New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1928, Page 11

fl%filfl\s Unless otherwise indieated. theatrical motices and reviews in this eolump sre written by preas agencles for the respective amusement compuny. FO000SE ST 0000 TVITIPINIVIVIVIVIT VIS PUVIVII IO VST F O HAROLD LLOYD AT CAPITOL A record breaking crowd jammed the Capitol to capacity last evening 10 see¢ Harold Lloyd and his newest comedy “Speedy” which is featu at this popular movie housc the firs halt of the week. | “Iast and furious” is an pres- sion that carries little weight any longer, owing to its misusc by mo- tion picture press agents, but noth- ing more aptly described Lioyd's newest production From start to finish it o whirlwind of comedy, as implies. Lloyd, in the breezy char tor of a New York boy, whose prin- vipal vocation is losing jobs, gives «ne of his most likeable character sations, and in addition has a story that is appealing, as well as based | on fact. Lloyd has a variety of positions in “Speedy” ranging from soda jerker, to the chauffenr of a horse car, with taxicab pilot, znd Al others hed in hetween Beginning Thursday ill be offered in and Tim wiord will be ly seve Billie Dove | Heart of a McCoy and seen in “The The finest picture eve this city 18 “The Jazz Singer” shown at the Lyceum theater the remainder of this week, The! r, Al Jolson, who was the great-| st entertainer on the stage is now | the greatest emMertainer on the ‘creen. The cast co-starring in “The ; azz Singer” jnclude May MceAvoy. | WVarner Oland and Cantor Josef| Roscnblatt. The picture with a| “Panatrope” can be visualized ac-| cordingly. This picture is based upon the playghy Samson Raphaelson and was directed by Alan Crosland. now | fa COAL OPERATORS MUST GIVE FACTS. Figures to Be Demanded by Senate Tnvestigators Washington, April 16 ®®—The | senate coal committee today decided that operators summoned in its in- vestigation of conditions in the cen- | tral competitive bituminous coal | tields would be required to furnish | on the cost of production. A. M. Belcher, attorney for the West Virginia operators and Alfred | 1elden, counsel for the Northern Ohio operators, agreed that their cli- ents would enswer the list of ques- tions which the committee agreed to put to all operators. This list, pre- pared by Sentor Pittman, democrat, Nevada, includes these questions: Wages pald varlous classes of la- lorers employed in and around jnines from 1920 to 1927, Total tonnage produced, total cost of production and total sales real-| izations on all coal produced, mined | «nd marketed from 1923 to 1927. Total amount of tonnage sold and delivered to raflroads by ycars from | 1928 to 1927 and total realization therefrom. Names of railroads of which coal | was sold, and the tonnage sold ecach. Sample or copy of standard em-| ployment contracts entered into be- twaeen the company and its laborers and employes in and around its| roal mines. | Sample or copy of house leases now in use between the company and employes. |shipments Wages of coal miners in some dis- | tricts of England are being reduced. | First Church of Christ, Scientist New Britaim, Conn, ANNOUNCES A Free Lecture on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE By JOAN W. DOORLY, C. of London, England Member of the Board of Lectureship Mother Church, the First o Christ, Scientist, in Dos- sachusetts in CAPITOL THEATER West Main Street Sunday Aflemwn. April 22, 1928 30 0'clock | IS CORDIALLY ED TO ATTEND s, n, I new shows today | Waldman in * | eastern territory which would | posed today {meree commission. Imiles; |under | water = 7 ACTS AT THE STRAND Today will mark the opening at the Strand of its second annual Spri Vaudeville Carnival with sev- X ts of vandeville each da d Thursday. The program for today includes Richard Barthelmess in his newest picture, The Little Shepherd of Come” from the popular story by John Fox Jr. The seven act ille bill includes among no- vaudeville names Ted and Al u-0-logy;" Professor hurshy, the eminent zoologist cland,” . an wnusual variety | 110V Gertrude Moody "the Pe Mansficld Dancers; !(‘l Lrothers and Be rnice and Pan- Daye “Jung and Co.; Thursday, vaudeville bill, the Strand will pre- sent Esther ston in “Something Alw Happens.” Coming Strand at- tractions include Clara Bow in “Red | Hai ard Dix in “Easy Come, anks i The son.” Gaucho and * CHANGE 15 ASKED INFREIGHT RATES Apnhcatvon of Mileage Scale! Now Is Proposed Washington, April 16 (P—A re- vision of classified freight rates in re- of pro- sults in a general application mileage scales was tentatively by the interstate The proposal constituted another step in the commission's to re-arrange class rates through- out the United States on a distance basis, the first schedules of the kind (having already been made effective in southern and southwestern terri: |tory. For eastern territory, everything north of the and Ohio rivers and cast of Chi- |cago, the report today laid down a kfls schedule by which first class ! would b cents per 100 for dis miles; 56 cents for distances of 100 $1.18 for distances of 500 miles and $1.56 for distances of 500 | miles, with . proportionate amounts | for intermediate distances. The lower classifications would be related to first class rates, so that including |the charge for second class would be per cent of first class with a falllug ratio until sixth class ship- |ments moved at 30 per cent of first |class rates. The cbmmission estimated that the system recommended would re- | |sult in ecastern charges amounting | [to about 73 per cent as high as the rate system prescribed for southern territory, Because of higher operating costs the report rates on ship- traversing northern New land territory, northern Mich- territory and specified branch lines of railroads in territory of small population would range ten per cent ahove the standard. On |traffic to d from New York city groupings proposed by railroads | were tentatively ado In view of the tion factor applying ments B er transporta- on class ship- {ments to and from Chicago, the re- | recommended that rail and rates on classified freight should be made 85 per cent of all rail rates. The schedules advanced |prepared by Howard Hosmer, commission agent, als will be submitted to all interestd carriers and shippers and will be further studied before the com- mission takes action upon them. port a 10,985 TROUT CAUGHT. Hartford, April 16 (UP—Additional | figures being turned in today to Su. perintendent the State Board of Fisheries and Game indicated that trout was served on a good many hundred of | breakfast tables. Late last night the | | reports from total of 10,855 trout taken hy Z.H'a fishermen from streams in the state, Compulsory education is being in- troduced into parts of India. Violin Orchestra Class Summer enrollment accepted until Sept. 15th for children From 7 to 17 attending day school. FR EE Our scholarship method provides for each pupil a Genuine French or German Violin, Bow and Case with each 60 les- son. Enrollment course 60 weekly lessons (1 hour.) Terms 75c¢ lesson, payable weekly. Studio Open from 3 P. M. to 7 P. M. New Haven Institute of Music 53 CHURCH STREET New Britain, Conn. nd | Kingdom | | Ben- in addition to the new | Thomp- | com- endeavor | Potomac | charged 30| nces of five | were | and the propos- | John W. Titcomb of | The Perry Mansfield Dancers Who Will Appear On the Seven Act Bill at the Strand Theater Beginning Today. - FLASHES OF LIFE: GIRL GOES UP IN AIRPLANE WITH 1 By the Associated Press, I Midland, Tex. — Miss Hazel Tin- nin believes she has been nearer to Heaven than any other of her sex. I She went up 19,660 feet in a planc + | with @ pilot. Rantou!l, 1ll. — Liteboat drills at ! sca, fire drills in school and para- | | chute leaps from planc "n ronk- | 1es of the army air corps leaped | { safely from a 14 enger plane in 80 seconds. The plane was 2,000 feet up. The highest previous multiple jump was nine. | - Paris -— It probably will be kep jas memento on its return from the |laundry. Dicudonne Costes wore the same shirt all the way from Tokyo | to Paris by air. Copenhagen — Palle Hull, 15-| Iyear-old boy, is back from a trip around the world in 43 days in u)m- memoration of the centen Jules Verne, who wrote of au(n I\ trip in 80 days. New York—Miss Georgia OK| W nts for love of art and neve 1 to sell her work, has been ;\md 25,000 for six panels depicting | calla lillies. a(c \ Rlo De Janeiro — A regular gold rush is headed toward Henry Ford's rubber concession in Para. Natives {think fortune lics there. London Among the latest | friends of the Prince of Wales is | Henry Kord, who called at the St ! James Palace. | Panama — A niece of Mrs. Wood- row Wilson is likely to be the first llady of Panama. Jorge Eduardo| I Boyd is a candidate for president. | His wite was Elizabeth Dolling. Moscow — Easter, now being celes brate in Russia, is kissless, in con- trast to the pre-revolution days. {Then Princess would kiss butler, and bellboys would kiss hotel guests; even strangers embraced. Vienna — A caution against fare- well kisses at raflroad stations.comes from the director general of the state railroads. He says that demon- i strations of affection on plaiforms ‘nrc responsible for many accidents. i —_— | Greenwich — Five men believed to | | he New York gunmen captured when Motor Policeman Frank O'Connor | wounds the driver of the stolen car | in which the men attempt to escape. | [The prisoners are booked by the po- |lice as follows: Louis Bernardo, An- | thony Dedindendi, Spansola. Perino, | | Sulvatore Censoneri and Louis Per- | azzansi, all of New York. Perazzansi | was driving the car, ' Meriden Abraham Kaplan, (father of Touis Kaklan, former | world's featherweight boxing cham- pion, dicd at his home in Merlden at the age of 56, e | Stafford Springs William and | Vincent, aged four and three, sons of Mr. and Mrs. William Cunning- ham of 74 Allen Place, Hartford, |'were killed and their three months |old brother, Brandon, was seriously | injured when an automobile in LYCEUM ALL, THIS WEFK Greatest. Entertainer on the Stage | Russell, 1 Haven and Hartford | daughter,, Mrs. Russell, i the car but es i there is a youth who can tell a story as the “ice-box bandits.” The ter youths were connected by imstantial - evide with the irder of Trooper Nelsan, They w ¢ identified in Springfield | hy persons who were held up and by | whieh they were riding with their!ia clerk who sold them caps h\‘ arents ‘ollpr 4 with another ma- | Epringficld. A gasoline station at- | chine driven by William Combies of ' ten identified Raymond as the ! Norwich, Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham mun who bought gasoline from him were their aud at Willimantic, Conn., on the night of the murder. | Wor PILOT 19,600 FEET.: im | it ) e shooting became more involv- | 0 He was o= [ when it was announced that the dered held in §2,000 ball on thel o pyllets found In the body of technical charge of veckless drivIng. | Tyooper Nelson were of different A LEsgn calibre and that three shells found in | New London Mr. and MFS. 6 qutomobile used by the men who | George Billings and thelr nephew, | grovg the automobile wero of one was seriously injured WhHen | culinre and svidently were fired foom their automobile was struck lan automatic pistol | light engino on the Not a trace of the weapons has | been found. Connecgicut pa- | olmen have searched all over the route supposed to have been taken by the men pursued by | son but their search has heen fruit- and cuts about the face. fin aflroad at th crossing within « few Billings' home W aped injury. STATEPOLICEARE s vrestma s 'TRACING MURDERER Seek Another Youth in Nelson Killing Gase Worcesger, Mass, April 16.—(Ph— Conducting a rigid investigation into the murder of State Trooper Irving H. Nelson at Pomfret, Conn., on April 6, officials of the Connecticut state patrol, working independently of the Worcester and Springfield po- lice, are coming to Worcester this week. It is the belief of the Connecticut police that somewhere in Worcester state ple avenu % feet of the Middictown, . Weed of Wor Mass., man at Weslevan Universit to a beauty shop today to have cllod thre He will play the part rine in - “Taming of to Le put on this week by the Treshman Dramatic Club. wias to improve impersonation on his part that he was permitted unshorn these many weeks. In the Said Turk, April ster, fresh- went his cast will portray Petruccio Dance Recital By Pupils of Emerson Studio CAMP SCHOOL April 20, 1928 8:15 P. M. Public Invited which will reveal the type of re- volvers or pistols used by the two bandits whose shots from an auto- mobile killed Trooper Nelson who was pursuing them. The Springfield police are also coming here this week to try to lo- cate tha third member of the “ice- box™ bandit trio. They and Worees- ter police arrested Roland G. L. lone and Albert G. Raymond of Wor- cester, last week and are being iden- | Pick O’ The Pictures! CAPITOL TODAY—TUES.—WED. 2:10—4:30—7:00—9:15 Let's Go! Everybody! Bring-Out the Whole Family! HAROLD £D BY TWE KAy, ¥ ovD connourm Get Your Seats Early and Watch Harold Break all Hnnnls for m. 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