New Britain herald., 1923-04-21
LYCEUM HAS GREAT
 AFRICAN PICTURE
Martin JohnSon's Trailing Wild
 Animals Opens Sunday Night

Beginning at the Lyceum tomorrow night Is one of the most fascinating pictures ever filmed. Trailing African Wild Animals. with MT. and Mrs. Martin Johnson. Those who see this picture will take visual trip to the South Sea Islands. to Borneo. where romance and fascination spread their mystic wings, where denizens Of the jungle roam their native haunts and the Zulu pirates live. where the will derness trails lead on and on to the home of the lost tribe beyond where white man had ever gone before. This picture will continue through next Wednesday. with sterling vau- deville program, and for the last half of next week picture equally good will be shown. It Is The Hero. the screen version of Gilbert Emery's celebrated stage success. The vau- deville bill will be changed completely the last three days of the week.
 Tn addition to the African wonder picture tomorrow night, the Lyceum also will show the usual comedy and news reels and an added dramatic feature, assuring high grade enter tainment for the Sunday evening movie enthusiasts.
 Trailing Wild tair.als in Africa is not studio picture, yet the photo graphy is well nigh faultless. John- son and his wife are world renowned explorers and big game hunters and. according to the critic of the New York World, this picture. taken dur ing their last trip into the dark con- tinent, shows on the screen by all odds the most daring exploits among savage beasts, crawling inhabitants of the forest and the Zulu pirate yet re- vealed to the eye of man."
 Just few of the things, education al as we'll as entertaining and certain ly more thrilling than any man-plot. are: Orang- -outangs with great brood- ing eyes. head hunting Zulu pirates, herds of mammoth wild elephants, wan-wah apes. man-eating crocodiles, quaint little teddy bears and other wild life.
 The vaudeville which the Lyceum will feature next week has been booked with especial care. None but the highest grade acts will be shown. There will be a high class acrobatic act, different from any be- fore seen here; there will be some good comedy sketches: some bright and catchy song hits and song and dance revue that is a whole show in itself.
 The Hero, which opens Thursday. is a picture that charms and thrills and entertains. AS legitimate play on the spoken stage it was recog- nized as one of the greatest successes It is an intimate story of family life and, needless to say, has war flavor inasmuch as one brother, a veteran, came home hero. The whole town turned out to greet him, while his faithful brother Andy plugged along selling insurance during the day and bathing his fallen arches at night. Then one day there was fire In the village school and little children were trapped-there also was temptation to steal $500. Then it is that true heroism asserts itself and the prosaic businessman proves himself to be greater hero than any of the others. It is presented by a remarkable me cast. including Gaston Glass, Barbara DeMarr, John Sainpolis, David Butler, T,oris Pawn, and Franklin Lee.
 Among the other big pictures com ing to the Lyceum are Poor Mems Wives, Thorns and Orange Blossoms Success. and The Greatest Menace as we'll as Nazimova in salome.