The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-01
POL.I'S

Thanks to Manager Pofi and his company of Poli Players here Bridge. port IS leading all cities in the State Tor stellar. theatrical attractions, and ,ao5 another is promised for the coming week when fThe Third Degree. Char. les klein's famous drama, will be pre- sented at Polfs theatre, for it's first performance by stock company. 'The Third Degree'' is the play which made all America sit up and take notice on it's first presentation and created one of the greatest sensa- tions ever achieved by an American drama. It is today one of the most widely discussed plays on the stage.
 Deriving It's motive and plot from a murder in the fashionable "upper cir cles', and the efforts of the police authorities to locate the criminal through the third degree'' process of breaking down and forcing a confes- sion from suspect, this play is one of the most thrilling and dramatic offerings ever devised for the stage and leads from beginning to end through series of sensational cli- maxes to a remarkable and dramatic finish
 Incidentally it portrays the inner workings of the famous police process third degree''-about which so much has been written and said. It was thanks to the storm of protest against brutal police methods aroused by this, play that the United States senate appointed committee to in- vestigate the third degree. and U. $. Senator Frank Brandegee of Con 'necticut is one of the members of that body, which is now holding sessions in the various cities and taking testi- mony regarding the methods of the authorities in grilling the suspects brought before them. e
 AS portrayed in the action of Char les Klein's great drama, the police baffling murder mystery. Unable to find the culprit, they arrest an inno- cent man and then extort a confess sion from him by the use of ''the third degree"-a combination of men, tai and physical tortures that would do, credit to the Spanish inquisition.
 The fraudulence of this confession is proved. but the police insist upon it that they have the murdefer. In with this. story is woven one of the most dramatic and remarkable plots that can be imagined and the audi ence throughout is kept on the qui vive. Sensation follows sensation. curtain brings this wonderful perform ance to an end.
 Bridgeport theatregoers who want to see something new, unique and ab- sorbing in the line of a play, will be a thousandfold repaid by visit to ''The Third Degree It is a revela- tion in dramatic entertainment, and as produced by the Poai Playerh dur ing the coming week will be one of the seasons treats
 Wilson Melrose, the new leading man of the Poli Players, the highest sal aried leading man in any stock com pany in the country. will appear in the role of Richard Brewster, the law yer. one of the important part of the piece.
 Miss Blanche Hall, the brilliant leading woman of the Poli Players, will have a splendid chance to show her capabilities for emotional acting in the role in which Helen Ware sprang from obscurity to stardom.
 Special matinees for the benefit of the ladies are announced for three af- tern0ons in the coming week.
 Monday matinee will see the award ing of beautiful porch set to some lucky lady in the audience.
 On Tuesday all who attend will be presented with a handsome souvenir autograph photograph of a popular player
 On Thursday afternoon another of those delightful and popular stage re- captions will be given. The entire audience is invited onto the stage to meet the members of the company af- ter the performance. Refreshments will be served