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THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, i Local Theatres { REGENT.."Baby Mine" § NEW MARTIN--"A Man's Past" Big Attraction at New Martin A thrilling and forceful melo- drama of a man's fillal devotion to his friend with a colorful back- ground of French Algiers and the Algerian Desert is vividly depicted in the Universal-Jewel production, "A Man's Past," which the New Martin theatre has booked for its feature attraction for Monday,' Tuesday and Wednesday. The action starts in the French' prison on the Isle of St. Noir, where a once noted physician is serving a ten year term for taking the law into his own hanas and putting to death a patient suffer- ing from an incurable disease. The physician escapes. to the mainland and is preparing to get out of the country when he finds an old friend who has gone blind, ror- feiting his own desires, he stayn with the friend and helps him to do his work. The story builde to a startling climax when the phy- slelan 18 recognized by a prison official and once more sees the hare prison walls facing him How he eventually wins a complete par- don and the heart of the girl who has stuck by him, is one of the most absorbing tales ever recorded by a camera. The picture was directed by George Melford and marks the first American made starring pie- ne of Conrad Veidt, the noted European stage and screen star. The supporting cast includes such well know players as san Keith, Barbara Bedford, Arthur Edmund Carew, George Siegmann, Corliss Palmer, Charles Puffy and a host of others. The screen adaptation was made by Paul Kohner from the msuny of the same name by Emerich Foeldes, A Parisian poet goes into a cage of African lions every night nnd reads his odes to them, So far he hes escaped injury. This may prove than animals have an artistic sense, Or, per- haps, that they are unable to swal- low..the poet and his work? | Noisy Soup-imbiber (in restaur- ant, as neighbor tuns around)-- Whetcher lookin' at? The Other--Sorry! you'd fallen in. : PRIVATE-- --PARTIES Arransements can be made at the office of the Osh wa Winter Garaens purpose of Private Parties, etc. Every Convenience at Moderate Charges E. O, McCROHAN I thought | for the GEORGE K, ARTHUR Who is co-starred with Karl Dane in the howling comedy success 'Baby Mine" at the Regent "MERCIFUL MURDER" TION ARISES IN "A MAN'S PAST" QUES- A question that has stirred up the medical profession for centur- fes is brought up in "A Man's Past," starring Conrad Veidt, the "Iniversal picture opening at the New Martin theatre on Monday. It shows the doctor as a man attempting to help humanity, struggling as a human and mak- ing human mistakes. The question of whether a doe- tor has a riht to put an incurable sufferer out of his misery israis- ed in this picture , for in the early part of the story Conrad Veidt, the star, does this and is instantly condemned, So far nosatisfactory answer to this great question of law and ethics has been found, If rela- tives give consent, the government intervenes and the physician nds Bimeen behind the bars for mur- er. This motion picture is taken from the famous European play "Diploma," by Emerich Foeldes, It was directed by George Mel- ford with most of the action tak- ing place in the Sahara Desert of Algiers, The supporting cast in- cludes Barbara Bedford, Ian Keith, Arthur Edmund Carew, Charles Puffy, Corliss Palmer, Edward Reinach and George Seig- mann, ---------- Messenger (to wewsboy): "Who's the swell ye was tulkin' to, Jimmie?" Newsboy:"Aw, him and me's work- ed together fer years. He's the edi- tor of one o' my papers." Mrs. Gordon (to husband who Is "listening in" on Sabbath evening): "Tammas, Tammas, ye mauna laugh like that on the Sabbath day." Tammas: "Laugh, wumman! the minister has just announced a col- lection an' here I am, safe at hame!" ET R-- L PANE Youll scream af lege chappies when they fall hewr to a couple of squalling infants! BACK these two snappy col- THE FUNMAKERS OF "ROOKIES" AGAIN KARL DANE + GEORGE K. ARTHUR TICKET SALE OPENS FOR "WINGS" MONDAY MORNING 10 AM. Condrad Veidt at the New Martin The grim life endured by convicts isolated in the famous French prison on the Isle of St. Noir is viv- idly depicted in the Uni- versal-Jewel production "A Man's Past," which comes to the New Martin theatre on Monday. "A Man's Past" is a screen version of the stage play, 'Diplo- ma." and stars Conrad Veidt under the direction of George Melford. Consid- erable time is sometimes lost while one 1s "pulling strings' to bring things to this "city. Mr, Marks {s justly proud of his success in this particular case, in bringing this plcture in the direction of Oshawa for the benefit of local fans. "A Man's Past'. at New Martin "A Man's Past," the Universal- Jewel production which marks the first screen appearance of Conrad Veldt, noted European star, in an American starring-production, has been booked to be shown at the New Martin theatre on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The picture is said to he one of the greatest dramas ever filmed and in addition to Veidt, embraces a long list of well known players including Ian Keith, Barbara Bed- ford, George Seigmann, Corliss Palmer and Charles Puffy. It was directed by George Melford, re- enongsible for many well known photoplays and was supervised by Paul Kohner, "A Man's Past" is a screen ad- aptation of the celebrated Hungar- fan play of the same name written by Emerich Foeldes, and deals with the efforts of an escaped con- vict from a French prison to re- habilitate himself before society, The prison scenes are accredited with being the most realistic ever picturized and Veidt's sg hon~nant escape from his solitary cell is a most vivid portrayal. The adaptation was made hy Paul Kohner and the continuity weitten by Charles Kenyon under the editorial supervision of Charles Logue, ARTHUR EDMUND CAREW HAS SUPPORTING ROLE IN DRAMA OF ALGIERS Arthur Edmund Carew, who plays an important supporting role in Conrad Veldt's Universay star- ring vehicle, "A Man's Past" which opens at the New Martin Theatre on Monday, escapsd the massacres to come to America seeking fame and fortune, Carew was born in Trebizond, Armenia, where he secured his early edueation--mostly in proof of the theory of the survival of the fittest, for massacres were not in- frequent, When he was just a young man the terrible massacres of 1896 broke out. Carew was attending the American college at Morsovan but even the ' students were not safe, so Carew braved the dangers of the frontiers and worked his way across the border to Vienna hiding during the day and walkin: at night. After the usual hard life of an imprigrant boy, Carew secured em- ployment on the stage in 1910 as a villain ip "The Mummy and the Humming Bird." Carew was on the stage eight years before he succumbed to the lure of motion pictures. His first screen role was in Constance Talmadge's "Romance and Arabella," made in 1918. Recently he has appeared in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," "The Cat and the Canary," "The Claw," and "A Man's Past." The supporting cast in the last includes Barbara Bedford, lan Keith, Corliss Pal- mer, Charles Puffy, Edward Rein- ach and George Siegmann. George , Melford directed. This is certainly a big produc- tion that comes to Oshawa on Mon- day, and Mr. Marks, manager of the New Martin, assures us of a real thrill. WINDSOR BLIND PIGS OPERATE TAXICABS Windsor, Feb. 16.--That Wind- sor 'blind-piggers' own and operate taxicabs to insure for themselves a big proportion of "the business" from Detroit, was asserted at this afternoon's meeting of the Police Commission by David Croll, legal adviser for thre taxicab compan- ies. Mr. Croll, asking for elimination of all undesirable taxi operators and drivers from the Border Cities, said that many licenses had been granted for the taxicab business to persons of more than suspicious reputation. : " 19% EE CLAKA BOW AND In a scene from the sensational road-s ing to the Regent next Thursday ¥ BUDDY ROGERS how screen production "Wings" com- with a carload of special effects and augmented orchestra for two preformances only, matinee and evening. All seats will be reserved and go on sale Monday morning at 10 am, "BABY MINE" AT REGENT THEATRE "Baby Mine," one of the most famous stage plays of all time, is the new co-starring vehicle of Karl Dane and George K. Arthur, comi- cal heroes of "Rookies" and the newest comedy team of the screen The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer adapta- tion of the Margaret Mayo drama which opens a three day engage- ment at the Regent theatre Monday afternoon, sees thenr in their sec ond joint attack op the risibilities of the world. | "Baby Mine" was one of the dramatic sensations of the decade, ran months on Broadway and play- ed in almost every city in the world. Dane and Arthur appear as two colleze "rah-rah'" boys who find themaalves engulfed in comi- cal trouktles as the result of love affairs and a stolen baby. Robert 7, Leonard directed the production from a screen adanta- tion by I". Hugh Herbert and Svl- via Thealberg, and Charlotte Green- wood, famous. star of 'So Long Letty' and other noted stage pro- ductions, males her debut before the camera as the sweotheart of the elonrated Dane in a comleal series of love episodes, 'Baby Mine" was first produe- ed on the stage in Daly's Theaire in New York, where it took Broad- way by n overnight, Ernest Clendenning and Marguerite Clarke, who later became famous as a film star, played the leading roles, and traveling road shows and sto"k companies took it to practically every city of .import- ance in the United States. The story concerns two rah-rah collegians at an institute of phy- sical surgery. Charlotte Green- wood plays the role of an old mad enamoured of the student played by Dane, and Louise Lorrain , the sweetheart of the colle~icn im- pergonated hv Arthur. There are! andless complications, swift aec-| tion throughout and laughs in! a'most every foot of the pleture. Miss Green 's antics prove as mirth-provok as those of Dane | and Arthur; in fact, her debut in- | dicates that in this actress ine | screen hos found a comedienne of exceptionally brilliant promise, TO BE BURIED AT LONDON Vancouver, 17--~The remain of Major T. M. Shoehotham of t Royal Canadien Mounted Police, who died recently i n, arrived in Vancouver norn and were taken in charg ? Shachot- ham, a brother, of Calgary. Inter- ment will be in Wondland Cemetery, London, Ont., next Wednesday, ACTIVE PROGRAM AT WINTER GARDEN Winter Garden fis The Oshawa nr attractive. pro- reeenting a very ram. coming week. Tuesday, Feb, 21, the Da Costa studio of Dancing, who are open- 12 a branch studio in the Winter : on, 13 again featured, this their opening night, Da (in person) and Chalmers, have heen giving exhibitions sa Loma and the Da Costa eneers will perlorm, The popular Country Club Or- chestra has been engaged for this |B occasion also. This assures patrons an evening of real smart dance music as played by them at their many Night Club engagements, On this occasion the orchestra will be directed by Mr. Oscar Durnside; co-director of the Blue Marines. Special attractions are being booked for Thursday and Satur- day nights and will be announced later, --_-- - NOMINATION OF COBLIDGE ASKED Y., Feb. 18.--Des- Hoover's recent an- of his Presidential Charles B. Hilles, Na- Committecman, Albany, N. pite Herbert nouncement candidacy, tional Republican from New York State, Tuesday called for the nomination of President Coolidge. With the exceptions to his re- ferences to Lincoln, Mr. Hilles' speech was virtually a reiteration of one he made in Syracuse two months ago, at which he voiced his first *'draft Coolidge" pro- nouncement, Continuing his facts surrounding idg desire to the hite House, Mr, on: "No one who appeals to the President's sense of duty in this situation impugnes the President's motive, And no one who makes that appeal should have his own motives impuszned. Certainly those members of the party who are free from alliances with aspir- ents from the nomination do not believe there is justification any reflections upon the motives of the President, or upon those rcons. who support him to the iring his retention in » cost of his per- ral inconvenience. No-one doubts the President's sincerity of purpose. His proposal to abdicate was entirely and he has & od us to respect recital of the President Cool- withdraw from Ww Hilles went The trouble with "nocking at the door is that often turns out to be a hot house canvasser.--Kitchener ord. it so | opnporten:ity | -to on Lis wich, But there can be no doubt that the demand for his re-elec- tion is country-wide and insist- The country hes need of men jie Lincoln and Coolidge." CONRAD VEIDY Who will be the attraction at the New Martin Theatre starting Monday of next week in that famous picture "A Man's Past." \ for ry COMING MONDAY ror 3 DAYS A stirring tale of love and hate in the searing lands of Northern Af- rica. * - His Past Threatened Him Like The Hang- ing Sword. Also COMEDY Buster Brown | ] Condar Veidt, a8 the man 'Who had nroui- I'S dered for years in a prison dungeon then gains sudden freedom only to find that he is forced to pose as the brother of the woman he adores. He holds you tense in the spell of his masterly acting -- almost uncanny and weird, Another Showing of the COLLEGIANS Enjoy an Evening Next Week at this 1heatre JOINT SESSION BY RADIO TELEPHONE British and American En- gineers Hold Novel Meetings 4 New York, Feb. 18.--American and British engineers, meeting simultaneously in New York and London, held a joint session Thurs- day by the modern miracle of the trans-Atlantic . radio telephone. The meeting of the American In- stitute of Electrical Engineers was held in New York and the British Institute of Electrical Engineers in London, but the fire-hour time difference made them simultane- ous. The organizations exchanged areetings through their presidents, Bancroft Gherardi, of the Ameri- can Institute and Archibald Page, o. the British. Words of wach speaker were heard at the same time by both conferences separat- ed by 3,000 miles of water. Greet- ings then were exchanged by Dr. F. B. Jewett, of the Bell Tele- phone laboratories and Col. T. F, Purves, chief engineer of the Brit- ish Post Office, their words being heard on both sides of the Atlante. BATTLE WAGED IN HOUSE COMMITTEE Incorporation of New Town Causes Dispute Over Private Bill Quebec, Feb. 18.--Battle waged in the Private Bills Committee of the Legislative Assembly Wed- nesday in regard to the applica- tion for the incorporation of the Town of Shipshaw, adjoining Chute a' Caron, in the Lake St. John district. The Alcoa Paper Company, 2 subsidiary of the Aluminum Com- pany of America, which has a huge plant at Arvida, proposes to build | a dam there and put in a pulp and | paper mill, and also develop 2 [town with other industries to which power may be marketed. It is proposed to make fit 2 "company town," with three of the company's officials as aministra- tors. Considerable opposition was forthcoming from four meighbor- ing municipalities affected namely Kenogami, Jongueres and Trem- blay and Burget townships. In reply to strong objection to the named Shipshaw, the name of the town was changed to Racine and 24 clauses of the bill were carried on division. The progress lot the bill was continued Thurs- 1 day. Recine at present has a popu- lation of 500 people, all workmen employed on the projected devel- opment. There are seven European hockey teams at St. Moritz en- gaged in keen competition for the honor of being beaten by the Cana- dians.--Hamditon Spectator. CANADIANS ARE SENTENCED FOR ALIEN.SMUGGLING WORK Detroit, Feb. 17.--Sentences of one year and three years, respective- ly, were passed today in Federal Court on two Canadians for violation of the United States immigration laws. Harold Bentley, of Windsor, convicted of conspiring to smuggle aliens across the border, was sent to Leavenworth Prison for the shorter term, while Ridley Nohdee of Wal: pole Island, was given three years, with a $100 fine tacked on. He 1s said to have assisted foreigners to cross the St, Clair River into Port NOTICE Owing to the fact that all tickets have been sold for THE A.Y.M.C, FOURTH ANNUAL MINSTREL SHOW and that two or three hundred people have applied for tickets and have been unable to. get them, we will run the Show again on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, For the fourth time in ST. GEORGE'S PARISH HALL AR A Player Pianos Pianos Phonographs Special Club Plan Without Interest Ontario Piano & Music Company, Limited 92 Simcoe Street North deeded Grand Opening Mrdeelednddeededrdends DA COSTA Studios of Dancing Featuring DaCOSTA & CHALMERS (Direct from Casa Loma) and the DaCOSTA DANCERS also THE COUNTRY CLUB ORCHESTRA (Direct from College Inn) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 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