New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 10, 1928, Page 15

- TP Unioss otherwise indicated, thestrical . written by preas agencies for the t . T “WEST POINT” AT CAPITOL | . Williamn Haines is making a hlg‘ it at the Capitol in “West Point,’ the featurc attraction for today and Wednesday, Called by those many | peeple who have seen it since open- | ing Sunday, “the perfect plcture,” | “West Point™ gives the style of en- tertawinment that appeals to e\er)-» ane. Willlam Haines is superb as the candidate for West Point who wise eracks his way into the famous | military. academy but finds that the | discipline after he is made a “plebe” | interferes with his love making and fpotball. Joan Crawford plays the sweet- | Heart in her usual magnetic way and makes a beautiful co-star with Wil- | liam Haines. RBeginning Thursday the program | will feature double photoplays, the | main attraction being “The Garden | of Allah;” with Alice Terry, a great | Bex Ingram production, The co-feature will offer Madge Bellamy in “Silk Legs.” FURY OF THAMES EXPENDS ITSFLF London Returmng 0 llormal-‘ Reliel Moasures London, Jan. 10 M — The lur)" of the Thathes has spent itself and |- London today turned to measures | of ‘relief and to repairing the dam- | age wrought by flood waters Satur- i | Mhe tide today reached its height | at 3:46 a. m. and subsided without | damage. 1t was below Saturday's high lcvel and experts believe that danger is. past. Precuutions against | further deaths and dJestruction arc > being maintained and the barriers | against a new Tush of water were strengthened continually. The port of London authority | sald no further ‘overflow need be cxpected and refugees returned to dig among the wreckage and slime of their homes for their belongings. | Art treasures in the Tate gallery, | the National Muscum of Art, fared | better in the floed than had been anticipated. Water colors and chalk drawings in the collection of 19.00v works by J. M. W, Turner were dried out with little loss of bril- liancy. AR to the effect of the waters on oil paintings it was still too early for expgrt. opinion. Until they are thoroughly dried it will be imposai- ble to estimate the vetouching tha v be requized.. William Blake's pictuze of Admiral Nelson seemea | to be the only rare work in nced of extensive restoration, Lord Desborough, chairman of, the Thamea conservatory board, | #aid that the North sea tide rather | than floods from the headwaters os the Thames was responsible for the | disaster, NATURALIZATION BILL. Washington, Jan. 10 GP—Allens | who gerved with American forces during the world war would be eli- gible fo naturalization under a bhill introdueed hy Represcntative Nourso | Rogers, republican, Mass, The act would be in efice; for only three FREE! A New 1928 CHEVROLET COACH COME TODAY! The American Beauty BiLLIE DOVE in “THE LOVE MART” 6‘ COMPA! \' THUEE REDDINGTONS WILLIAM E_lgllkqffl_)’ TI!URS!)AY The Mighty Vaudeville Spectacle | “THE PASSING PARADE” 8—BIG SCENES—9 22—PEOPLE—22 Featuring “Boob” McManus Dick Knowles and the 12 Sunshine Girls ~Aho— E GREY’S EVADA® (1 Cadhr gy |feature picture show. [discuss estimates of expense for the | | monthly NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1928 Theater Reviews of Current Offerings JED HARRIS ] mwmnn Ab-Luimuatll) Presents BROADWAY By PHILIP D N and GEORGE \BUUTI‘ - [ utices and reviews 1n thiv colun espective amusement compun Verdis “DRESS PARADE" AT LYCEU Toduy is the last y Wi liam Boyd and Bessle Love in *Drcss | Grare Farade, the greatest West Point ‘Al»x\ victure ever produced. The compan- | "Bl ion feature offers Percy Marmont in | his latess, “San Francisco Nights”, | |with Mae Busch and a great cust of | selected stars, Tomorrow wuight, which 18 Wednesday,~ is “Blanket | Bamona Kogan cunor Z. Audley ence Murshull Poter Murste M = ¥ Daughter. {Night.” Many beautiful = double woven selccted colors, highest grade "(By Morald eviewer) Llankets will be given away. lh “Broadway” alliteratively referred sure to be here. Sturting Wednes- | & 0 0y for Hlinee.Aazs s mipor dowble ‘to as a “melange of mirth and wlur- The main at- | der,” played to a large audience at traction offers New Hrll;flnl fa "-‘lulrone theater, Hartford, last fte woman star, Irene Rich in o 2 [Silver Blave” with Audrey Ferrls nm';lugl\l and was accorded a reception lothers, On the’same bill starting | Which would have been gratifylng Wednesday is “Red Riders of Can. | cven to the first company which ada," { played at the same theater on Scp- tember 13, 1926, prior to a brilliant run in New York. TOM llX 'l‘0 FIGHT In colorful languago and acting, life “behind the scenes” in a metro- | 3 i politan cabaret {s depicted. In fact ‘l vie Cowboy Hera Unwiling to Pay (it can truthfully be said that “Broadway” is the grandpa of a ser- | $1,300 Monthly to His 16 Year OM | o0 fegitimate entertalnments which are based on a "behind the g | scencs” motif. Its success was fol- Los Angeles, Jan, 30 (®—Tom lowed by a plethora of plays which ,\ux. cowboy hero of many gun bat- I\\vnl to the other side of the foot- tlcs on Hollywood n:ovic lots, today | lights for plots. announced he wculd contest lnil In “Broadway” there is love and divarced wifc's court petition for a | laughter with a bootleggers’ feud | 1,500 monthly allowance for and a murder forming its backbone. 'support of the daughter of The company now holding' the | couple. * 1 boards at Parsons’ does not suffer Giving notice that he would fight | seriously by comparison with the the petition for the increase from | original cast. Walter Glass is Que the present $30 monthly allowance, | cidedly good as Koy Lane, the “hoof- | ‘Mix through his attorneys declared | " whose greatest ambition in life that he had been giving his daugh- |is to sce his name in electric lights ter, Ruth now 16 years of age, rums outside a big time vaudeville house. { considerably in excess of the amount | Helen Raymond is A No. 1 in the ! required by the court order granted | role of Lil Rice, the veteran show- { when Mix and his former wife, Mrs. | girl for whom life holds no further | | Olive 8. Mix, were divorced in 1917, illusions. Matt Briggs is stronger in | A total of §1.300 was asserted to e second and thire have been advanced in the last two ! Crandall, a suave bootlegger weeks o the girl to cover expenses | than in the first. His delincation of of her vaudeville cavces a braggart turn-d craven is remark- Mix's former wife declared he had ably true to 1 Loretta Shea is a amassed & fortunc of $5,000,000 pleasing “Billie” Moore, 4 protege of since the pair was divorced. Roy Lane. James 8 Kcarpey and In Mrs, M petition, tiled here | Ashley Cooper execel as Crandall's vesterday, she suid that when the | henchmen and Robert W. Cralg un- couple was divorced Mix was earning | derstandingly plays Dan McCorn, the 2 $1,000 @ month, while at the pres- | detective, Others whose efforts are ent time his income was $20,000 forcibly bronght to attention are weekly. Mix was ordered to appear | Ilugen: Redding, Jack Rigo, Mar- January 20 and show cause why the | guerite 8t. Clair and Elcnaor Z. $1,500 increase should not be grant- | Audley, | cd. “Broadw is booked for Par- | sons’ theater for the week, with | !m.mm.s on Wednesday and Satur- Budget of Park Board | May Not Be Increased* Members of the park board \\\lll . mext fiscal year when they gather!| tomorrow night for their regular | ‘ API I OI i It is expected | meeting. ¢ the budget will be approxi- | TODAY and W s last year and | 2:10, 4:30, 7:00, mately the same the <|»|\nrlmn~m: IGWEST POINT" {that “the work of for the same | with Imay be carried on amount, $65,000. i e | WILLIAM HAINES age 101, Is reputed | to be the oldest survivor of the | Crimcan campuign in France or | England and the last Crimean vet- Louis Mathon, LYCEUM LAST ES TONIGHT 100 Per Cent Pregram William Boyd “DRESS PARADE” Greatest West Point Picture Co-Veatu PERCY MARMONT — i — \‘\I FRANCISCO NIGHTS \\I D.—T"I RS~ 'l" NEW SHOW! IREN ILVER SLAVE” Abso “SILKMLEGS” th MADGE BELLAMY am Gold Sirips Hosiery Free 10 Lucky Ladies. “ on charges of slaying !slippers, spool white thread. {ers will be called at Greenup next SGRAP OF PAPER MAY HANG FATHER ‘Amhonues Lmkmg Kentucky Man With Chila’s Murder Winchester, Ky., Jan. 10 W—A |#crap of paper which way discovered lndnhu on the person of Robert H. Pitts, scorched nd burned body was found ten days 4go at the Pitts home in Greenup, Ky. listed & number of articles {Which were to be bought in antlei- | pation of the little girl's death, au- thorities here declared. Pitts and his housckeepe Marie Frazier. were held in j hl-rl.' the child. ey were brought to Winchester to avoid possible mob violence because of the brutality of teir alleged crime, he nelations found by J. J. Hmn.I Mon. l | mond, ansistant jailer at Winchester shortly after Pitts was placed in his custody, listed the following articles: Three yards bleach. two vards lace, | three yards white veil, two yards| narrow lace, three yards pale blue ribbon, white stockings and white plain 1wk hose, three yards to cover ket, eight yards lace, two inches wide, three yards bleach muslin, two | hoxes carpet tacks, two pounds quilt ! bottom, candles. With this scrap of paper was an- other which cread: “Better to Kili her now than to wait until she is grown—and then she would have to tuke a gun and blow her hl\inl‘ |out.” Pitts has placed full hlame for the baby’s death on the mistreatment of the child by Mrs. I*ragier. The woman, in turn accused Pitts |of the child's death. Explaining the burns, Mrs. Vraz ior said the child's dress caught fire | while she—Mrs, Frazier—was out in the yard with the other childre: She denied burning the baby over ul red hot stove, as has been charged. Pitts in a statement given to Winchester authorities charged that Fragier brutally whipped the | child and then rubbed her back with salt and turpentine because the bavy | had called her vile names. He said | the woman had threatened time aft- ' er time, to kill the child and at one time tortured her by hanging ‘ner with a rope and banging hor againet the wall of a shed by pulling the rope. A xpecial grand Jury to investigate the charges against the two prison- Monday. More than one thousand herses have heen shipped this year from British Golun\l)l.x ranges Russia, | | da; jmnlllon dollar alienation of affections father of § year old Mary!® | Magdalene Pitts, whose L Mrs. Jos to soviet | T of the mysterious cave, and the epilogue and the first act arc in the cave. All Baba's gardens furnish the setting for the sccond act and a dining hall the third. The characters and players are: | Al Baba, William Halloran; his son, Bennie Lifshitz; captain of the | forty thieves, Henry Challao; first | guardian of the cave, Frances Stan- ley; queen of the fairies, Anna Campisi; Morgiana, chief serving maid to Ali Baba, Lillian Pollard. Bome of the forty thieves: Edwin Hooge, Dominic Zappino. Ralph ! Johnson, Josla Burns, Sydney Block, John Anderson, Ernest Speziale, Elihu Lumpkin, Coredo D'Amato | Matthew Avitable, George Brown, ie Ball Dupont, Sidney Koplowitz, Israel Zevin. Mrs. Dupont, the answer in the di- | Spirits of the cav her Cohen, vorce nuu recounted, is the wife of | Mary Doleski, Mary la Rosa, Ruth Alfred 1. Dupont, a member of a| Ilags, Leanore Barrett, Nina Dan- prominent Delaware family. now a8, Lievich, Doris Laskowski, Veronica esident of Florida. Also to be named | Yuniskis, Blanche Dudack, Gertrude in. the alienation of affections suit, | Paulson, Jennie Mazar, Dorothy according to Mrs. Ball's attorney, i8 | Cohen, Evelyn Badolato, Rose Falk. Mrs. Dupont's sister, Mrs. Elsic Ball | Fairies—Mildred Gehring, = Mar- Wright. | garet Cubles, Rita Riley, Jeannette Declaring there I8 a “couspiracy | Gorback, Sophie Jafie, Franc on the part of plaintiff's sister 10| Jlarley. take him away from defendant,” Serving malids in Ali Bala's hbuse; Mrs. Ball's answer continues: ’.!unn Clem, Lilllan Rurker, Emf'y esgie Ball Dupont ia the wife of | Rtuscik. Alfred 1. Dupont, a man whose| The committee for .the play is: wealth is estimated at a billion dol- ' Marion Chismark, Veronica Ammon, lars, and his wife has control of | Julia Kotyk, Anna Pisarsky, Alice many millions.” Gingras, Helen: Pavid, Helen Park- Alfred 1.'Dupont is formeg vice- | (on, Helen 8canlon, Fanny Sperry. president of the K. I. Dupont De | e Nemours & Co. He is a cousin of | FRENCH BAN LIFTED United States Scnator T. Coleman | Paris, Jan. 10 (P—Irance will Dupont. | suspend the present ban on the ex- Mis. Ball entered a general de- | portation of capital under the terms nial of her husband's churges which |of g decree signed by President Dou- included the accusation that his wife | mergue at the request of Premier treated him with indifference and ! Poincare at a cabinet meeting. contempt and called him a person | without character or breeding. | S Mrs. Ball and her husband were | summoned to court here January 19 when a hearing will be held on the wife's plea for alimony of $500 a month and attor: ey's fees. SCHOOL CLUB T0 PRESENT ALT AND HIS 40 THIEVES, s | athan Hale Dramatists Prepare lor Elaborate Entertainment On [ASKS MILLION DOLLARS FOR HER HUSBAND'S LOYE {Wite of California Lawyer Claims Own Sister Alienated His Affections Los Angeles, Jan. 10 (P—The an- swer of Mrs. Mary Ball to the di- vorce suit of Thomas Ball, Los An- geles attorney, was: on file here to- as the avowed fprerunner of a t to be filed by Mrs. Ball later against her husband’s wealthy sister Get s Westinghowse Warming Pad for quick reliel from pain. Seft Snish, dursbly constructed. safe. Heats quickly~a handy linle switch centrals three heaw. ONLY $6.50 Tuesday, January 24. “Ali Baba and the Forty Thicves,” a play taken from “The Arabian Nights,” will be produced by the Nathan Hale school Senior Dramatic club, Tuesday, January 24, at the | school auditorium, Music will be by | the school orchestra, Mary E. J. Oliver, directing. 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