The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-01-13
THE THEATRES
POLLS.

Next week at Polls will be a mem
ora BILE one for it will be in the ma
rure of one of the most unique weeks
in the history of the theatre in that
st will be Club Week. Several OF
the leading clubs of this city have
made reservation for large blocks OF
ueats and this being SO the manage
ment Is making special plans for sew
cral novelties on the bill IN add1tlon
to the regular routine of acts On
"Wednesday night of the next week
the Algonquin Club members to the
number of two hundred and more
will occupy seats in the body OF the
house twelve rows having been pur-
chased by the entertainme nt commit
tee of the club and there will be do
dngs" on the night in question. Thurs
day night the Bridgeport Club will
he in evidence to the extent OF a nun
,dred and fifty seats and for Friday
evening. several whist clubs have
made application for blocks of seats,
one of the largest parties being the
sclub for which Business Manager
tBlakeslee of The Post has made ar
rangern ents- Inasmuch as the Dill IS
made up especially of acts that will
ALLOW of a little diversion in the way
lof including clubs present in the
Jokes and songs the week will be one
to be remembered
Up to Saturday of this week re-
servations will be made for blocks of
fzations applying at the box office. The
bill next week will be headed by the
always welcome aggregation or sing
ets and comedians and condolences,
Gus Edwards, School Boys and Girls,
headed by the doll Coincidence, Lii
liam Come as Sassy Little" No
season at Polls would be complete
without at least one appearance of
this popular aggregation of funmak-
erS and they come back this year
new comedy and n hundred per &c 1T.
improvement all around The special
feature of the bill will be the APP
pearance of The Great Lester who is
undeniably the worlds loren. ost vel
friIoouist- Lester works with but one
figure but in a marvellous manner.
While the figure apparently talks Les
ter smokes a cigar, drinks from
glass. whistles and in other ways
makes the efforts of other ventrllo-
quists appear ridiculous. Not only
this but at one stage of his act he
takes his dummy up and down the
aisle of the theatre and even then
those near him fail to detect the
slightest movement of his vocal
chords. The added feature of the bill
will be Una Clayton and company in
Miss Clayton's own playlet His Local
Color" one of the sketch successes Of
the season Lik ewise on the bill will
appear Harry Breen, the boy who
talks faster thdn morse can trOt
and the only entertainer playing sew
eral weeks in succession at Hammer
STEMS Marie Sparrow, the Irish
Whirlvind and the only woman sing
er of Irish songs on par with Mag
gle Cline in the palmieSt days of the
latter: Emerson and Baldwin, the
comedy jugglers just returned from
four years tour of Europe and Sama-
rolf and Sonia, the Russian Peasants
in picturesque and novel act. 1t is
by all odds the best bill in months
and the demand for seats should ex-
coed the. capacity of the theatre sew
eral times over
This weeks bill is playing to the
usual packed houses with the head
line act The New Leader" as pre-
scented by Sam Mann and players, the
laughing hit since the house was
opened. Sylvester and Redmond, 10
cal favorites, are receiving an ovation
at each performance and the entire
bin justifies the attendance and the
merited applause