The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-23

names Of players who have become wen
known. Everyone remembers now an
moved Francis Wilson was whsh z
chorus girl COMMENCED TO can hefsel,
"Frances" Wilson. Then there was sirl
named Maggie O'Brien who cnansed her
name to Zaza Beiasco. Also 2 cnorus
girl has recently been discovered IN Ns~
York who calls herself Marie cahli AZ.
ter the well known prima donna OF 'nae
name. Nov. Miss Kfmhaii. VINO won nel
reputation as leading lady with e. r.
Sothern and Henry Miller. ID much an
moved because of the antics Of chi
ca 10 wirl Of the chorus who apparently
bears the same name. possibly with every
iustificat..,, but nevertheless under an
moving circumstanc ss.N This Grace KIM
hail of the chorus il the young lady from
Swhose silken slipper the Grand DUKE
Boris drank champagne last August NOW
an enterprising Chicago concern mas Is
sued a large advertising card showing
Grace Kimball posing in hashy cos
tune and exhibiting a. pair OF pink satin
slippers. Underneath appears the words
Miss Grace Kimball." This 10 one OF
the penalties of becoming popular.
Kirke La Shelle strenuously opposes
any idea which may have become current
that Checkers Is to be simply pretty
little comedy II Is. on the contrary. to
be the largest production he has yet made,
There are thirty-five speaking parts In
the cast. and in the betting ring scene
in the third act there will be on the
stage, besides most of the cast, one hun
dred and fifty supers, who will have to
be carefully trained in the business neces-
sary to carry on the action Of the story
David Belasco has secured for MIS-.
| Leslie Garter a new play. which Is due
to the collaboration OF Eugene Morand,
Vance Thompson and Marcel -Echwob
| Morand Is the most successful French
dramatist of the day. II was he who
| wrote 'Ixeyl" for Bernhardt, and. In coll
laboration with Marcel Schwoo. the
Hamlet" In which Bernhardt appeared
on her last tournee In the United States
| "Messaline," in which Calve made her
hit here last season, was his, and his
| 'Csriselidis, the opera for which Mas
senet wrote his daintisst music, was the
great success OF the last Paris season.
TIA all Glass" at the Broadway Thea
tire. New York, where THE Silver Slip
per' has for the last three weeks been
playing to large and fashionable audi
ences at every performance. This new
musical play, heralded as the successor
1 FlOIOuOEus mas PfoNth 10 tiShS W
be so called. The cast remains the same,
with Sam Bernard, Edna Wallace Hop
oer, Cyril Scott and Mai de villiers in the
| leading roles According to the metropoli-
| tan newspapers, the champagne dance"
continues as the sensation of the play,
and the songs of Edna Wallace Hopper
and Mackenzie Gordon are. as ever.
strong favoritcs.
Liebler & Co., hitherto chiefly noted for
| increasing the vogue Of stars already es-
tablished. beginning with Charles Cogh-
| Ian and winding up with Duce, put for
| ward a new star Nov. II at Richmond,
Va. She is Eleanor Robson, who has
| played SO charmingiy as leading woman
for Kyrle Bellew and who Is now Audrey
| in the Boddington- Ford dramatization Of
Mary Johnston's widely read novel. Tele-
grams from Richmond on the opening
night state that Audrey" Is a fragrant
| and telling story of sentiment, made
strong with flashes of emotionalism. The
play follows the novel in It's main fea-
lures. but it ends with the death of HUI
gon instead Of Audrey.
William Faversham in a play by H. v.
Asmond at the New York Empire Theatre
q a combination difficult to beat. Mr..
| Faversham began his second New York
| season as a star a. that theatre in Es-
monds comedy, 'Imprudence, on Nov.
| II. It is a play OF plot aud counterpart,
| with designing adventures In the per-
son of Hilda Spong, q shoddy Society
| woman played by Jeffreys Lewis. and a
fresh, arch young heroine acted with
unusual grace and sympathy by Fay Da-
Wis, an American girl hitherto identified
| with the theatres of London. Mr.. Faver-
| sham nIavS an ardent Young 10 yer. and as
| that Is his speciality the matinee girls
| in New York and adjacent territory have
already began 10 put aside pin money.
Low Rates West, via L. q N. r. r.
| On, the first and third Tuesday In each