The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-21
Poli Review

Polls presents good show. one of the most entertaining in & long time The Elm City Four, quartet of neatly dressed, fine voiced young men is as good singing quartet as has been heard for long while, fea- tured by Harry Morrissey. tenor, a musical but rep1ete with good humor, and we'll worth hearing.
 Springtime which heads the bill contains some excellent dancing by the entire cast and a cOmic-nonsense plot over a foolish little pocketbook that daddy lost. All the girls are good looking and can sing and dance well. It is presented by George Choos. The theme of the little musical com edy is weak the singing and dancing is so we'll done that the act would please better if there were more of it.
 The woman who knows is Mime. the way she rattles off questions ask >sd and describes names. persons, dates, in fact everything she is asked, even to the point of nearly reavea1ing to a poor- married man the name of the woman he was flirting with the day before.
 Gardner's Maniacs presents an in teresting act, the best of which is done when the big bull makes a. leap to the air and suspends himself from a trapeze by his teeth.
 Monsieur Grant Gardner, a black face moncIogue artist is good. He has the customary barley with Sam and gives the drummer severe rak-- ing over, in manner which is not the usual customary, oVerdone sort, but becomes real humorous with the line he has. His analysis of the weaknesses of some of the old time love expressions of the old songs is original and clever. He closes his displays his real talent. The closing feature of his skirt, the hard life he leads as an actor is one Of the best heard in long While.
 The Pathe News in unusually in teresting, presenting series of pie lures attendant upon the election of Cardinal Ratti as Pope Plus XI.' The is one of the best dramatizations of social life that has been screened The subject is delicate but not coarse or offensive. The acting is good and the characters are al stars.
 The story deals with Oliver Beres- ford CTheodore Roberts). a grim and bigoted New England farmer, whose unconlpromising creed, Men and woman's destiny. Beresford's son, David Lloyd Hughes), who is study ing for the ministry, secretly marries Nan CMadge Benamy1, etepdaughter their union is about to be blessed with a. child The elder Beresford learns of Mans condition, and of his sons responsibility. True to ner her promise ron
 
 in fear of his father. Nan does not an 11ounce that she is David's wife. The elder Beresford buys off the brutal odd jobs man <Tu1ly MarshalD, and Nan. is driven from home. She goes to New York, where her child is born, and where she falls into life of shame, through want and poverty. Her husband. David, maintains a cringing silence.
 Judith Beresford CFlorence Vidor), beautiful b daughter Of the into1erant Puritan, takes Mans part, and is like wise driven from home through a combination of circumstances. She meets Nan in New York, and when Nan dies takes care of the child. Be fore she dies, Nan tells Judith of her marriage to David. Times passes, and Judith. decides that her brother shall clear Mans m emory and name, and recognize his child. She and the child arrive in the old New England home on the day that Dapid'is to be ordained a missionary ito foreign lands. As he stands before the con- gregatlon, Judith confronts him with his child. Overcome with remorse, he confesses his sin and recognizes his child.
 The play passes from one tense sit uation to another, and has heart ap pean such as has seldom been equal led