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Cniem atherwine tudicated. theatrica) matires and reviews 1n this calwmd &re ®T%en W srem agemcies far the RICHARD DIX AT STRAND “Warming up,” Richard Dix's new hotoplay at the Strand today and §uuran.y provides great cntertaiu- ent to all lovers of action stories plus the usual good love theme thal Dix always shines in. “Warming UP” is a story of a rookie bal player who tried to make good in the big leagues and with the help of a girl finally becomes the hero of the World's Serfes with the New York Yankees. Jean Arthur is the &irl and cast as the daughter of the ball magnate she gives a remark- able role opposite Richard Dix. Some great scenes of last year's World Series 18 woven into the story and with the love angle the predominating theme Strand patrons will find “Warming Up" great en- tertainment. The vaudeville pro gram is headed by the Mediterra- nean Singers, 16 great singers, in an ensemble of musical gems from the world's best music. Coming direct from Europe it is a rare divertise- ment and features Nadina - Borgi, diva incomparable. The 16 soloists | are gorgeously costumed and | against a beautiful stage setting the | offering was well received by Strand | patrons last evening. The Soldiers’ Chorus from Faust and the inspir- ing Evening Prayer from Mascagni's | immortal Cavaliera Rusticana were the bright numbers of the ensemble. Other acts include Zermaine, Farar and Canfor in & hodge-podge of variety; the Les Jardy's in “The | Human Fan;” Russell and Arm strong, “Squirrel Food Personified and Banks and Burham in “Hot | Feet.” | Regzinning Sunday, for four da\s,‘ the Strand will offer Clara Bow her new hit, “The Fleet's In," to be her greatest photoplay to date. | James Hall is in it and so is the | Navy, the Army, and the Fleet. | The shows | scenes of war Il1l‘-‘ morfal dedication foday and Satur- | dgay. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By the Associated Py Chicago—Jerry (Tnify) Griftiths, Sioux City, lowa, stopped Mike Me- v York, (1). Marty Galla- ashington, onutpointed Bud | Chicago, (§). Kddie Balla- tin, Chicago, and Mickey O'Neil, Mil- waukee, draw, (6) Norman Chicago, outpointed Tut Se el Biloxi, Miss., 46). Kid Kok cago, knocked out Larry Ieltz, Orleans, (1). Johnstown, Pa.~-liud Gorian, Chicago, and Tke Mclowler, Johns- town, draw, (1), Dillon, | John- | Kansas City, Mo.——Young Lounisville, ontpointed “lger’ ny Kline, Kansas City, (10). —PALACE— — TODAY TON SILLS in HAWRK'S NEST” ALBERTA VAUGHAN “OLD AGE HANDICAP? ATURDAY ALICE WHITE Loves Not Wisely But Too Well—See the “MAD HOIR™ Dou't Miss Ity BUCK JONE FLYING HORSEMAN" She is now located at 277 MAIN ST Opposite Brier's Barber Shop PHONE 4816-3 Nunzio E. Agnellc TEACHER OF VIOLIN STUDIO 299 MAIN ST, For Appointnents CALL 2009-9 DANCE At Norden Bungalow Saturday Night By the Norden Lodge. Music | by Carlson & Bohman. Admis sion 50c. Dancing starts at 8 o'clock. | Be Sure to Hear the Concert of the United States of Washington, D. C. Captain Taylor Branson, leader at the CAPITOL Sunday Afternoon, 2:30 o’Clock Auspices of Y. M. TICKETS ON Blair & Brodrib’s $1.50 $1 McCoy's Tickets Exchanged At McCoy's On and After Sept. 26. P | of New Rritain's war memorial dedi- in | | | day night. is reported o be increasing. 'POINCARE WILL RECEIVE s fbe | Greece | !'WQ " i lI IIFII “ Ih espective emwsemert sompasy. SAMMY COHEN AT CAPITOL Two excellent features are being offcred at the Capitol today and | Saturday at continuous perform- | ances. The main attraction being | “Plastered in Paris” with Sammy Cohen and Jack Pennick featured. | ‘Plastered nn Paris' ’is the comical story of two Legionnaires who went | back to Paris with the Legion and had & wild rampage in gay Paree. Sammy Coben, who will be remem- bered best as the funny comedian in “What Price Glory”, “The Gay | Retreat’ and other comedies of the | dough bey, is as funny as ever in | his characterization as the Legion- naire and his hely-mate Jack Pen- nick is a good foil for him in his| comedy antics. The co-feature pre- sents a wonderful romantic love | tory in “Loves of an Actress.” Tt | features beautiful Pola Negrt and Nils Asther. Beginning Sunday night the Capi- tol will offer for four days Cecil B. | De Mille’s great masterpiece “The King of Kings" with a cast of eighteen real stars an dover four thousand people in the cast. Pro- duced at the cost of two and one- half million dollars, “The King of Kings" is highly recommended by hundreds of Divines, scholars, press and the pubiic of both this country nd Europe as being the greatest | picturization of the supreme tragedy | of the ages that the screen has ever | given The Capitol News shows pictures | cation 00011\ and Saturday. ST. JOHN'S CARNIVAL Announcement was made foday that the carnisal being condueted ¥ the church of §t. John the Evan- gelist at Iast street and Newington avenue would be confinued to Tues- Several new attractions have heen installed. The atiendance PREMIER OF GREECE | nizelos Wil Be Greeted Saturday —Lcaves For London The Nest Day. Faris, Sept. 28 (UP)—Premior utheros Venizelos, of Greece, will | received by Premier Raymond | Poincars on Saturdax and on Sun- | es for London. | nizelos, ministry in by an ov r-\ the i a \\||III\\IIIII‘ His unusual into most of leadbng countries, and he is ne- | ting treaties of friendship and | pence with G s neighbors. In an inferview, Venizelos said | s sole mission is peace, and he de- | d that the freaty with Maly that | signed in Rome !his week was designed to upset the Mediterrancan balance. Similar tre exist be- | tween Greo and Eng- land. Venizelos said he is anxious to | sign identical freatios with Turke: Albania and Jugo-Slavia, | He indicated his aim was to make | feal ovith, e neigh- all disputes automatically to arbi whose was confirmed whelming majority in elections, is making peace tonr of Europe. mission i taking him the got ce the “hub by ftr whereby submitted tion. | wheer hors, “d ad well placed serviee required. | | A Hera [will do the | | Classi 6 tl s COMPANONATE MARRIAGE LEGAL?” sce this probtem play pre- sented by Comnecticut’s lead- ing Stock Company HI GARRICK PLAYERS TODAY AND SATURDAY (Matinee Saturday) AT THE CAMEO BRISTOL Call Bristol 1860 (or Seats EVERY SUNDAY 5 BIG TIME ACTS AND PHOTOPLAYS Marine Band THEATER T. A. & B. Society SALE AT— Moran’s 00 M. J. Kenney's T5¢ | their [ form it is not | drags tervibly | was | sticky. | 11:00 p. | spoil the {and contemp NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928. Reviews of Current Theater Offerings MESSRS. SHUBERT present “THE COMMON $IN" By Willard Mack (Cast of Characters) Jim Steele .... Helen Stecly Millicent Hanley Harold Lawton Evelyn Cairns ‘rank Joyner Froderick Worlock Harold Elliot Regina Lrown Henry Banloza . George Grabam Nellie Baxter . Donlin Percival .. Justine Smith Herald Roviewer) Another mau-wife-woman angle drama made its bow | at Parsons’ theater, was written by tri- play ‘after play with bewildering rapidity. Its title is “The Common , evidence that Mr. Mack knows his titles, When Jim Steele, caught falling stock market, is found dead in bed with a bullet through heart, the medical examiner turns a finding of suicic cision is buttressed by a note Steele’s handwriting explaining that suicide offered his only escape from disgrace in the eves of his | friends. But (wo or three plain- clothes detectives have a hunch that Steele was murdered. They a Lennon | Richard Gordon | He urged the Catholics to allow the rpgulmmus to be put into prac- The city's fire fighters were help- iess. The area was in darkness from | to draft a report of the recent pe- ; the commitive | from whose inexhaustible pen comes | oS HiVidunl reports and & | scientiously say whether they must Council to Meet Universal announced that the Gatholics’ Petmon in Mexico Re-| quires Great Study j eity council nest weck would ap- point new citizens commiitees to | take charge of church building in opt. 28 (A—A long quired by the senate constitutional points ihe time the fire began. due to the collapse of steel poles carrying power lines. Troops Swept Aside Chinese troops were called out to prevent looting and maintain order. Fear crazed crowds, however. swept the troops aside and looters became active. Order was restored today and soldiers were patrolling the Chinese | city. The police, charity organizations and the chamber of commerce were attempting to succor 10,000 persons who were homeless. The fire did the heaviest damage in the central | Chinese quarter. Because of the de- | accordance with Secretary of In- \ terior Portes Gil's instructions. The committees would be composed of Catholies and have five members instead of ten. W inventories of property in- ch building will be taken and held re- sponsible if :m\m‘ng is missing. Mexico CR time will be committee on tition of a grmuv of Catholics for amending the igious provisions of the tonxlwmon Miguel I7. Or- tega, chairman of the committee, said toda He said that the careful study and tl have | | | matter required t members of decided to pro-| final report would be based on this. in al | the Cathol try to browbeat suspects into mak- | ing damaging admissions and. general, act like the average detectives whom nature with brains the size of seeds, The play “Who Shot in stage endowed mustard hinges Jim on the question Steele? The ling th: heroiue and the man to whom she | is betrothed have ample motive, cording to the plot ing finger of di why new” “The Common 8in" ing, buffing The unwayer- ion. _ Eventually—but needs polish and rewriting. It has | merit—Iast night's audience seemed to like it greatly—but in its ady. The first act and parts of the third should he speaded up. Richard Gordon, who played the part of Jim Steele, is the right man in the right place. Millicent Han- ley, as his wife, was of the high type. Frederick Worlock Harry Ranzola, the wealthy lor whose weakness was true to character, Cairns, (he heroine, "Bobo improved as the play Tn the first- act she was too—er, marshmallow, —soff, suga nk Joyner, Harold liott, Regina RBrown and Shannon did well in their Act 1 consists of three listed as occurring 9:00 p. m.. m. and 0 pom It s obvious from the story that the last scene takes place at 12:30 a, m This is only a trifling error rather misleading, of the country on standard and the rest on daylight time the Jatter resuming standarq next. Sunda . Program copy ! ot be too careful the persons in the dy program they present bache- women, Evelyn Aster, progressed. Bl- Prank roles, time and time ters it rama follow fhe apt to come on | the stage twelve hours late ang whole aftair, “The Common $in will 1, Peated tonight und tomorrow With a matinee tomorrow, because re- night Hissing is not p ment, © The pyjg “Whoever hig it at the har tmitted in parliy- forbidding jt— cth shall answer for S & branch of order —dates back to 1604 Among’ the I8 stars o CECIL B.DeMILLES KING~#| NGS Story by Fearie Macprerson Presented by Pathe are H.B.WARNER ERNEST TORRENCE RUDOLPH SCHILDKRAUT JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT VICTOR VARCON| MONTAGU LOVE GILORGE SIEGMANN WILLIAM BOYD JACQUELINE LOGAN THEODORE KOSLOFF ROBERT EDESON ALAN BROOKS e cast Imnpamblc Dhe. Picture of Pictures At The e Beginning SUNDAY For 4 Days — SATURDAY — September 29, 1928 Official Opening Night At . Bill Tasillo’s LE BAL TABARIN 126 Wells St., Hartford, Ct. Dining and Dancing Telephone 2-6791 For Table Reservations, suspicion is pointed in | scenes, | but | What with part | Will Act Soon Universal quoted Luis Esther Estrada, president of the senate, aying the upper house would upon the petition as soon as the re rort was ready. He asserted that 'S were not capable of whether the regulations of the religious law were satisfactory pop: or not » no opportunity had ruins today | been given for the regulations” ap- ed in i gambling den on Tucsday | plication. and claimed an uncounted number | Ustrada was quoted as of lives | the regulations had Men hildiE the Catbolics conld justly when, p nat their lawv had ot fultilled its ty to escape from the functions, adding plunged inte the “If the priests had conducted re- | fought their ligious services in accordance With | along allevwa volied with the laws, their number not sed- | ple until overcome by snioke fixed by the constitution, | peysons were completely cremated the Catholics would not be dissatis- | [ ol taisale His fied at present because they would | eyfant of loss of Ife either have found a means to cele- | brate all religious that they require or would have applied to the legislators of these were in. | sufficient he legislator: never refuse to satisfy popular demands, religions or otherwise, if applic tion of law shows amendment ne sary hina soction Sept saying The of densely in | { | start- | i mnate of the loss was available. [!TY !S BURNE[]’ Sails for U. S. Today America today ith his today. Mr. Matsudaira will become 28, AP - of the Japanese embassy Yokohama, Japan, Sept. P 10,000 Homaless e | ambassador to Great Britain, ashington at one tine {2y ; 1 | Katsuji Debuchi, new Japanese am- Following ! : Ch»nese F“c uneo Matsudaira, whose d m:gh|»~r Mr. Debuchi 8 vice minister of STRAND | moralization which resulted no esti- ANKGY NATIVE = H | New Jap Ambassador rassador to Washington, sails for i f tsuko marrie Prince Chichibu foreign affairs nkyo and was l')li\\ AND SATURDAY “hin was becan which ftor a fire ving if applied say the social bee wonen and 1 perished abili- . they Others i desperation ' | flame lak in peo- Many was impossiblo rvices s¢ Pick O of (he Pictures! 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