The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-10
THE THEATRES
SMITHS.

The excellent presentation of "Uncle Toms Cabin yesterday delighted big audiences. which will doubtless be fur ther added to this. evening. when the senting cast is fully equal to any wh oh has been seen in the play in number of years. and the stage production is splendid. The theatre should be filled to the doors this evening.
 Max Rogers, the '1itt1e fellow of the Rogers Brothers. supported by Joe Kane. late star of '"The Belle of New cesses. who plays the opposite role and the original New York Company, in his latest musical play 'In Panama" will be the attraction Easter Monday evening. This season there is a strong plot. new departure in musical com edy. MT. Rogers will continue his broken English dialect and the con- trast between his style of expression and the many types found in the much talked Of country of Panama will be sure to create a great deal of humor. The play is in three acts, depicting life in Panama and are elaborate and graphic stage pictures or localities which they represent.
 Miss Ethel Barrymore's engagement in Lady Frederick. the comedy in takes place Tuesday night. Jack Straw was a clever play but Lady Frederick" is by all odds MT. Maug- hams most brilliant achievement. and will remain. for the present. the play upon which his reputation will rest. The current season is the most Suc- cessful that Miss Barrymore has ever played sand w. Somerset Maugham'S exceptionally fine play. with it's novel situations and delightful epigrams has proved to be her best vehicle. MT. Vaughan tells an interesting story that holds the attention from the r,se of the first curtain to the fall Of the last in Lady Frederick and supplies Miss Barrymore with a character that suits her admirably. The attractive Irish widow who gives her name to the play. could scarcely be called young. and there is no doubt that she is hopelessly in debt and extravagant to a degree. but she has admirers by the score at Monte Carlo and in one day has as many as four proposals of marriage.
 B. c. Whitney's greatest musical success. "A Knight for a Day. with Frank Deshon in the leading comedy role of Jonathan Joy" will be the at traction at the matinee and evening performances Wednesday. Ehis is the merry musical Ha! Ha! that delighted the theatre patrons of Chicago for COY performances. after which it came to Wallacks in New York. and became the talk of the Eastern metropolis for six months. a feat almost unprecedent- ed in the annals or NeW 4Ork CnSd- tricals Then without the loss of performance it shifted to the Fremont in Boston. where it duplicated it's two previous successes. and made itself the most talked of musical production the Hub City has seen in the past decade. It remained there for three months and delighted capacity audiences for the entire engagement.
 
 A Swedish translation of that de- lightful old farce. "A Night Off, will be presented Thursday night by Arthur Donaldson and his company. This will be a rich treat for our Swedish resi- dents who never before have had the pleasure of witnessing play perform ed in their own language There has been a very large advance sale of seats.
 The first and last acts of William Golfers roaring farce 'The Patriot in which he will appear next Friday evening" show a Western miners cab in. The scene of these acts is laid in Bull Frog. Nevada. The second act shows a drawing room in an apart ment ir. the most fashionable section of London.
 The attraction for Saturday next. afternoon and evening, will be the big romantic melodrama Married For Money,'' a. play which is being present- ed by two companies. each of which is finding this one of the big money win nerS of the season.