New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 29, 1927, Page 5

“HEROES OF NIGHT' " LYCEUM THRILLER Companion Feature Comedy| . “When the Wile's Away” | [ “Fire”!—"Police”! and there in | two words is the foundation of | “‘Heroes of the Night,” the big photo | classic which opens at the Lyceum | tomorrow night on the same bill | with “Wittn the Wife's Away” & emashingly funny comedy drama starring Dorothy R “Heroes of the X Bpectacular melodrama offering an assortment of thrills, romance and | pathos. Cullen Landis as the fire | fighter and Rex Lease as his brother | the policeman cnact many heroic | roles while Marion Nixon is the winsome Miss who is the innocent cause of fraternal conflict. The pro- | ducers of this picture have supplied two big fire fighting incidents each of which called for the entire re- Bources of a big city fire department | and each of which entails a spec- | tacular rescue. The story deals with | two brothers, Tom, a policeman, and Joe, a fireman, who live with their widwoed mother. Each un- known to the other is in love with the same girl and when they discov- er the fact their brotherly love turns to hate. The policeman, by a daring rescue, earns a big reward and his discouraged brother decides to give | is a Dbig| up both girl and fire department job but as he is leaving the city he hears the fire alarm. Rushing to the scene he beholds his own Dbrother in danger and then comes | his daring rescue. The romance is artfully handled when it becomes | ent that Tom really is in love | with another girl and M: ::tu:nl—l 1y cares for Joe. Thus 1 '“d\.i happily and both brothers are “Heroes of the Night.” ; } George Arthur plays opposite | Dorothy Revier in “When the Wife's | Away” which is a laughable tale of | a young couple who skimp along on a meagre income and suddenly come into a fortune which has the well known string | This provides that both must have | “made good” before they can col-| lect. They launch deception to fool | the cutor of the Will and the en- | ruing complications involve friends, relatives Chicago crooks and finally | the police. It's a scream, BOSTON SYMPHONY The opeping New York concert| this season of the Boston Symphony under the leadership of Sergei Kous- | sevitzky called forth the following BOSTON SYMPHONY FEBRUARY SIXTH THREE o’'CLOCK at CAPITOL THEATER Hartford Frank Sedgwick Management For the convenience of New Britain, patrons may leave orders for tickets at Mec- Coy’s. New Britain Store. Formerly C. L. Pierce & Co. Phone 497 Prices: 2 $1.73, $2.30, $2.88, $3.45 ———————————————————————— | management, Frank G, Sedgwick, KELS0 BROS. HEAD attached to it. | | scats, | days, excepting Sunday | served seat plan which has been in | the loges and boxes, with a sixty NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927. comments: | cent price prevailing for these seats New York Times: “The four|which were heretofore slightly more movements of Beethoven's Sym-|than that. Subscribers holding or- phony were read with a sincerity| chestra reservation for the season and understanding that had cumu-|may exchange their reservations for lative effect. One seeks 1in vain, | loges without any advance in price. among recent performances of the “Eroica” in this city for such snr-[M ring and dramatic treatment of the| I[;HAE variationg that make the finale.| Here, as in the other selections, masterly balance and self-control AT THE PALAEE st Will Be Shown for Entire Week i Starting Sunday are united with a thrilling emotion- "Michael Strogoff” has come to al intensity.” The Hartford concert will take place at the Capitol theater, Febru- ary sixth at 3 o'clock. For the con- venience of the New Britain public, | the screen at last. This masterpicce of the most imaginative writer of the | nineteenth century, Jules Verne, who gave to the world “Twenty Thou- sand Leagues Under the Sea,” orders for reservations may be left at McCoy's New Britain store, for- Round the World in Eighty Days,” “The Blockade Runner,” “The Mys- merly C. L. Pierce & Co., phone 497, | terious Island,” “The Green Ray” |and others well known to lovers of | fast adventure tales, seemed destined |to be filmed from the days of the first motion plctures, but the diffi- | culties of production always loom- ed up menacingly. It took the cour- | age of the Societe des Cineromans, the famous French company which lso produced “Les Miserables,” to mect all obstacles and surmount | them in a truly masterful manner. | “Michael Strogoft” was written Putti, This is the same film that|and first published in Paris in 1876. broke the world’s attendance record | Verne was already immensely pop- at the Capitol theater in New York | ular in England and America, and city so shortly after his latest work The “Greater Vaudeville Season” | appeared in France it was trans- will be launched Monday afternoon | lated into English and brought out at the Strand theater with the head- | it London and the United Sttaes. G. line attraction, the famous Kelso | Munroe, who published it in 1877 in Brothers. These notable comedians will present their “Crazy-Quilt vue” including themselves, Firtell’s | Jungle Lions and Billy Delisle. This | is conceded as the greatest “Tnit” show now en tour of American vaudeville theater. Other vaudeville hits will include Fridkin and Rhoda Co. and Mary Marlowe, the Broad- way Miss of syncopation. o The engagement of the Kelso . Brothers is limited locally to three days and everybody is ‘urged to try nd see the unusual aftraction be- | fore the termination of its engage- ment. | The Strand management announc- ed that it will eliminate the reserved seat section for evenings on the or- | farring chestra floor, making the price uni- | JOHUN Gl BERT formally fifty cents for all orchestra : ncluding Saturdays and holi- KN . when the picture prices will prevail.. The re- | BILL AT STRAN Greater Vandeville Season to Be Launched Monday Beginning toniorrow and continu- ing through Wednesday, the Strand | eature photoplay attraction will be The Prince of Tempte starring Lois Moran, Ben Lyon and Lya I te- | PARSONS’ narrromn —NOW— ] 2:30 Twice Daily 8:30 Ok Symphony Orchestra Sis, .50-$1.73. 1. ALY, SEATS RESERVED vogue at the local playhouse since | alue; its opening will be maintained i At Broad and ’ Washington Sts. | RIALTO TWO BIG FEATURE PICTURES EVERY DAY THE NEW TODAY ‘ TOMORROW E “The Dark Angel” | “Forlorn River” A scnsational post-war drama | Zane Grey's famous novel with with Ronald Colman and Vilma | Jack Holt in the leading role. Banky, | [{4 99 ‘ » | “Out of the Storm ‘Texas Terror | A thrilling detective tale with a Fast action western drama with Dare-Devil Al Hoxie, strong cast. COMEDY—SERIAL—NEWS | SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE FROM 10 TO 2:15 ENTIRE WEE Jules Verne'’s mighty melodrama! R Scenes of Barbaric Splendor! Gorgeous! Magnificent! Shown in full color! Surpass- ingly beautiful! JULES VERNE’S MICHAE STROGO SHOWS SHOWS SUNDAY—6:30—8:30 No man,woman or child novel translated into Nineteen Different Languages. Special Children’s Matin MATINEE Orch, Bal, ..... 20c EVENING Orch. Bal. . STARTING SUNDAY Vibrant Romance Portrayed by Great actors—Love, Intrigue, Ad- venture — Dare-deviltry — hero- ism at its height—sublime sac- rifice—Cast of 600—unbeliev- ably huge, gigantic and awe- inspiring “MICHAEL STROGOFF,” (the Czar’s secret courier). The most daring character in fiction! You will fol- his mother and sweetheart, and you will never \ forget it! MIGHTIEST MELODRAMA DAILY AT 2:00—4:00—6:00—8:00 should fail to see the colossal picturization of the ee After School .............covvivnvnnnnnn.. 10¢ America, found the sale of the work ‘was s0 enormous that he brought out other editions in 1881 and 1887 Concurrent with the release of the picture in the United States a de luxe edition of the book with il- lustrations from the picture will be issued at a popular price. At the same timg that the book has been fascinating readers the play has been thrilling theater‘audiences. In 1880 Adolpe d’Ennery dramatized “Michael Strogoff,” and it was pro- duced at the Theatre de Chaletet, Paris, with Marais in the leading role. The limitations of the mind of the untravelled reader, though cap- able of enjoying Jules Verne's bril- liant descriptions of strange sights in foreign lands, failed to visualize the gorgeous coloring, the thrills of com- bat, the rush and sweep of thousands of dare-devil barbaric horsemen | through whose ranks the hero,was froced to struggle with his message from the Czar to the beleaguered | troops of the Grand Duke in far Si- berla. Nor could the stage present | more than a hint of the vast field of | action of the story, so crowded with | incident and so densely peopled by the master hand of the famous French author, The great Kiralfy spectacles were notable stage pro- ductions—but within the limits £ splendor of their flowing silk robes, | gaudy in color and magnificent in SUNDAY EVENING ..... SUNDAY . MON.—TUES.—WED. THE “PRINCE OF TEMPTERS” 3 DAYS the mass. Picturesque settings—of cities, camps and quaint Russian vil- lages provided the strange and color- ful background of the picture, while patient search brought to light and into practical use trains, steamboats and river ferries which were actual- 1y in service in 1850, the perod of the story. “Michael Strogoff” opens at the Palace tomorrow for an entire week. BiG FILH HIT AT THE GAPITOL “Private Izzy Murphy” to Be Featured Beginning Sunday The big screen production “Pri- vate Tzzy Murphy” will be the feat- ured attraction at the Capitol for a four day engagement beginning Sunday night. George Jessel, the famous Broad- way stage star has the title and featured role in this, his first ap- pearance in the movies. He is ably ssisted by Patsy Ruth Miller, Vera Gordon and Nat Carr, Izzy Goldberg enlisted in the army TN EFFECTIVE Beginning Tonight THE STRAND ALL ORCHESTRA SEATS EVERY EVENING ......... BOXES AND LOGES RESERVED EVENINGS EXCEPT SATURDAY S50c 60c Subscribers may exchange Orchestra Reservations for Loges | without any additional cost. | cisneionse S00—406 || at the outbreak of the war and was assigned to the ighting” 69th Regiment under the name of 1zzy Murphy, which he sclected both for business reasons and in keeping | with the famous old Irish names already on the muster calls of this regiment. | lzzy, with true Jewlsh reverence, | had brought his parents over from Russia as soon as he had prospered in business in the Ghetto district of | New York, and as he just had them settled he was called away to France | with his regiment. Izzy, a private | | first class. A. Murphy of the Mur. | phies. Doing ~ his bit valiantly. | | Wounded. In hospital. Then to | nis parents the crushing telegram, | Killed in action.” | | Then the day when the 69th cam | home—what was left of them—and | | proudly marched up Fifth avenue,| | Papa and Mama Goldberg out to |sce them, all broken-hearted over| |the loss of Izzy, imagine their joy upon seeing Izzy quickstepping at the head of the line with all the| Murphies, Kellys and Coogan How | !it will warm your heart to see the | meeting of father, mother and son, land Eileen, his pretty Irish sweet- | | (Continued on Page 16) l(Dancing Dramatic Art | | EMERSON STUDIO | 150 W, Main St. | Tel. 613 and 1436-5 Stage Ballroom CELEBRATING GREATER VAUDEVILLE SEASON! MONDAY ONLY START America’s Foremost Comedians JOE KELSO HARRY BROTHERS and Their Company CRAZY-QUILT REVUE FURTELL’S LIONS with Capt. Furtell America’s Youngest Lion Tamer BILLY DELISLE with Flo Carroll “A Novelty Surprise” OUTSIDE the CIRCUS x5, with the FRIDKIN and RHODA CO. The Syncopating . Lady MARY MARLOWE Mrs. Helen B. Leonard and frict are invited to be our guests. THURSDAY Richard Dix “Paradise for Two” CAPITOL HOUSE OF HITS! MATS.—25¢. 15¢. —40c. 25¢c.—Children with Parents 15c. TWICE SUNDAY NIGHT SECOND SHOW AT 8:30. and MON.—TUES.—WED. i I We proudly present one of the outstanding photoplay hits of the year! A picture you'll long remember! For it has all the thrills of “The Big Parade”—all the heart appeal of “Humoresque”—and all the comedy of “The Colens and Kellys"—combined! Shown at 2:45—4:50—7:00—9:05—AT OUR REGULAR PRICES _— 2 GREAT PICTURES——THURS,—FRL—SAT.—2 BIG HITS! House Peters in a James Oliver Curwood story— “Prisoners of the Storm.” Mae Murray Conway Tearle in “ALTARS OF DESIRE” Extra added attraction—“HELL AND THE WAY OUT"—spon- sored by the League of Nations Non-Partisan Assn., Conn, Branch Mrs, Milkey, 23 Griswold St., and Friend are invited guests. SUN., MON,, TUE WOW!! WHAT A BILL!! 2 Big Features Heroes of the Night with CULLEN LANDIS Also A Screamingly Funny Farce! WHEN THE WIFE'S AWAY with DOROTHY REVIER See These Two Good Pictures LADIES’ SPECIAL MATINEE This Coupon and 10¢ will admit any lady to best seats, except on Saturdays and Holidays. MAING HARTFORD =+ FREE PARKING 4 DAVS STARTING SUNDAY NIGIT A SeMIDNIGLT SO A Blorjaus,GlamorousGlittering LVE +4 PAT IMALLEY (AURA (APLANTE OVERTURE " PAGLIACCI ‘wi# SOLOISTS, STATE NEWS-COMEDY~ AND OTWER NOVELTIES ON THE STAGE MON.TUE.WED ROONEY CLINTON s A CYCLONE OF FUK WUS/C, MCES’ 229 SONGS; ] T A2 SHO " | i