New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 13

"!" thpu), illl - V’nl Ol othorwioe tadicated. theptriea! et W erem egeacies for the I“l‘l GRAND THEATER, HARTFORD A production that has won praise from those who have seen it is “Laf- fin Thru,” current attraction at the New Grand theater all this week. Unique costuming and scenery are only two of the unusual things about “Laffin Thru." It is a show that has put every audience in a happy mood. While featuring “Peaches,” shim- my dancer, and Joe Van, one of comedy’s best bets, there are many others worthy of notes Art Harris, & Hebrew by birth and fun maker by nature; Katherine Stevens, a firat soubrette, Althea Conley a prima donna with a golden voice; Edna Harris, a ‘blonde beauty who also lias a soubrette line; Don Proctor, a handsome juvenile and accomplish- d dancer. Benny Kannes, William de Gray and others well suited to the various characters they play. An unusual feature of “Laffin Thru” is the Monte Carlo band one.of the snappiest aggregations of musicians in the East. This orchestra is made up entirely from members of the cast all of whom play some kind of a musical instrument. Specialties which have proven to be an out- standing hit are offered by the Four Pages a quartet billed as a whole volume of harmony. “Laffin Thru” is of the revue type and boasts ac- tion calculated to weep everyone in- terested and a chorus that is youth- ful and attractive. “SUBMARINE” AT CAPITOL For three more days, today, Fri- day and Saturday, the Capitol Wwill offer “Submarine,” with sound, on the Vitaphone, a mighty drama of the sea. Much of the action was filmed under water. Jack Holt in the role of a diver does some of his most daring feats at the botton- of the sea. During the filming ot one scquence a rope became en- tangled around his ankle. He plunged headlong, . but the buoy- ancy of the water prevented him from falling his full length, “I tried to rise,”” said Holt relat ing his adventure, which was veri- | fied by the film record secured by the camera. “Suddenly I was swat- ted on the head by something blunt. ¥or a moment I fancied I had struck some wreckage. T looked about and beheld myself entirely surrounded by a school of tuna. They walled me in. I fought them off but it seemed like an impossible fight against such odds. They kept bumping into me from every side. 1 gave the signal to be hauled aloft. It seemed hours before I reached the surface, all but ex- hausted from the strenuous work of keeping clear of the fish." On Trial Sunday Beginning Sunday the Capitol will | offer the Warner Bros. new 1000 all talking picture sensation “On | ‘rrial.” Every character in the cast is heard speaking their lines. Among the featured players are Pauline 'rederick, Bert Lytell and Lois Wilson, Police Believe They Have “Society Bandit” Chicago, Jan. 17 (M—Police today believed that in Rocco Rotuna they had the “soicety bandit” who in re- cent months has plundered men and women of wealth and social posi- tion. | Rotuna was identified by Melvin | A. Traylor, president of the First | National bank, as one of the men who held up and robbed him and | a party of friends last October. Cash and jewels were taken. ! Rotuna also has been identified, | police said, as one of the men who | kidnapped and robbed a party of Chicago and Detroit people last Fri day and robbed them. He also awaits trial for robbery of the Inland Tire company, and has in appellate | court an appeal for a new trial in| connection with a robbery and | shooting at the Parody cafe a year | ago. Altogether Rotuna’s bonds total $245,000. | Ask Churches Observe Ratification of Pact | Washington, Jan. 17 (#— throughout the country wers S night by the Federal Council of Churches to observe the ratitica- y tion of the peace pact on Sunday, | January 2 i The request sent by telegram to | Federal Council secretaries said the peace pact was regarded as a high- Iy significant step toward enduring | world peace and raising a néw bul- | welk against the menace of war by stressing the obligation to use only agencics and procedures of peace for solving all international contro- vorsies. Let church bells ring, songs be sung, prayers of thanksgiving offer- cd and petitions for help from God | that our nation may cver follow the spirit and mcaning of the pact,” the message concluded. | READ HERALD CL. | | | | | HAUTFORD Thorsis:, : the Season SADTIAY BOUND £1.50—Mat. ) PRIOR TO PREMIERE ARK RO esents A Melodruma by Hates Hunter “CANE CR.OP" MIRIAM HOPKINS_ tading Harold Duight d. Malcom Dunn and_Others. Prices—Erves. 500, to $1.50; Sat. Mat. o $1.00. Seats Jan. 1—By Mail R % |Messenger Exchanges ur(hlh‘ ; i'i: ) l‘"!'[ ill'll n'n ||| I-!lgl GREAT SHOW AT STRAND A brand new program of select vaudeville and photoplays opened at the Strand today for the balance of the week, there belng some extraor- dinary talent among the vaudeville numbers. Pat Henning, Broadway’s youthful star, and his company will present “Versatile Moments,” an of- fering that will be found real enter- taining; Dainty Marie and Co. pre- sent a riot of laughs in “The Reduc- ing Studio.” Dainty bfarie is a physical culture beauty of much re- known. Julia Curtiss will be well liked with her mimicry as she is the best in her particular line of en- tertainment; Mann and Leslie, the joy boys, in a way of their own; and the Girls from the Golden West, six Whoopee Girls, will present “Songs and Mu: Five souls—two women and three men—are entangled in the web of romance and tragedy that makes up the intensely interesting story of “Man, Woman and Wife,” the Uni- versal picture starring Norman Kerry now showing at the Strand. Two of them—a man and a wom- an—are of the underworld. Anoth- er man and woman belong to so- clety’s finest. The fifth is a tragic figure tossed between the under- world existence forced upon him and in high social circles. Beginning Sunday night for a four {day run, the Strand will offer popu- |lar Clara Bow in Elinor Glyn's | “Three Week Ends.” {CHICAGO MILK SUPPLY REPORTED ENDANGERED Striking Dairymen of Illinois and | ‘Wisconsin May Bring Suffering on City. Chicago, Jan, 17 (®—The milk supply of America’s second city was endangered today by striking dairy- |men of Illinois and Wisconsin, de- manding $2.85 a hundredweight for {milk in place of the $2.50 the dis- | tributors | paying. Some distributors are storing thousands of pounds of condensel milk to meet an emergency, al-| though none was of the opinion the |milk shortage would .become acute. There were reports that producers in several sections had been stopped en route to distributing plants, and their milk dumped on the ground. Picketing at several receiving sta- tions was continued today by strik- |ers and plans were being made to | picket other stations of the Borden and Bowman Dairy companies, | which distribute about two-thirds of the city's milk, De Alvarez Plans to Tour Through Calif. | San Francisco, Jan. 17 (#—Senor- {ita Lill de Alvarez, Europe's leadin, ;\\omqn tennis player, will visit Ca [ fornia in March and will play ex- | hibition matches in Los Angees and San Francisco. Dr. Sumner Hardy. president of the California Lawn Tennis association announced yester- day he had completed arrangements for her tour. Scnorita De Alvarez will arrive |in Mexico City in February and after exhibition matches there will come to California and proceed thence to the Pacific northwe The Mexican tennis association of | Mexico City has asked Miss Helen Wills to be its guest and play against norita De Alvarez, but Miss Wills has not decided about accepting the nvitation, Senorita De Alvarez rates next to Miss Wills in world ranking of wom- en players. She was finalist wit Helen in the Wimbledon champion. ships last year. Shots With fobbers| Boston, Jan. 17 (A —Drawing his lown revolver in answer to the com- mand of two holdup men to “stick | up, em George H. Gross, bank cr for the State Street Trust exchanged shots with the |robbers in front of the Catholic| Archdiocesan house in the Back | Bay district late yesterday. was carrying a bag which | ed checks, but which the robbers evidently believed held sh. As Gross drew his revolver, onc lof the holdup men fired twice. The bullets narrowly missed Gross but the robbers turned and fled. Gross fired “after them as they leaped to the running board of a waiting au- tomobile and made a getaway. On- lookers reported that one of the men slumped into the car indicat- ing the possibility that one of Gross' shots may have taken effect. Gross had been collecting checks |for deposit and had just left the :\rnhdlocn_san house when accosted. [ ———— —PALACE-— 'ODAY AIN OF DUST” ICARDO CORTEZ “THE G with CLAIRE “l\l)w“ Co-Fe “)\IORRO“F “ANYIH)D\' Hi IL SEEN walks of New York. Den't miss it. with BESSIE LOVE and TOM MOORE Co-Feature “WHEN DANGER CALLS" will offer the latest songs | his former position of respectability | have offered to continue | | door. | Begins SUNDAY || BRIEF SERVICES AT RUTH FUNERAL Growds Jam Street to Glimpse the Babe Boston, Jan. 17 (UP)—While crowds of curious stood outside, with 28 policemen maintaining or- der, simple funeral services were held today for Mrs. “Babe” Ruth, whose tragic death in a fire in Wi tertown last Friday night created a sensation, ‘The funéral had been authorized following the report of a second au- topsy, which proved conclusively that death had been accidental—the result of suffocation and incinera- tion—and that there had been no foul play. A light snow was falling when Ruth, who had collapsed earlier in the morning when he first glimpsed ‘V.he remains of his wife, returned to {the Woodford home for the funeral |about 20 minutes before the services were scheduled to commence, .Ruth Present Ruth, clad in a blue serge suit and blue overcoat, and wearing a black felt hat, white shirt and black cra- vat, stepped from the sea-green col- ored limousine of Attorney John P. Feeney, his counsel ,and preceded Feeney, Police Superintendent Mich- ael H. Crowley and the latter's son, | Arthur, up the steps door. The Woodford home, where the services werz held, is an old-fash- foned two and a half story wooden dwelling, located in the congested | residential district of West Fourth street, South Boston. Its curtains were drawn and at one e of the | front door a grey-ribbed crepe con- | tributed further to ;mospherc. Door Barred A guard at the door barred the i path of all except the relatives and close friends who had been invited to the funeral, and reporters and |cameramen were obliged to remain |in front of the house. | At 9 a. m., just before the services began, a crowd of about 400 packed the street in front of the Woodford home, 28 Police There Despite the efforts of 28 police- men, the spectators had edged their | {way closer to the scene of the ‘nmem and many of them were on the opposite side of the street, giving the effect of a miniature ta- dium. Half an hour after Ruth and his party had been admitted by the {door guard, a priest walked down | West Fourth street and entered the | Woodford home. This was the Rev. Burke, pastor of St. Augustine's church, which Mrs. Ruth attended in her girlhood. It was he who of- | {ficlated at the services today and | who tomorrow will celebrate a sol-| emn high mass of requiem at St Augustine’s church for the repose of Mrs. Ruth’s goul. | 10 Automobiles Shortly after the priest had enter- | ed the house, 10 automobiles stop- ped along West Fourth strect pre- pared to form the procession which | was to accompany Mrs. Ruth’s body o Old Calvary cemetery, Mattapan, where the “Babe” had purchased a lot. The crowd that waited outside faced the curtained windows of the little parlor in which lay the body Fr. Richard A. of Mrs. Ruth in the $10,000 bronze casket provided by the bnseb:lll‘ player. | A huge blanket of roses and lilies, on which was inscribed, “For-} ever Rest in Peace,” was the flomll tribute from “Babe”, and this cov-| ered a large portion of the room.| Flowers from Huggins | There were also flowers from Mil- | ler Huggins, manager of the New| York Yankees; Jacob Ruppert,chief owner of the team; Herb Pennock, pitcher; and Tou Gehrig, Ruth’s chief home run rival. As the crowd gazed fascinatedly at the house in which last rites were being held for the wife of baseball's greatest hero, a German police dog scampered up the steps and equeez- ed through the partly-open front The dog was cjected as s0on as its presence was discovered, and some of the spectators tittered. Father Burke read simple burial | services and then said a prayer for the repose of the soul, a prayer to which all present responded. STRAND | For 4 Days to the l(ronlr the funeral n(-’ | now sitting on the steps of houses | ‘The ceremony required just 13 minutes. ‘Three brothers of the dead wom- an, Thomas, Michael and William Woodford, were the first to leave the house after the services. They were followed by three sisters, Nora and Katherine Wood- ford and Mra. May Tighe. Then Mrs. Elisabeth Woodford, mother of Mrs. Ruth, descended the front steps on the arm ‘of her daughter, Mrs. Joanna McCarthy. Arm in arm, “Babe” Ruth and Superintendent Crowley next a; peared at the door. The “Babe’ Lead was lowered and he ignored the clicking cameras as photogra- phers pressed closer to him. ‘The massive bronze casket then appeared in the doorway, with Arthur Crowley, attorney Feeney, Thomas MacEnarney, a friend of the family, and John Keenan of Feeney's office, acting as pall bearers. It was with great difffficulty that the casket was carried down the narrow, icy steps, and there was a slight delay in getting it into the Learse, Fill Two Cars Floral tributes filled two open au- tomoblles, which preceded the fu- neral procession to Old Calvary cem- etery. Police were forced to drive back the crowd to enable the automobiles in the procession to pass out of West Fourth street., Dorothy Not There Dorothy Ruth, the nine-year-old child who until the tragedy was be- lieved to be the daughter of the Ruths, was expected to attend the | tuneral, but she did not appear and | there was no explanation of her ab- sence. 3 The ball player had taken the child from the Academy of the As- sumption at Wellesley Hills, where she had been staying, and had an- inounced he would take her back to New York with him this afternoon. | his wife's family were at odds over | custody of the child had been de- |nied by Major Judson Haaigan, counsel for the | stated, however, that there was |sound reason to believe that Dor- |othy did not belong to the Ruths | either by birth or adoption. Long Lefore the funeral proces- | sion arrived at the cemetery, about ‘nw miles from the Woodford home, little groups of three and four stood | bencath umbrellas in a snowstorm around the open grave. The procession arrived at 10:15 a. Jm and cemetery employes carried Ithe casket from the hearse to the grave, which was covered by a | blanket of artificial evergreen, Floral pieces were banked against a background of evergreen covering the earth which had been removed from the grave. More than 100 persons, gathered in a circle around the grave, stood !in silence in the heavy snow while | the simple Catholic ~commitment servico was read, The mourners re- sponded to the prayers. Rowed Head Ruth, towering above the other mourners, stood with bowed head, his hat in his hand, with nothing to | protect him from the storm. Up to this point he had tried to conceal the sorrow which he so ob- Previously, reports that Ruth and | family. Haaigan ' {Howard (K) {J. Meehan (L) ... | Perry (R) | Bassford (K) . viously felt, but now tears streamed down his weather-brown cheeks and soon he was sobbing openly. Mrs, Ruth's-mother and sisters, standing close by, also wept, and one of the sisters became hysterical as the casket disappeared in the srave. Only five minutes was required for the burial services, and then Ruth plodded through the snow to Attor- ney Feeney's automobile and was driven back to Boston. BENGTSON LEADS (VIE BOWLERS Tops Field With Average of 127 —Horvath Second ‘Thure W. Bengtson is the new 'high man in the civic bowling league high man in the Civic Bowling league according to the league stand- ing released today by Secretary Ralph H. Benson of the Chamber of Commerce, who is manager of the league. The first high score set by Ernest R. Dechant of 133 was defeated by Walter M. Bassford with 135. M Bengtson now has ‘crashed througi tn use a sporting term, not only with | 1137 but with a total of 254 in twe strings. At the last meeting of the ' {league he rolled 137 and followed | with 117, The league has been rc-organized. following its resumption after the first of the vear, and the Chamber 1of Commerce team now stands in | the lead. Tomorrow evening the Chamber of Commerce will roll the Lions No. 1, Exchange No. 1 will l)o“l against Exchange No. Rotary 1 wil bowl Kiwanis 1 while Lions No. |2 will roll Kiwanis No. The standing of the league follows: Individual Standing is as Bengtson (1) Horvath (C) Swanson (K) Smith (E) Armington (C) Johnson (L) McAuliffe (R) . Clark (R) Dechant (U) . Daley (C) .... Cieszynski (K) Morse (E) Skinner (K) Taw (B) .. . Team Standii w C.ofC. . 3 Rotary 2 A MASQUERADE Given By the On January 19, 19: —in— ODbD FELLOWS' HALL At 8 o'Clock Reserved Loges Evenings STRAND TODAY, FRI, SAT. The Eternal Triangle From a Ne Angle! Pauline Starke Kenneth Harlan —VAUDEVILLE~- || “Girls of the Golden West” 6 WHOOPEE GIRLS 6 in Song and Musict BOW i Elinor Glyms. "Three Week Ends’ wrs NEIL HAMILTON a Qaramount Picture SCREAMIN’ IN SCAN TIES! Steppin’ in step- ins! Clara on the “make” with all the Bow appeal. A flip “frail” finds she pays off with love! And with WILLIAM FATRBANKS —ee ) more love! Emerson and Glynn “EAST MEETS WEST” Julia Curtiss Inimitable Mimic Margie Hayes Revue “Snappy Steppers” Soesm HARTFORD ONLY 3 DAYS MORE! BURLESQUE'S BEST BET LAFFIN THRU Peaclm Sheba of Shimmy Joe Van The Prince of Wit DAINTY MARIE and Co. The Physical Culture Beauty in A Riot of Laughter in “The Reducing Studio” PLAYING AN ALL TALKING PICTURE “CONQUEST” with bul! Wilson, H. B. Warner BLGINS SATURDAY SEE! HEAR! WILLIAM HAINES “ALIAS JIMMY VALENTINE” First Time At Popular Prices A TALKING PICTURE! Now Exchange No. 1 . 546 Kiwanis No. 2 . 539 idual string—Bengtson | ons No. BRITISH RULER'S CONDITION BETTER English Public Gratified When Bul- | letin Regarding King George “Satisfactory” London, Jan. 17 (®-—-One of the most favorable bulletins drafted by | the king's doctors since the begin- | ning of his fllness was posted at | Buckingham palace at noon today. It described his majesty's progress as “satisfactory” even if it continued to be slow ‘and palace circles were ! | plainly gratified with the report. | 1t was pointed out that this was !the first time the physfcians had |thus characterized the king's condi- | tion during his long illness and it is taken as an indication that the im- provement continues to be of a defi- | nite characte Says He is | Says Machinery Will Bring Shorter Week Toronto, Ont., Jan. 17 (P —Frank | Morrison, general secretary of the American Federation of Labdr, pre- dicts that the increased use of ma- chinery in industry will bring about ;lhe five day week. “There are more unemployed men | under the federation than T would |like to sec,” he said. “The position |is simply this. 8o much machinery |has been introduced into industry |that the five day week must be | brought abéut. No country can {prosper while hundreds of tho sands of workers are unemployed | Mr. Morrison is here in connec- tion with plans for the 1929 con- | vention of the federation which is | scheduled to open here October 7. RELIABLE EYESIGHT EXAMINATIO] SERVICE Yo SATISFACTION FRANK E. GOODWIN Optical Specialist MAIN ST. PHONE 1905 Perfect Vitaphone House! CAPITOL Tod-y, Fri,, Sat. | 3 More Days SEE! HEAR! VITAPHONE ACTS Begins SUNDAY | HOW MANY LIVES | | SHOULD A WOMAN LIVE? | Don’t miss the biggest thrill of « lifetime! SEE on HEAR | WARNER BROS. 100% ALL-TALKING PICTURE 7 on his New York to Germany Wanted to See Where {1527 . Chamberlin Landed Plane | weinieatner told the police he haa Kottbus, Germany, Jan. 17 P — |worked his way as cabin boy from |Sixteen year old Knut Weinleather | Baltimore on a Danish steamer and ot Port. Loe, New Frsmor. walked | €Véntually had arrived at Kiel with into the police station here last | o, ", D% Pocket. 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