The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-03

Montgomery theatregoers will have their fill of farce comedies tnls Weeh and some of them are good ones, too. The Montgomery Theatre will oner three and one will go to McDonald's Theatre At least two of these comedies are back ed up'by long runs at New fork theatres and have the approval of metropolitan audiences. They are The Girl from Making" and The Gay MT. Goldstein. The former created turore m the Metropolis and it is said |" be one oi the best of the French adaptations. IL is guaranteed by the management or the company that the road company IS petter than the usual standard.
 With funny George Boniface, rom Keogh and Mary Mannering to introduce him to ap audience. ''The Gay MT. Gold stein" ought to be gay enough to please. "Whose Baby are You?' is rather impertinent question to be propounded 10 a circumspect public, but 1t indicates funny situations and Myron B. Rice un- der whose direction the play is being presented has a reputation In these parts as having dealt fairly with theatre goers in the past. May Vokes used to go about the country with this play and she scored considerable success with it.
 Guy Woodward Is coming to Mo- DonaIds for one performance Monday night. He Is favorite with class of theatre goers and he won't be disap- pointed with the audience that will greet him in Townsend's comedy "Wanted-A Family"
 The forecast for the week are as fol- lows:
 "Whose Baby Are Youp"
 Myron B. Rice, the young American manager whose farce My Friend from India" made thousands laugh has ar ranged with Mark B. Swan to produce his latest laughing whirlwind Whose Baby are You?' and 1t will be seen at the Montgomery Theatre Monday night.
 Realizing that 1t is impossible to give A good farce the necessary snap and quick movement without a high-class company Manager Myron B. Rice is said to have selected with the greatest care coter1e of farceurs that have long been identified with success along this line In New York, Including Charles w. Bowser, who will play the leading role. It is claimed that the entire entertainment is a sparkling melange of rollicking fun, hilarlty, mrith-provoking situations and inter- spresed with up-to-date novel features.
 The farce is considered one of the greatest laughing successes of the season
 "The Girl From Maxims."
 '"The Girl from Maxim's," said to be laughing triumph of enormous propor- tions on both sides or the Atlantlc, VIII ps presented at the Montgomery Theatre Wednesday night with Miss Lena Mer- yille in the title role and company con- sisting of such clever farceurs as w. H. Turner Joseph Allen, and twenty other clever persons in the cast. This play has had a three years run at the Nouvantes Theatre Paris, and 1t kept New Workers fin roars for over 150 nights. Its run at the Criterion Theatre in the latter city could have been prolonged through the season. for after it's long stay it was withdrawn at the height of its popular ity. Boston and Philadelphia liked it so well that the farce played return en- gasements in each place to Increased business.
 Everybody knows that Parisians are the best judges of farce In the world. All good farces come either directly or indi- rectlv from the French source. And the fact that "The Girl from Maxim's" has a high Parisian certificate of character and that 1t has been declared by Gallic thea tre-goers as a worthy successor to and delightful improvement upon such excel yent farces as "On and Of' and "The Gay Parisians," will be sufficient to rec ommend 1t to American play patrons who are fond of hearty laugh and rol- licking evening at a theatre.
 '.The Girl from MaXim's,' they say, Is a gay girl and she fills everybody about Ter with her own overflow'ng gayety. The farce has lost nothing of its original wit or piquancy in the translation. If anything 1t is said the English version of the play is funnier than the French. The piece is a whirl of fun from begin ming to end It is crowded with inci- dents and there is not a tagging moment in any part of 1t.