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IHE. HAKiOKL DAILY (JUUKAiNT: TUfcSDAtf, JAiNUAR 2H, At The Show Window sneak. And then It seemed to have some difficulties of 'expression. Its English wasn't very fluent or accur- ate and I'm absolutely sure that it wasn't the only and original at all at all. The Observation Post By Walter IJrown, Dramatic Editor 'Rebound', New Play at Parsoris's Comedy Postponed From Monday Evening, Has Its First Performance, on Any Stage Tonight Sentenced to Death, Property Seized for Ignoring Soviet Order Moscow, U.

S. S. Jan. 27. (AP.) Sentence of death and confiscation of all his property was pronounced today by the supreme court on Peter Miller-Mallis, representative In Germany of, the Soviet Grain Trust, who refused recently to return to Russia after government summons.

He was accused of making an unfavorable contract on behalf of the government with a German firm. This Is the first case where the government has applied Its recent decree condemning to death as traitors all citizens of the Soviet Union abroad who fail to return to Russia when summoned. William Kroll's Violin Recital This Evening William Kroll, i'lolinist, will plav this evening in the Broad Street Auditorium, the recital being th third in this season's series by the Roberts Foundation for String Music. Mr, Kroll is well known here as soloist, teacher and member oi the famous Elshuco Trio, He ha, sinco his retirement from the ensemble, made a long and highly successful European trip nd he returns to Hartford after r.n absence of many months, with line of his woric with various orchestras abroad as well as in recitals. An Interesting and varied program is scheduled and it is the request of the Roberts Foundation that all music lovers attending the recitai make particular effort to be at the hall before 8:10 after which time no seats will be held for late comers.

Holders of course-tickets who find themselves unable to attend the concert this evening will do a great favor to the Foundation il they will send their tickets In to be used by those who have been unable to obtain scats. John Garrick, Born Reginald Dandy. In spite of his decision that talking pictures had killed his chances of becoming a motion picture actor, John Garrick has become a leading man in audible films, Ever since he entered upon a theatrical career on the English stage, Garrick dreamed of going to Hollywood and attaching himself to a profitable movie contract. But so many things intervened between the time he began to hope and the actual event that when at last did find himself in Hollrwcod. irin atin acv fnr q.

mnvle test. The theater crowds on the street after eleven o'clock do not seem particularly colorful nowadays. Where evening dress used to seem almost the rule it is apparently the exception nowadays. Even at the opera there is an almost distressing lack of visible linen in the costumes of the men attending in the evening and the other afternoon at "Norma" there was a chap standing In front of me who wemed to want to keep his hat on. But some concerted work on the part of a determined lady and myself induced him to remove it.

Later, in one of the intermissions, he handed me one of those dirty looks that so dishearten one. coming from someone not at all respected. Perhans vou know how much I was have grown too narrow for the crowds and vie with the crowds in general unlovelincns and cheap uncleanness. "In the midtown region but few of the shop windows are set with artistic displays of line wears most of them being given over at this season of the year to large-typed statements of reduced prices. For aside from food in the hotels and subway rides everything seems to be in process of being advertised as "reduced" in price, the so-called "reductions" running from 20" to 60 or thereabouts if one believes in signs! Incidentally I'm reasonably sure that I saw several thousand ties at $1.65 and $1,79 just exactly as good as those I could buy in any good shoo in Hartford for a dollar and a half.

I met a great many people in New York and kept right on eoine. But Well, Now He Can Come! When Mr. Gillette's farewell tour in "Sherlock Holmes' was first announced they promised Hartford an early sight of the old play but some other people saw it first and all we won was a postponement. But now, Mr. Gillette will just have to come for His Honor, Mayor Batterson has practically handed him the keys of the city, as witness the following letter tent out from the' Mayor's office on January 22 My dear Mr.

Gillette: Hartford anticipates with rare pleasure the thought that you are I to return home to delight us once i more with "Sherlock Holmes." Your old friends will extend to you a loving welcome in proper recognition of your deserved achievements. I The reappearance of Hartford's own Will Gillette affords to the boys and girls of this city the opportunity to see what has been one of the great delights of the youth of the past, and gives to us who know you and of you a chance to prove our appreciation of a son of the city who has made good. Police Court 4 oeilevlng that his English appearance and accent would be looked upon After pleading guilty and refusing to make a statement in Police Court Mrs Tsnhl frilhert. 21. Prince of Wales Gave Tiny Niece a Puppy But Balks at Elephant charged'with breach of the peace and one thing about the crowds Interested Arthur Hopkins' prcduction of Donald Ogden Stewarts new comedy will be made on the Par-sons's stage this evening.

It was originally planned to open the new play last evening but on Sunday afternoon Producer Hopkins decided that a day's delay would help the play and so a Tuesday first night is in order. Nothing has been announced as to the plot of the new play, though it may be assumed that the story deals with the activities at least, of those in that favored circle known to some as the Four Hundred. Hope William's is 'being featured in the piece, and this doubtless means that the heroine will be a slangy, interesting young woman supplied with plenty ctf wisdom of the day to be given out in an individual way. Playwright Stewart is also present lu the cast as he was in the play in which Miss Williams scored such a hit last season, Philip Barry's "Holiday," and Donn Cook, the handsome leading man of "Half Gods," which Hartford saw a few weeks ago, will be the-hero. Black swans are disappearing from the rivers of Western Australia so rapidly that there are fears that thi interesting species may become me strangely.

I kept seeing chaps naon. Jan zt.iAr. -Just oe-who were dead for the motion for he departed on his trip to Africa pictures of Hizzoner Jirruny Walker! 'tJS IfAE attacking -ner lamer, oaniuei ivuiiici, with a knife, was fined $150 and costs Floyd Sheldon, of 18 Center Street, charged with breaking and JOHN GARRICK. If I had been walking the streets in "alt5, th ontimsnv Hth ii cess Elizabeth, with a cairn terrier, tne company with some all-wise New T. prinr.

1lrpfprs Bnv Yorker anrt hp hnri KnwM tni Prince preiers cairns to anv i other breed and has lor year gone entering ana men. naa nis case continued for Investigation. Other continuances were: John F. Cass. 24, 243 Nott Street Wethersfleld, niinnA rovlrloce IriviTior onri Arthur v.

ViVJOCll JJCifUlia J. 1 in for them exclusively. The puppy Go to a yjfamtr Brolim Tavener. 36, living at the Highland with disfavor. Garrick was "working in a London bank when he got the idea that the life of an actor was interesting and that financial was monotonous.

He worked up an riginal vaudeville act and put it on at amateur shows, hoping that it would attract the attention professionals. Managers made offers for Mie act and soon he was touring England with it. The act played throughout Great Britain until Garrick was signed for a featured role with Clay an- Lee White in a revue, which played at the Queen's Theater. He was really using hi stage career as a means an end, the movies, hoping that some American producer would hear of his work or chance to see it during a visit to London and give him a contr But stage offer followed stage offer and Garrick remained in England. Long engagement in Australia.

When the chance did come to leave England for a foreign field, the field was not America, but Australia. He played the lead in "Rose Marie" for York opening, will be done into a movie by Universal with Mary Nolan playing the part which Ann Forrest had in the stage play. Janney, seen here with Helen Hayes as her young brother in "Coquette," will have the role Norman Foster had (jouri ureacn ui uic failure to carry an operator's license, end blocking traffic, to Thursday. WELCOME HOME AGAIN Yours very sincerely, W. E.

BATTERSON. Mayor. "With Our Readers. Some of the letters that come in are very pleassnt to receive and others may be represented by the oaservea, saying as he did so, "That was my old friend, Jimmy" I would have been obliged to believe him. And I got to wondering about this.

Is it possible that many New Yorkers deliberately cultivate a likeness to their Chief Executives? Or, darn it all. can't they help looking that way? I struck one of the most speaking of the likenesses In a marble-toDpsd pleased the iour-years-old royal lady, but when she learned her favorite uncle was departing in hopes of finding rome elephants she tried to persuade him to bring one back' for her. The Prince compromised by promising her a pair of tusks from the first elephant he shoots. Preliminary figures show that United Slates' exports to Latin America last year were 15 per cent greater than in 1928. 9 ALWAYS a Good Show 11 State Committee French Line Spends Parsons9 initials used by the Broadway wise boys when they mean to say "not so restaurant.

That Is, the likeness was speaking until I tried to get It to On Rail Problems Meets Here Today $35,000 in Effort to Check Bootlegging New York, Jan. 27. (AP.) The Evening World today said that the recent dismissal of three customs guards because of their failure last September to apprehend bootleggers Who were smuggling liquor ashore good." One ot tne pleasant ones came In the other day from old friend Ralph Wolfe, formerly of The Courant, who thanked me for telling him about the story of He says he never had the courage to wade through the "two language" libretto but now he knows all about it. And he always enjoyed the music just as I did. Furthermore he reports on William Gillette In Baltimore, as having en- Tonite and Balance of This Week.

Pop. Mats. Tomorrow Sat. Arthur Hopkins Presents Plans for Public Hearing At Capitol February 27 Will Be Made from the liner "DeGrasse," has brought out the fact that the French line has spent $35,000 in the past Subtle Romantic Dashing, Debonair Maurice Chevalier ioved the nerformance greatly al Iff I IVjni I though he els that playwriting has improved since "Sherlock Holmes" in ine xear finest The REBOUND A Comedy. by Donald Ogden Stewart Greats of Aa Aff ft Romany 11 the SUK' I Fie hc I FANCHON and Hartford I MARCO DON'T MISS I Present A THIS 0e' "Hollywood, AJ (Y Studio vjiris Free Air Trips I six Bix Acts 1 Courtesy Interstate 1 Don Gil I Ainvays, Tnc.

I and Stace Band sA f( i t'v 1 "I 1 1 1 with 18 months lor private detectives an effort to stop bootlegging from its ships. The customs guards, John E. Lentz, Daniel L. Beston, and Edward J. Grogan, were on the Civil Service list.

Their dismissal was announced last Friday by Philip Elting, collector of the port, the reason assigned being that, they were guilty of dereliction of duty, in that they had permitted liquor to be landed from the "DeGrasEe" without Inspection. Miss Betty Carstairs Orders Special Boat For Harmsworth Race London, Jan. Miss Eetty Carstairs, completing arrangements to challenge the motor boat speed kinds of the world in the Harms-worth trophy race at Detroit this summer, has ordered a super-speed boat and obtained permission from the air ministry to use two of the secret aero-engines built for the was made, and lie gives me his idea of Shaw's "Apple which he saw in London both thumbs turned 'way down in this case. The Guild is rehearsing "Apple Cart' with Tom Powers, who played poor old Charley Marsden in the Springfield performance of "Strange Interlude" that I saw, cast as the King. I think Mr.

Powers may be depended on for a make-up as England's King that will seam very natural to those who waked early the other morning and heard George by radio! How Many, Anyway? Readers of this column will, I trust, bear with me if many of my songs are of the metropolis and the byways and hedges thereof. For two weeks ago, just in order to get stuff to talk with you about, I spent some of the dustiest and dirtiest days of the season along Broadway. And my word for it New York has never in all the years I have occasionally visited it, seemed dustier and dirtier and, in the main, more unkempt and careless about its appearance. Hope Williams Eves. 50c to $3.50.

Mat. 50c to $1.50 two years, mciuumg a wiu-breaking ran of forty-six weeks in Sydney. This was followed by long runs in xiie Desert Song," "Katja, the Dancer" and "Princess Charming." Then Australia, ar permanent1 residing place for an ambitious actor, began to pall on him. He dc-Jtaded that then was as good a time any to leave for America. He arrived in California just when, talking pictures did and decided against trying to crash the gates of so formidable a wall as audible films.

Instead, he accepted the lead in a play. "The Wishing Well," which toured up and down the West Coast. He thought if the play prospered, it might take him East and he would get his first look at New York. But the play, after four weeks in San Francisco, went to Los Angeles for a ran that lasted but four days. The company folded up.

Discovered by Fox Scout. Garrick, whose real name Reginald Dandy, was stranded in the Mecca of movies. His one desire was to go East as quickly as possible, in hope that some producer might engage him for a stage role, especially since most of the Broadway stars hxd moved to Hollywood. But he reckoned without the vigilance of. Fox Movietone scouts on the lookout for new talking picture material.

Before the ill-fated, "The Wishing Well" went out of existence, his work had been seen and decreed favorable for talking 'Pictures. He was engaged for a roi in -Married in Hollywood." and on 4h bask of his performance was signed to a Ions term contract. With his earlv dream realized out of a 1 skv, the new Fox Movietone 1 nlaver decided on a social jaunt to A'ew York. His trip had to be postponed, however, because Director John Bivstone wanted him to enact the lead in the drama of the air, Love Parade With I I Jeanette MacDonald I Lupino Lane I I Screened at I 10:47, 12:47, 2.47, I 4:50, 6:50, 8:50 i Mow I'OU-CAIHTOL Schneider Cup event. These engines will develop more than 2500 horsepower, and speeds well over 100 miles an hour are expected.

It is planned to test the boat on Lake Windermere before shipping it to America. The Connecticut branch of the New England Governor's Committee on Railroad Consolidation will meet today at the offices of the Manufacturers' Association to lay plans for a public hearing to be held at the State Capitol on February 27. The meeting follows the official announcement by Rolland H. Spauld-ing of Rochester, N. general chairman of the New England Committee, of a schedule of hearings to be held throughout New England.

Tiiose interested in the future ot the New England roads will be given an opportunity at the hearing to express their opinions. At the Harftord hearing it is expected that the railroads will not present their views, but that they will do so at a meeting to be held in Boston on March 27. The following schedule has been arranged to permit those serving on the other branch committees to attend each uearing if they so desire; February 6 at Boston; Februarv 13 at Concord, N. February 20 at Augusta. February 27 at Hartford; March 6 at Providence, R.

March 13 at Montpelier, and March 27 at Boston. The opening hearing In Boston will be confined to statements and views concerning the management of the New England railroads by Henry C. Attwiil, chairman of the Massachusetts Public Utility Commission, and Professor William Z. Ripley of Harvard University. The Connecticut branch of the New England Committee is composed of E.

Ken Hubbard, president of the Manufacturers Association of Connecticut, chairman; Henry Trumbull, president of the State Chamber of Commerce; George S. Stevenson of Thomson, Fenn and William Putnam of Putnam and and E. Allen Moore of the Stanley Works in New Britain. Treatment of the railroad question in this section of the country meets with difficulties that are peculiar to New England. There are practically no sources of raw material here.

This lies resulted in a situation where an average of three and one-half loaded freight cars enter the district while one leaves There is a virtual exodus of empty cars. Distances within New Ensland are short and the investment of the roads per ton mile is comparatively high. MAJESTIC BIG SHOWS SMALL PRICES Two First Run Features "EVANGELINE" with Dolores Del Rio Longfellow's Love Epic Additional Feature It is a sign of immense age. of I course, always to remember the times when. But, admission of age though they be, the memories crowd on.

New York at least that part of it where hotels and theaters most did con- gregate at one time anyway, seemed I i The comedy Hit of III the Year With Music Wife Excavates. 'What does your wife say when you come home late?" "Oh sell becomes historical." "You mean hysterical?" "No historical. She digs up my past." His Fine Score. "How did you come out in the blindfold test?" "I chose niv girl's lipstick four times out of five." "DANCE HALL" to this young adventurer to be a pretty well-kept town. But not so now.

The streets are terrible in their bump-the-bumps. With dust swirling in clouds there may be deep-set puddles that the flying taxica-bs distribute alike on the unjust and the just unlucky. The sidewalks of the village from VINA DELMAR'S LIBERTY MAGAZINE STORY 100 Talkinf; 100 Dancing! Talking Comedy and Pathe News tol Theater. Has Yet to Sec New York. That picture has been finished and once more a trip to New York, which seemed assured, was postponed because Director Donald Gallagher, previewing "The Sky Hawk," wanted Garrick to portray the part of Bulldog Drummond in "Temple Tower," adapted from the book by H.

C. McNeill. And the Enalish accent which Garrick thought would keep him out of talking pictures, fits hi.s newest role to perfection, for Bulldog Drummond Is an Englishman. No! Nanette In Technicolor With Bernice Claire Alexander Gray Screened at 10:50. 12:50, 2:55, 4:55, 6:55, 9:00 COLONIAL NOW PLAYING Conrad Nagel "DYNAMITE" Al I Come When 1 I Featur Starts CSP 1)V'' For Seats 4 W3m pal All Meanwhile, John Garrick enjoys the unique distinction of being tho, Krnn only star on the West Coast has Two Others Hurt in CENTRAL NOW PLAYING Conrad Nagel in "DYNAMITE" At the Theaters Today ALLYN-PUBLIX.

200 Asylum Street "Behind the Make-TJp," featuring William Powell, -Fay Wray and Hal Skelly. CAPITOL, 591 Main Street "The Sky Hawk," with Helen Chandler and John Garrick. CENTRAL. West Hartford Center "Dynamite," featuring Charles Bickford, Conrad Nagel, Julia Faye, Kay Johnson. COLONIAL.

492 Farmington Avenue "Dynamite" featuring Charles Bickford, Conrad Nagel, Julia Faye, Kay Johnson. GRAND, 1087 Main Street "Sporty Widows," burlesque. LENOX, 959 Albany Avenue "The Marriage Playground," with Mary Brian and Frederic March. LYI.IC, 585 Park Street "Half Way to Heaven," with Buddy Rogers and Jean Arthur. MAJESTIC, 174 As5'lum Street "Evangeline," featuring Dolores del Rio; "Dance Hall," with Olive Borden, Arthur Lake aVi Joseph Cawthorn.

PALACE, Main- Street "Hallelujah," featuring Nina Mae McKinney. PARSONS'S, Prospect Street Arthur Hopkins presents "Rebound," a comedy, all week. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday. PRINCESS, State Street "A Most Immoral Lady," featuring Leatrics Joy and Sidney Blackmer. REGAL, '42 State Street "No, No, Nanette," with Bernice Claire and Alexander Gray.

RIALTO. 255 Franklin Avenue "The Vagabond Lover," with Rutiv Vallee. RIVOLI. 1755 Park Street "Paris," featuring Irene Bordoni; "Fash-Ions in Love," with Adolphe Menjou. STATE, Village Street "Four Feathers," with- Clive Brook.

William Powell, Fay Wray and Richard Arlen; "Modem Love." with Charley Chase and Jean Hersholt. STRAND. 1017 Main Street "The Love Parade," featuring Maurice Chevalier, with Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane and Lillian Roth. BROAD STREET AUDITORIUM Roberts Foundation Conceit, William Kroll, Violinist, 8:10. Auto Crash at Sumatra Palembang, Sumatra, Stinda Is- I lands, Jan.

27. i Cue American was killed, and two others were in- jured when a motor car cantaming five American occupants crashed into i a tree near here. len ox: liny rr i 1 1 NOW PLAYING RUDY VALLEE in Vagabond Lover" NOW NOW -TWO BIG FEATURES! I JUBILEE WEEK As Played Here Last Season on the Stage by Alice Brady i i The dead man is Mr. Schleck. assistant to the chief of the construction of the Netherlands Colonial Petroleum Company.

Mr. Doyter was seriously injured and Andrew MacDermott was slightly hurt. Trinity Parish Reelects Wardens at Meeting W. R. C.

Corson and Judge L. P. Waldo Marvin were reelected wardens of Trinity Church at the annual meeting of the parish Monday night LYRIC NOW PLAYING Buddy Rogers in "Half Way to Heaven" "King of the Kongo" Part 2 Leatrice Joy WILLIAM POWELL gives an entirely new and different impersona-lion that will leace you to marvel at, in "Behind in RIALTO. i NOW PLAYING MARY BRIAN in "The Marriage never seen New York. It remains to be recorded that his place of birth is Brighton.

England, the vear 1902, and that he was educated in Brighton schools and Brighton College. Protracted Vacation. A vear ago last autumn Zita Johann was "hailed by play-goers as a rising young actress, with great possibilities ahead of her. As the tragic heroine of "Machinal" she excited wide praise, and when her play closed, a success artistically but not financially, produc- ers vied for options on her services. 1 vNone of them, however, had a play for her.

All winter she read scripts in a vain hunf for a good play. Last spring she got an offer from Hollywood, and went west to be John Gil-. bert's leading lady in the films. But Gilbert got married and went honey-moonlnaf, and she idled in the movie colony all summer, drawing a salary but doing no work. A few weeks ago she was summoned home in haste to take a part in a new play.

She rehearsed it, didn't like it and withdrew. Her judgment was vindicated by the failure of the plav. She is still hunting a play. The only acting she has done in 14 months was a week in a Shakespearean role in Greenwich. 4 4 4 Jeanette Loir will oe featured opposite John Boles in an operetta, "It Happened in Monterey." which wUl be directed by John Murray Ander-ron.

New York producer-director. Joan Bennett has been borrowed by Fox Films from United Artists to play the feminine lead in "In Love With Hare, who Is in "The Sky Hawk," has been assigned the featured role in the same picture, which will be an adaptation of a play by Vincent Lawrence. Ken-yon is at work in a western. "Beau Bandit," the beau bandit in question being Rod La Rocque. report is That Mary Plckford will do "Peg O' Baxter once frfmnased the Philadelphia branch of "Ce Travelers Insurance Company 'Carnival," which was presented at Parsons's Theater before its New The Makeup THREE BAD: MEN I in tne paristi nousc.

Dr. C. D. Alton, George E. Buckley, Stuart W.

Glazier, Arthur P. Day and Dr. E. R. Lampson were elected new vestrymen for ree years.

Hubert D. Tracy was Teiected clerk and George E. Buckley, treasurer. Elijah C. Johnson and Colonel Richard J.

Goodman "-era chosen delegates to the diocesan convention and Owen Morgan and George E. Buckley were electeddelegates to the archdeaconry. Reports were submitted by Warden Corson, Treasurer Buckley and the rector, Rev. Raymond Cunningham. v'tih A Most Immoral Lady A First National All-Talking Picture Dally at Fay Wray Hal Skelly Kay Francis Paul Lucas Alexander All Lost in The Burning Wastes of DEATH VAL- I LEY, Water Enough for ONLY TWO.

for only Then NO MORE What a Situation. iil A great cast in a new drama of gripping entertainment. Screened at 11 16-10 11:05, 1:05, 3:05, 5:05. 7:10, Peter B. Kyne's ALL-TALKING OUTDOOR CLASSIC "HELL'S BRAIL0WSKY Pianist UNITY HALL February 3, 1930 t'nder auspices Hartford Musical Club Tickets on Sale at Gallup Alfred's.

201 Asylum St. TWICE DAILY ALL WEEK RALPH INCE AILEEN PRINGLE HI- BURLESQUE'S MODERN LAUGH TREAT IT A TO" 'SPORTY I STARTING FRIDAY MORNING AT 9:45 Far East Garden LAST TIMES TODAY IWlBOWS'i "WALL STREET" A different picture on a timely topic with a cast that you'll enjoy. Screened at PLUS OUR GIGANTIC MAGNASCOPE SCREEN Doors open at 10:30. Bargain Matinee till 1:00 Four Feathers" Statu Street, Opp. Post Office Chinese, and American Diihet with 7-rrt, jtmn Vic I'lant- -Flossie De Vcre Perry tre, Manager DANCING TONITE Richard Arlen, Fy Wry, Clive Brook, William Powell "MODERN LOVE" Charley Chase Jean Herbo and MORGAN MEMORIAL Exhibition of Italian Baroque Art Until Feb.

5 Open Free Daily 10-5 Sundavs 2-5 ncd. and Sat. Eve. 8-10 it "n' Pcarce and His! I to I 10 to 12 NO COVER CHARGE Music by Mixer Melodlam 20 DARLINGS "llcaru in Exile" Starting Friday, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian in "Burning Up." Dolores Costrllo Ued. Thu..