The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-09
LYRIC THEATRE

This evenings performance Of will be one of the Inerriest assemblages ever gathered in this city, and every one will thoroughly enjoy the work of
 choicest of all comedies The week has been a very successful one, and ft is due to the high character of the at traction as we'll as to the excellent your seats at once for this evening s performance, the Last one of the week
 In Madame Sans Gene" Sardou's splendid comedy drama of the French revolution, which will be offered by the Eleanor Cleveland company next ed company, no less than 42 people
 being engaged in the presentation of this great play. The principals Of the Cleveland company will all be seen in congeniaI roles, and especial efforts have been made to secure artists for the other parts who are finely fitted to the requirements of the play. For instance, the management sought high and low for the right man to DOT tray the part of Napoleon. It Is not
 an easy task to find just the right ability as well as the personal ap-
 pearance to properly tuperonate this
 this play. At last they settled upon H. D. Benson, ah actor of recognized
 merit, and one who will look the part as few actors could do Napoleon
 
 but the role is so important that the
 management would not overlook the necessity Of having g. man who would
 do it justice MT. Benson they found just the one for whom they sought, and his work will add immensely to the merit of the play.
 Mime. Sans Gene is in prologue and tiire acts, the action Of the pro- logue taking place in the year l7e2 and the thre acts of the play in September, 1811 The stage settings required are arnti0 1xr &r Scheck will spare no pains or expense to make them as inc as have ever been shown in the play This as also true in the matter of costumes, for the period of the play was one in which the attire of the people, and especially of the French courierss was filled with tention has been paid to detail in its most complete anner, and the pro- l auction will be one of beauty as we'll as Of dramatic excellence.
 The story of Mime. Sans Gene or the Duchess of Dantzig. has to do with the fortunes of Catherine Eareb- 1 wards becomes the Duchess Of Dant- zig, and a great favorite of Napoleon. How she practically rules the Ldttle Corporal" and the French court as turbanee by her deviI-may-care ways and her plebian n1anners.fs most aPtly told by the great French writer and scholar. who has produced in this play one of the greatest dramas ever placed l upon the Stage It's presentation by | the Cleveland company next week will
 be one Of the biggest dramatic offer ings ever presented to the local the atre goers, who will find in it a fund of pleasure such as they have seldom before enjoyed.
 Miss Cleveland, in the title role, will have a character well within her keep ing, and she will again dernonstrate her fitness to be called the most pop ular actress Bridgepor has ever
 known. Her support will be worthy
 in every respect, each member of the
 cast being selected with especial f1t-
 ness for the role to be portrayed. liar
 ry Ingram, John Carroll, Alan Dewitt,
 who by the way has made himself ex-
 tremely popular this week in ftChar-
 1ey's Aunt Miss Rochte, MT. Craney and others will be seen to especial ad- vantage, and with the beautiful and elaborate stage settings which will be provided, the attraction is bound to be
 extremely popular, and to fill the the atre to overhowing all the week long. The sale of seats thus far has been far in excess of the usual large num- Der, and there is every indication that the week will be unusually, successful