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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
PLAZA.

Starting at the Plaza today, Tues day and Wednesday, the stunning fea- ture act, Adelaide Bell and her Clef Club Jazz Band. Miss Bell was for mcrly associated with the famous team Bell and Glazer. and is now in troducing into vaudeville one of the best productions of it's kind ever seen here. There are neat up-to-date dances, snappy songs by people who can sing them, and Q great array of novelty musical selections. Special scenery and a real production is promised. Corcoran and Mack, the good old timers in a brand new sing ing and dancing offering are bound to score heavily with the audience. Ger rude Newman, a charming singing comedienne, known as The Jazz Girl will entertain with a series of song numbers. Mahoney and Au- burn in comedy batter will be on hand to give some real good laughs Tom Mix will be seen in Fighting for Cold" and is based on the book 'The High grader written by Will liam Macleod Raine. Tom Mix is certainly fortunate in both type and the quality of his screen stories. This new one is well connected, has a good that make one grasp. Besides the thrills there are hearty laughs, many Of which are caused by the antics of a large bear. Gaumont News and other features complete the bll
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
.GARDNER-LYMAN
 JOINT RECITAL

The few seats now remaining for the Gardner-Lyman musical event to- morrow evening at the State Street Casino will undoubtedly be taken dur ing the next 24 hours.
 Seldom has the public been so for tI1nate as to have the opportunity to become the invited guests at an affair of this kind and MT. Fox is to be com- mended for his progressiveness in making it possible for local music lovers to hear such talented and well known artists as Miss Gardner and MT. Lyman.
 Admission to the hall, while free can only be gained by special tickets which may be obtained, while they last, at the Alfred Fox Piano O., the local Edison Monograph dealer on Fairfield avenue.
 Those who wish to enjoy a musical treat, long to be remembered, should hasten to avail themselves of the few remaining tickets. After the seating capacity of the hall has been issued, no more tickets will be available
 As Miss Gardner and Mr. Lyman are going to demonstrate the supreme musical test, the affair promises to prove even more interesting and en- tertainIng than usual.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
THE PRESS AGENTS SAY
LYRIC

LG RI(j
 A laugh in every line is the best description that can be given of the popular comedy Weary Wives which has opened for the week at the Lyric theatre. It is a comedy which creates amusement from the troubles of others and there is scare ly anything that will cause more laughter than when others get into difficulties.
 So it is with Weary Wives" in which three women think they have grown tired of their husbands and fall desperately i'll love with a foot ball hero. They compare him with their husbands as a greek god would be compared to a dejected looking dog of uncertain breed. One of them finds out that he is leaving Palm Beach, Fla, where the play opens and she chases him to New York and immediately the other two follow. bands follow and the seven meet in the athletes apartn1 ent when the fun waxes fast and furious. There will be two performances daily and unless reservations are made in advance good seats will be hard to obtain.
 For next week Manager George Ar vine has made arrangements for the presentation of one of the most won derful production for the first time either in Bridgeport or in stock, ''The Eyes of Youth
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
SEVEN DAYS LEAVE"

''Seven Days Leave" the big spec tacuIar London military drama. will be presented at the Park tonight also tomorrow and Wednesday is now ir. it's eighteenth month of a continuous run at the Lyceum Theatre. London, England, and recently closed a six months run at the Park Theatre. New York. to tremendous business
 The story Of the play concerns principally q ro,licking young major. lack in London on a leave Of ao- sence. with buoyancy and hear- enough to fall in love with a certain young woman who ardertIv welcomes lis woOinS. But Cupid has fairly opened his eyes to this affair. when enters again Sinisterly the clutch of the conflict whose roars can still be heard within the bowers. and from romance the play instantly stiffens to the tense thrill Of danger for both the fur]OuGh's principal his ffancee. and indeed all about them who arc dear to both. Many of the phases of life in London as it is at present. hazards of spies. leveIing of castes awakening of a finer spiritual note fall into the aIembic There !s a thrilling denounccmeHt when sub marine is exploded in view of the audience. The sale of seats for all performances opens at the theatre to- cay.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
EMPIRE.

"A wonderful dramatic subject" is
 the way the reviewers who know their
 business on big town sheets wrote up
 "A Woman's EXperience,' the wonder
 drama in which Mary Roland, former
 Co-star with John Drew is being
 starred in at the Empire theatre to- day and tomorrow. The play is from the pen of Paul Potter and his greatest dramatic sue cess since ''Trilby." "A Woman's Experience" unfolds the sort of modern tale. that starts with a walIop and ends mid tumultu- ous applause of those who really know the full value of a masterpiece of dramatic art.
 Heading the rest of the select pro- | gram will be a comedy in two spasms 1 entitled Love" and in which the | inimitable screen star, Fatty Arbuckle | is the featured player. Love" will be 1 shown at this theatre for the first time in the city.
 l Don't miss this excellent program as it is well worth going many miles i to see.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
"NIGHTIE NIGHT AT THE SHU.
 BERT. NEW HAVEN.

Adolph Klauber's production of ''Nighue Night" which comes to the Shubert Theatre, New Haven, for q three days enga cement starting Thursday, April IT. with the usual matinee on Saturday, promises to be a great laughing treat. It is describ- ed as a wideawake farce by Martha NJ Stanley and Adelaide Matthews, and is to be presented by cast of favorite New York comedians, includ- ing such well known players as Jes- sic BusIey, Francis Byrue, lone Bright, Marie Chambers. Burford Hampton, Malcolm Duncan. Susanne Morgan, Edward NJ. Dresser, Stanley Stanton and others.
 The farce, which is in a prologue and three acts. revo1ves around the mar ttal miX-up resulting from Billy Mof- fats encounter with an old flame TriNie Lorraine, a former show girl whom he unexpectedly meets in a Pullman car enroute from Washing ton to New York BilIy's trusting little wife at home and Trixie's near husband, Jimmie Blythe, are involved in a Ceries of most amusing incidents which, although innocent enough in themselves, appear for @ time to be extremely compromising. Billy agrees to be a friend in need to Trixie and to Jimmie, and his efforts in their behalf entangle him ultimately in a situation that threatens to ruin his Cwn domestic happiness.
 For lovers of laughter "Nightie Night" will prove an ideal entertain ment, and for feminine patrons If the theatre there will be the added attraction of some new frocks and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
SOMETHING FOR
 SOMEBODY

Douglas Fairbanks. who laughed his way into the million dollar cir cles, promises some bright, cheerful backgrounds for his new Aircraft pie ture, Something for Somebody" Also he promises that cheer will be right in the foreground, too. Mar jorie Daw appears opposite him in the film, which was directed by Al bert Parker. The supporting cast in cludes Frank Campeau, Edyth Chap man, Albert McQuarrie, Ted Reed and William Wellman, the famous American ace of the Lafayette Esca- drille, who in 9 fall from a great height on the Western front received injuries that permanently incapacitat- ed him from flying. Wellman held the croix de Guerre with two palms and the D. s. c. for aerial service
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
WEST END.

The Lion and the Mouse," a spe- cial Vitagraph production in six acts, featuring Alice Joyce, supported by finders Randolph and Conrad Nagel and fine cast, is the extraordinary attraction at the West End theatre on State street, near C1inon avenue. This great production is a screen adapta- ton of the famous stage success of the same name, written by the late Charles Klein. Mir. and Mrs. Sidney Drew will also be seen in a two-reel comedy entitled "Once a Mason" This picture will appeal to all NIasons and to every woman whose husband, father or brother is a Mason.-b
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
BECOMING FAMOUS

Gloria Swanson, rapidly becoming beautifully gowned women, has been wearing a dress trimmed with new and old shade of red. Someone ask ed her if it was terra cotta, and the Aircraft leading woman who made such a sensational success in Cecil B. De Miles Don't Change Your Illus ban" and in De Miles For Better For Worse" tossed her shapeIy head That's 'paprika,' if you please" she declared, and don't dare to say you don't like it. Nobody dared.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
TRUE STORY

Here is true story on the press
 agent. He did not get to interview Forrest Stanley, so called up his home. Mrs. Stanley on the wire, an swering the query as to what the hus- band was doing and what would be good news: "WelI,' she hesitated,
 ''he is at the studio and all I know is that he leads a very normal life and works very hard" Guess that is a vest pocket edition in itself eh |?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
DELIGHTED

Mary Anderson was delighted when she discovered that the picture in which she appeared with Henry Wal thall, False Faces was one of the four Ince films screened for President Wilson on his way over to the Peace Conference She says that some day she hopes te meet the president and renew "old acquaintances."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
Now to work!

It is hard to see why anyone risks his life in the burglary business now, when by swapping worthless securi- ties for Liberty bonds he can get so much more money with comparative safety.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Reason why people don't plant more trees nowadays is that no known va riety will grow up and give them shade in 60 days before they move somewhere else.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Principal difficulty lover 1here'N just now is maintaining order in the. peace conference.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

hats in the latest spring modes worn by the lovely young women in the cast.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Bryant Washburn's newest Para mount picture is entitled "Something to Do'' and is of the speedy variety. Mir Washburn has an opportunity to show that he can handle wide awake characters with the same ease with which he portrayed the sleepy sort in his previous productions. Ann Little plays opposite to Mir. Washburn
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

There seems to be that mistaken idea in this city that if you can't make good at anything else-jump into the picture game. Yep-but it can't be done. Several have found it out
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
Remember after July 1st

Joseph Sapperstein of the Hippo Grome theatre is great on promises. W i.h he belonged to the testers and I were magistrate. Boy how he'd pro- duce.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14
JOTTTNGS
By D. J. l..

Godfrey Whalen, chief magistrate for the testers in the Elm city paid us a visit last evening. Before going into the dramatic line Jeff was Magi so the hours sure did vanish Jeff has a number of original magical effects that we wish friend Thurston could have seen. WhaIen is now connected with the picture game and is mana ging Connecticut territory for the Eastern Film corporation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Shades of the White Rats! Wha mem ories.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Yale Boss, one of the screen favor ite juvenile leading men has fully re- covered from a serious illness and will shortly be seen in vaudeville. Young Yale is at present trying out his act and his circuit will shortly be an nOunced.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

How would you like to get a check for two thousand? That's what Paul Scardon found awaiting him at the VitaGraph studios the other day. It was from an insurance company for payment on his stolen car. And-the auto show is on in Brooklyn this week. The director feels like a kid in a candy store.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Agnes Ayres had a birthday recent ly. No, we won't tell you how old she is, but she did have a party, con- sisting of six kiddies from neigh bors homes, whom the star took to Madison Square Garden, New York, to see the circus, and, of course, had a. wonderful time. Agnes says she has to have some excuse each year to see the big show, because she does enjoy it.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Kenneth Webb has been on a fish ing trip. He took advantage of q few days 1ayoff and went to South Caro- lima last week to try his luck with the trout. Ken reports wonderful sue cess; the stories he tells are corkers, but, of course, the biggest one got away!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-14

Betty Blythe has had another one of her stories accepted by a. leading fiction magazine. Of course Betty is delighted and she is beginning to think the life of q writer much su- player.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-02

Z free press does not mean libe-
lous press or lying press; and we are
thinking of a large portion of the
capitalist as we write this
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-02

The question was asked the other
day whether one is allowed to raise
pigs in the city limits. There is an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-02
NATIONAL
NOW, IF 1T WERE PRUNEs.

NOW, IF 1T WERE PRUNES. -.
Now and then there appears in the
press cheerful assurance that there
will not be any move toward reducing
the present high standard of wages.
The statement might we'll be headed
important If True"
The disclosure usually is made in
a gratuitous paragraph in an inter
minable special article on labor con-
ditions written by Professor Dudley
Deadlydull for some Sunday supple
ment
The truth is that real wages have
steadily been reduced since before the
beginning of the present STANDARD. "
If the wage earners were paid in
values instead of in tokens-if the
Standard" was in quantity of pota-
toes, prunes and porkchop5 the work
ers would have understood the extent
of the wage reduction and the fallacy
of the statement about present high
standard of wages"
The fiuctuating prices of the necess-
ties of life-of recent years always
on the upward trend-makes it pos
sible to keep the people from realiz-
ing the whole wage difficulty.
Now the wage earners in America
are Just beginning to realize the need
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-02

of real wage. In England they are
fully aroused. They have learned a
great lesson in wage economics.
Labor is demanding real wage
one measured in goods, not in money.
In America the workers are learn
ing the need of commensurate wages,
of RELATIVE WAGES.
In the recommendations offered to
the International Peace Conference by
the~committee on international labor
legislation, the declaration is made
that "every worker has the right to
an adequate wage to maintain re-
asonable standard of life
An adequate wage will be a REL
ATIVE WAGE. This is coming to be
the universal demand.
This is no time to talk about low
ering wages or about present high
standards. Ask the housewife about
the purchasing power of her dollar
compared with year or two years
ago.
When the cost of living goes above
the earning capacity of the American
family we are on dangerous footing.
The fate of any economic system
depends upon the ability of the people
to live under it.
American workers must have an
adequate wage, a relative wage that
will enable them to maintain stand
ard of living ever higher and better
Our march must be onward. We will
not turn back. Any arbitrary re-
ductions will be fraught with great
danger. They will not be tolerated.
20 ~ Ma E& "a
If you believe that the few do-noth-
ings should have ALL and the many do
everythings should have nothing
then keep away from cooperative
literature.
R - - n p
The union man who does not keep
up his dues fails to meet an hon.
orable obligation which he has vol.
unfairly made He is reaping the
benefits of organization. yet, through
indifference and neglect, he fails tc
play fair with his fellow craftmen.
He fails to be square with those
who are acting with honor and good
faith. He IS Stacker on the gooc
union man who pays promptly without
tagging behind.
The working man who fails to save
a part of his earnings each pay day
fails to keep an equally solemn obliga.
tion he has voluntarily made to his
family
There are two things every union
worker should make the first order OF
the day the pay envelope comes
around-pay his union dues and buy
some war savings or some thrift
stamps He should buy thrift stamps
for the kiddie's card and if possible
to do so he should get at least one
war savings stamp each week for the
wife's card
A man who keeps up his union dues
and saves something each week is
fortifying himself against the dang
ers of future adversity.
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When most people try TO think OF
the first people in the world they think
o, heavy, hairy men living in caves
These hairy men who lived in caves
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-02
MA pa pa ma "a

The little controversy involving the
machinists employed at the Hooven,
Owens, Rentschler company has had
happy ending and the settlement
thereof seems pleasing to both sides
While the officials of the firm, at the
beginning, did not agree with the ma
chinists in all that they asked for
yet, when asked to do so they readily
agreed to refer the whole matter to
the war labor board for adjustment
Upon the award of the board being
made the firm said that the decision
was satisfactory to them and that
they would do all in their power to
arrange the hours to the satisfaction
of the employees. And this they have
done. The machinists say they have
no complaint whatever to make and
that the firm has been very fair in the
arrangement of hours for their con-
venience. The Hooven, Owens,
Rentschler company has always been
regarded as considerate of it's employ
ees welfare always ready to meet
the men or their committee, and has
had very little labor trouble in the
past and lit is hoped that nothing in
the future will arise to mar the com
plete harmony which now exists be-
tween employe and employer at this
big plant.
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The question was asked the other
day whether one is allowed to raise
pigs in the city limits. There is an
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-02

Hamilton's army of workers under the
able leadership of Judge Clarence
Murphy continues forward in the drive
for subscriptions for the bonds that
are going to help Uncle Sam pay his
debts, contracted that democracy
might live, and also make his credit
good forever throughout the entire
world Hamilton's army will not
stand still, nor move backward, but
will continue forward until the day
the campaign closes, May 10TH
One thing in connection with the
present campaign that stands out well
and is the cause for much gratifca-
ton and pride to those friendly to
labor and its cause, is the fact that
about $175,000 was subscribed by the
men in the shops. This certainly
speaks well for the patriotism and
loyalty of Hamilton's worklngmen.
Hamilton owes much to that faith
full army of workers who under the
leadership of that seasoned leader
Judge Clarence Murphy, chairman of
the campaign committee, have kept
Hamilton right up in the forefront in
all the Liberty Loan drives, proclaim
ing to the world that no more patriotic
spot is there to be found on the face
of the globe than Hamilton, Ohio
R IA ~ IA va
An article published in this weeks
issue of The Press calls attention to
four big Detroit stove and range con-
Germs whose product is not recon-
mended to organized labor by the
American Federation of Labor. Much
of this product is handled by some of
our local merchants. 1t Is the duty
of the members of organized labor
and its friends to watch this matter
carefully and when purchasing stoves
or ranges to purchase only those
goods which are fair to union labor.
The firms referred to deny the right
of certain Of their employees to become
members of organized labor and also
refuse to pay a rate of wage increas-
es equal to advances that have been
granted by all leading stove manu-
facturers throughout the country. The
union stove mounters formerly en-
ployed at these plants are all out on
strike.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1919-05-02

lad slanting foreheads, which means
that they were low persons of little
intelligence. If they had been more
intelligent they would not have lived
ia caves.
The cave man with the slant head
understood that when it ralned he got
wet and that if he hit an animal a
hard blow on the head with club
the animal would die and become food
The cave man also understood that
if another cave man came around to
take part of his food he could kill
that other cave man just as he killed
II e animal.
Hitting hard blows on the head
with big club was the thing he un-
derstood best
There weren't much in heads in
those days.
Most of the slant heads have dis
appeared since then. Foreheads have
become almost straight and reason
has developed inside the skull
There are a few left, however.
Some are preserved in the Smith
sonian Institution, some In the New
York Museum of Natural History
and some are on the shoulders of en-
ployers who talk about cutting wages
and refusing to bargain with trade
unions which are numbered among the
finest products of the perpendicular
forehead
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4 free press does not mean a libe-
lous press or lying press; and we are
thinking of a large portion of the
capitalist as we write this
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A new charter every other day un-
der the American Federation of La
Dor is the rate at which the organ
ization wave among the school teach
ers of the United States has been
speading during the past month,
according to reports received at the
Washington office of the National
Women's Trade Union League. The
American Federation of Teachers is
affiliated both with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and the National
Women's Trade Union League, and
has to date chartered a total Of 20
! local unions from coast to coast.
This, it is stated, represents a 100
per cent organization in many locali-
ties. This, also goes to show that not
only the Ignorant but also the educat-
ed class-and school teachers are
supposed to have education-are wax
ing up to the benefits to be derived
from organization and collective bar
gaining Down in Memphis, Tenn,
the school teachers were trying to get
$4,000 due them for back pay since
last September. The board of educa-
tion couldn't see any way to get the
money The teachers organized and
formed a union. Before the teachers
could act as an organization, the
board of education learned of what
was doing and the teachers immedi-
ately received their checks. Organi-
zation-see it?
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OVER THE TOP
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OVER THE TOP

Hamilton again has done herself
proud. "Over the top" she has gone
on the Victory Loan. Way-"over"
has she gone and is still going