The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-09
LIN THE THEATRES
POLI'S

This is the final week of vaudeville at Poli's, and Manager PoH. folloW1ns out his usual policy, Is proviolng 3 3d' grand bill for the delectation or ms patrons Heading the all star aggre- gation which he has booked for the present week will be found the Old Soldiers Ffddlers. two boys in Blue. and two boys from Dixie. veterans oI the Civil War. who appear Tn a set. tinc representing the battlefield or Gettysburg twenty years after the war on the occasion of reunion. The Old Soldiers fiddle and sing the old songs and never fail to arouse the pa triotism of all in the audience.
 The special feature of the bill this week will be the Evers- Wisdom com pany. presenting Victor Smaliey 5 a man who is such baseball fan that he neglects everything including his wife. How she cured him of his hobby is delightfully."- told in the sketcn- The added feature will be Bird Mill man and company. wonderful artists on the aerial wire. and others who will appear on the bill include Horace Wright and Rene Dietrich presenting the classiest singing act in vaudeville MT. Wright is remembered here TOT his splendid singing when he was with the Agnes Scott company presenting The Wall Between and Miss Dietrich is a former shining light of musical comedy There will also appear the Hamlins in clever singing and danc- ing act; Conlin. Steele and Carr in bits from musical comedy and the Wood Brothres. famous Irish athletes in wonderful performance on the flying rings.
 Seats for the entire week are now on sale and the fact that 1t is the final week in vaudeville for the present season is sure to bring out the vaude- vile devotees in large plumbers for the last glimpse for a while Of their fa- vorite amusement. ess Ag-ss
 At the Crescent Theatre Brooklyn all this week the company engaged by Managre Poli for the summer stock season which will have it's inaugural at Poli's Theatre on next Monday May 16th will rehearse the opening produc- ton which will be Clyde Fitch's de- lightful comedy "GirlS" in which Charles Cherry and brilliant company made a notable success and a play which the late MT. Fitch himself call ed the best comedy he has ever writ ten The selection of the play was made by the patrons of Polls them selves in accordance with a new idea of Manager Poli. whereby the past week slips were distributed with list of plays named thereon any of which the patrons could select. and the final selection was to be based on the play receiving the greatest number of votes. Saturday night the slips were counted up and it was found that Girls" was the selection of over three hundred persons, while "The Lion and the Mouse and ''Brewster's Millions" were close up in the preference of the pa- irons. It was necessary to make a selection last night as the company must put in a full week of rehearsals, but meantime the voting will continue and the play for the second week will be selected Friday of this week. based on the greatest number of votes.
 Miss Alice Fleming will head the company and the leading man will be John E. Ince. who left San Francisco last night immediately after his last performance with the Belasco Stock Company there. MT. Ince will study his part on the train while speeding across the continent. H. Percy Mel don will produce the plays during the season, and he is in Brooklyn in charge of the rehearsals. The sub- scription sale of seats goes on today and seats for the entire season may be now booked. A chart of the theatre in the lobby will prove of great aid in the selection of seats for the stock season. The prices will be the Poll popular prices. ten and twenty cents at matinees. and ten, twenty and thirty cents at night.