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Newspaper

Bridgeport Evening Farmer

Location

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

May 20, 1916

Page

12

Amusements at Polis Tonight Features War Scene and Vaudeville

The Polis program opens with The Results of War a vivid scenic spectacle of a Belgian town under German cannon fire. Eddie Carr and company perform in a comedy, The Four Briscos and Peg Rosedale offer songs and pianologue, Adonis and his dog star in a five part drama The Eternal Sapho. Next week Anna Pavlova and her ballet appear in The Dumb Girls of Portici with two vaudeville acts and more photoplays. Evening shows at 6 and 8 with Poli's orchestra.

Polis Eddie Carr and Company Four Briscoes Peg Rosedale and Company Adonis Bara Sim Poli Mile Anna Pavlova Portici Auber Masaniello Pavlova

Plaza program at the Plaza features Susan Rocks the Boat

Dorothy Gish and Qwen Moore headline the five act Triangle production Susan Rocks the Boat at the Plaza with breezy humor. Her Marble Heart a two part Keystone comedy with Carles Murray follows along. The Kiddies Burglar heads the vaudeville lineup with Thomas and Henderson and The Aeroplane Girls. Monday brings William S. Hart in The Primal Lure, a Northwest frontier drama, plus a Keystone comedy and strong vaudeville acts.

Susan Plaza Dorothy Gish Qwen Moore Carles Murray Thomas and Henderson Frank Markley Mond William S. Hart the Plaza Hart Great Northwest

Feud Girl and Palace Paramount Features Tonight

Empire screens Hazel Dawn in The Feud Girl a five part Famous Players Paramount masterwork with other photoplays. Tomorrow a deluxe program showcases Palas Paramount classic Pasquare featuring George Beban in the Alien era.

Famous Players Paramount Mountain Country Hazel Dawn Uxe Palas Paramount George Beban

Lyric "Under Cover" and Sunday Night at Lyric

A young New York society woman faces moral conflict when her sister’s crime pulls her into U S customs work to catch a necklace smuggler. Cecil Spooner previews the upcoming play and Lyric presents Mabel Taliaferro in Her Great Price as Sunday Night feature.

Bornj New York United States Customs Cecil Spooner LYRIC The Mabel Taliaferro

Many Jungle Babies In Circus Kindergarten

Bridgeport will host a one day animal kindergarten on June 9 as part of the Barnum & Bailey circus. The expanded menagerie includes 110 cages with many baby lions bears leopards and tigers and five lion cubs born last winter enjoy a circus debut. Kangaroos are shy and emerge briefly from their mothers pouch before retreating back.

Bridgeport Barnum & Bailey Circus John Patterson Lohs Animal Kindergarten

Sensational Motion Pictures At The Lyric And Park Theatres

A lavish program of vaudeville and photoplay opens with Little Miss Taliaferro and The Swooners, plus Over Niagara Falls described as the heaviest production yet. Cecil Spagner presents Pell Trenton’s Her Two Weeks Honeymoon. Park Theatre offers Abe Attell headlining with The Girls from Mexico and other acts, opening May 22 with matinees at 2, 6:45 and 9. Also noted are a San Diego July 4 parade, a Shanghai assassination, and Norfolk Navy Yard shell orders for a preparedness test.

Miss Taliaferro Mrs. Sidney Drew Niagara Falls Bentley Cecil Spagner Pell Trenton Mr.Trenton Mr. Trenton Park Theatre Bridgeport America Abe Attell Mr. Attell Red Allen Mexico Boyd and Roberts

Texas Militia Refusal and Destitute Families

Many Texas militiamen have refused to enter Mexico, and many families of those who have consented to Mexican service are now destitute.

Texas Mexico

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