The age-herald., 1897-09-08

and evening is sLattle Jack Horner," with James B. Mackie, of "Grimsey, Me Boy" fame in the leading role. The Montgomery Advertiser says of the play:
 Jamie B. Maekis, with an adequate support in Little Jack Horner," was the bill, and Maekie's leather winged face. that opens Nike an alligators makes the usual funny character that he all ways is Charley Grapewin, who was down here last year with Blaney's Bag gage Cheek" made hit, and Miss Sam ford and the Dunbar sisters and G. Crawford, a tramp, all did clever work. The speeialties were in alle main original and bright. It was far better than a minstrel show for a first night.
 To people who have lived such quiet lives that they have never seen sword duel on horseback, the thf.d act of Humanity" which win be seen at -O'Brien's Friday night, offers an op- po1.unfty worth taking advantage of The scsne is in the troublous Tranevaal and the combat is waged by a British officer, who es attempting to carry dis patches to The main body of soldiers, and a Boer trooper, who suddenly inter Heres with the plan. Both are finely mounted on intelMgent horses and the sword fight is at close range and so wig orous that men and horses seem in con- s.ant danger of receiving actual injury. Finally the Boar having received a fa- tai cut, tumbles from his horse, the fall itself being as realistic as the fight. It is good scene, spirftedly enacted, but it only one of the exc1fng incidsn.s r " U,, ing act the stage setting is so conttrfved as to show the inferior of a beleaguered house and at the same time the proceed ings on the roof, where a band of Boers are shooting on an approaching British column. In the room below the hero of the play stands bound to a post. When The English shaTpshooters drive the Boers from the house-top, the villain, determined to avenge himself on the hero, places near him "a huge bomb, ehe fuse of which he lights. The ensuing seconds are full of suspense as the fuse splutte1ingly eats away and the audi nee sits ibreathlsss. The heroine manages to ger into the room and hurl the bomb out of the window. An instant later it ex- plodes and the entire house is a mass of burning ruins.
 The bicycle craze is npdy burlesqued and pantomimely illustrated in this years production of Charles H. Yala's Forever Devils Auction" ard Man. ager Yale is to be congratulated upon the immediate hit of his successor to hfs Trolly Car pantomime, which hzs created mo end of laughs the past two or three seasons. The enain point in the success of "The Bicycle Craze" is that it is timely, while the subject itself is treated in such an absurd manner as to prove more than funny to the most blase tkess.er-goer. It deals with the of that genus homo known from Maine to California as the Hobo" in an at temIit to secure by fair means or foul a number of the silent steeds" and in their inability to do so, they manufac- ture a few homemade machines from different articles, which are obtained under most trying circumstances. A nurnber of very funny characters and incidents are irl rlaoduced, and the entire episode goes from strat to finish with a rush that proves corclusively that the preolaten anything that is novel and timely, and in so doing stamp it with the seal of their approval, which means in managerial parlance, capacity at every performance"
 ''Tfe Devils Aucton' will be presented at OBrien's Saturady, at matinee and evening.