The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-04-15
DIVING SEAL AT
 POLES BIG HIT
Cooper & Robinson, Mary Eliza beth, Jack Kennedy & Go.
 and Four LOndOns Please

No summer girl at the beach ever showed more grace in swimming than
 is exhibited by ""The Diving Sear' at
 Polls this week. TravilIa Bros. are in fancy swimming feats. The inn
 nense seal Hops across the stage, climbs the stairs to the tank and then
 dives into the clear water. The seal keeps circ1ing around in the water until you would think it was on a
 treadmill The TravilIa Brothers as
 tonished and thrilled last nights au- dience by remaining under water for more than four minutes. It is an i'm
 teresting act
 Cooper & Robinson are about the
 best of the dark hued entertainers
 who visit this city. They know how
 to sing the popular songs and their
 line of comedy produces laughter. The
 unique accompaniment which one of
 the team has for the final song kept
 the audience app1auding.
 Mary Elizabeth, a dainty singer of
 dainty songs, pleased with her up to
 date numbers. Her naonoIoguek con-
 tatned new material and was warmly received last night.
 Jack Kennedy & Co. had an uproar- ious farce called "A Business Pro- posaP', which depicts the troubles of a hard headed business man svho be- lIeves all his employees should be mar red. His efforts to instruct the em- ployes in the art of making love were ludierous. The company is good. : The Four Londons are seen in an aerial act that astounds the specta- tors. They throw each other around with apparent carelessness, but need less to say their movements are a1- ways perfectly timed. As 8 casting act this is great.
 Crouch & WelcE1 are wonders in | dancing. Welch hurls himself around the stage as if he didn't care where he 1 landed. Their final number when the i pair do an acrobat1c dance, brings l down the house.
 Paul K1etst has a novel opening s6it. |
 He works on a dark stage and many | mechanical novelties are introduced | The finale, in which the airshfp de stroys the battlesl1ip, is good.
 An unlocked for incident occurred on | acts, booked for this week. were re- h hearsing. Cooper and Robinson, two darl1y . entertainers, were humning their tunes over to Harry Jeroy, lead CT of the orchestra. and Mary Eliza beth, the comedienne, was holding an animated conversation with several of l the Flying Londons and Paul Kleist. | the clown, when suddenly from off the | stage, near the entrance, wild, scraping. Hopping sound occurred and a huge black body was seen vending it's snake-1ike form across the plat form. a,
 With one scream Mary Elizabeth made break for the stairs which lead to the orchestra pit, and the acrobats with whom she had been talking, skinned up the rigging toward safety. Cooper, the dusky comedian of the coll pred entertainers, just caught a glimpse of ''Winks'', the big sea lion, who, becoming uneasy, awaiting it's masters arrival at the theatre, had taken things in it's own hand, or flip pers to be exact, and was investigate ing.
 Cooper took one look, grabbed his partner by the arm and with a tw11oop'' leaped over the orchestra pit and was gone out into the foyer ere they could stop him. The stampede didn't stop with the actors, for when all was over and E'Winks'' was back in his tank, the entire orchestra, the cleaners and all the artists on the bill were huddled together in the back of the house and it was almost half an hour ere things settled back to normal a gain. 'FWfnks'' now rests In his tank with several hundred pounds of boards, Joists and weights on top to hold him down.