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

(o i T it fypl I are being offered at the Capitol The wain attraction is Teen" as adapted for strip which is well known from > +nd of the country llarold and Lillums through junny paper week after week fa a wonderful youth, romantic comedy an,” also affords splendid a whip. Antonio Moreno and 10N O] Critics and general public liave acclaimed “The Legion of Condemned,” Paramount's &l play of another angle of the The co-feature, “The Whip Wi enter- tainment with its unusual story, a drama of cave woman love and a maid who wooed her suitors with Jius ., 1] Unlese otherwise indicated. thestrica) Botices and reviews in this column are written by press sgencles for the Tespective smusement company. “HAROLD TEEN” AT CAPITOL 0 very fine photoplay features for today and Saturday which will pro- vide unusually good entertainment. “Harold the comic one to the other. Many have followed the antics of the and now the movies have brought these tamous characters to life in & de- lightful photopl 3 “Harold Teen” is a glorious ce of high school youth, of young sheiks and their shebas, and all in of om- Es- telle Taylor have the leading roles. THE CONDEMNED” alike the reen war AT THE CAPITOL from the air, run of four days only. “The Legion of the Condem 13 filled with the romance, the ing and the excitement which vounded those birds of war dangerous. It is chuck ful pits of the airplanes. can newspaperman who, 3 yore than anything else to h and every one of them sophy thelr only through death. The Capitol presentation of music. Reserved loges for the lay shows are now selling. Move Is Made to Set Aside $12,500 Aw appeal. bury, on January 28, 1927. eration of less than ene hour. and against the weight of the mony in the case ubway Rentals Gotng And nigher ordinance the cost are hasis, the price from $.0597834 to $.06190202. cwt. in 1926, DANCE : At the ! Newin Grange , TONIGHT ; . Imperial Orchestra a : LUCKY PERSONS Take Home A 35 Box of Candy For B MOTHER'S DAY d By Attending the MAY PARTY DANCE " nd SATURDAY NIGHT DON'T MISS THIS Sun, — Mon, — Tues, — Wed. which opens at the Capitol theater next Sunday for a ned' dar~ sur- for which no mission was considered too 1 of unique thrills taken from the cock- Here is a tale of a young Amerl- believing that his sweetheart has passed out of his life forever, plunges into the “Legion of the Condemned,” whosc rsonnel consists of men who want dte. have 1sts and, according to their philo- sins may be explated this ure will offer special eflects and Sun- Bridgeport, May 11 (®—A move to sct aside a $12,500 award return- «d in favor of Mrs. Jennie Kristian- sen of Danbury yesterday in super- jor court in her $20,000 suit against the city of Danbury was made today when counsel for the city filed an The woman sued to recover for permanent injuries to her left hip sustained when she fell on an . icy sidewalk on West street, Dan- The award was returned by a jury be- fors Judge Carl Foster after delib- It is claimed that the award is excessive test Up Beginning Next Thursday Publie utilities corporations will of subway rental next Thursday when an increasing the fee will hecome effective. How much it will amount to in dollars and cents only 1he statisticlans of the corporations likely to be able to compute since the rental is on a lineal foot being increased Hairpin-making is en the down grade; the British output has fallen from 47,000 ewt. in 1913 te 11,000 N S00000000000000000000000006000000000000000000080088 Elkeviews of Current | "',I"L. Lainph . =K = < . i | Scene From “The Port of Missing | Girls” Coming Sunday to the Strand | ——————eee “WE AMERICANE A straight from the heart talk | from the management of the Lyce- um theater. er before has any one—anywhere—at anytime ever at- tempted to give to its theater fans: a program-— is now in store and wil be shown for the first time Sat- | urday at the Lyceum theater. It you are planning for a big time wait until tomorrow for the big | show “We Americans” to give you | the time of your life—coming in all | its glory—see it exactly as shown at | | New York's beautiful Colony theater at $2.00 top. ways. In the first place it hrings Geory Sidney in a dramatic rol idney 1s too great an actor to always in the comedies whicl 1 | brought him to so many screens. | But a little wbout the stor | Three families emigrate to w {York, from Russia. Germany and Ttaly. The parents retain all they { loved of the old country, making no | effort to become Americanized while the children grow up to be | typical young Americans, incapable | of understanding their parents, who | in turn, are incapable of understand- | ing their children. | PUBLIG WORKS SALARIES 10 BE SET BY COUNGLL | Merian Will Get $5,000 and Fasclle ve $3,000, According to Present Arrangements, The commen councili will be ask- ed to fix the salary of City Engincer Philip A. Merian at $5,000 a year, that of Street Buperintendent Eu- |gene Faselle at $3,000, and the sewer department foremen at $36 a week. Mr. Merian's predccessol Joseph D. Willlams, was paid 200. Ralph H. Battey, a street de- ipartment foreman,who was acting superintendent for one month prior to Faselle’s appointment, was paid a foreman's wage, $36 a week, but Thomas F. Kearney, charge for two yecrs, recelved $75 a week. Action on these salaries will be taken by the salary com- mittee of the common council. |Miss Reynal Betrothed To Hubert Williams Mr. and Mrs. Louis Reynal of Lexington street announce the en- gagement of their daughter, Miss Harriet Victoria Reynal, to Hubert Willams, son of Arthur Willlams of Corbin avenue. Miss Reynal is a graduate of Penn Hall, Chambers- burg, Pa., and is a popular member of New Britain's younger set, Mr. Willlams attended Middlebury col- lege. LAWYERS NOW CONN. Bridgeport, May 11 (P —Albert Levitt, Ridgefield; Darius J. T. Spain, Danbury, and E. Leroy Fisch- er, Greenwich, were admitted to practice in this state at a meeting of the Fairfield county bar held to- day. The oath ot office was admin- istered in the presence of Judge Al- fred C. Baldwin. All three have been practitioners for a number of ears in the courts of New York. Two gentlemen dwelling at Windsor— e a together in | Parents and Teachers’ It is an unusual picture in many |such magnitude appear : i1 cast and in recognition of | of the Smalley school for the third sody in Blue in three weeks—to the accompaniment who was in | ety U B THIEF TAKES AVERY'S CAR, IGNORES POLICE WHISTLE PERALDGRIT WRITER OF JAZZ as love, or something else equally | serious: 1 want to do light for symphony presentation, | Continent He thought it had got Gershwin appeared surprised that | rough—but America is rough, and something | his fame had preceded him to the |jazz is a national expression ef us." Before the staid and dignified old opera in Paris bows before the fresh cenius of Gershwin, the young New find almost nothing but American | Yorker—he is not yet 30-—expects | to see Berlin, Vienna and Budapest —just as a tourist. In mid-summer he is going back e French | home to put more tunes on paper. a | tomcibing American in the New fo Englund but no further, he said. | Theater Offennp | ! York manne But it was no surprise o him to | “My brother, Ira, who has writ- c— | Legion Commander’'s Automobile ten the lyrics to most of my music- | music being played in the lighter- MRS. FISKE AND OTIS SKINNER 3 S — | show songs and fox-irots, intended | hearted spots of Paris. “It's the i Driven Away From Eddy- . 0 Pl l to do some work with me in Paris | only music these days that seems | HENRIETTA CROSMAN T b t [ ok 5 4 Sl inde e ™, | Gl Pt cricrs, | DA 000 PlABS Trbale 0 e i i it i i s vy, e nch e 2 sl e ubroad, anc ¢ Lad more invita- | do not play modern German music HE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR' ” = | t B ~ i | Sighting Nathan €, Avers's auites Gemhwm tions than I expected, so we haven't | and the Germans de not play mod- | (Produced and directed by mobile going seuth on Farmington “\_or!n-l tog he by thelcrn French music, but everybody | s un‘ nr;vy Fiske) { avenue near the Holy Cross church { Champs Elysees as yet—and it | cverywhere plays our American | (Cast of Characters) | about 10:50 12 ht, Offic il- g . scems doubtful that we will.” jazz. L is new and it e 2 sktanee | 100U 10:50 last ight, Oftcer Wil | Paris, May 11Gh—The more or ‘ | enton, a gentleman am McMurray commandeered & |less hundred per cent American o T Rena Roberti | car owned by William Hrubiec, who low, & justice of Glouces- ‘rm\duc(l a store on Farmington R hisnowen Mcecl | qvenue, and gave chasc as far as i DA o™ Hendisen | the junction of Washington and | | Beaver strects, where the trail was ‘rancis. Ford Lawrence H. Cecll | lost, The car had been reported | The New York composer, spend- orse. Page . : ty Mowbray | golen by Mr. Avery, who is com- |ing the spri y >4 : o Egh Evans a Welsh parson and : y Mr. Ave . & spring months in Paris, has hoolmaster . e Ajark | mander of Eddy-Glover post, Amer- | heen surprised—happily surprised Joctor Calus men physician ... | ican Legion, while he was attending | —at the success of his more seri- . Bodolgbe. Dadalach A»"‘;\“"L at the Legion home on |ous works in the French capital. Wit ¢ Masson | Washington strect. Despite a search | His Rhapsody in Blue was played of streets in the vicinity of Beaver and Washington, no trace of the stolen car was found. Officer McMurray recognized the number of the car and blew his whi: to stop, but the latter tention to the signal and sp The police believe the car was being + Tracy Barrow o S Geor Mary Walsh wia Smith | paid no at- Burford Hampden | t to Doctor Cajus. d away. |4 music of George Gershwin is con- quering the as already it has swept through the concert halls as well dance floors of E continent here for the first time early in the spring by the orchestra, and made such a hit that the Russian dancers at the Champs Elysees theater a ballet around it, and it was pre- sented by them to famous immedia ow hree successive nights. of Europe, as over the Pasdeloup tely wove ded houses George Le Soir | Now the RN . it e e 1 diven shout for Boms Sme altep 4b . rer U Saishiied Oare . Ahe Mistross B Mrs. Fiske | g e . 3 3 3 Saas = 5 imrl Badne e Tampe | aa deporied stdlon, is formally styled, has decided to A Million Words of Praise Mistress Quickly, ¢ to Doctor have a Gershwin night on May 29, ] 3 caius +.s Eleanor Gordon K']SSWIE AfiAlN IS %ith the Opera's orchestra, under ‘Hlmc H; en \\h:n:;-ml (’u;"rm- I“!m!u- : oyd Zool the baton of Golschman, putting lay—Tiut Nat Qae ol Them Begins : Boyd Zook : Rusans to Comvey Its GRE play on small town life in his day| which he, or it might possibly The e Douglas nm.ngu,n'l 2 e 5 (By Herald Reviewer) | NAME'] FI]R “FF‘EE““MFM‘ o play Master Will Shakespeare's droll | I c writer from I v ner, Chopin, di the the i Manhattan, his Rhapso: compositions of erto in F, and, if he finishes it in time a large audience at Parsons’ \h--.hi be called P. and T. Association ter, Hartford, last evening. ~ The| leading roles were taken by Otis skinner, Minnje Maddern Fiske and | S | Henrietta Crosman. Walter Kosswig of Hartford ave- |3 It is seldom that three stars of |nue was re-elected pre ident of the association | the game | the occasion an andience representia- | time at the final meeting of the tivs of the best tement in Hartford | season held in the school audi- jand the Amsterdam avenue trolley | and environs on hand to wel- | torjum last night. Irattling under his apartment win- [ O oy, This fale, which | —Threc o the four officers were |dows—he thinks that a few days is formidable in print, makes a rol- | returned to oflice, The fourth offi concentrated absence from salons o arce when offered on the |ur. John Coyle, was clected vice |and night clubs and other Parisian staso by players of such skill Mas- | prtiGent to succeed JamessMurphy, | entertainments will scrve t6 finish | ter Shakespcare must have been @i o retir M | discerning reporter of CONCMPOTATY |1y wis re-clec vents. He knew his Windsor, alio 4y time; and Miss Margaret ast, and wrote an interesting ac- M il was re-clected treasurer ¥lorence Dough- |1 count of what befell ‘vllm?"vfl:""';‘) ! for the fourth time philanderer Sir John )!~: *:-‘m_‘*“h”] “The Opportunities given to an | he laid siege to the hearts & American by the Greatest Country tress Jord and Mistress Page. | Mr. Skinner is superb in his l\;;’\(- |er moments wh he is contriving | to capture the affections of Mistress jin the World.,” was the subject of la talk by Mayor Angelo M. Puo- [ nessa. The part of the eve- ® Ining was devoted to the diseussion cord for the purpose of handing t Ford o I e Pand hem, 1o the |Of the children's work on exhibition | hel H andg > i e P o B i 2. Brovk, ot mejacks (1D e claes tooma. e vetlarating. thungerous aio- | Tha dollowing program yas pre: | tion of that notorious heart pirate |sented by the Musical clu | wssociated with the | Vioiin trio, * Music"—Miss |50 commonly role of Falstaft as to become & con- venfional type, Mrs, IFiske and Miss Crosman skip lightly through the adventures of | Mistress Ford and Mistress Page, re- | spectively in @ delightful manner. | Robert Sims at the plano, e forgets ho is in Hartford and | Violin solos, “In a Monastery Gar- xperioness. the pleasant illusion | den” “Garvotte”—Miss Rose Melt- | Rose Meltzer, W Sims, Ralph | Gidlund; Mrs. Robert Sims at the | piano. Soprano solos, “Spring Ts Here,” lly Ho'—Miss Edla Sims; Mrs. | | that the clock of time has been | zer; crrish at the piano, | | turned back and he is in Windsor Baritone solos, “I Love a Little | while they are on the stage. Cottage,” “Th 1l Love Jack"- The Skinner-Fiske-Crosman tri- | John Gowen; Miss Gerrish at the | umvirate has surrounded itself with | piane. o cast of exceptional merit. Law- | Soprano solos, “A Bowl of Ros | rence H. Cecil adds to the Nlusion |“In the Garden of Tomorrow referred to above in the character of | Mys, Irene Leonard; Miss Gerris Master lord, the jealous, suspicious |at the piano. ! | choleric husband. He plays his part | P R — - with dash, vehemence and color. The birthrate for England an\l‘! Rodolpho Badaloni makes a notable | | Doctor Caius. Burford “.Alnllllxn'flj {interpretation of the role of Peter | Simple is inspired .anor Gordon, |as Mistress Quickly, —seems to be that lady herself in the flesh. “The Merry Wives of Windsor” 1§ booked for Parsons for only two | days more, tonight and tomorrow I night, with a matinee tomorrow. | | Those who think of Shakespeare {only in terms of tragedy should sce | lit for enlightenment on his vers: | titity. | Wales for 1 the lowest ev recorded—16.7 per 100 of the popu- lation. This is 1.1 per 1,000 lower | than the previous while in ! 1913 the birthrate was 24.1. | Council Will Pass On Mayor’s Appointments { Among the matters slated for ac- |tion at the next meeting of the common council is the approval of | Mayor Paonessa’s appointments to the board of adjustment of Samuel | | M. McCutcheon, Maurlee fiml\loyi and Elias T. Ringrose. The council will also be asked to award a con- tract to the New Eastern Weekly Publishing Co. for printing pro- ceedings and reports for the com- | mon council, the city roster and the municipal record. JACK MULHALL DOROTHY | MACKAILL ‘Lady Be Good’ | AND A GREAT SHOW | ACTS SELECT | VAUDEVILLE Coming ay “THE PORT OF MISSING GIRLS” | | | LYCEUM LAST TIMES TONIGHT Ralph Lewis “Crooks Can’t Win” Marie Prevost i “The Girl in the Pullman” STARTS SATURDAY George Sidney —in— —PALACE— TODAY “THE POOR MOTHER" SATURDAY Richard Arien, in “UNDER THE TONTO RIM” Co-Feature “YOU CAN'T BEAT THE LAW” American in Paris” a ave been ible to do as much wo But since he ripped off the Rhap- of New the new job. “‘An American In Paris’ {s for symphony orchestra, but it is to be light—on a light subject,” Gersh- win said. “You sce most picces of symphonies are about n the sea, or what is techn Pick o' the Pictures! CAPITOL TODAY and SAT. 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