This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1927
Page
6
Paris designers Lanvin Patou Poiret Worth push trouser skirts for spring mixing trousers with skirt length. French women hesitate with many back in doubt while feminists voice limited interest and manufacturers race to market culotte underwear.
Ben Hur debuts at Park Theater with Ramon Novarro as Ben Hur and Francis X Bushman as Mesela, supported by May McAvoy Carmel Myers and Claire McDowell. The Nativity sequence and Chariot Race draw applause. finale portrays healing of Hur family with reverent handling.
The Last Warning, the Poll Players’ mystery hit, opens tonight at the Lyric. Walter Williams and Eveta Nudson lead, with public reception tomorrow for fans to meet the cast. Also showing is Nobody’s Widow at Palace with Leatrice Joy and Phyllis Haver in an Avery Hopwood style comedy.
Vitaphone bill includes Cavalleria Ruati cana scenes with Beniamino Gigli and Sylvia Froca plus Hawaiian Nights and The Volga Boatman. The Fire Brigade, a daring heroism themed feature, continues its second and final week at the Cameo under Bridgeport Firemen's Sick Benefit Fund. Audience praise and emotional moments mark the program as a must see this week.
Polis Vaudeville theater opens today with Fern Fitawater and Co in Centuries of Romance a musical diary of love through the ages alongside Ferdinand Zegel Billy Neale Corinne Marsh Beatrice Dixon Stuart Arles Hazard Speirman and Billy Halen in It's all Apple say Peel and Covan Rolden's voice. Also featured are Fred and Daisy Rial in Some thing for a Rainy Day Bebe Danies in Akkisa in 2 Taxi with Chester Conklin a slack Sennett comedy Smith's New Home and Pathe News. Country Store at Polls night show announced.
Colleen Moore stars in the fast stepping comedy Orchids and Ermine at Poli’s Majestic theatre where a bashful journalist and a switchboard operator fall in love. Jack Mulhall plays the shy suitor as the feature presentation alongside Seeing The World and the Majestic orchestra.
A quirky broadcast from The Fun Shop Station MFI features Mrs Williams and Mr Falstaff with playful quips about painting and house building. The program includes a mock contest offering plaster headphones as prizes and features tenor Signor Yellosini performing with garbled English commentary.
New York report says an edition of Henry Ford's My Life and Work was issued in Moscow with about sixty passages changed or deleted by Soviet censors. Most removals concern Ford's views on economic systems and his Thou Shalt Not Steal quotation is missing.
Washington March AP dispatch says two ships and 1290 midshipmen from Annapolis will begin a summer cruise on June 3. Battleships Oklahoma and Nevada depart for a Pacific coast tour via the Panama Canal, replacing the usual routine with a more cutting edge training voyage.
The Church and Drama association, led by Dr. Parkes Cadman, plans to boost patronage for wholesome stage productions in New York. It aims to support worthy plays, foster better taste through education and religious collaboration, and views law as secondary to cultural improvement in theatre morals.
More than 2,000 persons thronged the Pyramid Temple mosque for the Model Home exhibition presented by the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. A four room bungalow with bath was displayed on stage. Appliances solving household problems were shown. An orchestra provided music, and tomorrow began eight cooking classes held each afternoon and evening.
In London on March date, Lady Balfour of Burleigh and nine executive members resigned from the Society for Equal Citizenship on the eve of a conference. The split stems from procedural disagreements over factory legislation as the suffrage issue loomed before talks with Prime Minister Baldwin.
Franklin Simon head of the New York firm Franklin Simon and Company was reported resting easily at the Good Samaritan Hospital after undergoing an intestinal operation Tuesday night.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.