The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-31
eBy Louis L.e Brun).

\ Old Omar Khayyan. the Persian
 poet philosopher, has been translated l to the New York stage through the | medium Of Richard Walton Tuily'a s
 drama. Omar the Tent maker F'itz- Gerald s immortal version of the lsRubaiyat''s has made Omar the fav- orite poet of millions of English speaking people, andsssthe tentmaker has become the hero of a widespread cult. The Lyric Theatre production is adequately staged, with competent cast Headed by Guy Bates Post. The 1 first scene is aygarden. Omar, student, scientist and astronomer as well as poet, is passionately in love ith Shireen, the lovely daughter Of his the girls beauty has spread abroad In the land, and has come to the ears of the Shah-in-S Shah, who sends a mes lsenger to Holy Imam commanding that Shireen be dispatched to his hareln- This is-4.a sorry scheme of things en- tire,s to the young student. but, he
 fails in his attempt to shatter it to bitsn and .sre-mould it nearer to the hearts desire.'' He takes Shireen from her home, but on the norroW she is
 compelled to go leave her lover and
 go to the harem of the Shah. s1Yef
 An, that youths sweet-scented manu-
 script should close. At NafShapur,
 near the tavern, Omar is next seen
 He becomes the protector of Shireen's s
 daughter, and, for saving a Christian
 knight who is in love with little Shir-
 cen the tentmaker- bard is thrown into
 a dungeon. The drama is staged in
 rich Persian setting, eIebrate in de tall, and well acted MT Fully. for
 tunately, does not hold to the con- ception of Omar entertained by some
 mentally half baked faddists who have
 sought to give an occult interpretation
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 doubter a freethinker. who challenged
 the accepted order of things, and a
 visionary mystic. His religion was
 human brot therhood, and not that of
 any of the warning creeds. Jew and
 Christian. Buddhist and Moslen, each thy speech is alien.'
 Eliza Comes to Stay" according to the title of play by H. V. Esmond, the English actor -dramatist, who
 brought the production to New York after successful run in London ,Eliza's staying qualities. it is to be feared, have been greatly exaggerated. It is described as 'tfarical comedy and it tells all about a young woman whose papa dies and leaves her af
 poor orphan. Papa had a friend who was a bachelor, and he wishes Eliza on him. The young man who has thus had fatherhood thrust upon him forms an erroneous idea that Eliza is a girl of tender years, and he hires nurse and buys some toys for her amusement. Ina zine his consternation when he finds that Eliza is a young woman although we wise ones, out in front, knew it all the time. We also knew that Eliza would fall in love with the bachelor-although some of us didn't stay to prove it. Having got Eliza safely on, we knew she had come to stay, because the title says so, and we went out to see a man and left Eliza to her fate.
 Der Zigounerprimas' was the or iginal title of the operetta which Henry w. Savage has imported from Hun gary in the original package, but, electric juice for bhe signs costing what it does, MT. Savage wisely the name. So here in New York we call Ter 'tSari'' for short, which permits a big type display at torfous'' is the moral taught by a famous violin virtroso and his male tuosoing. They belong to different schools of music, and each sniffs and scoffs at the methods of the other they fall in love with the same young woman, but in the end the son Is triumphant, both in art and love etSari' is well worth hearing and seeing.
 A Little Water on the Side't is the proper accompaniment of a smile and smiles are the necessary accom- paniment of "A Little Water on the Side" in which William Collier re-