The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-04
THE NEW LYRIC

The favor into which the current production of '3The Wife" leaped with its first performance Monday evening continues to grow, and each succeed ing performance finds the theat tre filed more and more compactly with admiring audiences. Last evening another big attendance was present, to the doors. There is really no i chance for criticism when a play of the high quality of "The Wife is so perfectly rendered, and the theatre goers of the city are finding a vast amount of delight in it's rendition by , the Carpenter Company.
 Manager Isham has provided three especially fine stage settings for the play, each of the three shown being of sort which one ex poets in a met ropolitan thea tre, rather than with a popular price stock company. But the standard of the Carpenter Com pany is so high that it requires more than the ordinary settings, and Man ager Isham is only too glad to give them. He will not spare ei her effort Or expense when the mounting of his offerings is considered.
 MT. Carpenter, also, is determined to do his share toward advancing the beauty of his productions, and to that end has gowned his ladies with more than ordinary care. The gowns worn in The Wife" are a constant source of delight and envy to the ladies at tending the performances, and many are the hints which have heen afford- ed as to the latest modes Mss Cleveland, Miss Carpenter, Miss ladies of the company wear their gowns with the very acme of grace, and many are the expressions of ad- miration which greet their appearance upon the stage, especially in the ball room scene of the second act.
 The remaining performances will see the theatre crowded to the limit of it's capacity, for the sale of seats has been very large, and there seems no boun- dary to the desire of the nlaygoers of the city to witness this charming of fering. Those who have not secured their seats for the rest of the week must do so at once, or they will surely be disappointed. And it would surely be hard luck not to be able to see this delightful production, espe- cially when it is in the hands of so ca pable cast as that of the Frank Carpenter Stock Company.
 For Faster week, the announcement of tbe coming of Charles Klein's mag nificent American drama, 'The Lion and the Mouse, seems to assure crowded houses at every performa nee. The desire to see this play. especially after the great success of the cur rent weeks offering, is wfdespread, and there will surely be an outpouring of the patrons of the playhouse which will tax to the utmost it's accommo- dations.
 ."The Lion ard the Mouse" was for ncanv months the reigning success at the Hudson Theatre, in New York, where Henry W. Savage, the great producer, first placed it before the public for their approval. That ap- rroval was not slow in cor-'ng but started with the very first perform ance. It crowded the Hudson for a very extended season, and has since played a number of metropolitan en- gagements, always with complete sue cess. The original cast has long since faded away, but the glory of the play still remains, and will eor many years to come. It is a most worthy follow CT after the, success of ."The Wife. and our playgoers may he assured that treat fully as delightful as that Of the present week is in store fo~ them.
 The capabilities of the Carpenter Comrany are too well known to per- init for a moment the slightest doubt of the excellent quality of the per- formance, which will be given ''The Lion and the Mouse" The stage dressings will be on the same h gh scale Of maonificerce which Manager Isham has shown in "The Wiee", and absolutely nothing will be left undone to make this fully as pleasing an offering as that of this week
 The seats are now on sale for the coming week, and they are going so fast that a banner week is assured. Those who delay too long will find the same old story: "All gone" Be warned in time; get yours early.