The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-05
LYRIC THEATRE

Henry E. Dixey's great success oi several seasons ago, '"The Man on the Box,' is making a decided mt aI tns Lyric theatre this week, being playeo a manner entirely heftting the ster- ling reputation of the company, ana the excellence of Harold McGratn $ clever comedy drama Ihe Man on the Cleveland company has shown us this season, and is affordlng the pa irons of this pretty playhouse O week Of delightful enjoyment. .
 Miss Cleveland, as Betty Amnesty, IS scoring an additional success wh1ch is fully duplicated by the splendid impersonation of Harry Ingram Is glV- ing of the title role, that of Lieut. Warburton. Not member of the cast but is givins, extreme satisfaction Tn the production, which is very hand scmeIy anl effectively staged, and In every way roflects credit not alone upon the company, but on the man agelnent as well.
 The rem calming performances for the latter half of the week will be witness ed by crowded houses, as assured by the advance sale of seats. The Man on the Box'' is an unqualified success. anI should be seen by every theatre goer in the city.
 Next week. the management of the Eleanor Cleveland Stock company, m order to follow out the plan they have started of allowing the public to select their plays for them, are to present that brilliant comedy by Er, nest Denny, 'fAl1-of-a-Sudden Peggy They have received over 70 requests for this brilliant play, and great re- suits are anticipated from it's selec- ton.
 The play is in three acts, and was the most successful vehicle Henrietta Crosman ever employed. As the title suggests Miss Cleveland will enact the role of Peggy one of those impulsive young Irish girls who makes up her mind to do things on the spur of the moment, and does them. She creates a vast deal of cOnsternation among her friends, and stirs things up a bit as it were. It is a, play much on the Ines of ''The Marriage of Kitty, in which Miss Cleveland was seen with such tremendous success last season, 9 success which will endure as long as she appears before a Bridgeport audience.
 called IIawkeshurst, Peggy and her ,other, Mrs. O'Mara, are visitors, is considerably annoyed by what she thinks is an attachment for her son Anthony, who, by the way. is much ol Ter than Peggy, and a farlatic over trap door, spiders. Peggy 3s very much annoyed likewise by the spiders, and also by Anthony. Lady Cracken- thorpe and her brother arrange with Jimmy, younger son, who has never seen Peggy, to cut Anthony out by pretending to make love to her, and thus break up the supposed attach ment and prevent marriage with Anthony.
 But Jimmy, manIike, falls in love with Peggy at the very first meeting, although he does not tell her so Dur ing their first conversation, she asks for some advice regarding novel she is writing, and he gives her his idea, which is that, the heroine of the nov el tell the family she is married to an other man. and thus escape 9 marriage which is distasteful to her. Peggy ac- cepts his advice, but does not tell him the novel was based upon her own life and she really is the heroine. So when Jimmy arrives at his London home the next day, he finds Peggy there where she has been waiting all night for him.
 He asks for an explanation. which she gives by stating that she took his