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Newspaper

The Evening Press

Location

Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America

Date

Mar 19, 1918

Page

7

Middlesex Theatre Tonight Shows and Week Schedule

At the Middlesex theatre two shows at 7 and 8 40 feature Douglas Fairbanks in Down to Earth about a modern youth chasing nature and love. Also Currents Events shows the French army in Italy. Wednesday and Thursday Pauline Frederick stars in Jealousy with Emmy Webblen as Clover Ames and a tale of social life. Thursday to Saturday vaudeville includes Franklyn Farnum in The Fighting Grin and Sidney Drew comedy plus Hands Up as a Triangle feature Friday.

Middlesex Theatre Douglas Fairbanks Fairbanks Italy Pauline Frederick Victor Moore Parson Holmes Emmy Webblen Clover Ames Metro Franklyn Farnum Bluebird Sidney Drew

Revue of 1918 at Princess Theatre by Jere McAuliffe Co

A vivid account of the Princess theatre musical comedy The Revue of 1918. Jere McAuliffe entertains as an old soldier with parodies drawing stormy applause. Leslie shines in Cute Little Way and Down Town in Little Italy with striking costume changes. Garfield Williams and Mme Ottorietta charm audiences with song Honest in June and Spanish dancing. Chorus receives praise for fine work.

Princess Theatre Jere McAuliffe Mr. McAuliffe Garfield Mr. Williams Rainbow Girls’ Musical Comedy Co Mme Ottorietta

Harvard Star in Grand Theatre Double Bill

The Grand presents a double bill headlined by Brown of Harvard showing a motion picture romance with a realistic Yale Harvard boat race sequence filmed largely at Harvard. The Fox film For Liberty starring Gladys Brockwell is the other feature, with additional good pictures.

Brown Harvard Own Great Eastern College Fox Liberty Gladys Brockwell

Grand Theatre Double Bill Returns Conqueror Stars

Grand Theatre presents a big tonight program featuring a return engagement of The Conqueror with William Far mum and Emmy Weblen, alongside another feature in a two film ascent to local cinema.

Flare-up Sal Screened At Middlesex This Weekend

Dorothy Dalton star of Paramount Pictures shoots screens in California for Flare-up Sal filmed among Redwood forests. Dalton, famed for See America First, visits Middlesex theatre Friday and Saturday with Billy West's His Day Out vaudeville and comedy.

Sal Middlesex Dorothy Dalton Thomas H. Ince Paramount Pictures Redwood California Paramount Middlesex Theatre Miss Dalton

Blue Jeans at Grand Theater Feature Viola Dana

Metro Pictures presents Viola Dana in the deluxe seven act production Blue Jeans at the Grand theater on Monday and Tuesday as part of a big double program.

Blue Jeans Metro Pictures Viola Dana Grand Theatre

Dorcas society to meet at Lutheran church home

Cromwell notes a Dorcas society gathering at the Lutheran church to be held Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Peter Lind home. Fr iday evening choir rehearsal also at Mrs. Alfred Skoog home. Local notices mention visitors and free removal of dead animals by Allison Bros. Inc. Middletown ad.

Cromwell Dorcas Society of the Lutheran Church Peter Lind Frances Schwartz East Hampton Lauretta Plumley Hartford Estella Pierson Bates Rhode Island Afa Briggs Alfred Skoog Allison Bros., Inc Middletown

Clinton Social Notes Visit and Dance Class Final

Clinton residents share weekend visits with relatives from Mount Vernon Hartford and Centerbrook. Alfred Stevens of New York stayed at his High street home. Morgan Hall hosts the annual dancing tea and closing of the Morgan school dancing season on Friday afternoon March 22. W. E. D. Brown guests in Guilford.

Clinton Harold Kelsey Mount Vernon N. Y Ch. W. Kelsey Harriet King Howard King Hartford Henry Funk Charles Looby Centerbrook Alfred Stevens New York High Street Morgan School Morgan Hall W. E. D. Brown Guilford

Farmers Institute Opens in Old Saybrook Hall

Old Saybrook March 19 Farmers Institute opens at 11 a m Wednesday in the town hall with Storrs Agricultural College demonstrators. Session includes sheep raising corn grains live stock and a women’s program with a noon lunch for 25c. Loss from Old Saybrook Inn fire near 200.

Old Saybrook Grace Dart Hartford Nathan Phelps Cornfield Point Frank Williams Soo New Haven Joel P. Newton E. H. Arnold Saybrook Inn Capitol Extension School Farmers’ Institute Calvin C. Fairbanks Old Saybrook Town Hall F. S. Chapman Middlesex County Farm Bureau New England A. G. Skinner Connecticut Agricultural College B. G. Southwick

Westbrook to screen Mary Pickford film at town hall

Moving pictures will be shown in Westbrook Town Hall every Friday night starting Friday March 22. The program features Mary Pickford in The Little American under the same management as Thelma.

Westbrook Town Hall Mary Pickford Little American Thelma Adv

Essex Notes House Talks and Local Appointments

Essex March notes list residents visiting or returning home, with talks by Miss Clara E. Ketcham on Scientific Planning of Meals at Centerbrook March 27. Others include new positions at Behreng & Bushnell garage and E. E. Dickinson, street light work by Essex Light and Power Co. crews, a Masonic funeral, and the Home Workers Society Master sale and supper March 21. The column names several local residents and nearby towns, reflecting a typical midwestern New England town update.

Essex Belle C. Brown N. D. Miller Ivoryton North Main Street Clara E. Ketcham Centerbrook Charles Carlson Winchester Repeating Arms Co New Haven Samuel Carlson Ernest Parmelee Hartford Home Workers’ Society of the Congregational Church

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Marguerite Clark Fessie Ferguson Earth Funda Broadway America Anita Loos John Emerson Adolph Zukor George W. Hobart Eve Ansell Robert Vignola Burton Holmes Travel Artcraft Pictures Geraldine Far Lina Cavalieri Eorge Beban Vivian Martin Pauline Prederick Julian Eltings Wallace Reid poroTny Catron Westbrook M. B. Hall Masons Tiffany Riverview Frank W. Downing E. E. Dickinson Sarah Hilley Cross Street Essex Light and Power Co Frank Penelli George Campbell Brooklyn Griswold House Inn William Farnum the Conqueror Emmy Wehlen Tom Moore Brown of Hands Metro Wonderplay Winsome Little Viola Dana Eckmans Eckmag Laboratory Philadelphia Hart, Schaffner & Marx Suits the Barton Clothing Co. and Custom Tailors Petrova Jere McAulifie Main & Washington
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