New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1928, Page 11

OLD IRONSIDES AT CAPITOL TOL THEATER Al Star Gast in Romtntlc Spectaclo-smts Sunday That much overworked adfective EW BEIT..IN DAILY HailALD, COHENS AND KELLYS IN PARIS-LYCEUM Twice Today—Sunday, Monday | and Tuesday | sianey portrayed the role of Cohe n| in the first “Coliens and Kellys," |which proved to be one of the | greatest comedy hits ever filmed It is said that te thousands of ,‘.nu»..) for more “Cohens and " practically compelled the produlcu Carl Laemmle, to bring | out the adventures of the laughably famous Irish-Jewish firm as a super !comedy. It life was made for laugh- | ter, ioever attends the Lyceum | theater vither today or er Sun- | { aay, Monday or Tuesday while Cohens and Kellys in | Paris” is the | complete life | picture attraction, during the will live a run of the Coliens and Kellys in 'is life jummed with wholc- | * human touches of pathos and | Gertrude Astor furnishes | 30 per cent of the good looks and | jv IR W - e "Zhe COHENS AND KELLYS (N PARIS® IVERSAL. BROOUCTION LYCEUM — TODAY, sets, Seger sald- The indenturs pre- vided that in computing the valwe of current assets, inventories should | be figured at cost or market, which- |'ever is lower, and the value of the inventory had been lowered by the |vecent weakness in crude rubber | prices. Musical instruments made in | America and sent to the outside | world last year were valued at $17,e | 673,000, an increase of nearly $le 700,000 over 1926, PALACE. TODAY ONLY MON.,, TUE of the theme, was nece v to call in the o quiet a disturbance in th which began with a quiet d Wallace Beery inthe Pmmoum Picture Old Ironsides’ Galsworthy - always 1t is doubtful if even Mr. Cruze| 'h|zml with the himselt realized what a tremendous | a tist fight. “under dog Iscape” he presents the featured in the fortunate convict. role of the silent drama. Other produc- | of tions have made us sec parts of | United States history but this, with | its hard bitten Yankec tars and dauntless fighting men, makes one fecl the tremendous bravery and | courage of our forefather: Although “Old Iromsides” is for the most part spectacular and grip- ping, the love in‘erest is unusually strong. It is contained in a romantic and wholesome story between Esther Ralston and Charles Farrcll which stands out like dfamond mounted in a setting of hand-hammered gold. Aside from the colorful love epl- | Strand Theater : ay cvening. Tarrell and George Godfrey, the four | ypygua) role, quite unlike comrades of George Bancroft, Ieave |y 5 MO0 him fo continue their journcy to ments. the China seas aboard the brig, | N “Esther." | My Best Girl "here will be two complete show- ing on Sunday night at 6:30 and &round for a comcdy. 8:15. On Monday, Tuesday and|With the present day Wednesday the showings will be |humor, Miss Pickford continous from 1:30 to 10:30. screen uses De offered presenting Karl Dane and | for @ laugh. George K. Arthur in a side-splitting comedy “Circus Rookies” and the| | unusual teatire of the picture. “Two Girls Wanted.” romasee is util |the young I PARSONS'—H This city will have the opportuni- | ty of seeing one of the most dis- | cussed plays of the decade when |been Miss Pickfor Winthrop Ames presents John Gals- | for the past ten year: worthy's latest drama scape,” for | nearly a year in € firtst was produced in Lon- | Pen in writing it, c it ran through the sea- | STARTING EASTER SUNDAY Mary Pickford In Her Great “Comeback™ “My Best Girl” You'll Love Mary All Over Again After You See This Masterpiece TWICE SUNDAY EVE. — 6:30-8:30 Gala Easter Vaudeville Show! Starting Monday 5 SELECT ACTS 5 Including ODDITIES OF THE JUNGLE See the Greatest Performing ELEPHANT and ZEBRA In Captivity! None Like Them! ] BlG TXME 0|| Euh Program the play and ghe author’s trcatment On one occasion ft allery police | Junior. | The five vaudeville acts which start Monday deserve special mention. ission between two strangers and ended in has sympa- | and in | case of a | Goodwin & Fitzpatrick, the royal impression the picture would make man caught in the net of fate and | iiilers. Muriel v & Co. unique upon the minds of the public. It §s punished for a crime he was not ance offering. This exceptional pro- onc of the first real American epics entirely guilty of. Leslic Howard is | | this un- ISS PICKFORD N | ‘MY BEST l]IRL’ America’s Sweetheart to Be at She is cast in an any of | accomplish- | the modern | | five-and-ten-cent store as the back- | In keeping | demand secured the | best obtainable staff of specialists fo | On Thursday a new program ““Uhuna up every possible opportunity But comedy alone is not the only The co-feature will offer Janct Gaynor m;dw‘dl of an idealistic boy-and-girl | Charles Rogers, | amous-Flayers-Lasky | | sensation, playing the youthful hero Notable camera. effects have been in- | troduced by Charles Rosher, who has | camera man | and who spent | rmany studying teehnique human | three days only beginning on Monday | the newest photographic night, April 9, with a matinee on|for use in the film. Wednesdey afternoon, in Parsons'| Kathleen Norris, the author of the {original story, used all the " though written fn|interest and realism of her and this has ) | transferred intact to the scroen, The The picture the world is waiting “gigantic,” may very properly be to see and the picture that has al cmployed to describe *“Old Iron- read sficd millions ix Grorge sides,” the new Paramount specta- ! Sidney . 1he new “Cohens cle produced by James Cruze and and Lann in Paris” Be sure to adapted from Laur:nce Stallings' | |see it. It is shov the Lyceum original story by Harry Carr and | th. r starting today. twice .x.\ Walter Woods, which will be at the | sunday, at 6:30 and 5.13; « Capitol theater Sunday for four day and Tuesday | | | { | | | | I | Charles ?nsmwmmmwm I Old. Ironsides® A Paramount Picture | AT THE CAPITOL — SUN., MON,, TUES., WED. son. It was not uncommon for | cast includes Hobart Bosworth, Lnglish audiences to quarrcl over | Lucien Littlefield, Sunshine Hart, Lvelyn Hall, Mack Swain, Avonne | Taylor, Carmelita Geragty and John “Rosie," the world's most intelligent clcphant, Joe Bennett & Co., in a | comedy skit telephone tangle, Frank and Teddy Sabini, singing, talking, gram will be shown at the Strand | | the first half of the week. Perform- ances will be continuous Monday, | April o DOUBLE SHOOTING celing, W. Va., April 6 () — rm] Voltz, 85, shot and killed his | business partner, William Pratt, 45, |today and then fired a shot into his | |own chest. He was rushed to a hos- pital in a dying condition. The men, life-long friends and | | partners in a contracting business, quarreled in the basement of the GERTRUDE ASTOR i~ Uhe COHENS ANO KELLXS IN PARIS* A UNIVERSAL PRODUCT/ON. One casts ever of the most distinguished gotten together for any ! Voltz home where the shooting oc- | picture will appear in *The Cohens sodes, there are any number of |eurred. |and Kellys im Paris” including other scenes done with a sincerity | «y\merica’s sweetheart,” Miss Fick. | ~ | George Sidney, J. “lmtn is ]ldo|n|| s .x;.l nw‘(:)f lh; ford, is beyond comparison in mr‘ IT'S THE UPKE] lald, Gertruds 2 Price most remarkable is the parting of M . i o v E arol rcorge inos o] ll Esther | MO8t production, “My Best Girl"| wostfield Mass., April T—After | Sue Carol and Georg ie players at the end when Esther | \njon gpens at the Strand theater | 850 e ¢ Ralston, Wallace Beery, Charles | g, o |spending §530 for maintenance of | one truck last year, aside from gas | and oil, city officials found it had {an inventory value of § PARSONS’ Mon., Tues., Wed., April 9-11 Mat. Wed. for | Winthrop Ames Presents John Galsworthy’s Last Play ESCAPE With Leslie Howard SEATS THURS.—Nights; Orch, £2.88: Ral. $2.30; 1. 2nd Bal. 75¢. Gal. 50 WED. MAT.—Orch $2.31 I $1.73, $1.15; 2nd Bal. n | 50, including tax. The Lifetime ALL SEATS FOR THE CHILDRE ALWAYS 1 “This Is Good- Will Month”, n%&’ Karl George Entert Thrill At Popular Prices! Under the Mediterranean Moon— Kisses Amid the Clash of Battle— Written By Laurence Stallings, Who Wmt.e “The Big Parade” and “What Price Glory” Directed By James Cruze Who Directed “The Covered Wagon” Bl Jefil's “\nng Con- vention” hildren’s Tickets AURS, FRL, SAT. K. Arthur —in— “CIRCUS ROORIE! Jant Gaymor in “2 Girls Wanted” Deliney accounts hands | == — — LON CHANEY in y fon the mon of Kelly. Thalairy, Senators fioval S Copeiana seooude, and 1he Sinles | “THE BIG CITY” vvn.\l m Trish Am‘(l a Jew-{.0d Tohert e s M . The freshmen rowed | Also Wb ape parnens T In kS lin I T, v id the juniors three. (|| B in ¢ B o’ Sec this show? and. you | = g ! i A\ choppy lake and a stiff wind | Fred Humes in ‘Put 'Em Uy Will want to see it again. |League club America ro- icnded 1o slow down the time. In |[|=—arwray R |ciety, the i lican ¢ the varsity yace the Bears won in | NDAY, the Lotus nd « orga S minutes, 10.2 seconds, or two | | tions o in and 14.2 seconds slower | [named dcligations to e course record | |services he n varsity and junior The off f1 New Y k « va d new style of o -~ ARE PAID DEPEW rral T anl s b .rlrw] closed Leaders From All Walks of Life "t = at Funeral New York, April 7 ®--T.eaders In 1l fields of Ameriean life today paid I California V: ity Is Victor O\ er Washington Scattle, Wa A 7 U? Pacific coasl co todiy sted 1 final tribute to the memory of | 1Is Of the Chauncey M. Depew. oL, of a > bar, of which he was a dis- hed member; transportation industry and finance, in which he | player a leading role; politics, $u| . % which he was a prominent figure, all | ey fun nged to b L The family mausoleum at Pecks- kill, N. Y., where he was born almost 44 years ago, was preparcd to re- ceive his body after services in &t Thomas’ Episcopal church here Merchants in the village had agre represented at his to suspend business while the cor- trects. in passed through th Members of the family uneral party included live except Mrs. Kate Str ter, who is ill &t her home ham. The others arc his wido son, Chauncey M. Depew, Jr., and several nieces and nephews. Among the honorary pallbearers named were Elihu Root, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Prederick W. Van- derbilt, Willlam K. Vanderbilt, Pat- rick W. Crowley, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia univer- oy Continuous 1:30—10:30 MON. TUES. WED. inment of a For You Romance — As the Heart of a Woman Craves It — Inspiring Love! with the Was n M ——— in the firs Vo of nnual re 1o dofeated the Ca nia freshn ne varsity cights, wis wor by two and & It lengths in Starts TODAY J.FARREL Mac ADDED FEATURE WM. FAIRBANKS —in— Rubber Directors Omit 1 LYCEUM Tvice Sunday—Continuous Monday and Tuesday GEORGE SIDNEYZ “CATCH AS CATCH CAN” | orge Pocock, Uny shington shell builder, | vis spoon shaped instead | AE tipped paddle It | 110 jer to handle then 1 is claimed to have | r driving power, 82 Quarterly Dividend New York, April 7 (P—Directors | 1 United States Rubber Co. | iarterly dividend | cent due at this time. of this kind created f stock now outsta Joip presents ATest Cana Prooc OnTun SmoszofTomn’ Co-Feature BOB STEELE in ‘BREED OF THE SUNSETS’ MONDAY VR e~ | The since the The | nding is | in 180 s B explained the indenture chairman of the wction was due # covering the 6 1.2 BEBE DANIELS in notes of March 1, “FEEL MY PPULSE” an 10 losses resulting from a | Also es in the value of the com- | S0 2 £ any's crude rubber | BETTY BRONSON in Cserve. T e ; “OPEN RANGE” egor cent serial company required it to b a certain amount of current as- Starts TODAY Weep No More My Lady—The Cohens andKellys Are Here! %COHENSMKEI.I.YS IN PARIS % Katcl’riand Gcrtmdckbr. LADIES’ MAT. | Starts Next Saturday This Coupon and 10c¢ will AL JOLSON admit a lady to mat. best ‘ —i— seats. “THE JAZZ SINGER” The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. By Fontaine Fox. THE SKIPPER FINALLY PECIPEP —To -TAKE STEPS To KEEP BUSINESS FRoM FALLING OFF AS IT ALWAYS HAS (CFentaine Fos. AROUNP EASTER . 378 Tre Baii Syrdicate, Inc)