing. The star and her company will spend nearly a month on these is- lands in bringing ths Agnes Parsons story to the screen May Robson, famous “Aunt Mar: of the stage, now awalts the verdict | of the screen. After 43 years of appearing be- hind the footlights she has just com- pleted her first motion picture role in “Pals in Paradis ““Fighting Love, Jetta Goudal's | second starring feature for will be an {nternational affair. With the as- slgning of Victor Varconl to the leading male role the production now boasts of a French star, a Scandina; director of German reputation, and a Hungarlan leading | man. ' Mtthew, the publican apostle of » Christ, is to be portrayed by va Edeson fn “The King of Kings,” Cecll B. DeMille's spectac- Biblical produetion. Other members of the cast for “The King ot Kings” nclude, H. B. Warner, | Jacqueline Logan, Joseph Rudolph Schildkraut, Victor V: ; coni and Ernest Torrence. Jeanic cpherson prepared the screen- ‘ | | Attractions at Parsons’ Theater Next Week | A shoe shine that led to one of | jobs in the world; a fortune founded on a 50-cent tip; | obscurity to fame with one| punch to the jaw. All these things happen in “Black Boy,” a comedy 1a iIn three acts by Jim Frank Dazey, produced by Horace Liverright and starring Paul Robeson, the great mnegro acto “Black Boy” comes to Parsons's Monday, September 20. The en- | ment is for the first half of the | with & matinee Wednesday. | ats are now on sale. | There are, according to report, | wyers of the fair sex women | Many of these women ‘who | and CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY Sunday R CHILDREN AFTER SCHOOL CLARA TWO CA 7/2e 'l(/ono/er Dog Also The 1926 Model Flapper in SUN.—MON.—TUES.—WED, DOUBLE FEATURE 2 Complete 'NTIN BOW SPECI MO Will He Starting Next AL —TU GENE TUNNEY in the “FIGHTING MARI JACK DEMPSEY Next Thur: See Him in 10 Knockout Chapters Mon.—Tues.—Wed. ES.—WED. Lick sday ? Aesthetic C bave entered the political arena are| married. | comes Thursday, his latest come Judge's with a self-contradictory term. “Did when she made her will?” Miss Mary T. Lampone Thus William Hodge, who Parsons's theater on September 23, in giving dy the title of “The Husband,” did not label it Minn to millers cent EXCELLENT MEMORY remember eastern your aunt you expect s0; she left me out.—| Answers, London. SHAVING IRRITATION INSTANTLY RELIEVED BY Eve. rate cut shipments the interstate commerce slon here yesterday. Robert N. Collyer of New York, OPPOSE GRAIN CUTS eapolis, Sept. 18 (#) — East- ern trunk line rallroads and cen- tral states and Pacific northwest the proposed six flour and graim Minneapolis to territory, before commis- opposed on from seaboard Next Monday, chalrman of the traffic executive territory of eastern lines, testified that his clients fear that reduo« tions in grain and flour rates from this territory would throw the en~ tire rate structure oft balance by necessitating corresponding reduc- tions from other districts, England is exporting motor cars at the rate of 31,000 a year. PARSONS Hartfora Tuesday, Wednesday Popular Matinee Wednesday HORACE LIVERIGHT Presents Paul R9beson “Black Boy” A New Comedy Drama by Jim Tully and Frank Dazey . 50¢-$2.50 SEATS NOW SELLING Mat. 50¢c-$1.50 D:nzing Classes day, Oct. 8§ at 4 o’clock ¥. W. 0. A Soclal Classes for Boys and Girls Sat. Oct. 9 at 10 A, M. Gtotto Hall OPENING TONIGHT =at— 7:30 Thurs., . and Sat., Sept. 23, 24, 25 WM. 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One Pelfmm‘mce at 8:30—Two B|g Shows—Continuous Daily—Children’s Show 4:15 Tom’'s Best Role “Miracle Man” A Since His Famous A Photoplay You'll Enjoy ¢ Shown 4 Times Daily 2:45—4:30—7:00—9:05 RENEE ADOREE AILEEN PRINGLE AN THURS., FRI,, SAT. PRODUCTION a Garamount Picture GILDA GRAY The Famous “Follies” Girl, in Double Features “Aloma of the South Seas” One of the Hoffman Theaters LLOYD HUGHES & —_— 0N — “Pals First” O