The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-11-04
AT The ACADEMY.
The Attractions for Three Nights of ThiL
Week.

| The critics have agreed and the public
has decided that Theodore Kremers
Twentieth century melodrama, The Fatal
Wedding" that comes to the Academy
of Music tonight, is the best melodlama
ever written. The story has to do with
a Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson, who are estrange6
| by the divorce courts through the evil
influence of a wicked woman and man
still worse The wife, with her two chill
dren, seek refuge in the lower East SIDE
of Greater New York. There one child.
Jessie is known as the Little Mother"
She is the main support of the family and
the center Of attraction at all times. She
finally is instrumental in reuniting her
unhappy parents, in the nick OF time, at
the foot of the church altar. The scene
in Grace Church. Illuminated at night
for the wedding ceremony, and the real
istic snow storm on the heights of tho
Jersey Palisades, are wonderfully eXecut-
ed stage effects.
All the original members OF the com
pany remain in their respective roles and
the same performance is assured that hit
in New York as no other play of its kind
has ever done before, or since. Little
Madeline Clark is practically the star OF
the company and draws the children on
matinee days quite as much as the grown
ups A supplied choir of fifty boys con
tributes TO the realism of the Grace
Church scene and greatly enhances the
general effect.
WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCH
ING HOME"
Hessrs. Strange and Edwards, authors
eff that phenomenally successful comic
opera, Dolly Warden" have achieved a
lasting fame for having written the first
real American comic opera. 1t is when
Johnny Commes Marching Home which
will be seen at the Academy tomorrow
night.
It is a military opera in effect, color and
theme, and arouses the patriotic enthus
asm of all who see it. The ensembles arc
numerous and beautiful, the chorus is
large, wei drilled. well voiced and the
feminine portion very pretty, and when
ever it and the principals get on the stage
together the opera becomes a gigantic
success. At the END Of the second act,
the scene is filed with hoop-skirted
maidens and gallant colonies and majors,
while in the rear marching soldiers, drum
corps brass bands and countless stands
that is positively thrilling
THE FRIsKY MRS. JOHNSON
Miss Amelia Bingham will present her
company at the Academy of Music Friday
right, November 9Th, in her latest pro
duction, 1.-The F'risky Mrs Johnson" Il
comedy by Clyde Fitch, which ran for
three months at the Princes Theatre,
New York 1t is a partly original play
and is arranged from the NINE Flirt"
OF Gauvault and Berr. 1t hilariousiy
amusing scenes are laid during the carni-
val in Paris, and its personages are a
gay coterie of the American colony there.
Miss Bingham in the matter of east and
appointments Of THE Frisky Mrs. John
son. has more than duplicated her pro
ductioL OF THE Climbers" and "a Mod
ern Magdalen," which have been consid
cred as setting sartorial and scenic stand
ings
A BRIGHT STAR.
Managers Broadhurst and Curie will
present here in the near future their mag
nificent scenic production OF George Yves
toms elaborate musical comedy, "A Son
OF Rest with Nat n. Wills as the
bright particu,ap star of the organiza-
ton. This young man has made name
for himself among the high class vaude-