New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 21, 1928, Page 11

ey = Unless otherwise indicated. theatrical n written by press agencies for the 1 AT THE CAPITOL x Emi! Jaunings in “The Last Com- | mand,” truly belongs to that select fered at continuous shows. tic star of the screen, Emil Jannings | offers a role that is absolutely the | rinest that the movies have ever | offered in this particular line. Cast us a mighty general, commander of ihe entire Russian army, his word as powerful as the Czar, Jannings portrays this man from the height )¢ his glory, pomp, and splendor, to his downfall with the revolution to 4 broken down old man who escap- +d with only his life to America. “The last Command” is truly worth & trip to the Capitol, while this splendid characterization will live in one's memory for a long | while, Beginning Thursday a double | feature program One attraction will offer Beatrice | “afrfax's “The Lovelorn” with Sally | O'Neil and Molly O'Day featured in © true story taken from life and presented from one of the many let- ters received by Miss Fairfax. The companion feature presents | Under the Black Eagle” with Flash | tie marvel dog and Rafph l-‘orbvnl und Marceline Day in the leading | Beginning Sunday Lon Chaney | will be the featured attraction in his new story, a smashing drama of the | underworld, “The Big City.” AT THE STRAND The Dan Fitch Minstrels opened a. | three days' engagement at the Strand yesterday to capacity houscs and were warmly received. It offers something different from the regu- | lar fare of vaudeville and has a cast | | of many apd varied artista. feature photoplay is “Ladics’ + Turkish Bath” with Jack 2 Mullhall .fi% I’]‘IIIII il um ol ’J\- M ight in | G ATERS |} & ‘ : \-» 7N ofices and reviews in this colump are espectlve amusement company. * AT THE LYCEUM “Ham and Eggs with {Two of the finest | for thé last times tonight. Starting this Wednesday, day and proud that it like is arranged. ! four big fes nesday night—: Nite is “Blanket-Nite,” Man Without a Face two feature pictures there doubt but all will flock to t} marvelous show. | and go out more than 1. afternoon, in's finest ice cream ‘Crown Ice Crdam” away to the first 100 in line, TRYINGTO SOLVE | BRONX SLAYING {Trail May Lead From Tndiana. to Furope New York, der in 1 lice tod criminals | ramificat} r\(’!n cities to Muncie, Teh. that = appagently at the Front” Tom Wilson, Heinle Conklin ligt of photoplays of the greatest of and Myrna Loy and “The Tragedy all times, It is now at the Capitol Of Youth” with Patsy Ruth Miller, | (.-t g three day engagement last | today and Wednesday and being of- | Warner Baxter and Buster Collier. | pictures on the | Known as the outstanding drama- |Same program which will be shown ! Thurs- | | riday, the management s | offer a program . Al in all there are | ures to look forward to on the first night and that is Wed- usual, Wednesday with *“The | serlal showing | ion the same night and the regular is no he Ly- ceum for the latter part of this week | to see what might easily be said a Come in satisfied | ied is our will be featured, |Motto. Send the kiddies Wednesday 100 boxes of New Brit- 21 (UP)—A mur- onx-apartment sent po- on the trail of a band of | had ns cxtending from Euro- | Ind., where Chapman once had his head- The ACTORS THEATER, Inc. Prevents SATURDAY'S CHILDREN —by— MAXWELL ANDERSON (Cast of Characters) Mr, Kims O'Nell 1s. Gorlick Maxwell . Anne Tomett Anderson's dren,” | intact. The attendance | curtain calls at its conclusion. neighborhood. The | | }Iaunch their frail | | enough income penscs are at the story. after several | dishes its disadvantages. board, begins to pall. little fellow known, Pan Cupid himaelf. Gordon, whose interpretation delight dramatic skill. playing opposite Miss Gordon, a made so rarely in the theater. Hammond is Ruth Hammond Richard Barbee Roth Henderson . Ruth Gordon Frederick Perry umphrey Bogart eph i ELECTRIGIANLOSES HIS CITY LICENSE Yonan Guilty of Violating Ordi- nances, Building Board Finds After it was pointed out that Jos- Yonan, electrical had violated 12 articles of the build-| February of 1927. They claim that !\\" | W. Wojack, If . [l 3 the new wiring was very poorly Restelli, ¢ [} 20 jointed, soldered and taped. It Dudack, rg . .2 . L] seems to us that your electrical in- eehan, I1g ....4 1 L spector should have been more == =K T careful on inspection of this job. It | 21 3 “ is very embarrassing to architects in the city to have these complaints Bucheri, rf 1 1 when they, of course, should be | 2 3 checked up by the city electrical | 0 2 inspector.” 2 @ ° Not ¢ Ao | Kaminski, ¢ . ‘1' : Electrical Inspector Andrews o P proved to the satisfaction of the [jike Jg . s 0 s building commission that this job | p el PO R < contractor, lwu inspected previous to his ap- | 18 ¢ 40 delightful three-act comedy “Saturday's Chil- which has played for one year in New York, came to Parsons’ thea- | evening with the New York cast was mnot large but the audience reacted favor- ing ordinances when he wired the { home owned by Mr. and Mrs. David M. Benjamin at 399 East Main street, a special committee appoint- ed by the building commission, held | a hearing at which all ‘the interest- | ed persons were present Jast night| and his license was' temporarily ably toward the play and expressed | its pleasure with cascades of laugh- | | ter during its presentation and three Although it is not supposed to be | | a serious show, many a truthful sit- | uation, is revealed In its most hu- | morous aspects. The characters may be scen on the stage of life in any tribulations which beset any young couple who bark on the | stormy sea of matrimony with just to pay running ex- | bottom of the | The young husband learns, months, that there were a few sour notes in the wea- | ding march from “Lohengrin" which he did not notice on the day of days. The young bride learns that washing and performing the other | necessary duties of housework has Both learn that | a bare bread and butter existence, | without any cake from life's cup- Their bark is wrecked on Honeymoon 8hoals— but is salvaged by the salvangingest | the world has ever | none other than Skipper |ing at that time. | Inspector's Report l The clectrical -inspector's .deserip- tion of conditions in the Kast Main street home is contained in the fol- The play is presented with such | polish and completeness that no one i member of the cast stands out far | above the others unless it be Ruth o1 DBobby is a never cnding source of to those who appreciate |Street, Rims O'Nell, is one of those finds | und Dorothy Mackail. tinuous, The new show Thursday will bring | eq oper: a new bill including | to the Strand “Zane Grey's great etory screen, “Open Range" Strand will present .Second Wife Gives Memorial to First One | aoor, Pratt, Kas.,, Feb. 21 (A—A second | wife who was not jealous of her hus- | through his heart. bhand's first love has revealed in her will that tolerant trait of character. Mrs. Carrie Holden, Trank Holden, widow of Litchfleld, IIl., hand, cond Mrs. Holden to be rear the first Mrs. Holden. Doesn’t hurt one bit. “Freezone” on an aching corn, fingers. Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of ‘Freezone’ for a few cents, sufficlent to remove every hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the foot callouses, without soreness or irritation. HARTFORD Feb. 20-21-22 Comedy “Saturday’s Children” with RUTH GORDON and N. Y. Cast from 40 { Woeks at Booth Theater “Best American Play | of tlle Year.”— Y. Sun. Wed. Mat. $2.30 to 50c. FEB. 23-24-25—MAT. SAT. Performances | \Washington's Birthday will be con-| on the jy; exploits. and a gala | vaudeville show headed by William |in the house h Seabury and Co. Thursday night. the apartinent on the ground floor. Sev- another mam- | moth bill of elght vaudeville acts. made a bequest of 8500 to the First Methodist church to buy a memorial to the first wife of her deceased hus- The will, filed here for pro- hate, also expressed the wish of the buried Good-Bye Corn! Lifts Right Off—No Pain Drop a little in- stantly that corn stops hurting, then shortly you lift it right off with PARSONS’ 3 NIGHTS—WED. MAT. =3 Maxwell Anderson’s ' Prices E‘ea. $2.88 to s0c. L) i The scene of the murder appeared to be the headquarters of the band. Cablegrams and letters there reveal- | ations in' jewel robbery and breaking and simi- matron comedy. Frederick Perry, meggling, safe ” Tonetti appears only in the last act, About 9 o'clock last night, tenants ard a shot from the of their rooms open while entertain. { ing gentlemen callers. Her charac- ! ter study of the |cious female with arches is perfect. cral who came out into the hall saw a man running out of the apart- ment, with another man staggering after him, trying to hold his coat- tails, Before they reached the street the second man dropped to the floor dead. A bullet had gone have a great deal to do but they d | their little well. A few minutes later, a fashionably dressed man and woman hurried from the apartment. Piano Playing | When police arrived a few min- | utes later, an electrie piano in the apartment was still pounding out ‘Blue Heaven.” A bull pup whim- | pered in a corner. Otherwise the | place was deserted. | Clutched in the dead man's hand | was $102, composed of four 32 and 94 §1 bills. The revolver shot that killed him had drilled a neat hole | through the stack of bills before it entered his body. | The dead man had a police rec- view Matince tomorrow. Can’t Revoke Permit of Everett, Mass., The Beacon Oil company Should the bhoard find sufficien tien for nearly 10 years. i Inside the apartment, detectives found evidence that caused a hurry call to District Attorney John E. McGeehan, who was reinforced | shortly by more than 50 detectives. Quarreled Over Money | A bank book showed deposits in & | | bank in Muncle, where Gerald Chap- | {man, the notorfous bandit who was ‘hnnged in Connectlcut, established a | | LAST TIMES TONIGHT rendezvous with his pal, Dutch An- 2—GREAT FEATURES—3 derson, to escape the surveillance of N et e ainas wono see | | “HAM and EGCGS at the FRONT” length of his body. Apparently the occupants of the apartment had quarrelled over the | division of money. The couple who rentcd the apart- ment went under the name of Ber- | kowitz, but police said they were Isaac Berman and his wife Anna, !also known as Bess. They sometimes called themselves Berhan. There was no clue to the other's identity. The |apartment was lavishly furnished | and expensive clothes were found in |it. Doyle was well dressed. | Alexander the Great was Aris- | | totle’s most famous pupil. | “Tragedy of Youth” Wednesday Night BLANKET NIGHT A D.——TH Ul I(S.—l-'l'll. NEW SHOW—AND HOW! LYCEUM Wed., Thurs., Fri. Mystery of Today. “The Man Without a Face” The Talk of the Town “THE MAN WITH- OUT A FACE” ~ JACK HOLT in “THE TIGRESS” LADIES' MATINEE This coupon and 10c will admit any lady to best matinee seats. e —PALACE— —TODAY— “THE 13TH HOUR” with Lionel Barrymore. Also “THE ROYAL AMERICAN" BLANKET NIGHT s Tonight DNESDAY — SYD CHAPLIN in “THE BETTER OLE” his head a series of small squares. Cutting these squares and re. assembling them in the prozer ons shows the mysterious figure of the serial in the disguise he wears in the picture. Bob Stecle in This ad and 10c will admit a lady to best seat afternoon or evening. the scheming young | whose high art as a maw catcher provides a great deal of the as the understanding father, is true to type | in the role which he created. Anne as the keeper of a boarding house | who “don't trust young wimin” ana who insists that they keep the doors rusty and suspr- | broken down Grace Roth San- ' derson and Richard Barhee do not “Saturday’s Children” will be on | tonight and tomorrow night. Of Beacon Qil Company cannot be revoked by a vote of the| board of aldermen, City Solicitor H. | Huestis Newton informed that body at a special meeting here last night. cause for revocation, however, they may recommend the case to State A flea can jump 200 times the Patsy Ruth Miller || elect | | | i lowi M. ing : | ord| ain. land join {not tin and wires lle loose on the ceiling. {made changes in the feeds and left |the Feb, 21 (U P)*r“hlch was in B. X. The B. X. was license | not grounded and & brass was not used, other plugs was very poor, hung loose, joints were not soldered some of them were not taped others needed rubber tape. t No eft sisted Dunlay, pointed by the at 5 o'clock. st Main street, Ruth | of the lights would not light. “I could find suspended until he made that would conform with the law. The special committee, which con- Commissioner Building Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford and Electrical spector Mason P. Andrews, was ap- commission at special meeting yesterday afternoon At that meceting the notified board that Yenan not only violated |the law in this instance but had | been giving the building department trouble on previous occasions. | spector Andrews reported he : - | points but his best efforts were in | Siven Tovan apvera) wimtngy,ybut vain as the Gascos came through | with a second half rally to win. The | of trical Inspector the latter did not seera to try to right any of the alleged violations. Finally, the warning him te apply for a permit because it was discovered that Yo- nan not only wired the home in a manner contrary to law but also did it without taking out a permit. February 17, the Inspector wrote the contractor telling him his license | would be revoked last evening at 8 o'clock, but that he could make ap- plication to be reinstated at a hear- tnspector ing report: On February 2, 1 Benjamin, of 369 reported to me ing and fixtures in her house at 369 and that several changes | | i ‘William In- a the HBWARNER and MICKEY M BAN IN "SORRELL AND SON™ In- had Opens at the Strand Next Sunday with Large Symphony | Orchestra wrote him but they were not anchored. At the |a means of having his license re- | lead of the cellar stairs a switch |turned to him. He would do the | was removed from the wall and theh\ork under a temporary license, | wires were twisted together and hft; Yonan was unwilling to do this bare in the partition. I found that | 44 6/ f'beoause he felt he would be | all the wiring that could be seen Was | 1o1q'at fault for work done by some. | lapoor; condition, | one else. Mr. Andrews said it would | A b ANDRIWS," | be difficult and that there would be Blectrical Inspector™ | oy grgument as to what work In the discussion that followed | (0 TOEIRL B o O vonan many of the members expressed the | 198 (08¢ B¥ BOUER BN N AL PR opinion that Yonan's work created a | yioft Vo= (ORE ¥ SR €L FOR T I fire hazards that he was endanger- | (011 HA8\Y SETEE B L B hat ing the city by incfticient wiring. | |0 S86 1 CRAC T D0 | real Inspector Andrews expressed the j,.cotorg judgment and fatrness. opinion that if a lose inspection had | |PhGe O SHETErE B been made 40 or 50 violations of | .5 o il e the ordinances might have been dis- | W ‘;I'“o“mgi n‘;:n :;“:e‘;’fberom el covered. His opinion was corrobor- task he n e ated by Commissioner Dunlay who | cOmmission to have the return of his | accompanicd Andrews when he went | 1“’(““5" ‘_0"_5;::“"“0“‘% i “ommissi & s | clected temporary chairman of the | Mrs, David East M that Mr. i Humphrey Bogart, | Yonan had installed electrical wir- to the house. Hearing is Held ermit and when I inspected the wir- |first and second floors throughout, Itapo was used. | One fixture in a closet in the third through the hole without loom, one | joint is in the hole, neither joint is oldered and no rubber sed. | In the attic the joints were made | were needed in several places. lights, running wires on the |tape was used, and some joints were | wires to insulate from other wires, no application for Present at the hearing with the I found several violations of the | three representatives of the building inances of the city of New Brit- | commission were Mr. and Mrs. Ten- He had installed fixtures on the | jamin, Yonan and one of his em- ployves. two on the third floor. Vo!| Answering the charges, Yonan de- ts were soldered and no rubber | clared he was not willing to assume The fixtures were | responsibility for all the work be- propertly secured to the ceiling. | cause some of it was done by others |in the employ of the Benjamins. {floor was screwed to a board, two{ Much of the faulty work was done holes having been bored through | by some of his employes, he claimed, the board and the wires brought for this. According to the Denjamins, Yo- | nan had the contract to do all the { work in the house. The committee | offered Yonan a chance to repair any | faults which the electrical inspee- | tor might point out. This would be tape was the pig-tail type, were soldered were not taped at all. Two live- He wires in bad shape. Insulators ‘He installed three plugs, one of ferrule The wiring to the wire: of the Laxative Habit and In the cellar he installed several | bottom 5 Fire Marshal George C. Nealm. of joists, the same being supported {known to have constipation, Ni ord and was identified Dby finger- | Newton added, stressing the fact|with insulators about every ten feect. |[need YOU. He chewed the bark of prints as William Doyle, alias Doll, | that there must be ample cause for Some wires were run on the side of |a tree called casca Today, we 33, a former lightweight boxer. He |action agalnst the company. ithe carrying joints; two wires on a |have the candy cascarct. had not been under police observa- | —— beam were about three inches apart.| Cascarizing the bowels never joints were soldered, no_rubber | forms a laxative habit. bare. Looms were placed on |usually brl‘nl\ Iho habit. strengthens the muscular walls of the bowels, and their need of any ,‘ud at all grows | |l America's Outstanding Dra- | | \\'lm( other cathart! s this char- |acteristic? The writer knows of none. { An evacuation brought gently about by cascara will, nine times in MAT.—Orch, 20¢; Bal. 13¢ 7 of the bowels on the TODAY and WED, |for days after. For there is | | REACTION as with sickening sal | lor any of the man-made purgatives that go through one's system like a bullet, Physicians {ell us cascara is tive—and the tongue tells matic Star in the Greatest Role of His Career! with Evelyn Brent, William Powell |} On the " THUR 2T mlnlflll) MAIL ORDERS In all history, no Indian was (-\Ar[ and he was willing to be responsible |street. | | plaints. | ten, be followed by full functioning{us candy cascarets are morrow—and | form. no | know this | who don’ the lwork of their own accord. PARSONS’ NOW—FEves, Orch. $3.45; Bale. $2.88, $2.30, $1.73. sat. Mat, Orch commission by a unanimous vote of | the members. The chairman, A. P. leavitt, s to be in California until April 1. Complaints of FElectrical Wiring Criticism was aimed at the elec- trical inspector who held the posi- tion previous to the present in- spector by Delbert K. Perry and rl K. Bishop, architects, of 17 Court etreet, in referece to the in- pection of a wiring at 218 Main | The letter follows: | “We were quite surprised today to receive from the New England Insurance Exchange serious com- regarding the new electri- al wiring done on the premises at 218 Main street during January and — its At least a million ideal people what a pity there are any Especially parents; be- cause children love to take a cas-| caret. end, the howels will bhe seen to | The only habit from cascara s/ that of regularity! Cascarets tnne. and train the bowels. But at the | first sign of returning sluggishness |another cascaret is as effective as | the first. There isn't a druggist who hasn't arets, 50 WHY experiment with tives? 1 i laxa HARTFORD MAR. 1-2-3—MAT. SAT. . $2.88; Balc. $2.30, $1.73, $1.15. T MUSIC. \h n ~ you'll never Znow unless ' you have been wait Schwab snd Mandel bring yen BEATRICE FAIRFAX’S Photoplay of Two Sisters Who Both Loved the x.mc Boy! with SALLY O'NE] and MO[LY OPAY | Co-Feature | “Under the Black Eagle” with Ralph Forbes, Marceline Day and Flash, the Dog Wonder Kiddfes’ Song Contest Saturday Matince SUNDAY . Lon Chancy in “The Big City” The Collegiate Musical Comedy New York fs raving about ‘with an All-Amcrican team of players and GEORGE OLS Not Forgetting Forty Flapper Freshies The Show That Created the Varsity Rag. Dancing Tonight at the Rialto Ballroom Last Dance Before Lent Featuring the IMPERIAL ORCHESTRA 'S ORCHESTRA After which, for days-on. | | pointment on March 7. Inspector C. | W. Cowles, who was doing temporarily to the time of Mr. An- drews' appointment, made five !spoctlom in that locality, the rec- jords of Mr. Andrews show. The spection covered & period February 15 to March 3. | Mr. Andrews informed the board {he would take immediate action to | remedy the defects. GASCOS BEAT LANDERS Carl Restelli exploded last night in | {the basketball game | Gascos, piloted by the crafty Jim | Lynch, and Landers of the Industrial | | league, and scored 10 field baskets | :u the major part of readers’ 44 to 40 victory | Boys' club gym. between the at scoring with nine points each. Buch- | eri starred for Landers with summary: Gascos Fld. Fl McCormick, rt ....4 1 ZANE ¢ GREY’S EXTRA! TH work from the Ttl. OONTINUOUS | SEATSTOR “sow | CHILDREN TOMORROW | Including Washington's | HOLIDAYS S e | Always 15¢ DAN FITCH’S MINSTRELS with Dan Fitch Himself and a Company of Thirty Jack Mulhall Dorothy Mackaill COMING THURSDAY! OPEN RANGE’| and a Great Vaudeville Show with WM. SEABURY & COMPANY THURSDAY NIGHT 8-ACTS-8 Another Big Show and Surprises! A Picture For You Mother; and You Dad; and By All Means For Your Sons and Daughters! “SORRELL AND SON” BEGINNING NEXT SUNDAY With a Specially NLARGED SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Referee—F. Wojack. Score at half time, Landers 26, Gascos 21. Following the game, the teams re- paired to the Gasco club house on Cherry street where a luncheon and social was enjoyed. Whippets Are Smartest On Paris Promenade in- in- ! Paris, Feb, 21. (#—Twin whip- pets or a branching leash, wearing twin blankets and studded collars, | all in the color their fashionable | mistress happens to be wearing, are the smartest dogs seen in the Bols de Boulogne and along the Champs Elysecs these days. Society is preparing for a spring of dog racing, and many fashiona- ble Parisians have suddenly devel- | oped a fondness for the animals. A well known trio . of spaniels fre- | quently go for their morning airing clad in identical beige and brown sweaters and brown harness. meter- | the McCormick and | Johnny Shechan were second in the | 1 An elephant can drink ten to fifteen gallons of water at one time. 9 five hours. Garden Flavor From the hill-top gardens of Ceylon and India come the teas used in the blend of "SALADA" TEA . NOW PLAYING! On the Screen “Ladies’ Night in a Turkish Bath” The MOTHER! The MOTHER of Sor- rell's SON: SELFISH and CALLOUS. Highly Colored and BRIL- LIANTLY Dressed. A mixture of PAS- SION and SHREWD, world-wise contriving, Vora cast Stephen Sor- el aside and parted from her child without 8 PANG. She deserted the at a tme of WOUNDS and misfor- tane to PURSUE an casy carcer of luxury,