The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-27
THE THEATRES
SMITHS.


 Chauncey OlcOtt is keeping up his
 reputation for giving the public clean wholesome Irish plays. in his presen- 1 tatlon of Ragged Robin,' in which | new play he will be seen this evening" l The popular comedian has never yet ! appeared in performance in which there was the slightest suggestion of FuiSarlty or indecency. and his hold
 on the Irish. people is due to the fact that never once has there been a char acter introduced in one of his plays that could in any way be looked upon ] as car1cature of the Irish race MT Olcott has a splendid budget of songs | composed for this new performance and as he sings as sweetly as ever, they will be a delightful musical treat. It is not often that you have the pleasure Of seeing those wonderful an mated picture plays and illustrated songs so well as you can see them a SmIth's. when those "occasional'' dates are played. Two more of these enjoy able events will occur tomorrow and Friday. when, afternoons and even inSs, with a complete change of bill for Friday, the pictures will be shown in their usual delightful manner. Four big reels, all of the latest and most en- Joyable subjects. will be shown, and each day. two of the latest illustrated songs will be rendered. You can de- rive vast amount of real pleasure in witnessing these delightful pictures, for nowhere in the city can they be displayed so well as at Smiths where the big theatre lends itself to their presentation, with the biggest picture ever displayed in this city. Don't miss either of these two days with the pictures and songs, for they will be the most delightful which have yet been given.
 Fred Niblo returns Thursday even ing with the second of his Talks of Tr.ray- T sx, H. y,s- he will present Egypt, From Cairo to Khartoun." offering a pictorial pill grimage throughout ancient and mod ern Egypt that is strilxingly attractive, embracing Cairo. the weird and won derful; the city of the Arabian Nights, with it's mosques and temples and tombs; rich in its Oriental charm and splendor: vile in it's dirt and dogs and flies and hideous customs; where men buy their wives and sell their daugh- ters: where children marry at eleven; the harems of the rich and the novels of the poor: Then up the Nile to Khartoum, the Suez Canal, Port Said, l the Land of Goshen; the mystic Mo 1 hammedans, their festivals and relig- 1 ious ceremonials: the pyramids and SphynX; the colossal ruins at Assault | Thebes. Karnak, Luxor, Edfu and the 1 beautiful doomed city of Philae; the 1 great dam at Assuan: the cataracts of the Nile; the awful Desert and it's | strange tribes. Two thousand miles up |
 
 Egypt and what is left of it. This | entertaining zig-zag journey through l Egypt. old and new, is amplified with | hundreds of superb colOred views. aug | mented by marvelously lifelike motion | pictures, supplemented by numerous ! panoramic photographs. All the illus | trative material shown is the personal | work of MT. NibIo, taken on the spot l with snapshot, fashlight motion-pic- | ture cameras and the panoramic equip | ment. Thus in his travel talks" MT. | Niblo is enabled to literally transport | his audiences into the very heart of | Egypt, the Mother of Nations, the | Cradle of Civilization, the Alpha and | Omega of the peoples of the past cen | turies. as we'll as portraying in word | painting in picture all the weird life 1 and customs of the mysterious people | in this the most mysterious country | in the world to-day. This second | quence after Africa" which was ac- corded such enthusiastic appreciation | when presented by MT. Niblo at this | theatre recently. Owing to the wealth l of picturesque material secured by MT. Niblo in Egypt, the pictorial features which illustrate his travel talk on this subject are vastly superior to those of Africa
 Just as twenty-two years ago pre- ceding generation of' playgoers rejoic- ed in the rustic simplicity and unaf- fected goodness of the characters of DeIfDdn InOn1pSOn Int OPlu f1oIHS- stead" and laughed at their homely ways and rough humor. so this, the twenty third season of the play, finds 3 new generation of theatregoers who mingle laughter with tears as they lis ten to the humor and pathos of dear old Uncle Josh. Although not to be taken as a model of dramatic con- struction and of little moment from the viewpoint of literature, to which it should be said in justice that it does not pretend. yet it has that atmos- ohere of human kindness, that sane | and healthy outlook upon life and morals that render it doubly welcome IS a breath of fresh air in the midst 1f a plethora of products of the dra- natic hothouse. No effort of intellect, 10 strain upon the imagination, no of the deeper emotions is re- Iuired of an audience, and it is prob lbly just these facts that explain in arge measure it's long lease upon life. No doubt thousands of present-day 1laygoerS date back their earliest rec elections of the theatre to a perfor-