The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1909-05-03
THE SUMMER
AT SMITHS
High Glass Vaudeville and
"First Run" Pictures to
Be Presented = Opens
Monday. Mav17.

For the spring and summer season
at Smiths theatre. it is announced that
beginning Monday, May II, with three
performances daily, five acts of abso-
lutely high class vaudeville and three
reels of pictures will be provided.
There will be one performance in the
afternoon, beginning at 2:15, and two
performances each evening, the first at
7:15 and the second at $780, Five
splendid acts of high class vaudeville
Will be seen at each performance, and
there will be three changes of the pic
lures weekly, every Monday, Wednes-
day and Friday. Absolutely First rum
pictures have been arranged for, SO
that the bill will be full of interest,
such as no other place of amusement
can offer for the summer. By first
rum pictures, for the information of
the initiated, it may be explained, it
is meant that pictures which have new
er before been thrown upon the can
baS Will be shown. These cost a good
deal more money than do the regular
run of pictures, but Manager Jack
son, believing that the best is none too
good for his patrons, is determined to
give the biggest and best show this
summer which has ever been placed
before them.
The opening bill for the summer
costs in the neighborhood of 81, 200 for
the week, but it is anticipated that it
will be received SO well that the re-
turns will more than repay the outlay.
The vaudeville acts will be of the best
quality, and there will be nothing at
which any one can possibly cavil AS
stated, there will be one performance
in the afternoon, beginning at 2:15, and
the price of admission, with the priv
ilege of any seat in the big theatre,
will be but ten cents. In the evening,
the first show will start promptly at
tbs, and the second at about $3.50. The
price of admission in the evening will
be but ten cents, but there will be a.
few seats reserved, which can be Sc
cured a week in advance, if desired, at
only ten cents extra. These low prices
will be sure to bring the large patron
age which will be richly deserved, and
it is likely that the coming spring and
season will be one of the most
successful, from every point of view,
that the theatre has ever enjoyed. AS
is well known, Smiths theatre, during
the warm weather, which is sure to
come some time, is positively the cool
est place Of amusement in Bridgeport,
and it is actually cooler there on the
very warm days than it is in the outer
air. With the splendid quality of
which will be provided, and
this added fact Of the delightful cool
ness, it is expected pleasure seekers Of
the city will flock there in large num-
berS.
The evening performances will really
be continuous, for there will be but
brief intermission between them, and
anyone who has not seen the entire
show at that time will be privileged to
remain as long as they desire without
any extra charge. Mr.. Jackson's idea
is to give the people the most pleasing
form of amusement for the summer
that can be devised, at the lowest cost,
and with such a degree of excellence
that it will continue to the theatre the
it has so long held. The sum-
mer bills will be found in every res
pect all that is promised. 1t will be
the biggest. grandest summer amuse-
ment which the people of this city
have ever enjoyed, and at the lowest |
cost.