The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-28
LYRIC THEATRE

The closing performance of '.In the Palace of the King will be given by the Eleanor Cleveland Stock company, and the advance sale of seats indd- cates an audience which will fill the theatre from the footlights to the last row. The success of this offering has been great, but it has been well nler- ited. The excellent work of Miss Cleveland and her associates will long be remembered with pleasure by the patrons of the house, and romantic drama will always have warm vel come when it is played by this com pany.
 Wilton Lackaye, in ''The Battle made one of the biggest hits of his career, and when the play is present. ed here by the Eleanor Cleveland company next week, it will be receiv- ed with every bit as much favor as when It was seen at the higher prices. Miss Cleveland and her company will give to the play a rendition which will be of the highest class, and which will still further strengthen the excellent impression this splendid company has created.
 ''The Battle deals with the ever lasting question between Capital and Labor, and presents it in a vastly diff ferent light, and from a different standpoint, than has been shown in any other play of this sort. It tells a powerful story, and presents it in so vivid and convincing manner that it never fails to impress it's hearers. It does not go into the claptrap of nelo-I drama, yet it is thoroughly interesting and absorbing; it's arguments driv- en home with a solidity that clinch- es them, and employed and employer alike are bound to view the situation with far more lenient light after lis- tening to them.
 Miss Cleveland will have in this play character which will give her all opportunity for the fullest display of her wonderful ability, while the play having been written expressly for MT. Lackaye, Harry Ingram the leading man of the Eleanor Cleveland company, will be enabled to demon strate to the fullest extent his splendid powers in a role of exceptional dra- natic merit. MT. Carroll cannot fail by the splendid manner in which he will portray the character entrusted to him, and there is no denying that it scarcely be placed in more compe- tent hands Miss Krieghoff, Miss Lewis, Mir Craney, MT. Byrnes, and all the others of this exceptional com well within their keeping, and in which they will further enhance the high standing which they have won by their previous work
 As to the staging of the play, kar- kunoff 6 Schrock, Miss C1eveland's
 managers, may be depended upon to give it with all the realism and fidel- ity of the original production. Their magnificent success in this weeks pro- duction is sufficient guarantee of this for more complete and elaborate stage settings have rarely been seen on a To- cal stage. And this is one of the strong drawing features of the produc-. tions of the Cleveland company at the Lyric; Managers Isham & Heaphy. of the theatre, lend every endeavor in this direction, and to their united eff forts may be credited some of the fin, est offerings ever produced by stock company anywhere.
 Seats are selling spIendid1y for the coming week, and there Is assurance that the week will be fully as success full as any which have preceded it. Those who want the best seats have learned that they must get them early, Or be satisfied with what they can get.