Poli's Anniversary Week Ends With Final Program
The Amusements Fein Anniversary Week at Poll's closes this evening after a strong run of entertainment and business. The lineup includes Fireside Revers, Willie Solar, Drew & Co in Getting In Right, Field Sisters singing and dancing, and Frank Shields performing lariat tricks. The feature is The Battle of Life with Gladys Coburn, plus Pather's Pictorial News. A big pre holiday program is planned for tomorrow night with 12 reels of films including The Price of Silence and Poli's orchestra.
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Poll
Willie Solar
Charles ‘Drew
Lariat
Gladys Coburn
Pather’s Pictorial
Poli
Plaza Vaudeville Tonight at The War Zone and More
Laughs aplenty at the Plaza tonight as The War Zone with Happy Jack Gardner and company delivers smiles. Bunce and Frazer offer a clever vocal pair, Howard and Scott perform a lively dance, and The Sin-Ye Do with Frank Keenan offers pathos, while The Keystone comedy promises final hearty laughs.
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Jack Gardner and Company
Hallen
Hunter
Frank Keenan
Lyric All Star Stock Co to Present Sin ner d ellé and Sinners
The Lyric stage presents one more performance of The Angelus and one chance left to see presents this week. Next week offers a Xmas matinee and Swin Davis dramatic hit Sinners with a NY record 350 nights. Stage Director Edwards says the piece will gain many fans for the stock company. It portrays the perils of the big city with virile acting. Sunday night features high grade pictures from 6 to 10 30.
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Angelus
Santa Claus
the Lyric All Ao Stock Co
Swin Davis
Playhouse
New York
Edwards
the Lyric
Stock Co
Ellé & Studys
Hands of the Lyric
All Star
Sto: Co
Marguerite Clark Stars in Snow White at Local Theatre
Marguerite Clark, dainty and irresistible, presents the famous five part Paramount adaptation of Snow White as the headliner of today’s feature program. The screening promises delightful comedy and cosmopolitan subjects in single and multiple part variety with a special Sunday evening program from 6 to 10 p m tomorrow featuring a five part tea.
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Marguerite Clark
Players-Paramount
Snow White
Meet Your Old Friends Christmas Dances at Quilty's
The annual Christmas dances at Quilty's Colonial Ball Room Fairfield avenue invite old timers to meet former acquaintances. A matinee from 2:30 to 6 pm and an evening grand ball feature Murray's ten piece orchestra. A good crowd is expected and admission is a popular figure.
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Quilty’s
Fairfield Avenue
Murray
Harry Hilliard to Visit Bridgeport Screen Star Returns Home
Harry Hilliard, famed screen actor, plans a Bridgeport visit to see relatives. Educated as a physician, he chose the drama and has starred with Wilton Lackaye and Blanche Ring. He has appeared in Fox pictures with Mary Fuller, Vivian Martin, and others, earning wide popularity. Private John Matchetts of Minette, Minn., was shot and killed by Private James B. McAnsbie of Springfield, Mo., in a dispute over a dollar. Hearings will follow the Christmas recess on Representative Steenerson’s bill for free importation of wheat for legal purposes.
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Harry. Hilliard
Romeo
Theda Bara
Juliet
Bridgeport
Mr. Hilliard
Wilton Lackaye
Henry E. Dixsey
Cyril Scott
Blanche Ring
Marie Dressler
Florence Reed
Mary Fuller
Fox
Vivian Martin
June Caprice
Fox Group of
John Matchetts
Minette
Minn
James B. McAnsbie
Springfield
Steenerson
Underworld Slang and Its Hidden Language Unveiled
A Star of Hope item from New York State Prison explains criminal slang terms used by professional pickpockets and their helpers. It catalogues terms for actions objects money and police with regional variants such as pockets, pokes, hoopes, kales and dicks, revealing a coded vocabulary of the underworld.
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West Central
Star of Hope
New York State Prison
Over the Bridge of Sighs and Victorian Snatches
A fragment from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page reflects literary quotes and social observation. It notes the Chelsea biscuit conductor’s remark about a queen’s offer and a writer's disdain, then moves to Bulwer-Lytton on youth, sorrow, and wisdom, ending with a humorous jab at Dr Jones over diet advice and lobster splurges.
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Bridge of Sighs
Bulwer-Lytton
The Clown's Face and Black Lines in Theater History
A Chicago Tribune excerpt recalls a Louis XIV era clown Gros Guillaume whose tearful whitening of makeup after a stage mishap led to a superstition about black lines. The tale links feminine sorrow, audience laughter, and lasting theatrical tradition with the line about every Jean bearing black lines on a whitened face. The passage also notes Carlyle declining honors, including Disraeli's Grand Cross of the Bath, as reported by Froude.
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William
Gros Guillaume
Rue Favari
Commedia
Jean
Chicago Tribune
Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Disraeli
Bath
Froude
Carlyle de
Islam and Dancing Forbidden in Mohammedan Law
Islam and Dancing. Mohammedanism forbids dancing and only by special permission may a house master be released from this law. The Koran forbids this form of amusement as not permitted in paradise.
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Paradise
Opinions and marriages in classic newspaper quips
A collection of brief quoted snippets from U S papers highlighting attitudes on changing opinions proposals and social responses. The Washington Star cites a remark on changing views while the Baltimore American and Boston Transcript reference proposals and editor’s daughter reactions about rings and notoriety.
Wise provisions and a deadly fire at Wichita Kan Masonic Home
A fragmentary clipping discusses a man’s involuntary reaction when hammering a carpet under his wife’s eye and notes an automatic speech stopper. It then reports a fire that destroyed the Kan Masonic Home main building in Wichita Kansas, causing about 250000 dollars in loss and claiming multiple lives.
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Kan
Wichita
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Pictorial Review
Cyril Maude
Oxsox
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Happy Jack Gardner and Company
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Harding
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Howard and Scott
Chelséa Bis
London Standard
Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Mabel
Baltimore American
Boston Transcript
Frank A. Keeney
Empire Theatre
Paramount
Metro
Frank « McIntyre
John Cort
Casino Theatre
N. Y
Flora Bella
Felix Doermann
Percy Waxman
Cosmo Hamilton
Dorothy Donnelly
Charles Duvillier
Milton Schwarzwald
EYE
MAIL
Tribune
SUN
NEW York Critics Herald
Journal
WORLD
Telegram
GLOBE
Vermont Baldwins Best of Keepers
B. Kierstead
Laurel Ave
Andrew M. Ewing
Fairfield Ave
Coun
Boston
Barney Gerard
George P. Murphy
Gertrude Hayes
Chester Nelson
Vanr Daawa
Charles Drew & CO
Frank
Pathe’s Pictorial News
Lyric Sn Players
the Angelus
BY Neil Toomey
Quilty
Murray’s
Quilty’s School of “Dancing
the University School
W. D. Cook & Son
Water Street
Alpert Robin
Paris
Curts Chemical Co
West 28Rd St
J. D. Hartigan
Ady, Ri
Aera
Davos Payne
Orb
Pneumstic Osttin
Imausoleums
M. G. Keane
Stratford
St. Michael's Com
Conn
M. J. Gannon
Broad St
Jonn
Vine St
Wm. Lieberum & Son
Main Street
Hawley & Wilmot
State St
Wachin Hin
Ter S Farry
Errace
H. Wilmot
Clinton Ave
John F. Gallagher
Imargaret
Gallagher
Margaret L. Gallagher
Fairfield AV
Frank Polke & Son
Emaelmers & Undertakers
State Street
Barnum
Beese Ave
George P. Potter
Rourke & Boucher
Main ST
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