The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-30
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

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 Unless Dame Fumor Is at fault, Ade- lima Patti will next season make an- other farewell tour" of the United States.
 The new comedy of H. V. Esmond who wrote When We Were Twenty-one, has been produced in New York by William Faversham. It is. entitled "lmprgdence.
 Joseph Hart the comedian, composed the entire score of Foxy Grandpa, in which he and Carrie de Mar are appear ing under the direction of William A. Brady.
 Notwithstanding the many disquieting runners the last few weeks concerning the health of Lewis Morrison his man ager Jules Murry, is emphatic in de- claring that it was never better. MT Murry points to the fact that so far this season his we'll known star has not miss ed single performance.
 From Washington and Baltimore come reports of a phenomenal triumph achieved by Blanche Bates In the four act Japan csc drama by David Belasco and John Luther Long, ''The Darling of the Gods.
 One critic remembers that both ZaEa' and "Du Barry had their initial pre-
 sentations in those cities. but adds that
 "The Darling of the Gods" is even more extra ordinary a hit than were those two electrical successes.
 Stuart Robson, in his revival of "A Comedy of Errors" appears to be doing
 a land office business in the Northwest
 where he is now playing. It seems prob able that he will clear over $lco.Goo this sea son. Tn sueh mining towns at Butte. Helena and Anaconda his receipts were l enormous, which fact should be to the corfounding of the wise ones who claim | that Shakespeare is a dead one out there
 and that only plays of the Jesse James school go.
 The company presenting The Messen- ger Boy" 1t will be recalled, cancelled all of it's engagements after the perform- ance at Mobile about two weeks ago. and the actors have reached New York. ne
 way those Southern newspapers roasted the piece was 9 shame said Frank De- Shon in an interview with a New forK newspaper Tt makes me shudder to think of it." Announcement is made that the play will be rewritten to suit fastld- .ous ears and the company will resume it's dates about the middle of December Jules Murry has just concluded ar- arrangements with Joseph Arthur and Au- gustus Pitou for a production next sea- son of E. P. Roe's famous story, He Fell in Love With His Wife and ar arrangements are about concluded Tor us premiere at one of the leading theatres in New York. Those who have read the book. and it is a fact that its circulation up to the present time has exceeded 7.O00 GOO copies, are of the opinion that He Fell in Love With His Wife" should prove one of the most valuable pieces of theatrical property of the present day Willard Holcomb, who is one of the best known press agents of the period has
 written four act comedy of Washington life before the war, entitled Beau Hick-
 man." and dealing with incidents in the life of a celebrated lobbyist and all around deadbeat of that era. The play has been submitted to George Faweett, the well known character actor who now has a stock company of his own 1 in Baltimore, and MT. Fawcett expects to produce it this season, playing the role
 of Beau Hickman himself. This comedy, by the way, was accepted by the late Sol Smith Russell shortly before his death, and would have been used by that actor had not death intervened. The man who stands in the lobby of
 theatre after the performance is over hears some very quaint criticisms Af-
 ter Charles B. Hanford's production of
 Flaming of the Shrew, a woman re-
 marked;
 "It was all very fine and plausible: but pity the young man PetTuchio, just | the same
 why" said the woman with her; far and iS a
 most lovahle wife
 | You just wait Wait till she gets to
 running the house herself and deciding what there will be for dinner-if there | is dinner at all. I'd he willing to wager | that if there were another act to that piece, Katherine would be boss as usual. :" A New York newspaper says: Not since the New York engagement at the
 Empire of The Tyranny of Tears has it been such financial success as this
 season, with Paul Gilmore in the trying role of Clement Parbury. Exchanges
 from Atlanta. Nashville Memphis, Birm-
 ingham. Mobile Montgomery and all the other cities of the South where MT. GIL more has appeared voice the opinion that for general all around excellence nothing | better has been seen thus far. The Southern tour will terminate the middle
 
 will proceed over the Southern SPacific
 to the coast, playing all the large cities
 out there, then returning through the | Northwest and concluding the season in | the larger Eastern cities Jules Murry,
 manager of Paul Gilmore Is now in ne- | gotiations with a prominent author for
 a new play for his star for the coming season."
 Grace George, without affecting the hi- z1rre, is q strong advocate of novelty in l dramatic material. and appears in what
 Is described as beicg a startlingly un-
 usual scene in Pretty Peggy."' Regard | ing this scene. IL is told that. after she | had perned it, Frances Aymar Matthews, | the authoress became fearful that she might he misunderstood. and wrote to | Miss George asking that it be cut. My | Dear Miss Matthews" Miss George is said | to have replied, this situation will make i your piece. If is no longer enough to l an aaOnln do