The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-12-22

rvo stars will shine in the theatrical Armament of Montgomery this week and ante-holiday .pIaygoers are promised two of fhe best attractions of the season. Stuart Robson will present Bronson Towards great comedy The Henri etfa' Monday night and Miss Hose s,s ,Coai1lan will be at the Montgomery me tatre Christmas matinee and Chrlstmas rixi1t It Is seldom that Aich gooa a.~ fractions are offered so close on ChrIs,s, mas but these two greas playe ns,ron- m The forecasts for the week follow:
 Stuart Robson Monday.
 Managers Hirscher Brothers deserve the appreciation of theatre Soers ioE appear here in his world famed cnarac- ter of Bertie the Lamb. in his elab9rete production of ""The Henrietta" MT Rob sesson in the play. Theatre-goers should therefore appreciate the fact that they are to have such rare attraction az MT. Robson as Bertie, role wnicn nta nss ss Stuart Robson's visits to this city are always accounted pleasurable events m the world 6f 'amusements. but nis cominS Monday night Is of unusual interest, az 1t will see him in return to his mos & famous impersonation. "Bert!e the Lamb" in a magnificent revival of Bron- son Towards "ihe Henrietta" and sup ported by a remarkable company. four members of which until this season nave ,beea stars at the head of their own tConfpanies. tH ..
 Z Mir Robson has endeared himself to sthousands of theatre-goers by reason oI the many clever characterizations ne mas contributed to the comedy stage or America ca-charaeterizations that have aI- vways been carefully drawn as well as artistically handled. Hos followers have come to know that any play to Wnlch ne
 &.sl~, I,io tntr q be presented in a painstaking and pralse- worthy manner. No character that MT. Robson has eyer created in his long career as star mas been so popular as his impersonatien Of S''Bertie." While he could have contn'i- ously played this role. he has been desi- lrous of being known other i,a than as tna a public's present desire for revivals. MT. Robson decided to make one magnthGent presentation this season of The lien the role of "Bertie,' but to be seen in new roles henceforth. To this end ht has given "rhe Henrietta" the most elaborate scenic and costume embellish- surrounded himself with an organizati on even stronger than the first one that presented the play fourteen years ago In This is MT. Robsons first appearance as "Bertie" iu five years. Those wht have seen this delicious droll impersona-
 
 Robson methods as seen in the glassS stare. the impervious look, the drawline manner and the unique voice of his ere, ation of "Bertie.'' They unquestionabl! call to mind the irresistible. speech oi I've fellows of the cluD''-'I say thost prayers my mother taught me ever! morning just before I go to bed, thu order to the astonished broker to buy peanuts with a hundred thousand dol lars, and those other choice bits of Rob sonian garrulity that keep the humol ia fn n RsaN that MT Robson's "Bertie. the Lamb. has taken its place beside those wei known comedy creations of American comedians that have now become st noted such as the Lord Dundreary' of the elder Sothern, the "Bardwel Sloate'' of Florence. the Colonel Mul berry Sellers" of John D. Raymond anC the Rip Van Wrinkle" of Joseph Jefrer
 Mir Robson deserves great credit fo the unusually strong u Nnorting com pany. which will be seen with him. I is one of the strongest organizations tha has been seen here in support of star and it might be called an all star or or himself a star last year in The Sprightl! Romance of Marsac, appears as thu gruff, genial whole-souled Van Alstyne Sr There Is well known Rus Whytal who until this season headed compan! of his own in For Fair Virginia. There is stately Dorothy Ross nore. wh' was for years leading support of Fam! Davenport. and lately herself a star II Shakespearsan and Sardou plays Ther is EstelIe Carter, who last year starred in Maxine Elliotts role in When w Were Twenty-one." There Is beautiful Marie Realty, the ideal type of pur Irish beauty and Miss Laura Thompson a recent convert to the stage, formerl, Clifford Leigh. MT. Joseph B. Keefe Charles A. Lane Roy Atwell and Charle Gilbert are all members of this splendt organization.
 It may be of interest to the ladies t know that some new elaborate moderl creation of gowns will be seen upon tn stage The scenes take place in NeV York's social upper set of the presen day. and the resources of foreign an domestic modists have been drawn upo by Miss Rossmore and Misses Realty Carter and Thompson in their new crea tons of recently devised feminine np parel