The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

v AL change of management next season is Miss Blanche walsh whose statuesque beauty and magnificent declamatory movers are familiar to play-goers every where. She has made long term con tract with wagenhais and Kemper who will present her in a new play by Stan isiaus stange founded upon Flauberts famous classic "Salammbo."
 The leading. man in Lost River" Jo. senh Arthur's big scenic melodrama, is kept busy owing to the number and vari' ety of thrilling dramatic situations Jo' seph Arthur has compressed into thii play which requires a cast of thirty peo ple. three horses, six bicycles. heav! special scenery of various kinds, includ ing a massive tollgate scene. real rail storm, a country orchestry." auarte of hoboes, and Q mob of supernumeraries George Souie Spencer, for two season' past leading juvenile man with Madame Modjeska, has been engaged for the lead ing part by Jules Murry. He Is active and has had military training
 Those who saw George Ade's merr! musical satiree "The Sultan of Sulu a the studebaker Theatre. in Chicago. las spring will hardly recognize 1t at th
 present time. It has been cut from tnre' acts to two, and 1t is stated that ever! sunern,ous line has been edited out Henry w. Savage will produce MT. Ade' new musical comedy, Peggy from Par is." during the present season. and 1t Il understood that 1t will have very eiap crate production and most exce''eh cast.
 Miss Elizabeth Tyree's personal sue cess in the title role of Captain Moiiy has given rise to the supposition that she Is using the Hazleton comedy as Ve' hicle for her initial essay as star AZ a matter of fact Miss Tyree having iul' filled her contract to originate the Fo.e' an agreement entered into prior .o n.. negotiations with MT. Henry D. Mal ITS is will at once begin rehearsais or orave Livingston Furniss's romantic comeoy .Cretna Green" in which she will make bcr debut as a star under MT. Harris management on or about December !.
 Iurr Mcintosh. who recently signed tc n,av at Mrs. Robert Osborn's playhouse has requested that his contract pc can celIed and this mas been done. MT. MIC. Intosh is in a commercial business, ano ha. finally decided 1t is inexpedient ioi n,ro to combine the theatre and traoe He announces that he has now retired nermanently from the stage. HIS primer nal performances have been as Iany, III ."rrilty." the old blacksmith Tn Tn M,z' zoura," and as typical Southern seh'ie' man in Alabama"
 Not much Is known of Eugene wat.er author of Sergeant James, except tna ne ,. newspaper man turned dramaust T,rSe Ia shelle. who has produced the drama claims it Is destined to be as pig q rronev maker as Arizona" It is de' -cr,hed as a perfect avalanche of cpl .oAss and climaxes. Walter Is not the onI,, newsnaper man that has abandoned that vocation in favor of play writing Tbore are Harry B. Smith. George Aoe Sydney Rosenfeld. John J. McNaiiy' n r.
 ' w. Dam, and MT. La Sheile niniseaA
 4eieo Harcourt and Francis x. Hop
 have been engaged by Frank J. and Clax
 ton Wilstach to support MISS Aoelaio
 Thurston in "At CoZy Corners durinl
 the coming season. Miss Harcourt WI
 impersonate q comedy role, wniie MI Hone will be the leading man, as las season. Miss Thurston's managers nav SuDDl1GQ her WlIkt O. NOiy duction for "At Cozy Corners" and he
 sunnorting company is to be of the frs quality. This young and brilliant actress who appears here later In the season | entoyed a fine success last season. He | second annual season opens at Newport | R. l., on September 19.
 For many years the name of F. Mario l Crawford has been identified with tn literary world as a master mind of fan l tastic conceptions and graphic narrative | hut not until now has he been considere | or acknowledged as a dramatist possess | ing exceptional power or acceptaDl l knowledge of stage craft. His recent sue l cess, however, with Francesca de Rl mmi," in Paris, where the divine sara | Bernhardt has achieved such wonoertu success. has placed him upon the sam
 pedestal with our greatest, and today hi name Is heralded far and near as grea l dramatic writer.
 His latest, and 1t Is said his master niece creation, is "Uno rna," which Mrs | Brune will present here soon with splen | did cast composed Of many players tha | to us are we'll known, and the produc | ton is said to be one of huge propor | tions.
 The story tells of the adventures of young priestess of the Temple of Golah near Delhi, In lia. who has been abduct | ed and taken to Prague and there hell | captive by an Araoian who is anxiou | to possess certain mysterious powers thl l Unorna possesses. to further his owl avaricious desires The many stirrin events, incidental to her departure iron India and her sojourn in Austria, ar | told most graphically, and only in sucl
 a way as F. Marion Crawford can tell
 It can easily be gleaned from the local of the play the splendid opportunity thu afforded for elaborate stage pictures which we are assured Wallace Munro ha taken advantage Of to the fullest extent