The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-07
LYRIC THEATRE

Mrs. Temples Telegram will be seen this evening for the closing per fornnnce of the week. Miss C1eve- land and her company have made a lazting impression in this splendid .se1fne6E. which will be long remember ed by the very large audiences which neFsS enjoyed 1t. There are still some SaVr .ssats remaining for this evening, but they wilts'have tO be gotten early.
 Next. weefS4s offering will be William Es1shn Mooag,s ss magnthee3t esLa g1,, Ameri. manE5c aesor. played for over %. 800 nights at the Princess and Daly's theatres. in New York, to phenonne- ,5 anese ofTerines. seen in Bridgeportz1n Eleanor Cleveland Stock company with a vehicle which will add inns vneast,rel5ly to their standing; as the strongest and most evenly balanced sooc4 organization ever seen in this
 1.-The Great Divide is a play for ali classes, one whfch never fails to in-. terest every one. It has enjoyed the {Host ,pronouneeds success of any dra- = and is cleverIy written and devel- .oped that it grips and holds the at isentiosa closely from the rise to the final fall of the curtain As a lit erary offering, it is superb, and will endure as one of the classics of the American stage. But whiIe of the bookish .s+iited, or dull, but one of the most absorbing, intensely dramatic and human plays ever produced.
 q The drama might. well be called struggle between the spirits of the East and 9d,hff' 9d the Vest 1a It tells in manner, of eastern woman, in whose l1e and habits are ingrafned the traditions and conventionalities of a long line of Puritan ancestors, and a. western man, as untrammelied in mind and action as the plains and ed This man and this woman are most, strangely brought together; their wooing is stranger still, and their ahs ane together the s'faneests thing or
 The ipznpose of the EpEa.y- is to show
 how these two greatly contra@ted na1. lures afes recoucf1ed by love: to prove that love can overcome the great di- vide between man and woman whose tho.1ghts, beliefs and I6 manners manners haye % .Moody has developed this theme with a master hand, giving a logical, strongly welded play that keeps an .audience at the very topnotch of ex- tpectant interest. Not moment is lost in dull wanderings about, but the maintained, from the rise of the cur tain until the finish of the play.
 In. the hands of the Eleanor CIeve- land company, this play cannot fail of an interpretation which will make it intensely interesting to everyone. Miss Cleveland will have a role which will give her every opportun- ity to demonstrate her great strength and artistic temperam ent, while her leading man, Mir. Ingram, in the role played by MT Miller, will find scope for the display of all that. is best in his art. MT. Ingram, during the coming week, will show as he has not :before had the opportunity of show ing, his exceptional merit, and he lis certain to achieve a success second oniy to that acquired by Miss C1eve- Hand
 MT Carroll will also have a splendid part in The Great Divide,'' one in which he-WiH still further. strengthen. lthE excellent impression he has all ways created in this city. Every member of the cast, in fact, will be seen in roles which are Particularly fitted to them. and the stage settings twill be especially handsome and eff tzective- Next weeks offering is go- ing to be the finest local playgoers
 have seen in a long time, and the wise ones are already taking advan- tta1e of the sale of seats to procure theirs in time.