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MANCHESTER 
The Evening Register of Torring- 
ton, Ct., of recent date, contained the 
following item of interest to Manches- 
ter people, as it cencerns the former 
treasurer of the “Manchester ‘Trust 
Co.: “The Federal Trust Company, 
recently organized at Bridgeport by 
Hosea Mann and Ralph H. Mann, and 
which includes some of the leading 
financiers of the state of Connecticut, 
has arranged to consolidate with the 
Bridgeport Trust Company. The old 
Bridgeport Trust Company now has 
a capital of $200,000 and about $140,- 
000 surplus and over a million and 
half deposits. The Federal Trust 
Company will bring to the consolida- 
tion $300,000 capital and surplus cor- 
responding to the proportion contri- 
buted by the Bridgeport Trust Com- 
pany. The directors of both banks 
will be included in one large board. 
Ralph H. Mann, who is secretary and 
treasurer of the Federal Trust Com- 
pany, will be made secretary of the 
consolidated Bridgeport Trust Com- 
pany. The present president of the 
Bridgeport Trust Company, Mr. F. 
W. March, retires, and probably Mr. 
Sanford, president of ‘the First 
Bridgeport National Bank, will be 
elected president of the consolidated 
banks.” 
Mrs. Long announces her dancing 
class in Town hall next Tuesday ev- 
ening, Jan. 14th. Instruction 7.30 to 
9g, general dancing 9 to IT. 2 
“EMPIRE THEATRE, SALEM. 
“Tr Eastest Way” Next WEEK 
Good-sized houses greeted the Jef- 
ferson Theatre Stock company at the 
Empire theatre, Salem, yesterday af- 
ternoon and evening, in spite of the 
unpleasant weather. Two more excel- 
lent presentations of “The dawn of a 
tomorrow” were given by the company 
and the host of admirers was increas- 
ed in consequence. 
Everybody who has had the oppor- 
tunity of seeing the company is of 
the opinion that it is the finest organ- 
ization of its kind ever seen in Salem. 
Miss Adelaide Keim, the leading lady, 
is simply delightful in the role of 
Glad, the waif of Apple Blossom 
court, and her supporting company 
goes far beyond meeting the ordinary 
expectations. 
Theatre-goers in general are en- 
thusiastic over the company, which is 
far ahead of the average stock or- 
ganization. It is really a company of 
the highest class, and worthy of the 
patronage of the most exacting theatre 
patron. 
“The dawn of a tomorrow” will be 
presented every afternoon and even- 
ing this week, and next week an elab- 
orate production of “The easiest way” 
is announced. 
Tragedy and comedy do not walk 
hand in hand with each other, but 
there are times in the evolution of a 
play on the stage that it happens, with 
a resulting mirthful reaction on the 
part of the audience: The Rambler 
witnessed an instance of this recently 
at a performance of the dramatization 
of Gene Stratton Porter’s famous 
book, “Freckles.” Although the com- 
pany which essayed to portray the 
characters of Mr. Porter’s book was 
a fair one, the advance man with the 
show had evidently neglected to ar- 
range for the very necessary “proper- 
ties” to be used at the performance. 
One of the most amusing results of 
this negligence occurred at the climax 
of the second act, when the actor who 
was reading the lines of “Freckles” 
told his sweetheart in glowing terms of 
the great amount of comfort he had 
gained from reading certain books. 
To illustrate his lines and to execute 
the proper stage “business” he picked 
three volumes from a table as exam- 
ples. [he actor wondered that his 
pathetic tale should be accompanied 
by shrieks of laughter from the per- 
sons in the front rows of the orches- 
tra, but this can be explained when it 
is remarked that the books which he 
said had been his only solace consisted 
of a directory of the city of Boston, 
the Acts and Resolves of Massachu- 
setts of 1911, and a copy of the Police 
Gazette. Perhaps this literature might 
have been comforting to him, but his 
lines certainly did not call for such a 
display. After all, it was only a 
blunder of the property man. 
The theatrical season of 1912-13 
has not been hugely successful thus 
far, many of the Boston houses re- 
porting slow returns for the attrac- 
tions they have to offer. The fact 
that there are many really good at- 
tractions at the houses in the Hub has 
saved the season to an appreciable ex- 
tent, but whether, or not a presi- 
dential year has anything to do with 
the situation, the managers are not 
over-joyful. That managers are will- 
4ng to chance their luck in the Hub is 
evidenced, however, by the opening of 
three new theatres during the past 
few weeks, while new motion-picture 
houses have been planned, and will 
soon be added to Boston’s already 
long list of playhouses. Americans 
constitute the greatest theatre-going 
public in the world, but it would seem 
that their taste is being cheapened by 
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the predominating motion-picture 
show as presented in every city, town, 
village and hamlet large enough to 
support it. It is a question, however, 
whether the taste of the theatre-going 
public has been cheapened or other- 
wise. Much has been said for and 
against the motion-picture, but one 
thing is certain — the motion-picture 
houses have hurt the “legitimate” pro- 
ductions to no small degree. The big 
productions which play the large cities 
for months at a time, and usually ven- 
ture upon the road for a series of one- 
night-stands, have felt the effect of the 
“movies” on their business, and may 
account for a scarcity of the one- 
nighters in the small cities. 
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