The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-07
MEEK OF COMIC OPERA AT MONTGOMERY THEATRE
sBoStOn Ideals" Will Sing Series of 0peraes, Open ing With "Said PaSha" "-"M McFadden's Row
 of Flats" Thursday.

a view to makins it above ali things an entertainment for the whole tiieatfe-so- ing public. He says he long ago real ized that while certain Hines of busi- ness'' belong to. certain kinds of pieces. farce comedy embraced them all. In oth- CT words. farce comedy could afford shei- ter and scope for every walk of the drama, musical and dramatic. Even the circus, athletes. grand opera. anything within the realm of amusements comes within the scope and range. of farce com edy.
 With such . Monte Cristo-iike store to draw from, Mfr. flill was not slow to take advantage and with liberality and sound judgnieht created 'McFadden's 5 Row of Flats,' suggested by bright ar tist. Mir. Hill has built upon this sugges- tion until he has reared structure this year which 10 sad to be funnier, strong CT. brighter. more laugh provoking than ever, so that this season ''McFadden's s Flats goes forth to make the world split Its sides laughing at the antics' of the tenants. and the vagariss of the visitors to "McFadden's Row of Flats"
 There is most amusins story told by Arthur whiteiaw, Miss Mae Donohue. Miss Emma Italia and their colleagues, while the incidents and episodes of the  ties, never give the spectator time to fully recover from one fit of enjoyment before being plunged into another.
 onoto watanna, Japanese Writer.
 Onoto ~Watanna, author of "A Japan ese Nightingale" the dramatic rights to which have been secured by Klaw & Err ianser. was born In Nagasaki, Japan. twenty-three years ago! She Is. perhaps. the youngest successful novelist in the world, her third book having just been purchased prior to its writing by the liar pers. Miss wstanna is of Angio-Japan- ese origin. Her father was an English Consul who married Japanese woman. The marriage was not, however. of that variety which furnishes the main motive in "A Japanese Nightingale" for while Jack Bigelow married Yuki in Japanese fashion. Miss Watan1a's father married his native wife after the Christian cere- mony.
 The early childhood and youth of the novelist were spent in Japan, but when Onoto Watanna was IS years old, her father was transferred to Canada. Miss Watanna at this time. however, became q member of the. stan of a West Indian daily newspaper. and went to Kingston. Jamaica, to report the debates of the leg islative assembly, She spent the greater part ef a year in the West Indies. She was then persuaded to so to the United States in the hope Of literary career. At the age of Is she began to write for magazines published in Chicago A num- Der of years were spent by the young girl in Chicago, which she had heard was Americas greatest city. Here Miss Wa tanna found instant appreciation and speedily became figure in literary and social life.
 All this time Miss Watanna was writ ing stories gathered from her knowledge .of- Japanese life She developed a dis tinet dialect eight years ago. She Is thus the pioneer in the geld of Japanese dialect writing in English. In this connection William Dean Howells, .n a recent speech referred to Miss watanna. who was not present, as "a power that must be reck- oned with in American letters" With an Oriental love for color added to feminine admiration of dress. the slen- der purse of the young Eurasian was not always adequate for her purposes When some one whispered to her that Chicago was not Americas chief city, but New York, she took up her residence in the latter place.
 Miss Watanna devotes heraeif to her literary work exclusively. In private life she is Mrs. Bertrand Whitcomb Babcock, having married the writer of that name Many of her stories have been translated into Japanese and circulate in the land of her birth. Japan has claimed Onoto Watanna. having made her a member of their Tokio literary societies.