New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 27, 1927, Page 5

V'"“';unl“umll i Unless otherwise indicated, theatrical written by the press agencles for the AT THE STRAND Tonight will mark the final ap- pearances at the Strand of Gus Fay & Co., in the act that has rocked the town with laughter during the past two days. The new program for tomorrow, Iriday and Saturday will bring to {he Strand screen “Rolled Stockings™ featuring the Paramount Junior otars, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen and Nancy Phillips. The vaudeville for week-end will he headed by Rimane and Gola, as- gisted by Dauk's Cavaliers touring | from the Mediterranean to the If Other acts will include Page . the Trado Twins; Morley er and Jones and Bennett. The stellar attraction for week will be “Ten Modern mandments,”: starring Esther - Ral- ston. This film will be shown four Jays, beginning on Sunday evening | with two performanc 1t will be presented on ‘Sunday with an aug- mented orchestra and on Monday with the usual vaudeville. BABE Rl l‘" AT CAP ll()L Tonight is the last Capitol of Charlic Y Mulhall in the dy collews seream, “The Toor Lovers of good, clean. wholesome fun shoul: s not m this funrv boob at college i On Thursday the entire program < as the main at- changes and brings X . iraction Babe Ruth, the King of Swat, In his first and only photo play, “Babe Comes Home." This popular ldol of the ball diamond Will really surprise you with his acting as he does first rate as movie star. The companion program wil offer the Wells sensational with Virginia Valli and in the prineipal irray and Jack | o feature on this daptation of an all star cast roles. i Friday night is again Gold Night and $30 in gold pieces will be awarded patrons in the audienc Much interest is aroused over announcement of tge showing, br- ginning Sunday night for four days of the new photoplay hit. “A Mil- Jion Bid." This picture has beauti- ful Dolores Costello and Warner Oland in the leading roles. Strange l\clmg Husband Placed on Probation William Andrulewicz, aged 44, of Grove strect, was given ‘a sus- all sentence of 60 day nry P. Roche in court this morning on Nv:n';:‘:»s drunkenness and breach of peace. ording to Probation of- | ficer E. Connolly, .\n'h\\h\n.r/ euffered an injury to the head while wor g on a West Main street con- struction job, ar after acting in a that caused a question to manner 5 arise as to his sanity, he was given hospital at treatment at the state Middletown, remaining there 'f‘:r 1wo months. He is of no use to his family, consisting of the mother and )l(lrnu W hn live on $14 a week, h 42 pended Judge H a testified that he and Officer drulewicz about on complaint. Jast evening He was infoxicated, Sergeant O'Mara said, and ran out of the house and through the hack vard when the officers approached. Officer Malona testified that brought the man to the police sta- tion ahout a%0'clock yesterday fo for nination by phy 4 and ap- ov noon cians ently hecame 2 testified that he nd abusing her She had black both Andrule- has bheen drin since Monday night and blue marks under ere he punched her. had no plausible explanation to offer, and Judge Roche fold him he would go to jail if he is brought be- fore the court again. He ordercd him to report to the probation of- ficer, who will keep in touch with the case. The case of Joseph Wolfe of 76 Oak street, wo continued ‘until next Wednesday morning. charge of theft of an automobil: from the Superigr Auto company. Attorney Thomas J. Cabelus is de- fonse counsel Woman’s Footprints May Solve Bank Robbery W Oorlfimcl\ Ta.. July 27 (A—Tm- prints of four dainty Frenc h heels in_soft ground near the sparsely set- tled Devil's Hole mountain section about 30 miles from here yesterday convinced a sheriff's posse that it was on the trail o the two men and their fashionably dressed wo an companions wanted for a $2,000 daylight holdup yesterday of the Mount Jackson, Va.. national bank. The posse felt that there could be no doubt of the tracks being these of the fugitives as there probably was not a woman in that section of the mountains country who nossess- ed a pair of French h:el shoes. POLI'S PALACE MARTFORD Taugh Wit “LOOSE ANKLES” Just the right flavor and spice to nake a well for the Maygoer With the Entire Cast of Poli Players seasoned dish COLE- TAMS ANN MERRICK, N MAN and l‘llA\!Pl \ul 5 ll'l llli next | Com- | showing at the | | picture of a novel. | arrested An- | he | s. | the aged | The | Imn Il!ll Mabons notices and reviews in this column are Tespective amusement company. AT THE LYCEUM “Fighting Love,” starring Jetta | Goudal, Victor Varconi and Henry | B. Walthall, is an amazing _exposi- tion of elémental human passions {with & climax unsurpassed for vigor and originality. A spectacular er.xum thae ranges from sunny | lv'\ly to the desert sands of Africa (from the luxury-loving indolent [noblesy to the fierce nomadic_tribes |of the Sahara. It is Jetta Goudal {in the finest role of her career. “The Handicap,” featuring Derek | Glynne and Virginia Warwick, is a \ph.mm thriller with the high | point in the action, a spectacular | horse face screened Tia Jus race track. aturday Afternoon,” | Harry Langdon, is another \0( the bill. MARINES READY 0 DRIVE ON SANDIND Rt Orders fo Subdue Nicar- aguan Ambush Fighters Nicaragua, July 27 (P an marines and native a Lt starring feature Managua, Ame con- tabulary were awaiting orders to- day to run down the band of irregu- lars of the recalcitrant Nicaraguan peral, Sandino, which tried to am- bush a column of marines and con- stubulary under Major Oliver Floyd at San Fernando Monday. A number of shots were fired in this attempted attack, a marine and everal constabulary being wounded, ‘but the irregulars were put to rout with the loss of several killed and a score wounded, Military circles here expect an action will soon take pla tween the irrezulars and the in which airplanes will have a part 15t 3 . 1 in the battle ten I, when Sandino’s that be- ce | nd constab- 0 of his fol- s hich marine wounded. Iving to 20 miles a handfl of marin nlary. Sandino lost 3 lowers in Ocotal [lasted for 17 hours was killed and Ocotal and San the north of Managua, part. Major Floyd the nother ndo, arc was sent to the gion with a contingent of marines after the Ocotal battle to prevent reorganization of Sandino's forces. NAUTHORIZED PAY‘NG COMPLAINT IS DENIED re- | | Public Works Dept. Says State W | Pay For Concrete on Stan- ley Street | | Macadam suificient only to make a proper approach to the concrete | pavement on South Main strect has been laid in Stanley strect, near the Towers gasoline filling station, the street department ‘insists in reply claim advanced by Councilman | abjotsky that unauthorized ving opetations have been per-| formed near the place of business of the hoard's chairman. Supt. Thomas Kcarney of the pub- lic works department explained to- day that permanent paving has been | placed mear the approach to Beach ! Swamp road. work to be paid | | for by the statc Iment. The new paving was laid at proper grade whereas its | prouch has no established grade 4 some macadam was required at the connecting point. claims the state high- | way department told him mno pav- ing operations on Stanley would be paid for out of state | Sablotsky street funds. o1 Beaumont, ning set fi barrel underground stor: the Gulf Refining company at Sour | Lake, 25 miles from here. No one was injured and it was believed to- day the fire would not spread. Pro- loss will be about $200,000, it estimated. |LYCEUM { tank of Always Two Features TONIGHT JETTA GOUDAL in “Fighting Love” DEREK GLYNNE and VIRGINIA WARWICK in “The Handicap” HARRY LANGDON in “Saturday ' Afternoon” RIL., “Wandering Footsteps” with ES E TAYLOR BRYANT WASHBURN THURS,, SAT, BUSTER KEATON “The General” LADIES' SP L MAT. This coupon and 10c admits a NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, JUNE MATHIS DIES WATCHING MOVIES Noted Scenario Writer Probable Heart Disease Victim (P—June writer and New York, June 27 Mathis, noted scenario the highest paid woman executive in motion pictures, is dead, the vic- tim of a heart attack while attend- ing a performance in a Broadway theater. - scated beside her mother, Hawks, at a perform- ance - Squall” at the Forty- lighth strect theater last night, Miss Mathis suddenly threw her arms about her mother's neck and sereamed: Oh. mother, he sobbed. I'm dying, I'm dy- . - from their scats, the players pauscd uncertain- Iy in their lines and ushers hurried to Miss Mathis and carried her to the alleyway alongside the th A A few moments later two physicians from the audience announced she was dead. Mrs. Hawks, who was standing alongside weeping, scrcamed and fell to her knees beside her danghter | pleading with her to speak. She re- fused to believe her daughter was dead and rubbed her wrists in hope of imparting life until the medical cxaminer arrived and the body was removed to a funeral parlor. The mother was then taken to an apartment hotel where she and her danghter had been living since their arrival from Los Angeles two months ago. Miss Mathis, who was about 35 vears old, was considercd the most suecessful of women motion picture executives. Her greatest achieve- ment probably was her discovery of Rudolph Valentino. Impressed with the motion pic ur Horsemen of the Miss Mathis convi uel Goldwyn to produce sisted it be produced her way and with Valentino. then an unknown dancer and movie extra, in the cast. Made Her Reputation The picture established both her- <clf and Valentino. She said later that at the time had advocated Valentino's selection she had seen him in but one picture and never had seen him in person. Others “of Miss Mathis' oufstand- ing successes were: “Ben Hur,” dur- the filming of which Goldwyn in- sured her life for a $1.000,000 be- cause of het value to the film; “The Ten Commandments,” “Blood and sand.” and “The 7 the two latter starring Valentino Miss Mathis entered the about ten y ago after of several on the ingenue having cwster's Millions ing Widow." it and in- movies a career stage in roles in “The Fas- was plso in and he 1 in December, nio Balboni. a motion picture director, whom she met Ttaly while enzaged in making the film “Ben Hur.” He is now in Cali- forni : The exact cal . to Silv : of Miss Mathis' The Only Chance |a barrage {of the blow with his shoulder. death has not been determined. She was said to have suffered many ill- nesses in early life and was not a robust woman. In March, 1926, while visiting here she became ill suddenly and was taken to the Fifth avenue hospital. In the early days of the movies she had an idea they would #be greatly improved. She saved enough from her stage earnings in order to have two years’ leisu the two years in studying writing by day and going to the movies night. PHOTOMEN OUSTED BY MRS, STILLMAN Driven From Wedding Party by | Grockery Barrage July 27 (P— outdoor Grand Married at Anse, Que., a picturesque She spent | at | - | ceremony, enlivened by the hurling | of crockery by Mrs. James A. Still- man at persistent news photograph ers, James “Bud” Stillman and h woodland bride, the Wilson, today were moon bound for Europe. The couple plan fo sail on the Olympic at midnight Sunday for a several months' tour of France, Scotland and Italy. Villagers Present A colorful throng of river folk and well-grouped men and women of society witnessed the ceremony at which the young Princeton grad- and scion of one of New York's most wealthy and socially promi- nent families took as hig bride the humble daughter of the Canadian on their hon¢ New York and y- former Lena | woods, who yesterday celebrated her | 15th birthday. The marriage service had just been concluded and the ceremony of cutting the four-foot bridal cake was about to start when Mr i, mother of the bridegroom, made her descent npon the luckless photographers. e eight camera whom had journeyed from New York to record the ceremony for ewspapers and moving picture news weeklies, had been assigned a place outside the lawn fronting the Still- man woodland lodge, but disregard- ing warnings had pressed closer. Suddenly becoming highly nant, Mrs. Stillman reached over, soundly hoxed the ear of the nearest photographer and pushed over an- other. “This js for my friends, photographers.” she crie The vie- tims of her attack were temporily men. most of still- | indig- | | bridegroom’ not for | | | | thrown into confusion and she then | spied across a table three amermen who meanwhile had con- tinued to grind the scene. “Out you go, get out of here,” she shouted and followed the order with from the well-laden table. caught one of the cameramen on the side of the head, ceeded in warding off the full force An- r picce crashed through a win- other | of crockery and crystal | A plate | but he suc- | The photographers then beat ! a hasty retreat. THURS,, FRI, SAT. Continuous w Britain Will Ever Have to See the Bambino—King of Swat His First and Unly l’hotoplay with Lou LADIE You'll enjoy Bahe Ruth just as much as the men folks! e Fazenda and Anna Q. Nilsson Bring or send the Kiddies to sec the Home Run King— They'll never forgive you if you don't. CO-FEATURE! VIRG TA VALLI in H. G. Wells Sensational Novel “MARRIAGE” TONIGHT ONLY Charlie Murray, Jack Mulhall in “THE POOR NUT” Lake Compounce Special Display of Set IREWORK Tonight Dancing Every Evening Tasillo’s Society Orchestra lady to best scats. | treal JiLY 2 ]', 1927, .u;.z..;;.)J“., J ESTHER RALSTON in “Ten Modern Commandments’ code of the flapper, coming to the Strand next Sunday. —the Taken As Joke The attac was wsembled guests merriment that riagy ceremony with cheers and applause, The ceremony itself ont at beauty and solemnity. tar had been erected on the lawn fronting the Stillman home and sout it assembled several hundred guests, including the country peopl: for miles around in th then came “Bud” Fowler Then cu with his best man, McCormick, of Chicago. Miss Belle Wilson, sis- ter of the Dbride, followed by the bride on the arm of her brother, | James Wilson, gave her in rri Both girls wore Fifth tions, ¥ bride in a gown of a pearl and crystal orna- in her hair, only , wore a platinum chain, the the br oom The marriage cere of the Ron Catholic Pravers in English were Pather Normand. Many Riss Followin the zuests formed a with i to kiss moved viewed as g llowed and by of the the mar- was greeted who of | An wic was appeared sweetly a white chiffon. She wore ment gilt and, as her edding Father Ephriam 1 known both bride childhood. He by Fathers Norms all attired in their proc my, nd ssion who | room of came had since panied Desilets, robe The lande mony was that church. wat intoned by com- nd and church | Bride mony, the line to shake Lridegroom and | ‘he party | Fifth Regiment Royal High- | 30 picces from M into the as Mrs, Stillman John Wilson, mother of walked down a lane of Jam illman, Sr., followed | hands of and the | rib- the and broke “Lohengrin” Mrs, bride, hons. strains to hot lon set |, 1 Tt was cut the ith punch and st as the bride three-decked started to | cake that | new world! Flaming Orange Fountain Pens! Purple Raincoats! New York to Paris in 332 Hours! Age Conquers Youth; Dempsey whips Sharkey! A brain taxing game called “Ask Me Another” becomes a nation- ~ wide fad! -Stevedores wear knickers over the week-end! A fresh, saucy girl, Clara Bow, becomes an ‘overnight sensation, displacing the baby-faced idols of yesteryear! A book called “The Story of Philosophy” sells 157,000 copies! Unthinkable five years ago! New Ideas! New Trends! Are you geared up to the times? Then for Heaven’s Sake Don’t Pass Up the ‘Ten Modern Commandments’ of “Miss 1927” with Beautiful Esther Ralston Opens Sunday at the STRAND NOTE “Ten Modern Commandments” will he presented at each performance. Sunday with enlarged Jazz Orchestra. Monday With Vaudeville Mrs. Stillman made her deu‘onlehelr execution, originally set for |upon the photographers. |July 10, has been stayed untill | After the cameramen had de- [August 10, to permit the governor parted. Mrs, Stillman expressed re- |and a special advisory committee |gret over the episode. *“I did not by him, to review the cele- {like to be rough,” she said, “but 1 case which has attracted iChe'cks Up Evidence in Sacco- Vanzetti Case T (P—Gov. Alvan T. v fresh viewpoint on the Racco-Vanzetti today re- sult of a persondl survey of the scene of crime. case as a the merits of Coming near inquiry into the and conviction of the two tionally known rad the nor slipped quietly and unobser: tfrom u side door of state house and, accompanied only by two state policemen, sped to South Braintre It was there in 1920 that the pay- master Slater and Morrill § v were shot down, a cerime in which Nicola Bartolomeo Vanzetti, th only locally for their radical sym- pathies convicted and, after seven years of bitter litigation in the state courts, were sentenced this ore to death in the electric chair. | of end of his th long Tal ic 2x i i e | world-wide interest. | Dancing on a specially erected | The governor personally measured {band and to violins and accordions [Of another building nearby from | concluded the festivities, The old Which a government witness testified square dances in which the village e had seen the two convicted men doiehy meovle Trom ew Suxiland the measurcment to satisty himself it o\HeR ki Tt K o Co whether from the distance it could ' 2 * | have been possible for the witness | Takes Me rements He also measu the distance from the factory to a railroad cross- ching train, the slayers sped and lost in sight. His purpose there the same, the determination of the possibility of other witnesses who have sworn they saw the two men to have done so. “first hand” conta with the case, Last week he paid a surprise visit to Charlestown state prison where Celestind Madeiros, who is awaiting death for another murder and whose confession exonerating Sacco and unsuccesstul appeal for o new trial. o and Vanzetti in protest against the secre- rings of both the e nor and his advisory committe co has not eaten since a week ago touched only a negligible amount of food. Neither however is apparently the worse for his self-imposed al- pavilion to the music of the kilties |the distance from the factory to that |men and women mingled with the | I the automobile. Mr. Fuller made to have identified the pair. SGENE []F MURI]ER on which, inthe face of an ap- e | It was Governor Fuller's second tulked with the men and with Vanzetti was the hasis of their last ich has surrounded the closed last Sunday while Vanzetti has md wn eeo k Potassium pe tion will hasten the rooting wood cuttings. Soft wood similarly hastened by a in soly- of hard cuttinga solution were spring cane Headed By 5 A C T S RIMANA AND GOLA Plus Other Great Vaudeville Hits UNDAY—“10 MODERN COMM! DMENTS” Ambitious to be Useful By way of correcting weak- ses, i t—in order to better YELLOW CAB service, if improvements are needed—we ask the people of this city for constructive criticism and helpful suggestions. Inasmuch as this cab company is operated for your benefit, you are just as deep- ly interested in having it right as we are. There may be something we haven't thought of. Perhaps we are so close to our own business that we overlook things which may be evident to you. 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