Derby High football players feted by Derby-Shelton Board of Trade
Derby December luncheon honored Derby High School football squad with about 1 members present. Grandpa Gates of Creamery Package Co spoke on dairy and ice cream history. Gates highlighted sorbet origins and 1814 ice cream consumption around 230 million gallons. Former Congressman Sullivan shared Red Grange anecdotes and Bears Giants game notes before a round of applause.
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Derby
Derby-Shelton Board of Trade
Grandpa Gates
Creamery Package Company
Tratllans
Gates
New York
Chicago Bears
New York Giants
Red” Grange
Railroad ticket agent fined in Stamford court
David C. Romer of Mount Vernon New York was fined 25 dollars plus costs in City court for obtaining money under false pretense. He allegedly overcharged passengers on the New Haven road for long distance tickets to cover daily account shortages. Investigations showed several agents were overcharged.
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Stamford
David C. Romer
Mount Vernon
N.Y
New Haven
Romer
Woman Produces Vaudeville Show For St Patrick School
Mrs. Fred Robinson will arrange the musical program for a Thursday vaudeville show in Holden hall Main Street to benefit St Patrick's parochial school. Mrs George Trelles accompanies and sings several contralto solos with many participants named including Mina Tavere Dorothea Brown Ruth Kearney Evelyn Daven Helen Keenan Emma Bacon Alice Lethercott Helen Davies Peggy Robinson Ethel Robinson Lois Welles Budd Harvey Harald Long Edward ONeill and Jack Moran.
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Fred Robinson
Holden Hall
Main Street
St. Patrick’s Parochial School
George “Rellas
Mina TaVere
Dorohea Brown
Ruth Kearney
Evelyn Daven
Helen Keenan
Emma Bacon
Alice Lethercott
Helen Davies
Peggy Robinson
Ethel Robinson
Lois Welles
Budd Harvey
Harald Long
Edward O'Neill
Jack Moran
O Joy Corn Wafers Promise Quick Relief
Advertises O Joy Corn Wafer as painless cure for corns with instant relief and removal of corn tissue. Claims immediate pain stop and later root elimination. Promotes thin wafers, no burning acids, price six wafers for 10 cents at Leverty Drug Co and other druggists.
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Leverty Drug Co
Warner Cameo Showcases Rin-Tin-Tin Coach and We Moderns
Warner Bros. unveils a six cylinder twenty passenger parlor coach used by the Rin-Tin-Tin company on location for The Clash of the Wolves with stars June Marlowe Charles Farrell Pat Hartigan and Helrie Conklin. The bill includes We Moderns at Poli’s Majestic with Colleen Moore and Jack Mulhall, plus Warners News Weekly cartoons and short features.
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Warner Bros. Transportation Department
Victorville
Cal
June Marlowe
Charles Farrell
Pat Hartigan
Helrie Con
Charles A. Logue
Noel Smith
Cameg Theatre
Warners
Camey
Warners’ News
al Ali
al” P
Poli
Majestic Theatre
Colleen Moore
Careen
Jack Mulhall
Bridgeport
Bridgeport Motion Picture
Miss Moore
Majestic
Majestic News
Majestic Concert Orchestra
London
Britain
Collern Moore
The Iron Horse Captivates Bridgeport Audiences
A Poli's vaudeville crowd witnessed The Iron Horse a landmark epic about the first transcontinental railway race. George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy lead a vast cast with an augmented orchestra under Samuel Davey Jr. The film, costly and three years in the making, portrays Civil War era progress with historical detail and dramatic scope.
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Iron Horse
New York
Mu- Ton
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
United States
George O'Brien
Three Musketeers
Madge Bellamy
Samuel Davey, Jr
Marty Despree Bigger Wit Than Ever at Palace
Mart y Despree and her company brought a weeks stay to Bridgeport with The Broadcasters as the opening act and a new bill to follow featuring vaudeville and Tom Meighan in Irish Luck. Notable acts include Six Rockets and Dolly Irving with Tom Elwood, while Meighan stars in a Paramount film. Leis Wilson leads the New York production scene from Ireland.
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Marty Papree
Bridgeport
The
Palace
Marty
Benny Brohan
Wil Grant
Francis Murray
Lou Carron
Steve Hughes
Francis McCarthy
Marty Dupree
Vandeville
Tom Meighan
Six Rockets
Jinks
Ann
Dolly Irving
Tom Elwood
Miss Irving
Mr. Elwood
Thomas Meighan
the Palace
New York
Ireland
Paramount
Victor Heerman
Leis Wilson
Hollywood
Killarney
Norman Venner
Saturday Evening Post
Claide King
Cerinn Hifith
Milton Sills
O'Malley
Cecil Humphreys
Ernest Law
Ten Commandments to Play at Colonial Theatre
Colonial theatre presents Cecil B DeMille epic The Ten Commandments about ancient Egypt. Egyptologist research guided authentic details from tombs to pyramids as sets were built in eight months and used for eighteen days. The film screens Monday Tuesday and Wednesday December 7 8 9.
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Tut-Ankh- Amen
Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B DeMille
Mgs
Rlegert
Blevet
Colonial Theatre
Joe Yule’s Rise to Fame in Happy Hooligan Show
Born in Scotland Joe Yule came to the United States and built his career from stage hand to featured comedian. He joined theaters in Brooklyn and Columbia burlesque before acting as eccentric camed and later his current stuttering character in Happy Hooligan at the Lyric with matinees.
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Joe Yule
Hhe
Brooklyn
Keith Dramatic Stock
Mr Yule
Mr. Yule
Columbia Burlesque
Temptations of
Inti
Lyric
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