New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1928, Page 9

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928 York by air Instead of through the Federal Reserve bank. It also saves intercsy—about § cents per day per $1,000,—for every day ved in AIR TRANSPORT ‘Watkins, his wife and brothers-in- ‘Vatkh‘! Is Sti" in law, Guy and Maynard Tresslar, Defiance of Authorities i juit n urauit of $100.000 hor Hartfopd, Aug. 9 (UP)—Although | the last Says D. A. R. Is Not Against Mrs. Smith New London, 9y (UP)— band, never had s slngle diveres and has devoted herself to her family—in the White llnu."u Aug. transportation. The air mail con- | authorities expect him to confess Il"ll [l 4 ‘I" l.fl| e & it'fl"" - J\\v ey ) ".. e Unlems otherwise Indicated. theatrica) motices and reviews in this eolumn are written by press agencies for the 1 AT THE PALACE +“Sorrell and Son” has been ac-| clalmed everywhere it has been | shown as one of the finest, if nol the very finest, pictures produced during the past five years. Don’t miss “Sorrell and So The long-awaited screen version of that novel of father and son de- votion which has been head by hundreds of thousands of readers throughout the world had its local premiere at the Palace theater, and | it i8 easily ranked among the year's five best pictures. Brilliant direction, acting so real that the eminent players scem to be living their roles, fine settings: n- cluding historic spots in England, where much of the story was filmed —and flawless photography combinc to create what is n. arly the ulti- mate in entertainment. LAURA LA PLANTE AT CAPITOL The Capitol theater presented one of the best comedies of the current season when “Home James,” Laura| La Plante's new starring vehicle fur' Universal, opened hefore a mirthful audience for 3 days heginning today. |y All the pretty young girls who |\ want to leave for the Lig city to| study art, and there are any num- ber of them, should know what happens to the blonde Laura. She | does get to study art—but in the | art section department store’ where she three dollar pictures for two-ninety-eight, The co-featur Brent with A Menjou in Night of Myst: an exciting ac- tion drama with a dramatic smash for a clim Coming Sunday “Road Housc,” the lays bare the doin generation | haunts of the ja babics. T 1 Barrymore and beau tiful Maria Alba are featured | FRAU SPADA MAKES FRIENDS IN ASSAM Tells of Meetings With Trouble- some Tribesmen in Wilds Munich, Aug. 9. (P)— Spuda, who left Munich in a 100-horsepower car 1o invest gate the mysteries of Tiba, reachcd the country of th h- or tribes in Assam, on the Tibetan | border, and has written home about | her meetings with tribesmen who have gwen the British a deal of trouble in past yea Two Bnglishmen were slain there in 1911 because the natives took the red label on a liquor bottle for a “declaration of war,” and in offi- ports they were deseribed as | and sulky race. u Spada gave them pres- sents, kept them amused and be- came quite friendly with them. The Abor chicitains, she writes, | believed that the ‘“great whig queen, Victoria, was still alive an reigning. They do not know what | an ocean is, because they have ney- | er scen one, Their women wear enormous weights in their ears, and | almost invariably —sufer from gol- | presents Evelyn ol for four days photoplay that | of the younger is | Fran Frieda | ast August Frau Spada’s gramaphone creat- | ed wild excitement. The Abors be- | t a demon ecalled Nipung | led in the box, and they fought for the possession of dis- earded gramaphone needles which they called “Nipung's teeth.” | Dr , washing, tooth brush- fng and shoe cleaning were unend- ing sources of amusement to the | primitive mountaineers, says Frau Bpada, but the greatest of all jokes to them was the sight of her chauf- feur shaving himself. After a display of native dancing, the Abors insisted on secing the Europeans dance, too, so Frau &pa- da obliged with a fox trot with her chauffeur. | The chauffeur incidentally gain- | ed great reputation as “the world's strongest man” because, af- ter Frau Spada—by arrangement— had fired a blank cartridge at him, he took out of his mouth a bullet Which he had previously concealed there. ! FOUR ARE DROWNED | Covington, Ky., Aug. 9 (B—Three children and their father were drowned in the Licking river here yesterday while the mother, with a | baby in hér arms, looked on. CAPITOL Pick o' the 2 Features Pictures! “HOME Love and Laughs—Roars and Romance = Co-Feature Adolphe Menjon —in— Evelyn Brent, “A NIGHT OF A Drama with a Panch! Merchants’ Gifts | Univer: i Dela |at_a hospital here ®spective amusemeat company. FINE BILL AT STRAND A new select vaudeville program and the feature photoplay offering Jazz Mad” opened a three day en- |gagement at the Strand this after- noon and judging from the apjause accorded the show should prove popular and entertaining to theater- | goers. The vaudeville program is headed | by Joe Niemeyer and his company |in a musical comedy revue entitled “Samples.” “Alpine Sports” intro- | duces a trio of aghletes who are re- markable, especially entertaining and clever on skils. Other acts in- clude Jerome Mann in “Impres- sions”; Ted Leslie and Beil Wright “Doing Something Different” and a real latghable offering icorge Yeomans and Lizzie, Romance and good acting featur- | cd the presentation of “Jazz Mad,” al picture starring Jean Her- sholt, that opened before an enthu- siastic audlence at the Strand the- ater today. Marion on and| | George Lewls provided the mmancc""*fl"‘ of raising money to pay for and Hersholt the acting. The picture can be ranked among Hu‘ best that have shown here this ar. It has everything to please an NiUioncs Toman fntse atinies in the story | whose great symphony won't sell and who has to earn a living by playing in a comedy jazz band. Beginning Sunday night for 4 days Greta Garbo will pe presented with Conrad Nagel in “The Mysteri | ous Lady” her greatest story since | this b silver utiful star has been on the cen, Darien Girl Is in a Serious Condition Norwalk, Aug. 9 (UP)—Injured in a collision between two automo- biles at Darien. Miss Elizabeth Dela- field, 19, 1d, wealthy retired New York was in serious condition Mi: Sarah Brown I \mlmd fam- ily governess, was also in a scrious condition, Mi. Delafield was driving to her Darien home with the governess and a younger sister, Georgette, 14, | At the intersection of Iecroy and | West avenues, the large sedan sftruek a small touring car driven by Edward H. Singer. Singer was broker, treated at his home for head injur- | ics. Miss Georgette Delafield was uninjured. Miss Pentland has a skull, fractured | Engli I;Clergy Ordered- To Offer Thanksgiving | London, Aug. 9 (P —The arch- bishops of Canterbury and York to- | day issued a statement advising the clergy of the parish churches of England to offer p: ers of thanks- giving on the occasion of the sign- m\ of the old muslclall‘ ighter of Edward H. | HELP§ BUSINESS Financial Assistance Given by| Aviation Expansion Washington, Aug. 9. (UP)— Business, big and little, 8 turning to aviation tramsportation more and morb, and increasing demands for air mail and express service are | being made from all over the Unit- | ed States. The recent reduction of the air- mail rate has resulted in daily | demands from . business men in | many smaller cities for extension | of this ~service, Maj. | Clarence | Young, head of the aviation branch of the commerce department said | today. His branch is spending $1,- | 250,000 this year improving airways | in all parts of the nation. | Business men _in general, outside of the aviation indus! have de- | | voted themselves to promoting air | ports and aviation services, in order to make the newer and faster trans- | portati able to flnm. A B | Barber, head of the U. S. Chamber | |ot Commerce Transportation and Communication department, said. “Business men are committing | themselves to pay millions in taxes, | through bond issues and other | municipal airports over the | try, Barber said. Barber pointed to a recent survey | of business use of air mail and | press by banks, insurance comp nies and other concerns, which | showed that 40 per cent used it |extensively and 41 per cent occa- | sionally | Banks are sending checks, drafts, | securitics, shipping documents, and |other important rush mess: | Insurance companies send letters, | applications, daily reports, policics, |onds and mortgages, and busines: houses send contracts, advertising copy and proofs, urgently-needed | | repai news pictures, and many | other articles, f Barber said the chamber of com- merce were spending millions of dollars in promoting aviation fa- cilitics, making surveys of airports, scliing the air mail and express to | | their members, and helping to obh- tain air mail and a services | tor their communities. | Many committees on aviation | have been formed over the country, |and the national chamber has or- | Banized an acvonautics committes | of business and aviation leaders, to | which Charles Lindbergh is a spe- | cial adviser. John G. Lonsdale, St. ! Louis banker and chairman of the committee, has started the work on an expectation that “the map of the United States, hrough commer- clal acronautics will soon be no larger ‘relatively than that of the | state of Texas.” The business men who use the alrplane service do so because it is profitable, Barher said. The banks | report that the airplane makes | funds available earlier, one mffldle | western bank reporting it sa |two days by sending paper to New | i coun- ing of the Kellogg anti-war pact in | Parls on August 27. “The occasion is a great one in | the contemporary history of world,” the statement said. the | In cases where it was not possible | {to offer prayers on Monday, archbishops suggest it should |done on Sunday, the 26th, the be A balloon 86 feet in diameter, built in Berlin, is expected to reach { @ height of nine miles. PARENTS! Yo ARE TO BLAME! The negligence of the par- ents become the vices of sons and daughters, SEE — ‘Road House’ A thrilling expose of the half world that doesn’t wake up till after bed time! AT THE CAPITOL SUN, MON,, TU TODAY, FRIL, SAT. Continuous JAMES” MYSTERY” Friday Night BEGINS SUNDAY “ROAD HOUSE” It Shows What the Youth, Pep, Life, Love | | it's Tteal Good! “JAZZ MAD” with JEAN HERSHOIT Marion Nixon, George Lewis BEGINS SUNDAY GRETA GARBO -, The TODAY ONLY Young Set Do After Midi | ness houses { fairs and how to use the | participated | Suffrage | to the | of would-he ‘\o man cowld resist her exoti TUNNEY-HEENEY nects San Francisco and New Yo in two business days, compared with five days taken by train, 1In-| surance eompanies emphasized the time-saving element, as did busi- in gencral. | WOMENBIG FACTOR | NFALL ELECTION, Many of Them Are Active Po- litical Workers Washington, Aug. 9. (A thusiastic “suffragette” with her trailing skirts and feathe bedeeked hat, has changed as rapid- ly in Knowledge of the country’s af- vote as in the opinion of vin, president of | League of Women The en- | of 1 | she has in dr Miss Delle She [ the National Voters, August 26 marks the cighth niversary of Americun women be- given the vote, Women have in two presidential vlections, id Miss Sherwin - by lieves they will take cates part in history in the paign and election, That will be due, she the striking personalitics in the n, and the “likelihood that sues will be vividly discuss- an- suys, 1o Chere will be no formal obsery- ances of the cighth annivers but clubs throughout the will note it with informal gathe inzs of some sort, ders point out, ol vote just principle of the thi day they are politica calm and instructed, and it is serted the body of non-voting wo- men who take no intercst in th political, is not proportiona®:ly greater than the same men votcrs. hecause of g but to- Iy minded The names of many women of the later day movement still are on the s of active political workers, Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, who for the suf ional American Womgn's Association, has devoted Uthe last cight years ional Confercnee sn the Cause and Cure of War. Mrs. Harrict Taylor Upton, who worked with Susan B. Anthony as a younz girl, now is a member of the advisory committee of the na- tional republican committee and a member of the hoard of the League of Women Voters, James W. Morrison, first ident of the Lecague, was e for the Chicago parade women voters in 1916 that resulted, in spite of a down- pour of rain, in the first suffrage plank in the republican n platform. her atte 5 READ HERALD (‘L\ JFOR BEST RES IFTED ADS VLTS TODAY, FRI, S 2:10 and 5 ACTS 5 SELECT VAUDEVILLE JOE NIEMEYER 00, Presents “SAMPL| A minfature musical comedy revue. George Yeoman and Lizzie in “INFORMATION" Jerome Mann Offers “IMPRE ALPINE SPORT! ‘Wonders On Miss Ted Leslie with Bell Wright “JUST A BIT DIFFERENT” beauty! LADY i CONRAD NAGEL PH MSCHENCK resents o] HERB women | roup of 15 years was president of | ational | Rumored opposition of the Daugh- of the American Revelution to 3. Smith was ridiculed George B. 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