New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 27, 1928, Page 19

T = 4“- (I Unless ctherwise {adicated. thestricel 8 written by press agemcies fer the ! nfl ww AT THE CAPITOL The Capitol has an oxcep'.lomlly‘ Food entertaining photoplay pro- gram to offer patrons tonight and Saturday. Three feature attractions are on the show and each proves very entertaining. The main attraction presents Marion Davies tn “Quality Street,” in adaption ot James M. Barrie's | famous story of romance, and & | stage play of big success some years | back. It is a Jdelightful tale of ro- | ance, the gind that is quite en- iovable to overyone. The next attraction ia *“Wolf | I'angs,” & great story of drama of outdoors. Action and thrills predominate this ‘picture which is vatured by the appearance of Thun- der, the wonder dog, who plays as zreat role of a dog's devotion and hate to mankind. The third attraction is ascomedy, :nd what a fwuny comedy “Leave 'Emn Laughing” is. Stan Laurel apd Oliver Hardy are the comedians and there are laughs galore wnh the an- tics of thie pair. Beginning Suaday night the big attraction will jresent “The Student Frince.” TWO NEW ROOMS ADDED AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL Eatra Accommodations Ready Recetve Pupils st Opening | of New Semester. Two new school rooms which have been in the course of con- etruction in the basement of the vo- cational building of the Senior High school plant, have been completed and will bs ready for uee at the opening of the second !flmacivr Mon- | Jay morning. Principal Louls P. <|a«1- announc- | cd the arrangements under which | the school will be conducted with the new accommodations. Miss Mar- gnerita Ammann of Malden, Mass., i English teacher, will be added to the teaching staff of the school. | ‘e addition will maka the high chool staff number 63. The new teacher and Miss Mildred Edwards of Southington will have charge of the new rooms. Miss Ed- wards has been conducting an Eng- | lish class in a room which was form- | erly the echool laundry. She cams | 10 &chool last September after teach- ing in Attlebore, Mass. and Glaston- vy A new typewriting room has been | made ont of what was formerly a | rommercial law class roem and the commercial taw class will be shiffed | 1o the laundry. | to| FOLISH ALLIANCE ELECTS At the annual meeting of the lo- | 3l lodge No. 478 of Polish National | Alhance the following officers were clacted: Ladislaus Cibor: presi- Jent; Boleslaus Kosinski, vice pres- rdent; Frank Ilis, financial secre- tary; Ladislaus Kulas, recording ccretary, Adalbert Flis, treasurer, The following district delegates wers | alected: Ladislaus Ciboreki, Adalbert ! I"lis, and4 Frank Flis. The meetings of the local lodge are held at the| Falcons Hall every third Sunday of the month PARSONS Amerlods l_lflu Sier WM, itost Popular Success ‘i‘l‘l(uGIlT THRU THE DOOR” A mart Mystery Comedy Seats Now MATINEE SATURDAY Best Seats $1.3: NIGHTS 50c to 4 (inc tax) JAN. 30-31, FEB. t. MON., TUES, WED. Mat. Wed. Anna Held, Jr., Presents First of the “Broadway Bound” Plays QUICKSAND by Warren F. Lawrence withRobertAmes And A Notable Cast Pvis ATTRACTION 29— Fatuace = Best mu = Seats Jan. 20.. By Mail NOW, Riato Ballroom Tresents ED GURLEY PALAIS ROYAL ORCHESTRA Featuring Latest Hits From Broadway Jerry Sullivan Promoter Adm. 30c Dancing 8 to 12 Friday Eve., Jan. 27, 928 WHIST Washington Camu. P O S of A Jan. 37th. N Prizes, 277 Main St No. », | Patsy |ern features {cerning their constr | anxious I otices and reviews In this column are respective smusement company. “AMATEUR-NIGHT” AT LYCEUM Tonight is “Amateur-Night” at the Lyceum theater. The feature act for the amateur show tonight, which the management thinks will interest all very much, will be “Little Frances Kelly.” Thislittle girl is very pretty and dances in a very smart style. The two plctures that will be shown for the Jast times tonight are, Buster Keaton in “College” and Ruth Miller in “South Sea | Love with a notable cast of stars. | Starting Saturday—the feature pic- | ture attraction offers “Wings” only | rival—"The Lone Eagle" etarring | Raymend Kearne. ' INTEREST SHOWN INPASSENGER LINE Gongress to Hear Plans of New London Company ‘ New London, Jan. the plan of the Brown.Boverl corporation to establish a four day | mail | service that it has requested Lau- | |rence R. Wilder and ¢ transatlantic passenger and L. Bardo, president and vice-president to ap- | pear and explain their proposal with | a view to alding in drafting legisla- tion, the New London Day will say today in a special Washington dis- patch. The house naval affairs commit tee, at the suggestion of Represen- tative Charles A. Wolverton, New Jersey, has voted fo invite Wilder and Bardo to lay the cemplete de- |tails of the plan before . the com- mittee now engaged in formulating the navy's $740,000,000 ship build- ing program. 1t 18 expecied fhat the Brown- | Boveri officials will be asked to ap- before fthe committes next or as soon as the committes has fimished its examination of naval offi The ships designed for fast ocean servica embody the mod- of ship construction and the committes is desirous of ob- taining complete information con- ction and cost 1t already has before it estimates of construction building ves- sels in navy ya One feature of the Brown-Roveri proposal which will ba carefully gone into is the equipment of these pear week, fast liners for the carrving of com- | mercial planes by coupling a plans huttle service with fast sea servica and the trin between this country |and Eurepe can thus ba cut to two ae- | davs, plan clare It is sald that the committes to the ideas of pro- gressive ship bmlding authorities proponents of the get | before drafting a4 ship building bill | fer submission to ¢ FAMOUS WIDOW DIES Trieste, Jan. 27 (UP)—Maria Cosulich, 80, widow of the famous shipbullder and4 mother of 22 chil-| dren, is dead here. Four of her sons died at sea. Five, in addition to one daughter, survive her. Flags on Cosulich company buildings were halt-masted today in her honor. ngre ORPHAN HOME Rome, Jan. 27 (UP)—Ths fascist party has bought a 35,000-square metre tract of land on which to build a home for fascist orphans. DANCING NORDEN'S BUNGALOW Tonight, Jan. 27 Music by Originaters DANCING EVERY FRIDAY at the Newington Grange IMPERIAL ORCH. 27 (P—Con- | {gress has become so interested in | 1a | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1928 ‘WILLIAM HODGE —in— *“STRAIGHT THRU THE DOOR" by MR. HODGE CASP? OF CHARACTERS Meyers, the painter ., Jack C. Connelly Arnold, the carpenter | Bushner, the plumber . Anna Ashiand, the interior decorator . seessanean ++ Francesca Hill Artanio, the stone mmsos Wlllhm D'R’!n Roy aundera, the boy friend ...... Robert Beyers ,\my Thanum the elder dln‘hl'r s .. Betty Byrne the son . Faul Jacchia \VUI'IQI'. th. contrsctor . Emil MHouvu Alre. Hln’l'l Thomas, the wife . 4 .. Carol Porrin the Younger daughter rol Marcn the father . Willtam~ Hodge hitect Eugene Thomas, John Witherspoon, the a . Edward Ceoper mmln Rolhul. the delurlnl Willlam Cullen the policeman ........ <es Joseph E. Soraghan Fredenck Ottman, the theatrical Mgr. Maurica Barrett + by Himwsert (By Herald Reviewer) i 1t is possible to produce a mys- tery play without resorting to com- monplace tricks to make the audi- ence’s hair stand up on end. W liam Hodge proved it at Parsons theater last evening with his newest work “Straight Thru the Door in which, of course, he has the lead- ing male role. He also demonstrat. ed that in a mystery play, the gre some element is ponessential and | can be replaced with clean comedy | that has a value far in excess of | the horror that has been injected forcibly into so many nystery stor- ies during the past years. ,“Straight Thru the Door” is marked by the slaying of a bullding contractor in the home of an actor while the latter, with his family, 1s | at home for the summer. 'The de- | tective who is sent to track down | the killer establishes, to his own | satisfaction, a case against the ac- | ter. But the man of the stags { auietly turns “gumshoe,” exposea | the \dioey of tho detective and, by | his own method of deduction, brin | the real murderer to book The plot has its weaknesses. Tt | is not. strongly plausible. A man of fhe slayer's 1ype would hardly takn the Hife of a human being on such | a trivial excuse as that conceived | by the anthor, It would be a better play if the murderer had a stronger | mo Mr. Hodge, as the acter enioying | a respife trom the stage, gives a nat- | ural and pelished interpretation of | his rele. He is the me dry ana droll Hodge of the past whoso effort- less perfection reflects mastery of his vocation, An enthusiastic andi- enice prevailed upon him to make a ch after the second act ancesca, Hill puts just enough fire into her acting as she passes from the mood of the woman deters mined to get her man—even if the | man is someone else’'s man—to the | woman equally determined to save him from the electric chair regard- lesa of ,tho cost Her work was en- | joyed limmenselv. William Cullen paints a good pictu of a brow- | beating detectfva not tog generously gifted with brains. Carrol Perrin | and Edward Cooper, playing oppo- site each other, are anfficiently in- teresting. Roy Sannders, Paul Jac chia, Betty Byrne and Carol March make excellent juvenile types. As the painter, the carpinter and the plumber, Jack C. Connelly, A!hott | Adams and John O'Meara run trus lw tradition. If an fnstrument were | invented to measura bodily acceler- | ation,as a thermometer registers at- mospheric temperature, they would | | be found at about 30 below zero. “Straight Thru the Door” will bs. repeated tonight and tomorrow | night. There will be the usual Sat- urday matinee, Small Prices—Big Program PALACE TONIGHT—SATURDAY CHIEF TOMA (In Person) The International Baritone With His Phowoplay on the Screen Bert Lytell in “Alias the Lone Wolf” . and “One Woman to Another” SATURDAY: Added Attraction on the Stage MURRAY WOOD The Prince of Midgets Special Act of Songs, Talks, Dances on the Screen CLARA BOW in “GET YOUR MAN" and Wally Wales in “Desert of the Lost” | denomination. |tha form of a'series or | edist Review. FLASHES OF LIFE: LOVE OF BLONDES AND BRUNETTES NOW BEING STUDIED By the Amociated Press, New York—The love of blondes and brunettes is under scientific comparison. Preliminary tests have indicated to Dr. Willlam M. Marston, professor of psychology at Columbia, that bwinettes are mqre responsive, but there will be . fyrther experi- ments. Broadway shgw girls of both types are to be shown'in movie love scenes. Meanwhile their reapiration and heart beats wilkibe noted. Weehawken, N. J—Dr. Henry A. Hotwet is seeking permission of the courts to change his name to Hart- well. He thinks the present’one is a social liability. Washington—The girls are smok- |ing more. Taxes on cigarettes last year were $291,620,773.46, an in- crease of $23,176,125.45 over 1926. New York—The Rev. Dr. Charles E. Jefferson thinks $10,000 is enough for his salary as pastor of Broadway Congregational tabernacle, in the theatrical district. He has declined an offer of $2,500 more, which pre- sumably would have made him the highest salaried clergyman of his The Rev, Dr.- 8. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn recelves $12,000 and the Rev. Harry P. Dew- ey of Minneapolis $1 . Detroit—A model orphanage, in| of cottages, each with a “father” and “mothe: | is to be established through a gift| of $725,000 from Sebastian §. Kresge to the Methodist Children's Home society. There will be three or four | children to each house. The “moth- will be paid. Her husband will be expected to go abont his usual | work New York-—"A deserving church | worker, who broke her health in the | service of the church” is rewardod. Harrlet Elizabeth Trumbull of Ber. | son Springs, Fla., former deaconess, is so characterized In the will of the Rev. Dr. William V. Kelley, Method- ist She is bequeathed $24,000. Dr. Kellay was long editor of the Meth- South Hadley, ighty-four members of tha faculty of Mount| Holyoke college, which is exclusively | for girls, have petitioned President | Coolidge in protest against the pro-| posed naval program, which they| regard as counter to efforts for the| xnn'm(‘v'fllr\r\ of war. Philadelphia—The nation’s crime bill is estimated at seven billion dol- | lars annually by Benjamin Franklin Battin, surety specialist Mass. Columbus, O.—Frederick L. Sny. der savs a first class murder was committed every 40 minufes in this country last year; therefore, he would keep such news off the front | page as unusual. He gave his views to the Buckeve Press association. Naples—This 18 a cit Mussolini's heart, Tt lea in number of births dear to New Haven—Appointment of Fro. tossor Frederick Charles Hicks, of the king- New York city, as law librarian and professor of legal bibliography in Yale law school announced. Hartford—Aviation Commissioner Knox expresses satisfaction over aviation law “with teeth in it' that | of | obtains jail in Acosta. sentence case Bridgeport—stanley Yale Beach, of New York to carry appeal to United States supreme court in ef- fort to avoid edict of his conserva tor, the First National bank, of this| New Haven—Word received here that “Very Rev."” John Budikoft, held in Chicago for local police in con- to summon Frank Bennett, a grand juror of Wilton, on charges of mal- feasance of duty. Complaint had been made that Bennett had refused to prosecute several motor vehicle cases brought before him. The a man tossed a plece of the dainty over his shoulder and out a lunch room door. The pie struck a pass- ing machine in the windshield. Po- lice said it broke the glass. Bennett ' claimed that it went through & | break already in the windshield. Wilton citizens will stand back of Bennett, to a man, financially and | morally, selectmen Bridgeport — Damages of $5.000 estimated when fire destroys office of City Lumber company here. Hartford—Connecticut delegation to democratie national convention at Houston, Texas, invited to stop off | nection with swindling charge, iden- tified by New Haven officer and an | alleged \hvml Budikoff's W\Ix\dlafl said to have amounted to $19.000 here. | Willimantic — Attorney General | Benjamin W. Alling took stand for | defense with eight other witnesses in building defense plea for Sava Mathwink, on trial for murder in first degrea as result ot fatal shoot- ing of Mrs. Anna Berkowitz, here, on November 4,:1927, | New Haven—Mrs. Michacl Eng- lish, 60, of this city, rescued from | Quinnipiac river when she attempt- ed snicide from tha Quinnipiac | bridge. i | Meriden—In an unsuccessful tempt to avold striking 11-year-old Frank Kruszek, of this city, Harry | E. Friend, of New Haven, swerved | his car from the road. It rolled down a 15-foot gully on the Meriden- | New Haven highway. Friend escaped | injury, The hoy was treated at. the | Meriden hospital where it was said that he had suffered concussion of the brain and minor bruises. His condition was not considered serlous. at Hartford—A piece of pineapple ple, with but a single bite taken from its confent. was regarded as a {link in the chain of events which has caused Robbins B. Stoeckel, state commissioner of motor vehicle: Bring (he_Chikiren 10c | fessor of legal bibliography at Co- | ! ed law librarian | school. at dtlanta, and New Orleans, | A while en route. Hartford—Frank H. Kingham, of | this city, resigns as secretary of | Connecticut State Fair association, effective January 31. Columbia Professor Goes To Yale Law School New Haven, Jan, 27 (UP)—Fred- erick Charles Hicks, associate pro- | lumbia University, has been appoint- and professor of legal bibliography at the Yale law The appointment will take effect in September. Hicks formerly was librarlan of the U. 8. Naval War college and as- sistant librarian of the RBrooklyn | Public library. He is a fellow of | the American Library Institute and | a member of many legal associa- tions. ENGLAND'S TRADE BALANCE London, Jan. 27 (A—The board of trade estimates Great Britain'a het trade balance for 1927 at £96,- 000,000, as against a debit balance for 1926 of £7,000,000. This makes | the trade balance £42,009,000 better | than in 1925, and £10,000,000 better than in 1924, | The figures were mads public by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, president of the board of trade, in a public speech last night. . TODAY and SATURDAY Continuous FEATURE ATTRACTIONS! In Barrie's Tale of Romance “Quality Street™ “Wolf Fangs" “AMATEURS” ALL LOCAL TALENT LAST TIMES TONIGHT BUSTER KEATON “COLLEGEH “SOUTH SEA LOVE”| with Pagsy Ruth Miller SATURDAY A Fine Outdoor Drama with THUNDER The Wonder Dog! STAN LAUREL OLIVER HARDY —in— “Leave 'Em Laughing” A Great Comedy BEGINS SUNDAY NOW PLAYING ADOLPHE MENJOU i “SERENADE" The Star of “Padlocks” EDWARD J. LAMBERT “The American Fashion Plate” | 4 AMERICANS “From Camp to Campus” CHAS. McGOOD and COMPANY FLAMING YOUTH “A Musical Skit” THE LIBBY DANCERS “Sports A Ia Mode” Bring the Children | New Strand Prices for | the Kiddies l Sc ALWAYS NANCY ANN MILLER NOW REPORTED REAL HINDU | - @uced Her to Change Her Religion Bombay, British India, Jan. 27 (P —Advices received here say that the former Maharajah of Indore has ap- parently overcome one obstacle to his marriage to Miss Nancy Ann | Miller, of Seattle, Wash.—her con- version to Hinduism. Various progressive Hindu re- ligious bodies have refused to con- vert Miss Miller on the ground that the former ruler has two wives liv- !ing and that such conversion is in- tended only to give the legal sanction. Nevertheless the former Mahara- marriage to be pried out of bed, light, tender, easy to digest. make. Simply add water or STARTING SUNDAY jah's emismries are apparently won over |rites. The preacher ithrou‘h philoscphical pineapple ple case came about when | Former Maharajah Said to Have In- | sayings of the Hinde under patronage st Indore. the reported oceremony will place is not disclosed. Maharajah belongs, is not prepared to accept the American girl a8 & Hindu. The wives of the former ruler refuse to be persuaded to faves the marriage. State officials sad relatives are opposed to ft. Meanwhile Miss Miller and hep prospective husband are keeplng their own counsel at Nuwara EHya, Ceylon. | | READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS Young Johnnie McGroucher, who usually has suddenly realizes that this is the morning for Pillsbury’s pancakes. You'll find there’s no breakfast the younger generation likes as well as Pillsbury’s pancakes— They're far better than the old-fashioned kind—and far easier to milk to Pillsbury’s Pancake Flour and bake—in no time at all you'll have the finest pancakes you've ever tasted! 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