The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-01-08
LIVE WIRE STUDIO NEWS NEVIS OF BRLDGEPORT,S THEATRES
NEWS OF THE THEATRES

The special features are worthy of comment. The Dyer sisters in ja.zz dances are fine, Miss Melanie Gordon in dances of the Morgan school, and Miss Gale Wendell, an operatie prima donna, are all good and add much to the excellence of the pro- ductfon.
 For next week the Players have another thriller on hand in that wonderful drama, Blind Youth. This is one Of the best that has been seen here this season and should be seen by every woman and no man should miss it. It is an interesting story and carries the audience to the artists quarter in Paris and thence to America.
 The Reeves show, without a doubt the one distinctly different show on the Columbia Circuit, comes to the Park theatre, with the usual matinee today, Friday and Saturday.
 MT. Reeves has excelled all past seasons in making this a show of wonders It is made up of comedians with real fun-makfng talent, and a large number of beautiful girls whose attractive personal appearance is greatly enhanced by beautiful cos tunes.
 Then there is MT. Reeves himself with a cheerful InonoIogue and sur rounded with an organization of en- terta.iners headed by Harry Marks Stewart and Harry s. Le Van, two clever comedians, singers and danc- CTS and entertainers; fascinating Ruth Hayword, making her first ap- pearance in burlesque theatres di- rect from the Keith Circuit; a most charming prinna donna and piano wonder, Florence Wilkinson; pretty Ada Morse, sensational dancer; the Darling Sisters, who really can sing and dance; the Big Four. Stanhope l Drury, Brown and Picket; Kathryn Pearl, and twenty-four stunning pretty girls are said to have been se- cured.
 The musical numbers for this sea- sons show have been carefully chosen, and it is MT. Reeves good fortune to have secured the authority ! of George M. Gotham to include the 1 popular author and composers stir ! ring American Ragtime' for tht
 list.
 l For the first time in motion pic
 ture production, six men are to vi' i with each other in the one film. 1 Milton Sil1s, Edmund Lowe, Ga reth HugESs, William Courtleigh, Ru l dolph Valentino and Ralph Lewis ar l all supporting Clara Kimban Youn:
 in her first Equity Production, Eye l of Youth and are all in man. 1 scenes together.
 Eyes of Youth will open a sevel | days engagement at the Empire
 commencing Sunday night, Januar | II.
 ! WEST END.
 Norma Talmadge's latest scree
 production, "The Isle of Conquest,
 a Select special production, whic
 is shown at the West End theatre to
 night, carries variety of scenes a
 well as variety of action.
 Much of the action takes place o
 an isolated island in the South Sea
 and on the island many effective lo Ications figure as backgrounds. As
 of particular interest are thos scenes taken aboard a yacht. Tines passages show the yacht torpedoed z sea, and the subsequent shipwrec : furnishes the incidents through whic
 a man and woman find themselvt . alone on a small island. 5 The atmosphere of the pictul ] carried the air of good taste ar good breeding at all times, with k l ca1e shifting from a fashionab : boarding school of Palm Beach, ar 3 from other society centers to . tropical isle.