The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-03
IN THE THEATRES
POII'S.

roaight at Rolrs the curtain will kink down on the most successful seq son of stock that the popular play. house has enjoyed since Manager PoIi u1rst decided to give two dollar pro
 Those who have witnessed the per
 Rorznanoes for the past sixteen Weeks
 will agree that patrons of the leglIa- mate have had their appetittes fully Rppeased by the magnaninaous man arer and in round numbers more than sions have gone through the doors or
 Polls during the past sixteen weeks
 Of stock productions.
 Every production was of the metro politan order and it need not be told That enormous royalties were paid by Manager Pon for the right of pro
 and the Mouse. Brewsters Millions, Paid in Full, The Wolf, The Great Divide, The Girl of the Golden West, College ies Widow, Glittering Gloria, Daughters of Men, When We Were Twenty One, st. Elmo, The Hypocrites, The Call of the North and The Cow Fboy and the Lady.
 Then too it can safely be said that
 no better artists have ever appeared dn the cast for the production of stock
 plays than John B. Ince, Alice Elem ing Mary Stockwell, Arthur Buchan- san, Caroline Locke, Allan Dinehart, Er4ngham Royce, Jessie McA11ister,
 Thornas Walsh, Adolph Lestina, Theo-
 dore Marston and the other notables s1of the company nor can there be found kfoday in the legitimate field two more ecapabfe stock directors than H. Percy kMeidon and Oscar Eagle all of which EstratIng the fact that Manager Poli thinks nothing is too ., good or too Thigh priced for his local clientele.
 7 The same argument holds doubly kgood as regards vaudeville the opening Rbill of which for the coming season Ewi1 be seen Labor Day with two .Egala performances afternoon and even Before mentioning the personnel of Fthe acts engaged for the opening of Rfne vaudeville season it might not De kafniss to refer to conditions in the Eworld of vaudeville as they exist to- Eday and conditions that are not gen EeraIIy known to the public at large Manager PoIi now owns and controls absolutely alone sixteen high class Stheatres making him the greatest in div1dua1 theatre owner in the entire frworld. The fact that he is now en- abled to give high class acts twelve weeks of splendid time, meaning small jumps, naturally makes him a, decided power among his associates. Messrs Keith, Proctor, Hammerstein, Williams
 and Beck in the United Booking Off,
 The growing vogue of picture houses to play an act or two of vaudeville has brought about a sitting of the there is mighty fine line drawn these days in the matter of grades of vaude- vile. In every city in which Manager Poli has vaudeville theatre only high class acts playing the United time can appear in but one theatre and that must be the Poli house. Other acts must look elsewhere for an opportunity to play until such time as their ability and reputation allows them an entrance into the houses of alysis 1t must be seen that to see the highest grade vaudeville one must go to the Poli houses and the opening h. 1AV1- stratfve of the superiority of the vaudeville booked by Manager Po1i
 As per example the headline act for the coming week will be the Five !Arn1anis, an act engaged by Mir. Po1i's chief booking representative MT F. Alonzo while the latter was abroad vaudeville. MT. A1onzo "caughP' the Five Armanis at the Alhambra The atre Paris, the leading vaudeville the atre of the French capital and 1n1med- lately booked 1t for the Polf circuit [ the coming week being the first for the act to play in this country There are three men and two women in the act each a trained operatic soliSt and ! they give their splendid musical of fering in a gTogeous scenic setting Those who enjoy real music will mar vel with pleasure at the superb ren- dition this excellent quintet gives of the famous aria from Rigoletto.
 The other acts include three at least which are entitled to hea dine b1ll1nC. IrOVOIlO, the peer or aI pTO- ducing ventrioquists will offer his new act for the first time "At the Boston Post Road Inn'' which is a marvel of entertaining possibilities Trovollo is a. big -favorite here and prior to his | trip to Europe where he played the 1 leading halls there he was admittedly | the most entertaining of all ventrfl- oquists Then there will be the Four | Readings, athletic marveIs, the four being young chaps, one a mere boy, | and they give a most startling per formance featuring in their act hand | to hand throws never attempted by any | other act and hand balancing feats. l that simply thrill one.
 Wellington Cross and Miss Josephine, | a duo with the word class" just l spread all over them will offer a smart | dramatic trimmings called Dying to l Act' and the honor of opening the | opening weeks bill will fall to the | Arnaud Brothers, European eccentric 1 musical acrobats who will offefr | something entirely new in the line of l musical acrobatics. There will also 1 appeak Madden and Fitzpatrick, we'll l of the Ii managerial staff appear l ing in Mi >F1tzpatricks little play '"The | Turn of tAe Tide and finally H. T. | Mcconnell the President of the Thir- teen Club who has a screaming1y | funny offering rep1ete with surprises | The Electrograph will have the closing | positions, seats for the week are on | sale and holiday prices will prevail Monday
 MT. ". D. CoughIin of 65e William street and MT Fred Ha1tn of Hart ford are spending theirt N@sation in ''e5Aaa9s sssz ~A