Polis retirement ends old pact and theatre war plans
The Poli vaudeville chain sellout to a Boston syndicate ends a 35 year gentlemen’s agreement with E F Albee. The Keith Albee circuit moves to acquire sites in Connecticut and New England, aiming to build three major theatres. Luescher says projects will be rushed and territories opened, while Poli and others declined to comment.
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B.J . Keith
Boston
Sylvester Z Poli
New Haven
Mr. Keith
E. ¥. Albee
Max Shoolman
Poll, Chain of Theatres
E F Albee
Keith- Albee Circuit of Theatres
Poll
Keith-Albee
Albee
New England
Bays
Bridgeport
Allee
Connecticut
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Mark A Luescher
Poli Theatres
Acta
Bonin
Lneacher
Port
Poll Theatres
Southport
Gthe Keith
Keith- Albee House
Atte
Keith
Bootleg Patrons Should Be Braille Scholars-Cobb
New York Oct 20 Night club owners fear possible U S Supreme Court action over padocking of venues if waiters serve crooked ice and ginger ale to patrons who bring their own flasks. The writer jokes about a law requiring patrons to learn Braille before drinking at night clubs.
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New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Inight
Federal Reserve explained to local club in Bridgeport
Page 6 reports on the Federal Reserve system explained to a Bridgeport local club. Page 3 notes Horwitz visiting Beck on a fateful night with a witness testimony. Page 1 covers a stabbing in a gang fight on Martin Street and a theatre war involving Keith and Sylvester Poll. Page 1 also mentions tax muddle blame, large debts to Mary Baker Eddy, and other city items.
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Bridgeport Federal Reserve Bank System
Horwitz
Beck
Marine Band
Matin Street
Poll
Keith
Sylvester Z. Poll
Bridgeport
Atwater
Mary Baker Eddy
Lorraine Novelty Company
St. Augustine's
Theatre Guild
STATE
Fairfield County
New Haven
Yale
Wilton
Red Croke
Darien
Fairfield
New Fajrsfield
Washington Coolidge
Fess
Fight films can be legally shown say US judge rules
New York October 1 a federal judge ruled that prize fight films can be moved across states if not transformed by a carrier and exhibitors in New York proceed to show the Dempsey Tunney bout. Grand jury questions on legality led to a decision permitting transfer without an express company, prompting ongoing public interest and a page two continuation.
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New York
Dely
Chicago
United States
Tuttis
Grand Jury
Goddard
Tunney
Expresa
Auch
WIM
United
Bridgeport to Show Dempsey Tunney Fight Movies
After a federal injunction in Hartford, Bridgeport will screen Dempsey-Tunney fight films for three days starting tonight. Poli a Palace Theatre will receive the reels from New Haven via a distributing office there and exhibit them despite earlier seizure and legal questions. The temporary restraining order prevented interference by federal officers, with the prior Hartford showing halted and a Grand theatre manager held for questioning before Judge Thomas.
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Hartford
Connecticut
M. L. Saunders
Poli'a Palace Theatre
New Haven
Edwin 8. Thomas
United States District Court
Alfred Unger
Grand Theatre
Thomas
Saya
John A Leonard
Leonard Film Company
Azores greet Ruth Elder after flight to Lisbon reception
Ruth Elder and pilot George Haldeman were welcomed in Ponta Delgada after their Lima port arrival from Horta. The American aviators received a royal greeting, shared hopes of a hydroplane to Madeira, and planned an air trip to Paris with Lisbon anticipated as a key stop.
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Azores
Ruth Elder
Girl Flyer
Paris
Ponta Delgada
Miguel
Associated Press
Lima
Horta
Porte
George Haldeman
Ruth
Misa Elder
Pi Jot Haldeman
Rein & Bik
Miss Elder
Haldeman
Portugal
Panama
Madeira
Lisbon
Funcway
Madelreuie Tey
London Park
Ponta
Dilyrum Vous
Coolidge Rebukes Senator For Predicting Drafting
President Coolidge publicly rebuked Senator Fass for predicting he would be drafted for the next year’s Republican nomination. Fass said the President warned him against such statements as misconstruing the country’s view. Fass insisted the convention could deadlock and Coolidge could be drafted, noting the President’s health was not poor.
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Washington
Associated Press
Coolidge
Fess
Obie
Tun Yor
Mr. Fees
Fass
Mr. Coolidge
Salem man found guilty of murder in first degree
The trial of itinerant barber George Wimner Harrison Taylor, alias Elmer Thompson, ended with a first degree murder verdict for Stella Pomikala's slaying near Salisbury Beach. Taylor, calm in court, will be jailed in Salem to await sentencing. A watch and ring missing from the victim were linked to Taylor after he sold a wrist watch in Kensington, NH.
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Salem
Mane
Associated Press
George Wimner Harrison Taylor
Elmer Thompson
Bers
Stella Pomikala
Lawrence
Salisbury Beach
Faylor
Aen‘tence
Gil
Ellsbury Beach
Taylor
Man
Kensington
N. H
French aviators fly Paris to Buenos Aires completing first South Atlantic airmail
Dieudonne Costea and Lieut. Joseph Le Brix landed in Buenos Aires after flying 6,000 miles from Paris, delivering the first regular mail across the South Atlantic in a record time. The mission, delayed by weather, proved feasibility for a Europe to South America air mail service and boosted French aviation prestige amid critics.
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Buenos Aires
Associated Press
Europe
Paris
Buenos
South Atlantic
Africa
South America
Caravellas
Pelotas
Brazil
Rio Janiero
Associated Preas
Critica H
Costes
le Bux
le Vou
Widow Receives State Aid After Bank Alleged Attachment
Wallingford report states Mrs Rose Lisengal has drawn state aid since 1915 for two children in state institutions. State Agent Raymond Gates attached her $6,000 bank balance, claimed to show indigence for aid. Aid amounts range from 660 to 1260 dollars weekly per child, with one child in county home care.
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Wallingford
Associated Press
Rose Lissnyal
Raymond F Gates
Republicans Name Mayor Walker in Census Scandals
Albany report in 1925 cites testim ony that appointments to census jobs were made by Florence Knapp and tied to Tammany politics. Mayor James J. Walker allegedly had a recommended worker paid $2,000 for no work, another $1,600, and a third who worked yet was a noted pinocchio figure at the New York jetty census office.
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Albany
Gatobar
Associated Preas
James J. Walker
New York
Lafayette B. Gleason
Florence BE
Knapp
Alfred E. Smith
Glescon
Walker
Peter Hammill
Maurice Bloch
Democratic Assembly
Gleason Wald
York State Treasury
Truman 8
Preston
Syracuse
Dry Agent Army Invades Elm City
Hartford report states federal prohibition enforcement agents head to New Haven ahead of Yale Army football game to curb promiscuous drinking. Deputy administrator Frank Putney says agents will cooperate with city and state officials and may raid night clubs and restaurants to arrest proprietors amid expected crowds.
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Hartford
Associates Press
New Haven
T. Putney
Yicrnity
Fall Brushes Aside Counsel In Personal Plea For Finney Opinion
A Lynn Massachusetts city official cites tax cuts boosting growth and new industries, claiming reduced levies averted $1.6 million in revenue over two years. At a Massachusetts real estate boards meeting mayor Ralph Bawer highlights the tax cut’s positive impact amid accelerated development and new business activity. In Washington, Albert Fall presses to admit vital defense testimony as the criminal oil lease case unfolds, objected to by the government. The court contemplates interpreting the statute and la w, while Fall appeals for jury access to certain testimonies.
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Lynn
Massachusetts
Ralph 8. Bawer
Massachusetts Association of Real Estate Boards
Albert B. Fall
F. Clair
Seema
E. C. Pinney
Fat
Arces
Fi District of Columbia Supreme
Senate
Carroll Released From Jail Heads Back To Broadway
Earl Carroll, the New York theatrical producer, was released on parole from a federal penitentiary in Atlanta after serving about four months of a year and a day for perjury connected to a 1926 bath tub party. He left the prison with his wife and relatives and planned to travel to New York aboard the Kent Limited. Carroll issued a prepared statement praising prison physicians and reflecting on his humiliation and mental strain while in custody.
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Atlanta
Associated Press
Earl Carroll
New York
Broadway
Carroll
Penitentiary
Gates
Kew Yare
Southern Railway
Kent Limited
Nellens
Rogues Gallery
Jim
Smoke and health fears drive new anti smoke push
The American Public Health Association adopted resolutions urging state legislatures and cities to curb smoke nuisances and improve sanitation of pools, increase early tuberculosis diagnosis, coordinate federal health activities, and standardize death statistics. Experts cited temperate drinking and installment buying as health hazards, linking debt stress to injury and illness.
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Cincinnaty
Ohio
Associated Press
American Public Health Association
Messares
Th Parker
A. Read
American Medical Association
NJ Health
United States
A. B. Humphries
New Jersey
Association
Humphries
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Dr. Fess
Atwater Intends
Fred Abwater
Behrens
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