New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 19, 1928, Page 11

e Uniess otherwiee indicated. theatrion) Botices and roviews In thie eolumn are 'espertive emusement compaRy. W Ren by orem agencier for the *"1ON CHANEY AT STRAND + “West of - Zanzibar,” a Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer production, n which Lon Chapey brings his strangest gifts of bizarre makeup and sinister mystery to the screen. and which is now playing at the Strand theater, is so startlingly dif- ferent from the usual drama that, it almost baffles description. Set in a surrounding of stark terror, its dramatic story of a ter- rible revenge that, like a Franken-| stein, devours its creator, the play has elements never before seen on the screen. Weird and fantastic rites of voodoo - devil-worshippers in the heart of an African jungle; the strange spell of a sinister, para- Iyzed “white voodoo” who, with tricks and lllusions, rules tribes of superstitious and savige natives; a grim chase through the Dark Continent on a relentless mission mission of revenge; these are the, dramatic highlights against which a wonderful love story is told. The vaudeville program opening today for the first half of the week presents five good ts featured by Chabot and Tortini, “The Boy From Belgium and the Girl From France. Other acts offer the Transfield ters in a musical novelty: Doyle and Donnelly, late of the Ziegfeld Fol- lies; the Three Nitos in a comedy offering and “Havana” Bound,” a laughable skit with a good cast of entertainers. On Thursday the Strand will of-| fer the personal appearance of Sun- | chine Sammy in vaudeville. He is the little colored star of the “Our | Gang" comedies and is now a riot| in vaudeville with his two brothers. ! The feature movie attraction the | latter part of the week will offer “Prep and Pep"” a story of glorious vouth, with Nancy Drexel and David Rollins, PARSONS'—HARTFORD G. Martinez Sierra in his *Cradle Song'" gave a quiet picture of life in the convent which left the audi- ences charmed and delighted. In “The Kingdom of God,” Miss Barry- | more's new play at Parsons’ theater three days the week beginning No- vember 19, Sierra has drawn with holdest strokes a picture of far | greater power and more universal | application with a very large list of characters, all sharply defined and individual. Sierra has bullt a drama | that touches, one way or another, most types of persons who are awake to the problems of the world today. Mass. Auto Toll for Week Just Ended Is 23 ‘Boston, Nov. 19 (l,'!‘)—Twenly-‘ three persons were killed in auto- mobile accidents in Massachusetts last week, according to the report of George A. Parker, registrar of motor vehicles. This was four more than for the previous week and eight more than for the corresponding period of | 1987, PALACE TW with CONRAD VELDT Co- WOOT GIBSON In “THE DANGER RIDER" —_— Tomerrew MILTON SILLS in “THE CRASH" Also “GENTLEMAN PREFER BLONDES” end BLANKET NIGHT —— WED. ONLY RICHARD BARTHELMESS in “PATENT LEATHER KID” Don’t Miss 1t ‘.ll' Imlml - ToNe LY | vouth, | Stephens, a leading - nif heherh ol -lnlll' = o & - | AT THE CAPITOL ! “Wings” the sensational story of | the aviation forces in the late Worid | War is being presented’at the Capi- | tol all this week with sound and at | continuous shows daily, All those who are interested high courage, the bravery of unsel- fish and unheeding youth, the splen- dour of youthful sacrifice and beauty of human comradeship should go to | see “Wings” at the Capitol theater | this week. It is a film setting forth | the work of the young knights of the clouds in the war. But it is far more than a film. It is an epic of fearless young manhood. a paean of tribute to the airmen “whose wings are folded forever—as a beautiful | phrase of dedication says—and it is also an amazing example of what can | be achieved in the air. It is no com- | bination of trickery and models, but in | | | |a realistic visualization of real peo- | ple riding the clouds and triumph- | ing over the dawr. ol The story is one of genuine drama rich with the finest qualities that lie at the basis of the friendships of and touched with intinits of romance, which | beauty runs | through it like a silver thread in a | i purple pall. Dramatic effects of sound are pro- duced by means of an electrically | operated hoard in the projection booth, which insures absolute syn- chronization of sound and scene. Clara Bow and Buddy Rogers are featured. There is one Vitaphon» act on the show and it offers Winniz Lightner, the musical comedy fav- orite in a cvele of song called | “Broadway Favorites " DR. HARDING DIES FOLLOWING STROKE. (Continued from First Page) history, was born June 12, 1544 in | Morrow county, Ohio. He was the only son of Charles A. and Mary A. (Crawford) Harding, pioncers of that section of the state. Dr. Harding traced his ancestral record back many gencrations. The | original name was Harodene. On | the maternal side the Crawfords and the Davises were connected, Dr. Harding's maternal grandfather | being a first cousin of Jefferson Davis. His grandmother Crawford was a first cousin of Alexander statesman for | the southern cause. COonnecticut Connections Dr. Harding bore the name of his great-great-great grandfather. Gov- ernor Tryon of Connecticut. He was educated in Morrow county, attend- ing the rural school at Blooming- grove, old Ohio Central college at Iberia, O., and the Cleveland Homeo- pathic_college. He was graduated from the medical school in 1873, fol- | I | Columbus, Ohio; | supreme | identifying "r‘r of Dr. Harding, was born April s, | at Bloominggrove, January 9, 1560, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1928 lowing which he continued to prac- f tice at Caledonia until 1882, when | ho moved to Marion. He built the | Star office block on East Cénter street, Marion, and occupied an up- | stairs corner room for more than 40 years. For many years he was an ac- | tive member of the national and state homeopathic societies and of the Round Table Hom=opathic Med- | ical society in Columbus. Prominent in G. A. R. He also was conspicuous in na- tional and state G. A. R. circles. rving as surgeon general at one time of the national body of Civil war veterans. Tn 1564, Dr. Harding was married to Miss Pheobe Elizabeth Dickerson of Morrow county. She died in 1909 in Marion. To. them the following children were botn: Almira and Charles, both of whom died when children and "aré buried at Cale. donia: Warren G. Harding, who was nominafed for the presidency of the | United States by the Chicago repub- | lican convention in 1920 on his father's birthday and was elected on his own birthday; Charity Hard- ing, who was called’ “Chat.” and who is the wife of E. E. Remsberg of Santa Ana, California; Mary Harding, who was named after Dr. Harding's mother and who died after teaching for many years in the state school for the blind at Miss Abigall V. Harding, known to hn‘r‘\ intimate friends as Daisy, a teacher in the Marion public &chools; Caroline Harding. who Is the wife of the ! tev. Heber Votaw, superintendent of federal prisons and for 15 years A missionary in India, and Dr. George Tryon Harding, ir. called “Deacon” by his father, and who is now conducting a rest home and ' sanitarinm at Worthington, Ohio. Married at 77 At the age of 77, Dr. Harding was married again to Miss Alice Severns. Dr. Harding's fraternal as- sociations were with the Odd Fel- lows and Knights of Pythias. He had been supreme commander and medical director of the Order of the Red Cross. Always he | was a friend of all religions work, | himself with the Bap- tist chu although he often said he was a “liberal” in his theologi- cal views. “I regard a man for what he is and not for his particular re- ligious connections or church rela- | tion,” he frequently said Historical Family Charles Alexander Harding. fath- | . 1520, and died at Bloominggrove, Morrow county, W April 3. 1878, He the son of George Tryon Hard- ing. who was born in Luzerne coun- | ty, Penn.,, June 15, 1790, and died | moving to Morrow county in 1820, | Amos Harding. great-grandfather | of Dr. Harding, is the only member | of the Harding family of whom ac- curate data is obtainable. He was born in Deer Park, now Port Jer- | vis. Orange county, N. J., March 10, | 1764. In 1 he went with his father to the historic Wyoming v: ley of Pennsylvania, settling in Exe- ter township, near Wilkesharre, Lu- zerne county, in what was then known as “Connecticut Reserve.” Their home was close to a farm owned by Jonathan Slocum and Slocum's father-in-law, Ebenezer ripp. The region was then a wil- derness, but was rapidly being popu- lated by settlers coming in from Connecticut. The long serics of con- | | valley. members tests for the possession of land be- tween settlers and the Pennsylvania authorities culminated in the sum- mer, when the Iroquois, Sencea and Delaware Indians, under the leader- ship of “Indian” Butler, a Tory: Queen Esther, of the Iroquois, and other savages, ook the war pith against the scttlers of the Wyoming They destroyed every ment in their path. Finally they reached Fort Jenkins, commanded by Gaptain Stephen Harding, at the | time. This was June 30, 17 All Fonght Bravely Practically all of thie of the Harding family heréd at the fort, and his- rds show that “everyone werd toric | able to point a gun fought with a desperation as only one when fighting for life.” After th the members of the fert “fell back down the river to IFory fort." It was'at Fort Jenkins that Ben jamin and Stukey Harding, sons of Captain ~ Stephen Hard o3 killed.: The defenders of Fory fort, under immediate ' |Col. Zebulon Butler, numbered 230 enrolled men—many of them minors | —and 70 boys and old men, a total of 300. In the battle that followed {with the British and Indians July '3, 1778, about all of the Hardings were wiped out, only 140 of the 300 cscaping. Among the survivers was Abraham Harding, Harding. who moved to Richland | county, Ohio, from Pennsylvania, in 1820, He dicd in 1839 and was | burica at Bloominggrove, the site lof which is on a part of the land he purchased on comivg to Ohio ! His grave in the little old cemctery is marked with a plain marble slab, on which is inseribed: | In Memory i Amos Harding, Who Died July 10, 1839, In the 74th vear of his age. Amos Harding was the father of 17 children, of whom 12 had fam- ilies. Only one of the 12—Benjamin father of Amos | ' FIREMAN RECEIVES GIFT Members of No. smoking Set Company Present to Tom Roper. Thomas who retired on pension from the fire department by { unanimous vote of the commission- ers, after 24 years service was ploas- ! antly suprised as he lined up for roll call at No. 6 station Satudray night, Roper, members of the company. It was his last roll call and although he had been with Co. No. 6 only a few months, the “hoys” were desirous of assuring him that they had enjoyed died under 70. Two—William and | Wealthy—lived to be over 90, uick relief for COLDS since 1889, Hunting for icebergs Mountains of ice break off the Greenland glaciers and haphazardly cruise the North Atlantic, a grave menace to ships and shipping, Hunting out I-E ese icebergs, 5o that giant liners may be forewarned, is a cold job if ever there was one, On lookout duty in dirty weather, in freezing sleet and great sca winds—no wonder the men take instant pre- caution at the very first hint of a cold. Theold rcliable remedy is GROVE'S BROMO QUININE. How good for a cold it is, you may judge from the fact that 22,000,000 boxes were bought last year, It doesn’t merely eliminate symptoms. Its tonic and laxative ingredients hel nature to help you. Thus you either side-step the cold entirely or throw it oft quickly. ... Be sure! Emphasize GROVE'S when asking for GROVE'S BROMO QUININE. Price 30¢. RO BROMO LAXATIVE " Perfect Vitaphone Ho: CAPITOL NOW PLAYING ALL TH Continuous Shows VE'S QUININE TABLETS use! SEE! AND WEEK! No More sure that your all parts of the AT HIS LAST ROLL CALL | by a gift of a smoking sct from the | | their association with him and were [hopeful that he would have loug |lite and happiness after his long !service in the department. Tom {Feplica bricily und sincerely. | TROUBLE IN HARBIN | London, Nov. 19 UP—aA Reuter dispatch from Nanking, China, 1o- | day said there were semi-official re- [ports of more than one hundred casualties during suppression of re- cent popular _demonstrations in |Harbin, Changchin and Tsitsihar, Manchuria, in favor of hoisting the nationalist flags in the three east. ern provinces. GEN. BOOTH'S CONDITION London. Nov. § (P—General William Bramwell Booth, comman- der of the Salvation Army, passed a fairly good night. His condition this morning was unchanged. Furnace Worries Use Citizens’ Coal this winter and you'll be furnace will throw a steady even heat all the time. For the convenience of our customers from city we are maintaining an office on Main Street beside the entrance to the Strand Theater. VISCOUNTESS GREY DIES London, Nov. 19 UP—Viscountess Grey is dead at the age of §7. Tha |second wite of Viscount Grey of Fallodon, former secretary for for- eign affairs, died after @ sudden ili- ness at her home at Wilsford Maner, Salisbury, A Blessing To Good Complexions | Protect your beauty in all kinds of weather with this new face powder ;——MELLO-GLOA Does not give the | skin a dry feeling: does not clog the pores; Is not affected so much by perspiration. Stays on longer. Fo pure and fine. MELLO-GLO is made | by a new Krench Process. It's truly ' wonderful. 24 Dwight Court Telephones Main St. Office 3366 Yard Otfice 2798 < %/ TEETH Make Such a DIFFERENCE Dr. Wm. F. Keith Surgeon Dentist ABSOLUTELY PAINLESS Tooth Extraction Is His Specialty The equipment of Dr. Keith’s office is very com- plete. It includes the best and latest apparatus for X-Ray work, special Gas Oxygen administrator for extraction, which elimin- ates bad after effects, alsc special machinery for making the highest types of plate work, and other Sanitation in dental work demands great cleanliness and you will have to travel far before you will find another dental office which is cleaner, neater and more sanitary. The exceptional care taken to render every instrument and apparatus absolutely sterile will, I THE COLLEGE STICK A Musioal Comedy Given By LANDERS GIRLS' CLUB L AB Neu P. M. Nov. 22, 1925—8:15 Dancing Geo. Lynch Orch. Admimion 50c PARSONS NARTFORD NOV. 19-20.21 Populsr Prices Mat. Wed. The Season's Most Fxorptional Dramatic Offering Mr. Lee Shubert Preaents Miss Ethel Barrymore i § “The Kingdom of God’ A Play in Three Acts by G. Martinez Sierra. Adaptation by Helen and H. Granville Barker A Play of Beawty, of Pathos, and of Puwer Choice Seats by 3 artificial restorations. In fact it is doubtful if there is a more thoroughly equipped office in the state. Will Yoxu Finish the Year with Bad Teeth? Will you go along day after day, allowing bad teeth and unhealthy gums to undermine your health, and slowly but surely cause diseases which may become incurable, or will vou take advantage of the exception- al service Dr. Keith has brought to New Britain, and have your teeth made right before it is too late? Physicians are sending more peo- ple to dentists every day hecause they realize that bad teeth are the causes of much sickness. Picture to yourself the advan- tages of a clean mouth. You know it means better health, improved ap- know, appeal to everyone. 8 & 3 P o LIONEL BARRYMORE.LON CHANEY and MARY. NOLAN ia"WEST OF ZANZIBARY STRAND — TODAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY GLORIO[’S adventure —roaring planes zooming, fighting above the clouds. 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LATER MAY BE TOO LATE SURGEON DENTIST Dr. Keith, 300 Main St., New Britain TRANSFIELD § “HAVANA BOUND” A Sca-Going Conedy THURS.—FRL—SAT. PERSONAL APPEARANCE IN VAUDEVILLE OF SUNSHINE SAMMY The Little Star of the “Our Gang” Comedies “PREP and PEP” with DAVID ROLLINS and NANCY DREXEL ARTHUR HOPKINS Presents Prior to s N. Y. Premier “THE DOLLAR” A New Comedy hy Philip Barry Settings by Robert Kdmond Jomes Staged by Arthut Hopkine Prices: Eves. Orch. # Balc. $1.9, $1; Fam. Cir. 35c.; Sat. Mat. Orch. $1.30; Balc. §1. Seats NOW. "~ HEAR TA ! LIGRTNER SINGING BROADWAY FAVORITES “The Lion and the Mouse” ON THE VITAPHONE WINNTE STARTS XT