New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 23, 1926, Page 4

CHALIAPIN AS A PROGRAM r 'l policy will remain in effect inc ome twen- | MAKER JOSEPH S. LISTRO Presents l is worth watching and that's nitely. Of course th d n years later, he is still “one | Rollins of only way you can 0. S onoy, thy the show. ar pri will pre nly at such > Mo )‘A: died an EODY CANTOR [§ =257 = e Brown, aid 3 ml,and of Wes [ % stpusly Evgased o Kid Boots Filmed—ls N Funny ; mamenwe e NEWPRIGE POLICY SHIR[EY MASON N s Ply | | stars in these scenes include Ed Gar- | A picture of clear, sharp, brilliance, | | vey of the Hartford Blues and for- )Arl)' of Notre Da SAN CARLO GRAND OPERA CO. San Carlo Grand Opera Ballet ror(l‘ne Gallo, Director General arterback.” Richard had a better vehicle! Douglas McLean in his latest and ers of the football ey e e Will Reduce Sede Tor Shm! LYCEUM fEATURE i amto T 57 e e T mrrsgggm B ARSONS THEATER ; Headed for Broadway antly ir the Governor. When Paramount cast about in o search of a new comedy and a new, Coming attractions at the Capitol Oct. 25 Oct. 26 Oct. 27 Mat. Oct. 27 Eve. < Aida Faust Madame Butterdy Lucia di Lammermoor 2y Incidental Ballets by San Carlo Grand Opera | famous Michigan ccach, and includ- on the teams are many famed Appears B S in A S e eless he is con tated by people who which operas h eis go comedlan “Kid Boots” was on the ! Include Milton Sills in “Men of Tick ial : S : an i p ¢ icket: le AND L 8 glib tongue of the theatrical world. Steel,” Colleen Moore In “It Must Rosie 0'Grads” Onening Sund cstra have a special music setting Lo, PrOsTams of AT ,gl,\l}qu{_‘usl" Hartford, 981 Main St. or “Kid Boots” took blase Broadway | Be Love,” Connie Talmadge in “Th H. C. Parsons, manager of Par- 0 g 1] or the picture which will prove ~.m operd s one 5 TN e g , ti by storm and tun-thirsty New York Duchess of Buffalo,” and Jackls sons' theatre today made public the J- Up 1y Draptlor: § These fwillibel Gonthanug - FoclAl arah EATS EVENINGS $1.15 0 $3.45—MATINEE 30c to $2.88 o supported Florenz Zeigfeld's produc- | Coogan in “Johnny Get Your Hair of a proposed revolutionary | shows dal ppera & e Tare|pages thasare suf- tion for three years. Now Para- Cut” change in the pricing of seats at his| Like Shirley Mason? Sure, every| On Thursday the program will 1“?““;? Dyical 1o er to sur- ov mount’s film version of “Kid Boots” | — theater for plays that are brought | movie fan enjoys seeing this viva- | change and will bring double fea- Ve Dein® i ITEd SrEorajongy to Joseph S. Listro Presents ot} coming to the New Palace tomorrow | W. S. Jeffs and his orchestra has here for ation previous to | clous little star. Tomorrow night at ture attractions. the other, but why should o it for a four day run is heralded as ged another popular musical , their New York production. the Lyccum she appears'in one of | One photoplay will offer Douglas ' ¢Y¢? these when the world's World's Greatest th the mirth provoker of the scason. ogram for next week. . Some of the most important pro- | her best succe Sweet Rosie MacLean in his great of pure song is 50 im 5 o Eddie of musical o-| = cers of the thea world 4re ' O'Grady,” the love story of a old that Lion" and th SEeEL N6 “f‘“ngf - nging Actor SF madians, | Among the notable pictures book- ponsible for the radical price derella of the sidewalks of New ' feature will present Paulir portion®of e o5y 5 5 bli nacts his original c: ¢ ed fo y show at t um le move about to be tested in | Yor! In fact, it is from “The a story dedicated A = WITH HIS OWN GRAND OPERA CONCERT CO. supporting cast of is Rod % “Gigolo.” This rtford. The Messrs. Lee and J. J. | Sidewalks of New York™: song that manhood. “Her Honor the 4 IN OPERATIC CONCERT arrays itself with g cintillating | 18 one of LaRocque's best picturcs Shubert, owners and directing man- | this theme was evolved. The com- r e = nee T IR AT ey OV - kn| star. Opposite C s a Bow, |a0d In It he does some really re- agers of Parsons theater, and Al-'panion attraction is a pow n of Steel,” that big super- | S 2E® CAPITOL THEATER, HARTFORD, NOVEMBER 7th markable ng. For the inforr bert Lewis and A. H. Woods, two | prominent ma of modern soctal life, Is special p ashion.” | teatured will be offered soon at the alluring portrayer of h | duction with Milton Sills m——— t t c 2 —Assisting Artists— terizations, whose recent triumph in f the fans, the term of New York's most Giluseppe La Puma, G. “Mantrap” was the talk of filmdom. Lawrence Gi handsome g man, plays the youthful hefr who | succumbs to Billle Dove but is al- entangled with alluring > lie Kingston. His predicament becomes more in volved with the entrance of Clara and her villainous would-be lo Further color s lent by the conflict- ing loves of the Gray-Dove-Kingston triangie. “Kid Boots” s golng over 30 big throughout the country that nine out of every ten cities are obliged to hold the picture over for a longs er period inal booking. The followin i by the m: Dear Fri : The other feature tomorrow night new plays are tried out previous to!that isn't the half of it. part of Rhadames, has been favor- of college sports, 1 Just as long as you're going 10 at the Lyceum Is “Fools of Fash- 8oing to Broadway, fall to patronize| George Randolph Chester's story 'ably commented on for the suavity - “Kid Boots” my first picture, I, jon," presenting Mae Busch, Mar- such theatrical offerings owing to | “The Other Woman" {s the theme of 1 vocal effectiveness of his pel love, fraternitics, , we should know each other—| celine Day, Theodore Von Eltz and | the fact that the tickets for such | “Fools of Fashion” which is enacted anc = you. Althought I!Hedda Hopper. plays cost just as much as do the by a cast headed by Mae Busch, review of the performance of *2 and co-eds re- fat for three seasons, I of a whose love for luxury al. Seats for tried and established suc- |Marceline Day, Theodore Von Eltz 'a few days ago called the perform- : got more of a kick making the!most wrecked her life and her hus. cesses. In other words, in their |and Hedda Hopper. Gorgeous set- ce the finest thing that the com- Tol screen version—and it tools only | band's | opinion, it is the price and not the |tings and elaborate costumes are'pany has done, adding that it 1de three months. e lack of New York endorsement that | prominent backgrounds of this achicved operatic heights. 2 Motion plcture producers clalm — For Thursdaq, the Lyceum brings Makes so many people stay away |drama which tells of the trials of te operas to follow “Alda” are | £ that they wan! es for the Ralph Lewis in “The Block Signal” | from the theater when a new play newlyweds who are trying to adapt “piust” on Tuesday night, October been out in Cali m"flfli romance of the roaring rails, and |comes to town. With this thought | themselves to the beiter things of 3 dame Butterfly” Wednesday ne so much my cOUN- | “Lost at Sea.” In the last named ap- | in mind, the producers of “Glamour” | life on a small income and the fal- | atfernoon, and “Lucia di Lammer- Iready peeled - | pear such noted performers as Hunt- | approached the Shuberts with the llacy of attempting it. [moor” in the evening. The full or- This meang that I show tWo neW ly Gordon, Lowell Sherman and hope of getting the latters' co-opera- The bill changes the last half of | chestra, large chorus and the faces in the film. Joan Novak. The cast also boasts a | tion in trying out a pre-war scale of | the weeck to bring “The Block Sig- | principals that have been appea Hoping you and your family en-|real honest to goodness clergyman prices for their play during its Hart- [ nal,” a railroad drama, and “Lost in Boston during the past weck joy “Kid Boots” as much as I did |in the person of Rev. Neal Dodd, |ford cngagement. Mr. Lewis and | At Sea” This last named s an un- ‘pe heard during the Ha making it, | whose part is that of a minister. | Mr. Woods did not act through any |usually colorful emotional drama Sincerely, lack of faith in their property but|with plenty of sob stuff for those Tickets are now on sale a EDDIE CANTOR- | Scores of local people saw Eddie | took the step they did, actuated by |who like it, but enough relict com- .} 081 Main street. The operas The plcture will be shown twice 'Cantor in “Kid Boots” at Parsun; the desire to learn if they had hit edy to satisfy others. Its cast is /i)l be presented under the mal Sunday and three times dally With last year. Tomorrow night they |upon the real reason for the 6lim (an exceptionally capable one, in- ' agement of Joseph Listro. five acts of select va |may see him in this same comedy |patronage accorded to the majority cluding Huntley Gordon, Lowell There will be two shows Sunday drama, transferred to the films, at |of shows that come to town before .I\erm.m. Jane Novak and others, the program consisting jof w0 fed- |the New Palace. Clara Bow, Bil- |winning their New York spurs. | tures, Eddie Cantor in “Kid Boots" lie Dove and Lawrence Gray also are | The idea met wWith the full ap- | and the companion fc ature “The {featured. Although “Kid Boots" fol. | proval of the Shuberts and the con- | I]lx AT EAPIT[IL | I Waltz Dream,” a mrmrn altogether |lows in general the stage presenta- | ference resulted in the decison to ! fferent and delighttul. Light- H";fl\"ll"uon, it been necessary to make |put into effect at Parsons for the ‘ ’ Sen D e ed, its love and ,g ama skilfully la npmber of changes and these, in- | “Glamour” weck, a #cale of prices See Dix come 2 blended with humor, it Is easy to|stead of infuring the story, make it |comparable with those obtained in IN UUARTERBAEK i THEATER WA see why it has been hailed as the imore interesting for the movie fans |the years previous to the war. For | Is the Best in Photoplay through on the sensation of two continent “The 'who never have seen it and no less | the evening performances, the price | gridiron— Waltz Dream,” is the r'"\“' mad- acceptable for the st fans who |of orchestra seats to be $1.50; ‘M‘Th Wh H s It Th k —CLIP ME OUT— 1 ance ever filmed. nt to sec it on the screen. balcony seats all to be sold at $1: 0S¢ W00 Have deen il and In the ous dest ror STAGE AND SCRFER The Capitol theater management has been giving request cards to its patrons asking them to slgnify whether or not they want “The Four Horsemen' played here again. Re- turns indicate that the picture is wanted. Richard Dix in “The back” a smashing drama of cql- lege life and gridiron sports, opens tomorrow night at the Capitol with Esther Ralston as the heroine. Thi big football scenes were enacted under supervision of “Hurry Up' Yost, famous mentor of the Michi- gan team. r : 1899 prologue. The star quarterback | | gy, ¢ New u Lions with art Rawlins A F ¥ i g || EVERY DAY New Comedies, Serials : this [ liapesRamdnaon aud Hrstk eontn| of Colton College, Harry Beresford, and News. 2 Features PAULINE FREDERICK DOUGLAS MACLEAN 3 Wedne is “The Phantom of the M osaatic oM Pal Sh i sho Opera! h Lon Chaney, Mary Phil- YOTAT & S iy Laetluiny od ojection, come in and T R no phtmir i el e DANCING TONITE | |accepts with the proviso that he re. || I"tallsd ney, mrojrcion. sope i T . Thursday will be another double | ARCADIA MAls & satodl mpill Coltun beuts) oh, lnner feature, Marmont In “Legend : nad of Hollywood” and Bob Custer in . 5 e at” Friday, Florence Music by ] e Vidor, Matt Moore, Louise enda | Two Shows CONTINUOUS com Dance Hotel Burritt SATURDAY EVENING October 30, 1926 Dancing, Eight to Twelve Limited to 150 Covers Three Dollars per Cover Reservations Now Being Accepted BA RNEY PP H batsinr RAPP (Himself) RENZ R and his original ZIEGFELD'S VICTOR REGORDING ORCHESTRA, (12 pieces) el in a feast of fascinating melodies. A Svphfigcmmd Admission, 75 cents. Comedy Drama Note:—This is positively the original Barney Rapp MAE“;'L"JSCH Victor Recording Orchestra, with Barney Rapp in MARCELINE DAY person, conducting. Y THES, von ELTZ ROBERT OBER ; JAMER C. McKAY o] 1 “Dancing Days. | Quarter- | Some of the real football | 1s a European name for male attendant at a publie dafice hall who will dance with any of the air lady guests—for the usual fee. In other words, he is a pald partner. 1 Helene Chadwick and Lilllan | Rich also are coming to the Lyceum in another peppy jazz drama, Starting tomorrow night, the Ly ceum is offering as one headline at- traction “Sweet Rosie O'Grady,” the story of a Bowery belle who be- came a Fifth avenue princess. Shir- ley Mason is at best In this drama, which also has a great line | of the popular Irish-Jewish comedy. Cullen Landis has the male lead. The companion feature, for Sun- day o is a companion to Merry Widow.” *The Waltz Dream is the title. John Gilbert, hero of “The Big Parade” plays opposite Lillian Gist n “La Boheme” another of the filr masterpieces that soon is to be {brought to the New Pal and | he Wise Guy,” a comedy drama of the first water, also is booked. Ford § in this. vaudeville programs, weekly, are still be- d at the New Palace. AT THE SCENIC The Scenic has fine pigiures start- 3 night with “Phantom Monday they are booked ¢ith double feature Leo Maloney in Not Bullt For Runnin’,” and “Cir- | cle” featuring Eleanor Boardman. | Tuesday will be “Gilded Butterfly | with Alma Rubens, Bert Lytell, Her- Saturday | 3 1 with Jack | Holt, Florenes Vidor, Noah Beery | and Mary Brian, | New mechanism was installed this week at the theater and it sure does | cture of Wonn]vrmr‘n!.[ Tuesday Evenin, wmen, are the ones actively in- ted in the box office experiment which will be tried out here week er next. I g the week starting Monday, November 1, Mr. Lewls, in associa- tion with Mr. Woods, wiil offer at Parsons theater, the first American | erformances of a new play entitled | amour,” which is to be enacted b. an all-star cast headed by Ralph | It is said that this produc- | Morgan. tion will be the most {mportant and pretentious that either of these pro- ducers will do this year, and for that reason it is considered an ideal one with which to try out the new box office proposition. Mr. Lewis and Mr. Woods are con- vinced that theatergoers, in those cities outside of New York where |and the gallery price to be fifty cents only. Then a corresponding liberal reduction was determined on r the Wednesday and Saturday atinees. Both performances to be played at the same scale of prices, with the entire floor at $1; all of the balcony, 75 cents, and the gallery to remain at 50 cents. It is at least 15 years since priees | similar to the foregoing, arranged for the “Glamour” engagoment have been in effect for production of the magnitude of the one sponsored by Mr. Icvus Mr. \\00\1‘1 In this in ce, “pre-war” prices have been gone one | better, and should the theater zolng‘m“, | public of Hartfora and vicinity 1| (il the final whistle blows. | the week of November 1, avail ftself | |of this annual opportunity of secing a production, which will be don: here in every way that it will be prosented two wecks later in New | York city, at a tremendously reduced scale of prices, thisinew box office “RAMBLERS” The Broadcasting Orchestra Entertainment g, October 26th NEW BRITAIN STATE ARMORY The Greatest Musical Attraction of the Season Sweet Rosle O'Grady” has a ro- . itol prices. ce in which the East Side and S e | Fifth avenue meet on equal terms | OPERA AT PARSONS and it also has a wealth of cgmedy | E iin which rare Jewish types ar por ritord whan! thatl Ban Garie | trayed, as well as ‘he irrepre pera company opens at Par- Irish type. ! theater, Hartford, Monday eve- Cullen Landis, as Victor McQuade 'ning, October 25, a visit of three the youth from Fifth avenue, who . during which four operas will |is rescued from thugs in the Bow- he given. “Aida” will inaugurate ery through the prompt action of the series that Fortune Gallo offers. Rosie, is handsome and ma in Clara Jacobo, who, as Alda, will b type and the romance 2 the star of the opening performance two has the suspense thrill that the of Verdi's opera, has been singing public enjoys. Summing up the pic- with such power and lovelinoss of \ture in which Miss Mason plays s0 volee during the New York and prominent a part, we have a princess Boston engagements that her per- of poverty, a prince of plenty, a |tormances have been most effcctive pawnbroker, a politician, and a story 'She has a large, dramatic soprano, set on “the sidewalks of New York.” rable range and volume. That's “Sweet Rosle O'Grady” and James DeGaviria, announced for the YOUR Program for WEEK OCT. 21TH . It Collegiate | SUNDAY e ! “THE PHANTOM EXPRESS” The trickiest, funniest, fastest football game ever played. That's what yow'll see in Paramount’s lat Richard Dox comedy, “The Quarter- | back,” which arrives at the Capitol theater Sunday for 4 days. Richard | and his pal, David Butler, are work- ing their way through Colton by 2| means of a milk delivery route. To | speed matters up, they utilize their | football knowledge and send thelr [ bottles whizzing through the air. | THURSDAY flhr\n-x\hen they actually get in the DOUBLE FEATURE ction starts and never stops | | Bob Custer in “TEXAS BEARCAT"” and Perey Marmont in | D OF HOLLYWOOD” MONDAY DOUB! 3 Eleanor Boardman in “TH and Leo Maloney in “NOT BUILT FOR RUNNIN'" CIRCLE” TUESDAY HE GILDED BUTTERFLY” with Alna Kubens and Bert Lytell. WEDNESDAY “PHANTOM OF THE OPERA” with Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin But there's much more to “The | Quarterback” than just a football game! W. O. McGeehan and Wil- liam Slavens McNutt have provided | Director Fred Newmeyer with a real | SATURDAY story. And in its transfer to the| “ENCHANTED HIL screen, nary a thing has been lost. || with Jack Holt, Florencs Vidor, Noah “The Quarterback” opens with an | Eocky anl Ly D FRIDAY “GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE” with Florence Vidor and Matt Moore Continuous Shows Daily SENDAY, )iONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY 2—Big Shows Sunday Evening—2 An Entertainment You Should See! Also SWEET ROSIE O’GRADY be once more ensconeed | Available for Parties, Dances | ickets dav 3 Call Between 12 and 3 p. m. [ Tickets at Landay Hall, 981 6 PIECE ORCHESTRA 6 Elvira de Hidalgo, M and Weddings. Tel. 2560 JOHN J. PETCHEKONIS guerite Cobbey, Lucchini, J. Moncriefl and others. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA—BRILLIANT CHORUS in St., Hartford. Tel. 2-8279 Open Daily Until 10 P. M. , $2.30, $2.90, §3.45, §4, $4.00, Tax Included SUNDAY NIGHT MON.—TUES. —WED. 2 Shows Sunday Night Sccond Show at 8:30 game of love! Continuous Shows Daily The inside story by Matinees Orch. 25¢c Bal. 15¢ Children 10c Evenings Orch. 40c Bal. 250 Children 15¢ Reserved Loges Special Music Setting W. S. Jeffs and the Capitol Orch. I Dippy Tar' | Jlmmy Dooley | “Film Repor Thurs., “Her "onor (hc Gm(‘rnor" Fri., | sat. ] with SUNDAY Two Big Picture: Orch, 40c Bal. 30¢ Continuous Shows Daily WED.—Oh Boy! What a Riot of Fun' m /E /\/\/\/\/\ “ /\/\/\/\/\/- \/\, 1 “HOLD THAT LION” Dedicated to All Womankind! | A Rip Roaring Tale of Love and SHOWS DAILY 1:30 - 10:30 with 5 Acts Vaudeville ADOLPH ZUKGR JESSE L LASKY STARRING EDDIE CANTOR As a taillor, he's a Laugh —— As a Life-Saver, a howl— with AS A CADDY —— A CONVULSION —— ath SHIRLEY MASON WITH OLARA BOW - BILLIE DOVE AND ZIFGFELD BEAUTIES x] h h Say the C':?rll'! The “Abie’s Iriéh Rose"uof the Screen UES.—WED Two Shows SUNDAY Two Blg Pictures }-f;f‘ I'm a good Scotchman iohtine Marina® bl ol ? Eddie Cantor in “KID BOOTS” co-Feature Pi] I'll match it! Gene Tunney—“Fighting Marine. A(,’{J\D;?}.‘Elfg 5 “THE WALTZ DREAM" 2ol Maggie R TH y VA LVIL A Scnsation of Two Continents. Mns i Children—After School—10c 5 New