Pola Theatre Show Promises Daring Circus Drama
Mae Marsh stars in Polly of the Circus a vivid stage spectacle at Poli theatre with acrobats jesters and a giant circus scene. The program also features ventriloquists clowns musical acts and animated news including military dispatches from France. The Rose of Blood at Strand showcases Theda Bara in a Russia revolution drama with a governess heroine torn between love and duty.
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Mae Marsh
Polly
Poli
Margaret Mayo
Marriott
Ferraros
Carlisle
Roma
Lester
Miss ‘Hazzard
France
America
Theda Bara
Miss Bara
Fox
Russia
Strand Theatre
Plaza Wedding Shells TM with elaborate vaudeville program
A local vaudeville bill features the Plaza Wedding Shells TM cast of ten, led by an elaborate scenic ember stage. The show offers a high energy chorus, quick laughs, and strong musical comedy with Nanette’s violin solo and Tony as a street urchin. The Duquesne Comedy Four and DeForest Girls act provide bright spots alongside Regenerates Alma Rueben and Alf Whitman. Ballloonatics and Gret Great Master Comedy also draw laughs.
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Plas
Many & Moon
Plasa
Tooy
Nanette
Tony
Duquesne Comedy Four
Alma Rueben
Alf Whitman
Alice Howe Il
Back Home stories adapted for Lyric stage
A North Carolina born reformer travels to the South to tackle child labor, stirred local resistance, and keeps the stage busy. The Lyric presents a version adapted by Bayard Velker of Irving Cobb’s Back Home tales, though it suffers from weak characters and disrupted continuity.
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Irving Cobb
Saturday Evening Post
Lyric
Bayard Velker
Me Man
Elay
West End Showings Highlight Vivien Martin and Gail
Vivien Martin appears in The Rouble at the West theatre on State Street tonight with The Germans at the Battle and Southern Pride billed for tomorrow. The program centers on two feature attractions as patrons plan a weekend night out.
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Vivien Martin
Paramount
West Theatre
State Street
Clint Avenue
Gail
Knitted Woolen Trimming Adds Novelty to Coats and Blouses
The new fashion features coats with knitted woolen trimming in green worsted priced around $30. Many garments showcase knit collars cuffs pockets or waistcoats. Georgette blouses also display knitted worsted accents with stand up collars and elastic cuffs in bright color combinations.
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Georgette Crepe
Etiquette Notes On Small Formal Weddings And Calls
A guide on wedding invitations to be formal and personal with close relatives. It advises mothers writing notes for Marie’s small wedding and notes that telephone invites or casual visits are inappropriate. It also covers opening the door when a suitor calls without a chaperone and who may greet visitors.
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Marie
Mrs. Blank
Mr. Blank
Edward W
Connie
Tailor Offers Pressing Help for Heavy Garments
A local tailor can press frocks of wool and other heavy materials at a small cost. The tailor can press the complete dress or individual pieces during construction, delivering better results than a home laundry iron.
Boudoir gowns gain Paris fashion favor in corduroy and velour
The piece notes Paris enthusiasm for boudoir robes and corduroy gowns lined variably with silk, praising warmth and style. It comments on fashion, and briefly jokes about sugar prices, Christmas gifts, and Russia’s credit image alongside a medical ad for a cold remedy.
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Paris
Plaid velour frock offers practical everyday wear
A one piece plaid velour frock is described as practical and smart for general wear. It features a plain cloth collar and cuffs for contrast and a small vest of white satin to enhance its appearance.
How Porch Rooms Can Be Used Year Round
Porch rooms or sun parlors can be kept year round with heating and operable windows. They function as bright living spaces for card parties sewing reading and hair drying. Furnish in willow cretonne with sunfast curtains and soft color combos like rose gray blue cream green yellow.
Wednesday calendar activities and events listed
The calendar lists 10 o'clock church workers, 10 15 morning art club, 8 Ladies of Charity meeting at Lindley Street Nurses' Home, 8 30 PTA Read school with Mrs Orville Rector, 3 30 Members Musicale at First Methodist, 8 evening bridge at Wentogue Country Club, 8 rally by Girls Patriotic League at Hartford speaker Mrs Ansel G Cook, and notes Ecuador severing diplomatic relations with Germany.
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Workers of the United Church In
Church Varlors
Ladies of Charity
St. Vincent de Paul
Lindley Street
Parent Teachers’ Association of
Read School
Orville Rector
First Methodist Church
Wentogue
Ansel G. Cook
Hartford
Clifford BP. Wilson
Girls’ Patriotic League
Make Your Own Cough Syrup and Save Money
Readily prepared at home this article promotes a homemade cough syrup claiming it rivals store brands. It describes mixing Pinex and a pine extract with sugar and water, claiming fast throat relief and reduced phlegm.
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Ty Dale Waka
Fine program for musicale on Wednesday
The First Methodist church hosts the Wednesday Afternoon Musical Club with a long program of piano solos, contralto and soprano solos, violin obligato, and a trio. The event embraces wartime policy of no printed programs and is directed by Mrs. Robert B. Hard. Proceeds support war relief for French orphans.
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First Methodist
Robert B. Hard
Cyril Scott
Howard Johnson
Grace Lake
Edna Northrop
Grieg
Helen
Elsie Smith
Coleridge-Tayor
Allitson
Frederick Granniss
Elizabeth Limont
County
Derry
Percy Grainger
Bessie Harlow
Elgar
Ella
Belle Blackstone
Horsman
Eleanor Lines
Lena Mason Barnesley
Andor Merkler
Louie Iserder
Louis I. Snyder
Clayton Hamilton
Bridgeport Center
Drama League of America
Sun
Stratfield
Hamilton
Personal News From Park Avenue to Plainville Gatherings
Mrs. Lawrence Cornwall returns home on Park avenue after weeks in the West where Lieutenant Cornwall is stationed. Miss Margaret Neithercut to spend Christmas with parents on Brooklawn avenue. Robert Fay to join relatives from North avenue for Christmas. studying at the University of Virginia. Rev. W. W. Rose to speak at Universalist Woman's club meeting in Board of Trade rooms Newfield building. Mrs. William Heine visiting parents on Iranis t ari avenue. Mrs. Elmer Beardsley ill with grip. organist at United church. Mrs. W Gerald Lineburgh returns from Plainville, W. J., where Miss Ella May Thomas hosted over Thanksgiving.
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Charles
Ways and Means ‘Committee
C. E. Weeks
Roscoe Bassick
Dudley Morris
R. I. Neithercut
David S. Day
Louise Warren
Florence ‘Hastings
F. M. Hawes
Carl Foster
William R. Webster
W. D. Fishop
Courtland Hill
B. Weeks
S. M. Hewley
St. John's Parish House
J. E. Cenicola
Marguerite Boylan
East Side
F. W. Pyle
Tilly Hoff
South End
Henrietta Bishop
Thimble Club
Roscoe Bagsick
Lawrence Cornwall
Park Avenue
Lieutenant Cornwall
Margaret Neithercut
Dobbs Ferry
Mrs. R. I. Neithercut
Brooklawn Avenue
John Fay
North Avenue
Robert
University of Virginia
W. W. Rose
Universalist Woman's Club
Board of Trade
Newfield
William Heine
Middle West
George T. McCarthy
Iranistari Avenue
Elmer Beardsley
The
United Church
State Street
W. Gerald Lineburgh
Cleveland Avenue
Ella May Thomas
Plainville
W. J
Mrs Belmont Adresses U M C A Boys At Front
Mrs August Belmont of New York spoke to several hundred soldiers at American field headquarters in France. She urged them to keep up the fighting spirit and quoted a line from a play she appeared in, saying if things are not cheerful, folks must be. She then returned to Paris.
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France
Associated Press
August Belmont
New York
Eleanor Robson
Forty Years of Success Highlight Old Remedies
Article extols forty years of business excellence and enduring trust in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a proven remedy for women's ailments. It contrasts long success with newer rivals and notes wartime taxes and economic constraints affecting purchases and leisure spending.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Reliable Recipes Carrots With White Sauce
Practical kitchen notes describe carrots in white sauce and other preparations. Includes boiling times for young and old carrots, butter and stock seasonings, plus methods for mackerel boiled with vinegar, turnips boiled and mashed, and cold green pepper salad with lettuce and French dressing. Also covers canned peach salad with cottage cheese and celery.
Fashion notes on gray tones in evening wraps and silks
The article describes evolving gray tones in fashion, blending with blues greens and purples. It highlights various wrap styles from simple to elaborate, favored materials like panne velvet satin and velour, fur trimmings, cape effects, and metal brocade gowns. It notes decorative trims, kolinsky fur, and rhinestone touches for high fashion.
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Kolinsky
Junior dress for young girls features blue poplin frock
Fashionable junior frock in blue cotton poplin trimmed with braid and embroidery. Pictorial Review pattern No. cents. Sizes 13 and 15 shown. Home dressmaking notes highlight latest patterns from The Pictorial Review.
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Pictorial Review
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POLFS
West End
BH. W. Grove
Ecuador
Germany
Musical Club
Girls Patriotic League Rally
C. B. Wilson
F. B. Granniss
Hayes
State League
Herman Hagedorn
Carl van Doren
Columbia University
Courtland School Graduates’ Association
Amelia Beardsley
Park Place
van Doren
Deborah Glover
Percy Mackay
Mr. Mackay
George Sterling
Binner
Dr. van Dyke
William Dean Howells
Joyce Kilmer
Carl Sandberg
Edgar A. Robinson
Vachel ‘Lindsay
Miss Dargan
Louis Unter‘meyer
Edgar Lee Masters
Allan Seeger
New England
Toduce
Correa
Sueeve Poe
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