New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1929, Page 10

RICURDDXTORE 0 THE STRAND Fatwed All Talking Picture ot b o ‘The most substantial defiance yet thrown at the scoffers who said of the talking motion picture “It will the mystery of the Red Mask, is the most exciting picture ever made. This picture reveals how a beautiful young banker's wife meets a young, handsome diplomat and he falls madly in love with her. A horrible murder is committed and an inno- cent person 1is suspected, Wwhich complicates matters. “Cierniowa Parada’ (The Thorney Parade) is a war picture based on the recent war between Poland and the Bolshevists. As the hero is about to be married the war breaks out and he enlists with the Poles. Be- fore being captured by the Reds his life is saved by a good hearted Ru sian, He escapes from prison with | his companion who is shot just as| they were crossing the line to rreo.} mever become as effective as the , stage™ will be projected on the audi- . ble screen at the Strand theater NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1929. ACTORS WIN FAME AFTER LOCAL DEBUT Bright Lights of Stage Had Start in This City | Although New Britain is regarded |as a town which is reluctant to ap- plaud its vaudeville presentations and is described as a place where audiences are *‘handcuffed,” several entertainers in vaudeville owe their ! Sunday for four days. “Nothing But the Truth” is the funniest screen play the silvershect has given us in many a long day— and it doesn’t depend upon stap-stick for its laughs. It is “Look and Listen” entertainment of the highest type and Richard Dix's voice is an excellent one for the talking screen. | The play deals with a young man who makes a wager of $10.000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. ‘The farce situations arising from the bet are seemingly endless. In order to win the bet he finds himself tell- ing his sweetheart that he was in love once before with a weight-lift- ing woman of the circus, telling his | boss that he is an unscrupulous busi- | ness man and a “night-life hound,” | telling a beautiful singer at a house party that he thinks her singing is | terrible, and getting himself into all | kinds of laugh-provoking jams. | Richard Dix proves to have a| superior capacity for the require- ments of the role of the truth-teller. He gives a fine comedy portrayal without recourse to buffoonery. Helen Kane as a member of a sing- ing sister-act, is winsome, appealing, | and excruciatingly funny. Her baby- | talk songs are a big part of the show. Louis John Bartels, Ned Sparks and Berton Churchill, as the friends who make the wager with Dix, are excellent, as are the others in the cast. | The vaudeville program for the | first half of the week will offer five all star attractions headed by thoge famous Broadway screamingly fun- ny comics, Dave Sced and Ralph Austin in “Success.” Seea and Aus- tin have been featured players in vaudeville and musical comedy for quite some ‘time and their appear- ance always calls for a general out- burst of hilarious laughter. On ‘Thuraday the feature attraction will feature Ramon Novarro and Renee Adoree in “The Pagon” in which Ramon Novarro sings in a rich tenor voice during several scenes of this Bouth 8ea Isle romance. AT . THE RIALTO | Monday and Tuesday only. an un- | vsual opportunity for the Poles of this city to see two of the best Pol- ish plctures and news rceds ever produced In' Poland, with all Polish titles. “Czerwony Blazen” (The Red Clown), ¢ the sensational picture of | STRAND TODAY ONLY Continuous VITAPHONE TALKING < MELODRAMA “The Greyhound Limited” with MONTE BLUE VAUDEVILLE 8 = Select Acts — 5 Prices: Orch. 50c; children 15c. bal. 35c; < Whoopee Party! Re-opening of Black Kittens Farmingtcn SATURDAY NIGHT New Owrersh New Manage: PARSONS HARTFORD TONIGAT. FRI. und SAT. NIGHTS POP. MAT. SAT.—30c fo $2.00 success to the start they received here. dom, See the rest at the Rialto the- | ater, Monday and "Tuesd showing Tuesday night at SGLAD RAG DOLL Ann Suder’'s Start | Those who have followed the shows in this city for the last five ;ymrs remember a great hit made by Ann Suder who walked out on | the Palace theater stage one after- AT THE [;AP"'[]I {noon and began to sing a scries of 4 | made a great hit with the audience Is Dolores Costello’s First All Talkie Dolores Costello will be seen in a new kind of role for her at the Capitol Sunday where her latest Warner Bros. Vitaphone all .Alkmg‘ picture, “The Glad Rag Doll” will be shown for 4 days. It is a comedy | role and iy it Miss Costello achieves | a new triumph, broadening and en- She got her comedy points with all ; and savoir faire of a Never was the lightnes: practiced comedienne. her speaking voice heard to better advantage. The comedy scenes were | enhanced by the skillful support- | ing aid of Albert Gran, Claud lingwater, Dale Fuller, Lee Mo Louise Beaver and Tom Ricketts, while the dramatic scenes enlisted the fine abilities of Ralph Graves | (who is Miss Costello's new leading | man), Audrey Ferris, Maude Turner Gordon, Andre Beranger, Tom Ken- nedy and others. The cast is one of the finest of the season. Their hand- | ling of the dialogue added greatly to the emotional quality of the drama and to the sparkling effect of the | comedy. | Miss Costello is musical comedy venge on an aristocratic family which thinks itself too good to al- | low its egrace scion, Jimmy | Fairchild, to marry Anabel Lea, not 50 long out of the chorus. Anabel takes Jimmy's love letters on a visit | to his family in Philadelphia and | threatens to give them to the news- | papers if the opposition to her mar- riage to Jimmy continues. She is invited to remain in order that the | love letters may be gotten away | from Ter. She finds so many skele- tons in the family closet that there is no doubt she can force the family to consent to the marriage, but she and the severe John fall in love and comedy situations develop in rapid order. Movietone News acts complete the program. ERFECT VITAPHONE HOUSE CAPITOL Last Showings TODAY Continuous See — Hear DAVEY LEE In . | ater just to see and hear him. and Vitaphone || so-called hot-blues numbers. She and was called out again and again. It secmed stranger to the man- ager who up to this time had had great difficulty engaging talent which would come up to the approv- al of the audience. It was especially | pleasing to him because he had en- gaged her after she had personally requested a try-out. She was a free- lance artist, out after her decided hit in this city she was booked solid- ly for several weeks. She scored such a hit that she was brought back and was lauded as one of the features. At present she is in | livening her delicate art of mimicry. | a large house in London, England, where she is scoring great success. She is in the “big-time” circuit now hut has not forgotten her early friends. Recently she sent a card to the management of the New Britain chain telling of her syccess. Sheehan, Martin and Brems Few can forget the decided hit made by Jack| Sheehan, the soloist and personality king, who came to this city with Hoyt's review. He be- came such a hit that the New Brit- ain people went to the Lyceum the- He was New Britain's matince idol and the review was kept in this city for several weeks. With him were two others who have met with greater success Felix Martin and Lou Brems. later Shechan made a Broadway show and the two comedians, Mar- tin and Brems, headed their own companies in vaudeville, Adolph Menjou Once Here Adolph Menjou, the celebrated movie actor who is now one of the brightest stars in screenland, made his first public appearance asa pro- ARE YOU GOING? TO PAG: A PRINCE A J. B. Rogers Production Wed.-Thur. May 22, 23 Tabs Hall Curtain at 8:30 Cast and Chorus of 100 Auspices Y. M. T. A. & B. SOCIETY Tickets 50 - 75 TONIGHT—DANCING AT THE Lake Compounce Casino Connecticut’s Best Lakeside Ballroom | Music by Bill Tasillo’s FOOT GUARD SOC IETY ORCHESTRA CONCERTS | World’s Finest Music by the New AUDITORIUM REPRODUCING SYSTEM SUNDAY, MAY 19 Conceits Afternoon and Evening SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS MUSIC!! FUN!! SPORT UNDERWORI D THRILLER COMING TO THE CAPITOL i fessional actor in this city. He ap- peared in a sketch which was pre- sented on the stage at Keeney's the- ater now known as the Palace. At that time he did not entertain an ambition to go into the movies. He was looking for a career in vaude- ville. . These are a few examples of the many who are “made” in this town. According to Bernard A. Grogan, former manager of the Capitol the- ater, he was approached several times a month by actors who were anxious to go on the stage for a tryout. Some were willing to do it without compensation but all were willing to go on for very little money as long as they could give their act a tryout. The Capitol theater is not running vaudeville and much talent which some day might rcach the heights has to be turned away. RIALTO THEATER 1f you really enjoy a good, clean, wholesome movie, make a special ing lady, Jane Reid, includes such players as Al Ferguson, Jules Cowles and Frankie Darro . PALACE THEATER Aside from the humor in the Wil- lham Fox presentation of Tom Mix in “Soft Boiled,” there is an unusual attraction for women. Beautitul Billie Dove, playing opposite Tom Mix, as the masked dancer in the road house, wears a wealth of re- markable costumes and in the later scenes, her riding habits are works of art. Then in addition, there is a beauty chorus, chosen personally by J. G. Blystone, directing *Soft Boiled,” from the ranks of the pret- ticst girls on the western coast “Soft Rialto Theater Now Playing “BUTTONS" starring JACKIE_COOGAN Boiled” comes to the Palace theater on Sunday and Monday. The companion feature brings your favorite thrill star, Eugene O'Brien, in “The Faithleas Lover. Also short subjcts Resistance to Tickling - New Way to Win a Prize London, May 18 (UP)—The new- est London way to get money for charity is to “tickle” it out of the public. Recently an East End Mission held a charity affair. A tickling competition was the feature of the sale. Entrants had to bare their feet and be tickled on the tender sole with a feather duster. The prize went to the one who dida't squirm. ESPECIALLY STOCKINGS New York, May 18 (P—After a survey of girls in business, Miss Lil- lian Locke of Columbia university has .concluded that good clothes, especially stockings, are necessary in order to get a good job. “Personal- ity,” said her report, ‘is counting more and more in business, and clothes, including atockings that give a shapely appearance to the legs, are important because of the way they affect the wearer and her business associates.” TWICE 6:30-8:30 MON., PERFECT VITAPHONE HOUSE CAPITOL 110 save a girl from the conspiracy of effort to see Tom Tyler in his latest e ¥FBO starring production, *“Terror Mountain,” which is the current at- traction at the Rialto theater. The story revolves around the ex- ploits of a movie star who endeavors and GERTRUDE OLMSTED also “YULTURES OF THE SEA" (Chapter No. 3) News Reel—Seng—Comedy SUNDAY ONLY “MYSTERIOUS LADY" starring GRETA GARBO and CONRAD NAGEL Also “TERROR MOUNTAIN" with TOM TYLER and FRANKIE DARRO News Reel—Song—Comedy a gang of outlaws, and is laid in the great white wastes of northern snow country. A delightful series of comedy touches add much to the plot of the tale. | The cast of “Terror Mountain,” in addition to Tom Tyler and his lead- RIALTO THEATER Broad and Washington Streets POLISH PROGRAM Monday and Tuesday Only—May 20th and 21st TWO BIG POLISH FEATURES Polish Titles “CZERWONY BLAZEN” - (Red Clown) AN EXCITING MYSTERY DRAMA —and — “CIERNIOWA PARADA” (Thorny Parade) A WAR DRAMA Two of the Best Polish Pictures ever Produced Continuous Performance Matinee from 1:30 to 6 p. m. Evening from 6 to 10:30 p. m. Last complete show starts at 8:15 p. m. VITAPHONE and VAUDEVILLE STRAN]D TWICE SUNDAY 6:30 — 8:30 and MON, TUES, WED. HIS FIRST ALL TALKING PICTURE! Haven't you often wondered what Dix’s voice sounds like? You miss half the Dix per- sonality urless you HEAR as well as sce him. Come, gei really acquainted with— RICHARD X the Truth HELEN KANE LOUIS JOHN BARTELS Q Guramorint QPicture Could You Tell Nothing But the Truth For 24 Hours For $10,000? It's Nothing But Laughs! HELEN KANE, Comedienne Sing — VAUDEVILLE—— DCN'T MISS THIS COUPLE! DAVE SEED RALPH AUSTIN BROADWAY'S SCREAMINGLY FUNNY COMICS in “SUCCESS” FRISCO HARMONISTS with Leah Warwick GERARDO and ADAIR (CO. World's Supreme Dancers Dallas Walker and Sis Jewel Lee Co. “Two Girls From Texas” “syncopators” Musical Comedy “Do Something” i NEXT THURS. Hear Ramon Novarro Sing in “THE PAGAN" with Renee Adoree! m Never More Beautiful! Never More Fascinating! 3 DOLORES You'll Enjoy This Entertainment! DANCE “The Colonial’ — TONIGHT — ; Music by - THE MAJESTIC ORCH. Ardent Colored Players SUNDAY TUES,, WED. Continuous MOVIETONE NEWS : “it speaks for itself” VITAPHONE ACTS OFTIMES WHEN STRANGERS Neighborhood News By Fontaine Fox ASK QUESTIONS ABGUT THE CAR THEY WoN'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH. (#Fontaine _Pfl. 19