New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1928, Page 37

Unlese otherwise indiraten. theatrics) o #=der by orem agencier for the b » “AIR CIRCUS” AT STRAND Zooming planes, twirling propel- | lors, romance and love mre the out- | anding features of “The Air Cir- 8" the photoplay attraction at ‘he Strand today and Saturday. Su- “arol, David Rollins, Louise Dres- we and Arthur Lake are the lead ng plavers and much credit must he given them for the excellent en- | rtainment which Strand patrons will derive from “The Air Circus.” The select vaudeville program of- | fors five acts with Helen Carlson in “Variety Doings:" The Three Stu- d:nts in a novelty dance offering that is different: Frank Sinclair and | Co. In a comedy skit, “Find 'Em | and Fool 'Em.” which is producive | of much laughter and song; Her- | bert Ashley, Sharpe and Co. in “Ac- cidents Will Happen,” a humorous | dialogue with songs and parodies, | and Parker and Babb with their | _Philippine Sextette present a very | fine dance and musical offering that was very_well liked. The dancing couple show some very fine bits of daneing to the tuneful music of tuneful guitars. I Beginning Sunday night for four days the Strand will present popu- lar Buddy Rogers, hero of “Wings, in hia latest photoplay,' “Someone to Love” with Mary Brian. INSURANCE HEADS ! HEAR OF GROUP DEPT. fold of Branch of Life |n.~u|'um-|~' Work hy Mctropolitan Leader at N. Y. Mecting. New York, Dee. 14 (®—Scventeen | thousand employers in this country and Canada have set up group in- surance programs, aggregating in value $7.500.000,000, James 15 | Kavanauzh, vice president of the | Metropolitan Life Insurance com- pany, today told the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. Through the medium of group insurance, he said, the worke saved dol goes to the insur company, which invests it immedi ately and starts it to carning in- Lorest, “The free gpending of the Amer- ican workman,” he said, “is consid- | ecred by many economists to be the lasis for our unprecedented na- tional prosperity. If there is frc buying, there is steady and profit- able employment and the high pur- chasing power of the worker oper- 4ites to keep industry prosperous. Tt is @n endleas chain of prosperity |, n which Mfe_insurance appears to be the mainspring of the mecha- nism.” Gerard 8. Nollen, president of the Bankers' Life company of Des Moines, Ta., presented the findings of a nationwide health survey| which showed 43,000 more deaths in the United States in 1928 than in 1927 as a result of an increased mortality rate. | His statistics indicated, he said. | that the 1928 death rate would be | higher than any In the past five| years, except that of 1926, when the | rate was exceptionally high. Auto- mobile fatalities showed an increase | but the Infant mortality rate show- | ed a decided drop. Organic diseases of the heart, he sald, were responsible for more deaths than any other specific cause, and inrceases in the death | rate were shown by pneumonta and influenza. Tuberculosis deaths de- | creased in 1928, Berlin Show Public | Forgets Belongings | Berlin, Dec. 14 (A—Records of the | lost and found office of Berlin state theaters indicate that the public is never quite 80 forgetful as when | attending a theatrical performance. | The list of articles picked up in | four theaters during the past year | ineludes 113 pairs of gloves, a bas- ketful of single gloves, also opera glasses, rings, brooch: ! shoes, suspenders, manicure files, ‘whistles, belts and a shirt. | Remote Island Gets Electric Equipment Saint-Denis, Island of La Reunion, | Dec. 14 (A—Although many thou- | sands of miles from the fighting zone, this Island will owe to the | war & complete ahd perfected elec- | trical system. | Germany will furnish on repa tlons account the machines and material. The plans arc now being | per cent all-talking | Award of a 8 oticer and reviews B this oalm eunective amnsemegt sompany VS TECTE T D THE TERROX" AT CAPITOL « Terror,” a Vitaphone f he Capitol tod this theater's fi pletu and every one in the cast talking their parts. y “The Torror,” a amusing mystery story admirably to Vitaphone, garded s the most revolutionary in- novation ever presented on .the screen, As an example of the added of- fectiveness obtainable through Vita- | phone, Director Roy Del Rtuth cite the weird effect secured through: a hidden pipe organ whose uncanny interruptions of scenes is one of 1l many factors Injecfing the crecpy feeling into the play. Other scenes, such as the sound of a falling body in the darkness indicating that violence has been done, the sudden slamming of « door with no one near to slam it, | mysterious rappings, shots. shriek |all become dynamic through Vita phone. Beginning Sunday the Capitol will offer another all-talkfe in presenting | The Lights of New York” with an all-star cast. . Strong Marriage Is Not “Compamona(e" 2 14 (U l’)»“ I . U. 100|||HH sta halfback, and h Tison, as “compan enied today by the cou d it 1s a “good old-faxh- ioned union.” “Ok, no,” Rella said over the tele- phone, e love cach other too much.” There was a hrief pause she conferred with h N1, and then she s rid there isn't anything to ‘companionate’ stui s unahle to o that count for his son would live at {he ernity Touse while of two days resum- work. tis true that he will finish for his studics but the Strong pa tner- ship will he maintained at the Htile nartment on "West T1st street,” the wride suigh Wachington, ce, 14 20,948 contruct/to Jo- Greenwood, ston for ¢ fan “aenfe” huilding with at the Bedford, Mass. *et- erans' 1 todgy by the §eterans bureat enwood alse weceived a $17.186scontract. for lities building there. eph I, structi 158 hey SHOP EARLY hen Relax By Lpjoying the Show at the STRAND —-TODAY and SAT.-— A Tale of Youth— Romance— Adventure— “The AIR CIRCUS” with Sue Carol David R ullllls, Vaudeville PARKER and BABB and Their Philippine Sextet And Aithur Lake Sharpe Co. “Accidents Will Happen”. completed by a technical commis- | sion and the first installations will be put in hand at an early date. It is estimated that the heat stored within the earth is 30 mil- lions times that obtainable from the world's remaining coal supply. 162 MAIN ST. Tel. 613 Open 10 A. M—9 P. M. OF BANCING U. A, M. Hall i T O IVPEVS S T FITETTEE B wthietie | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD FRID e itain i 1 Current Offerings on Stage Reviewed 1y Gl Girt T illips Pl il lin Burke Dancers . e ceees (ny ald Reviewer) Musical comedy fans had the un- usual experience last night at ar- theater, Hartford, of sceing virtually two shows in one. Down New York way producers often scil two tickets for the price of on {the management of “The Tadde offered free admission in an effoit to build up attendance. The situa- [tion at Parsons’s cannot he Isidered in the same category. I fact wes that the Messrs. Shub new extravaganza “Well, Well, Wel)" 1s vlaying its fifth performance Isince it started out to win fame and | dollars, and bulks too large. The | curtain rose at 8:25 o'clack and de- scended just 15 minutes before mid- | night i Juck Pearl and Lee Kohlmar pro- {vide a great deal of excitement as comics, + the backbone of | the production wh | horate trimmings, such as the Jack ohn Boyle Girls, who step and often. This is an show and there’s no optical n about fht. | 7he seenes change rapidly. from a in New York to a Istand. to “The plot? j modiste’s shoppe {night club on long | palatial hotel in Florida ) [ What, you expeet a plot. too? The Donahue-Boyle Girls, hut- [tressed by an agile chorus, offer a Lseries of movelty dances which win | favor immed) Their routines | are executed with dash and pep. hing unusual here—comedy is low d in the ensemble. Watch the trice Lillic person on the left Striking specialty danees arve ‘mn. by @ vouth billed as Mr. Olson [and by Veloz and Yolanda. Virs Rareett and 1L tribute hits of comedy zhd several numbers. Allan W Francis sing 1 Hillobrand, “the red hot ehim- " offers a brand of comedy which med to please mreat andienc con- [y folks in {Grfith has o nice personality addls 1ifs to the enfertainment \ SWell, Well, Well” needs entliog Hto Bring it within the fime usnally allowed a,musical corwdy. ford to lose a great dedl Herial and then he will he presented | morrow night of ma toment and fo morrow. ‘ IPor stealing a pair of silv ,m! lets from a girl, Golan 1esil w cently gentenced in Caleutia, {10 two years' hard labor. ln‘l TODAY AND TOMORROW Mutual Burlesque's “WINE, WOMAN AND SONG” AT TH RIALTO BALLROOM SATURDAY EVENING IMPERIAL ORCHESTRA —_—— - SELECT YOUR GIFTS AND CARDS AT The Model Shop IZVERY EVENING Perfect Vitaphone House! CAPITOL h has many ela- | 1t cany a zool showv. 1| with a maiinee to-| DEPUTIES DRAWS TS 1929 BUDGET Me an Al Night ‘% 55100 14 (P Clhamber ies at an all night session completed work on the 1929 budget, sed by @ final vote of The of 43,41 which was pa 160 to 120, franes. One of the Ch, was to raise the sal: of parlian francs. This the provision that afte {no member of parliament might ac- cept a positiion as an offi or di- rector or any other executive posi- tion with any financial industrial, or commercial company. If such a position were accepted, tne member must immediately resign from par- liament. last acts s of members rried with it the eclection Provides More The bu provided 612,000,000 more than the last for pen- und care of those mutilated in the war, T 0 pay of governm nes aries 500,000,- 000 francs were provi The budget slightly reduced the ax on small incomes, it ulso pro- vided for many social reforms. The vote on the salary increase for deputics was closc 2 members favoring the increase against who opposed it. The i Augaaneu bate lively. Victor former governor of and other spartan s who opposed the raise. did 50 on the ground of its offect on public opinion. They pointed ont that a corresponding ad justment of pensions paid war cripples had been refused. They also said that al number of citizens had Ishown themselves hostile to an in- in compensation of thie depu- tic peeially during the last clection compaign. Members of the government mfaintained strict neu- [ tralitv on the question, the ministers abstaining from voting. Ircland Bars \‘ hickey From Hill at Tara Dublin, Doe. 14 P--The Frec Stutes anthorities refused to licens a drinking saloon on the hill at Tara. Treland’s most historie spof. Tara draws hundreds of mmually and there s 1o Povse in fhe vicinity wher alco holic hevernges are sold. A local eit izen saw an epportunity for cnter ind applied for a 1ionse, The refused on the round that visitors to Tara mfed o the seence of olden wlories DAY not concerned with stout or wihisky was fonrists Public Prise conrt view | e of water and one of two hottlos with five razors, wera found in the pockets fa man charged at Croydon, Eng- {land. with begging hottles of heer, spirits, 1| PALACE “Ham and Eggs” A? th° Front” will at in the tre WILLIAM UAIEBANKS in “ONE CHANCE IN A M1 TOMOREOW Fred Thomson “Kit Ca rson MARY ANTOL LLOVD HUC “NO P T ( alo 3 ACTS VAUDEVILLE COMING SUN, and MON. Tom Mix Bluk Dove hy Lene Star Rznger” Ao on Same Poogram “Celebrity” with Lina Basquette ——————————t—) TODAY and SAT., Continuous SEE and HEAR! 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