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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1927
Page
17
In Fez Morocco women pursue tattooing as a lucrative trade. Girls begin young, with the professional tattooer tracing ankle and forearm designs while the subject lies on a rug. Scores of tattooers stay busy daily, reflecting social norms of the era.
Amusements listing promotes Besu Geste at the Palace along with a vaudeville bill featuring Jack Norworth and Dorothy Adelphi. Shows include Joey Juniors Wynne and Rogers Raffin's monkeys June and Jo Rowley's novelty acts, Tunney Dempsey fight pictures, and Paris Legion parade scenes. Tomorrow Beau Geste resumes with new acts including Des Ortos Spanish dancers Ernie and Calvert and others in a varied program.
Ronald Colman stars with Nel Hamilton and Ralph Forbes as the Broth ers in Beau Geste. The film shows four other featured players Nash Beery William Powell Victor MacLaglan and Norman Trevor as legionnaires. Filmed under Herbert Brenon at Paramount studio Hollywood and on the Great American Desert in Arizona with a 2000 man company over three months.
Norma Talmadge stars in a moderated Camille at the Cameo with Gilbert Roland as Armand. Rose Diane plays Prudence, Tashman as the captain, and Harvey Clark and Alec Francis as suitors. Other cast members include Helen, Jerome Eddy, Albert Conti, Michael Wiseroff, Evelyn Seible and Etta Sr. The program also notes a coming week feature Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables.
A busy Poli's program tomorrow showcases Al bert Lewis Inc presenting Any Family, a Harry Dett comedy with eight players, plus Dancers Unique by Grace Edler and her troupe. Actresses Miss Primrose Lemon and Helen Stone headline additional numbers, with The Revue Casino De Paris and Adam and Evil closing the bill among other acts.
Poll’s Theatre presents Al Trish week with The Life of Riley featuring Charlie Murray and George Sidney as police chiefs in a small town feud over a widow. Bill Toomey hosts as master of ceremonies with Howard and Scott Sisters, Walsh duo, and a Max Davidson Hal Roach comedy.
Lillian Spaner, a former Elias Howe pupil and Bridgeport High standby, now seventeen years old, tours major vaudeville houses and revues before joining the Howard Trio. She returns home to Bridgeport to perform at the Majestic theatre, living at 1647 Patrfield avenue.
In New Bedford Massachusetts on September 27 a strike by motion picture operators and stage hands closed three small movie houses and forced makeshift music arrangements at seven others. Ten theatres operated last night and managers report filled seats today. A manager split a cinema chain’s music staff, sending a sister employee to the south end and keeping another in the north end, while Boston and Providence organists were hired for some houses.
Sept 27 Special Gerome 4 Paul Connecticut manager of the Hamilton Iselin company at Westport and New York has sold the residence of R R Selleck at the corner of Hillside and Congress avenues Greenfield Hill to Frederick T Sutton of New York for a sum said to be near 20000 Sutton plans to use the place as his summer home
The Poll players present Cradle Snatchers at Lyric theatre a three act farce with a first rate company. Bella Cairns Arthur Howard Ian Barry Lois Hammond Kenneth Richards head the cast with strong support from Roger Barker Charles Richards and others. The plot follows wives who hire young lovers to outwit unfaithful husbands leading to comic complications.
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