Polls Vaudeville Week Promises Unusual Sea Star Act
A grass tank sea mammal show led by Odiva features underwater tricks and a ferocious sea monster act, fresh from New York’s Palace Theatre. The bill also includes Nance O Neil and Dorothy Bernard in Final Payment, Hearst Pathe world reels, and several acts from The Pelots Norton Girls Bernard and Janis Wilkins and Millkins, all delivering a high energy Poll’s Theater program this week.
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Poli Theatre
New York
Odiva
Nance O'Neil
Dorothy Ernard
Ridgeport
Hearst-Pathe
America
Norton
Bernard
Janis
Wilkins
Millkins
Poll
Which One Shall I Marry A Lyric Production
Warde Howard stars in Which One Shall I Marry at the Lyric a four act play with twelve scenes The first and last acts tell a complete story while the middle acts present a dream sequence about the heroine choosing between two suitors The entire company is well cast and the presentation is excellent
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Warde Howard
Freckles on Screen at Empire With Huff and Pickford
Empire theatre presents Louiss Huff and Jack Pickford in Gene Strattom Porter's Freckles a Lasky-Paramount feature about an orphan with a withered arm who runs away from the orphanage and becomes a watchman in a timber swamp his encounters with the Angel and the Angy are told in graphic vivid scenes set in a famous lumber camp as the two young stars follow up their Great Expectations success and prepare for another photodrama together.
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Louiss Huff
Jack Pickford
Empire Theatre
Marian
Fairfax
Gene Strattom Porter
Lasky-Paramount
Seventeen
Vivian Martin
Lacuise Huff
House Paters
Pallas-Paramount
Limberlost
Angy
Dis
Young orphan girl credits Lydia E Pinkham product
A Pittsburgh area reader, an orphan girl about seven years old, suffered weakness and illness that kept her from work. She started Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and reports regained health, returning to work and endorsing the remedy for others with similar symptoms.
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Pitsburg
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Gardner
Troy Hill
Photoplays Use Limberlost Scenes for Wartime Film
The article notes strict California swamp settings duplicating the Limberlost described in the story. The production spent weeks in the woods securing scenes, and actor Jack Pickford nearly lost his life, mirroring Freckles from the tale. Other select photoplays follow.
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California
Heart of the Woods
Jack Pickford
Shelton Grammar School Graduates to West Point Trip
A party of over 100 Shelton grammar school graduates and friends will travel to West Point by train tomorrow. The trip will include a daytime river boat ride with an orchestra, visits to Cadet facilities, and a return on the New Haven line. Notable attendees listed include Katheryn Mullins and many other graduates and family members.
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Patary
Missouri
Shelton Grammar School
West Point
Hudson
Palisades
Tarrytown
Sleepy Hollow
Stony Point
Anthon
Riding Academy
Battle Monument
Highlands
America
Cadet Corps
New Haven Road
129Th Street
Katheryn Mullins
Madeline Hayes
Lillian Rome
Rose P. Wishengrad
Rebecca S. Wishengrad
Edna Clark
Elizabeth Osborne
Rea Wilson
Alice Curnius
Helen Lock
Notable War Time Fashion and Holiday Fireworks Customs
The passage notes that both English and French celebrate holidays with fireworks aimed at the Germans. It also describes winter attire made from the horse blanket by girls and summer adaptations of the porch awning to create a stylish skirt.
Plaza Theatre Week Features Call of Her People Scene
Plaza Theatre announces a week long run starting next Monday matinee of Wo manhood a drama by Commodore J Stuart Blackton and Dr Cyrus Townsend Brady highlighting war preparedness. Ethel Barrymore stars in The Call of Her People with Friends at San Rosario and Teddy at the Throttle also on the bill.
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Plaza Theatre
Herry Morey
Alice Joyce
the Plaza
Commodore J. Stuart Blackton
Cyrus
Ethel Barrymore
Miss Barrymore
San Rosario
O. Henry
Teddy
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Childre
Hudson River
Cortright
Cecil Spooner
Clay
Betty
AT the Plaza
Murrey
D. Q. Quilty
Mgr
F. W. Behrens, JR
Fairfield Ave
Water Queen
Nance
O’neil
Fred — Pelot
Anna
Morton Girls
Wilkins & Wilkins
Empire Gossip
CBS
Louise Huff
Gene Ee Porter
Skeeney
Empire
Theatre Today
Hobart Bosworth
Zene
Eee
Seat
Townsend Brady
State St
Union Boating Club
Young McAuliffe
Bridgeport
Young Otto
Johnny Martin
Danbury
Louis Bogash
Young Mundy
Johnny Shugrue
Joe Shugrue
Harvey Kelly
Terry Lee
Frank Braithwaite
M. F. O’connor
Billy Hogan
Hotel Alpine
AZA
Ethel
O'Harry Morey
Lyric Players
Sapho
Warda Howard
Rola
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