The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-08
IN THE THEATRES
POLES

Ioday will be the last showing at Polls of the Invisible Power" Gold wyn feature, starring House Peters It is an expressing story of the under world, of real dramatic power. AL submerged tenth the story deals entirely with the efforts of reformed convict to lead an honest life. The fact that he has once been in jail makes him a marked man for the secret police; and his attempts at re- form meet with strange handicaps.
 It will likewise be the farewell ap- pearance of Franklyn and Charles, assisted by Zella Goodman. The trio offers three turns in one.' Theirs is a clever bit of acroba tics some equi1ib- rism and some songs and dances. These bits are carefully spliced to- gether and under the heading of "A Vaudeville Surprise contributes a liberal suprise of the good things of the theatre.
 Other acts shown for the last time today with the Pathe weekly will be Billy Sharp's revue, Polly Moran and Peggy Brennan and Brother.
 An all new show for the last half of the week will show an all headline bill Just to name the acts will be to inform vaudeville followers of the excellence of the proglam. Charles Ahearan & Co., Paul Morton & Naomi Glass, Sylvester family. the Herberts, and Four Entertainers.
 The feature picture will be another Goldwyn release, starring Tom Moore
 
 PLAZA.
 Today for the last times Thos. H. Ince's dramatic triumph. '"The Cup of Life" with Hobart Bosworth and g. distinguished cast, together with a top-notch vaudeville bill. will be given. Every vaudeville act was a hit yesterday. Sherlock Sisters and Co.,, offering Songs, styles and syn copation." assisted by Jules Clinton, have @ vehicle that contains all the clements of a successful entertain ment. Eddie Swartz and Julia Cliff ular melodies and original nonsense," scored the biggest hit seen here in many months. Caesar Rivoli, the great protean artist. in "A Scandal in a Restaurant,'' togetheE' with oth- CT acts, complete the bill.
 Virginia Lee, chosen by Howard Chandler Christy as the most beau tiful girl in the state of New York beauty parade at Atlantic City. has just graduated from dramatic | school and wiM be seen in her first | staTrang effort fa p,aIi he Road to Ar Ar half of this week. Pinney Jarrett | and Go. in an extremely funny com edy act. "Oh, Sylvester." by Arthur Jarrett, is the feature act.
 LYRIC.
 Barney Gerard's Girls De Looks" in which Joseph l.. Watson and Will 1 H. Cohen are starred, is the attrac- ton at the Lyric theatre this week. | Watson and Cohan. who have been Styled the Potash and Perlnutter Of l burlesque, have established a repu tation as comedians. second to none two adventurous business men who, d,P string to acquire great wealth in g. hurry, decide to try their luck as plungers on the stock market. Their icst1 series of roIlicking comedy situations which made "SHtk1n and Slotkin'' one of the funniest and most entertaining faTees ever put together. Watson are responsible for writing Bankers and Brokers,'' and have been unusually successful in concoct- ing a number of situations that pro- yoke almost continuous laughter. Wall Street is shown fore and aft, while depicted in a comedy way the show is replete with the atm osphere
 The music is by Bert Grant, com poser of Cinderella on Broadway and other New York Winter Garden hits, while the dances were devised by George German, who staged the dances for many of the George M. Conan musical successes.
 The speciality features of the shows important assets. Scenically, the show is up to the best standards of modern musical comedy. It has been elab orately costumed.
 There are pretty choristers and a 1 cast of clever burlesQue CTS including l Gussie White, 8 soubrette with un- usual dancing ability; Hallie Deane, 1 good looking ingenue who can sing and dance; Monica. Redmond, prima l donna who is making her first ap- pearance in burlesque, having been i'd dentf1ed with musical comedy, who has an unusually good voice and is also nS1dered one of the best look ing women on the stage; Will Da- wis, a clever straight man; Larry Skinny Lamont, said to be the tallest comedian on the stage, whose ap- pearance is a signal for an outburst of laugher; Joseph and Frazier, musical wonders; Eddie "Simp'' Green, one of the best colored danc- ing comedians, and a chorus which beams with youthful beauy
 WEST END.
 During an entire lifetime on the stage William P. Carleton, leading man in Morals" the May McAvoy Realart, starring vehicle which is now at the West Ind Theatre, has made ord for the number of plays in which he has appeared.
 MT. Carleton. who scored a tre- mendous success recently in Inside the Cup" has played leading roles in over one hundred and fifty musical works and four hundred plays, in- cluding all types of dramatic 1itera- ture fror1 Shakespeare to the Charles Hoyt fares.