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The Journal from Meriden, Connecticut • 2

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The Journali
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Meriden, Connecticut
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THE MERIDEN DAILY JOURNAL MERIDEN CONN SATURDAY AUGUST 7 IMS GETTING READY TO FOOL A FEW HONEY BEES clhe Wonderful (ALL PROGRAMS ON EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME) Overland Story The New York Philharmonic Symphony orchetra will be on the air this evening with another of it untnual concert! playing from the Lewiiohn alodium with Henry Hadley conducting The concert will begin at 8:25 and will be heard through station WGY Schenectady WJZ New York and WRC Washington More patriotic feature will be heard during today from station WFI Philadelphia when the Seaquicentcnnial Official Broadcasting Audio offer a program beginning at 3 Ford and Glenn the versatile entertainer of station WSB Atlanta will be on the air again thi evening with another of their delectable spree entitled "WL5 Twin The novelty will go on at 12:45 Another of the concerts by Arthur Pryor and his famous band playing from Ashbury Park wil be heard thi evening at 8:30 o'clock from station WOR Newark The New York State Division of the American Legion is sponsoring the program during Nassau County hour presented this evening from station WGBS New York beginning at 9:30 o'clock Pearla Violetta Amado and Henriette Chevillon will be on the air at 6:45 o'clock with a concert of Spanish duets while at 7 the officers of the Chantier will be heard on their Polar expedition The Westinghonse employes' band directed by Vastine will entertain with a concert this evening from station KDKA East Pittsburg starting at 9 of' tnv automobile are first determined on the drafting board JSt The bee that tries to get honey out of this sun flower is going to find more than he ever dreamed existed In thi particular case the happens to be Miss Ruth Richardson adjudged the greatest girl in Wichita Kas who will represent that city at the Atlantic City bathing 'beauty contest this fail DECLARES WEAF SALE WAS COSTLY De you sms I a esc that HI do: 5 brilliant milts as hour in oomfort that mill ptektp fa il eteoait from I fa 40 miltt as Anar dial will fare fa i0-ftl circle that wUI Hap fa a i pUt tea ad liantly designed as a unit Not an old-fashioned reconstructed chassis Many cars have been too long We mean just what we imply Remember the comfort riding quality and power Long life starts engineering A car that was designed over 3 or 4 years ago cannot meet themodem standards of today You want performance You want comfort You want the long life that only modern engineering can supply Then decide today to drive this new-type Overland Six Already over 100000 owners have found in it their utmost ideal of what a truly modern car should be Simply in fairness to yourself see the Overland Six May we arrange a demonstration? 4-wbeel brakes are furnished at slight extra cost Other models: Touring $895 Coupe $895 DcLuxe Sedan $1095 Tk rrrrzYs finjnck PUff means Uu moncydowu smeller monthly payments Med the lamest credit-test in Ike industry Alt feists a A jutary We resent she rihs la skuuft prises and specifications mithata ualicti HiUys-OoerUnd Int Toledo Ohio Window Cleaner Killed In Fall At Hartford here's a performance thrill youtt never forget Eighteen month go we announced a revolutionary new-type car the Overland Six that has become world-famous Measured by present demand it is the most successful car of its das ever created This car embodies the most advanced engineering practice from both sides of the world In many respects it is entirely different from conventional automobiles at you know them It it a low car the most powerful of its size and weight based on recent scientific investigations 40 to 55 miles an hour is its comfortable driving speed Acceleration tests show 5 to 40 miles in 21 seconds And owners everywhere report' hill dimbing ability that defies description Modem engineering the reason This wonderful performance ability of the Overland Six is the direct result of modem en gineering It is new ail through Bril- tl OVERLAND -J good one Nina Romano plays the role of Judith Nyte and Ruth Clifford that of Lysette DeJon The other players in addition to these two and Ray Hallor are Gertrude Claire Jore Austin Emmett King William Colvin Lionel Belmore Ed Brown Mark Fenton and Lon Poff Edard Stoman directed the picture WITH FINE CAST SUNDAY PALACE One of the most promising of the new crop of photoplays is "Padlocked" Paramount' powerful drama of contemporary American life opening Sunday night at Poll'a Palace theatre for a slay of three day This screen play not only boasts the authorship nf Rex Beach one of America's most gifted writer of fiction but the flawless direction of Albert and ihe meritorious acting of Lola Moran Louisa Dresser and Noah three factors that make It well worth seeing Another strong point In the picture's favor is the unusual array of talent Director Dwan has assembled to support the featured player Florence Turner one of fiimdom's old favorite ha returned after several years of retirement to play the sva-pathetic role of the mother Helen Jerome Eddy admittedly one nf the screen's outstanding character actresses Is ideally cast as a woman reformer Allan Simpson famous a the Arrow Collar model has the hero part of the youthful society millionaire Others in the impressive cast include Charles Lane Douglas Fairbanks jr and Richard Arlen The story originally appeared in the Cosmopolitan Magazine as a serial and created nation-wide interest because it wa recognized as faithfully mirroring modern life and moral It theme deals with the conflict between the strong Individualism of our growing youth and the narrow conventionalism of the older folk The action center around a typical family the father of which is a stern Puritanical reformer whose effort at oppression and repression bring about hi wife' accidental death and forced hi daughter to run away from home The girl seeks a career on Broadway and become a dancer in a fashionable cabaret patronized by the wealthy society set Dramatic complication pile up with startling rapidity but eventually love and happines triumph Other portion of the same program will he Your a two-reel Mack Sennett comedy with Ralph Grave one of the beat-known of Juvenile film leading players handling the principal role and Orantland Rices "Sportlfght" will also he screened and Its latest issue 1 called "Keeping In Interesting happenings and events from many part of the country will also he shown at each performance In the Patbe New America Isn't ao bad The "glory that wa Greece" consisted of a dozen men not of the rabble that obeyed order WILSON REYNOLDS AMUSEMENTS HOUSE PETERS ENDS STAY POLl'S PALACE TONIGHT This evening at Palace theatre ends the stay of House Peter In the feature silent drama of ibe sea 'called "The-Storm Breaker" Other portions of the same program concluding lomght will be "One Wild a two-reel western comedy' drama starring smiling Ben Corbett autl Peewee Holmes and the educa- tional screen story called "The Birth- place of Liberty" and the Paihel News brings to a close view events and happenings of a genera! interest i The fifth chapter of the mystery serial In having AUene Ray and Walter Miller In the roles of the heroine and her finishes also this evening John Strong the role played by i House Peters in "The Storm Break- er" is a strong forceful man just as powerful as one would expect from the bearer of a name that in-dlcaies strength Powerful physically he was also powerful mentally In that his will brooked net obstacles Self-sultlcient and arrogant he strode through his fishing village with the same self-assurance as he piloted hi fishing smack through calm- and storm To John Strong there was no greater power than John Strong Neil Strong his brother the char- aeter assumed by Ray Hallor was Just the reverse Neil Is in striking contrast to the things about him He -is a thinker and a dreamer One call him frail snd frail he Is I for to John had been given all the strength and lo Nell the soul and understanding of a poet To Neil his worn well thumbed books and the delight he get from reading them hold the same relation as does the fishing smack and the daily battle with the elements to John The brothers are as different as ever two brothers were Yet they had one thing In common affection tor one another To Neil John meant brother father hero snd this worship of the younger man was returned by a deep seated love and trust Into the lives of these two on their desolate island home came Lysette DeJon a girt from the mainland She is dainty and her beauty seems as fragile as old China Her hair shimmers in the light and her finely chiseled features give her (he appearance of a fine marble sia-tue come to life She Is the exact opposite of the girl and young women of the fishing village and the contrast is the more apparent when the brothers compare her to Judith Nyte the orphan who makes her home with them Love comes to the brother but from a different motive John sees in her only another being he ran break to hi will Nell sees in her a kindred spirit In their common desire for books and beauty The combat of gentle ardent love snd obstinate human will brings forth the startling truth that is dramatically revealed in one of the closing scene of the picture The cast supporting Peters la a WEAF NEW YORK Wsldorf-Astaris dinner music Baseball scores far re It's Orchestra Musical comedy hit 8: Goldman Band Columbia Tnl-'fisliy Chorus: Strauss Program: Florence Lrffrri soprano Bernle's Orcheatra Rolfe's Orcheatra WNYC NEW YORK Fred Khrenberg musical saw Smith baritone 7: Police alarms Smith baritone Baseball resulta Fred Putf Piano selectlona Bend! Orchestra alarms weather 455 WJZ NEW YORK Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra News baseball Bob MacGregor songs Philharmonic concert Irma de Baum soprano 10:30 News dance music 316 WGBS NEW YORK Uncle Geebes Oscar Blank tenor 6: Amado and Chevillon duels Talk Chantier" Baseball results news Bob MacDonald ukulele Hyman Novick baritone Clifford Cheasley "Philosophy of Numbers Pauline Watson violin Nassau Dance Orcheatra WMCA NEW YORK Tappen's Orchestra Carlo Orchestra 0 Zigier baritone Mildred WindaH soprano Ludwig Leaf piano Robert Campbell baritone- Edge me re Orcheatra Len Saxon tenor McAlpin Orchestra MrAlpIn Entertainers WRNY NEW YORK Weather report Sport rays commercial digest Charles Premmar tenor Orlando's Orcheatra Alfonso Romm tenor Debut hour- Anna Russo gongs Starlight Parking Plano recital Johnson and Dowd banjo and piano Hulsmann Trio Butler Trio 10: 45-Johnson and Dowd banjo and piano 0 II-Butler Trio 303 WM8G NEW YORK Janet Winter soprano Eddy Wood songs Sport resume Jimmie Dawson Actors Orchestra Helene Vincent songs Emmett tenor Grace Llewellyn soprano Piottl and Hardy songs Italian program Tracy and Dougherty songs 10 Totman and Wtcheodorf banjo Landau'a Berenaders 118 WAHG NEW YORK Varle4y program WIP PHILADELPHIA Weather dinner music Baseball scores Market reports Bedtime story roll-call: music Sport a talk Same as WPG WOR NEWARK 6:15 Shelton Ensemble Sport BtH Wat hey Shelton Euaemble 7: 26-News Baltusrol Orchestra Bratton Hsll Quintet Pryor's Band Casino Orchestra Berkeley-Caljiret Orchestra 10: Special feature Monterey Orchestra Bemle's Orchestra 263 WAAM NEWARK "Vacation" talk Orchestra Sport talk Fred Hartley Jr Crsik Jr tenor To be announced Cralk Jr tenor Studio program Tie Chlapplnelll piano Fred Oaborne songa Pdectral Quartet Lttlisn Chadwick banjo Fleet rsl Quartet William A Rink monologue Four Towera Orchestra Areola Orchestra NEWARK Trl City Banjo club Max Hamer tenor Gertrude Conrad piano 1: Fred "Lanxllle baritone Fred Langllls baritone Instrumental duets Julia Caprlo aorpano Llewellyn and Browne songs What Will the world's Isrgesl trptane designed to carry ion per-MM and having 10 propellers i ow being constructed In the east radio exchange la Var Old Bat Fee -New Or l-CHAMPLIN IT MONt Ml Sunday Night Monday Tuesday That the American Telephone and Telegraph company through the sale of stations WEAF In New York and WCAP In Washington to the Radio Corporation of America is giving up an annual income from its commer rial broadcasting approaching 5(W 000 the assertion of Variety mags zlnm "The A A Variety goes on "was forced into broadcasting on the scientific excuse that Its business wa that of voice transmission Radio qualifies them in that direction but the amusement end of broadcasting was another thing and the directors deemed the overhead unessential although the decision to give up the station at this late date Is the more surprising when it could have been accomplished before WEAF had undergone no less than three different installations of as many new transmission apparatus the present schedule of charging 444 per hour for radio time with the rate decreasing to I4S0 for the network of stations the mathematical inclined can figure an average charge of 5500 per hour Taking the hour between 8 and 11 as the 'money' periods it means 51500 a night or 39000 weekly or $9000 weekly or $450000 annually a conservative estimate of the station's Income This does not count that of the networks commissions for bookings and so forth Is believed that the decision to give up WEAF as an A en terpglse was an economiral move No matter what t-be income be there was no hope of making up the deficit of the initial experimental expense which even an affluent corporation like the American Telephone and Telegraph Co takes into consideration" British Expert Praises Straight Eight Engine The straight Eight engine con iinues to be one of the most popular type in the higher priced British and Continental markets The Hupmo-mile Eight which was Introduced last year proved little short of a revelation to motorisia In those countries who had been accustomed to paying practically double the Hupmohile price in order to secure the added luxury of motoring as found in the Eight cylinder-in-line engine according to Rides Export Manager of the Hupp Motor Car Corporation Detroit Mr Sides has noted In several leading English publications numerous very fine articles of praise for the straight Eight engine as a type and more particularly for the Hup-mobile interpretation of it "The Eight cylinder says Bourdon noted English expert writing in the Liverpool Post not a some people contend (probably without having had experience of one! a mere fad or Just "somelhiing different introduced by certain tnanu facturers to secure orders from people whose Interest In motoring had become somewhat Jaded it Is different without doubt' not merely however in the number of cylinders but In Its performance characteristics as well when compared -to constructed on parallel line Other things being equal Its acceleration top-gear climbing smpoth-ness of running responsiveness to throttle control and seeming effort less progression are of high order "The Eight Is more adapted to at tain eompleie smoothness than other types because the Individual Impulse of the Eight In three quarters of that of i he Six while these smaller Impulses commence at shorter Inter vils which also tends to promote greater smoothness ond utes dedv da Is It permissible for the pitcher to pet on the rubber without having the ball In hi poueision? Vmil 1920 it was permissible tor Ihe pitcher lo get on the rubber without having the ball in hie possession provided he made no motion to deliver It to the batsman This wa a bad rule since It paved the way for deception and gar the runner no standard to Judge as to who had the ball Blnce ihe rubber it to pitch fjni it was taken for granted that the moment the pitcher got on the rubber be had the ball and wa ready to pitch That It the thought now in force it I a guide to the bxserunner It is a balk now If the pitcher gets on Uhe rubber without the balL Hartford Aug (AP)-A fall of four stories to ihs pavement below resulted in the death of Andrew Prn-tosevlch 32 of Windsor an employe of the Sanitaa Window Cleaning company early this morning Protosevich who was working on a window on the third floor of the Phoenix bank building lost his bat- ance or slipped with the result that se fell in a pasasagewav in the rear of the building the level of which wa one story lower than the main floor of the bank building He apparently struck his head in fall-( ing and was dead before he reached the Hartford iiosnital in the police ambulanc ms fall wa unobserved An expert window cleaner of elev- en years' experience he was work-! ing without a safety brace He I leaves a wife and five children GLENNA COLLETT ONE CHAMPION TO REPEAT Olenna Collett national golf queen seem to be one champion capable of repeating Olenna won the Gris- wold trophy for the fourth consecutive time the other day That' as good a Chick old record in the western amateur FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: 88 Every permanent wav it to give some man a permanent rave 3 GALA DAYS 3 STARTING SUNDAY FINISH (Suggeitsd from tbs story of the same name) by JACK LONDON Featuring Anita Stewart a I Hamilton and Johnnie Walker JUST LOOK AT THIS ONI FOR AN EXTRA ADDED ATTRACTION WILLAM FAIRBANKS In with DOROTHY REVIER And a Splendid Cset ALSO SHOWING LOVE COO-COO COMEDY LAST TIMES TODAY HOOT GIBSON In OTHER ATTRACTIONS CONTINUOUS TODAY REX HUMAN INTEREST DRAMA Hp PADLOCKED An Exciting Expose of Today's Morals of a Girl and and Night Life Environment in Which She Struggles From VICTORY Lois Moran Noah Beery Louise Dresser of the Broadway Theatrical the Depths to a Glorious 6:30 AND 8:30 Fifth Chapter HOUSE PETERS TONIGHT AT In Storm Abe Martin advertise but says: feller that may know his business nobuddy else HOlXsE PETERS "THEjSTOPMtBREAKER7 uwi AT POLLS PALACE TONIGHT 1 TV--.

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Years Available:
1886-1977