The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-13

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CECIL WILLIAMS
! With ssIdsten Lester" at Park.
originality, for. the composer mas
brought to his composition a clever
ness and melocdic veil thta tlckles
| fancy the ears@and the toes
| The setting is Palm Beach, which
| offers opportunity for unique ana
| colorfuI background, and coStun11ns
| of the newest style all OF Wnlch' neeo-
| less to say, is taken the utmost 40.
| vantage of in the sartorlaI display Oh
| the offering. In this environment Is
projected the story, of Abutus t2u1ity,
| and her letters; of Colonel Dodge ana
his connection with those letters; OF
pretty Mary Dodge and her love az
I fairs-of countless other de!ghttu,
people and their equally dehght1ui
and amusing business ana pf e
tgenuinely interesting tale that is
| AUGMENTED by cast headed by Gus
| Shy and including Joe Mack, K. Bar
rett Randick. Mac j. THOMPSON Elor-
ence DE Bar, Marquita Dwight Caro-
| line Larkins, Mary Ford, and
| chorus that is Dainty, Danceu and
| altogether delectable.
''The Penalty" the feature photo
! play attraction at Polls theatre,
| which started a four day run last
! evening, would b0 oo q
| picture for no other reason than that
! it is a definite record of scenes in the
celebrated Barbary Coast of San
Francisco before reform and pro.
Iurked in every alley and under
| ground retreat by day, and stalked
forth unashamed by night. Here are
| pictured the very sites of the reVei-
| made Frisco notorious wherever men
| gathered to talk of cities Ihe
| dope fend, the white slave, the thug
| all of the unregenerate devotees of
| vice and crime that imagination can
picture, are shown as they nested in
| other days, and persons who are IA
| miliar with things as they were,
helped to stage the scenes.
A new vaudeville bill opens today.
1t is headlined by the famous Conan
and Harris musical comedy, "Going
Up" OF course it has been con-
Sensed some N for VaTdsxlls purposes
'Going Up numbers have not been
kept out, nor has the riotous COM
edy aviation scene. The cast con-
sists of eighteen people, it is en-
acted in three scenes and comes dl-
rect from a metropolitan run.
Creedon and Walsh in a comic riot
entitled "a Barrage of Fun; Frank
L. Hall Co. in a comedy sketch en-
Raffles," presented by Jack Lee and
Lou Lawrence; and Consuelo and La
Veeda, the upside down pair, will
complete the vaudeville show.
Screen Snapshots and Pathe News
y will be shown at each performance
as added photo-play attractions.
LYRIC.
1 Beginning with the matinee this
4 afternoon and continuing for the bal.
4 ance of the week with two perform
ances daily the Poll Players will pre-
| sent that highly sensational melo
4 O-1 OF he hoo tow
T This is the best of all dramatic pro
/ auctions which have appeared here
SO far. this season and is guaranteed
to- please the most skeptica1. Thu
play has for it's features three inter
esting subjects, murder, marriage ane
mystery, and there is not a minut
| throughout the presentation that thu
1 attention of the audience is allowed t.
lag or the action of the play to SLOW
4 up.
III AT 9:45' is a play that everyon,
should see and none can help beinl
| interested both in the theme and il
solving the mystery which holds then
Il enraptured from start to finish. "A
L 9:45" differs from the ordinary stor,
of crime and criminals in that tn
scenes are not laid amid sordid sur
III roundings. Quite the contrary tn
Il first of the ply takes place in tn
wealthiest families in the metropolis
| Thence the scene is shifted to a fash
III ionable restaurant and back to tn
library and to the bedroom of tn
1 same house. where the denouemen
III takes p1acS and the mystery is solved
III T<Jse who have not yet made re
ID servations for seats are advised to d
II so at once as the advance sale ha
1 been unusually heavy for this produc
H. ton and if choice seats are desired
1 is advisable to have them reserved
L The old motto. always adhered to a
the Lyric, of First come, first serv
ed" still prevails and those who re
serve a seat will be pleased with thef
I forethought.
PLAZA
Ii From Now On the George Walls
| special seven-act drama now playin
Hat the Plaza. theatre carried an in
| tensely exciting story of the inne
/ world through a. rapid fire of inciden
l narrow escapes, and thrilling spectac
ura1 scenes. 1t is one of the creates
| lseared The successful magazin
l story by Frank J.. Packard, author G
l The Miracle MAN." has been graph
| ically pictured in this photopiay unde
1 the expert direction of r. A. WALSH
| who was the director of The Homo
| System" and other great screen sue
/ cesSeS.
Bart McHugh's big girl extrav
aganza. ~Fixins It Up with cast {
16 talented players, is the feature az
/ starting today. It is described as
| me1ange of melody and .nlrth and OF
l fers 40 minutes of genuine entertain
/ ment Mr. NdFIugh has spent a fol
:. tune on scenery costumes comed
| bits and lyrics and it promises to 3
| one of the best acts presented her
this season. Lewis and HenderSo n
1.-The Girls Different; David s. Ha
: & Co. in a comedy skit entitled I'll
n Way of a Husband and Ware, an
others complete the bill Eddie Pol
in The Vanishing Dasser and frs