The Connecticut labor press., 1920-02-07
THE HYPERION.

Manager Menges has prepared cork
ing double feature bill for this Sunday
nights program at. the Hyperion with
James J. Corbett and Dorothy Dalton
forming the twin-star combination. Cor
bett, who has been appearing in serials,
now reaches out bit and is screened
in a five reeler, "The Prince of Ave
nue. A." with Corbett as Barry O'Con-
nor a young Irish plumber, strong in
politics and popular at East Side dances.
His father is district leader of Tam
many Hall and naturally has enemies.
Barry goes to a home of wealth on
business and meets traction magnate's
daughter. She invites him to a social
affair and gets into a quarrel which re-
suits in Barry being turned out of the
establishment. The discrediting of his
son Anglers the old man and he refuses
to back Tomnkins in his run for mayor
and this leads to a typical East Side
electioneering fracas which however
ends happily The other feature pre-
sents Miss Dalton, now the star of
"Aphrodite," at the Century theater in
"A Gamble in Souls the story of
cabaret girl and clergyman and the re-
generation of the girl.
Out of the even dozen of mystery
plays which were the vogue on Broad
way last season the consensus of opin-
ion was that "a Voice in the Dark
far excel1ed any other one and it will
come as pleasing news to the big Hy-
perion clientele that this play has been
secured for its first production in stock
for the Hyperion the coming week. It
enjoyed a run Of year in New York
and is still playing on the road with an
eastern and western company. 1t is
quite unusual for play at the height
of its success to be released for stock
production but that is a little-trick the
Hyperion management has of getting
big successes right off the Broadway
griddle In a prologue you will find
MRS. Marie Ledyard" (Mrs. Hibbard)
wealthy old lady and an invalid tenn
porarily in Briarcliffe on the Hudson
for her health. While resting in her
wheel chair in the cool. of the woods
she sees, as she believes, Blanche War
rem, miss St. Claire) shoot and kill
Hugh Sainsbury,, Mr. Lindhard) from
whose attentions she is trying to save
her younger sister, adele Warren
miss Corinne). Joe Champion, Crank
Thomas) a blind news seller at the
Briarc1iffe station, overhears CONVEX
sation at about the time of the muir
der, between two people whom he be-
lieves are brother and sister. The girl
presumably confesses the murder, but
Champion being blind naturally can only
identify them by their voices Joe Hem
ingway, a well known young society
man, John Dilson) knowing who the
nurderer is, throws suspicion on him
self rather than have the real murderer
discovered. Harlan Day, (Mr. Van
BUREN, a prominent lawyer who is in
love with Blanche Warren, finds her
charged with the murder and, with
every faith in her innocence does every
thing in his power to prove that she is
not guilty. AS result of his efforts
Mrs. Ledyard and Joe Champion are
discovered the one who has seen being
unable to hear and the one who could
hear being unable to see. You can
readily imagine the comp1exity there.
Eventually it is Joe Champion who
remembers "The Voice in the Dark"
and solves the riddle but that comes at
the final curtain and YOU won't even
guess who it was.