The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-02-20
IN THE THEATRES
PLAZA

PLAZA
 Starting today Hoyt's Revue with a cast of 25 people will offer an hour and a half Of real entertainment at the Plaza theatre. This same musical comedy company played here about a wear ago with the result that the theatre was packed to the doors at every performance. They have all new shows new costumes, songs, com l edy and scenery but the company in the main is the same with the excep- l ton of the chorus which has been supplanted by 15 beautiful Broadway l girls which add materially to the Felix Martin. the favorite comedians, are still identified with it as is Mad cline Buckley, Madelyn Meredith. Rose Emmett. Frank Soper and Jack Sheehan. | Betty Compson in For Those We Love, with Lon Chaney is the talk of Bridgeport, There is action in It deals with the most unusual family | that ever existed and the ways they all adopted on their growth to man hood and womanhood. Other fea- lures complete today's show which will be given at the same small prices. LYRIC
 Burlesque managers are vieing with each other this season in an endeaVor to produce a higher quality of enter ttainment than ever in the past. and with this end in view, Jacobs and l J ermOn, producers or Ine Widows who will reveal the enticing features of their program to the pa trons of the Lyric theatre all this week, will again have demonstrated that there is really something new to | be seen.
 The performance fairly bubbles | over with novelties of character that will keep the audience in Bthan two hours 1t takes to play it. The burlesque Is entirely new and | while 1t tells a story of sufflclent 1n- portance to dignify it as such, in | for the introduction of the many and amusing incidents and the rendering | of many mucica1 numbers, the maJ- ority of which are of the catchy, whistly kind Comedy, of course, is ! the keynote and with a corps Of com edians who are well equipped to evoke merTiment, there is no douot that this clement will be we'll taken | care of.
 Al K. Hall is the chief inciter of the fun and he needs no introduction. WEST END
 When William S. Hart's latest Par amount production, '"Three Word | Brand" Is shown at the West End standpoint of photography alone; | will attract general attention and stamp it in public estimation as one of the best pictures thus far produced | August, A. S. C.. camera expert whose photography of outdoor scenes can scarcely be excelled, Silhouettes, | dawns, views of sweeping valleys ana cra ggy cliffs, intimate pictures that
 depict expressions graphically in- deed, a series of wonderful photo, | graphs, almost any of which, trameo | would be a work of art-makeup the cinematographic record of a photo- play that is powerful and compelling and breathe1essly interesting. EMPIRE.
 | Sidney Franklin's latest special film nrof11ction. ssCourage," which has been for many months in the making with an exceptionally noteworthy cast, | will be the screen offering at the Em- | pire theatre today.
 beauty and talent, has the leading feminine role, and Sam de Grasse'
 equally well known on the screen, has | the male lead.
 | Others appearing in this First Ma | tioal attraction are Lionel Belmore | Adolph Menjou Lloyd Whltlock, Alec B. Francis, Ray Howard, Gloria Hope
 and Charles Hill Mailes.
 "Courage'' was adapted Tor the
 screen by Sada Cowan from Andrew Soutar's novel of the same name. II is a gripping story of a young Eng fish engineer, Stephan Blackmoore, | who is imprisoned for a murder he d1d
 not commit. From behind the prison bars he secretly directs a great indus try through his faithful and plucky little wife. By this means they help
 their government win a. war.
 The real slayer, dying on the bat tlefields, makes a confession exoner- | ating Blackmoore. AS a result BlacK'
 nIoore is not only reunited with ms | wife, but the romance or thelr son Is
 turned from one of sorrow to one ol | happiness.
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