The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-25
LYRIC THEATRE

At the Lyric Theatre this week. the Eleanor Cleveland Stock Company is presenting F. Marion Crawford's bril- liant romantic play, Tn the Palace of the King" a play in which Viola Alien the great actress, made the greatest success of her entire career. How well Miss Cleveland and her associates are giving the play can be best known ny reading the expressions of the eY- ening papers of yesterday, and by hearing the criticisms of those who have been fortunate enough to witness the performances of Monday and yes- terday- Suffice it to state that the unan1mity of opinion regarding the ex- cellence of the company, and the mag zfdcerice of the stage production will ensure the biggest weeks success of tf1e current season. and the production will be long rernem bered one of the finest ever presented upon a local stage.
 Hiss Cleveland, in the leading role of DonaI Dolores, has a character which is far above any other she has avails herself of every opportunity presented for the cleverest work she has yet shown in this city. The role is peculiarly fitted to her, and she ap- pears in 1t to the very best advantage Winning at all times, whether in her dramatic or her lighter lines she has tine sym patby of the audience dur ing every moment, and is accorded the eomp1etest praise for the magnificent manner III Hn1Cl Sne pTSJS taC character.
 She has an able second in Harry In gram, who presents the part of Don John of Austria as well as it has ever virile artist, and has especially fine conception of the character, never overdoing 1t in the least, but present ing it in, the most natural, lifelike manner. John Carroll as King Phil ip of Spain, also has role in which he is seen with complete satisfaction, an lfrr af Tsr,xyo1 " which few actors could sur-paSs. Both these characters are done so we'll that even with their first performances it would have been difficult to realize that they were being performed in stock" and not by 3, seasoned road
 Misses Krfegfoff and Lewis are also making a complete success in their parts, those of Dona Inez, Dolores sis ter. and the Dowager-Duchess as Capt. de Mendoza, are giving extreme ly fl. pieces of character work In fact, there is not member of the cast audiences as they have not before been pleased since the opening of the season The augmented company, there being no less than 45 people on the stage in some of the scenes, makes the produc ton especially impressive, and the stage settings are some of the finest and most elaborate ever wit messed upon local stage
 For this latter fact, the whole cred 1t Is que M6SSTS- WATERPROOF SCnEOck, Miss C1eveland's managers. who work ed day and night in getting the pro- duction ready for the stage. Every scene in Tn the Palace. of the King was personally painted by them, and it is among the handsomest ever seen in Bridgeport, and especially surpass- es anything ever witnessed here in stock The costumes are new and handsome. and the whole effect is the most striking imagina ble.
 Yesterday, at both performances, the theatre was filled almost to the limit of it's ca pacity; for the remaining per formances of the entire week. there has been a very large sale, and the the Lyric theatre
 Wilton Lackaye's great economic problem play, --The BattIe.'' is to be offering for the coming week, and all ready the seats are selling very fast. the patrons of the thea tre realizing that this will be another great offer ing, and one which should not be missed. The Battle is an intensely dramatic play, and will doubtless draw to the entire seating capacity of the theatre during the entire week. M-. Lackaye made in it one of his ted to the Eleanor Cleveland Stock Company.
 Paris-Sculptor Epstein travelled here from London to yank off the tarpaulin with which the authorities had yelled his Oscar Wilde monu- ment in Perre I.acl1ize cemetery on the ground that it was immoral