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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1927
Page
11
Girl Scouts presented “Pandora” at the annual Bridgeport rally held May 21 at the armory. The pantomime depicted Pandora, Epimetheus, and friends as Mercury leaves a mysterious box, bringing mischief and, finally, hope to restore life and renew wisdom.
The C. A. Larsen, a 17 000 ton modern whaler, returned to New York with a cargo of 530 whales and more than 1 500 000 gallons of whale oil after three months of Antarctic work. Equipped with six 200 ton killer boats and a 50 foot drag tunnel, she compared to 100 old time square rigged whalers. The vessel sailed from the Bay of Whales, 700 miles from the South Pole, 2 900 miles south of New Zealand.
The Nations Congress of Parents and Teachers selected Cleveland Ohio as the 1928 convention site at the final session in Oakland California today Delegates also chose a nominating committee to select officers for next year indicating plans for organized leadership and future events.
The Spanish American War Vets of Bridgeport join the Cameo theatre to begin a Revival Week with a 2:15 matinee showing D W Griffiths America and Vitaphone. No introduction needed for America as Griffiths name is well known to patrons.
The bill highlights Will Morissey Midgie Miller Vitaphone Revue with Dave Ferguson John Agee Buck and Black Bottom Horse plus Gene Salzer orchestra. George Jessel returns at the Cameo in A Theatrical Booking Office with Murial Gray Glady Heck and Charles Canfield. Also features Lincoln's Gettysburg Addices Frances Alda Star Spangled Banner and a Mack Sennett comedy The Sun Set Derby stars Buster Collier Mary Astor Ralph Lewis and more in a racing romance.
Robert Karne presents Broadway Nights a fast moving colorful film of New York theater and night club life at the Palace with Lois Wilson among Broadway celebrities Philip Strange Louis John Bartels and Sam Hardy Barbara Stanwyck and June Collyer make their debuts under Kane contract Joseph Sullivan's Gossips of 1927 returns by popular demand along with a vaudeville bill featuring the Four Camerons Sergent and Lewis and Bobby Vernon in That Bull.
Teddy Claire fresh from trimphe in Artists and Models and A Night in Spain returns to vaudeville to headline the gala Decoration Day programme at Pol's Vaudeville Theatre. He is assisted by a dozen entertainers including four Broadway dainty dancers Bee Morris and Big Boy Barnes. Theatre-goers expect top entertainment from Claire with past successes backing his act. Snarley Senna and Helen Dean are also featured in the program.
Clara Gow 38 pleases patrons as Rough House Rosie tops a Majestic program. The feature shows Rosie O Reilly an East Side girl who falls for a prize fighter then deserts him for a society scion. Also screened is a St Augustine Holy Name society breakfast film shot for the Majestic and a Charlie Chase comedy Forgotten Sweeties plus Aesop's Fables.
Airworks tonight showcase at Pleasure Beach Park features 18 kinds of firework devices and floating festoons, with electric spider and mystic wheels among new effects. Captain Julien Webster and its Pay Sile Orchestra headlining from New Okcaby, engaged by station WGY last winter, for a grand display and dance.
New York May 29 The flood control plan for the Mississippi valley calls for a system of dams and reservoirs along main tributaries. Congressman Wallace Dempsey of Buffalo New York, chairman of the house rivers and harbors committee, said the project would aid navigation reclaim waste land and develop hydro electric power. A bill funding the plan will be introduced in the next Congress.
Dr. Charles R. Erdman warns that worldwide unrest and unclean motion pictures threaten mission work and moral standards. He cites wartime preparations, civil unrest in China, and vices entering Asia and beyond, urging vigorous Christian outreach led by Presbyterians.
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