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So00800e =~ || |I||p IIlIi oy press the TEIEIPRIOOP JOUN GILBERT AT CAPITOL “Man, Woman and Sin" is the nt photoplay at the Capitol and andicnces. John and he is ably Iagels, late st:g o tain” who mak with this pro- agencies for 50555882 9505666 50008 star e play in pietures drama of new ction and out- laid against ingto sday another ex- ure 10 will he ttraction will present comedy of glorious School Hero,” with a youths with the noted spri play. feature Wiarner of fort 1ds of the romantic and the all om siart at of lock 18 in the companion Sweet and Y 8 n th appeart The offers 2] sion : oil WOMEN, < such enthu Bi 1i SONG™ m b in audic Strand the- « initial show- notable come- sompany in a Wine Women medy, thig pre- | sentation surpassed anything wit sed locally for some time. 1 seautiful scenie investiture, s s, musie and danc such as rve enthusiastic comment !mm who witnessed the production. Women and Sons” will e shown again today and Wednesda It is supplemented by other vaud ille acts including Lohse and ling and Jack Ryan. The f shotoplay is Richard Dix in Gay Defender.” “WINE s city o > Plan aduction ¢ nd Song.” he nd a led for o S were those “Wine - atur The PURITANS NOT §0 PURE AS PICTURED Dr. Lawrence Exposes Their i Alleged Frailties 13—Henry W, livering the New Tondon, De wrenee, Ph et i Beta Kappa address at Connee- cut coll last night. wove Into his talk_ ¢ from his forthcom- ing hoo Not Quita Puritans.’ whic outlines some genial Ollies iliar frailities of the sever England ancestors. Lawrefiee said ineland the 17th een probably ng more whole 1 it is in the 20th. The fow great and good men \ tricd in vain to he multitn hut although at B aq a4 New or v <ome wa thi sell” | there that ¢ was compelled to Judging by theacts rather than by words of o very small numbe carly New Englanders we itually skin to our present gen- ] fow them were wers hypo- them were i amount of trus hol pita, about the same it took a somewhat fhey talked ! do. The Human Akeronsness so camoutlaged in phous was. and still fs, Probably | 1 as we ar should be lived. € were often discouraged with their efforts to regulate it, and ey had many private doubts as 10 whether the method of sitting on lid was, after all, the hest way o deal with human feclings. e seventeenth century zed in repression. We of the 20th fave a right fo demand that Y tory tell us the truth about how the! pressionism of Pur Vew Fng- | 1nd really worked, among the of the people, It ms to been no more than indiffer ntly suceessful. even in that ’\C\‘ lan adversity. A largs fraction the population submitted to. rather than shared in, that religions td moral fervor which has e period notorfous. They nalified as helonging in the of the saints were Puritans KENTUCKY GOVERNOR GRANTS 129 PARDONS Xixecutive Stays Up Night Before His the vast maj of mor: o L T hut form. ‘and than rent bout it normal often that It for more Wi nistaken ihout how tainly the; ecial- s soe maa haraty com- e Nt Keticement Signing 67 Writs Giving I'reedom to Prisoners. Dec. 138 (P—Cov- crnor William 1. Fields who retires from office today following the In- auguration of Judge Flem D. Samp- n, was busy until the early mor # hours preparing and signing trdons. commutations and restor: ions which he granted yvesderday. IFourteen men serving life sen- tences for murder and one man sen- teneed to dle in the electric chair were included in those granted elem- I"rankfort, Ky., Novem- the agrented In Kentueky sin ber 1 was brought to 129 by tion of the chicf exccutive. Included among those whose sen- 1 have been eommuted was J. | . Todd, of Mublenberg county, Ky. “lvo recently wrote Louis A. Cuvil- ler, New York, general counsel and airman of the National Constitu- tional Liberty League of Ame that B was serving a life sentenc at Eddyville, Ky., for having in his possession a half pint of whiskey Ho was indicted ag a habitual crim- nal while in jail on the liquor g, dA's ser ac- I has been nted ne com to twu ye 6.;; |mll I“ Il wize Indicated, theatrical not - | Bene r| it i ! wounds in his neck |10 guard the 1son county. The total number of pardons | { Britain by bus and IILI n At PECCPEEVE PO T e P e:® respect ? PEPPPPPEPIIION “WILD GEESE" AT LYCEUM Tonlght is the last night showing of “Wild Guese” and “T i].Murn of Boston Blackie,” Bennett starring in “Wild G ! claimed by New Britain eritics to 1 | the best picture seen hereabouts in ithe past three Wild Gee jfrom the famous novel besides Bennett, has a strorg jstars such as Russell Simpson, Southern, Donald Keith, Jason | bards, Anita Stewart, Wesley {and others. “The Return | Blackie” also offers ente | for e rybody. The t | Raymond Glenn, Corl \<vmnc1. art. Eve Ro- rtainme incl s Palmer night. “Blanket autiful blankets given away " The two pictures, start- rdnesday ‘Alias the to p CHARLES (In the order ey Pinkett | Etmer Mil Rev. Hol Tessle Dix | Mes, Holbr | of the | _ytell and Lois | The companion John ature Rowers ana | Marguerite 'HAJORS T0 FIGHT DRAFT AGREEMENT - tention at Baseball Megting R r 13.- ove New York, ed etrifc Dec. —Herald hanging 1 and major leagues a of the Dallas draft pac to break out into a bi day as magnates of the 1its prepared to o hefore Baseball Co saw M. Landis. Sentiment. voi owners the minor result ed Junior cir- fssie mission: by ed they woul tagonistic 1o the Dallas draft lution which nullit ¢ modificd ir aft agrecment entered info by th wional 1 Ameri Pacific coast, Thr leagu. While no official was forthcomi committees conferred missioner Lanc informal expr sions were made by National and American lea afficials that they had been too 1i with the It was pointed ont tha lubs paid fancy pri | players developed in the r the modified draft The full draft would m; x;m’.‘i to take ir e 0 asso- ation. Westers st ouncem the ing vith Con minors, tor minors un- n per pick f ari the minors to demand bhig ! Weisman, Easiern League, one POsrs of the Dallas r with W. G. Bram the South Atlantie, iedmont e, sioner Landis today. Routine business National league at session today. The ization, with President the chair for i tomarrow rrival gossip with chi toclub will land rom the Browns. Phil Ball of Louis is res to barter whil. ors, and Indians ar ngling for the Browns' star. Der has anush and Ilue ording 1o reports - HERRIN PEAGE ENDS AS GUNMEN REAPPEAR president ot o n, pr Vir meets wit ent of its i in m With t men, trade abundane. ed at wh first time, of the hasehall cropped out 1 f interest poir tr Two Shot When Fighting Breaks Out Again in “the Storm Center of Southern 1H. Coal Fields,” Herrin, 111, Dec, (P—A yeur of peace in Herrin, one of the storm centers of the southern Tilinois ¢ fields, was broken here last night when an automobilc illed with gur men left hehind two wounded poliee officers Elmer MecCormick. hrother Mayor Marshall McCormic k, was in a critical condition from gunshot and breast and John Stamm, day chicf of police nursing wounds in the al of e shoulder from rifles of the gunmen, who drov twice around the city hall, firing volley upon cach circuit, Last night Mayor McCormick, brother, a patrolman, and Stamm were nding on the city h steps when the gunmen's car approache A volley of shots hrong © Me- Cormick down. The car circled Stamm, who had t alley between the fire station, received shoulder from The car disappeared in the dir of Carbondale and Murphyshoro. News of the shooting was quickly broadcast by telephone to surround- ing counties and the sheriit of Jack- son county called out his deputics roads out of William- il the square n refuge city hall and the a bullet in the second volley and % in an ‘ormick was in whils nun, a local hospital atter having went on duty Marion, ters of are on ¥ 4 few miles away the county seat, three gu the disorganized Birger al for their lives, wmurder. char PAWNE The Pawnee bring the 19 with a banquet Colony Inn in Meri &Hm':lu\ night. mbers — of v'mnlmll team and of the club tegether with friends and admirers will be in at- | tendane The party will leave New following the speeches and FFootball team son offi at o t Iy to a R close st oa pr m of | songs will be given alt was | ction | Jot | dram by I ading Is play w rols contir niorr ni matin ‘yw T uction brictly bigosh,” show and boo! moral pr Theater Reviews of Current Offerings new glove, tle NEW DRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, |U. S. AIR CHIEF, OLDEST AIR PILOT | IN AMERICAN ARMY RETIRING TODAY ©'’:" DILLINGHAM © appearance) Don Rowa ¥ Hughes Forsmau | De Hart nald luardo Luigi MeGinn San Belastro r at Hartford s ier excellent comedy Srass Ring,” written | who takes the Philip Dunning. | ues tonight gnd to- with a Wednesday arles Dillingham it can be sum- ! “a durned good rural dialect not : getting | The char- small town | d it their part from the town gzer and the eister inciples are not be- as vond reproach up to the little Cin- ferela s ho er in and Kin W the | 10 be > story t is rt. om¢ ral nd plenty of a | linal seenes it bit melodramat | beaten | from s Iy, seve such a hick a timid country boy sudde 1 the country bump- end turns out not | all an intriguing on: It Jias plenty of noticeable heart £ ction, In fact in the becomes just a wee ic when the bro | cels o surge of manhood and sound Iy trounces the towi, true to life :vnu Lcter eneral ! play Iy is popular men, hut | hully | wh w who decid 1 she whispe | to his Then plaved by Mr. A o town on the her now prospective sels out to w0 sisters reside and one worl ail 1 town bully and bad n a small mall town | in the : Dixon, | de Hart and evident- | ith travelling sales s to quit the town | rs s ling news in- | 1 arrives Tim Taylor rmitage, who comes | invitation of Ross, Che designing Tessi much needs husband, immedi- | ) entrap young Tay- How well she suceeeds and the loutcome of the [its unique, lav unex s most one of t | dramas, : Brass Rings itself is not an inprincipled Te old band r by the n Thawor is exceptionally the entire produ; {1y lives the part Kin he represent the free and e h Tessie, 1 thoroughly, whi to her acti Rose ympa Caroline Tumph is taken by makes himself v he should comedy 1 om Marguerite and by 1 1 by Por that celery is a sobering them cast is a | to give sach ¢ t allotted spa. | suy Tin his or her is certainly a h applause that gres sy and decidedly Anthony in his part, who likes di plot, together with | i provoking and pected ending makes enjoyable of comedy are very good and ethe t such it is thus th ie names the nar- placed about he listakenly honorable k of Mr. Armitage Drilliant throughout ction and he actual- of the country bump Miss De Hart, as gelf- kes one dislike he ch s a compliment | hile the winsome thetically taken by | weys. The “heavy” | Hughes wio greeable, as | and hign Ty i 70\1 \' a nip now and her hushand, Fred, r Hall, who finds good thing to use in up.” rge one, too large ividual due eredit in | but suffice it to (£ — , . Tebeau ce, that each and every one is true D and the drama the salvos of every act last it night evidenced. MAY FING .M. Hall, Mem Rl ing Commissi | | | | Make Battters | i we novel in the w | ducements for I 'put forth their | bouts here, has LCOM.Hall, am | commission. | plan cons action by fining round for h Hall belie: | ed and in annou ‘1 ash customers | nn\lm m \l\\\( | ontreal. que vl!’ manager | | mn h have hockey league, Calder announc | eceds Redmond signe irother, Tues. will CHARLES Presents BRASS RING By Buford Thilip Dillingh ¥ higl and Horace heey hoard of governors and Townsend 1 Townsend. T.x—md 30 to 50c.: £ FIGHTERS nber of Detroit Box- on Has Scheme Tod Work. 12 (A of ¥ paid boxers to | best efforts during been worked out by cniber of the hoxing Something | ists of stimulating the fighters g0 much | cach session in | ves they have stall- | neing his levy to the via the megaphone. . Dee, the Oftawa & Townsend of Pitts- n named to the of the national President Frank ed today. Gill gue- Quain of Ottawa, T replaces his Nights 500 Bal., $1 I)ll LINGHAM Armitage and Dunning Cust ot 40 Mat., £1.30, SES— {when he rotired from a especially so with the town | I by his colleagues ! play between i tive heavy | country on inspection trips. hoth military | pilot not only of the y [ the United States—perhaps | light of his 9 18; pIL il DECEMBER [ 192 Maj. Gen. Mason M. BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON (Associated Pross Staff Writer) Washingion, Dec, (®r--Ma Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chicf of the army air corps, who for las stood near the center storm of controversy in stepped into a calmer area, of the a ve serviee or age. The judgment passcd work for those six strenuous of the old and the young air corps al hat he leaves hehind him anding and a upon his is mutual of team ground and air sol- diers to further the single of national defense which all are striving that six years ago seemed ble for realization. What General Patrick will with the time now apt on his heads—for vigorous, encrgetic man [ he has not decidede. or more will go to relaxation and rest from the grucling desk work and requircnients of his office that kept him hurrying about the Jeyonid Associated Pre sense tow impossi- harg is still at 64 Eight months that, he told The : has no definite plans. He hopes to go abroad later to &ee at first hand tha aviation developments, and commercial, oth- cr countries are making. “I have no thought of al interest in air development sald. T could not. T hope find means to he helpful, retirement, to the limitless futur of transportation by With General Patrick’s roti ment, the oldest qualified aviation but in in the tiv T may sven in world—1s stricken from the ac list. The general himself ma accomplishment in that [PALACE| TODAY Esther Ralston in “10 Modern Commaniments” —Also— Black Diamond WEDNESDAY The Mighty Gripping Melodrama SUNDERWORLI Also Comed 1 “The Expres” rial, oviding in- | | regard six years | viation, | today | army | objec- | rd in a degree | a0 ! ). ¥o, skil! air corps have 1k to me who knew tried come increasing- | to t as onc of their | their language, to know ‘and ’ of the | they 1ve cment art and » which mportant el iation of the been do- vast. The air split wide in fractional he relieved Mador ¢ Charles . Menoher, wari ider of \bow Divi- Phi wa when me ra ler umar air chief. r work in after violent v w of which croppe with William Mitch- . then a brigadier gen 4 chief in direct as noth n requ St t ts, only a fr the surface, the Activities Mitchell, to nua a daring al vork of all av erited it, fed ma Menohs adventy the army up the strugg with no certa departn Menoher's re- wh th o licy would to b and final w be, for I reliey Mitehell ai - | rum i vl ent at th i | Mi P fiv N tion eleme So Tatri 1 flying. conrt under sentence of tehell and the appointment sldent Coolidge of the Morrow mmission to pave the for 1 c-year expansion it program is going in air progr: to its now cond year. >atrick (inset,) wi -Isurmrl to fly in |° his late fifties when he became chief of the U air corps, retires Dec. 13 from the post he has hoH for He is the oldest licensed pilot in the army. him in pilot’s garb heside his official plane. 0 s The picture shows ‘ “You ! that,” he ust a junior 11 T could get or hope to g nmust said, wi | fe gri t at my But T think our young fliers of An co wi he CAPITOL House of Photoplay Hit: TODAY AND WED. i ro 2:10—1:30—7:00—9:05. Another E: \rl'llml Double Fea- ture Show THURS.—FRL—SAT. “High School Hero” A Glorious tale of with great cast of youths. youth and Blznche Sweet Warner Baxter ‘SINGED” A tale of’ flaming passions and Fortunet SUN.—RAMON NOVARRO in PHE lm\li l(\ ROMANCE” Lastom Dairics Xmas Party Every Night Next Week 2 quart Xmas cakes to winners Bring your New Haven Dairy fee Cream Tickets Herel tional unanimously chosen ey, Mansfield, ing match, ’\nin‘ lieve for r must be before the five neral Patrick said. ne. but not at her ntial elemrnt team.” that prograr added to in, ars are up,’ It should he expense of an of our na i v ors ense nin ELECTED GRID CAPTAIN [ter Washington, Pa., Dec. 13 (P— | tenm 1 G. Aschman, of Charleroi, Pa., | % 1l lead the Washington and f J rson coll¢ football team on th idiron next se Bil lor of the aro) pos {abl E for ence ( ox son. Aschman was for the captain- AFTER KNOCKOUT I 13 (UP)—Tommy | ngus, of Scotland, di=d today from | ncussion of the brain caused | hen his head struck the floor whe ”l | DI London, was knocked down by Jack England, in the second und of a scheduled six round hox- 1 ot (GEORGE SISLER Kccept nghest Bid for Star N MAY BE TRADED : | Ball Reported Ready to B Fork, Dee. 13 (UP) 1o which would take George some seasons ago rated the most us he American Le St. Louis Browns, (known that Geor; | it the | ing. L!nru] deal of strengthening to offset, nn\' League listen to re elaborate cr of his Tmm al in successor to Byror was available, proper owner were forthcom- And with the necessity of m of the lr 3 four nanagers we ason, Ivantage New York American willing to Altho 3arnard imor had it that 0 be the subject remony on the Ed of occasion into office i s Johnson, tha American tion to- ior circuit tomorrow. uection BOUCHER LEADS SCORERS New York Ranger Star Continues to wn to t 1 winte Ball's club, ich mast g baseball 3all rigu. world rt was 1 r to 1ored trade nable plays i, zed haseb: or 1t what response of the m * rules remained en themselve were fr Vhile ere busy 2 through the alities of the wal meeting, a bit of chat- | here about the three umpire sy 1 and a bit there abo: e ulation to preve “syndicate | cball, Phil Ball, « Mack Iy Evaus, new busiy nager the Indians, Comiskey on hehalt the White Sox, George Moriarity the Detroit Tigers and others of American League were going und and around the old trading t—cvery ear cocked for a e bargain. vans, frankly, a center fielder, with a preter- »(m Harry Rice of the Browns. 1nic would not have an ouuum.r himselr, he Sisler trade, however, test piece of gossip. nde two majol as han ional Le it the Waldort, forn n and eggs. | Ague own- w run- { with nnic season- | was {n the murket refus- | was the | Ball let it be LAST TIMES S“WILD GE with BELLE BENNETT and RUSSELL SIMPSON Co-Feature RETURN OF BOSTON BLACKIE™ Strongheart & Raymond Glenn. TONIGHT “THE " MATIN This Coupon and 10¢c. Will Admit a NEW BRIT. TNOW PLAYING—LOGE A Thrill For the ATX RICHARD DIX HE GAY DE GIRES! LES! G VIC PLANTE & CO. “Wine, —LLOPLE A sold Hour of Real LOSHE and STERLING “Beautylsris" PARAMOUNT NEWS—SE| AvVOID COME AFTERNOONS! ALIAS T LONE WOLF* h BERT LYTELL. Also “RAGTIM Lady to Matinee Best Seats. Head List of Goal Makers in Tce Hockey Circuit, L the 11 Hoc leas s m.m.n..l by 1 today, hin fiot Hay of points. - r omorrow Tunior n r“g\e Georges Social Brown: “I'm going to buy my wife something before 1 take the trip.” Jones: “Here, look over Georges’ ad. Mesh bags $7.50 to $35.00 Fancy pearl and gold neck- 436 MAIN ST. AT; EAST MAIN Don’t Pass Up This Won- AIN Kiss for the Ladics! FENDER" OWNS! MUSICT Women and Song.™ Entertainment JACK RYAN “The Song Man” D COMEDY THE CROWDS derful Show THURSDAY The Famous Family of Entertainers THE FOUR DIAMONDS “A Perfect Setting"” Harold. 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