The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-04-05
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THE NEW LYRIC

The Wife" continues it's great suc- cess at the Lyric Theatre, and at each successive performance, the audiences are gathering fresh evidence of the Frank Carpenter Stock Company. tngS performance, were very largely attended, and there was not a single dissenting voice as to the merit of the production.
 There are but three more perfor- manceS remaining of the week, and ensures large audiences. The attrac- ton is the finest the company has yet provided, and no one can really afford to miss it.
 The offering for Easter week en- sures another week of excellent dra- matic work, and there is no doubt largest audiences of the season. ''The Lion and the Mouse is the attrac- ton to be presented, and the seats for all performances have gone very largely, proving that the theatre goers of Bridgeport are eager to wit with which the Carpenter company Is continually regaling them.
 The cast for the forthcoming pro- duction of '"The Lion and the Mouse" will be selected with MT. Carpenters usual care and the splendid stage production which Manager Isham will provide will give a treat to all which will be fully as enjoyable at the cur rent offering of 'sThe Wife, Two better attractions could scarcely be provided, and the pleasure of the pa irons of the theatre will be looked af- ter in the customary excellent man. ner. Nothing will be left undone to 1xo ho nffAn. enjoyable as can be imagined, so that everyone who attends the perfor- mances may expect a rendition of the play which will be a. credit to the company and to the theatre as well, and equal in every respect to any which has been given ln this city Tn a very long time.
 The Carpenter company connot be surpassed by any stock manage ment in the country. Bridgeport has been especially fortunate in this direction, that it has had the very | finest plays, presented in master full manner by a cast which could productions which would be warmly arrreciated even in a metropolitan l theatre. As to the play of the coming week, every theatre goer will agree that 1 nothing stronger could be chosen for | | by Charles Klein, who gave in this | work his very finest effort to the stage It ran for many months at l the Hudson theatre, in New York,
 under the able mana cement of Henry
 W. Savage, and filled that playhouse | to the doors at every performance
 as long as it's season continued. When
 it was taken upon the road, there
 were no less than four big companies
 playing it simultaneously, in various parts of the country, and each one doing a business only limited by the
 seating capacity of the theatres in
 which they played. This tremen-
 6ous success has continued even down
 to the present day, and will continue as long as the play is before the
 public. This is one of those plays
 which can never grow old, and the glory of which will never be dimmed because it is never permitted to be
 used except by companies of recog-
 nized strength.
 ] ..The Lion and the Mouse will surely fill the theatre to overflowins
 at every performance. Don't miss
 the chance to witness this beautiful
 play, presented by cast of sterling
 quality, and with a stage equipment
 which is sure to be of the very finest
 Seats are now. on sale for all perfor.
 mances. Don't fail to get yours ir firoa