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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, _DECE) B ER 17, ],‘)Qfi Theater Review PERSONAL TAXLIST DECLINE FORESEEN Registrars Expect fo Report Fewer Than Last Year ARTHUR TIOPKINS GODS™” Albert 1. J Mr. Mopking eplien Terrie Hope Ferrt Ada S Walter Regan W Walk | Hete il thy Dr. niering .o Edward ¥ Bunce Will | | For the first time in many | R the personal tax enumeration |3 ear will show a reduction, the extent of which will be made known December 81, when Registrars Thomas J. Smith and William J. Ziegler file their report with Mayor Paoness This condition, the registrars say, is traceable to the removable from 1he city of many families who were | included in last ye cant tenements in rge give the enumerators assurance that total will fall several hundred nam below that of 19 when 3: were listed as liable to personal tax payments. On Hurlburt strect, one of the city's short thoroughfares, | Messrs. Smith and Ziegler found 17 tenements vacant, and at North street and Hartford avenue, they found but two of 12 apartments oc cupied. Similar conditions were found elsewhere, they report. Mr. Hopkins' care in sclecting the Until this year, the enumeration |8t is reflected in the thorough has showed an amnual increass |Manner in which the story is told. between 200 and 500 | Despite the fact that it was the fir< | performance, the cxecution wa e |marred by any of those annoying little air pockets which usually mari SPINANGIAL WIZARD? ~|premier | The lines of *“Half NOW lN SANITARIUM loaded with clectricity t |and crackles continually. | respect, it is one of the comedy dramas seen at I several seasons. The language be modulated without weak the p n jota, the dialogue in one instance at least being out of char- acter. Dec. 17 (A — The| After being Star says today that|years Stephen Ruckins, 38, \nmxt (Oll\l’ sation by the smart t with dabs of psychoanalysis and a wife who thought she yearned for frecdom are found in Sidney |ard’s new play “Half Gods,” | was admirably acted for the first time last evening at Parsons’ tho ater, Hartford. Mr. Howard's pro- lific pen which has engraved a number of successful plays during the past two years or so, has seen ingly been pointed directly the bull's-eye again. at Gods” ar snaps In lln George Ruckins, Mid-Western In- could vestment Secker, Reported as y Patient After Breakdown. Kansas City Kansas City orge T ried fo v nd Hope I who with |come to the parting of the ways, nn( Elmer E. Huckins, of | for any especial reason but becau Ta., is alleged to have | (hey begin to tire of each othe approximately $3,000,000 | company and minor aggravating in middle-western investors on ‘L‘ull nts in their relations - re s of hieh interest rates, rated to undue importance. t at an Excelsior Springs, strong for psychoanalysis nitarium. |likes trick interpretations Huckins, who suffered a nervous|moods which, when cakdown at Cedar pidg last | through normal eyes, was received at a Hospital{than 'natural impu and registered under an|finds life boring becaus name, the Star prived of his eight hour arrived in care of a regis- [other creature comforts. nurse had $10,000 in|tual happens and Hope currency in his possession, €no when it Charges against the elder Huck children of using the mails to defraud cough. This force were dismissed several months ago | all plans and Hancock, idends ranging |crash Siephen and Hope hegln to o oaR Lo R cent paid on|act more like normal, sane persons nioney invested with him attracted [and to see life in its true propor- the tention of government offi- | tions. cials. He has not been seen at his| Mayo Methot and Don Cook 1lancock home for three we |the leading roles convincingly J. Koelzer, United States dis-|amusingly. They take full advan- irict attorney for Wisconsin, an-|tage of the author's clever lines and lounced last week that a federal |situations and respond with enthu- 1d jury is to investigate the |sias artistry. Dorothy Sands 1§ “,,,,r,\”mq of the firm headed by |noteworthy as Hope's divorced s R N ter, who sees life undistorted. Her work is a delight. The unusual situation of a play being stopped by an audience pressing a welcome to an actor cast T B e habRllhE the |In @ minor role occurred last eve. R O i |ning when Siegfried Rumann, who will be remembered as Lieut. Engel bout 20 new members were in-| A itiated to the organization and many |in “The Channel Read.” made his For several minutes more applicati wre being con- |Abpearance. sidered. The W is the|the progress of “Half (ods" in the|halted while the rafters cchoed parish wnder the | cordial reception. Rumann, it Seadership of Valentine Gaj. Bas |understood, is filling in while a plav Aietball teams will be organized | among the membe |ing written. time since the Walter Walker club more than a year The |and editying assignment teams of the league will be sched-|Sturgis. His character delineation uled to meet each other until the|is impressive. The part gives the season termin |play a certain amount of solidity. | “Half Gods” will remain at Par- sons' for the first of the Drop in for an interesting tainment. father, lar Rapids, o tained fe.m mi exag- Hope for her analyzed are no more 5. urday ssumed Huc teved sleep and he even- is about to is discovered | have whooping | an alteration of before the ins anc 20 CANDIDATES s rociety of the red Heart church held jts INITIATE The Young M ex- Sa at ich zation is as LIQUOR D S8t. Albar C. Fink, of New Roc Bruc of ) N. Y., were taken into custody here | last night by customs officers after | arch of their automobile had re-|sons known to use intoxicants (o ¢ vealed a cargo of liquor valued at|cess will be denied even the cour. about $1,000. | tesy of an examination for a driv- TR S | ing license under orders received here today RUNNERS BOOZERS BANNED Taconia, N. H., De 17 \W—Per- RAINBOW ASSEMBLY TO ELE New Britain a nbly, Order of department at Concord. The orders Rainbow for Girls, will elect officers | also forbid examiners f{o certify at a regular meeting to be held this|applicants who are afflicted with cvening at 7:30 o'clock. A Christmas |any degree of color blindness. party will follow the meeting. All | Masons and Eastern Star members | are fnvited to the meeting and | party. TR Nice, TER DEAD 17 1.4’)~—lvum'| minister 1920 and minister o died today. He 2 parliament. o aminus Raiverti in 192 rance, war marine in rved 40 years TOR BEST RESUL USEE HERALD CLASSIFIED and | xpected | | has a wholesoma Judge | cientist Doubts That Bones Are Really Old Washington, Dec. 17 (B — Doubt that Lones recently found near Peiping, China, are old as claime been expressed ¥ Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, noted ithsonian anthropologist. ot until the remains Leen passed upon by out pert scientists, can there talk of vast ar CLAIM SPEAKEASIES PAID FEES T0 CI TY Idaho Officials North Prosecuted for Liguor Conspiracy—Collector Says Dens Paid for City Work. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, Dec, 17 (8) —The federal government, in court here today, was well under way in attempt to prove that o officials and others had pated in a widespread conspir: to violate the national prohibition aws. Attacking first the case at lan, in which the mayor trustees were in a4, Hoyt v, United States attorney, suaid he | would support with evidence cha t the city officials of Mullan « aged liquor law violat lected license mone for the of dispensaries, and made except in cases w s refused D. Needham, for of police, tl first witness y that he collected month from liguor operators of vice |all of the money treasury to defr ernment and improv He said that Mayor Arthur J. | wood supplied him a list of p \rmm whom to collect m Mul- and many 18, Col- opera- tion no govern- rs and turned to the cit mes o dea City Items The executive hoard of the J | Ha sih will meet at the hom Sally Croll, 38 She 1d street John Jr., of Lincoln street Grove Hill nesday from the holiday 1] Comfort Coal, hard City Coal & Wood .Co. advt Salvatore Machula, a 15-year-old boy. who lias been living with his Vinzio Taricani, at Lor- rect, is reported as having v ay and the police have been |asked to find him. 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