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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ‘SALLIES' FEED 50 THANKSGIVING DAY Hunger of All Comers Appeased | t Arch Street Headquarters Fifty dinners were given out at the Salvation Army home on Arch street yesterday to hungry persons, according to reports from Com- aandant Julius Helgeson today Most of these persons were members | of New Britain families, the Army chief said,, although there were probably half a dozen transients Tomorrow the Army will plac three Christmas kettles on the street to begin the annual collection of Christmas funds. The kettles will Ve withdrawn or kept out next wee! —\ depending upon what response they meet tomorrow. Several offers needy families received Commandant Helgeson today more needed, he said. pecially shoes and overcoats il members of the family are in de- of were clothing | by | and | Clothing, | for | mand 13;-.«-,:: Members of the Salvation Army advisory committee plan to take action in regard to complaints that the Army truck from Hartford comes to this city colleeting cloth- portions of which are sold in a J.afayette street store, small truck for that purpose is veeded hiere, according to Army offi- ials, no such purchase is contem- | 1 Jla Commandant Helgeson will his own private car of food or clothing for needy fami- no | drive wv upon receipt of a phone call t0 | he missed. 303, the Army headquarters. BRISTOL NEWS (Continued From Page Nine) that address at an estimated cost of | $900; to B. R. Lockwood of 56 Stewart street to alter a garage for | R. F. Perkins at 97 Judd street at an cstimated cost of $250; Guilmette of ) Nortl 3 t to erect a small addi- tion to a storc building at 21 street for himself at ated cost of §100. Fries Sucs for h W. Trics o (hrough Aftorney Mather, has instituted suit against Grace Val also of this - $10 recording at- tachment of land of the defendant on Broad street by Constable Thom- us Hart at the city hall this morn- sng showed. The returnalle 10 the office of Joseph M Donovan on treet at 30 o'clock in morning of Lie- 6. $100 this city, Howard T. Massaro ro, aged about g r School street Jiome noon following | an illness. leaves several sor funcra be held from St thony's chur tomorrow morn- at 9 o'clock and burial will be Thor emet PLAN R \II ROAD \\m K ancouver, B. C., Nov. 2§ () — Liu, counsellor to the Chin ry of railways said here ves rday before sailing for the Far that China's nationa govern- | t Nanking "is determined to| a vigorous program of construction and improve- , realizing that the country can- not be united politcally until united yeste . Lockhart, general man- of the Peiping-Mukden Railway adviser to the Chinese raillway had t cor ed a tour ed nd Canada “to | nd ministry, of the Ur observe way construction Lhis continent." and operation on ELLERT SYRACUSE CAPTAIN use, Y., Nov. 28 (®— George Ellert, 185 Syra ¢lected captain of the Syracuse Uni- | He | His record shows | football, | football eleven for 1931, Is 2 d a junior. four years of prep school t Holyoke High and Cushing acad- | . Wilbraham, a year with “iracuse's ndefeated freshman i and ty as end on thel versity His clection as captain c Syracuse-Columbia REDS LAUNC H CAMPAIGN Nov. 28 (P —Communists have launched & pamphlct campalgn | In an effort ot arouse victims of ih cent floods to agitation ' against | the government. Posters plastered | up in the inundated area charge | negligence in the quate dikes while “millions are spen nrming forts and buying guns.” 1 I'm tired of cars and | With their badly traffic lanes. i'll go to the ocean b And rent a whale for a congested and clean bmarinc.” for |on his practice, to collect gifts | in twithout shelte | with | abyssmal hopelessnes: s and learn methods of rail-|of the pound end was | t Theater_fie;n;v; ene Wachtha Directed by St (Cast of ley Logan Characters) . Loretto Shea | A Young Man .. . Walter - Frank Horton e Marcella Sw | S +v.... Florence Little Girl ... First Working Girl Second Working Girl A Welking Isement ... 5 | Ldward M. Favor | Henri SFrciidr Richard Bird y Malcolm Williams Maude Odell Jan Linderman A Pearl Iiamoy (By Herald Rm\tv«-u M. Leon, a character in “Purity,” indulges a hobby of feeding birds in a public park. Victoire comments remarking that all the birds love him. After a mo- ment of reflection he replies sadl “They don't love me, they love my bread,” His soliloquy is prophetic | of what transpires as the play pro- | Gustave | Henriette “Purity” had its premiere Wed- | nesday evening at Parsons' theater in Hartford. It is new drama with Ilorence Recd chosen to in- terpret the central theme in a drab, | flint-hard tragedy based on the liv Although a | r Miss Reed's powerful, alive picture she makes—can popularize | the pla To a small i(’\nse which likes vital realism even its most depressing aspects, | Will be hafled as something not to | But to the majority of | who prefer colored sugar al—and it is playgoers, cks to vinegar, it will have little | a lonesome charwom- before whose ecyes nance has never d of 6, she came count at 16 mother of a child an of a | the rainbo shone. to Paris from | she became whose of the house in which she was er ployed as a servant and at 40 1o | exiata by drudgery with no illusions about life, | atmos slts in (Hl‘l i a continent woman in an here of indulgence. As she . park mending, she shar bench with Henrl, a hungry | youth who has been thrown out of employment. She glves him the randwich she had been saving for her supper. Learning that he is she arranges to pro- vide him with a room and later shares her own humble quarters with him. As their friendship rip- her maternal interest beconies ning love despite her cfforts to Suppress it it she discovers that he is havir with an cnipty headed little ghbor- hood. Then womi- an scorned and bitter pbraids him, but he fails to realize that s actually loves him. In the en she is aboul to throw herself into the Seine, M. Leon points out the nobility of the sacrifice to be made by continuing to live and hover over Henrl as his own done she bocome here : play, which depends a tirely on the is scarcely any action in nost cn- psychoiogical spell hich it weaves over the audience. s through a gray gauze bandage, you watch the pitiful love tragedy its motif of utter futility, its ts suffering. Miss Reed times the development of her character with nice regard for its slowly increasing intensencss. In the few ed her in the story, convincing poignancy. Mr. Bird has a disagreeable in the role of the selfish youth and does it well. Mr ndly, she acts with Williamns' interpretation of the philosophic M. Leon is most remarkable instances fine dramatic work seen thus during the theater season. “Purity” will move a Hartford, hoping for the best, but rot too optimistically, after being | presented again tonight, tomorrosw afternoon and tomorrow night. POLICE BLAME STUDENT 25 (A—The par- motor and Baltimore, Nov. tial wrecking of a £ the overturning of a $4,000 statue, weighing 800 pounds, aseribed by police to Johns Hopkins university studc was under investiga today by the st council The alleged vandalism occu Wednesday night during enthusi over the Thanksgiving day football game with the University of Mary- land. Maryland won, 21 to 0. - [pALACE machine | Big Shows—Small Prices TODAY ONLY ‘Temple Tower’ The Turther Adventures of Bulldog Drummond—starcing KENNETH MacKENNA Added Attraction ‘Wide Open’ EDWARD E. HORTON Selected Short Subjects SATURDAY ONI A Story with of the Gay Nineties | “The Florodora Girl starring MARION DAVIES Compauion Feature ‘DAMES AHOY’ A Sure Cure for fhe Blues with GLENN TRYO! Sound News—Serial—Novelties STARTING SUNDAY ‘The Fhantom of-The West’ An All Talking Serinl starring TOM TYL James Moore | Fenner | Peggy Conklin | father was the brutal master | mother would have | * emotional scenes allow- | task | with wind and sea will be made. A check-up following the arrival ot the schooner here, in tow of the patrol boat Marion, showed four | meun a two wonien, one the wife of | > captain Ne- oes. Th James Dial. The Storm Petre L 60 year old el and 1s repo ormy ¢ eer listed as & rum runnir was said to h been se liquor runner and’ sold 2 Nova Scotia shortly came to Island Sounc and put Port Ch LITVINOFF FLAYS GENEVA PARLEY aboard hey (Sags “Clerks” Could Do Better { Than Diplomats Have Berlin vinoff, 28 () — Maxir forcign Lit- commissar procee g to Mosco and Milan by of thi only scorn for the work of paratory at Geneva He declared upon his that if the draft treaty vention to be : is the Gene TURIN RIOT LAID way city, has the pre- disarmament commission val here the con- could be accon ed after five ars of iternation | negotiations it would be hetter to leave the preparation for the forth- coming international di iment conference to “reliable clerks,” in- stead of consumin of rep- Demonstrators Clash ~ With Turin onfirmed Litvinoff, who lr4~ wee left Ge- suddenly - a series of dif- chairman of the conference, a ed that elerks could {have done the work of the confer- {ence just as well within the space of a few wecks time He said that ference abruptl come of the to pr reno itomobile sponsible by th neva ferenc fortnight were for a series of demor unemployed which here in the last f place on o demor had be- al purpose as no serious disorder terday nd unemployed from police had not left until | Were rou disarmament agree- ic mayor refuse delegation of the crowd about the municipal SAILORS BELIEVE Storm Petrel in Trouble Twice Before Thanksgiving 28 () — The Thanksgiving schooner ven the city at he .m hope of « ment had van TOR BEST HLERALD RESULTS Nov. CLASSIFIED ought New Londor ADS | week iich stort CAPITOL NEW BRITAIN NOW ! NEW YORK i PLAYERS Coast ( at Th Present FAMILY UPSTAIRS” CALL 1230 FOR RESERVED SE ably. Just hefo year she d damage Cheste tigatio she Nova Sco He was found to | Wednesday Zollowing Petr ought into th and the Coast Guard looked over her go yesterday. She was foynd to > laden with coal consigned to Nan- tucket. Today she w de the “THE GHOST TRAIN” state pler, where repairs to dam- =;————_—___——;_—=———————-—————— THRILLS ! ADVENTURE! cleared fro 80. howeve torim port was NEXT WEEK T0 PLANT RUMORS - written ted. theatrical by press o P ey i pin || || [-!'!! Iu m-u notices and reviews in thi for the respective amusement company. AT THL Polc e G Bl ,'("" resentatives of h ot 1 EMBASSY THE. CAPITOL Indians HELD UP MEDAL NORDEN BUNGALOW 'y saturday Night nians Orchestra Admission 50 cents Norden Building Ascociation ROMANCE! ! 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