The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-04-04
YI PARK.
A. Sprishtly and Fresh as New Born Chick
Of Easter Tide Comes "The Dairy Farm"

What should certainly prove the
most attractive offering the Park {
theatre Philadelphia has extended to
its patrons during the current season
opens an engagement at that popular
playhouse on Easter Monday next, in
augurat,ng its return to Philadelphia
by its special holiday bargain matinee,
at the prices for which the popular
Park has become famous, namely: IS
az and IS cents, the former price be-
ing for the gallery, the second for the
balcony, and the last named for the
entire lower floor; and SO during the
entire engagement OF "The Dairy
Farm" the prices for tine Bargain Mat.
inees will never vary and will be held
as usual. "One touch of nature makes |
the whole world akin," which is the |
motto of Eleanor Merron's quaint rural
drama, which, after long runs in New
York and Chicago, returns to that city
to win the popular approval OF Pnlla-
delphlas play going public. The play
contains that touch of nature to are
markable degree, and therein lies its
great charm. 1t is an idyl among
stage productions-a play that makes
the iaded theatre-goer feel, after he
has witnessed it, that the world is bet
ter than it was before, that the sun is
brighter and life altogether more worth
living than it had seemed before.
Farm and village scenes all, farm and
village ideas all. The simple, homely
story of the love and hates, the nobler
and meaner natures, the tragic and
comic occurrences, the JOY and grlets,
that help to make up the sun of ex-
istence in rurat communities as else
where. This is the foundation OF the
Dairy Farm. The characters are OF
the sort that are to be found in the
simple country life. They are living
people, not simply minuets to carry
out the authors plot as classmates are
moved about on board, and what they
saw and do is also true, so natural and
so sincere that one forgets that 1t Il
only acting.
@The Dairy Farm" belongs to VIVA
might be termed the Old Homestead
Way Down East class. 1t is bette
play than either of the aforegolng
truer to nature and wlnningto great
er degree the confidence and respec
of its audiences. The production a
il will be seen at the Park commend
ing Easter Monday is in its entlret,
or same identical production and cas-
that played "The Dairy Farm" at tn
Chestnut Street Theatre earlier In tn
season; but notwithstanding the ei
ormous expense necessary for Manage
Nixon -Nirdhnger to bring this elabo
ate scenic spectacle to Philadelphia
popular prices, there will be positive
no advance in regular prices for whl'
the Park has become famous. AT tt
above performances the prices ior |,
lower floor remain the same, namel
90 cents, IS cents and few seats
ST., while the balcony boasts OF sea
at az, as and 50 cents, the gallery
ways beng the same-15 cents Inc
prices, together with the bargain mi
inees already referred to, make t
Park truly family resort and ma
il within the means of the better eli
of popular price amusement low
people. That the prices are popu
and that the attractions offered by
euergeuc management have plea:
the Parks patrons and the Phlla'
phia theatre-going public at large
evidenced by the excellent ousin
this pretty theatre has experien'
since adopting its new and perman
policy. o,.ss
the Park derives all the success 1t
command for its single-handed
for h,gh-class attractions at pop
prices.