New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1929, Page 11

"“THE LETTER joame Eaghs Stmd i Al Talking Dt ‘The peculiar umnmm ua‘l the moving picture éver the stage are brought out in “The Let. ter,” a Parsmeunt production in which the famous stage and screen star, Jeanne Eeagels, has the leading Tole. o The stage with its limitations of | #cene can usually do no more than uggest the surrounding atmosphere. fotion pictures actually show it. There are many colorful sets in *The Letter,” all of them presenting the usual life of Singapore and the Orient, which will be actually seen in the film version of this W. Somer- set Maugham success. These sets in- clude a full-gized bungalow locatpd in the heart of a rubber plantafion; & court room holding 200 persons; & Chinese gambling house, the homes and. offices of §arious colonial set- tlers and scenes of brooding julgle and bostling street which the stage epuld not attempt to show. Through- out the picture the jungle setting is emphasised. Miss ‘Eagels has 0. P. Heggie, Heérbert . ‘Marshaill and Reginald Oiven as featured mcmbers of her sugporting cast, all of whom were recruited from the stage. Be.ause of this, the all-talking version, as it will be presented the Strand theater, SBunday for 4 days is cer- tain te be received by local film- goers with boundleas enthusiasm. The action takes place on a rub- ber plantation on the outskirty of Bingapore. Miss Eagels portrays the wife of a planter. She falls in love with a wastrel, keeping up the af- fair for several years. Finding, how- ever, that he no longer cares for her, she kills him. How the affair is finally cleared up and how the couple face life again makes this one of the most in- teresting' stage plays ever filmed. The vaudeville program will offer five select acts headed by the Blue Ridge Ramblers, one of vaudeville's most newest noveltics, and present. ing 10 boys of the Blue Ridge moun- tains in folk songs and music. On Thurcday the Strand will of- fer Alice White in “Hot Stuff” with the frivolous Alice in her first talk- ing part. ¥ CAPITOL PARK, HARTFORD The 1929 season at Capitol Park on Wethersfield avenue, Hartford. will open tonight at seven o'clock and from thap) time until next fall all of the numerous rides with their fun and thrills, the dance pavilion, and the dozens of other outdod * at- tractions will be in full operation. Everyone, whether child or adult, who visits the park during its open- ing program of fun tonight will be presented by the new management under which the park is operating this season with a handsome and’ useful souvenir gift of the occasion. For tlie epening of the outdoor dance pavilion, Ed Gurley's Synco- pators, known far and wide for < their catchy, tuneful style, will fur- nish the m The danring will be without eharge and is*frce to every- FIRST OF SERIES OF FOUR ARCADJIA HALL Glen Street SAT., MAY 25 PRIZE WALTZ Diamond Dinner Ring to Lady * Wiancr At End of. Scries Admission _50c Ladics Free HARTFORD NOW PLAYING The Greatest of All 100% Taiking Pictures “ALIBI” Shown Daily At 105, 8: 5, 9:05 NEXT SATURDAY “THE, DESERT SONG” 5:03, one who comes to the park for an evening of frolic. Gurley will also furnish the music for the Sunday night dancing at the park. ‘Tonight and Sunday and through- out the season, the Capitol Park crowds will be treated to'a type of music entirely new in amusement parsk. The old merry.go-round or. #an type of music is gone and in s place the Hartford park will have the best, selected music of the world famed orchestras and aingers, This is° made possibleby the new orthophonic music and voice control instalied throughout the park. PADDOCK DECIDES T0 RACE AGAIN Kingpin of Sprinters to Become Member of Relay Team Los Angeles, Cal., May 25 (M— The cinderpath has not yet seen the last of Charles Paddock, for more than a decade the king pin of the sprinters. Despite his announce- ment that he would retire, Paddock yesterday decided to take a turn as a sprint relay runner. Paddock, veteran of dome 15 years on the cinderpath, promised officials of the Los Angeles Athietic club that he would run on the club's sprint relay teams in the National A. A. U. champlonships at Denver, Colo., July 3 to 5. ve still got some races left in me,” the famous racer said to tho club officials. ~ “I won't enter the open dashes in the senior meet, but you can put me down as & member of the sprint relay team.” Paddock announced shortly after the 1928 Olympic games that he was definitely retiring. from the track. He reiterated the declara- tion recently in the cast. but the years he spent in running left thcir imprint upon him. He has been working out in Pasadena, and has found that his legs are not eniirely without their old time dash and power. It was said the return to tie cin- derpath of Jackson Scholtz, like Paddock, a member of three Olvim- pic teams, had much to do with Paddock’s emergence from his sup- posed retirement. Learning that 8choltz would run at Denver as a member of the New York Athletie club’s relay teams, pPaddock said: “T can't let that old boy get ahcad of me. At the Rialto Theater By the margin of one minute he miszed arrcst and a sentence for hurglary and watked into a life acn- tence for murder, “Heliotrope Har- ry” Harlow allowed himself fou teen minutes to do a holdup jot a fashionable gambling house in “Forgotten I'aces,” Paramount's all- production now °playing at the Rialto theater. He finished the job in thirteen minutes and was just out of the place when a carload of policemen swooped down upon it. The dcepest salt mine in the world is said to be near Gormany, and is 4,175 fect deep. PALACE TODAY “BELOW THE DEADLINE” with BARBARA WORTH and F'RANK LEIGH Co-feature “BORDER WILDCAT* and 3 Acts of Vaudeville SUNDAY and MONDAY “THE WAY OF THE STRONG” Drama revealing the reason why the man who goes Against the law can never hope 1o win with MITCHELL LEWIS and ALICE DAY Co-feuture TIM NllcCOY “SIOUX BLOOD” W yow're looking for [l syuidness thrills and acilon drop In to wee this fine McCoy pictare. SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROGRAM LAKE COMPOUNCE BRISTOL, CONN. DECCRATION DAY MAY 30 DANCING CONCERTS Afternoon and Evening DANCING TONIGHT Bill Tasillo anad His Foot Guard Society Orchestra TWO SPEED BOATS!! All Amusement Thrillers!! Berlin, ! NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1 ‘ALIBI,’ A TALKIE, AT THE CAPIYOL Underworid Drama Next Woek's Featare Making the most forward step yet made in the new art of talking and sound pictures, “Alibl,” United Art- ists all dialogue underworld thriller. is coming to the Capitol theater Sunday for ¢ days. No motion picture in recent years has aroused as’ much enthusiasm from audiences as “Alibi,” for it gives an cntirely new conception of sound film technique, offers the most thrilling plot of any under. world story, and presents the great- est array of stage favorites ever as. sembled in one production. In making “Alibi"” the first ali- talking thriller to come out of the huge United Artists studios in Holly- wood, West was particularly well equipped for the job, for he enjoyed years of experience as a stage actor, playwright and producer before he pioneered in the filma. In “Alibi" he also had the advantage of using the world’s most modern talking picture plant, recently completed on United Artists lot, and a cast stage favorites, every one of whom has a voice that registers perfectly. Among the players in “Alibi” are Chester Morris, former New York stage star, whose performance in his first picture may make him a screen star overnight; Eleanor Griffith, an- | other New York star who has never before appeared on the screen; I'at O'Malley, Mae Busch, Harry Stubbs, tegis Toomey, Purnell B. Kernan Cripps, Irma Harrison, | Vitaphone acts and the Movie- the program. On Thursday Jack Mulhall anl | “Two Wecks Ot a Vi duction. ; PALACE THEATE] Few persons who witness thrilling gang war in “The Way of lhe Strong.” which will be the attractions at the Pal theater on Sunday and such scenes. a hundred pounds of were used shot guns, and revelvers. sler. It shows his home life, tender, emotional make him liked | | the unfortunate. | qualities which his friends and The pleture ilius. trates why erime does not pa the price extracted from every in selt and defics society. Great care has Director Frank Capra to make picture authentic. Several sangsters served as technical sers during th Tim McCoy, i Metro-Goldwyn- M in an astounding Indian adventur, his new | ture, “Sioux Blood.” i e LAKE COMPOUNC| One of the lar hist iLake Compounce |when a spe Decoration holiday the of Pratt, tone News make up the balance of { Dorothy Mackaill will be offered in | taphone pro- | the | Columbia's ace | Monday | redlize the danger involved in taking For the sequence over ammunition in machine guns, rifles, “The Way of the Strong” gives a | graphic picture of the life of a gang- the fighting side of his nature and the nd | i-| vidual who hecomes a law unto him- ost crowds in ihe ry of the park is expected at!ers and an oil gland secreted at| Day program | she will be presented at the popular Bristol resort. Hundreds of resi- dents of this city, who have been accustomed to viaiting the play- spend the day and evening there. include dances and concerts and several other events. The music for the concerts will be provided by the Veterans of Foreign Wars band and the new auditorium reproduciag sys- tem. The dance music will be play- ed by Bill Tasillo and his Foot Guard Bociety orchestra. The Lake Cempounce manage- ment will present an added featurc today in the form of a new speéd boat which was purchased last week. The boat has a speed of 35 miles an hour. The usual program of dances and concerts will be presented at t akeside resort tonight and tomor- row. REGAINS LEAD IN NATIONAL LEAGUE Frank 0'Doul, Slugging Philly, Hits for Mark of 448 New York¥ May 25 (A — Frank 0'Doul, the slugging Philly in the van of National league bats- men with a mark of .413, accord- ing to averages issued today and in- cluding games of last Andy High of 8t. Louis and Hary Hendrick arg crowding him, eat with a percentage of .407. 0’'Doul also sets the pace in run: scored with 32, while Bahe Hermai of Brooklyn has the greatest total of hits, 47. Frank Frisch of the Cardinals has hit 12 doubles and five triples to lead in those depart- {ments, with Melvin Ott out in front pin the home run race with ten, the highest total in either league. Chick Hafey of the Cardinals has batted in the greatesignumber of | runs, 30, while Lvar Swanson of Cin- {cinnati leads in steals with nine. Following the three .400 sharp- [shooters in the individual table are these rcgulars: 1'risch, St Louis, .388; Herman, Brooklyn, .385: Siephenson, Chicago. .37 Cuyler, Chicago, .376: Klein and Friberg. Philadelphia, .374 and Douthit, St. Louis, .371. Burlcigh Grimes of Pittsburgh continues to set the pitching pace. now with seven victories and no de- feats. He is crowded by Jess Haines of St. Louis with five victories and Guy ‘Bush of Chicago with four. SBylvester Johnson of St. Louis with | three victories and Hcarne of Bos- ton with two complete the undefeat- ed circle. Philadelphia has taken the lead over Chicago in team batting with been excreised by |a mark of .320 and is the only club | the |in the charmed circle. The Cubs are ! former (now hitting just .294, only six points | » advi- above the Cardinals, e making of the film |in team fielding by a margin of .974 | N er to hero of western drama, is appearing | Braves, who have kept up in in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pic- | work afield. are only one point below The Cubs lead 973 over the' Giants. the race partly hecause of their =nlart | the Giants 't stay because of the on a heavy Water doe: hack duck featn the base of each quill. the wate The oi ground in the past, are expected to ‘The Decoration Day program will | BACKSTAGE GRINS AT AMATEUR PLAYS Unlooked for Eveats Oftea En-| barrassing, Always Amusing | The retyrn to New Britain of the “Tabs” musical comedy productions recalls to many “old timers” amus- ing events which took place in these shows in years gone by. 1t required about three months to | rehearse the amateurs and help them learn their lines, cues, songs. dances, and steps. The fun and en- poyment of listenirg to the direct and secing the awkward actors were some of the hest attractions and re- | hearsing whicn is usually difficuit | was made less so because of this en- crtainment. The leading event was the dress | rehearsal. As is usual in musical omedy there were the chorus boys with their straw hats, blue coats. ‘nnd white “high water" trousers. | The boys were a scream in their last year's straw hats of a deep orange color and their high “pants.” It secmed as if the clothing stores in town which specialized in reuting suits made special tuxedos and full dress suits for the chorus boys and when they made their appearance they were a sorry-looking group. In one of these shows, “Forty Five Minutes from Broadway.” one! 929, supposed to run and in exch of the barrels. At the appointec 110- ment the player with the higi hat carefully removed it nd jumped into the barrel. The other player. feeling mischievous, jumped into the same barrel and kept wiggling his way down. The antics of the actor with the hat were amusing as were 'his comments (o his fellow occupant of the barrel. Miraculously he saved the hat. The Y. M. T. A. & B. society pre- sented dramas scveral years before the days of the musical comedy. In one of these scemes an actor was supposed to give a farewell speech at the top of an imaginary water and was *hen slated to jump. Mattresses were laid to break the fall and two men posted on cach side to throw of water into the a The actor and then jumy we pi spech The scund of b could he heard all over che While the farewell specch : delivered one of his fel- low actors pulled the matiress away and the fall was “broken™ by the floor. Strickly following theiv instructions, the holders of the wa- ter pails threw the water in the air when he landed. In another of these dramatic pro- ductions one of the actors shouted ve his “A ‘horse, a horse, my kingdom for | a horse™ At this critical moment somcone lowered a saw horse from flies. Many hoys and girls who are now in their 20's remember the fomous matinees which were presented at the cum theater, Many a thrill down- | Wednesday. was gained by the andience stairs when they'd see the children walking dangerously near the raits in_the second balcony. The late Dennis O'Ke charge of the children and he £cene was in New Rochelle, and the other scene was on Broadway. Dur- ing one of the Nroadway scenes while two of the Broadway stars were giving their lines, an actor in overalls slated for the suburban y h 4 had “batting | The | acene walked out on the stage cating {an apple. He thought he was back of a drop and apparently did not notice the audience. Suddenly he 100ked up and to his horror found | became confused and ran the | stage On another occasion one of the boys had one line. “You can't sce the king.” After rehearsing for three months he forgot the line on the night the show was presented. In one show the use of & high sil as required but the problengy *d whon M. J. Kenney's un- | hat was used. Two bar- rels were placed on the stage and | at a ceriain time the actors were off | Mimeclf the object of laughter. He j} a busy aftgrnoon. On of their favol ite tricks was to step from the gal- v on the third floor to a hox from v. would go down to the halcony. The ening and it grew in volume the ater the show was in starting. It never began on time. When the afternoon was over Officer O'Keefe was a tired individual after hot of steady work in keeping the keep ing the children in their places People who occupied places in the | orchestra, direetly under the halcony were targets for showers of papers, peanuts, candy and anything vs could get. were always told else by th 1 N | |NALTO' THEATER' i with CLIVE. BROOK~S A melodrama of fsar (hat and thrills. movc SVLLT || News Reet with ¢ A and CLIVE BROOKS Don't fall to see (hix girl drons beanty that Is mede th Virgin of the Draadful Cult of Black -1 | vamas. Cofemture 1 Vitaphone and Vaudeville MO Posi TWICE 6:30—8:30 SUNDAY . TUES., WED. tively 4 Days Only! Drama Supreme! % They're Great! Other Star Atiractions Next Thurs. HEAR—ALICE WHITE | in “HOT STUFF” Perfect Vitaphone House! CAPITOL Talking Mustcal OLAND VEST PRESENTS HIS pRODU(T‘?N WITH A noise wus deaf. BLAZING GUNS BLARING SIREN uthorities they would never be al- lowed to attend the show again but they weae present the following year | as mischievous as cver., | GRAND THEATER, HARTFORD | Real thrills und lots of them ar- |in store for audiences at the New |Grand theater, Hartford, for “Sim | b#" a motion picture which records | four years spent in African jungles |among the most ferocious beasts on | carth will be presented at this play- house all next weck starting with a I performance tomorrow at 4:30. The |name of the picture tells the story |as “Simba” s the native word for | | |voundmg film are shots of a stam- I pede of elephants, the charge of an | |infurriated rhinoceros, the slaying | of full grown lions by native blacks | who are armed only with slender | Perfcst Vitanhone Houre! CAPITOL LAST SHOWINGS TODAY Continuous " Vitaphone Acts Hobart Bosworth in “The Man Higher Up” JACK GOLDIE spears and the picture lions playing like v many great in & shady neok.-The-pleture-1g. chronized and carries as a sort prologue a dolt Martin Joh plorer, who risked his lite dalty that this unusual productien .could be made. During the week fhe picture will be shown continuously and peps wlar prices prevail. this in spite of - the fact that this 11 eleven reel r——:—#m ; 1 | thriller is still paying in New York - city at top notch prices: et s ik CIRCUS HERE JUNE 38 W. B. Baird, repregenting the body of {lion. Among the features of this as- | Sells-Floto circus, appeared ® before the common council committee on licenses last night and was granted a permit for the circus t6 play at Vibherts' field on Stanley street on Friday, June 28. LAST TIMES Today Continuous f w at the STRAND HEAR NOVARRO SING! RAMON NOVAL - THE PAGAN Sat. Matinee Prices: 1:00 to 3:30 P. M. Orch, 50¢ Bal. 33¢ Children 15¢ Great Vaudeville Bill! TWICE 6:30—8:30 Your Hair Will Stand On End When You See and Hear This Master Thriller! \ B conflict betwecen pelice and crooks in the night life of a big city. R —— Movietone News \ MON,, TUES, SUNDAY WED.