New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 14, 1928, Page 11

tion to the usual feature photopla The feature ning will he Kingiom Come,” starring Bartheime mess b morable *“Tol's succe beging Monday the finest bills ever put together into | one show. Tho bill w0 BOTELER WESLEY BaRRY OONALD KEITH AR T HUGHES aaTaon $I10 smiTh ucsday and Wednesday includes Ted and Al Waldman in their big HAR"L" I.I-[]Yn ls time turn called “Blu-o-lo “Jungleland,” a spectacular vaude ville novety; Perry-Mansfield Danc- ers, featuring Mildred Wirth and — Margaret Peters; Professor Thurs- Ly, the eminent “Zoologist”; Ger- “Speedy” Is Said to Be One e B, v < Seven act bills will bo presented 0[ H]S Bes[ | daily during next week with & com- { plete change of program on Thurs- Y T— The feature photoplay for the Imagine Harold Lloyd piloting a halt of next week will be Esther horse drawn street car through the | Ralston in “Something Always Hap- Lusy streets of New York city! pens.” Such in substance is the chief Coming atfractions to the Strand | nighlight of Harold Lloyd's newest | include Clara Bow in Elinor Glyn's ‘omedy coming to the Capitol Sun- | “Red Hair,” which opens Sunday, day. Every Harold Lloyd comedy is Douglas Fairbanks in e knewn wherever film fans are known Richard Dix in “Easy 1o delight in the situations and | “cags” enacted by the popular film ! comedian, as standing head and shoulders above anything previously y Go": Sadic Thompson with Gloria 8wanson and John Gil- bert in “The b i'y with the film-going public to- n “speedy” with Harold Lloyd gayly | in ¥ 'ng M b s vom, v "t oz Featured in “The Jazz Singer sten on the silver sereen, fay. There is nothing duplicated in down the traffic congested stry W T New comedy situation aliy new picture he produces. Imag- | ets of 1 are synony- | wous with Harold Lloyd, which probably is the secret of his popular- E [; ine then, the climax wrought by the —_— many new funny situations ir hics as one passerby reminded drrng the filming of the production. i Al Jolson is enthusiastic over his | “The z finger,” now showing at the Lyceum theater. Nothing that impressed him, ‘or four months he gave over 3 all his thoughts and efforts to work on the picture, instilling into all his | co-workers much of his enthusiasm As is customary, upon the com pletion of a motion picture it is| previewed on the couast. After the preview of “The Jaz ' Jol- | son could not resist the urge to un- bosom Limself of his feelings re- g ing the picture. This is what he wrots “It is extremely difficult to talk ubout my own picture. I do con- !sider it my picture, for in the weeks that I worked at the studio, | 5 SCENE FROM “THE JAZZ SINGER” WITH AL JOLSON >R R4 B8 e | NEW BRIT DAILY HERALD, &°7UR:\Y, APPIL 14, 1928, LYCEUM — ALL WEEK — STARTING TODAY ing to the Palace theater on Sun- day and Mond: “Top Sergeant Mulligan,” graphic- + | the comedian has ever done has so |41V depicts the adventures of “Spike” Mulligan and Mickey Neil- an, who go a-soldicring in the great war, emerging from the conflict sically intact but somewhat the worse for the inspired barrage of practical jokes and disciplinary tom- oolery to which they were subject, oth in the training camps on th and in the trenches “over there of Broadway,” a story Great White W I'auline Garon, Bobby Agnew, Wheeler Oakman, Duke Lee, are the featured members of the cast. PARSONS'—HARTFORD The most thrilling moment in the making of ‘The Jazz Singer' be- 1 part of me. 1 lived from one scene to the net, thinking of nothing clse. For I wanted it to be a | success, a big s When T saw T ding | 18 entirety at a preview, I wus halle experiences of run- | €lated and astonished. Elated that | ning the horse drawn vehicle through | MY first — effort at silent drama | the city's strects to save the fran- | Should be so well reccived chise owned by “Pop™ Dillon, grand- Tonished by the sensations which it father of Ann Christy, with whom | Stirred in me, iard-boiled eritic Speedy is in love. He does so with |and ccrtainly familiar with the many handicaps set in his path by | story. Yet when 1 saw ‘The 2 e villain wio wishes fo stop the Singer' anfolded 1 felt like a man | daily run of the ear, so he could tehing his soul perform; “Simb tien picture made in Africa by Mr. | Martin Johnson, which is ns, Hartford, all next week 3 {15 that which shows the naked blacks Jazz Singer' In | of 1)y end Mr: Keeps spe their seat the per-{ griphed the the big zame hunting mo- Lumbwa tribe, armed only with spears and shields, attacking ond Killing full grown lions, It { scems incredible that the king of and ag- | beats could be slain by such simpl weapons, but the camera shows e ietly how it is done, and the sc ctators on the edges of As Martin Johnson, who photo- attle, tells it, he, with win the franchise by default, and in | son in the seat was me, Al Jolson, | hig wife, Osa, and their safari, had turn sell it ig price to the rail- [but the man on tho screen was | (rokked down into Tanganyika on way transportation ofticiuls who are | somehow 4 part of me yet outside . the trail of lions. Thin, sye John. desirous of obtaining it, although | of myseif. timately., | “Miss McAvoy was exquisite on here will he two continuous | the screen, just as much so as ml hows on Sunday evening at 6:30 and | person. Warner Oland played the | 5:15 and during its week day run | fathe the showings will be continuous from 210 10:30 with the feature appear- s role as I have never ch a character nd Eugenie 13 r was | ing at 30, 4:40, Ti00 and 9:15, ¢ cause of morg than one tear as | Other snbjeets will ofier the Cap- [the sweet, sympathetic mother. As itol News, Acgop's Fables, and a new [T witnessed the climax, T caught | popular orsanlosne by RBill s, [ myse)f gulping more than once, S0 itle Contest.” ¥ ing on | gulping lumps of joy that the picture Thu last T ction for the Wil offer The Heart the main att I of the charniing Billie Dove in of a Follies Girl.” was such n human document, | “I ean honestly say that 1 am | more, than satisfied with “The Juzz | | Singer,” and am proud 40 have heen conneeted with a production of its | L have Alan Crosland, who SPRING CARNIVAL i e | rudiments of the ser [ drama; and I appreciate the won- | 1 | derful co-operation and hclp given ! i me by every member of the pro- | | duction and technical staffs, ndebted to Warner Bros. | 1 am Seven Vaudeville Acts on Bach (o, s v s, appopians to | thiting ama nerve- t time of my 1if Pl‘(}gl'am | _flir THE PALAC “Top Sergeant Mullig: niest war comedy of the ye > fun- ar, ig com- Vil present its | wcond wdeville ear. nival, 1y afternoon | with a seven act program in a The Strand th ginning Sunda he Little Shey In this film, Barthel-| the same sort of a role which made him famous in the me- | le David,” his biggest | It is widely heralded that| arthelmess rises to new heights of | ardom in this new picture. The | seven act vaudeville program which | is said to be one of | for Monday, PALACE | TODAY | solendid Vaudeville Bill BABY THELMA Reads Your Mind anl Answers Any Questions You May Ask. Angl atures “CORICAG MIDNIGHT" ) AI'TER fom Tyler 1ANTOM OF LA (66 Basedwpon the Samson Raphaelson as produced mthc%ggz Lewis aGordondSzmpH.Hanis Scenrio by ALCOHN........ Diectad by ALAN CROSLAND A Story That Touches The Heart of buftalo hide | crated him for th &e | nat eat lion meat, 1hey have no "0 { for the hides, ‘laws only for s work is alw Mr. Employer, Wanted' Ad STARTING TODAY FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK WARNER BRoS. SUPREME TRIUMPH | son, is the most wondcrful big game tract in the world, “Now long after we entered Tan- | ganyl he says, “we met 49 naked Ve | Luniwa warriors in war paint out ’'~ | after Yions. The native hunters were armed with long spears and shield Each man had dee- | It and his shicld with | his own idea of war paint. The | lacks had spent days in working | themsclves into a fever of courage | which would nerve them to face | ‘simba’ in his own hannts | cring 1 their inadequate weapons X ¥ needed @ lot of cou: These blheks were not v lions sport or for meat. They do » and they fake th mulets. They were ut for revenge because the lions 1 been killing their cattle, We them kill six lions, onc after wother, and every performance was ng." The man who goes after his own the best workman— HUSBANDISNOW - A MURDER SUSPEeT ‘Mysterious-m of Mosie Actvess Still Unsoved | e second attraction will ol‘[\r‘ [ mysterious death at Hollywood 1. R Ll of Helen St. Clafr Evans | motion picture extra and model, as- sumed the aspeets of a murder cas pointing to her hushand, Arthur S :iso vans, a voung writer, w a charge of suspicio Daniels, beauty shop pro ew York, who refused to « | aceept the verdict that she had comi- | mitted suicide by taking poison, hud {uncovered eviden theory Consid- | watch the Situation | sssemm——— N7/ 2 AN\ C'mon, New Brit New —_— IS = VAUDEVILLE Sz AW NS 2 7 §3\7‘ | ATl I [ttt ///\\\\\\'mll’% ldllezzaill% COMING APRIL 22—CLARA BOW in “RED HAIR” e Poand Dead m A Livans, . April 14 (P t Evans finger of suspicion rapicr of women for m ie1s invest arrest- of mur- Poll cry, impe leral narcotic law. the & Wing to con- photographer. Mrs. Eva id to have posed for Hesser. s HAROLD LLOYD IN A SCENE FROM "SPEEDY” i PRODUCED BY HAROLD LLOYD CORPORATION A PARAMOUNT RELEASE THE CAPITOL BEGINNING SUNDAY U] = = RICHARD BARTHELMESS —in— “Little Shepherd rybody! A Show of Shows! 2nd ANNUAL SPRING <! New Thrilis! CARNIVAL BEGINS MONDAY AFTERNOON 7-ACTS-7 Each Act a Hit! Come Early! Reserve Loges! te New Shows ,§$ INK = W i Q! 1 dead in her e, The police re- r hus- ied the isked for sked that inquiry Ldwin Bower Iesscr, a photo- zines, rrested as an outgrowth ion. He was : rsonating a ind suspicion of vio- (king the charges ac- ndling him t him when father sought to question e 4 [scholarships. The fund which i to|Harvard, Yale and other leading wed in memory of Mrs. |American universities and colleges. itnam’s late husband, is te bhe Law \nown as th William Lowell Put- viversity, [vam memorial prize fund. The ine 5,000 to! come will be us fEliment |sasies ot ONE TOO MANY Caen, France, April 14—Armand LePrince, farm hand, wagered .& to promote a |friend he could outdrink him. He annual intercollegiat: com- | downed 24 beers and died as he fund tor promotion of Tyefitions in scholarship between | drained the last stein, | PATSONS 2o April16to21 At Twice Daily—Matinees at 2:20—Nights at 8:20 va Soldi give | \l open veldt while Martis Johnson gri {1 Scene you will never forget / Orcl. 8§ 15: Fa m. Cir. 50c. Daily Matinee, Orch. $1.15; Bal. kb X1 i . Tax Included. e\r" HEY, MATOR ! i’ T’ LATEST REPORT 7 ON NoUuR AVIATOR'S 3} SAFETY suiT 3usT Z CAME IV w1 WAS 2 SEEN SLOWLY FLOATIKG: |3 OVER A BREWERY 7’1/S|><'r~/ MILES WEST ~+EGAD,~] WAVE OFTEN JTHOUGHT HoWw MARVELOUWS T WoULD BE, IF A MAN WERE DEAF Il ONE EAR,« AND NATURE SO ARRAMGED T, THAT HE WouLp oLy HEAR PRAISE AND KINDLY WORDPS WTHTHE Goop AU \ ) \ WouLD aNLY FALL uPon | “THE DEAF EAR (- ] FEG U S PAT. OFF © 1928, BY NTA SERVICE. INC iy i