The Gamblers shines at Plaza theatre critics say
Critics from afternoon papers praise The Gamblers at the Plaza theatre with Paul McAllister as Wilbur Emerson and Brenda Fowler delivering standout performances. The cast, scenery, and brisk week of matinees at ten and twenty cents draw strong patronage under Manager Poll at Fairfield avenue.
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Poli
Plaza Theatre
Paul McAllister
Wilbur Emerson
Brenda Fowler
Miss Fowler
Jennings
Law
the Park Theatre
Gamblers
New York
The
Lia
Fairfield Avenue Playhouse
Last Week of Vaudeville at Fox Lyric Proves Spectacle
The Fox Lyric presents six headline vaudeville acts with Kinemacolor films in a strong business run. Jessie Courtney and her company perform a quirky skit while Fern Kerns and Biglow, the Biend Trio, Elsa Marie, Shaw Lee and Moulton provide music and dance. Friday and Thursday promise new turns as theater expands in popularity and season seats sell briskly.
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Fern
Kerns
Biglow
Biend
Italy
Elsa Marie
Shaw Lee
Moulton
Within the Law at Park Theatre in Bayard Veiller's drama
The Park Theatre presents Bayard Veiller's Within the Law in its final Bayard Veiller act featuring a realistic New York police headquarters set. The production stars Catharine Tower Beatrice Noyes Dorothy Abbott and others with a notable cast including Sydney Booth and Howard Gould. The American Play company plans a London engagement next spring.
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Rose Maurice
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Howard Gould
DeWitt C. Jennings
Neil Moran
Barney Thornton
T. J. Davie
Edward Dresser
Howard O'Mally
Richard Lothian
American Play Company
London
Mary Day at Empire Theatre with The High Tide of Misfortune
The Empire Theatre features the tenth Mary film titled The High Tide of Misfortune. On Mary Day, crowds consider attendance strong despite a concurrent circus counter attraction last Wednesday.
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Mary
Craton
Dramatic Escape Thrills at Local Theatre Time
The film series in collaboration with The Ladies World features Mary in a life threatening predicament. She escapes a schooner and later a dory in a tense finale. The rest of the program offers more good pictures and the cozy theatre promises a pleasant hour and a half.
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Mary
Poli's Vaudeville Features Acrobats And Broadway Star
Poli's theatre presents the Picchianni Troupe European acrobats in precise tumbling routines. Alice Hanson the Broadway favorite performs eccentric songs. Wilkens & Wilkens in At The Beach sketches delight audiences. Dan Sully delivers witty repartee. Deltorelli & Glisan and Electro add acts. Edison Talking Picture shows Mayor Gaynor and cabinet. new show opens Thursday.
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Alice
Hansono
Eva Tanguay
Wilkens
Dan Sully
Deltorelli & Glisando
Electro
Edison
Gaynor
New York Ciy
Thrusday
Club House Under Construction At Weatogue Country Club
Stratford May 28 work has started on the club house at the Weatogue Country club grounds Knowlton Park contractor W R Muirhead Bridgeport reports good progress despite poor weather the two story rustic design includes a roof promenade veranda shower baths kitchen and a south facing view over the tennis courts membership near 150 with extensions possible applicants urged to apply to secretary Howard Curtis Jr golf course and tennis facilities nearing use.
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Weatogue Country Club
Knowlton Park
W. R. Muirhead
Bridgeport
Country Club
Howard Curtis, Jr
History of the Horse Through Ages and Regions
The horse has served mankind in peace and war since ancient times. References span Genesis through Kings, noting bread for horses, chariots in Pharaoh’s army, Solomon’s stalls, and varied horse colors from white to speckled. Tartary is cited as the homeland, with horses spreading worldwide.
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Joseph
Egypt
Pharoah
Israel
Red Sea
Solomon
Palestine
Zechariah i
Tartary
Bernard Shaw and the Dinner Mixup at Authors Society
A dinner anecdote recalls Bernard Shaw’s absence due to vegetarianism and a mistaken autograph swap with Lewis Morris who posed as him. The tale, from Mrs Alec Tweedie, ends with playful confusion and a lesson in literary vanity amidst mingling authors and admirers.
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Shaw
Bernard Shaw
Society of Authors
Tweedie
Lewis Morris
Alec ‘Tweedie
Life Passion of an Artist G F Watts
Moira O Neill in Blackwood's Magazine recalls Watts who shunned rest to begin work at first light. He slept on the floor in youth to wake early and continued painting into old age, still eager to start despite frail health at eighty seven.
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Boston Herald
G. F. Watts
Moira O’neill
Blackwood’s
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