The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-18
TheTheatres
LYRIC.

LYRIC.
 The big laugh for which everyone is searching these days of business depression can be found in the com edy The Girl In the Limousine, which comes to the Lyric theatre next week beginning with the matinee on Monday. Imagine a man who hires a taxicab being robbed and diSrobed and then thrown into room where is the wife of his best friend, the lat ter insanely jealous There is only one hiding place, in the bed, and the victim of the robbers claims it His efforts to escape detection are ludic- Fous and form complications enough to keep any gathering in roars Of laughter.
 Today and tomorrow mark the closing of that dramatic sensation, The Sign on the Door, which has been playing to capacity during the week.
 POLES. Renee Roberts revue with Chas. O'Conner, Syd Keys and Elliott Jaco- by at the piano, presenting a snappy session of Syncopation and dance will headline the new bill at Polls today. Pinto and Boyle in the overnight comedy sensation entitled 'eThe Mys- terious Trunk" Lew Ross and Hid Bimbo Girls, musical comedy, Gene Metcalf. the Silvertone, and Wee and Fully, acrobatic hand baIancers will complete the vaudeville bill.
 PLAZA.
 The Tigers Cub," a Fox produc- tion. with Pearl White the star, is at the Plaza. The action of the story is laid in Alaska, and is exremely in tereSting- Tigers Cub, as played by Pearl White, is a young girl born and reared in the wilderness of the north, whose sole companions, where she has had any, have been of the rough, uncouth, often immoral type that drift in these out-of-the-world places. Burke and Touhey, wonderful old Irish characters; Will and Blondy, in a high-class equilibristic offering: O'Brien and Bradley. in comedy. songs and dances, complete the bill A two-part Mermaid comedy, Inter 1tational News were also shown to the delight of every one.
 PARK.
 A Barney Gerard show will enter tain the balance of the week at the Park theatre One of the familiar Barney Gerard faces is seen in the person of little Anna Propp, the sou bret that taught many another the meaning of pep when she was with Gerard's ''Follies of the Day. several seasons ago.
 The comedians, Jos. K. Watson and Will A. Conan, exempHfy team work to a high degree, neither being afraid to sacrifice himself occasionally to give the other chance to corral a laugh. WatSon's monologue was a novelty and gained big applause as did the joke telling quartet This was composed of the comedians with Betty Evans and Momi Kalama. The latter also essayed an Hawaiian dance, ac- companied by William kao- who is an excellent musician, and packs along a pleasing personality.
 The closing set was in very good taste, as was the coStuming of the entire offering. It might easily be said that the chorus, from pep, con- struction, and facial beauty was easily
 EMPIRE.
 >Clothes," the drama oy Avery Hopwood and Charming Pollock, made an interesting and successful play when produced on the stage. Now 1t is on the screen. And it makes an incomparably better pie ture.
 The screen drama was seen last night at the Empire theatre with an aIl-star east including Olive Tell, Crauford Kent, Cyril Chadwick, Frank Currier, Fife Tillbury. Rae Allen and ton, done under the personal super vision of Maxwell Karger, Metros director-generaL
 WEST END.
 The inside workings of a band of expert crooks is disclosed in Black mail" a Metro special production from the story by Lucia Chamberlain in The Saturday Evening Post and which is announced as the feature att traction at the West End theatre to- nigh.