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AAARARAAARAARAARRERARARARNY SN f % é BRSNS SRS SR UIAR 4 Unless otherwiss written by the pr ted. theatric i Botices and reviews fn this column are %o agencies for the oepective amusement company. REA A AR SRR A S AR I S 3R 3N S I R R L L R o PARSONS'S, HARTFORD r RICHARD DIX AT CAPITOL Walter Huston in “The Barker, Richard Dix has landed and re- by Kenyon Nicholson, produced by 'norts the situation well in hand Charles L. Wagner in assoclation | Down the Yangtse river in a dirty ar Sclwyn, opens tonight , Chinese river boat, Dix comes witl 's for an engagement of & cargo of American refugees floe- hts and a Wednesday ing from hunger-mad pirates. And matinee, “The Barker,” which had 'he brings his boat to safety, too, hut L run of seven months at the Bilt- Only after one of the most thrilling more the ew York, comes herc fights secn) on local screens this ter four weeks at the Hollls Street r. r, Boston, where it created a | The picture is ation. It has for its locale a DiX's newest iramount starrin 1 1llinois town, and for s back- Yehicle, the current feature at the round, carnival life with the Col CHPILOL theat I TIotes 2 Moty nel Gowdy Big City Show. Vesenh B Quantenbag It Is an Intensely human play, and’| K1otkout Relllys and dMan Eo an orbingly fascinating story. |, " S el 2l Among those in the cast supporting | |1 (0 SUch lofty heights of popul Mr. Huston are Eleanor Winslow Williams, Gertrude Waxel, George Darbier, Al Roberts, John Irwin, |Talmadge with Antonio Moreno in ven Davis, Jr, Jessie Graham, |“Venus of Venice” and Johnnic Mae Hopkins, George O'Donnell. Walker with Silverstreak, the Cambridge and Harry Clark. |actor in “Where Trails Begin Shanghal Bour "On Wednesday the entire pr | will change and brings Const o O John AT THE STRAND and - bill' of hits today, sday and Wednesday both on the screen and in vaudevilla promise BASSO AT STRAND Britain will give a typical coming welcome next Thurs- Priday and Saturday, to ifs yopular tenor soloist, Andrew J. JFTeR and n s L Basso, when he will appear as a | .- Dé his sea vandeville act on the Strand prugx»;.‘n“\"]‘”"'!"’ plcture cures 1 three days beginning Thursday | *1Uch opened yester itternoon. Basso, who is probably “"f_'”l"\w ‘ljlv('l\:]A Wi hetter known as a soloist than any . T4 _-(“‘{-‘!-"’rol'_ils-" = other tenor in this city, has recently | 2 4V that It Is on» ot the best pic- gun a vaudeville tour accompanied 'UFeS Dot only of this scason b Ly a pianist and has scored a decid- ANV other. The vaudeville pre this field. In Hartfora fOF today includes the American v ks ago, he scored an in- | Prodiey, Broadus I 7 1-2 year old antancous hit. Basso's leglon of ‘Wonder of the violi nazed admirers in this city have expressed the country and has won the praises their enthusiastic commendation to | °f SOMe of the foremost violin vir- Strand m nent for its mak- | 110808 including Mischa Elman and possible for the popular tenor's |1#0P0ld Auer. Other acts include e enrance af. the local playhouse. | JIMMY Dunn and his big company ce at the Strand |in “A Breath of Old Spain;" the Vil continue on his | Four Sensational Reddings; Malinda time vaudeville | 401 Dade and Roby and Mitchell. e a o success i we 0, the tour of 'All Ireland Mourn; it sty For Beloved Primate pic- Carlingford, Ireland, Oct. 24 (Pr— From | All business was suspended today in wrd from people that saw Carlingford when the body of Pat. ctures at the Lyceum last rick Cardinal O'Donnell, primate of rybody satisfied and then 'Treland, who died Saturday, left the two pictures are Renee | cardinal's’ summe home here for “Back to God's Country"” | Armagh, the seat of his diocese, A enda and Clyde Clark heavy rain was falling. Sweetheart.” The main rangements were made tion, “Back to God's Country,” 'to facili of the body ful mosaic of the north, to Armuagh and the uthorities gave every scene of this spectacular out- | directions that it ba rendered hom- door picture is a cameo-like unit in | aga a5 jt passed through. ple of the motion picture | yast thro, ted the bedside Rene -\‘1"{" inal yesterday until it she is one of filn be, n a night- Her nman public T " again was admitted early this morn- == e T ing and ten o'clock requiem Father of Four Dead; mass was celebrated in St Michael's Mother Believed Dying chureh. Hah iver, Mass., Oct. 24 (UP)- = four chitdren was acad | TOWN Attorney to Cppose what police believe to have | Release of Tax Collector pact with the wife of | mpq0pcongille, Oct. 24 (UP)y— n The woman I8 A0 ppijj 5 - sullivan, Jr., representing condition at a local hos- |y o pooni) will appear before {the board of parole at the state vrison this week to ()Q[r')fi' the re- 1 of Clark L. Hamilton. amilton, now eligible for girole, serving a to-thr i sen- |tence for embezzling n town funds while he was tax collec- {tor of Enfield, of which Thompson- ville M » Lyceum out some crackerjack the past few weeks. t Sisters of M tars. leading long vigil last night Fa riing to police Odinat Du- and Mrs. Leona Wadding- had been drinking he ) ral days. Mrs. Waddington' nd had left his home three 1zo after tryi to induce his drinking t Mrs. Ernestine Paradis, reighbor and mother of the woman, | lzans © found Dumont dead and (h' r daugh- | Hamiitor shanld Ba o tor unconscious in a gas-filled room. | t0 RN SR Two jets were open. 0,000 to crase Last ni 15 licved that to serve Y. M. T. A. & B. NOTES Y. M. T. A, & B. society * tournament will start this week, ac- cording to announcement made to- James Naughton is chairman | thlctic committee which will | ipervise the “Tabs” team games on | Suturday night and the eight club basketball league which will be con- ducted during the week. Manager James Luby of the basketball team called a practice session for to- orrow night. ' Ends Skin Blemeshes eterson’s Ointment A leopard can't change his spots but yon don’t have to go around spotted with pimples and eruptions | —not if you're wise and use Peter- | son's Ointment. Just a few appli- | cations and your skin clear: a roughness disappears. Quickest and | bert remedy, millions testify. All | druggists 35 cents a box PARSONS’ HARTFORD OCT. 24-25-28 Mon., Tues., Wed. Nights—Mat CHARLES L. WAGNER, 7 Association with Ldgar Selnyr present, YALTER 1USTON e N THE DRAMATIC SENSATION Prices—Tives., $1.50, §1; Wed. Mat. E: b Dal. §1; Tamily Circle s0c. Plus Tax. Wed. Lose anything over the week-end? A Herald Classified Ad will find it. Telephon “A well written in The Herald ways brings sults.” Announce the Coming of “BEN HUR?” Watch! PALACE n POSITIVELY THE LAST SHOWING sents the Exclusive Official Pictures of the TUNNEY -DEMPSEY FIGHT These are positively the genuine authentic pictures— Round By Round, Blow By Blow—the most accurate record of the greatest of all fights. See the Slow Motion Picture of the 7th round clearly where Tunney nearly lost his crown. OTHER FILMS Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson in “Midnight Lovers” Tex Rickard Pr | British propaganda in public school | ton 24, 1927, "y | LIBRARY 15 RICH IN BRITISH LORE Mayor Thompson May Find Fuel for His Bonfire There Chicago, Oct. 24 (A—The mayoral wished about the public library | g HOME FROM PACIFIC George Worthner, Boatswain’s Mate, Years in Cruising George Worthner, I swain’, | ‘ Distant Water {swain's mate on the U. {1s spending a ) day | 1is hom It orfolk, re | vada is now | Va. in drydock unde pa Worthner joined t years ago and for the past five been attached to the battle t in defense work in Pacific wa- The first year of his servic s in duty with the scouting fleet 1 in the Atlantic waters. Au and New Zealand some of the cou visited by Worthner on the Pacific cruise. This was the visit to Australia and New Zealand of American battle- ships sinc of the White Flest in 1 America wa 1 by some time be- it ciro and for th mop and offices of the board of educa ecking pro-British dirt The president of the American Li- | brary association, Carl B. Roden, ho aiso is head librartan of the Chicago library, has offered his as- istance in Mayor Thompson's effort to rid the library of books belittling America’s past performances. It the ma interested only in estroying history text books he may vegard as pro-British, theMibrary is ned, Mr. Roden &aid, be- text books are kept on 1f, however, the ts to anything pro-Brit- is much vor tion today, ation dia were ries first South D rn visite ng ntc wh ducted, western coast I air depart ips. Worthner souther b little concs 1 fow o librar ayor obj <h or anti-American, ther tuel for the big ve which M hompson has promised on the lake fleot most of Sant cause the drill work California, is the for both the na- and battle- s con to the winte maneuvers, BRISTOL NEWS (Continued from Pug shore There are thousands of volumes, it was pointed out, which were giits of Queen Victoria and numerous | ish writers to help rebuild the | ibrary following the Chicago fire. here are the books containing Rud- ird Kipling's “peevish eriticism” of | the United States, Mrs. Trollope's s at American “men and man- ' and Charles Dick Ameri- book which v from Seven) ¢ scheduled to cowe up for ring last Thy but his ppearance precluded it, and he rrested by the police to insure irance today New Signal For Policenan Within the next tew days the po- lice will install a new red call sig- origina B ay an No is fa lattering U. J. (Sport) Herrman istee and the mayor's chosen agent in cleaning out the libra called a meeting of the trustees to: day to sce what is to be donc. Herrmann has estlmated that there | nal in (i t Bristol so that the several thousand” volumes fn | summoning of Policoman Edgar library which come under Mayor | Norton who patrols that section may definition boufire | be accelerated. In the past the telephone in order to bring the tol policeman to hicadquarte of the ab- a c The signal placed viclnity of brid, said. ror was his a library Thompson's of material. John J. Gorman, former congres: man, who made an investigation of schot xts for th mayor, was keyed to new militancy today as he prepared to resume the stand in the school board trial of William M: Andrew, ended school superin ndent. an'a charges of pro-{ sence , of will be Pierce’s ANNOUNC Mr. and Mr h to texts have resulted in a suit against | ment of their him for $100,000 damages by Prof.| William May of this city David zzey, Columbia univer-|a graduate of the New Britain Gen- sity pro whose history is used hospital training school. Mr. here. The wecipe of the suit was v s a prominent member of th filed last 1rid nger Athletic clut Gormun a Fred Hall of Ellin announce the engage- daughter, Bernice, to Miss Hall is Gorn his reaction to the LR T | determination to go even | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS s 10 be Amer- favor of Great Brit- Gorman said, he would “expose”include those written | v Meiler Schlesinger, Prof. €. H.| McLaughlin of the university, and Dr. C. H. Van Tyne of the Univer- | sity of Michigan The date for Mr. promiscd lake shore & undetermined, depending, he sald, upon what improper books ar found. 1t it is decided to burn only “fained” bistorics, the bonf be only a smudge, for Mr. Roden ex- pressed the opinion that not more than a do: books found. McAndrew trial of which the entire pro-British sit-| uation was hoisted into public no- tice rward rap b M They ex n &chools in in. History texts, Herrmann's | ire remains | en such the being urged { And: ttor rial mal excuse T of his-superintendency, and they de school hoard to get to its quickly so that an appeal be taken fo civil courts. McAn- | superintendent 28. than a for- ving McAndre 2 It's exasperating when men don't understanl — and emt [ when they do. Women learned of Midol don’t have periods. Midol s not a narcotic only on the organs affect tectly safe, but swift; complete comfort in five to inute No matter how hard a time you' ways had, Midol will | dispel every particle of pain. It fs o common se = to use it, for it does nothing to hinder the norm natural process of menstruatic but makes it painic t Midol in the trim of aluminum, for pur at any dru o ing sir verdiet may ‘ s contract. expires in Febru 1t a act as ry1 Per- it brin Fractures Leg in Fall From Broad St. Veranda Joscph Brozozouski, aged 15 Broad street, is encral hospital for fracture f the I ted at £ eve id to fallen from at his home at treg He itain for 1- is ent was a1 a veranda m little c or pos ore, cents, Come Afternoons 20c 25¢-35 A Good Show AT TONIGHT B The Beautiful Star of Modern Commandments ESTHER RALSTON “FIGURES DON'T LIE” And on the Same Big Program Acts Greater The American AUDEVILLE | Broadus |- ERLE | 7' Year Old Violin Wonder In a Routine of Popular and Tavorite Selee- tiens STARTING THURSDAY New Britain’s Popular Tenor ANDREW J. BASSO AND OTHER ACTS Thomas Meighan “We're All Gamblers’’ The Popular Comedian Jimmy DUNN and Co, Robey & Mitchell THE FOUR REDDINGS MALINDA and DADE | | | “A Breath of Old Spain” Colorful ‘ Extravagant = tiol m, navy six | o'clock ars | tor William and s: Mr. and Mrs |lin st tor is at Guantanamo, Cuba, | Berlin § ert R¢ D 1 the M ver I Ma op: pe Ea i “A Sailor’s This Coupon and 10c will admit o] & lady (0 best seats. lues and showed a flashy backfield otti car a 2 y. (Continued from Page Seven) e Girl Scout troop of Berlin met rnoon at 4:30 o'clock at the oon at 4:30 o'clock at the| oo, oty |scout room in the Berlin Congrega- | period on a lis 1 to Middletoy uced t nal church, | Che Berlin Boy Scout troop will t tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the scout room. Plans winter season will be dis- oW was s o ter ele in n rried th th thirc the Spend Week-end Here e nuel Coale, sons of Chase Coale of Ber- k-end with S, eet, spent the wee ir parents, Miss Phyllis Sennig, the seh At gt ¥ a teacher at Junior high end with her on 1001, spent t Assessors Meet Tomorrow board of will meet ind at ngs b The orre Ssessors Wednesday 1k for the East Be Ern. tioned day A Re at P 0s for a iLspm, ern waters »eing the on of tax list ed ming pre v owners bourd of & M J. Mueller Return from Massachusctts and Mrs. Samuel Fiske Berlin strect have return rom . where t spent Rey. Mr. Fiske con- s in that town. in 23 t0 0 Win B nthers in their sec- game the season crashed ir way to a win over the All- ddletown foothall team yeste “rnoon, 23 to 0, on the home field Pa omplete 1 al playing Plai by prop- and M ives Hartfo Ladic ssors consists of ford, Frank Krame T'he g attending ar Halloww'en c Mr. and cted servi Pt o Mrs. ot this place A special rection of M given af nodi: s showed a orm o of week r the against the le ack that was lacking last week acDonald, captain of the Panthers, 1ed the scoring in the first qua dropping a field goal from | dropped on the or 1t was N0 time with his | Bourgeois. yesterday Charles Nelson Hubbard are —*——zm | MacDonald got aw: ¢ ar play of the | Wright Memorial cottage in Wood- mont attending the Inter-City cen- of Family Welfare socleties. exceutives and supervisors sed the group, the guests of or being Miss Anne Gerry of the “an Association and Professor of Yale Divinity TIMELY WARNING DON'T NEGLECT YCUR COLD . A neglected ™ cold may often Y develop into se- rious illness at this time of the Treat your now with Father John's Medicine, relieve the congestion, irritated membrane, medicine and helps the : 1 1o throw off the poison- e s wste matter, For over sev- winter cruise i t Father John's Med- ol T been known as the »dy builder, No harm- . \CAPITOL v for the most day, making of 65 yards and being yard line, N he ball over on the a Middletown 10 man school te in th He D la, I o A Davis ken arm s ugh. threw lin Items surgeois, 1 hila rs. G. Pe from New iety hold B rd and s’ Aid wrch will church 3 o'cloc lub the Nearly 2,000 Examine New Glen Aparvtments ariors N ill me home of Mrs Main street. All ed to dress i at “ostume. 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