The age-herald., 1901-11-17
RY ANNIE kENDRIcK WALKER,

6I ANNIE kENDRICk WALKER,
 New York, November 1s.-(special Cor respondence.)- )-New York in November is like Cleopatra. warm, luxurious. fasci- hating and like the Serpent of Old Nile, ohers the same old arguments to con vince you that here and here alone are to be found all the arts of enchantment that lure you day after day. only in the end to conquer you completely.
 And now all New York has fitted back to town again for the annual Horse Show which opens Monday evening at the Madison Square Garden one of the few events of the New York season when one enjoys the opportunity of sec ing that brilliant assembly that has made notable the Horse shows of the past. These events, the Assembly Balls and the opera, are the only occasions when New Yorks social set is in town-at least perusal of the society journals (which many of us are in the habit of doing) reflect the brilliant life of Lenox. Tuxedo and Newport, rather than that of New York. The. season at the country places Is prolonged through the summer far in to the hunting season which is now at it's height The country house. parties for the holidays and later on the cruises and journeys to the South or abroad leave little time for the multi millionaire to spend in his Fifth avenue palace But this is an old story and savers of a cheap edition of "Cholly Knickerbocker."
 But if New Yorks smart set'' is not always with us we have Maude Adams in Quality Street," John Drew in 'The Second In Command" Annie Russell in The Royal Family" Faversham in "A Royal Rivar' and a score of other stage favorites.
 Maude Adams season of eight weeks has just opened at the Knickerbocker Theater. Besides her new play Quality Street. she will appear as "Rosalind'' and in "L'Alglon." I believe that some one has referred to Maude Adams popu- larity as ''the vogue of Maude Adams, ,' but her hold upon New York audiences is far more permanent, more serious than to qbes termed O. vogue" She Is so exquisite that each year she seems to save the theatrical season for New York, to make it notable by reason of her re- turn. And as Phoebe Fl rasseli, who lives in Quality Street" she is seen in role that seems blending of Lady Babbie and Rosemary.
 Quality Street. Is a four-act comedy be "lady like.D Maude dams drifts in lets-(Miss Adams)-is one of two sisters who live in a charming little house in England. In blue and white room very much like one described by Barrie in his Tommy and Grisel,' Is enacted the inci- dents that show us a delightful little Phoebe whose highest aim in life is to be '1ady like" Maud Adams drifts in like a snowflake, a slender spirituele girl enveloped in white furs, and confides to Susan the elder Miss rhrassell be- lief that MT. Valentine Brown is com ing that very afternoon to propose. Phoebe is all a-flutter with joy and she and Susan discuss the probable methods by which the dashing MT. Brown will settle the question They even go so far as to speak of what they shall wear at the wedding, and winsome little Phoebe pictures herself arrayed as bride. What Valentine really tells her is of his enllsting in the army and he says good by to her rather coldly and goes away to fight Napoleon.
 The plot is such a slender one that it Is not necessary to go into details. Val entine returns and in the end he mar ries Phoebe, who is greatly changed from years of work in the little school which she and her sister have conducted while Valentine was fighting in the Napoleonic wars.
 It is a charming little play as sweet as an old-fashioned garden, and Maude Adams in her gray and lilac gowns gives to the rode of Phoebe a winsomeness a fragrance that none other save Maude Adams could impart.
 In the school scene, where she is giving a dancing leson to class of little la- dies and gentlemen" she was so ambl- tious to remain '1ady-like" that she re- trained from inficting any punishment upon the precocious children and her despair upon learning that she must teach Algebra to an advanced pupil was charmingly done.
 She was best in the part where she realizes that with the passing of the years had gone much of her beauty, and in her desire to appear unchanged to Valentine she makes a very strong scene. She rebels at the misfortune that forced her into the school-room and In pass ionate moment she runs away to her room and dresses for military ball, to which she goes with Valentine. He be- lieves that she is young niece of Phoebe's, and she carries out the decep- tion through the ball firts with the off cers and has gay time. It Is in light moods in which Maude dams appears to the best advantage, these and In lone scenes tAG t-ys
 Barrie must have had her in mind-not Phoebe of the lringlets-but Maude Adams herself when he wrote:
 "The lilies arc her pretty thoughts,
 = -s l. - . l. visiting MT, and Mrs. p. A. aGrayson dur ing the past week.
 Mrs Hawkins. D. Westmoreland has returned \ from a visit to relatives in Selma S v esf
 Mesdames T. H. Wade and R. s. Pull ley are visiting Tn New York.
 Miss Charlie Lane has gone to Pros- pect, Tenn.
 Miss Bessie Deip is visiting Mrs. L. A. Darsey in Birmingham
 GADSDEN.
 Gadsden, November 16-(special. )-H. B. Murphrey, general manager of the Car ha.