Pols Forum Amusements Offer Wide Entertainment Range
Amusements listing at Poil's features a diverse week program with comedy acrobats drama illustrated travelogues and a big vaudeville lineup. Jones and Jones perform in a Chaplin impersonation skit while The Luck of Tolten operetta stars Eddie Gerard and eight, plus Miss Betty Nansen in a Tolstoy adaptation. Other acts include Walter St James Co The Elsie May Trio and Newport & Stirk offering musical and acrobatic acts.
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Poil's
America
Jones & Jones
Charles Chaplin
Mr. Jones
Chaplin
Thea
Golden Moors
Eddie Gerard
Francis E. Bent
New York
Gaynor
Mexico
Mr. Bent
Pedeville Pronet
Anna Seateeiee
Count Tolstot
Betty Nansen
Miss Nansen
Royal Danish Theatre
Walter St James & Co
Elsié
May
Newport & Stirk
Plaza vaudeville and films feature Chaplin Keystone
Plaza presents Charlie Chaplin in a Keystone feature Gentlemen of Nerve and the drama God's Witness with Florence LaBadie. A rich vaudeville bill follows with Wherry Lewis Quartette, McCabe LeVve Pond trio, Miller Tempest skit, Hogue Hardy novelty act, and a short dramatic reel At the Edge of Things.
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Charlie Chaplin
Keystone
Nerve
Florence LaBadie
Wherry Lewis
McCabe
LeVve & Pond
Miller & Tempest
Hogue & Hardy
Empire Circus Day at Keeney's Empire theatre
Empire theatre presents motion pictures from Hegenbeck and Palace Greater Shows. The mammoth program features 700 people, 200 horses, 200 wild beasts, 14 elephants, 200 performers and 50 clowns. Also other photoplay features round out an entertaining program for all ages.
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Keeney
Empire Theatre
Hegenbeck
Llace
Lawrence B. McGill Honored as Noted Movie Director
Lawrence B. McGill is acclaimed as a leading film director in The Moving Picture World. He heads Metro Pictures Corporation productions after earlier work with Eclair Star Life and Famous Players. His notable film Arizona was shot in the region it depicts and he once led a Bridgeport stock company.
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Moving Picture World
Lawrence B. McGill
Movig Picture Productions
McGill
Metro Pictures Corporation
Eclair
Star Life Photo Film Co
Famous Players Pictures
Arizona
Mr. McGill
Bridgeport
Poli
Connecticut
Marion Barney
James Gordon
Lynch
The
Gertrude Shipman
Old Grand Opera House
Crown Street
Curtain Speech Echoes Enduring City Tradition
Theatre audiences remember port performers closing remarks ending with a farewell line that became a city-wide byword for polite departure. The phrase “after the next, and final act I will bid you … a kind good afternoon” lingered in local memory for many days.
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Port
Red Mill shines in Bridgeport as Calburn show tops week
The Red Mill at Lyric theatre in Bridgeport opens a week run by Calburn Musical Comedy Co with stars Jack Kearney and Billy Lynn delivering strong laughs. Musical numbers choreographed by Ross Mobley plus a child ensemble draw big crowds. Remaining cast includes Nell McCune Tina Laura Millard and others in a lively Gilbert & Sullivan style spectacle. Admiral Fletcher expected to review Atlantic fleet summer plans at today’s secretary meeting.
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Red Mill
Montgomery and Stone
Lyric Theatre
Calburn’ Musical Comedy Co
Bridgeport
Jack Kearney
Billy Lynn
Ross
Mobley
Calburn Musical Comedy Co
Kearney
Lynn
Con’ Kidder
Kid”' Conner
Arthur, Burckley
Miss Mackey
Tina
Nell McCune
Daniels
Fletcher
Little Benny's Notebook teaches a dog to jump over an umbrella
An improvised diary by Lee Pape recounts training Speart the airedale puppy using repeated kindness and force. The narrator describes three lessons, rewards with crackers, and finally demanding obedience by fear and praise to teach the dog to jump over an umbrella.
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Little Benny
Lee Pape
Ballard Elected County Board Secretary to Fill Sheriff Vacancy
The county commissioners yesterday chose Frank E Ballard as secretary to fill the sheriff retirement vacancy. Ballard begins a short term ending October 1 then a four year term. He was sworn in this morning with Assistant Clerk Tracy of the superior court administering the oath.
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Frank E. Ballard
Pease
Ballard
John Brophy
Ridgefield
Tracy
Superior Court
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Kidder
Kid Conner
Kearney and
Chas. Chaplin
Jones
Chari
Harry Gerard & CO
Count Tolstoi
Anna Karenina
Francis P. Bent
Newport and Stirk
Acrobatics Comique
Walter ST. James & CO
Elsie May
Hotel Lorraine
Botel Lorraine
FIS
Vue Hotel
A. M Wooster
U. S. Patent Office
Conn
Bridgeport Trust
Thrift
Armour’s Fertilizers
Planet Jr
Farmer’s Supply & Roofing Co
Middle Street
Bridgeports
Skeystones
Crown Prince OF
Laughland
Wharry Lewis
McCabe, Levve & Pond
Paramount
Matinees
the Calburn Musical Comedy CO
Montgomery and
Stone
George M. Cohan
Little Johnny Jones
Our
METAL
Employment Bureau
Warner Bros. CO
Bridgeport ‘Trust Company
Main Street
Smith-Murray CO
Bridgeport, Conn
Chichester
New York City
Curts Chemical Co
24Th St
the Burns Co. Oiry Savings Bank
Kelly’s Cigar Store
Fairfield Ave
James H. Kelly
Frisbie’s
Colamon
Apply Employment Dept
DAVIS
Post Office News
John F. Fay
Fairfield Avenue
Superior Fabrics
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