The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-08

ern cry; make 'em SQueal with delight, and turn white with fright; make 'em wink and turn pink; put their nerves on the blink; tickle 'en, thrill em and ; feed lem on gore, and grieve 'enn and shock 'em and thrill 'em some more. Suchs poetically expressed, seems to be the purpose of the Princess, the theatre of thrills;' the playhouse of naingled-and mang1ed-enotions. | %sa'There has been a most delightful revolution in feminine dress,'' remarks Robert Henri, the painter, just back from Europe. Change the first "o' to ''e'' and the 'u'. to IT," and the average masculine Broadwayite will agree with him, absolutely.
 Tn, addition to Mile. Fatirna, who has a full assortment of neither limbs and does not give cream puff who knows it, Hammersteins bill includes the only leg1ess lady, whose paucity of limbs is tfthe result of birth. not ac- eident::'' MT Anthony Comstock is l innovation 1
 ssesee-sAmerica' nrst'' seems to be the I1cry of visitors to New York, which suggests the following as an appro4 priate yell for the tourists and buy CTS: '.RahI4 RahI~ Rah. Who are we? Folks from Joplin and Kan Ia-kee, Medicine. Hat and Troy and Rome, and: we're all a-going to the Hippodromei'' | t Miss Maudes Adams. who will be for-I ty-one next Tuesday and who has our permission to live forty-one years long 1 er,@ will be seen in a one-act play by JIM Barrie, entitled "Rosalind, the kgifts of author to actress. during her New York season beginning next. month. s , sAt Madison Square Garden large. force of men are engaged in, polishing 1.-the blaze of glory and tuning sups the Eblare of trunpets, which, in. accord lance with reporterial traditions, will sopen the. annual horse. show at that fvfe11 known edihce 2 week hence.
 . Sarah Rernhardt's, first American I lappearance took place just thirty I three years ago today at Booths thea- ire in New York! She played ''Adrienne I lLecouVreur'' to an overhowing and I enthusiastic house. Booth s has van-' I 1shed- from the theatrical map, andss E;audienee have paid the debt to na-. ltures but Sarah. the Divine goes on. l forever
 ssIt was reported eyen,' says the New York American, that he (the. 4 4 Duke olis Of the -AbruzzD proposed mar: riage to herr s6Nfiss Katherine Elkins9-1 1 Yes, one remembers that it. EVEN was-to* the extent of one or three, columns a day, and a page splash ev- ,ery Sunday. for. several weary years r. Mme PoIaire proclaimed tfug- l1iest women in the wor1d,'s resembles Ffnost' of the baseball players who. pose as actors in that she gets her money by false pretences, but she gives good lsvalue at that The Madame is to go on the road at the head of a com tpany of her own, as will her erstwhtIe Ecompanions, Gertrude Hoffman and | Lady Constance Richardson
 | Miss Emily stevens, the ruined lady in. tsToday,". has received a letter from a woman who records an experience very much like that of the. faithless Eswife in the drama. Miss Stevens, of course, withhoIds the name of the
 writer OF. course!
 May Irwin, plump, pu1chritudinous,
 frolicsome, funny, and-ffty-is again
 in our mirthful midst. The fair Can
 big scream.
 Marie Dressler will celebrate her birthday Sunday. It's truly none of
 your affair, but, if you must know, she'll be forty. Miss Dressler was born in Coburg, Ont, educated in Tor
 onto, and made her stage debut at six
 teen in Under Two Flags"
 All who have visited Miners or the
 Columbia know that chorus ladies are
 bipeds, but that this physiological pc
 culiarity extends to society women will
 be demonstrated for the first time at the coming Madison Square Garden horse show, where many of the ladies
 will ride astride. Line forms on the Ieft!H Don't push!
 John Philip sousa, who celebrated .hds ffty-seventh birthday this week,
 will give a concert at the Hippodrome
 feature of his twenty-second annual concert tour.
 It was just four years ago today that the New Theatre, built by thir-
 tv American millionaires who were go- ing to uplift American dramatic art.
 opened its. doors to the public The
 scheme was a failure, but the mag
 nifcents edif1ce, now. the Century Opera
 House, is performing a true service
 to art as the home of grand opera in
 English z1
 A budding playwright has permit ted us to read the manuscript of a
 drama of negro 1ife, which, he will | produce as soon as he finds pro
 ducer a A9court room scene offers the following bit of dialogue: De sem tence >ob dis court is dat you be hang
 ed by de neck until mortified, an dat | dis sentence be excruciated at once, ''
 says the cul1ud judge. Nah heab-
 ems. ~jedge." shrieks the convicted
 man, "does yo' aim to ruin me?'' Handsome John Drew will pass the three-score mark next week, but age
 has not withered his infinite variety : of histriontcs and haberdashery.- tHThe Tight. although disappointing to devotees Of the Marquis of Queens
 berry who expected something differ ent, now goes on the road with an ex-
 ceIlent metropolitan record behind it. PIay-acting 1t may not6be a business Mawruse like drygoodsa store or. g