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WEST POINT 5 CAPITOL FEATIRE Romance -of ‘U, 5. Military Academy Is Wondorlnl Film Beginning Sunday night the Cap tol will offer for four days the fir: real big production of the new yea: “West Point,” the story of life an love at the nation's military acad emy, William Haines, “the play-boy” of the acreen, Is seen lu the greates: role of his career and is able sup- ported by Joan Crawford. Filmed against the colorful background of West Point amid the drills, parades and life of the cadets, “West Point" ILLIAM HAINES in"WEST POINT" eomes to the screen with a special appeal to all lovers of real cinema art, You will admire William Haines as the breezy youth who finds that West Point discipline interferes with love and football. The management personally en- dorsea this production as a photo- play really worth while seeing, one that is the greatest from the stanad- point of entertainment, of humat interest, of citizen-building influence. of effervescing humor, that the screen has seen in years, It de- serves and will win the commenda~ tion of the public of New Britain. There will be two complete shows on Bunday night at 6:30 and $:15 and on Monday, Tuesday and Wed- neaday the performances will bpe continuous. Regular prices will pre- vall for the showing of “West Point" Beginning Thursday a great dou- ble feature show will be offered with the main attraction presenting Rex Ingram's “The Garden of Allah” with Alice Terry featured. The com- panion film will offer Madge Bel- lamy in “Silk Legs.” In conjunc- tion with this picture the Outlet Millinéry Co. will award Gotham Gold Stripe hosiery to lucky ladies attending the performance. PARSONS’ HARTFORD “Broadway,” the drama of New York night club life coming to Par- sons’ theater for one week, begin- ning next Monday night, appears to be just as sensational a hit in other cities as it was In New York, and this famous Philip Dunning and George Abbott drama is well on the way to roll up a million dollars for its producers and authors. Yet “Broadway” was hawked about among more than a dozen managers betore it finally found a safe resting place In the arms of Jed Harris and Crosby Gaige. The veteran Willlam A. Brady pald for an option on the play and ‘turned it over to the cab- aret queen, Texas Guinan, for a reading. She didn’t care for it, how- ever, and the script was turned back to Dunning, Jed Harris turned over the seript to George Abbott, who co- authored it into its success. “Dwarf” Farmers Are Producing Paprika Budapest, Jan. 7—UMThousands ot “@warf” farmers, each with his family working & few square rods to an acre and a half of land, pro- duce millions of pounds of paprika in Hungary annually. Some is ex- ported to the Balkan countries, but 1lungary noods most of the crop for itself, By cultivating the tiny farms from spring until autumn and using the \vinter months to work the paprika in the farm homes or mills, Hun- . rarian farmers produced 16,255,177 pounds of paprika from 7,288 acres 128t year alone. The government controls the industry and officially ~2als and grades the ground paprika. Fears of a cooler winter than nor- mal age entertained in Japan be- cause snow recently covered Mt. Komagatake 10 days earlier than usual, DANCING TONIGHT RIALTO BALLROOM IMPERIAL ORCH. Admission 50¢ JED HARRIS THE SENSATION OF NEW YORK AN LONDON 1| Mat Wed.—Reg. Mat. fat. frem Fifieen Seneational Weeks a8 the Plymesth Theater, Poston PRICES: Eves. Orch. $2.00; Bale. 4 Rows 02, 4 Rows $1.50, 3 Rows §1: Fam, Cir. 38e., : Mat, Wednrsdas, | | ‘DRESS PARADE' :~ 2UTHE I\\'n‘(’k(‘d the vehicle at a ford above |the falls, The coach floats to the “The lo‘e Man’Land vaudevlue | best, longest liked of all movie stars. at Popular Playhouse It is clean, wholesome, bristling with situations that send the pulse One of the most pretentious pro- grams ever offered at the Strand ping, sparkling with humeor ani Theater will begin tomorrow when 1e above all clean and wholesome, Just the kind of picture that the Billie. Dove will be shown in her latest screen hit, “The Love Mart" whole family can enjoy together without any fear of being . embar- rassed by some risque situation. he companion feature picture for Sunday and Monday will be “The Wilful Youth" with Kenneth Harlan in which she is supported by Noah Beery and Gilvert Roland. Beauti- | ful Billie Dove is seen in a dramatic role of a woman whese soul is placed on sule for the highest bidder. It is said to excel anything she has here- and Edna Murphy. On Tuesday night, the Palace tofore done for the films, On Monday, this picture will be theater will hold one of the first “Blankeet Nights”, Many beautiful shown with one of the most unusual | vaudeville cntertainments headed by | and colorful blankets will be given the girl with. the X-Ray mind, | Everyone coming into Georgia Templeton, violinist and the | > theater Tuesday night has a chance to win one of these beautiful Imusical oracle, Flas J. Brown, pianist, who will be the power of blankets. thought transmission play on their (¥ CHAMP ENTERS MEET M. “Mouty” Wells of Dartmouth, person in the audience may think of | Holder of Hurdle Records, To for hum—be it classical or popular; ! new or old. They go even' further to | mystify audicnces by picking a melo- | DBoston, Jan. 7 (#—E. M. “Monty" dy up at the cxact note of which you | Wells- of Dartmouth colicge, inter- may be thinking. Other headline acts | collcgiate high hurdle champion and includs Joo Phelpsiand. Co: | world’s rccord holder for the 45- Persons attending Strand per- | yard high hurdles, will be a starter formances during the coming week !in the 45 yard high hurdle race for beginning Monday afternoon will the New England A. A. U. cham- have a chance to secure a new 192§ |pionship at the William C. Prout Chevrolet coach absolutely free, The | e¢morial games here January 2§, rew Chevrolet will be displayed on the Knights of Columbus manage- the stage of the Strand theater at |ment announced today. each performaace starting Monday.| Wells turned in his first worl The management also announced |rccord breaking time in the freak that it has engoged for three days 43-vard high sticks event here a starting next Thursday the most |year ago when he covered the dis- gorgeous act vaudoville, “Th» {tance in 5 4-5 6econds in two suc- Passing Parade” with a company of | ccssive heats. He equalled his own 22 people including Boob McManus | mark three more times during the and the original 12 Sunbeam girls. | winter and later brought Dartmouth ——— ithe L C. 4 A.120-vard high hurdle TOM MIX AT PALACE 'title by leading the pick of the col- Theater patrons who will sec Tom |lese world to the tape at Philadel- Mix in “Arizona Wildeat,” which [Phia in 14 §-10 seconds. {will show at the Palace theater on| Wclsl is the second national cham- Sunday and Monday will view the |pion to enter the K. of C. games vestern star in new and more dar. |herc. Lloyd Hahn, America's great- ing acts than he has had put on cst middle distance runner, is the sercen hefore. scheduled to run both the Curley Mix has the role of Tom Phelan. mile and the Prout memorial 600. owner of en Arizona ranch famous | AN for its polo ponies, and in the open- | Scrap metal, including old bieycle |Ing sequences Tom rescucs Dorothy |spokes and bits of sheet fron, have Sebastian from the wreckage of a|been used by a pair of pigeons for stage coach at the cdge of a high [building their nest in Greenwich, waterfall. She was in the coach |England. The nest weighs nearly when the horses ran away and |22 pounds. Start in Games, 1 “ALWAYS A GOOD SHOW” STARTS SUNDAY pirates and slave-smugglers? the slave to the highest bidder? Louisiana! SCAKE GEORGE LOV) PRESENTS THEY PLAY A 4—OTHER BIG ACTS—4 Which will be given to some patrom LYCEUM — TODAY, SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY Wasn’t there a single MAN in this crowd of Must she be The an- swer is climaxed in a series of breath-tak- ing scenes in this colorful drama of Oid ctorGiA Templeton & Brown :isa The Girl With the X-ray Mind and the Musical Oracle. MELODY YOU THINK OF SEE THE 1928 CHEVROLET COACH! Strand afier next week’s performances, DRESS PARADE! AT THE LYCELM ! LRY 7, 1928, | They play any melody you think of. Georgia Templcton and Eisa J. Brown at the Strand, Mon., Tues., Wed. | Miltary Drama o Be Shown,|_ |« { | {versity basketball team, 29 to 26 |after a five-minute extra period. | Few motion pictures produced in | i recent-years have the rare entertain- | pittshurg] Tniversity jment qualities that distinguish the |op pnm,..‘,’.:{‘ ‘;‘;k.i‘,‘;l 'l‘:,',‘,e:‘i,'.‘, | Donald Crisp Pathe-Do Mille produc- | jtg sixtn consecutive game by defeat tion of “Dress Parade,” starring Wil- | jne 110 eracuse university team, liam Boyd and featuring Bessle Love | 4" ¢ o4 g A which will be on view at the Lyceum £ | theater Baturday. The spirit of West | Point animates every scene, for the | | picture almost in its cntirety was | filmed at the United States Military | Academy, | There are many contrasting ch: jacters in the story, Viec Donovan, the likable young cadct, who hasn't | | caught the West Point spirit; Stuart Ialdane, his rival, attractive and {honorable; Dusty ' Dawson a droll cadet from the south, and “Mealy” | St Augustine, 1l | Snodgrass, the chubby comedy char- Moffatt, Utica, and Bob Win- |acter, a cadet from the middle west. |Bate, Jacksonville, Fla., were to tec | | Imagine the romance of a young | Off early today in the final round of SPORT TABLOIDS 2s univer- Chicago — Bobby Walthour, Jr., was to meet Otto Petri, Germany, in a speclal five-mile motor paced race. —A strong field enzen, Johnny Far- vell and Jock Hutchinson were to tee off in the qualifying round of the Miaml open golf tournament, 2 Miami, FI cluding Gene Dr. William {ment, in- cadet and the commandant's daugh- ;ohe amateur golf champions tourna- | | ter against such a military setting. Picture this situation—a cadet ly- ing helpless in the path of an artil- |lery barrage during field practice, !and only his worst enemy knowing | of his danger. There is an abunds |anee of swift action—everything | from a grudge fight in a boxing ring | to a spectacular rescue under shell | fire, . . 1 | Boyd in the snappy uniform of a | West Pointer is a sight to gladden | | every picture fan. The official academy taflor made a complcte sét | ot uniforms for him, and he never | 1ooked finer or snappier. | On theé same bill starting today, |18 “San Franciaco Nights”, starring Percy Marmont 2~ ' Mae Busch. | GAS MASKs 1 1M McCamey, Tex.. Jan. T—Fumes of hydrogen-sulphinc gas pouring from the oil wells of the Crane-Up- ton field here have proven ab dan- | gerous that workmen and animais | have been provided with gas masks. Mules submitted to the masks with better grace than did the men. Be- | cause the gas is almost odorless it | s necessary to wear the protectors constantly. 1009 ES ! ATIERCN Y When 200 English boys recently | sailed to make their home in Aus- | tralin, they were wished Godspeed (|8 | by Lady Blade, lady mayoress ef London, No Advance in Admissions Wingate defeated Don Me- Allister, Palatka, Fla.. 7 and 5 yes- terday while Moffatt eliminated Davis Frankel, Baldwin, N. Y,, and 7. Ann Arbor, Mich.—The University of Michigan hockey team defeated the University of Western Ontario, 1to 0, New York—Joseph E. Davis, pro- | tege of cross-country racing, was cleeted presidept of the national Stecplechase and Hunt association. TDoston, Mass.—Warren P, Me- Quirk, or Arlington, Mass., was clgeted captain of the Boston college foothall team for 1928, Lugene, Ore.—The University ef Oregon defeated Willlamett univer- ity 36 to 17, in a basketball game, w1 Ffancisco—The Olympic elub sketball team defeated the Waseda LYCEUM Starts — TODAY ~ Siarts and SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY PROGRAM! It’s Here After Six Months in Making - The Classic of the Silent Drama, Lifc and Love of a West Point Cadet The Most Colorful Romance of the Screen Now Breaking Every ecord at New York City ON THE SAME BILL _university, Tokio, team 39 teo 16. [ | Miami, Fla—Led by Gene Sara- zen, Johnny Farrell and Jock Hutchinson, the fleld teed off today requires only the parties; a divérse the ly of 8 | one, v That is the explanation for the fact that during the first nine months "of 1927 there were 9681 marriages and 7255 divorcen: Many a citizen of the Soviet has boen mar- ried seven or eight times in a single i year. Immediately upon fasuance of the divorce decree each party W free to take another mate. And a | woman may marry as many Himes as she pleases and still vetain her | family name. MOUNTAIN SHEE?Y ILL in the qualifying round of the Miami open golf tournament. Em- mett Freach, Tommy Kerrigan, | Willie Dog, Johnny Golden and Cyril | Walker were among other stars ex- pected to furnish the opposition. Kansas City, Mo.—The Kansas City Pla-Mors and Duluth of the | American Hockey association played to a &coreless tie, An overtime | period failed to bring a score. vOne M.fl-i.‘e in Helena, Mont., Jan. 7. UB—Moun- tain sheep in the Giacler park and Four s"m'fill-sun River districts are contracting Moscow, Jan. 7 — In Soviet | pneumonia, says Dr. Hadleigh Russia a couple can be married one | Marsh, pathologist for the state minute and divorced the next. The | livestock sanitary board. He be- ‘x.lmrrln(c need not cost anything. the ‘ lieves the diseas: menaces survival divorce requires about 30 cents for | of the herds. | { TWICE SUNDAY ~ NIGHT 6:30 and 8:30 and | MON., TUES., WED. Continuous The most colorful romance of the screen now breaking every record at the Capitol, New York! Shown here at our regular prices! 1 A Classic of the Life, Drama, and Love of a West Point Cadet! A fascinating picture of life inside the walls of the great U, 8, Military Academy, William Haines will win your heart as a breezy youth who finds West Point discipline interferes with love and football! scdr ot e ( | W. 8. Jeffs at the Organ | “At Eaac® FRANCISCO of the M= \Rr LADIEN - NIGHTS PERCY MARPMONT 4 SPECIAL MAT. This Coupon amd 10c will admit any lady to mat. best seats. THURS.—FRI.—SAT. Rex Ingram’s Great Production “THE GARDEN OF ALLAR” with ALICE TERRY MADGE BELLANMY fa “SILK LEGS" The Fimest Double Feature Programs in the Okt Ruds) 130—88e Week Dags Mat. 10c, 130 ve, 16c, 15c, 98¢ PALACE TODAY 4 ACTS OF VAUDEVILLE COMEOY oNLY BUDDY ROOSEVELT “RIDE 'EM RIGR" First Chapicr of “CRIMSON FLASH" MILLION SUNDAY esd MONDAY TOM MIX in WILDCAT” Ceo-Fenture with KENNETH NARLAN. EDXg MURPNY