New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 11

MILTON SILLS IN CAPITOL FEATUR: “Burning Daylight” Tops Pro- gram Next Week ‘What is declared to be Milton Sills’ greatest characterization since “The Sea Hawk” is to be secen at the Capitol theater here beginning Sun- day for 4 days in “Burning Day- light,” the First National Picture versien of Jack London's dramatic and spectacular novel of Alaska. 8ills, as the prospector who is fa- mous all over the northland for his daring, strength and vision, domin- ates the story with his virile per- sonality. “Burning Daylight” has as its background the with the gold rush to Dawson as its particular setting. During this spectacular Jack London visited Alaska and from it he wrote “Burning Daylight.” after the nickname of its principal char- acter, Nowhere in the literature that has been written about the Alaska of those days, could be found a story more easlly adaptable plctures, and from it First National has made & sweeping, dramatic story. Milton Sills, virile hero of many | films, plays the starring rol “Burning Daylight.” Doris Kenyon heads the support- in ing cast in the feminine lead, with such players as Arthur Stonc, Jane |, Winton, Stuart Holmes, Lawford Davidson, Fred Warren, Yrank Hagney, “Big Boy” Willlams, Jack MacDonald and others in support. Deginning Thursday John Gilbert and Renee Adoree will be featured in o magnificent revival of *Honor Tirst” also an all star cast will be offered in the comedy drama “Square Crooks.” Beginning Easter Sunday for four days the management announces “Old Iromsides” as the attraction. Wallace Beery, George Bancroft, Esther Ralston, and Charles Farrell head a cast of over two thousand actors, ‘THE BLUE DANUBE AT THE LYGEUM The Gompamon Feature Is “The - Racing Fool” Starting today for four days two| 10¢ the finest pictures are the attrac- tion at the Lyceum theater. The! imain attraction offers Leatrice Joy iin “The Blue Danube” with Joseph Bchildkraut and great cast. Motton pictures are successful when they have been ably directed, are artisti- | cally presented and communicatc igenuine thrills to film audiences. In all these respects, ew production for Pathe, “The 3lue Danube,” stands alone in cls {Every foot of this admirable pictur has a thrill of its own. The story is tremendously dramatic, the back- round supremely attractive, and ithe finale has a dramatic force sel- ‘dom pictured on the screen. Some of the more important smash scenes fre presented herewith. Miss Joy appears in this splendid. productio #s a bewitching peasant girl of tha Danube country. Joseph svakmm s Hunchback Schildkraut, whos haracterization of Judas in “Th XKing of Kings” is regarded as amon- %he best portrayals witness many seasons, essays another b i 1y dramatic role in “The Blue Dan- 1he, " twisted in mind as well as Nody. whose life becomes strangel involved with that of the pe girl. Then follows a picturesque f tival of the villagers at which Erleh xives wine to Marguerite and pays L5 respects. The picture has many other amusing situations. panion feature offers Reed How “The Racing Fool” a picture with| plenty of action. » YOUNGEST JUDG! Wilmington, N. C. — A. M. Rice, has been appointed Brunswick county recorder, thus becoming the youngest judge in North Carolina. SUNDAY 6:30—8:15 frozen north, | period, ! to motion | Leatrice Joy's| impossible. He has.the part of a hunch- | The com- | in | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, —_————— NILS ASTHER ~ JOSE’N SCNILDKMUYld LEAT&ICE LOY THE BLUE DANUBE® =~~~ FOUR DAYS ONLY STARTING TODAY AT LYCEUM DOONSDAY 15 STRAND'FEATURE | Opens Sunday Evening—Vaude- ville Monday The author of “Sorrell and Son™ contributes another remarkable story to the screen in *“Doomsday” whi begine a four 4 s showin, Strand tomorrow evening. “Dooms- |day” is powerful and pulsating. It lis woven in startling fashion through the fabric of a love story tak from life that actually is—just as all of Warwick Decping's stores are. love story that is as different from |the usual one as day is from night |1t is seldom that a motion picturs has the intense story interest as |“Doomsday.” The players achieve the remarkable effect of making the |audience live with them their loves, {their fears, their bitterness, their |sorrows and their triumphs. | ‘The vaudeville beginning Monday !afternoon brings to the St {most sensational of all heac Nee Wong, aptly called the Oricntal ¢A| Jolson, a i singer, it s id he has no equal. His voice and Dl l'\(‘m’\”l {ita of t coa to coast, h.r the 1o by far c¢ven that ‘ 'm‘rnmr r. Other aets include {six Danton Shaw nne 1 Oliver; the Wed ind Mar- Hallock and Boy HARTFORD inlsworthy nothing | Detter than to start his public ing over a problem Te press and Thos: kable “Mr. Wa" public from will celebradd tha cnjoys n- " he ha ct for his spec- Wi aron’s Dol wab tators to conside will present this Howard in the leading role 1 |days only bheginning on Mon¢ April 12, with a matinee on W |nesday, in Parsons theater. i “tells of a younz m {who i \I‘OlIL"‘ officer. A fight r {ing which the offfcer s down. 1In falling, he {head against the pa Killed, A five vear s meted ou for thre its dur- strikes rail and is . and is recognized he goes. Escape seems Me seeks refuge in a h and here Galsworthy stion to the village pa ait over everywhere village eliur jPoses his e foam. Tnescort fs 1o cape.” The larze company |inctudes the players who improssed INew York dnrinn the la l\lmz Gives Son a Seat In Housc_of Lords Todayv | London, M —A seat in of Lords was the hirth- gift conferred by King Grors {upon his third son, Prince Henry, who was 28 today. He becama |Duke of Gloucester, Ihim to the seat, a privilege |being @ royal prince alone does not {confer. Prince. Henry was therefore able at the| Al na the| have won him the pland- | who remem- | and | drawn inte a quarrel with 1| Knocked | his | prison sentenee | ding woman | Baron Culloden, Earl of Ulster and | which entitled | which | | to take his place in the upper cham. her of parliament with his brothers, |the Prince of Wales, who holds the [title of Duke of Coruwall and others, and Prince George, th¢ Duke of York. On a recent occasion, Prince Hen- tended the House of Lords with Prince of Wales and was obliged to sit In the strangers' gallery, not Leing qualificd to sit among the peers, SEN. WILLIS DROPS DEAD AT MEETING (Continued from First Page) With the senator when the ry end | | brother, Buell W. Willis, his father- in-law, John Dustin of Galena, tiree brothers-in-law, his private secr & few personal irien Daughter Notified Mrs. Willis was unconvinced for some time her husband was dead. corted from the chamber on the : of hysteria, she was taken to liome of her father in Galena. Miss Helen Wills, the only child, was notified at Ada, Ohio, where she is a professor at Ohio Northern uni- | versity. ver, th 1 honor as the senator’s bod an Oriental performer whe WS removed to an undertaking es- | Which was aw | tablishment. unnounced guard over { funcral. | WS of the senator's death spread vapidly over the city. His pictures 1 in the home and business places, were draped in mourning. | While funeral arrangements have not yet been made, burial probably | ill be at Galena, his birthplace, 11 cs southrast of this city, Pleasing Triumph The hour just preceding the sen tor's death had been one of pleas- ing triumph for him. In the town | ke called home he had been sig- | ally honored. The streets were decorated in red, white and blue, His name streamed across the thor. ou s teethig with his admirers, Senator Willts had arrived 1n Delaware yesterday afternoon from Columbus, where he was met by a boyhood friend, Roy Brower, . Willis told Brower ha wished nd went to a hotel for about Upon arising, ap- | Senator Willis als club dinner in Major he would the body L. C. Riddle maintain a until the 3 \e | paren shed, [went to a Kiw | the hotel. | 1. T. McCarty, ona of the 18 with the senator when he , and who also attended the din- | ‘ nator Willis had told viny during the course of the meal 1t he “mever felt better in my Wires Received ressing sorrow and to pour in to- Willis and relatives of [the distinguished senator. Political ‘ryrmn-rli were unanimous in their i praise of the ator’s character, | ability and sincer they Thad Senator Willis in every respect. Washinzton Shocked Washington, ch 81 (A—The sudden and shocking news of the {death of Senator Frank B. Ohio, as he was ahout to make Aesop's Fables THURS, NAT. All Star Cast in “Square JOHN GILBERT and RFl\Fh .\DORH‘ in “HONOR FIRST” Crooks” Be Here Thursday Night! The Big Night! Merchants’ Easter Gift N ‘ght! Many Valubable prizes of Easter wearing A tnclude: Men's Smithson suit rel given awny of clothes f the Besse REE to our patrons—Some of prizes system; Ladies dress, Davidson-Leventhal: ladios spring coat, Donnelly’s; Gloves, handbag, lingerie, Iconard- -lierrmann; Easter hat, box of hoster; l)m fet Millinery. hou from 1 many others. auning Bros.: Peart recklace, R. Georges; fur scarf, Con- camne, besides Mrs. Willis, were his | National Guard troops formed an All declared | the decpest ragard for | Willis, of | L ‘DAY, MARCH 31, 1928 of his boy at heart will readily Long- [sce that the art of swimming is a worth, Senator Curtis of Kansas, |nccessary part of the child’s educ: Scnator Walsh of Montana, and (tion. Swinnuing has various pra Walter F. Rocn, assistant secretary | tical uses ndid form of of commerce and one of Hoover's exercise, improve Ohio campaizn managers, NS every Headed Commiittee ives Ly Willis was chairinan of the sen- ' being well; it is enjoyal ate territories and i r affs are var woter games committ nd one of (h prominent be pla with safety, in the S e, The | neve Y nor was to have I are it they are permitti I dealt with good timus b topie. prohibition. 1In | } Hoover's stand on 4 as W46 plan [be encou r as forcibly |eal use < be could up unti! the final hours jne 1. ding 11 ches @ plac prosidential campaign speech last ' S night at Delaware, Ohio, today threw the second shroud of mourning over congress within eight days and en- {meshed the republicans in a tight pulmml tangle, Recover From Ferris The scnate had barely recovercd jfrom the death of Senator Wood- ‘hrlnlgfl N. Ferris, of Micligan, who {died here of pneumonia May I'when it recelved the report of collapse and sudden p Jjunior Ohio senator ani for the republican [ ination. Senater Willls' death brings to a rlose the specta arainst Secretary Hoover making in Olio for dalogate epublican convention and forces his supporters inte a difficult situation, but it also means a consilerable shifting about of the Ohio & I campaign,” since undoubtudly { democrat will be named as & suc: sor to Willis, . As far as the senate line-up is con- cerned here, apparently there will be no change as Governor Green of Michigan, who is a republican, is expected to name a man of his own party to succeed Ferrts, who was democrat, and rnor Donah: who is @ democrat, undoubtely will appoint a democrat to suceord Willis. As Senator I'css, republican Ohio, will seck reclection fn No- vember, thero will be two scnators {up for reendorsemen the next {clections in that state. Willis' term would have expired March 3, 1 and his seat will have to be fill |in the regular way. | Willls, who entered the senate 11921 by appointment to \Varnn G. Harding was con one of the most foremost candidates { for the republican presidential nom- ination. He was in the midst o anti-Hoover speech-making cam- | paign for delegates to the Kansas convention when his untimely deat) [came last night in his home town o | Delaware. nator Watson Prosident Dawes, Speaker of Indiana; Vice: it is ¢ body and s feeling of 15 there that bo; ontent as 1 i the smer the can a is siden il ng should last practi- som. Dur- b on 1 territories com- such bly will go to Senator 4 jonc not Connecticnt tor | fornia, is ranking (out readit on ihe committee but he | 'eF ac virman of t1 jot som t a4 to relin His mittee & s e cident Vs« tion comum 10 be willi participat demonsty sor it was yor water f Ithar swimn wavs w {one kn one will happy encourage their ¢ they to learn t should of child Swimming Lessons (o0 Be Given i Upon Application not s Bajs im e city and 15 who ven four free ons in the “Y” pool vign will close on April 1 Application cards will be distrit #d to the various sehools which will | ¢ ntitle any boy ten to fifteen years boy’s natu who ¢ t swim four Jesons | increased on of men who! ach swimming. ta Lors who receive cards will| ter AL G Saturday | hining hours | pupil i ind the | much Il come|the leg | stroke i prov arouni im oy that hoy foreibly duci: neercd Hoover vs, Willis Hoover and Willis were the only {ones entered in the Ohio presiden- tial preference primary which on April 24 will decide who will get the state’s 51 delegates to the conven tion. Both had complete slates in |the fleld pledged to their support. "Since the Ohio law provides that whoever carries a district gets that ST G100 ¥ district's delegate vote, the outcome 7 M UL was to have given the first indica- e tion of the commerce retary's oo Abiifiiten ;‘:::;“!fl-]fl‘n:::’(}nl nation-wide interes: Swvim e | Whether Willl' name can Eaitalual taken off the primary lists, entry for which closed more than a month ago, was a question an answer 1o ited with fnterest hero today. It is now up to the senator’s supporters, observers Iclare, to decide whether they will | discontinue the fight against Hoov land let him have the Ohio dele tion by default or carry on drive under the Willls b {cffort to swing the e lmme other candidate opposed to the | cabinet officer. Political Tansle | Assuming that the latter course is adopted, it was predicted that ate tempts would be directed toward lining up delegates cither for Sena- | tor Curtis, Senator Watson or Frank | 0. Lowden, all of whom have en- [tered the Ohio primary as sccond | | choice candidates, and all of whom | | have been considered lined up with | { Willis in opposition to Hoover. | There was some speculation here [that Secretary Hoover might with- draw from the Ohio fight because of | {the peculiar situation brought ' about. Mr. Hoover made no such intimation, however, in a statement |last night in New York when he | expressed his sorcow over his pri- | | mary opponent’s sudden death. | One suggestion here wis that in | Ithe final analysis a sizable block of the Ohio drlegates may zo to | Vice-President D a native of that state. Dawes, however, has re- peatedl 4 he was not a candi-| date for the nomination and is con- | sidered a Lowden man. Willis' death broug pressions of sorrow fror and collengues in nong those who fssued formal | statements were Senator Fess, the {veteran Theodore Iurton of Ohio, who started the Hoover boom there, The report to the Y coml necessary ab t the time th nd cann tor Loy will be required his card Saturday mors Tth for ation, To the Parent The following statement I5 issued for the benefit of parents and guardians | “Eyery Avpril reg warm, parent who has the inter- | lc the 14 DAYS STARTING NDAY Arother Great Story By the Author of “S " many ex- | his friends Washington. PALACE Today Only VAUDEVILLE REVUE On the Seretn George O'Brien, Lois Moran |! in “SHARP SHOOTERS” |! also Gary Cooper in “NEVADA” SUNDAY—MONDAY GARY COOPI R AROWLAND V LEE Oriental Al The Wedding Ring Marjorie _“A Family Sative” | Hallock & Boys | D.ufion haws Count PERONNE & OLIVER _Trixie Presenting “Songs S 3 D! \\' S Mon., Tues.. 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