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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1927
Page
7
Washington reports show theatre admissions across the United States contributed about 490000 in a taxed fund. New York led with a large share as the metropolis drew a floating population of theatergoers. States compiled tax shares suggest New York supplied a major portion of the totals.
The theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfeld is confined at his home with bronchitis and fever. Officials say his condition is not serious, and doctors offered no precise prediction on when he may be able to leave his residence.
In New York an accountan t woke to find a shoeless man in his hotel room. The intruder apologized after claiming a wrong room. He accepted the apology and left, but the incident ended with a $140 payment to the owner.
Opening actions set for February 1 at the Lyric with Anne Carpenter and Foster Williams, Crandon Rhodes and others in a public offering for boxing bout, tickets from 2.66 through 4.00. The Shubert hosts The Spider by Wal ton Oursier and Lowell Brentano with a Wednesday matinee, starring John Halliday and Betty Weston among a notable cast, with reservations at Sinone's New Haven Fairfi each avenue.
Harold Taos stars in The Kid Brother at the Palace to a capacity audience calling it the year’s best comedy. Supported by Jobyna Ralston Ralph Yearsley Eadie Boland and Walter James the film follows a shy youngest son in a big town who bonds with a circus troupe when a fake permit creates chaos in Sheriff Hickory’s town.
Salome Wann travels as an artiste with a large company. The Park theatre show features ten men in the cast with a full stage staff and dance attendance on Miss Hanlon. She praises Mr Talbot for managing the show and providing her salary.
The Cameo Theatre enters a second week of Vitaphone program with Syd Chaplin as Old Bill in The Better Ole. The feature combines Chaplin’s windy, broad humor with a cast including Al Jolson, George Jessen, Elsie Jania, Anna Case and the Metropolitan Opera Chorus. The Vitaphone Symphony Orchestra under Herman Helter provides the overture and score.
Richard Dix stars in Paradise For Two at Polf's Majestic theatre. Betty Johnson co-stars in a light comedy about a rich bachelor who falls for the silhouette of a girl in a neighboring room and pursues her across odds. The film marks original storytelling praised against adapting novels and plays.
Poll's vaudeville tonight features High Lights headline with Jessie and William Maker and a clever company. Griz Rice wrote the songs, Paul Gerard Smith directs comedy scenes. The Four Gregg Girls, Jack Ryan with Hazel Webster, Alberta Ferkinn, and Beatrice Lillie join a Reporter news reel and new acts including The Black Cross Nurses.
Chicago reports a nationwide campaign to raise 1.5 million dollars to honor Swedish Americans. Plans include a John Morton Memorial building in Philadelphia, a memorial chapel by year end at 40,000 dollars, preservation of his birthplace, and a 200,000 dollar endowment for a forty acre national wharf and Fort Christina reproduction to mark early colonial landings.
A revenue law report shows reductions in taxes on admissions automobiles and estates saved U S taxpayers about 90 million dollars in 1426. The automobile levy cut from 3 to 3 percent yielded 420,180 in test year and the late tax netted 107,341,005 in fees.
Ford Motor Company at Dearborn completed six three inured stout monoplanes designed with a 600 horsepower engine setup and three Wright air cooled engines. Each plane seats ten passengers and features a closed cockpit heated cabin and a new cabin climate system. These aircraft may go into mass production if demand arises and are primarily for company use, per William B Mayo and William Stout.
In Chester on February 6 a car skidded across the steamship docks at Market Street and plunged into the Delaware River. A lone eyewitness, a block watchman, reported four people in the vehicle, two men and two women. Stanley Brezeski, 42, of the city, was the car’s sole occupant. his body was recovered by grapplers.
Greenwich February 6 AP Roe bert P Jesup eighteen of Rye faces arrest if he returns to Connecticut after an automobile crash on the Boston Post road early today. His car struck the rear of a machine carrying Antonio Sept of Revere Massachusetts and John Seperazzo of Lynn Both cars traveled in the same direction Jesup left the scene then was traced a mile in the snow later returning to his home He suffers bruises to the head and face
New Haven February 6 AP Yale philosophy professor Charles A Bennett argues eight college suicides cited nationwide do not form a wave or epidemic. He says cases are unrelated personal tragedies and rejects the notion of a shared youthful philosophy or attitude driving multiple deaths. He questions the claims and notes most students have no such consistent belief or plan.
In Washington February 1 AD the Navy Medical Corps plans a course of intensive instruction in aviation medicine setting up its own training program. The army previously trained flight surgeons and has moved its program from Brooks to establish a school here.
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