The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-05
IH THE THEATRES
PLAZA.

Announcement extraordinary is made in the booking of Mack Sem netts five-act comedy scream, Mar ried Life' a first National attraction for the Plaza theatre the last half of this week starting tomorrow. When this feature was presented on Broad way it caused no less than sensa- tion. And, although not a war pie ture as some might imagine, it has all the thrills of one. Mack Sennett, the king of funmakers, has attained almost the impossible by injcting in this farcical offering one thrill after another. Some of the laugh makers featured in it are Ben Turpin, Charlie Murray, Louise Fazenza. Phyllis Haver, Ford Sterling, Charles Conk- lin and James Finlayson, each a fea- ture in himself.
 ''The Century Girl' company have a brand new tabloid offering for the latter half of the. week. It, promises to. be the best production to -date. Francis, and. Hume in, theirs own or iginal oddity, Just Happenings' Seymour and Jennet in a singing and dancing speciality; Ross and Floss in a quarter of an hour filled with fun and clever doings, together with oth- CTS complete the bill. A two-part Chester comedy and International News will also be shown
 LYRIC.
 Music hath charms"-etc., saith the author who would have been | more than pleased had he or she known of the snappy musical comedy f"Black-Eyed Suzanne" which is at tracting hundreds to the: Lyric thea tre twice daily all this week. Replete with every feature with a tendency | for enterta inment and rounded out | with attractive specialtieS that speak | for themselves the Lyric is in lno | for a record business such as this ] theatre has not enjoyed in long l time. ''Black-Eyed Suzanne" is a l live wire production.
 For Sunday night the photoplay i concert has an attraction which
 both performances. After considera-
 ble difficulty and much persuasion
 not to mention the financial outlay | Manager Arvine has succeeded in | booking the big first run picture
 "York State Folks" a sequel to that | famous picture Way Down East,
 which caused such comment recently
 The picture contains more thrills
 than its predecessor and is more
 powerful story in every way. TheT
 there is the Larry Semon comedy
 Solid Concrete" the Pathe News
 the eighth episode of that wonder
 serial, "The Mystery of 1S," and the
 concert by the famous Lyric orches
 tra.
 Beginning with the matinee or Monday the Poli Players will take al
 of their friends Up In Mabel Room" every afternoon and evening where they promise to make then forget all cares and worries for a least two hours and a half. Up II
 Mabe1s Room" is clean. whole r some farce of the bedroom type de void of all objectionable features bu with a snap and vim that will keel alive the interest from start to finish
 EMPIRE.
 Nazimova at her greatest: that : E"Madame Peacock" When this mos
 recent and decidedly most brilliant o ' the Russian actresses pictures wa ; thrown on the screen of the Empir
 theatre last evening, she came befor f theE.audience first as a brilliant stag G celebrity, Jane Goring, a woman o f fascinating gorgeous personahty, n woman who had sacrificed the loV @ !of a man to her irresistible ambition e Then suddenly there appeared t young girl, eager and aspiring an ;t ingnuous; and had it not been 1o ). the explanatory subtitle doubt woul l. have remained in the minds of thos . who witnessed the shadow perform e lance as to whether so utterly oldel
 ent a person could be portrayed b s the same actress.
 = Of the supporting cast. Geors g Probert proved especially pleasing: i manly and hkeable leading man; an = credit too belongs to John StepPln
 as the theatrical manager; to Willial
 .Orlamond, Rex Cherryman. Ape
 Cody. Gertrude Claire and to MT
 lWoodthorpe. The picture was adap
 led from Rita Weimans story by Ma. imova, directed by Ray C. Smal ,f -ood. photographed by RudolT ,- Bergquist and given special art SC 3- tings by Edward Shutter. Metro ,e the releasing company.
 t PARK. ..
 -'The Little Elephant" which is 1e be the offering presented by u to Million Dollar Dolls" at the Pal le theatre starting tomorrow might n- aptly termed a musical scircus-ai Ii ly from the menagerie sounding tit III that the author has given it. but i ne stead of being a circusp lay set ot music, it is lively and altogeth in charming dusical revu which talr
 bristles with pretty girls, clev