The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-05
IN THE THEATRES
POLI's

It would seem that never in the
 History of vaudeville locally has there CT, been a time when the strik ing su- aperiority of the Poli brand Of Vaude- vile over others IS in evidence as II is this week at the popular play
 The wonderful success attained by Manager s. 2. PoH in the world oI vaudeville success which means that he stands today pre-em1nenr as the greatest individ1laI manager III the world, has caused a crop or imitators to spring up, musnroo!ll thai inc Poi star ascends just a bit higher each time and that mucia abused word vaudeville" has to suf- fer the penalty of the new entlres m the already overcrewded field:
 Vaudeville (pronounced if you please as if spelled vode-viD is a word of French origin, a. contraction a sprightly. song.'' In the integ1na between. publication of stapdArd d1c- tionaries, the meaning was elaPorSt- makers of the dictionary combined and agreed that the literal meaning . of it would be as follows: A tnea- e.- slight dramatic sketch interspersed with songs and dances or m1sce1- laneous entertainment 1ncludlnS songs and dances
 Vaudeville was the legitimate suc- cessor of the old time form of variety entertainm ent of a score Of years hack and It mas W0aln6T00 LAS SlO1AAA and increased it's vogue year by year until now it is the most popular form of entertainment on the American
 Manager s. 2. -Poli was the first of the great magnates to foresee the success of vaudeville and more than
 fifteen years , ago he oegan, an,,,e giv1ng Hag in it's infancy and even at that tllne with limited capital he took the gamblers chance of booking the stars f<1F 61sNy fr 1axy in at popular prices of admission. That his judgment was sound is evidenced sby the fact that today he is playing the best vaudeville that America and Europe produces in seventeen theatres with the name "Polf' over the door.
 of Manager Poli. If there is one it lies in his philosophy which causes him to say 'tThe theatrical manager who gives his patrons about half what they pay for in the way of en- tertainment will exist for a while, the manager who gives them full much longer tiWe but the manager who gives them double what they pay for will exist indefinitely And giving people about double what they pay for has been the Poli motto from the very start of the Polf regime.
 That they get several times what to any who attend the performance and see the splendid bill It. is head ed by Jesse Iasky's sunptuous pro duction, t"The Photo shop with twenty clever people headed by Charles J. Stine and Mamie Fleming. two of the cleverest people who have appeared in vaudeville here and the several singing and dancing numbers and the perfect staging of the act is a credit to the producer. Mamie Fleming sings Send Me a Man in a manner that wins her plaudit after plaudit and there is no dull moment of the forty minutes the act occupies the stage. A splendid supporting bill is seen with Veroni Verdi and Brother in a. splendid instrumental act which is a big applause winner and Dave Ferguson contributes a classy mono1ogue with songs and limitations. The other acts are ex- ceptionaHy fine and the attendance is caDacitV.