The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-19
BIG LINE WAITS THE0PENING OF sf
 POLL SEAT SALE
R. Frank Bernler Gets First Two Tickets Sold at New
 Theatre This Morning --.
Hundreds of Applicants Besiege Box Office to Obtain Seats :
 For Premier of Hand. X .....~. some. Theatre

R. Frank Bernier, of 1170 Broad
 street, passed a one-case note through
 the box office window at o'clock
 this morning and received the first i two seats sold for the new Poli thea
 tre which opens Monday evening". Mir.
 Bernier got pair of orchestra seats I after standing in line for several
 hours. +t-& .z=fra-
 Directly behind MT Berniers was
 Martin Arthur, Of POT Madison ave.
 nue. who got the next two seats sold!.
 The line that reached from the box office window through the lobby and,
 down. Main street for half a block. 1 then began .tot move quickly 3- Orders came in punches, some applicants l taking blocks of twenty or thirty. A
 pile of req! money was soon heapedd i The line of applicants formed as early as 6 o'clock this morning. Long
 before o'clock, it reached we'll down 1 was over, hundreds of .late-cone CTS ar.
 rived and took what they could get 1 in the line of opening seats for the premier. MT. Poi came to Bridge port. this morning and expressed hfrl- l Self as highly pleased with the open i ing sale. capacity house Is looked i for Monday night. At noony there were no seats to be had 1T. the orchestra. With the ex- eeption of 8 block reserved for Mr. Polls personal use. all had been sold.
  his own use on the opening night | Applicants this morning had then the handsome lobby and grand foyer, l of the new theatre. The lobby and foyer form the most magnificent thea, | tre= entrance in~ this. section of the were loud in their praises of the W ork., | Mrs. James Leyerone and John Nc l Carthy will assist Treasurer Cohen in l the box offices of the theatre. l A b-COTnnittae of the general
 connitte arranging for the cornpfh-, i mentary dinner to MT PoH Monday last evening. E. T. Buckingham, M. | J. Jordan, F. C.; Mullins and Joseph
 D. Hartigan met Mir. PoH in New EHa- ven and presented him a handsomely i engraved invitation asking his pres l ence at the dinner.
 The invitation reads as follows: MT. Sylvester z. Poli, New Haven, Conn. Recognizing your loyalty in the past and your faith in the future of Bridge port, as evidenced by the erection of tcitizens of Bridgeport have decided to show their appreciation of your splen-
 did public spirit. l. We the undersigned as a repre- sentative committee request your fprssance at a cabaret dinner to be
 EiyeF in your honor, on Monday even teen Hundred Twelve, at eleven O. clock at the Stratf1eld.
 !. V cry COrQ1a1ly,
 CLIFFORD B.. WILSON, .s- sHsREDERICK c. MULLINS, ss@S FRANK BDLANDE, t< sRICf1ARDIHOWEL. ! JAMES l.. M'GOVERN, = FARCHIBALDs MNEII1, JRs
 FRED ENO6,
 THOMAS M. CULLdNAN -| GEORGE B. CLARK, +isE EDWARD T. BUCKINGHAM, | ~ Chairman. GEORGE s. HILL
 WILLIAM D. BURNHAM FRANK MILLER, Et fa* CARL RECK,S MICHAEL iIORDAN JOSEPH D. HARTIGAN,t JOSEPH I. FIINT.s ' i s CHARLES D. DAVIS. ! HORACE H.zJACKSON.: J. EDWARD ELLIOTT. -@F Secretary, Brfdgep0rI4. Conn. December eleven, . T Nineteen; gFIundred Twelve l. MT. Poli informally accepted the in- vitatien and thanked the committee, Later he will forwardz-a. a. formal writ ten acceptanee ands Appreciation