The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-04
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THE NEW LYRIC

"A Bachelors Honeymoon" will be t!.oo Comedy offering at the Lyric thea tre for this week. and with tonight's s performance, the house will see an- other succession of crowded audiences. The Frank Carpenter Stock company has been ''in our midst" now for nine weeks, and this tenth week promises to be the most successful of the whole, judging from the eagerncss with which seats are being sought for "A Bache- lor's Honeymoon
 Miss Cleveland, the talented star of the organiza tion, in this latest offer ing, has 8 part which will be closer to her own natural self than anything she has before shown Us. She is real- ly a merry, bright little woman, and she likes the bright things of the stage, as we'll as of life. She enjoys best. she says. to play the jolly char character she will assume in "A Bachelors Honeymoon" for they al- low her to enter iulo them more with her own free heart and soul. She al- ways lives her part anyway. like any good actress. and when she can do 1t without too much emotion. she is all the better pleased.
 The character she assumes in this comedy is one which will give her every chance to be as light and friv- olous as she pleases, and still be com pletely within the atmosphere of the part She gets into trouble of course, along with the "hero" but as it is all in the course Of the tortuous path of love she doesn't really care, but takes it all as it comes, philosophically. This will be a part in which she will appear really to the best advantage since her advent in this city, and she will gain a host of new frienls, while cementing still stronger the friend ships already existing by her Work as Juno Joyce.
 The other ladies of the company wall have splendid parts. and that they will take the greatest possible advan- tage of them everyone who has yet had the pleasure of witnessing the work of the company will agree. The men, too, will be well cast, MT. Con- ness especially having the best com edy character in which he has yet been seen MT. Devine, who has al- ready demonstrated his right to the title of comedian, will be seen in a character, which. 1t Is said, overshad- ows any of his former roles.
 Miss Carpenter, in this play. will be seen as novel reading maid, who, though unwittingly, has the key to the whole puzzling situation. She doesn't know it, however, and that fact lends
 
 of the play. Miss Strickland has the role of spinster sister and guardian of MT. Bachelor (Mr. Conness). and in it she is expected to achieve fresh triumphs even greater than any she has yet won in heavier lines.
 MT. Carpenter has given this comedy offering stage equipment which is on his usual lavish scale. He has been to New York for special scenery, and what he could not find there to suit his fastidious purpose, he has had his own scene painter prepare for him. He does not do things by halves ir this direction, as everyone knows, and "A Bachelors Honeymoon" will be very handsomely staged, while the la dies will have the opportunity to wear some striking gowns.
 Seats for this week have sold splen' didly, showing that the public is eager to see each recurring offering by the Carpenter company That there will be crowded audiences all week is as sured already. and so, if you have not yet secured your seats, do so at once before all the desirable ones are gone