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New Britain herald., 1927-11-09
1.-THE CAT AND CANARY,

Ever since last Saturday the local tEcater fans are reviewing the much talked about mystery thriller-"The Cat and Canary" at the Lyceum. Thousands have been pleased and there is one day left to please many more who have not yet seen this greatest of all great super-mysteries. The super-mystery thriller of all time. With the largest and best star cast ever assembled in a single mo- tion picture! With Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale. Fully Marshall, Flora Finch, Gertrude Astor, George Siegmann, Martha Mattox, Arthur Edmund Carew, Lucian Littlefeld, Forrest Stanley and Joe Murphy. The companion feature is Strand ed' featuring Shirley Mason. Or chestra music evenings.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

dgeport-Mayor Behrens re- elected for third term. as republican ticket carries every district.
 Hartford-State police get large still and 1000 gallons of alcohol in raid on farm of Henry Battiecello In Bloomfield. arresting Battiecello and two others.
 Hartford-Flood refugees, return ing to homes as waters of Connecti- cut river fall, find quarantine notices iorhldding occupancy until all un- satisfactory conditions have been aba1cd.
 eport-Raymond F. Delaney, former police reporter. admits to 70 bnrglaries performed while as reporter he was working in con- plete confidence of police.
 rldgeport-Three badly injured and lives of 12 moro endangered in collision bctwen motor truck and trolley ear in Southport.
 Bridgeport-Aid 10 Vermont flood sufferers pledged by Congregational churches Of state at general confer encc.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09
TOWER REELECTED
 NEW HAVEN MAYOR
Estimate Eighty Per Cent of
 Electors Voted

New Haven. Nov. 9 CP-An esti- mate has been given that eighty per cent of the registered electors went to inc polls yesterday and voted, q nigh figure In the opinion of those who take part in the mechanics of a municipal election.
 Mayor John E. Tower was re- elected over Philip Troup. lawyer and former newspaper editor. by m official margin of 2,116. An analysis Of the vote by wards indicated in the opinion of the democrats, that the breach between the Cahill and Heating factions has been healed.
 The claim of the republicans that organization would carry through their ticket was met today by the
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09
HOLDS BEDSIDE COURT

Port Clinton. O.--Justice R. s. Galleher was ill and in bed, bu, he kept right on with his court business. One man pleaded guilty over long distance telephone to a hunting law infraction. Another charged with illegal possession of fish stood beside the justices bed and got his sentence.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09
CAN'T PREACH TO MIKE"

Asheville. W. C.--Speaking over the radio cramps the style of an evangelist, the Rev. Mel Trotter be- lcves. He says he is not accustomed to standing still while preaching, but has promised 10 do his best 10 stay In his tracks for radio audiences.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09
.Mew Face
 RopuLar

MELLO-GLO is a wonderful new shade--youth color. Perspiration hardly affects it and it will not leave the skin dry and drawn Try this new French Process Face Pow der and enjoy it's marvellous beauti- flying qualities. Sticks well, stays on longer and does not clog the pores. 1ou will surely love MELLO-GLO.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09
Bank and Nelson Agree,
 Latter Will Pay S934

. Attorneys in the action of the City National bank against Nels N. Nel son have agreed that the defendant shall pay to the plaintiff the sum Of S9o4.22 and S30 costs Judgment for that amount will be entered at the short calendar session of the city court next Monday. Bernard L. AL pert represents the plaintiff and Monroe s. Gordon Is counsel for the defendant.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

New liaycn-Strenuous day bring ing voters to polls ends with death of Mrs. James J. O'Connor from heart attack as she reaches home of potential voter she planned to carry 10 vote for Philip Troup.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

What would you do if you had a million dollars? No. you wouldn't. You would wish it was two million.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

San Antonio - Crossing the bor- Ger travelling fast after series of exhibition games, q group of minor league baseball stars paused long enough 10 remark that Mexico at present is no place for baseball. In Mexico City with pay day A hours away, d squad Of Mexican soldiers marched into the park and marched out with the officer promoting the games. The rattle of the firing squad had scarcely died away when inc transformers were heading for the border.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

Camden, Y. J. - Wife beating and lquor cause the greatest part of the worlds unhapplness and he will en- deavor to stamp them out. Edward Nothman, 29. declared after his cleo ton as justice of the peace. Rugged. red headed, and blue eyed, Rothman who had no opposition. sold news papers in front of the court house until q year ago.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

Southampton, N. Y. - Although the wife of an Argentine, Mrs. Ar ture Peralta Romas, the former Mil liccnt Rogers, exercised her rights as an American citizen at the polls IL was her first public appearance since her marriage.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

New thven-Mrs. Josepha Whit ney, niece of late eX-Governor Bald win. becomes Elm City's first alder woman.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

New Haven--No one hurt when pistol, which fails to explode when
 Charles Wilkins tries to shoot wife,
 goes off as bystandcr tries 10 take it from Wilkins, who escapes.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

New York -- That 65 year old ilapper, Fanny Ward has returned to these shores looking like a girl in her early tweuties. "A woman is as young as she looks" was her. brisk explanation. She wore vivid blue costume with q hat of the helmet effect, carried out in feathers.
 s. S. lAquitania - Ruth Elder now has q model of her Inflated plane, The American Girl made in sweets to nibble at. The builder was the ships chef and 1t adorns her table at meals.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09
FLASHES OF LIFE: FANNY WARD
 AT 65 LOOKS LIKE SCHOOL GIRL

New York Two hundred and fifty girls-with a very few men gathered at q dinner and there were no cigarettes and no liquor. Con- menting on the dinner, which was held by the Women's Swimming as- sociation, and on women smoking, a guest wrote, T venture so say that a healthier, better assembly of young womanhood could not be gathered anywhere else on earth"
 London - '1 am q modest violet in my old age" Lady Astor replied when Sir William Johnson Hicks chided her on taking d back seat when she visited him with a depu- tation. She added that the deputa- tion, which was urging the necessity of raising the existing age of mar riage, did not want to be disagree able.
 "You couldn't be-" rcjoined Sir William.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

Kansas City - When the Nation 'al Air Transport, Inc, wants to move from one field 10 another it WhisRs it's office furniture and equip ment across the city by air high above the roar of traffic. Thus the company transferred its base from Richards field to the new Kansas City airport without the aid of nov ing vans.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

New Haven-Gift Of $5,0o0 for New England flood relief announced Ivy supreme council, Knights of Columbus.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

New Britain-Variation of "old army game" leads woman to pay $40 for paste diamond.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

Havana -- Havana needs t mili- tary dictator to unScramblc its trafic, the newspapers suggest. They urge the appointment of an army man 10 enforce the existing traffic rules and devise new ones.
New Britain herald., 1927-11-09

New Havcn-John B. Tower re- elected mayor. leading republican ticket to victory.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-08

self slipping down narrow channel. Then he was in large sac, and by feel ing about he discovered, to his horror, that he was in the whales stomach. He could still breathe, though with difficulty, and he had feeling of insufferable heat. The thought that he was doomed to die there occurred to him, and the anguish of it caused him to lapse into merciful unconsciousness He remained unconscious until he was rescued.
 "That story, we'll vouched for by the captain of the Star of the East and his crew, was printed in the respected Lit erary Digest on April 4, 1896. Bartley stuck the voyage out, but when the whaler reached London he was obliged to go to hospital and undergo treat met for his nerves. His skin was tanned, evidently by the action of the gastric juices in the whales insides, but he lived. That is the point"
 Dr. Bellah wonders how people who believe that story can still doubt the Bible, in which it is specifically stated that the great fish that swallowed Jonah was prepared by the Lord," the instru-
New Britain herald., 1927-07-08

ment of a miracle, and therefor not to be judged by ordinary standards.
 Moreover, he says that in the early days of whaling it was no uncommon thing for a man to be found whole in the belly of slaughtered whale, al- though the man was usually quite dead. Proceeding on the assumption that the whale of the story was about eighty seven feet long, or over eighty feet, in any case, he shows by the use of lan- tern slides that it would have been pos sible for the prophet not only to survive, but to make himself really comfortable for the three days and three nights that passed before he was least up"
 One slide shows the three-room- and bath fiat" that the Omaha minister says Jonah would have had ample room for inside the whale. (An artists elabora- tion of this slide is reproduced at the top of this page.) Two more of the slides are used to illustrate this page one of Jonah paying his fare before talk ing ship, and the other of the prophet being cast into the whales gaping jaws. Dr. Bellah is careful to explain his
New Britain herald., 1927-07-08

vigorous, physically and mentally, and possessor of famous library, we'll stocked with books of Biblical lore. His mission in life, as he sees it, is to prove the literal truth of the Scriptures, and his parishioners agree with his views
 ''It would be well," he says, "to re- member that Christ, when on earth, said that as Jonah was three days and nights in the whales belly, so He, the Son of Man, would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Skep- tics will find it hard to get around that without accepting the whale story, or repudiating Christ"
 He insists that there is no conflict be- tween real science and real religion, but only between scientists who do not know their science, and theologians who do not know the Bible.
 "1f, Jonah's story had been fake or myth, the Pharisees would have caught up Christ when he alluded to it as fact" Dr. Bellah argues. "They were always trying to catch Him in lie or half-truth. But no, it remained for mod ern scholars to doubt the incident and make game of the truth. Jonah's power as prophet and preacher is the best sign he was in the whales belly. The marvellous experience he had passed through helped him in getting half million converts in three days"
 The "great fish" that swallowed Jonah has usually been thought of as a whale, because the whale is the biggest fish, or rather mammal, in the sea. But scien- tists who try to "reconcile" science and the Scriptures have sometimes advanced the theory that it was shark. Sharks have swallowed human beings whole much oftener than whales, in recent times.
 The main objection of the scientists to the whale story has been their claim that while great sulphur bottom whale is sometimes eighty-seven feet long, and a whales mouth is big enough to accom-
New Britain herald., 1927-07-08

modate a man, and a whales belly is likewise plenty roomy, human being would be squeezed to death in the pas sage through the mammals throat
 Then, too, they say that while man could easily live three days and three nights without food or drink, he would not get enough air in the whales insides. But Jonah might have been in state of suspended animation, they admit; the Hindus say that certain fakirs can be buried alive in the ground for days at a time, and be none the worse for their experience.
 In producing his evidence to prove that the Jonah incident could have hap pened according to natural laws, Dr. Bellah carefully explains that he him. self needs no such scientific proof. The word of Christ that it happened is enough. He does not intend to prove by scientific data that it did happen as the Bible says. He merely wishes to prove that the scoffers are the foolish ones for saying it could not have happened, and is in violation of Natures rules.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-08

the light 80 one might read at his ease.
 What he wants to emphasize is that there was room enough for a man, even one Untouched of God" to move about inside the whales belly; that big whales throat is wide enough to permit
 man to slip down; that the whale incident not only happened, but is A scientifically explainable, even
 without stressing the matter of 1lA Divine intervention.
 E In his argument, as he swings around the speaking circuit, Dr.
 Bellah tells his people that the only leg scoffers have to stand on, when they reject the whale story, is the claim that Jonah could not have had enough air to survive for three days and three nights; and he regards that leg as weak one.
 They are talking theory, he contends; and he points to the fact that James Bartley, an ordinary human being, who never was prophet, nor the son of a prophet, did survive more than twenty four hours in the belly of an ordinary whale.
 "How much more ready we should be to admit the possibility and the truth of the story that specially created whale did swallow and retain one of Gods elect for three days and three nights, to serve the purpose of the Lord," he reasons.
 "To some milk-and- -watery Christians, the Jonah story seems incredible, merely because some unbelieving mockers try to make out that it is funny.
 "Many man who will accept the Bibles statement that Joshua made the sun stand still, Lots wife was turned into pillar of salt and the Israelites crossed over on the bed of the Red Sea, will balk at the Bible story of Jonah and the whale. Yet, on purely natural grounds, it is as explainabe as many fact that figures in the accepted history of the nations"
 pr. Bellah is man just turned fifty,
New Britain herald., 1927-07-08

An artists elaboration of the Reu. Mr. Bel lah's interesting theory that the experience of Jonah, as described in the Old Testament, is not at all improbable, and that he would have had room for q complete housekeeping apartment of three rooms and bath tn the inside of an 87-foot whale of the sulphur
 bottom species
 purpose before using his slides. He does not seek to have his hearers believe he thinks Jonah actually lived as the slides might suggest to 8 simple-minded person. There were no porcelain bathtubs in those good old days, for one thing. Cook ing ranges, comfortable re- clining chairs and news papers had not been in- vented. And if they had been, there was no electric light switch in the whales belly by which to turn on
New Britain herald., 1927-07-08

Jonah and the whale has arisen ~- in Omaha, Nebraska, in the per
 son of the Rev. Dr. c. G. Bellah, pastor of the Memorial Church of the Seventh Day Adventist, in that city, and one of the outstanding Bible scholars of his de- nomination.
 Dr. Bellah's years of research have satisfied him that it was humanly pos sible for Jonah to have remained three days and three nights in the belly of the whale and have emerged alive and well.
 "The Lord," he challenges, quoting the Bible, "had prepared great fish to swallow up Jonah.
 "Why should we doubt that Bible story of a miracle, when we know that even in modern times great whales have been known to swallow men alive?" People who try to get around the whale story as fgurative or allegorical, draw the Omaha pastors wrath, and in his lectures as field secretary of the Mid dle Western Administrative District of the Seventh Day Adventist Church he uses lantern slides showing that there is room enough in the belly of whale, an- eighty-seven-foot of the sulphur bottom species, to permit man to have regu- lar fiat" therein-parlor, bedroom and bath.
 The Omaha pastor has been believer in the story of Jonah and the whale all his life, but says that he never appre- ciated the folly of those who make fun of it until he began to collect evidence and build up his case against the scoffers. Noted commentators on the Scrip lures, such as Dr. Adam Clark and Mat thew Henry, have upheld the truth of the whale story" says Dr. Bellah. "But the people who like to make light of the truth say it was scientifically impossible. "Let us see. Let us examine the evil [dence in the case of James Bartley, who l has been called the modern Jonah by some profane writers.
 "In the month of February, 1891, the whaler, Star of the East launched two boat loads of harpooners to pursue a whale seen spouting in the distance. One particularly superb specimen was marked out and pursued to the death. This great fish, or sea monster, was so powerful that in it's death agony it lashed out with it's tail and splintered one of the small boats, and the crew of that boat jumped into the sea.
 "All but one of them was picked up. After the excitement attending tho slaughter of the whale had subsided, it was discovered that one James Bartley was missing. It was believed that he had been drowned, for he couldn't swim.
 After the whale ceased threshing about, it was pulled up alongside the whaling ship, and the work of cutting it up began. A day and a night were taken for the task. And finally the men came to the stomach of the whale.
 "Great was their surprise, on cutting it open, to find therein their missing comrade, James Bartley, whole and alive, although unconscious.
 "They had great trouble in reviving him. They had very primitive equip- ment for that. But Bartley did live, and at the end of several days he re- gained the use of his mind and his speech and began to talk about his experience. "He remembered we'll being tossed into the air by the enraged whale, after
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-16
Warnings Due Back

Warnings Pennsylvanians, Wash.
t1tton's favorite syncopators, will
furnish the headline attraction
Of an excellent bill at-the Earle
Theater next week, beginning
Sunday afternoon. April "a. This
sterling organization OF is young
collegiate instrumentalists needs
no introduction to theatergoers
Of the Capital, having played O
greater number Of special en-.
gaeements in the Stanley Gran.
dali houses than any similar
group. Other inclusions in the
vaudeville portions Of the bill
will introduce Martin Sands and
Mildred Doone in Collegiate Ca.
pers:" Gladys Darling and her
Charleston Syncopators in "Terp.
sichorean Frolics;'' Frank Marine
and Tony Martin in "That Letter
from Peetsa.burg" and the LIE
Roys. The photograph feature
for the new week VIII be 1.-THE
Night Bride. Producers latest
starring vehicle for Marie Pre-.
vost, with Harrison Ford in sup.
port. Usual house featufes viii
round out the program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-16
PIONEERS
THE FOLKS
SAY

The latest idea in filmdon--
little movie theaters for the pre-.
sentation Of artistic and beautI.
3ll feature pictures, funny old
comedies, and novelties not avail.
able elsewhere, WAS entirely
Matched In washington, according
to the Motion Picture Guild.
The first house Of this kind IN
the world was established when
the local guild took over the
Wardman Park Theater ana sue.
ceeded, for the first time since its
erection, IN making this house
pay. Many noteworthy American
films were revived, but the real
work started with the importation
Of German, French and other
European pictures.
It was along about then that
far-seeing artists in other cities
saw the potentialities of the
plan-aIld two New York play.
houses, the Cameo ana the Fifth
Avenue Playhouse, were turned
into guild film houses. and proved
immense successes. There are
now three such houses building
in New York City.
The first house to be built for
this purpose, however, IL the
Washington Little Theater, which
has received nationwide publicity.
Dozens of letters a day congratu.
late the Guild for its brave ven.
ture. Such organizations as the
National Board OF Review, the
Russian AmkiIlO, Film Arts Guild.
and others are offering their help
In the selection Of worthwhile
pictures.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-16

Now. in Venus of Venice
which was produced by Joseph M.
Schenck for First National and di<
rected by Marshall Neilan, Miss
Talmadge is called upon to per.
form a variety of thrilling es.
capades in which gondolas play a
prominent part.
In fact. as "Carlotta," alias the
Water Rat" she Is more at home
In the water than on. land. And
she found the filming Of this gay
story Of Continental life more
thrilling than anything she has
done since the chariot sequence Of
Intolerance" in spite Of the fact
that she has been called upon to
do stunts In racing automobiles.
airplanes, speedboats and count.
less other conveyances.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-16

Whsn she was given the role,
Constance FASTENED home to tell
her mother, and to speculate az to
whether she would be able to
manage the part, which called for
ner 70 driveaa chariot in the Baby.
lonlan sequence.
Don't worry about managing
the part. You had better worry
about managing those horses" her
mother advised.
It developed that the horses were
the most spirited obtainable. For
days, Constance had to practice
balancing in rocking. swervinR,
swaying chariot behind the plung.
ing steeds and never went home
without new assortment OF black
and blue spots. But she did man.
age the horses-and the part.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-16
Think MusicaIly

r. Wesley Etris. manager. and
Harold T. Peace. organist. at
Crandall's Colony Theater, are
conducting novel added attrac.
ton on Thursday night Of each
week in the form Of a music
memory contest in which 10
prizes are awarded weekly. Each
Thursday night Mr.. Pease presid.
Ing at the console OF the Colony's
splendid pipe organ renders a list
Of eight selections which the mem
bers of the audience are called
upon to list correctly by name
on blank forms provided for that
purpose.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-04-16

man Of reputation, and 4 hero
into the bargain; then two months
Of practice around and around
the towering Circus Maximus;
then-one dAy-caF1e thousands
Of bowling spectators, including
all the stars Of picturedona, and
We were OFF on the six weeks Of
thrills and falls, broken charlots,
and. alas, in one or two spills,
broken bones. You will love It,
even as we loved It, despite the
risks we took-for never has
there been such race, never
such q spectacle az .'Ben.IIur."
The st. Patrick Players win
roll up the curtain on 1 real
novelty when they open their new
revue. .'Washingtonia." at Carroll
Hail Tuesday night. II win BE-
the eight Achenbach sisters, ali
said to be decidedly pretty, and
all appearing during the course
Of the two acts and % scenes.