New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1929, Page 9

JOAN GLBERT AT STRAND THEATER “Desert Nights” Is Vehicle of Ever Popular Star - John Gilbert is one motion pic- ture star who no liking for the routine, failor-made hero type. He delights in unnsu; charcteriza- tions, in roles that are real rather than heroic. According to his own expression, preferrs “characters Which pref Wbly ac unusually colorful carecr he had, the wide varicty of roles, he became a Metro-Goldwy &lar. Gilbert's latest picture, Nights,” Metro-Goldwyn- production which will ue Strand ti - Sunday for days, affords, him a role that meets all his favorite specifications. It is he at strong dramatically; it is out of the | ordinary and it does not glorify the nce on ounts for the | Anita Page, boy friend" (left), and Bessic | in in entire week. There is another b of the Painted Dolls” in this amazi Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's | talking, singing, dancing film hit due at the Capitol theate NEW | | Love, (right), leading the ballet 1n e Broadway Melody, Sunday, for autiful chorus setting, “The Dance ing picture which combines drama, character out of all human propor- | love and musical comedy in a bewildering whirl of entertainment. tions. Realism pre is as much had the cl er not even a dress-up part, majority of the scencs tl wel)- kuown Gilbert features are masked by a heavy growth of beard. It is, literally, “that sweats." He porirays the vietim sof two clever erooks who malke him pris- oner and set out to cross the dese The party becomes lost and as he the only one who knows the desert he is freed in order to lead thef to sufty. With his freedom he turns tyrant a xacts a frightful re- venge. A dynamic love theme runs through the plot. Mary Nolan plays the girl Ernest Torrence the master crook. William Nigh directed from an orig- fnal story by John Thomas Neville and Dale Van Lvery. The vaudeville program on Mon- day will be featured by five head- line acts, BROADWAY MELODY iominates. There there is good in wert ¢ tes. It is and AT THE.CAPITOL Al Talking, Singing, Dancing Sensation All Next Week all the lilting laughter, and mood-moving ¢ York re- 3 Melody,” Me- tro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-talking, all- singing, all-dancing production of hackstage life, will be at the Capitol theater, nday, for an entire week with the sort of brilliant entertain- ment that ene is accustomed to find only in the theater district of New York. Anita Page and ‘Bessie Love, its two fleafling ladies, appear 8&s a kerogene circuit “sister act” comes from the icks” to show Brodaway how to put on a show. Miss Page plays ‘the role of the younger of the tywo sistcrs whose beauty takes her farther than the other's cleverness, Miss Love is the business manager for the act, its clhiiel & and the guardian of her little siste A huma runs throughout PALACE TODAY me Griftith in HE OUTCASNT” 'om Mix in DING ROMANCE” —Also— 3—ACTS VAUDLVILL ly interesting love theme in whigh Charles “ROVGH SUN. and MON, A \\ Photodrama that= will '] | give you [ 1 something, | to think, EVIDENCE Written and Dirmd by WILFRED WY The Screen Sensation, HELEN FOSTER. and star cast including CONNIE KEEFE, ~ALICE LAKE, CNARLES GERRARD & RAY HALLOR Supervised by "LON YOUNG ‘eature BOB STEELY HTNIN N for in the | that | | !I\'m: appears as a smart-cracking | song-and-dance man who promises | to put the sisters across. However, | after being put on for a tryout, at the request of their hoy friend, who | writes them special musical scores, | the act fails. A specially written theme “Broadway Melody," is hear | throughout the production. It augmented by sev 1 novelty num- | bers among them he Wedding of | the Painted Dolls,” “Love Boat" and others. These catchy songs create| the musical background for the technicolor sequence in which a| chorus of meore than sixty specialty | | dancers appear in one of the most | | sensational dance creations ever at-| | tempted for the screen Harry Beaumont, responsible for | | the successful dircction gf “Our | Dancing Daughters” and dther out- standing classics of the screen, di- rected the huge production. Others fin the cast are Jed Prouty, Ken- neth Thomson, Edward Dillon, Mary inoran, Eddie Xane, J. Emmett Beck, Marshall Ruth and Drew De- marest. sOng, ‘TO FIX JOH SALARY Councilman C. H. Maxon, chair- man of the common counci’ commit- | |tee on salaries, has called a meeting | |at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, April |9. to take action on the recommen- 1‘r|.ltlon of the building gommission that the sala of K. L. Johnson, | deputy huilding inspector, be fixed |at $2,400. | | One of the longest us;mnsionl bridges in the world is across the | Delaware river at Philadelphia. It has a span of 1,750 feet. DANCE | at the | RIALTO BALLROOM | TONIGHT Imperial Orch. Don’t Miss the— DANCE TONIGHT Saturday, April 6th Given By St. Ann’s Society LITHUANIAN HALL PARK STREET » Admission 33¢ + APRIL ‘RAIN OR SHINE AT PARSONS' THEATER (Will Be Presented for Three Days, April 11, 13, 13 Carrying a company of more than one hundred people and transporting its lavish supply of scenery, tumes and equipment in four foot haggage cars, ain or Shine,” the gay, glamorous cpic of circus- land. will come to Hartford for four performances at Parsons theater. starting Thursday night. Joc Cook is the star and Tom Howard is the featured player in “Rain or Shine,” which comes here after 48 weeks at the George M. Cohan theater in New York and correspondingly suc- cessful engagements in DBoston and Philadelphia. The show {8 presented in two acts and fourtcen colortul and hilarious scenes. It was written by James | Gleason and Maurice Marks and has been staged by Alexander Leftwich. The outstanding song numbers in the show are “Iorever and Ever,” “Oh Baby” and the title number, Ri.alto Theater TODAY ‘LittleMickey Grogan’ Oo-feature SPEEDY SMITH “The Fatal Warning” Chapter No. 6 News Recl—Song—Comedy SUNDAY ONLY “Celebrity”’ also THE TRAIL RIDERS News Reel—Song—Comedy ROLLER SKATING TONIGHT Fun For All Jester’s Hall SAT. MAT. 11-12-13 SEAT SALE OPENS TOMORROW MORNING EVLES. §t to 83 WORLD" DIRECT FROM SOLID GEORGE M. A.LJONES MORRIS GREEN fusent “MUSIC Nell Roy, Warren Hull, Ethel Norris, Joe Lyons, Rosie Moran, Dave Chasen, Hazel Vergez, Ergest Lambart, elle Jayne, Pat Walshe, Margaret Sullivan and THE FAMOUS BEEBE BARRI GIRLS PRICES—Thurs., Fri, and Sat. $1.50; Fam. Cir. and Gal. 8$1. Fam. Cir. and Gal. $1. 7LATEST l’ GREATES SAT. MAT. $1 (o $2.50 FLEETEST AND FUNNIEST ow Y R'S RUN AT THE COHAN THEATER, NEW YORK. PN \Zi ALOF MIRTH T. MAT. $2.50; {a prolonged orgy of merriment. cos- | 70 BRITAIN ‘Rain or Shine.” Music and lyric: for these and other songs in the pigee were schemed by Jack Yellen. Milton Ager and Owen Murphy. A. L. Jones and Morris Green are the producers. ¢ Proceeding on the theory {hat wit is the most important cssential in musical comedy, the produccrs have | in “Rain or Shine” given the co- medians and comediennes free rein. | Heading the buffoons, of course, is Joe Cook, as cnergelic and versatile a zany as cver exercised in the girl and music revels. In perfeet contrast to Cook is the angular and somb visaged Tom Howard, dry, slow and thick-witted in his comedy. As co- managers of a defunct circus, Co0k and Howard keep “Rain or Shine” | Others who are prominent in the | numerous and expert company are Nell Roy, the extravagantly dimpled enue; Warren Huil, the juvenile; | Ethel Norris, »singing comedienne | Dave Chasen, skilled in pantomime | Elsa Poterson, the prima donna | Joe Lyons, Ernest Lambart, Rosie Moran, Estelle Jayne, Hazel Vergez. | James Hawkins, Paul Brack, Fred Gre Buddy Good- Margaret § . the Sixteen | American Roc Tom Nip | Dancers and a troupe of lithe and lustrous Bebbe Rarri girls, 1orty | refreshing and distracting heauties tof the white tops add a distinctive !vlr‘ron.vi\r» note o the proceedings land are ever prominent in the song and dance episodes. | RIALTO THE } For Monday and Tuesday, April $-9 Rialto has succeeded in provid- ling for the Polish speaking people of this city unusual pictures pro- duced in Poland. “Tredawata” s {the title of an unusually interesting 10 reel feature portraying the actual conditions in Poland. The feature is Begins SUNDAY 6:30—8:30 DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, sh life, very realistic, taken from real Pol- | ERNEST TORRENCE APRIL 6, 1929 It will be a great treat for the Poles of this city, for those who left the country many ago nd those born here, but of Polish | | years |was towed parentaz go0d oppor- with the wddition showinz Feast at the Presi of +s of the Pol- leader tunity to country of 1 in. In there will Jicture “Dozynki,” of the present Poland, al vi patriotic estate ent the eream of “Tk~ Colonial” APRIL 6 Music By THE MAJESTIC ORCH. Adm. 50e Perfect Vitaphone House! CAPITOL EE and HEAR! WOLrK \l A | SONG GARY COOPER LUPE VELEZ LOUIS WOLHEIM WITH —in— “DESERT NIGHTS” Fierce Hates, Fiery Love, Sweep Across the Burning African Desert Where Primitive Passions Rule! MARY NOLAN CRIPPLED DESTROYER TOWED IN BACKWARD Childs, Wh R td and Sank Salt Schooner, Reaches Norfolk Navy Yard Stern-Foremost, Norfolk Va., April 8 (®—Riding stern-foremost, the destroyer Chills | into the Norfolk vard early today bringing survivors of the crew of the salt laden schoon- Srnest Mills, which it ram- med Thursday night off Currituck N. €. The schoener went o the bot- tom with her captain, A. C. Chaney st Kingham, N. H, 0 members of the crew. Thirty-five feet of the destroyer's prow were telescoped by the colli- sion which occurred within 10 min utes after Licutenant Commander J. 1. Hall, jr., in command of the ves. sel, had gone to his room to write the day's orders. The Childs' lookout reported that when he sighted the navy Exhibition Charcoal Drawings By MONROE NORTH ART ROOM NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE April 16-27 Inclusive TODAY ONLY ,Continuous A Romance of the Sierras! VAUDEVILLE | FASHIONETTE REVUE I. B. Hamp and Gertrude Beck Co. with Cleo Floyd and 7 Pretty Models! SAMBLER BROS “The Gladiator: ESMOND and GRANT he Flapper and the Jelly Bean™ Broadway's Famous Funster HARRY HOWARD Full of “1t” i “AROUND THE TOW A Merry Musical Comedy 3 Vitaptor “mlt*tnnv ——————————————————————————————— COMING—CLARA BOW In Her First All Talking Picture “THE WILD PARTY” and two | schooner, it was within 50 yards of the destroyer, which was moving at |a speed of 18 knets. | Engines werc thrown astern, but |the sharp prow of the destroyer :pl(m'vd its way into the schooner { between the main and mizzen masts. this time, Commander Hall had reached the bridge and ordercd®the engines forward so as to hold the wreckage of the schooner while the rescued members of the crew crawl- ed aboard. These included George A. Carver, of Maine, the mate and five negro seamen Meanwhile, the destroyers Coghlan and Liruce, which were runninz with Childs, hove 10 and low- cred boats, to look for the lost men. The Childs tacked off and the salt laden craft sank. A bulkhead 30 ship was closed af . whose s slight cold kept him from his work or i says, but is merely incident recovbry from influenza. lowing his norm with friends 1 KING BORIS IN GERMARNY t night. Berlin, of Bulgs Prague nitio. arrived hers He — at — NORDEN BUNGALOW Saturday Night Music By The Charlestonians From Hartford Admission 50 Cents from the ter 12 feet quarts ad retreated to veral of them had t nks | escaped with only twg bruised fore- i en in their at the time of the crash but Perfect Vitaphone House! Begins SUNDAY 6:30—8:30 FOR ONE ENTIRE WEEK! Metqoldiyn Mayer's TALKING SINGING DPANCING Dramatic Sensation «~* AD W A / The world doubted when it was predicted that one day all the marvels of the Broadway theater would come to life on the screen—the spectacle, the melodrama, the sights and sounds and miracles of New York's stage. But here it is. The new wonder picture. You HEAR each moment of 1,000 Thrills! WITH CHARLES KING, ANITA PAGE, BESSIE LOVE “THE BARKER” - RIALTO THEATER MONDAY and TUESDAY APRIL 8th and 9th A SPECIAL PROGRAM OF POLISH PICTURES “TREDOWATA” A 10 Reel Feature “DOZYNKI” HARVEST FEAST At the Estate of President of Poland Latest Views of the Polish Army and Its Leader Marshal Pilsudski All Film Sub-Titles Are in the Polish Language An Unusual Treat For the Polish Speaking People of New Britain DON'T MISS IT! COLD 1S SLIGHT — April 6 UP—Generad John 's uot He_i§ fol- routine an&’n«d 4 April 6 (—King Borig today from maintained his incoge