The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-04
THE PREMIER PROGRAMME
 AT PALACE.
Remarkable Array of Stellar Features Announced for Labor Day Bill
 Brilliant Audience.

The premier programme announced for Polls Palace Theatre, opening La bor Day evening, is both elaborate and interesting.
 The programme on Monday night starts at o'clock. The seats in the orchestra are reserved, and on sale at the box-office, for this performance only. Balcony seats, about 2,0O0 in number, are not reserved. There will be one performance on Monday even ing. At this performance there will | be special dedicatory features, and in l the audience as guests of MT. and
 from Bridgeport and surrounding | territories. Included in this list of prominent people will be his honor,
 Mayor Fred Atwater, and his official
 family, the eX-mayor of the city, MT.
 Marcus Loew, president of the circuit
 of theatres bearing his name and of
 Metro pictures corporation, MT.
 Zukor, pioneer film man in the pie
 Pictures corporation, MT B. F. Albee,
 head of the Keith circuit of theatres,
 and 40 stars of screen and stage, 1n-
 cluding Mae, Murray, Raymond Hitchcock, Alice Brady. Ann Penning- ton, Virginia Pearson, Robert Leon ard, Sheldon Lewis, Nfta Na1di, Mon | tagu Love, John Emerson, Anita Loos, Miriam Battista, and many others of The programme will open with a grand overture, combining operatic
 selections and introducing the duet
 from "Tales of Hoffman and the
 sextette from 'Lucci de Hammer
 more" by members of the vocal en- semble, including Maria Casselotti,
 Vera Ropf, Wendall Hart, and Joseph Martel. Following will come The Star Spang1ed Banner by the orches- tra, in formal dedication of the thea tre as an amusement enterprise of greeting signed by Mr. Poli will fol- 1 low, on the screen, and the pro- gramme proper will start from this point.
 Paramount picture, tops the screen
 programme which also includes a
 comedy, a news reel and a scenic. | Chieftain Caupolitan, Indian bari tone, late of the Metropolitan grand
 opera company, will be heard in
 programme of songs on the accom- panying bill
 Virginia Bell, star of Ziegfeld's
 Midnight Revue and other Broadway
 attractions, will present for the first
 time in this country her interpreta-
 ton of the South American dance | ''Life's Scarlet Hour" Miss Bell will | recent art evolution, and one that is | expected to take New York by storm
 in a forthcoming production shortly | to be presented there. Arthur De pew is organ soloiSt-
 The appearance of the 40 stars of
 stage and screen follows, preceding the presentation or the feature linn. ] The stars will not give a performance. Their visit is entirely in the nature | of tribute to MT. Po1i and they
 have not been engaged for perform
 ance They will come upon the stage
 and greet folks in an impromptu manner-a sort of good fellowship, Iget-to-gether affair.
 Following the Monday night pre-
 mier, the programme will continue in
 regular routine, with the stars ap- II bearing on the stage on Tuesday af- ternoon and once Tuesday night. They will also appear at Polls Vaudeville Theatre Tuesday afternoon and even ing. Warde Johnstone, managing di- rector, is in charge of presentation and will conduct the orchestra of 22 men.