The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-20
ATTRACTIONS ARE BOOKED AmuSementS Coming to Montgomery Theatre. FINE ARRAY OF TALENTS Big Companies and Great Stars Will Appear Here. Messrs. Hirscher Brothers Announce Some of the Good Things They
 Have in Store for Local
 Playgoers.

| The Montgomery Theatre will open | for the season of 1901-02 on the night of August 30, and Messrs. Hirscher Bros. managers of the old playhouse said yesterday that they felt confident attractions that had ever been secured | for the entertainment of Montgomery theatregoers.
 The season will be opened by Leon Herhmann the great prestidigitateur | @ao succeeded to the laurels won by his uncle. the late Alexander Herr mann. Leon Hermann will open all of the first class theatres on the South ern circuit. He has been seen in Mont gomery and his performance will no doubt be up to his usual excellen. standard.
 Early in September the new musical comedy Rudolph and Adolph" will come to the Montgomery theatre. It is under the management of Broadhurst | and Currie. who never fail to send good things on the road. The comedy will | serve to introduce two new stars in the comedy Armament. They are Dan and Charles Mason and they are said to be great laugh producers. They will be assisted by Lottie Williams Salter. I | ten been seen here.
 Yesterday afternoon Messrs. Hirscher Bros.. produced a big batch of con- tracts to show how we'll they had look ed after the interest of Montgomery theatreRoers during their recent visit to the East. They have booked every strong attraction that will be on the Southern circuit during the season. Some of the newest plays will be seen here and some of the great stars will visit Montgomery for their first time. The managers say they have scattered their good attractions so that some of them will be in Montgomery early in the season. It is their intention to start the season off with good attrac- tions and to give their patrons the best in the business.
 | Fields Goes to Theatre.
 One of the early October attractions will be Al G. Fieldss big company of minstrels. It will be a novelty to see Fields's ninstrels in the Montgomery Theatre as the company has been play ing at McDonald's for the past three or four seasons. Haverly's big min strel company mas also been booked. | The managers displayed contracts with the manager of Richard Mansfield and the manager of Joseph Jefferson, the elder. MT. Mansfield will play here | along about Christmas and MT. Jeffer- son. notwithstanding his extreme age, will produce either "the Rivals" or Rip Van Wrinkle" in Montgomery late in the season.
 | Among the numerous female stars who will visit Montgomery are Miss l Ethel Barrymore. the pretty and tall ented young daughter of Maurice Bar rymore. whose engagements to foreign noblemen have been frequently an nounced. Miss Barrymore will present her great New York success, Captain links of the Horse Marines" Another pretty young star will be Miss Ger trude Coghlan. daughter of the late Charles Coghlan. who will present Vanity Fair" with a strong company.
 Perhaps the most notable and inter- esting attraction secured by the man. agers of the local theatre is Miss Ade- laide Thurston in Sweet Clover" Miss Thurston Is a pretty young woman and a talented actress. She was seen here two seasons agone as a star in The Little Minister" and won many admirers. Last season she had a good part with Mrs. I.e Monyne in "The Greatest Thing in the World" Her play Sweet Clover" was written espe- cially for her and this will be Its first season.
 "In the Palace of the King"
 Equally notable will be the appear ance here of Miss Viola Allen in Tn the Palace of the King" Miss Allen has gained a great reputation with the dramatization of this story of intense interest and her appearance in Mont gomcry will be an event of importance
 Herbert Kelcey and Efie Shannon will also be here with their brand new play. Her Lord and Master" which is | ATa. G. is said to be superior to The Moth and the Flame" in which MT. Kelcey anc Miss Shannon scored such a success.
 Messrs. Hirscher Bros. have beer particularly fortunate in securing mu sical comedies. They congratulated themselves yesterday that they would be able to present "Florodora" the ex travaganza which has created furor' in New York. Seventy-five persons are in the cast and there are scores O pretty girls.
 Other musical comedies booked are 'oThe BurSomaster." which comes earl! in the season; Ward and Vokes in { new play; The Gay MT. Goldstein. headed by Miss Mary Hampton anc George Boniface and the Belle of New York with the same big company a! last year.
 "Foxy Quiller" Coming. A number of comic operas have beer secured with Jerome Sykes in Fox! Quiller" heading the list. One hundred persons will be seen in this company which will probably jump from New York to Montgomery on its way tol an engagement in New Orleans.
 Victor Herbert's new comic opera Idols Eye" has also been secured. will be sung by the Boston Lyri, Company. which is said to be a very strong organization. Miss Bob White is another new comic opera. which vii be presented during the season by big company. To these may be added The Runaway Girl" and The Wizarc of the Nile" The Jules Grau Comi( Opera Company was also engaged an will play one week of repertoire opera
 Several plays of international repu tauoi. which have not been seen II Mnnteomery. nave been booked and the managers say that they will be inter them by the original companies. Among them are Lost River" Sag Harbor. under the management of Liebler & Company. and "'Way Down East"
 Stuart Robson will revive The Hen rietta." his great comedy. and will b' here during the season. Mir. R. D. Mo Lean and Miss Odette Tyler will b' here with a splendid new play, anC Madame Modjeska, who has formed z combination with Mr. Louis James. vii give a performance of Shakesperial tragedy. Rose Coghlan has been book