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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1923
Page
15
Amusements section notes vaudeville and purine programs open tomorrow for three days at jolits. Lon Chaney with Virginia Vail star in The Shock, billed as a matchless melodrama designed to rivet attention with incomparable action.
The Poli screens Lon Chaney in a standout period piece with impressive escapes and a strong career echo from The Miracle Man. A vaudeville bill of the same caliber opens tomorrow featuring Herbert Crawley in The Different Revue and a robust lineup including Dooley & Ames and the Young Wong brothers. Tonight also features Buster Keaton and friends, Pathe News, and the final shows for the day at Poli's Palace with Our Gang and Betty Compson in The Woman With Four Faces. Richard Dix and Betty Compson star in a melodrama about a clever crook who outwits both police and a sympathetic jury. Tomorrow brings Renee Roberts and the Giersdorf Symphonists direct from New York Palace, plus a varied bill at the Capitol and a feature at Pleasurrah Beach.
Mr and Mrs Benjamin Brewster Jennings wed near Hertholomew Church New York City on a Sunday afternoon. The bride Miss Kate DeForest Prentice is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John S Prentice of East 6th Street New York. Rev Dr Leighton Parks officiated. A large reception followed. The couple plan a Pacific coast departure then Japan trip before settling in New York City.
Los Angeles June 10 Doug las Fairbanks Jr 15 son of the motion picture star arrived from Chicago with his mother Mrs Joseph Evang to begin a picture as the hero of a series for the typical American boy. The contract with Famous Players Lasky is said to call for a royalty of 1000 a year with an option for advancement.
The Phylls Wheatley branch of the YWCA appoints a recreation committee led by chair Mrs William Hatchett to plan summer activities. Members include Mrs Daniel Jennett in charge of the summer camp, Mrs William Bingham for hikes, Miss Susan Freeman for tennis, Mrs Alice Taylor for swimming, and others. Beginning the first week of July, programs feature outdoor activities such as hiking beach parties and outings. A dramatic class play titled Party Makes Things Hum will be staged Friday night at the branch rooms with the cast having rehearsed for weeks.
The wedding of Miss Flea Thomas of 485 Norman Street and William Hardy of 1822 Main Street Stratford will take place at the Salvation Army ade tomorrow night. Commandant Ace Starbird of Boston, uncle of the groom, will perform the ceremony. Major David Main and the Silver Quartette Hartford, Adjutant and Mrs. W Macholdt of Waterbury, Captain and Mrs. William Perkina of South Norwalk, and other visitors are listed as attending. The massed bill play on the street is at 7:30, and the wedding will begin at 8.
Mr and Mrs Ralph M Sperry of 951 Park Avenue arrived in New York yesterday aboard the White Star liner Majestic from Southampton and Cherbourg.
Women seek lasting beauty through health and vitality. The ad touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as an inexpensive remedy for ailments specific to women, claiming decades of relief and renewed health and beauty.
The St George's church men's club held a two day lawn festival that featured Japanese lanterns booths with ice cream cake hot dogs and candy an oven for bakers bread pies and cakes a King Tut tomb exhibit an art gallery popular side shows and an orchestra on the lawn Pred Barrow led the festival with assistants B J Hi gh y Charles R Clarke J Gaunt and F Armstrong among others.
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