Amusements highlights in Bridgeport week program
The week’s listings spotlight POLS vaudeville and the Hearst-Pathe Pictorial Pictorial News chronicling World events and U S mobilization. Act offerings include Ten instrumentalists of Cabaret Deluxe, Jones and Sylvester’s singing act, Fox and Lamartine parody numbers, Southern Girls in harmony, and Burke and Burke comedy. Paula Blackton’s country life series provides two parts with animals and children. Antonio Moreno and Edith Storey present a plot among Indian reservations with action and romance, filmed on scenic locations to match the quality of the program.
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Hearst-Pathe
France
Belgium
United States
Bridgeport
New York
Jones & Sylvester
Fox & Lamartine
Burke & Burke
Paula Blackton
Antonio Moreno
Edith Storey
Joan the Woman at Plaza Captivates with Grand Epic On Screen
Plaza patrons witnessed Joan the Woman in a highly dramatic film interpretation of Joan of Arc. Geraldine Farrar stars with Wal es Reid in a romance woven through sieges and divine guidance. The production’s scale, battle sequences, and score earned strong praise for fidelity and emotional depth.
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Burindy
Joan
Geraldine ‘Farrar
Wales Reid
Eric Trent
The Masque of Life at the Strand theater today
The Strand offers The Masque of Life a modern drama with lavish settings and big expenditures praised for thrills and pageantry. A circus girl and a prince in a doomed romance drive a seven reel production noted for spectacular scenes and a happy ending, with Jolivet and Aaretiadis singled out.
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New York
Strand Theatre
Ape Jolivet
Hamilton Aaretiadis
America
Prof Quilty Class Exhibition Receives Dance Recital
Friends of Prof D C Quilty's pupils attend the closing exhibition at the Colonial ballroom Fairfield avenue with a reception and dancing to follow. Notable numbers include the Dance of the Hours by Corliska Chaffee and a ballet by young ladies, plus military and folk dances.
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D. C. Quilty
Colonial Ball Room
Fairfield Avenue
Murray
Corliska Chaffee
Prof
Quilty
Ella Tingard
Ed Gin
Cornelius Ghhultheise
Harry Abercrombie
Loretta Stadtler
Columbia
Uncle Sam
Cyril Phelan
Selma Eckler
Carol Gore
Mildred Anderson
Catherine Ellison
Edna Gritman
Catherine Mullins
Nellie Axman
Gertrude Burns
Sarah House
Elvira Schoenfeldt
Mildred Jubb
Diana Berman
Ruth Berman
Grace Cowley
Edna Orvis
Magda Nelson
Elmer Blank
Lois Wolff
Corliska Chafee
Marion McCormack
Ethel Carr
James McKeever
Edwin Schultheise
Cornelius Schultheise
Dance to Four Banjos by Ferdinando Brothers Orchestra
The Ferdinando Brothers Dance Orchestra presents a quartet of banjos and a saxophone quartet delivering smooth waltz and fox trot music. Colonial Hall hosts the event Thursday evening with an 8 to 9 concert and dancing to midnight. Tickets are 35 cents.
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Ferdinando Brothers Dance Orchestra
Colonial Hall
Cecil Spooner in Admirable Role as Irish Cinderella
Bridgeport reporters describe Cecil Spooner delivering a standout performance as Peggy in My Irish Cinderella at the Park Theatre. The Irish waif tale, paired with a refined English household, drew a packed audience and steady applause, with Edna May Spooner joining the cast and praise for Douglas Dumbrille and others. Next week the company presents Common Clay featuring Jane Cowl.
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Cecil Spooner
Bridgeport
Miss Spooner
Park Theatre
Peggy
Spooner
Empire to Show The Highway of Hope Today
Kathryn Williams stars in The Highway of Hope at the Empire this afternoon and tonight in a Willard Mack tale notable for its stark character portrayal. The program features a second double bill including The Voice on the Wire and Sowers and Reapers with Ben Wilson Neva Gerber Em my Wehlen and others. Cortez C Rockwell announces plumbing and heating services at 3051 Main and Hillside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn Williams
Morosco-Paramount
the Empire
Willard Mack
Miss Williams
Mr. Peters
Jim Farley
Harry de Vere
Voice On the Wire
Ben Wilson
Neva Gerber
Metro
Motion Picture
Also Mentioned on This Page
POL
Plaza
Joan of
Orleans
Beck
Prof. Quilty
Cinderella
Keeney’s Empire
Maste
Anne
Kathryn ‘Willians
Emmy Wehlen
Lovers
Eto
Cortez C. Rockwell
Main and
Hillside Avenue
Ferdinando Bros. Dance Orchestra
Quilty’s School of Dancing
Plaza Prices
Geraldine Farrar
Joan of Arc
Plaza Theatre
Acts
THE
Theatre OF Quality
Rita Jolivet
Mlle
Evelyn
Thrills
FELM
Bridgeport Horse Auction
Broad ST
South Ave
Barnum
Andrew M. Ewing
Pairfield Ave
Cabaret DE Luxe
ASL
Grey Horse Troops
Raers
Antonio Mase
FOX & Ingraham
ARMY
W. H. Isham
Miss Warda Howard
Walter Howard
Fok
Pana
Clowns
Bnoestham
Fale
Circus Day St
Dorsen’s Department Store
Main St
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