New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1929, Page 13

/t' |I||ul|“.. ‘ lll Il"l Burlelqln fans and theatergoers in general gre in for a good time if advance reports anent “The Bohem- iana” mean anything. This preten- tious road show which opens at the ‘N:" i nll! New Grand theater comes here/ highly touted as an outstanding mu- tual burlesque attraction. The cast is headed by Art Mayer, a sure fire vomedian and Frankie (Red) Moore, prima donna, who is rated as one of the prise beauties of the burlesque family of entertainers. Dolly Lewis another favorite is the soubrette with “The Bohemians” and Emelie Billings, youthful ingenue, assists Miss Lewis in marshaling the attrac- tive array of feminine talent with the show. Some of the bright spots in this production are a burlesque on “The Shooting of Dan McGrew"” and a southern scare scene—a travesty on “The Gorilla.” Paul Ryan, John Gilmore and Mickey Kane all arti in these humeorous bit: The scene “The Garden of Vampires” in which the entire assemblage of sirls drape themselves in graceful poses is said to be onc of the finest spectacular “bits” on the wheel. In specialty numbers will be found different members of the cast as well as Tom und Lee Donnelly, a pair of effer- vescing dance and song artists who have becn dubbed “The Night Club Nifties” and Betty Miller and Bob Bobby, a duo who specialize in Western stuff although their home: town is in this city. Regarding Letty and Dobby a goodly delegation of home towners should be on hand to welcome these vaudeville head- liners back. made by calling the box office after 1. NTERFERENCE” AT CAPITOL A most remarkable performanc: was unreeled at the Capitol thea last night with the opening of “In- | terference,” a Paramount all talking picture featuring four film favorites, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, William Powell and Doris Kenyon. “Interference” is aptly terme melodrama of the upperworld. is gripping and thrilling throughout it concerns a roue who comes back from the dead and is discover- ed by an old fian she pleads to Le taken back, but it scems that the man for once in his life is really in love with his wife whom he married )efore going awuy to war, where he was reported killed in action. His vife since had re-marricd. His cast-off love jealously revenge by blackmailing the wife— now the wife of an eminent surgeon Fowell goes to the surgeon where he discovers his wife, and that she is supremely hapoy. that he is sufi able heart ailwent he resolves to make amends by retrieving som letters with which the wife threatened by the jealous onc. does it in a most unusual way surgeon. because of events lew, comes under the suspicion the pol An Thurday Dolores Del Rio he offored in “The Red e story of Russia with Charle: \Ilgwed Bigamist Is is The it fol of ) rrell i Held as Peening Tom | N X .11 —(P church organist whose wife last December acted as witness to his marriage to one of his music s in the West Sayville lockup. | charged with peeping into the home of wife Number Two and disturbing a church serv John and brothers of wife dy Van Weyn Number Two, told police that th w the former or- gantst, Herbert Leigh-Manuell, look- ing through a window of their home They rushed out. pounced upon him and tied him ropes. A woman ncighbor, secing the oc- eurence, n to a church ross the street, where Sunday serviees were in prog and shouted “Robber The congregation poured out of the chureh, the police were called. and Tanuell was arrested for dis- conduct. Mannell whose ma age to an Weyn teok place in New ast December, has b bonds furnished grand n at his ac- v on i i ret jury Lireoln’s Anniversary To Be Observed Tomor: row Tomorrow cing the of the hoof i3] Lincoln it will be olizerved by the banks as 2 legal holiday. The banks will be cloged all day. No change of sched- ule will be observed by the post of annivers: niversary will he observed hy the Lions club tomorrow with a | wwectal patriotic program. Philip J leveland, descendant of the formes ident =peak on “Lincoln and Lite THU \|lll((.(ll\ b Oslo. Norway. Feb. 11 (P—Clus “Thunberg of Finland today hoasted the world's sp-cd skating champion- «hip as a result of two days of skat- ing h He won the 500 metres in 3 1-10 seconds and the 1.500 me- tres in 2 minutes, tres. tallangrud of Norway runner-nup. was Don’t Be a Pessimist. See “THE OPTIMIST” T. A. B. Hali — Feb. 11 Dancing Select Hart for Benefit of s Church Decora’ thea F\md. , SR Lieservations should b | Ity cccks | After being told ng from an incur- ' e (the witl | hand and foot with | 21 9-10 seconds. | besides finishing third in the 5.000 | netres and sixth in the 10.000 me- | ’4 ! J“ i |I|I| -||n-!ul‘|! ' PADLOCKS OF 1928 half of the week,” the Strand will present the Broadway musical comedy, “Padlocks of 1928.” with a cast of 28 Broadway entertainers. Included among the entertainers are Kay Vaughn, a comedienne of note, Charles Taye,. late of Georg: White's 8candals, Ed West, of the clever vaudeville team of McConnell and West, Traymore, and Lee, those two fast stepping fashion plates, Miss Hariet Hillard late feature of Earl Carol's Vanities. and Miss Phy- sical Culture, of 1927, in Los An- | soubrette, Miss Frances Perrone, the | Mona Lisa of the American stage and many others. Then comes the fast stepping litt'e Padlock unit of 12 beautiful girls: the Breadway Syncopaters, a ster- ling musieal organization. | There will De 18 scenes in all howing Broadway's night life in its merry madness from all angles, in- cluding a New Year's celebration. The photoplay feature presents “Give and Take” with George Syd- ney and Jean Hersholt. JUGOSLAVIA TOWN (Continued from First Page) | prevent them from starving. Twelve hundred miles of the | Danube river were frozen over and | ‘|-| ked with ice which in many Iplaces piled several feet high, giv- \ing rise to fears of disasirous [floods when the thaw comies. | Hungary experienced the |temperatures since 1860, from zero falirenheit at Budapest | to 22 degrees below at Matesaila. | Conditiens in and around Constan- |tinople were extremely severe, Ther were many deaths. Railroads wers blocked with snow nine feet deep in pla nd many smaller communi- s were cut off from food supplics. ty strects were mostly desert Ishops and theators closed, shipping | was stopped by a ticree gale. n died in Thess; where 16 feet of snow ized all transportation and prisoners of the inhabitants. lowest ranging Four womc made Wolves Feod On Humans attered fan There were d predations by | The wo ports came lava, Czecho-Slovakia. nd cattic in nun reports of ed wolv from Braty Both humans were vietims of the rous smail towns and vil- luges. At Galanta villigers had to {barricade themsclves to keep from [Ieing attucked. The town reports la 19 ye animals arter he had exhausted [wmunition for a pistol he carried A wonien also was killed and severs al persons badly mutilated. Warsaw experienced the worst cold in more than 100 years. Tele- phone and telograph serviee over all of Poland was interrupted. A coul [shortage was threatencd inter- | rupted railvoad traftic. | Frost, snow and fog spread over & large part of France. Some ait ines from Crovdon Lingland wers to find the Le Bourget air- and had to alight at Abbe- by ¥ unable {drome ville. Southern and Western England, on {the other hand, for the most part enjoyed several hours of warm sun- shine. Floods In New South Wales Sydney, N. S0 W, IPcb. 11 0P I'loods the Gloucester and o districts of New South ubsiding toda Twelve persons marconed in a lotel in Gloucester we finally cued today after two scuers had been drowned yes- Telegraph and railway comniuni- cation with the flooded bLeen partly restored. Hartford May Secure Ice Hockey Franchise Springlicld, Mass., Febo 11 (UP) I'ossible franchises for three new cities, Baltimore, Md.. Hartford, Conn.. and Boston, were dis by directors of the Canadian-Ameri- Hockey league at a meeting > yesterday. No definite wax talien, joston already las one team cuit, the Tigers. which plavs loston arena. If a second wers granted to Boston, would represent the at the franchise [the team “ton Gar. comypensation laws are in all but five of the [ Workmen [ row in force 118 ste HAKTI iy ALL WEEK | Sarting Tod: MUTUAL BUN A Rib-Tick BOHEMIANS” with | FRANKIE (RED) MOORE and ART MAVER Ay Lewis, K Pasl —and N CIALTIEN by TOW and LEE DONNELLY e “Night Club Nif R’ wnd 180 and BETTY ——— Beginning today and for the first | geles; Miss Phylis Merle, personality | DUG UT OF SNOW besis | r old boy had been killed Ly | would-be | wrcas has | n Bos- | An _asemble of Broadway Beauties in “Padlocks of 1929,” FAMED SONATA ABLY PERFORMED Third Sunday Burritt Musicale: Maintains High Standard | The third of the free public musi- les given by the New Britain Musical club in the ballroom of the I Burritt took place Sunda) afternoon | with an attendance fully as large as {any of its predecessors. Despite the ct that two numbcrs on the print- od program could not be given be- | cauge of illness the remaining music lasted more than an hour. | 'Thos=e who participated were e | bert Anderson, violinist; Theron | W. Hart, pianist; Philip C. Magnu- | son, tenor; Walter J. Arbour, pian- ‘xst and Ethel Prior, pianist. | Mr. Ancerson, whose mastery of [the violin is universally acknowl- | edged in the city, appearcd twic giving faultiess and highly pleasing | res of exceptionally interesting e lis teammate was ' ers who possess musicianship and | | interpretative imagination as well as | .mchni(-al skill. requisites to | an artistic performance were partic- ularly i scherzo. a bon mot of hmmor which was | wllin;:l,\' done, hroughout the son- |ata Mr. Anderson’s tone and bowin skill left nothing to sired. The etehing melodies were made to soar ! into the hearts of all, i ipen s sccond appe; .\(r.I Anderson included the fiery allegro irom the Grieg sonata No. 1, mmn‘ was done in a noble manner and | vas supposed to end the program. But the audience 1 not be ap- | peased and Valdez ypsy Seren- | ade” was added--which introduced Mexican composer to the pro- hese Mr. Magnuson was in good voice and gave an excellont account of | himsclf. The three printed num- bers to which his name was linked !were somewhat similar in mood— Handel was slow and se nd [both Hart and Rachmaninoff com- posed about the shades of night- | fall——i. €. “The Night Has a Thou- ' an and “In the Silence of the Night The singer brought forth some daylight music as en en- core, howsver, giving the sueculent “Becanse.” Mr. Magnuson possesses the distinction of not only being a tenor soloist, but the only tenor in the club. This is an age. it seems, when nature docsi’t provide | tenors. and we know of no niusical | organization that isn't eternally “short” of teners. Mr, Arbour ac- quitted himself well at the piano during the Magnuson numb Miss Prior was so wholeheartedly ved after Ter sterling pr anados e of the songs given by uson was an original com- ' | position by Mr. Hart, a scpting of “The Night Has a Thousand F i It proved to be an art song cquisite harmonic colors, pos: . a striking affinity batweon words music. The impression it made was good. | Ethel Prior, one of the several planists of Plainville who have given I that town musical distinetion, pro- vided a group of solos that surcly endeared her 1o the musical publie, All the more noteworthy was her feat considering that she appeared {upon the program on unaveidablv | short motice, It was her intention | until yesterday to play from sheet music. but just before the concert | she decided to dispense with the | tusic pages and do her solos from memor How well she achieved inm was to the audience to 2 B awdy 1 Judge: and irresitible demand for grap HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS an additional solo was the verdict. | An analysis of the offerings in de- Sy EEEE———————e—————— tail yicids top honors to Me An- | de n and Hart for providing the [13 ” Red Dance many | of added. I's great piano works cer- 0% Toem™ MacDowe tainly deserve more recognition pianists. The starred foreigners a rule do not know he ever lived. Miss Prior with toehnical proficion-y and nnderstanding fully carned the plandits she got. She not only did not riek her reputation hy ing on “short neotice,” bhut she hanced it.—G. . as appos Beethoven sonata in 15, Op. 24. com | plete, Mr. Anderson had it in mind for a long time to give the public, an ultra-modernistic sonata when he made his appezrance with the club, But thut was some time ago and meanwhile popular prejudice devel- | oped -modernism on the | sco ordy music sounds preity much alike, that the war has | now been over ten years and there no more is need for short-lived musical fireworks. When he got the | club assignment to perform he took | these things into considcration and dcpended upon the more relic Becthoven, which was wisdom deed, | To hear a Beethoven sonata com- plete, especially one of the most famous of the master's output, is an experience that no true music lover ! {will dodge. How Ludolph Ganz thrilled the local music colony with [the Appassionata remains a well- cherished memory. How the de- lectable Op, 24 appealed to the au- | Gience yesterday likewise will e long remembe It was an im- > performance throughout, as | was 5 he anticipated from perforn- PRE-LENT DANCE PRIZE l-()\ TROT TU FEB. at RIALTO BALLROOM Imperial Orchestra Prize Award Diamond Ring action | Dolores Del Rio : Red Dance; Fx Picture e ond Hear It At the Capitol—Thurs., Fri., Sat. in” CAPITOL, TovAv.Tues. wep. Periect Vid Bouse! Continuous RUTH ETTING The “Follies” Star EDDIE CANTOR in Sce! THAT CERTAIN PARTY NEAT Sk WILLIAM HAINE e n— sl “ALIAS JIMMY VALENTIN |alty which 'danghter of the the Musical Girlie Show at the Strand, Today, Tuesday, Wednesday. FRENCH AND GREEK TITLES ARE JOINED \Princess Francoise Becomes | Bride of Prince Christopher alermo, Tialy, Feb. 11 ( ligious ceremonies marriage of Prince Greece and the Francoise Guise day a gathering has not since the World War. The religious ceremony Palatine Chapel, ceremony last I'rench brought been at night, French to the Grecian prince who, married Mrs. William B, nd. widow of the Mrs. Leeds, who by marriage became Princess Anasta ia of Greece, died in 1 ‘or the service to had a gown of soft with a long court unites the white train PALACE TODAY TOM MiX —in— KY HIGH” ROTHY DEVORE and MARY CARR —in— - “BETTER DAYS” TOMORROW ONLY 10N AND THE MOUSE™ with MAY McAVOY amd LIONEL BARRYMORE with Sound “THE BIG NOISLE” Also I \\'lll [\:(. Touorrow Night I“mqu l- WE l\h\l):\\' O “WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS? )—Re- | completing the Christopher of | Princess | here to- of Luropean roy- | matched loom in the Guise family. The veil was bound across her forehead by a diamond coronet with bunches of real orange blossoms at either side. After a honeymoon in couple will live in the palace of Queen Mother Olga at Rome. King Manuel, his Queen Victoria of Portugal; Crown Prince Humbert of Italy, Former King George and his Queen Elizabeth-Victogja, and Former Queen Sophie of Greece: Mother Helen of Rumania, the Duke and Duchess of Guise, parents of the bride, and the Duke of Aos- ta. The bride, abelle-Louise Marie, is in her year. Prince jold. Hold-Up Man Kills Princess Irancoise-Is- 27th New York, Feb. 11.—(#—A hold- {up man, firing through the door of a motion picture house in the Bronx | panion who was on watch outside and then, panic-stricken, fled with- out getting any money. | persons was watching the finish of the show at the Tiffany motion pic- ture theater when a man grabbed receipts and shoved her into the of- bride velvet of velvet A Bevy of Fast Stepping Padlock Beauties urope the ' Wedding guests include Former and Former Queen Mother Amelie | Prince Knud of Denmark, Princess- | Christopher is 41 years | His Pal by Accident | last night, fatally wounded his com- ! A crowd of between 400 and 500 |Miss Ida Berg. the cashier, as she | left the ticket booth with the night's sinking' of the battleship in Havana THE WONDER SHOW! TRAN 1 lined with chiffon. Over it was a|fice. Alexander Seigel, the manager, long veil of Chantilly lace, an heir- | the door, he | closed it after him. The robber. | companion. He then a car. with engine running. | waiting, got in and made his escape. The wounded robber, | nearby doorw 'KIWANIANS WILL HEAR to Be Observed By Civic Club Members. The old battle cry, remembered { Ly most day, and one which couniry 30 years ago, the Maine will be heard | Britain Wednesday, when of the Spanish-Ameircan attend the meeting of the club 1o hear Colonel W, W tell | Back in in New war wiil It will he the anniversary wh { harbor, dent M. 18—GORGEOUS SCENES—I18 A $5.50 Broadway Show At Ow Regular Prices was in the office and as the strug- | 8ling girl and robber fell through stepped outside and regaining his feet, fired through the door, hitting his released Miss | Berg and followed his wounded part- ner out through the lobby to where was who was identified by police as Thomas Darcy of the Bronx. was found dying in a | “HOW DAD WON THE WAR” | Anniversary of Sitking of the Maine veterans Kiwanis Bullen “How We Licked the Spaniards of the Kinley to call for voluntesss and which precipitated the Spanish- American war,- costing Spaim her ieland possessions. o The Kiwanis club will eelebrate with a patriotic program. Captains to Be Named By Coaches of Teams Boston, Feb. 11 (UP)—Captains of Boston university athletic teams will be appointed by the coaches ine stead of being elected hereafter, The athletic council has adopted a | plan under which captains will be named for indiviqual games. Man- |agers and assistant managers also will be appointed, but for the entire season. By using the above method in se- lecting coaches and managers, the ! university will get away from ail fraternity politics, favoritism and jealousies, which have a tendency fo be detrimental to the best interesis | of athletics in the university.” the iannouncement stated. American people alive to- | rocked the | “Remember | TO NAME OPPONENT Boston, Feb. 11 (UP)—Eddie Mack, Boston Garden matchmaker, | today was expected to name an Ope ponent for Con O'Kelly of Treland in a 10-round heavyweight bout te be held here Friday. Max Schmel- ing. German heavyweight, was te have fought O'Kelly, but has de- |cided to return to Germany ine stead of going through with the ‘mah'h. D Today, Tues.—Wed. CARNIVAL OF NEW YORK'S NIGHT LIFE! | 28—Broadway Entertainers—28\ the | following a civil | the | pretender in 1920, Léeds of ‘Tin Plate her With the Brosdway Syncopaters “GIVE AND TAKE AT BORDIERE'S! Where— Haircutting Is Suited To Type—Facials and Treatments Is a First Consideration. The Shop You've Heard You're Friends Talking About As the Best in the City 139 Main St. Are Telephone 1187 BORDIERE'S BEAUTY PARLOR AND BARBER SHOP Just Off the Main Lobby with GEORGE SIDNEY and JEAN HERSHOLT v An Art—Sanitation Ashley Bldg.