The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-18
In The Theatres
POLIS PALACE.

1 POLHS PALACE.
 1 Romance comes riding across the
 screen in picturesque seventeenth l century ganb in the sumptutous pro 1 duct1on, Lorna Doone. which 1 opened four days engag cement at the l PoH Palace last night and certainly
 enthused and pleased a capacity audi ence.
 From novel that has been a fa- vorite with three generations, Mau- rice Tourneur has produced a film that combines the beauty of an old world painting and the thrills of a modern nelodrama Against rne
 background of the Devonshire hills and moors visited annually by hun
 dreds of tourists who have shudder-
 ed over the deeds of the bloody
 Doones' the beautiful love story Of the captive ''IOrna'' is told. Charac- ,ters of the familiar book enact with a realism, terrifying a t times, the dra-
 matc episodes that are known to
 every student of the English classics. Contrasted with the early scenes of the wild moorland where peasants in quaint homesDun and Hnseys live un- der the terrorized sway of tNe outlaw
 band are vivid gl1mpses from the magnlfieent teI court of King James where Lorna is taken in regal style after her rescue by the herculean John Ridd' from the wicked
 Doones. Johns fight when he tears a hole through the matched roof of a
 
 forced into marriage with Carver Doone and the big battle when the aroused peasantry burns the village of Doone to the ground are two or the I1aSt dramatic episodes ever screened. M9adge BeUamy, the new 1nce star, is al ideal Lorna and John Bowers as the conqueror of the terri ble Doones and Frank Keenan Tn the greatest character role of his career add to the greatness of the picture. Managing Director Warde John ston 1 is presenting superb music pro- gram with the big picture and like | wise a perfect Palace Presentation l with the consensus of opinion that | the program in it's enttirtey Is the | most enjoyable of the season.
 POLES VAUDEVILLE THEATRE.
 It's Monday. That means a. blue day ito some folks, but there Is always 3 brand new vaudeville show at Po- l IS, and that's a lot to be thankful | for. The bill that starts today is promised as good as the last three rograms-whieh have been excel l lent-so that is saying something. l Up Town and Down Town" is the l ng two distinct cross sections of New 1 portrayed by Dolly Anette e spi, Ralph ffelders. Limo Monte. Billy Hardy | and Virginia Baker.
 Another novel offering will be White, Black 6 Useless, in the New The cast reveals John Ta " hLte' Anna McCormack, and Harry comedy theme that is destined to be ! riot throughout the vaudeville world. The Three Lordons, comedy | 'erIal 1Iat bar artists will Drop Bombs of Thrills and Comedy" according to he billing: while Johnny Murphy is get to deliver some Timely Topics 5a ednl 5Io Told" The vaudeville will Frank Morgan in Some Songs, and | Some Sayings" by John P Mulerew.
 Several special film subjects an cad to the showing of the big fea! 'Ebb ED rde.'s 'S farain0uno picture
 For thrills dramatic action and ex- ommend ssEbb Tide" Panamo g mount @ picture which was shown at Polls l -heatre last night. It is a delightful | olcturlzat1on of Robert Louis Steven son and Lloyd Osbourne's famous story. and there isn't a dull moment n it.
 The plot is an interesting one, and | he characters are played by actors ask of porhaying a group of ffc- l lions mosts famous folk. Lila Lee, James Ktrkwood, Raymond Hatton, George, Fawcett, Noah Beery and l Jacqueline Logan are the featured | players. The night scenes in this uicture are the most artistic and @eil1SlIC CildL we nave yet seen on tho silver sheet. The locale of the story is partly in Tahiti and partly in a peArling island. There are sev- eral scenes that are real thrillers a fight with an octopus a burning ship. a storm at sea. 'tEbb Tide'' is Paramount picture with a, punch
 MAJESTIC.
 Such crimes as safe cracking have often been pictured on the stage but 1 10 have a reformed a yeggman make | such 8 f'hauP' in order to save the woman he loves is unique. to say the l east. This is, in fact, the character | stic that perVades all the dramatic | story of "S1ippy McGee,'' in which l the Poi Players are appearing twice l lally this week at the beautiful new Majestic Theatre.
 And 1t all the more remarkable, | his safe cracking, because the bur | glars tools with which the safe is | opened are handed to him by the priest, and the priest is the man argely responsible for the crooks re- 
 Not that "slippy McGee'' is one of hose things with "morar' stuck all 1 'ver it. Far from that-it Is merely mighty good entertainment, a novel | plot, a comedy drama that 1 pity lives up to its name because of l Is tense situations and amusing side lghts, the whole being cleverly inter mingled.
 A beautiful love story is Ia pIea sing