New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 3

4 4 » \ L THE GAMBLERS 1S CAPITOL OFFERING Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner Starred in Al Talkie Five million dollars, the savings of their depositors, “borrowed” from heir own company by young and his associates, and used in their operations in the stock Emerson market—discovery by a government prosecutor—and that man the j ous husband of Emerson's sweetheart, These matic ner are but a few of the dr situations in the latest War- Brothers Vitaphone production The Gamblers” coming to the C tol theater Sunday for 4 day which is told one of the mos ly gripping stories ever to reach the screen. Susper piled on sus- pense, and the It is a film drama absorbing description. “The Gamblers” has to do with Wall Street's frenzied finance—and with the war waged by_two men or the love of a beautiful woman. “The Gamblers” is an all-talkin version of the famous stage play by ‘harles Klein, and the all r cast ncludes H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Jason Robards, George Fawcett. I'rank Campeau, Johnny Arthur. Pauline Garon, Charles Sellon and Wilbur Mack. Michael Curtiz lirected, There will be Vitaphone acts, the Movietone News:and other short subjects featured. On Thursday the Capitol will of- fer the astounding picture “Simba’ and as a ure Dou, Me- Lean in * rnation Kid."” JOHNNY DOEG DEFEATS WILLIAMS IN FINALS Di- Scores Brilliant Victory Over Vet- eran Star in Seabright Tour- nament Yesterday. 3 0P rs Seabright, N. J., Aug vy Doeg, hailed two years ago as a Davis Cup find and a coming na- tional champion, is back in the fen- nis spotlight with a brilliant victory in the final of the time-honored Sen- bhright Lawn Tennis and Cricket club invitation tournament Doeg, at 20, has ten good years of tep speed tennis ahead of him and the manner of his winning over the veteran Richard N. Williams 2nd, ok these courts yesterday indicated that the young Californian is not tanding still but is steadily improv- ing his giimc Pitted against one of {he net players in the game, Do forced to fall back upon his cannon- hall service hacked line driving aftack tactics suce John- greatest up by a base- How well these ded is shown by (he that the young Californian won 6-3, 7-5, 86 Women's doubles honors went to Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper and Miss Ldith Cross, hoth of San IFrancisco who were runners up to Miss Helen Wills and Mrs. Hazel Wightman for the national championship last year Making an All-California sweep of the first two titles fo he decided here, they scored 6-4. 6-2. over Miss Mar- orie Morrill, Dedham. Mas il Miss Josephine Cruikshan inta Ana, Calif., finals in women's singles, men’s and mixed doubles are sched- uled for today. fac TAKING SUMMER COURSE Robert Young. a graduate of the New Britain Senior high school, class of 1927, is taking a sumn cour Boston university whee is specializing in chemistry, He has been attending FFordham univer- at Land place Coming to the CAPITOL IT°’S COMING— VWARNER BROS was . UGUST 3, 1929. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, A sity but at the opening of the Sep- tember term he is planning to transfer to Trinity college, Hartford. TWIN BEDS IS A -~ STRAND FEATURE | MIl Talkie Farce Feaatures Jack ! ‘ Mulball and Patsy Ruth Miller | Lilting melodis and snappy d ing have been added to- Beds,” ’'the picturization ge showing at the for 4 days of farce of that name Strand the-{ ater Sunday | The screen version h |licking comedy of th with the mpsic and dancing Ik Muthall * and Patsy Ruth Miller is |leatting lady. * The picture | directed by Alfred Santell, and th all-comed bon. Ar (13*(‘(1'u)d)x» Edythe Chapman, | Kknute Erickson. Ben Hendricks, Jr., | Jocelyn Lee and Nita Martan. | “If You Were Mine” is the thema |song of the picture. by ck Mulhall, and written by |Al Bryan and George W. Meyer. The Chicken Walk” is another out- |standing dance number, | The musical comedy vin Beds” among the most | spectacular made at IMirst National | since the advent of the sound pic- [ture. The Vitaphone orchestra of ‘IWH} pieces, nd of sixty girls l the rol- is starred in It is sung was scenes in are a dancing chorus articipated in these | scenes, as well as the principals of |the story. It is a Iirst National | Vitaphone picture | On Thursday Mary Brian and | Richard Arlen will head the bill 1 talking picture “The Man I Love,” here will also be act scleat vaudeville program | “On With the Show" natural color Vi singing and dancing fered beginning Aug a five the first all phone talking, hit will be of- 11th, AIDE T0 TOURISTS NFVER IN FUROPE Woman Passport Supervisor Prefers to Remain in U, §. Washington. Aug. 3 (P—A quict lender woman who never has been o Iurope is chicf of the passpor iivision of the state department. She is Mrs. Ruih Shipley. This year | is supervising the i | about 195,000 passports ST But while excited women all s country packing < and steamer trunks, Mrs her desk in the big g rtment building legal sible for Riviera Catrlo. 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He did not knew how old h W may seem a case yeen asy- ortunately, the orphanage had records Through finaily learned his age, and place of birdh never known hefor Had not nelped him get this information his passport could not been issued.” Kent accurat them ave his parentage facts he had ve NATIONS COMPETE FOR OCEAN HONORS (France, England, America Chal- lenge Supremacy of “Bremen” | New York, Aug. 3. (P—The reign of the Bremen, now queen of the scas, extends over a rebellious do main. of this new North Ger liner, harely enthroned mythical blue pennant emblematic of the speediest cross ing of the Atlantic, already is being challenged by three nations. The challengers representing CAPITOL TODAY ONLY CONTINUOUS DOUBLE, IE URES! RIN TIN TIN and DAVEY LEE In a Vita one Talkic “FROZEN RIVER” and GEORGE O'BRIEN in “MASKED EMOTIONS” The rule man Lloyd beneath the The “IT” Girl! M AW TOMORROW World’s First 100% Natural Color TALKING, SINGING, DANCING Dramatic Sensation I Direet Prom Winter Garden N. Y. WARNER BROS preseat. FIRST 1007 NATURAL €OLOR ALLTALKING ALL StuGENe, AL DANCING PICTURE Continnous Daily From 10 A Continuous Sun, From 1: ALL TALKING at the CAPITOL BEGINS SUNDAY, AUG. 11 Great Brit Stat the ! French 1 States lines, | tion British dynasty | steps 1 Mauretania for prevailed as the afloat unt Iranc cles 1o recognition of a United White and Unit and particularly th of Cunard, Star Gransoceanic business, and ust b whos: meet it The by Panl W. Chapman, banker, amounced that keels will be laid carly next year for {wo new ships, ach 100,000, and cach Lo be agship Levi- ath registere.d tonnag spee fastest 23 years United States lines, headed al vessel of the Bremen, commer coming Honors of the Bremen are tem th in to cost § larger tha . which is wnd feet long. mates of the new ship but T. V. O'Connor would surpass anything and porarily sceurce, even Mauret 4 sister ship, from of the the of 50 i, while the wnd reports that Germ is building the accomplishments of th: record holder. ny Europa. towill 907 surpas present were ven, they in hoth size The Line long ago an- nounced plans for a 1.000 foot linet nd on his return from & Jean Tillier, of the in the United and Canada reiterated that t would go through. H figures, contenting ving that the vessel liven hefor said last week establish a new nd New York 1es had projec ginnt ships. ward 1 ac the Bremen departed its maiden voyage to 4 days 17 cen Cher- & speed record of French het major comp ted construction | days ago. but steps to- | line of ne director omplishment wers | States slow the Bremen completed proje lined e himself with 1 shipping cir- rerfect Vitaphone House! TWICE [HE STREET THAT IS HEAVEN AND HELL 7\ SUNDAY | With H. B. WARNER, LOIS WILSON, JASON ROBARDS A tremendous drama of Wall Street, where the Titans of finance lock horns—the street of lost souls—of honor bought and sold—of women’s love betrayed and crushed—golden Heaven to the few, blackest hell to the many. SEE and HEAR this great exposure. MOVIETONE NEWS “1t Speaks For Ttsel” | THURS. — FRI. — SAT. The Most Thrilling Action Ever Filmeod! “SIMBA” . and Mrs. Johnson's African Expedition TION KID' COMTEDIES NOVELTIES VITAPHONT ACTS Mr. Co-Feature—Douglas McLean in ‘THE CARN tremen- | dous competition which will revolu- | taken immediately to | | has No | will be “very much larger and faster | than anything afloat today.” | The Cunard line, through John | Gammie, assistant manager, the keel Would be laid within a year for a new Cunarder to cost between $2 and $30,000,000. ¥inal | designs are being considered. Work has been started on the White © Oceanic, although progress has been halted pending détermination of whether the pro- pulsion will be Diesel-Electric or | Turbo-electric | 1t will be of 60,000 gross tons and 1,000 feet in length and would cost approximately §2 Plans are to have the vessel in operation lin about two years. sail 000,000 new St 5,000,000 AT THE PALACE fastest | | comedy Th | Glenn Tryon ever made is and gayest The Gai Crasher,” which opens at Palac theater on Sunday and Monday Tryon was nhever funnier, never more sympathetic than in his role of |the amateur small town detective a New Yoik The story is both romantic | who falls in love with and farcical—youthful and exuber- |ant. | one of e laughablc quences ever filmed takes place {a big New York theater on the ing night. Tryon, in the role ‘.m\ detective, gets caught on the stage when the curtain goes up and |is forced through hilarious stunts to explain his presence there. He not only steals the show in the picture but wins highest honor screen comedy through liere. Another rollicking | cccurs in a night club wherd | frustrates blackmailers by | ting two gangs of crooks. The cinematography in “The Crash is perfect. Patsy Ruth | Miller who is featured with Tryon, | was never photographed to better ef- {fect and her acting adds many big | moments to the hilarity of the pic- 'lnrv. | The companion feature on th | same program is Ranger the human | dog star in ‘he Swift Shadow,” a sweeping melodrama that stirs th |most fundamental emotions—stark {love and hate in a serics of tens. dramatic situations. most some his work sequence Tryon outwit Galc TWICE SUNDAY : 130 MON., TUES., WED. Continuous Eight peeps into a pretty girl's houdoir And is 1,000 each peep laughs long. Half of this city is going to laugh its head off at the terri- ble twin beds tanglc. | | | EXT AT THURS House of Talkies! R AN D 100+ INTRA Qo | et . o maction Otan Laurel and Cliver Hardy “DOUBLE VITAPHONE ACTS = B —RICHARD ARLEN, MARY BRIAN in the All Talkie “THE MAN I LOVE” The Best = PALACE Always Two Big Feature Attractions —NOW PLAYING— Girls! and more Girls! m “BROADWAY AFTER MIDNIGHT Starring Priscilla Bonner with Garett Hughes and Cullen Landis. Co-Feature—REX, King of Wild Horses in “PLUNGING HOOFS"—with Jack Perrin. S—IINIPIEA SoY——g PUE SPIfqNS MOUS PIIDIaS OSIV Gir SUNDAY—AND. T'wo Outstanding atu Attr: (He could crash any gate until he found the one to love Glenn Tryon with Patsy Ruth Miller in “THE GATE CRASHER” Co-Feature RANGER—the Human Dog in—“THE SWIFT SHADOW" —Two shows Tomortow Night—6:30 and 8:30 P. M.— FIREWORKS! DANCING! TONIGHT! Lake Compounce BRISTOL, CONN. F BAND CONCERT SUNDAY | AUGUST 7 ; McEnelly’s Victor Recording Orchestra MONDAY tions plus Short Subjects. losed. See) TALKING! SINGING! DANCING! Come! Get An Eyeful and An Earful of This Greatest of Bed Room Farces— Twin Beds with Jack Mulhall and Patsy Ruth Miller i WHOOPEE” NEV FABLES with VAUDEVILLE —1 THE SKIPPER USED A SLICK SCHEME LAST WEEK To BRING oUT oF HIDING A YoUNGSTER WHo HAD RUN AWAY FRoM HOME. \The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains. By Fontaine Fox. | G (*Fontaine Fox. 1920