New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 20, 1928, Page 23

i i L (A i I T ::u 1I!! lm-n, s A\- Unless otherwise Indicatefl. theatrical motices and reviews in this colums are written by press sgencies for the Tespective amusement compasy. BILLIE DOVE AT CAPITOL. Cleopatra, legend tells us, sur- oinded herself with beautiful wom- «n in order that her own superla- iive charm might eutghine them. Now we have Billie Doy star in Ilirst National Pictures, doing the sime in films, In “The Heart of a Tellies Girl,” which is at the Capitel theater, 1o day and Saturday, Miss Pove is sup- ported by nearly 50 of Hollywood's youngest, prettiest and wost shapely cancing girls. They compose the «horus in scenes of the famous girl- show, and take part i1 intimate hack-stage scenes. Th co-feature with Joan ( the offers Tim MeCoy | awford in “Ihe Law of Range,” a fast action story. Beginning Sunday days the management showing of *Across To Mngapor lamon Novarro's new photoplay, & story of romantic adventure on the seven seas. Such popular ors as Lirnest Torreence and Joan Crawford in support of the star. night for four | anmunces the are DANCE THE GRANGE. Last. weeks dance at th: Newing- ton Grange was bigger gnd better than the management “oped for, il from indications this week's can't help but he even better, Just ask any of the fans who aere there list week and you can't help but de- cide on the Grange. WM. BOYD AT LY(EUM arting Saturday for four Lycenm theater has a douhle cature program that wil please all 'wo shows nigit. the first Show starts anc the sccond pidre days T a at 6:30 U 8:30-—ihe feature Q0cs on ‘clock cach awnin ure picture offers Wm Skyseraper” with Alberta Sue Carol anl Alan Hale, featue offors Rin- or Life” ith £ well known screen Loyd in Vaughn, Ihe companion Tin-Tin in A R areat cost Wm. Royd star of “Skyscraper,” who once wias a holermake littl drcamed that gome lay this experi- vince wonld one day he of vilue to| in his sereen earecy ut this same “3il1" Boyd han- vled a riveter with deftness of an Cpert for scenea i his new DedMille siar production in ! which he plavs fle role of a steel worker. Boyd tred his hand at numerous professons in his feens, | s experience as i hotler-maker he. | inz obtained in Otlahoma, wheres he | was employed Nhuge ol | mks, When he entered his sereen | carcar Boyd belpved he had ham- | mered his last rvet, but it was net | 0 §ue Carol paxs the feminine | 10le opposite Bayd in “'Skyseraper.’ , ‘i'he companien feature plaving on | this same bill offers “A Race for Vife™ starring Rin-Tin-Tin. Dr., F. J. Bentz to Marry Holyoke Girl April 24 Pr. Felix J. Bentz, a native of this city and for the past few years a sident. of Hdyoke, where he prac t com medicing will be married neat| 1weday to Mes Engene Kowalewski of Helyoke. Many New Britain riends and relatives have been in- vited to atterd the wedding. him Shyscraper,” in riveting BANK SUES FOR $6,000 000 suit was filed today in | urt, by The Commercial Trust ompany against David and Bessie tiorfain, through Judge Bernard I Cafiney. P-operty an Walnut street | 15 attached by Deputy Sherift Mar- tin Horwitz, who served the papers. Suit for 2450 waa filed today in city court by Racklifte Bros., Co., 1ne., against William and Jos Biskuplak of Kensington A. Mag is a'torney for the plaintiff. «‘onstable Frank Brown served the papers, POLISH CLUB ANNIV The Polish Catholic Tadies' elub| of the Sacred Heart parish will cele- Lirate {ts fifth anniversary by hold- i & dance next Tuesday evening in the parish hall on Gold street, PARSONS’ HARTFORD —Mon., Tues., Wed, Pop. Mat. Wed, Farewell Engagement Messcrs, Shubert presents Greatest Musical Romance in the History of the Stage New York Centwy Theater Productbn. BIG DANCE At THE RIALTO BALLROOM Sat., April 21 Admissipm 50c | the | Herman Ischool today the decision was made ! Arnola T"lfl.l BOWLING MATCHES. ree important bowling matches rolled at Rogers' Rocreation Alleys tonight when the Torrington Girls' team will roll Rogers Girls’ combination. The second match of the evening will bring the New Rrit- ain Left Handed Stars against a southpaw quintet from Waterbury, and the third will see the Connecti- cut Light & Power Co. team howling company team of Meriden, 11 ON BALL COMMITTEE A committee of 41 members of the Y. M. T. A. & B. society is working on the details of the second annual ball which i8 to be held in the so- ciety auditorium on Main street, May 4. President Michael Kenney has ap- pointed the following member; Thomas J. Devine, chairman; Thom- as Kennedy, Joseph Volz, James Dawson, Joseph Clynes, Edward Hineh John Howard, Merritt Humason, William Humason, Fred Morin, Thomas Weston, S. Motto, Clement Grace, FElmer Peterson, Charles Tynch, John Dolan, John McLain, William J. Farley, Peter Kelly, James Crowe, Joseph Calla- han, Thomas 1. McDonough, Dr. Vincent J. Smith, John Shea, John ) nes Walsh, William Tee- John Daley, Joseph M. an, Thomas Grace, Thomas Crowe, George Scheyd, Martin J ‘Walsh, John B. Dudack, Frank J. Roche, McTnerney, Harold Ward, James J. Dono- hue, James J. Daley and Michael J. Kenne n, nelle, Y. W. €. AL WILE: CONDUCT The populavity of automobile anics was demonstrated yestor- ay by the group who met at the Trade school for the number on seeking entrance, not being able to take seemed to the another class. In cons Hall of the the waiting list The desire of those the course State Trade to offer a hegin next ond section which will Tuesday evening at 7:30. il who gave the opening last evening, has consented to teach a second class. The course 7 2-hour periods, closing Registration should be Miss Rice at lecture will cover fine made at once through fhe V. W. €. A CIRCLE CAST GOES ON “ROAD.” The Dramatie Circle of the Sacred | Heart parish will go to Middletown Sunday, where the play, ‘Venancius,” will he given, The circle's succeasful presentation of the play on two oc- casions in this city prompted its ad- mirers in Middletown to have the play presented there. C'MON, You RED! Your Red Hair 1s Your Ticket Every young lady whose hair is a ‘Clara Bow’ Red, will be admitted FREE to any showing of CLARA BOW —in— “RED HAIR” By ELINOR GLYN “"‘,s" Famous Star Famous Author Famous Director BETTER THAN “IT” ITSELF BEGINNING SUNDAY CONTINUOUS SHOWS Daily and Sunday during the en- gagement of this sensational pic- ture § 1 STRAND Always 8 Good Show Hallor- | Edward Jan-! the first class and | opening of | Itation with | {the leaflets. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1928, UPSALA GLEE CLUB THRILLS AUDIENCE Niss Olsen, Soloist, Takes Gon- cert Attendance by Storm There is a rule in the First Luther- an church that applause must not be of the general hand-clapping nature, 80 as not to violate the sanctity of a house of worship, but can consist only of shaking or waving the pro- gram lcaflets. This rule nearly went entirely to smash last night, when the audience which assembled to hear the Upsala college glee club ex- perienced great dificulty in restrain- ing itself from giving vent to its emotions while listening to the bird- like warblings of Miss Margaret Ol- sen, soprano, whom the glee club brought with it as a guest artist. Miss Olsen, a buxom lass of athletic build and the possessor of a perennial smile that probably resulted from confident knowledge of superior ability, aroused a degree of en- thusiasm such as had not been known for years in the church, or in New Britain, for that matter. “And aren't we glad the boys brought Miss Olscn with them? You bet we are,” remarked the en- thusiastic Rev. Dr. A. A. Ahlquist in closing a supplementary speech. Miss Olsen came to the city with- out being heralded as a “Metropoli- tan opera star,” and no press agent was at pains to tell how she had had a meteoric carcer in some European opera house and was snapped up by the opcra industry in New York be- cause sald industry just couldn’t get along without her; ner was there any of the other blah attending her appearance hereabouts or in New England The press notice merely re- marked she was a widely known oratorio star, which unfortunately doesn’t mean much to the average blase cash concert customer. But suc a voice! erystal tlexible as a rubber, ve, emotional and fitting an: mile it is possible to appl, with no possibilities of exaggeration. Strange to say, although not so strange when one happens fo analyze it, her greatest triumph was in the “Ialian Strect Song” from a Victor Herbert operefta, which she ang with the glee club chorus. The piece had to be repeated entire. The reason was that while the chorus sang the street song proper, Miss Olsen sang the remarkably vivid coloratura obligato which goes with the original composition. Of a hun- dred times this picce is given in pub lic performance the obligato is not Sung in 99 cases, The obligato rolled high and brilliant over the sonerity of the male voices and aroused an astounding wave of applanse with An ordinary singer might have heen unable to return to the front and repeat such an ex- LYCEUM —SATURDA\— SUN. — MON. — TUES. FF ATURE< ‘WM. BOYD “SKYSCRAPER” with Sue Carol -- Alberta Vaughn CO-FEATURE THRILLS! t=" Today and Saturday =&y RALSTON With NBIL HAMILTON 7—'NEW ACTS—7 Headed By the Famous and the Tom Brown Six Brown Bros. The Feature of Fred Stome Productions. | | Central Brilliant, | | be hetd in | Monday | Pick O the hausting ordeal immediately, but Miss Olsen, knowing nobody would be satisied without a repetition, re- turned immediately and thrilled the emotions a second time. Another tour de force was the singing of a *Norwegian Echo Son| in which the singer gave both the original robust calls and the almost silent echo tones, which sounded as if they came from afar. It contained an unaccompanied vocal cadenza on this order. She also sang the famed aria, “Un Bel Di” from “Madame Butterfly,” by Puccini, and brilliantly as she did it, it paled into an ordinary number in compari- son with some of the other picces *he gave, 3 The glee club was of a high stand- | ard, possessing’ splendid individual voices and a sterling ensemble. It was directed by Conrad Forsberg, and he had the boys following the moods of the pieces with well nigh perfection. The singing, indeed, was 50 excellent that the boys gave the impression of being a high grade singing society rather than a college glee club. Two young men from New Britain were in it; also a youth of Italian lincage who =sang as good Swedish as the sons of Swedish par- ents. Most of the pieces were in Iing- lish, however. The chorus opened with Beethoven's grand choral classic, “The Worship of God In Nature,” and ended with Edward German's rolicking “Rollin’ Down to Ri In between were songs of al- most every mood, from folk songs to Negro spirituals, all done in fault- | less fashion, with encores when the applause became vehement, Wendell Lund, manager of the {of the Ttallan navy, which, as re- club, made a neat speech in which he expressed the appreciation of psala college for the support com- from New Britain, v. Dr. Ahl- quist, by the way, has been identified “llh the trustees of the college for s the secrefary, and present is th . The collegs n of the is at Eust Orange, C I\TR\IA IR. H. 8. NOTES The ninth grade pupils of Junior Hizh &chool met in auditorinm this afternoon for weekly assembly. The subje-t ter for the program the » of Nations » officers of the the chairmen of the the the the was Civie League committees, and assistant director of (he leagn. making pla for a combiniad ninth grade Civie league meeting to school auditorium on April Merchants of Meolhourne, tr . have started a fund for unemployed Aus the Pictures! |CAPITOL TODAY AND SAT. Continuous The Intimate Love Story of a Beautiful Follies Dancer Co-Feature ——— TIM McCOY JOAN CRAWFORD — in “THE LAW OF THU RANGE" NOVARRO flzlted mtrlque/ LYCEUM Last Times Tomght SYD CHAPLIN ‘THE FORTUNE HU‘\TER’ Co-Feature WM. FAIRBAN S “ONE CHANCE IN MILLION” A YOUR BEST BET, THE Newington Grange FRIDAY DANCES With the | Imperial Orchestra ASK THE CROWD —PALACE— TODAY CLARA BOW e Co-Feature JACK WOLT—DOROTHY REVIER in “THE TIGRFSS” In battle ships, Italy is weak, her few units being obsolescent. No capital ships Lave been laid down or are contemplated, In reorganizing the personnel [ the navy, National Militia or | “black shirt” army is being used | largely for coastguard service, thus | releasing a number of sailors for long training aboard the naval units The force in men of the Italian ]na\'y is given as 43,000, excluding officers. ITALY ORGANIZES UP-TO-DATENAVY . Ship Bmldmg Program fo Con-| tinue Until 1934 of 127 MAIN h’l‘ (Opp. Arch) K 27 NEWEST IN LINGERIE Every few days we have something decidedly new and diltmt to show vou! Breviation Bloomers Regulation Length Bloon French and St In Panti Pantie Ch and § MOVIE SHOW The Men's Brotherhood of i First Baptist church will give the second of a series of motion pictures tonight at 7:45 o'clock, The picture {o b the “Yankee Clipper”, period in American Yankes sailing vessels were supr | on the seven sea ture, with Aesop’ out a two hour progr Ben Parker will supp cal part of the entert added feature will be popular songs and Sout under the 1 IN CHURCH ceeeeieaaees S $1.50, $1.75, 8400 $1.90 . $3.00 April 20.—(UP)—One of | the most dificult tasks which the Fascist government has had to un- dertake has been the rcorganization Rome, 1 Chemise e e All made of the very finest rayon.) gards both material and personnel was Ieft in a disorganized and back- ward state by post-war cabinets constrained to over-r economy by socialist criticism. ltaly's ship-building program will not be completed until 1931, when she will possess an homogencous up- to-date naval force of moderate pro- portions. 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