The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-26
SMITHS.

The light opera event of the season in Bridgeport will be the appearance this e 5ening of Fritzi Scheff, in Chas. Dillinsham's fine production of The Prima Donna.'' Fritzi Scheff and '"The Prima Donna come here direct from a long run at the Knickerbocker thea tre in New York, and bring the en- tire original cast and stage production, exactly as seen on the stage of that theatre. Henry Blossom and Victor Herbert, author and composer of the opera, are said to have furnished Mime. Scheff with the best vehicle she has vet had as a star She has several songs. during. which she displays her beautiful soprano voice. and the role is one which enables her to be as CO., quettish and captivating as only the incomparable Fritzi Schef can be
 
 Chauncey Alcott, in Ragged Robin, ' a romance of the south of Ireland in 1880. will be the attraction tomorrow evening The play will have much in terest for students of Celtic folk lore, as it introduces many delightful bits of fairy superstition incidental to the primary story It is the first time Am erican authors have essayed to write a thoroughly Celtic theme, and that they have succeeded well in their first effort is evidenced by the fact that Ragged Robin has been winning un- stinted praise from admirers of Will liam Butler Yeats, George Russell, Fiji ona Macleod and the other famous writers of modern Celtic Literature
 
 Wednesday and Friday of this week. with a complete change of bill for the second day, the afternoons and ev- enings will be full of delight for all who enjoy those splendid animated picture plays and illustrated songs. Four big reels of the latest popular be rendered. The program for Friday will be entirely different from that of Wednesday. so that everyone should see both bills, in order not to lose any of the good things There is no place like Smiths for seeing these beautiful pictures, for they are shown here twice the size of any other place in the city, and with such admirable clearness and steadiness that they gain added beauty. The same hours, 1:30 to 5. and to 10:3O, and the same wee little prices-five cents for the children and ten cents for adults-will prevail. Don't fail to see these two picture shows. for there will be many new features. which will place them ahead of any which have ever been presented in this city
 For the second of his series of Talks of Travel in Distant Lands" Thursday evening, Fred Niblo, the American hu- morist-traveler. will take his audience on a zig-Zag journey through Egypt, from Cairo to Khartoum. The enthu- siastic reception accorded MT. Niblo on the occasion of his superb presenta- ton of Africa last Tuesday evening is proof positive that his entertaining talks and pictorial pilgrimageS are of deep interest, not alone to the lover of travel in foreign lands and the book reader but to the regular theatre habitue. In none of MT. Niblo's travels has he been rewarded with more ex- cellent photographic results. especially such marvellous motion pictures. as on this remarka ble trip to the Soudan, and he is justly proud of this remark a bIe number in the series Mir. Niblo conducts his audience through Cairo, the weird and wonderful city of the Arabian Nights, showing its mosques, it's temples and it's tombs, its richness in Oriental charm and splendor, in contrast with it's SlumS and hideouS customs
 Denman Thompson's charming play, .sThe Old Homestead" will be seen here Saturday of this week with spe- ciaI bargain matinee. There are many reasons why 'The Old Homestead" has been so successful for twenty-two years. When the history of the Amer ican drama comes to be written, no play will occupy a more conspicuous page in it's annals than this unique creation of the brain of Denman Tbnr,1nSOn