The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-03
POLI'S

Give patrons all that they want and then a whole lot more in the way of a surprise" is Manager Poli's slo-
 gan and perhaps its the answer to his great success in the theatrical field. Take for instance thes past
 week and you would find every after.
 noon of the week the theatre packed
 to it's capacity with an audience nine ty percent women. Women are bar gain hunters by right and by privilege but when one sits down and considers the Poli policy it Is easy to conclude that s. z. Poli is the greatest bargain
 giver in existence today. Just think of what a, plain every day ten cent
 piece will do at this popular play house. Next week for instance 1t will
 allow every woman who spends it a
 good comfortable seat in a cool we'll
 ventilated theatre, she will be pro-
 vided with palm leaf fan a program
 and some other interesting reading
 matter. she will see one of George M.
 Cohan's best musical comedies For
 ty-Five Minutes from Broadway" put
 on with stock company as good as
 any in America today and with a
 special chorus of fifteen people who
 are paid good salaries to come here
 simply because it's musical comedy
 and musical comedy without a chor-
 us is like bread without salt. The
 same woman who has paid the ten
 cents will see this great comedy pro-
 duced line for line and song for song
 and dance for dance as the original
 production. she will have the waits
 between the acts enlivened by selec-
 tions from all of Cohans productions
 by the Poli orchestra, illustrated
 songs by Jack Sherman and Eddie
 Healey and new views in the electro
 graph. Monday afternoon she may
 spend ten cents and be lucky enough
 to get a forty dollar silk gown and if
 she don't she will get coupon which
 will perhaps win her a sixty dollar
 hat at Dillon's on the following Mon-
 day. Of course there are a few other
 little side issues but when you stop
 and think it all over you wouldn't ex-
 pect s. 2. Poli to make as much per
 capita as the man who sells you a
 glass of ice cream soda for ten cents
 and yet the soda and the Poli show
 cost the same, the one to drink and the other to see. If you want to delve
 into statistics a bit more we might
 remind you that George Conan don't
 let MT. Poli play his musical comedy
 just because he worked for him on
 the circuit once or because Mr. Poli
 is his friend. Far be it from so but
 on the other hand MT. PoIi pays MT.
 Conan royalty which means that
 five thousand people at ten cents apiece
 must purchase tickets to pay the
 stock company and several thousand will see if you want these good things you can have them if you show 1t
 by patronage. Now about this inno-
 vation of a musical comedy during the
 stock season. NIT. Poli always had in
 mind the thought that his patrons
 would like bit of music mixed with
 their dramatics. A few years back he
 experimented with an opera company
 and sent it around the circuit Lovers
 of music liked the old comic operas
 but more patrons who liked music
 liked it a bit new and thus the opera
 company thing was shelved. This sea-
 son MT. Poli said he would give his patrons musical comedy and inasmuch as Cohans were the best in the way of
 successes at least MT. Poli just leas- ed several of the Conan musical come dies engaged a travelling chorus to go to all his houses and next week we start in with ''45 Minutes from Broad.
 way The very fact that George M.
 Conan is responsible for this comedy
 is all, that is necessary to stamp it as
 an attraction of the first class Un-
 like the usual run of musical comedies this one has a plot and it's interesting all the way. Bennett (Mr. InceO has inherited an enormous fortune from a
 miserly uncle by reason of the fact
 that he is the heir at law and no will
 can be found Accompanied by his chum Kid Burns (Mr. Schofield) he is installed in his uncles mansion, re-
 taining the maid Mary (Miss TyrrelD and the butler CMr. Kirke). He is pre- pairing to meet his bride to be- a New York show girl Miss Martin) and his future mother-in-law (Mrs. Dean. Miss Hollinge1 He appoints Burns his pri- vate scretary and in order to keep up appearances Burns buys a suit of clothes from the butler and the suit happens to contain the long lost will Burns reads the will and finds that the beneficiary is none other than Mary the maid. He battles with his con- science but Cupid comes to the rescue for Mary and the Kid fall victims to loves dart. Burns tells her of the deposition in the will but rather than accept the legacy she tears the docu- ment. The Kid puts the pieces to- gether and everything is velvet. If versatility be the test of a players ability the members of the company will prove beyond a doubt the fact that they are as much at home in this class of play as in the dramatics. Miss Tyrrell who is gifted with a cul- tured mezzo soprano voice will sing Mary Is a Grand Old Name, and another number. MT. Ince will sing. l "Pm a Popular Millionaire and MT. | Schofield has a number also. The Co., | han chorus of seven pretty girls and seven chappies will have several sing ing and dancing ensemble numbers and Stage Director Socola will give the play a superb mounting Between the acts. Jack Sherman assisted by Eddie Healey. the phenomenal boy ten- 1 or will sing Some of These Days" and Kiss Me- and the electrograph | will show new views. The production Of this Conan comedy is the most pre- l affpnDt pd in stock here and the demand for | seats is already big. Seats for the en- tire week are on sale at the box of- fee.