Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27

ceived In a foreign spirit, and are out of
sympathetic connection with the Ameri-
can people. 1t is in this that Mr.. Thomas
has made his success. He has given the
people a play that they can understand:
he has respected their prejudices; he has
been true to American ideas. Alabama
does not abound in stirring scenes, meIo>
dramatic situations and declamatory lines.
II moves along as quietly as the life it re-
yeals. There is a vein of quaint and
subtle humor and it Is never forced or
coarse. 1t is true to the life it pictures; it
is bright in dialogue, clean in plot, direct
in story ani interesting in characters.
In almost every nature there is chord
Of sentiment and poetry which vibrates
musically when rightly touched. and it is
Mr. Augustus Thomas distinction to have
found the delicate manner of doing this
difficult thing. Alabama is his medium.
The company is an excellent one and in
cludes Mr.. Robert Conness, of this city.
The following is the cast:
Captain Davenport, Northern railroad
nan.................... Clement Bainbridge
Colonel Preston, an old planter............
......................... Fred Mower
Colonel Moberly, relic of the Confeder-
acy.......--................ Harry Nj. Allen
Squire Tucker, Talladega justice........
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. L. P. Hicks
Mr.. Armstrong, Captain Davenport's
agent Robert Conness
Lathrop Page, Southern boy..............
............................W n. Wadsworth
Raymond Page, party of business.
............................ Frederick Kensil
Decatur, an ante-bellum servant...........
..........-...............-.. Francis Nelson
Mrs. Page, a widow who thinks twice.
...... .......... .........Helen Weathersby
Mrs. Stockton, another widow.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Miss Alexander
Carey Preston, an Alabama Blossom.
...................-......... Ethel Irving
Atlanta, Colonel Moberly's daughter.
............................. Kate Dooltng
The Monday evening performance OF
Alabama will be given as n benefit for
All Saints hospital. 1t is not often that
a public or charitable institution. placed in
the position of a beneficiary, is enabled to
offer its benefactors such high class
treat as will be found in this play. The
hospital management is said to have put
forth a special effort to make the Monday
evening attendance large.
George Richards and Eugene Garfield will
appear in their now famous characters of
Mink" and "Bingo" Jones in Hoyt $
great success "a Temperance Town, "
which will begin weeks engagement this
afternoon at the Grand opera house
Any play from the pen of Mr.. Hoyt is al
ways looked forward to with interest by
the theatergoing pubic. "A Temperance
lOWu, ike the rest Oi EiOSA = pldSS. lS IL
satire. 1t has more comedy than anything
else, with here and there n touch of pa
thos. II tells a story that Is rational, and
presents side of the prohibition movement
that has never before, as far known,
been put upon the stage. The temperance
town" is situated in Vermont. and the local
option law is i'm force. There is a minister
IN town who has lost son in the war.
and who is waging warfare on illegal
liquor sellers because that boy was a
drunkard before he enlisted. He is assisted