Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-20
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 company closed its engagement at O'Bri- ems last night to a large and delighted audience. The matinee was fairly well attended. While the play is an old one to Birmingham, the fact that 1t has been rewritten and many pleasing and new specialties added, make it virtually new one. MT. Yale is to be congratulated on the company he has sent here, and may feel assured that royal welcome will always await any of his productions. Mr Richard T. Brown, the comedian of the Devils Auction" company, which closed it's engagement here last night, is one of the most promising young actors now on the road. His wit seems ever to be at his fingers ends, and nothing disconcerts him. Mir. Brown is to be | married December 9, to Miss Emelia Bar l toletti, the premier also with the "Dev- | irs Auction" in New Orleans. The bride | to be is one of Italy's fair daughters, | young, charming and handsome, pleas ant in conversation and delightful com | panion. The young couple are devoted | to each other, and look forward with eagerness to their nuptial day For the coming week three excellent. performances are promised: Carmen" Wednesday evening; Karl Gardner in "Fatherland," Thursday at matinee and evening and '4n Gay New York" Sat urday evening. The following brief mo- tices indicate what is promised:
 "CARMEN.
 The law of heredity was never better exemplified than in the case of Rosabel
 Morrison She has inherited the won
 derful dramatic vigor which has made
 her father, Lewis Morrison, famous. She
 has that one indescribable spark of gen jus and magnetism, without which 1t IS
 impossible to mount the ladder of fame.
 No amount of talent or ability can carry
 the dramatic artist to success without
 this spark of genius. In Carmen" Miss
 Morrison has found part so thoroughly
 congenial to her that she has achieved
 success with but little effort. It is ex-
 actly opposite to "Marguerite' in Faust"
 in which role she first became prominent
 Her performance of "Carmen" has met
 with the most fulsome praise. Tn appear ance she is peculiarly adapted to the be-
 witching Spanish gipsy, and she plays the character with that bewitching aban- don and sublety that had much to do with the original story of Prosper Meri-
 mee. Miss Morrison's supporting com pany is exceptionally strong. Edward Elsner, .one of the very best of the young CT generation of leading men, plays Don Jose" AS a scenic production this per formance is also noteworthy, showing as it does view of Seville with the famous Giralda tower, from which by the bye was modelled the Madison Square garden tower in New York;, the patio" of Lil- las Pastia and the exterior of the bull ring in Cordova. It Is in this latter scene that will be presented one of the great est novelties yet seen on any stage, in the shape of the wonderful Kaleidoscope, by means of which will be reproduced an actual bull fight lasting fifteen min- utes The entire performance will be given with a care to detail worthy the great play.
 winsome, jolly, clever Charles A. Gard ner. known as Karl" the sweet singer,
 will appear in his grand play, Father
 land" Few names are more familiar to theater-goers than that of Karl Gard
 ner," and certainly but few recall more pleasant recollections; for to have seen him in his first success as Karl was to have seen an artistic actor in a pure, wholesome, beautiful play, abounding in the pretty detail of the everyday life of the German peasantry. Gardner has re- turned and Is Karl again, but amid new and equally as attractive scenes; char acter strong but tender, typical devel- opment of the environment in which he is supposed to live. "Father1and" is the comedy in which MT Gardner has made a pronounced hit. The plot of the play is we'll developed and in it's scenic effects, and faithful portrayal of Tyrolean every day home life, it is so realistic that 1t seems as though one sat for the time amid the peasants and enjoyed their fun and pastimes.
 'In Gay New York" tke successful bur leSque ana ReVleW that VIII occupy the stage of the opera house next Saturday night, has many attractive points and features and no one of these impresses itself more fixedly upon an audience than the tuneful. swinging and catchy music provided for it by the well known com poser, Gustave Kerker. This composers facility in investing his musical compost tions with the popular quality, that quail ity that gives unconscious motion to the feet in keeping time to the air, has re- suited in general demand for his ser vices. Some of the best work he has yet done in this line is to be found in 'In Gay New York" The song of the "Choo- Choo Cars" "Fourteen Miles From Schen- ectady to Troy" Take me Down to Coney Island" "Lurline," "The Cripple Creek Bandits" and Molly" are all ex- amples of his work that have the "carry- away -with-you" quality. Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger, who control the rights to "In Gay New York;" recently addressed a letter'to managers of theaters, through out the country asking their cooperation in preventing the piracy of these songs and the response was generously favora- ble, so that it is not likely that this bur-