New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 20, 1927, Page 23

[ T s Onless otherwise Indicated, theatrical motices and /1eWs in this columa are written by the press agencies for the Fespective g/Sement company. SRR IS SR RSN AN AN A A s S S s “THE NIGHT BRIDE’—LYCEUM «RIKIES” AT CAPITOL Equipped with new projection ap- Th":::e;:: dffi;;!l:;.? "v:hkx:; paratus, the movie machines at the | comed: 1 ¢ l.iyceum now are’' projecting pic- | has gged Capltol patnensiblenty of tures absolutely clear-cut and }i‘“lh‘. Alce: s iongng IactiSun bright, and in addition the talking | day. novies are even clearer toned and | K¢ Dane and Georso K. Arthur sharper than before. The feature | are iolutely the funniest comedy picture being shown is Marle Pre. | comnation seen in the movies a 1§ while and many more com- vost and Harrison Ford in “The (2 1& W : Night Bride” and the other feature | edhits are being arranged for this N e Searchoner o teiier ot the | ted. In “Rookies” they have side- inotorcycle racetrack, starring Reed | s:ting roles of the '°"gé‘ mv'sefi' Howes. Cullen Landis in the serial, | #nt and the rookie. George K. “On Guard” and the news reel | thurs ""':m:""‘ & _remackable : ; 1aracterizaf round out the picture program. Beginning Sunday night for four The DeForest Phonofilm program jyy the big attraction will offer brings gales of laughter from thegi; min Tin the wonder dog in his| dialogue of Frawley and Smith, twc . Broadway vaudeville stars, | Th mmelnoroPiaY Mark Strand sextette presents tr second Hungarian Rhapsody ar Helen Lewis breezes along with b jazzy band of girl musicians. The story of “The Night Bric" which delighted this afterno!'s audience, 18 that of a distitly modern young woman and a n'el- ist who is 2 woman hater. “The Scorcher” is a tale Jf & young athlete who risks his 12 for a womaf's whim and thus rings about a series of exciting indents. ‘Tracked By the AT THE PALACE Two excellent features the program at the Palace for today Virginia Valll in ‘“The Pleasure Garden” and Josie Sedgwick in “The Daring Way."” The two feature picture for to- morrow will be Ranger, the wonder dog, in “Flashing Fans,” the story of a man who saved the life of a dog and that same dog saved his lite! The other feature on this program will follow with Art Acord in “The Scrapping Kid” a galloping western story for young and old and the fastest outdoor romance Big Art has yet brought to the screen. INJURED IN ACCIDENT, on DOUBLE FEATURE AT FALTO There will be two big ferures at the Rialto theater today. “ride of the Force,” & stirring melorama of the conflict between the plice and the gangsters with a cas that in- cludes such actors as ¥ancis X. Bushman Jr., Tom Santchi, .nm-K my Morrison, Edith Chpman and | a host of others. Stirrin' incidents, fast action, and tensel gripping moments will keep you m the edge of your seat throughou. ! “The second feature wil be “There You Are,” a fast comdy starring Conrad Nagel and Edih Roberts. Tomorrow comes the big show of the week. Six big acs of profes-| frances Dunlev sfonal vaudeville and “Easy Pick-| Piny avenue, Har ing.” & crook drama o the first or-| Prguson, aged about 30 years, of der starring Kenneth Harlan and|4 Van Block avenue, Hartford, Anna Q. Nilsson. sere brought to New Britain Gen- In addition Chapter No. 1 of a[Tal hospital about 3 w'clock this new serial “Fighting for Fame" with mor rning by autoists who found them Ben Alexander, a fast comedy “A by the roadside in Berlin, after hav- Dippy Tar,” news recl, etc. 1ing been thrown from an automo- REPORT BlG EARN[“GS | bile. Throughout the forenoon accident was shrouded in mystery, Standard Ofl Company of New £r- Two dartford Men Land in Hos- ltal and Are Placed Under Arrest. aged 24, of 29 Ihm at noon, Lieutenant Frank San- toro of the Hartford detective hu- reau telephoned to Detective S geant McCue to place the men un- sey and Kindred Companies®d€ | "o yconobile owned by Bernice | Carter of 29 Dennison avenue, Hart- | | ford. New York. May 20 (P —stadard | Dunlevy has a deep gash in his 0il company of New Jers/ and |left wrist, besides body bruises, while affiliated companies in 1926 howed | Ferguson has concussion of the net earnings of $11752.201, |brain and a possible fracture of the cquivalent after dividendson the [skull, in addition to bruises about preforred stock to $5.01 a hare on fihe body. The seriousneas of the in- ihe common, compared wth $4.72|jurles is not known, but the men a share in 1025, when 16t earn- [will be unable te leave the hospital ings were $111,231.355 | for scveral days at least. Ferguson Net earnings in 1927 e mot ex- had not regained consciousness this | pected to equal those ¢ last vear, |afternoon. the annual report to #tockholders for “it is appamt that the earnings or 1927 will present ansatistactory Over 117 Million Dollars. McCue a Hartford officer will be in ew Britain this afternoon to inter- | view the men, if possibl2, Because of | their injuries, they were unable to “The Standard O company of | give the hospital authorities any in- New Jersey and 8 subsic mr!m}rormnuon cgncomlng the accident have curtailed proucing activities {and the Berlin police likewise w wherever practica)e; have shut | without the details. Jown pressure sti8 and otherwise — sought to protest helr position and | Spanish War Veterans 2t the same timeto assist the A e e iy To Attend Dedication “The overprodction of erude in| Members of - A. G. Hammond \he latter half ¢ 1926 affected the |camp, United Spanish War erans, will attend exercises in con- earnings of the company to some .:megfln the Mte months, but did nection with the dedication of a it exercise i¢ full influence until | Spanish war memorial in Hartford after the turr Of the year. Succes- (Sunday, leaving the corner of Main slve reductigs in posted pncmmnd Court streets at 12:05 o'clock have brougt crude below the|in busses. They will take part in ~verage cost Of producing it wccom.l\he parade and exercises o st prolific areas. As to st }(HL $500 petroleum products, consumption ; has substaitially increased over last| A third action has resulted from but overproduction and stress | the collision of automobiles driven romipany’s reflect the conditions. vear, of comp ing pricé to unremunerative lev- "lon at the intersection of Hart and | Griswold streets on April 20 1 Today, suit for $500 damages was brought by Harry Gordon AK'IIH\( Petrunti, through Monroe . |don. The writ is returnable in the |city court the first Monday of June and Constable John 8. Recor served the papers. | Gordon claims that he was pro- | ceeding along Hart street at a speed |ot 15 miles an hour on the day men- |tloned and that Petrunti, with no |regard for traffic conditions or for |the specd of his car, drove up Gris- {wold street and crashed into the plaintift’s car, overturning it. The I'm 1ot very big, but I'm long on | ~xperiaice. I am a Herald Classi- | fied Ac PALACE TODAY VIRGINIA VALLI in “PLEASURE GARDE:! Entertnining and Interesting Picture Co-Feature . “DARING DAYS” of way at the time and that the d ¥ fendant failed to keep a proper 10ok- |out or to sound a warning as he approached the intersection. ‘The plaintift claims that he re- ceived body bruises and bruises and cuts on the arm. He is employed |as a salesman for Gordon Brothers, he states, and, s a result of the ac- | cident, { proper attention to his work. JOSIE SE TOMORROW 5 Avts of Splendid | PROFESSIONAL VAUDEVILL In the Afternoon und Evening nnd 2—Grent Features—2 RANGER” in FANGS" Feature ART ACORD Wonder Horse | READ AERALD CLASSIFIED ADS PALACE HARTFORD ALL THIS WEEK Mat. Tues, Wed, Fvery Poli’s Players America's Greatest Stock Orgunization Starring MARION GRANT and VINCENT COLEMAN In the Great Broudwny Success The BUTTER AND EGG MAN He's the Laugh of New York “THE l\l NAWAY” TONIGHT 815 Parsons NIGHTS, FRI, SAT., MAY Pop. Matinee SATURDAY WILLIAM B. FRIE with DONALD MEEK And a BrilliantSapperting Cast Eve. 500-22.30 . “30c-81.93 Fuit ORDERS Now. SEATS TUES NELD POR AUTO THEFT| o States. ord, and Ernest | the | | der arrest on the charge of theft of | Lieutenant Santoro toid Sergeant | Vet- | tition have brought ,(.”_‘hy Biagio Petrunti and Harry Gor-‘ ! plaintift states that he had the right | he has been unable to give | NEW BRITAIN DAILY ‘HERILD, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1927, WILL ROGERS HOST ATLAUGHTER PARTY Tells Audience in Hartford About His Experiences (By Herald Reviewer) Mayor Will Rogers of Beverley | Hills, Calif., and his tame lariats dropped off at Parsons’ theater, | Hartford, last night fora chat with residents of what he called the| “Maple Sugar Belt” of the United Will did most of the chat- ting. The people on the other side |ot the footlights couldn’t get a |word in eedgewise — they were ighing too much—and besides IWill monopolized all the time be- tween 8:30 and 11 o'clock. But that was as it should be. The people had paid fancy prices to hear Will and there was no reason why they should interrupt his conversation and give him something for noth- ing. The motto of the night was The laborer s worthy of his hire,” and it was followed out me- ticulously. But then, Will gets a fair day's wage so he was agree- abl® to do all the talking. Will told the folks that he was {the only mayor in the world who was funny—purposely. If there were any other mavors present they probably crawled under their seats. Will described his experiences in | Europe and didn't spare the horses | as he drove .roughshod over the | natives. But he also paid his com- ‘)\IHHPHN to American tourists who pace up and down the land mak- ing nuisances of themselves ani preparing lectures for the Memday | Morning Literary club back home. Once or twice Will tried fo got | serious but the audience wouldn't| let him hecause they had come to ,l'mqh and they intended to get |their money’s worth. He verged | ward the serfous when speaking | hout President Coolidge and his chances of re-election. “Blastin’ .‘lml feller out of the White House lis goin’ to be some job,” he de- |claved. His description of his visit Ito the president was tceming with wit, concluding with the observa- {tlon, based on the means which were served: “If anyone says that |Calvin isn't a true economist just |send him to me.” | Will also paid his respects to the | American people for the penchant ifor interfering with other people’s |affairs and said it would have been a good Joke on the United States if Ttaly and Jugo-Slavia l\ad gone to war beeause all the U. S. marines were bus agua and China and we ave been able to interfere, Will thought it was the| {height of humor for America to| nd marines to Nicaragua to regu- late an election when we have so “m\lrh difficulty with our own elec- tions. Will concluded his evening's en- tertainment with his rope spinning tricks, accompanied with banter {and nonsense. From the time he| |started to talk until he said, “For | neaven's sake, will you people go |nome. and let me go to bed,” two land a half hours clapsed, with a laugh for every minute. Will con- {cluded his program In a tornado lof applause. |Warner Brothers Are Now Vitaphone Owners New York, May 20 (A—Warner | Brothers Pictures, Inc, yesterday | | hecame sole owner of the Vitaphone ! { Corporation when Harry M. Warner | | announced he had purchascd out- | standing interests held by Walter | J. Rich, former president of Vita- | phone. Production will go ahead at both | New York and Iollywood s.whnfi\ JO( the Vitaphone Corporation, Mr. Warner said. i LYCEUM MARIE ¥ | | 1 in “THE NIGHT Installation of new apparatus in our theater insures the clenrest and brightest screen projection of any theater in the city. LADIES' SPECIAL MAT. This coupon and 10c will admit any 1y to hest seats. ito sce Stage Next Monday LINDBERGH HOP3 OFF FOR FRANGE (Continued from First Page) The daring Missourian, who plays a lone hand, had no one to show him the way as he ‘hurled his Ryan monoplane the “Spirit of St. Louis” above Roosevelt before 8 o'clock | this morning. Five Narrow Fscapes. The ng Fool,” affectionately call him, way. Five times in the 3,800 feet of the long run over which he sped in making his take-off, he was close to disaster, twice by inches. At the very last as he was climbing before straightening out for the start of his lul plane, weighed by a load of 5,150 pounds, barely cleared a string. of telegraph wires. A few seconds before it had almost struck | a roadscraper as he was attempting to gt off the ground. Three times the plane soft spots air, always coming back to earth and finally straightening out after seconds of hesitation which seemed minutes to the anxious spectators fringing the flying field. OR at Terrific Speed. The slightest slip would heen dire disaster, for Lindbergh | knew he had no easy job in getting his plane off the ground and he| increased his speed steadily as he tore down the runway. When he finally left the earth for the air he | was literally the “flying fool” he #5 often called. 418 Gallons of Gas. The plane carried 448 gallons of gasoline and the 25 year old avi tor who believes that he travels the fastest who travels alone thought 2s he sped away that he could fly for 45 hours on that amount of | fuel. He does not think that he will need it for he expects to land In Paris with no stops on the way in ot more than 36 hours. . Lindbergh's departure an eleventh hour decision. He ap- | parently had no thought early last night that the weather would per- mit him to essay the across the Atlantic so soon. Ts Up at 2:30 A, M. There was fog reported and the temperature off Newfoundland was as his friends | is on his | course leading north, | struck | and bounded into the | have | followed | long jump | The Swanzey Band—Scene from Den;nan Thompson’s “The Old Homestead,” on Strand ,condition was wheeled from & | hangar which had been barred to {all. With a truck furnishing the motive power, the monoplane was towed to the west end of Roosevelt | Field where the America Trans- Oceanic Company, owner of the | “America,” soon to start on a flight to Paris, has a long runway to use las a speedway as heavily laden | planes taxi aleng to get the tre- l‘mrendmu speed necessary to get | them into ths air. The ,youngster, who has declared | that he believes in his plane which shows that he has confidence in | himself, again justified his reputa- ttion for doing the unexpected. He stopped the plane when he reached the spot where the runway begins | and began putting in the rest of his | gasoline. Does The TUnexpected. | In turning the nose of his plane { toward the northeast he was almost {on his course from the beginning but he sacrificed a safety precaution. If he had started the other way and | failed to got off the ground or was | forced to land jfter getting inte the air Curtiss Field nearby would ha\e been a safety zone. Has No Radio. Traveling light, with only & | week's supply of army emergency | ration Slim” has no radio and probably will be not heard from | until he lands in Paris. He will go | the great circle course following the compass all the way. He hoped as | he left that he would “get a break” oft Newfoundland where he was anxious to be able to markings and get his bearings for his dash across the ocean to Tre- land, Had Little To Say. Always a young man of few words, he had even less to say than usual before he left this morning. When the plane was being fuelled and then carefuly wiped he sat in an automobile nearby with B. . Mahoney of the Ryan Alr Lines, builder of the plane. He seemed m- patient to hop off. He half smiled when the weather began to clear and when the sun finally eame out just before he crawled into the one- seated cockpit to tune up his motor his smile was a broad grin. Rivals Give Greetings. Clarence D. Chamberlin, who has | hoped for several weeks to get off on a hop to Paris, wished Lindbergh ood luck as did Commander Rich- ard E. Byrd, who will follow the I blazed by the vouth in a few Commander Byrd's careful lower than he would have liked it | had he been able to pick and choose his weather. When he retired shortly after 11 o'clock he expected the crowd watching him closely again today. He saw most of them only when he was attired in flying clothes and ! ready to defy the elements over a three thousand mile front. The wea- ther at midnight was more hopeful and it was decided that “Slim” { would hop if the improvement kept up. He was up at 2:30 o'clock and was at his hangar The improvement in weather in the Atlantic was reported as hoped for but in the meantime a rain began falling here. Finally Says * Go. The unfavorable local weather again made the verdiet a doubtful one. The rain did not last long and although a heavy mist hung over the field, the weather report wag studied again and then Lind- bergh suddenly said “Let's go” to S J. Stumpf, a fellow guardsman and representafive of the St. Louis group sponsoring the flight_effort. Plane Works Perfectly. The “Spirit of St. Louis' ad heen carefully gone chanics and found which over by n perfect GIVEN AWAY TODAY AND SAT. 2 DAYS MORI That Screaming Comedy ‘ROOKIES’ with KARL DAN GEORGE K. ARTHUR Get the Laugh of Your Life! Come! RIN-TIN-TIN in ; “TRACKED BY THE POLICE" in 45 minutes. | MINSTREL HOW 'DANCE AND non-stop JOSEPH A. HAFFEY Director | TONIGHT T. A. B. HALL For Benefit of St. John’s Parish Building Fund Admission $1.00 Music by Sullivan’s Orch. | see land | companions and is seeking zclentific results from the trip. Many Saw Hop Off. A ‘erowd which started assembling by twos and threes before midnight | preparations to have the “America’ act as escort for the “Spirit of St. Louis” finally prevented rather than insured it. The America was in the air for a three-hour test {light when the commander, decided the young- ster was ready to go. He came down to find out just when he could ten- der his services as escort and found the flying horseman so far advanced in his preparations that he w: to be off before the giant could get back Into the air to fol-| low. Lindbergh evinced no excitement or nervousness before the hop off. In the Curtiss hangar, the young trail blazer, after poring carefully over weather charts, played with his kitten. He donned his flying suit about 7:30 a. m., five minutes before his motor was started. Like Death Chamber. Before boarding ths plane, he | smilingly remarked to Chief Abra- ham Skidmore of the Nassau county | police: “When I enter that cockpit, it's like going into the dcath cham- ber. When I get to Paris it will be like getting a pardon from the gov- | ernor.” and swelling to thousands at day- light saw the hop off. The young | dare devil was frequenily cheered. He was given a cheer when he ap- | peared at his hangar, another when | he crawled into the plane and two | big final cheers as he started taxi- ing down fleld and then climbed into the air. He did not hear the last one. The onlookers were more excited than Lindbergh. He was cool enough or he would not have been able to ' leave the ground. He ate little hnt that was not because he was ner- vous, he explained. He just was not hungry. And in spite of the fact that he has not had a full quota of Eleep since he has heen hLere waiting for a chance to fly away he was highly alert when he left. Paris, he said, is a good place in which to sleep. Levine May Withdraw. | The Bellanca monoplane Colum- bia, whose start has been delayed by dissension between Navizator Lloyd Bertaud and Backer Charles Levine, | will not hofl off on its New York-to- Taris flight while Captain Lindbergh is in the air, Levine saii today. Le- | vine declared that if Lindbergh is successful, there will be no Bellanca fight. Two More To Go. Lindbergh, who had waited & week at Garden City for the weather 10 clear sufficiently to give him what he considered a chance make the non-stop flight .to Paris, left behind | two planes being groomed for New | York to Paris flights. The America is not ready and will probably mnot be able to start this week. Rodman | Wanamaker and his assistants have| An appeal may be made by. ex- smphasized that the proposed flight | poncuts of the pastime of tennis to is scietific and will not be made a |the board of park commissioners, for race by the America. a change in the ruling on Sunday Fight Over Bellanca. | tennis. At present the four tennis The Belianca monoplanc bia” is said to be ready to go if m‘\ 3 owners agree on a crew, #nd emerge | Sunday. b victors in a Brooklyn court action| Tennis players throughout the scheduled for this afternoon in | city feel that Sunday would be the which Lloyd W. Bertaud, selected | Pest d”“ available for the sport, 5 since there are with Clarence D. Chamberlin, to| 2 th : D 3 pilot the plane seeks to restrain the |in Which the game can be played. Columbla Aircraft Corporation and |A petition will probably be circulat- i s = e se 4 & Charles A. Levine from sending the |4 among those in favor of the pro £ oa_|iect with a view of influencing the Three To One Shot. Commander Byrd thinks Lind- bergh will land in Paris in the next | 36 to 40 hours. rtaialy, 1 think he wiil get there. I consider the chances three to one in his favor. | He has the gas, his weather outiook is good and of course, he has the| ccurage and ability. Although the Byrd e not ready to go, Lindbe ture today postpones it definitely un- tit next week. Different Purposes, The commander explained that he would not think of taking the air| until Lindbergh has his upnor-l tunity to reach the goal both seek, | hough with different purposes. | TLindbergh travels alone, has one motor and is regularly entered for the Raymond Orteig $25,000 prize. Byrd has three motors, two flving WANT SUNDAY TENNIS READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS STRAND Phone ..'10 GILBERT & CO, REMOS CO. Lois Wilson “BROADWAY NIGHTS” BILLY PAUL RIALTO TODAY 3 Days Beginning MONDAY AFTERNOON “PRIDE OF THE FORCE" on the Stage!! A drama of the eternal war betmeen A police and gungsters, with L HATCHER oot e AMERICA'S GREATEST PIAY” . ENMAN THOMPSON THE OLD FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN, JR. EDITH CHAPMAN JIMMY MORRISON | Also “THERE YOU ARE" Veory comedy with CONRAD NAGEL EDITH ROBERTS —_— TOMORRO! 6—Big Acts of Vaudeville—s and ANNA Q. NILSSON Bllly Bevan—kenneth Harlan EASY PICKING” A mystery drama with crooks, po- lice, spooks, hooded terrors and thrills. “FIGHTING FOR FAM Comedy News Reel funny THE SWANZEY B, SEE the Famous Grace Church Scene. RVE YOUR lK)(‘.ES NOW FOR NEXT W Week of JUNE 6 The New Britain Scandais of 1927 With 100 Local Boys and Girls A Musical Comedy Extravaganza A Wealth of scenery and Wardrobe, Staged By Victor Hyde. The STRAND Wwill Present Applicants May Apply to the Manager ! Salaries Paid ! Costumes Furnished ! Register Now ! 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