New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 14, 1927, Page 9

WAS FOR 50 YRS, STAGE GELEBRITY Elizabeth Hunter-Hight Dies in Boston, Native City ! Lynn, Mass, June 14 (P—Eliza- beth Hunter-Hight (Mrs. B. F. Hight) the last surviving member of the famous old Boston Museum company of Civil war days and for 50 years a stage celebrity, died at her home here last Saturday, it be- came known today. Mrs. Hight had spent the last few years of her life in retitement. She was distinctly a Boston actress for it was in that city that she was | born in 1843 and there she spent more than half of her professional career. She made her how at the Boston museum in 1858 in the role of young Edwin Booth. Her last appearance was in 1908 in Paul Armstrong’s play, “Society and the Bulldog,” at Daly's theater in New York city. First as Elizabeth Baker and then as Mrs. T. M. Hunter, she played for eight successive seasons with the Museum company then tinder the management of E. F. Keach and with Willlam Warren and Mrs. Vincent, who were at the zenith of their popularity. She spent five years with Arthur Che- ney’s company at the Selwyn thea- ter, afterward the old Globe, and ‘then joined the forces of Orlando Tompkins at the old Boston thea- ter where for seven seasons more she starred with many of the lead- ing actors of the day. Through the Static Volume was excellent lust evening, with very little static early in the evening. That welcome visitor in- creased in proportions later on, how- ever, and we were overjoyed to en- tertain the little cut-up. There was| vonsiderable fading and plenty of in- ter-station interference. « . e Toworrow, unless the radio com- mission undergoes anoth-r change of | lieart, the new wave lengths will go into effect and then you folks can | have the pleasure of iogging your stations all over again. A delightful sport for young and old. Apparently | WTIC has decided to swallow the | bitter pill thrust upon it, since fts | press notices contain the 461.3 me- | ters, 650 kilocycles, and you all know what THAT means! We have com- | piled a list of the changes so lhuri you may have the most important | istings right at your elbow. The list will be found elsewhere in this eve- | ning’s edition of the Herald. P New York's welcome to Lindbergh e that tendered by Washington ! m like child’s play. It wasn't quite | dignified, but it was cnthusiastic. | These who listened in can attest to at fact. The program, proadeast byJ‘ WJZ and other stations, bhegan at| about 1 o'clock and concluded at | about 4:45, with several intermis- | sions. Speeches, mus McNamee i howling his head off, Cariin describ- ing the crowds in his usual humor- | ous manner, another announcer 37 or so stories up in the air looking out of a window, McNamee yelling | “Oh, what a ball game!” band: playing, people cheering, speeches, Central Park, Al Smith, cte., cte. Just | impressions. It would ha impossible | to tell all of the inter:sting occur- | rences reported by the “cyes of the | jof the Yale Dramatic {when he failed to get night will be brought to the ears of the listening audience of the Blue Network, headed by WJZ, New York. The speeches.will be broadcast start- ing at 9 o'clock, and it is expected that the duration of the broadcast will be from one hour to one hour and a quarter, necessitatiog the post- ponement of the feature scheduled for the Blue Network at 10 o'clock until the completion of the speech by “America’s Alr Ambassador.” The municipal broadcasting sta- tion, WNYC, will also participate in this broadcast. LRI Belectman Bill Whipple of Sweet Meadows has applied to the National Broadcasting company for the op- portunity to broadcast from WJIZ upon his next visit to New York| city, and the opportunity has been granted at 7 o'clock, Thursday night, June 23, and as “Bill” hopes to re- maia in the “big town” a week or| £0 if the “city slickers” allow him to tain enough of his money to cover his expenses, he will be heard again the week following, Thursday, June 30, at the same time. Sweet Meadows, the thriving pop- ulace from whence Bill halls, is des- ignated in the Automoblle Blue Book thusly: “House on left—Turn right up steep grade.” From this we take 1+, that it is a small town, but Bill is proud of the fact becaus2 his rustic philisophy tells him that all great men come from small towns or tarms. Bill Whipple will bring to the radio audience ot WJZ a short per- fod of rustic humor and philosophy, telling about the *doins” in the ham- let whence he is supposed to have come and concluding with a song | relating the adventures of a certain | | country cat. A try-out at WJZ found the act to be a “knock-out.” Uncle Bill is well known to WBZ listeners. e s o That's all for today, thanks! —P. E. L. WOOLEY 70 TEACH IN BOSTON INSTITUTION Former Yale Dramatic Coach m,-‘ fused Reinstatement in Spite of Plea by Students. New Haven, June 14 (A—Edgar M. Woolley, for nine years coach association, will become head of the Boston Repertory school, it became known last night. The announcement was | made a few hours after it was learned that the Yale corporation had refused to reconsider its deci- slon not to reappoint Woolley to the Yale faculty. Woolley resigned | as dramatic coach some time ago the reap- | pointment. { The corporation’s statement was | its answer to a petition presented by Yale undergraduates asking | that the corporation reconsider its decision or give some explanation of its action. Voicing the sentiment of the un- dergraduate bod representative | students said tonight that because of the approaching termination of the college year and the divided sentiment of the students, the ter would rest as/far as the under- graduates are concerned. CITY ENGINEER FROWNS ON WIDENING MAIN ST., Williams Tells Merchants Nothing Would Be Gained by Carrying Out Project ETHEL A ‘GOING AWAY” COS MIME- W YORK ' TO RRIS ME L JURY HLE HOJR O \_/ @ @~ HENCE FORPNKD- GHELL DECXR! I The— EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1927. Then and Now TRACKY NEW “HOPING OFF OUfeT / i ©18;7 BY NEA SERVICE, MM? of so much; sufficiently wide & for pedestrians would not be left. The question has been agithted for several months and dur- | ing the meeting with the railroad ee and representatives of the ven” road last nizht, Mr. Iliams made the statement, which s demurred to here is nothing to be the widening of the street”, he sald. “We disagree on that”, Hen Morans replied and Cashier F, C. Kelly of the City National lank added: “Indecd we do.” ained by OBSERVING The 11th riage ANNIVERSARY of the mar- Edward J. Dailey of 27 Farmington avenue is being observed today. The wedding took place at the Church of Our Lady of Merey, Plainville, on June nation,” those announcacs, but suf-| Main strect merchants and prop- 14, 1916, Mrs. Dailey h ing, hefore fice it to say that they ¢id their | crty owners north of the Maln her marriage, Miss Mary A. Conlon work well, W s transinission was | street railroad tracks did not take of Plainville, They have three sons, eaeellent throughout the day. | kindly to the declaration of City Gerald, John and William. Mr. Ly | Engineer J. D. Williams last night | Dailey circulation manager at the The Capitol theater program, & bright spot on the schedula of WTIC, | was well worth hearing last evening. | The presentations were excellent and | cnjoyed hearing the deep, melodious volce of that famous actor,'William | Faversham, who appearcd on the “boards™ again, in a comcdy-drama ! in one act, “The Sponzor. It was well presented and WTi pick-up cnabled us to hear all the lines clearly and ea | . { WTAM, Cleveland, came through | loud, bringing with it a whistle of | some sort. As we reachad there the Grand Opera program from New York was announced. o e We went over to WEAN, Previ-; déence, where a surprise greeted us. The station was hooked up with| WNAC, Boston, in the Lroadeast of | the American Legion carrival from ' Braves' ficld, Boston. There were prize fights and other events. John | Philip Sousa. Governor AlvinsT.| Tuller and many other notables ware introfuced o the audience, vis. | ible and invisible. Another station butted in with a talk of some Kind, | 50 we left, | o o e WE Doston, was presenting news reports. We recorded the fact that WEEI was coming through ! louder than usual. That {act was ev- | ident throughout the day. The Jido | Venice orchestra then started a danee program which iacluded “So Long. I'al,” a new one. | e WARC. New York; WICE, Bridge- port, and WRAL, Baltimore, all of them loud, offered dance music, WICC was being hounded by anoth- er station, so we didn’t remain there tor any great length of time, WBAL | tnded. ' s e e “rom WPG, Atlantie City, 4 program by the famous Pr hand. The station faded badly. i .« s Goinz np to the top, we found that WSEA, Virginla Beach, was coming through loud. That was after request 11 o'clock. A program of numbers was being piane solo of ‘Yan one: of the number complained the - piano stool was in need of repair and th: announcr | stated that it will be fixad by next week, We have that to look forward to. The pianist | o 0 Lindbergh's remarks. as well as| thase by Governor Al Smith and" James J. Walker. at the Mayor's | Clommittes on Neceptisan dinner, to Be held in the Hotel Commodore to- | that to widen the street as proposed | N would re- \l‘ourr\n(. by the business people, Britain oifice of the Hartford w CITY COURT Judgments JUDGMENTS were rendered b Judge William C. Hungerford in city | court yes'erday as follows: Anna M. Hillstrand against Jo- seph J. Bennis, for the plaintiff on | of land on Park reserv affney for the plainti nance Co., against Louis iwvab and others, for the plain- tift to recover damages of $261.1 Hu foreclos Donald Joseph Swazda against intif sing for the plaintifi to re- | or damages of §54.90, J. G.! 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