The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-09-06
THINGS THEATRICAL
Mr.. George Ober at Academy
of Music.
TheIma at the New Monumt nal With Some
Other Notes About Nell Known
Players.

Sparkling musical comedy and a long,
hearty laugh. have become synonymous;
the one is the inseparable accompaniment
of the other, just as surely, seemingly
just as necessary, as that night should
follow day 1t is to laugh when Flo Irwin
as Sister Mary" makes her appearance
on the stage. There is but one alterna-
tive, either to laugh or TO leave the
theatre. Sister Mary" is veteran of
seasons, being the play which firmly es
tablished Miss May Irwin in the hearts
of New York city theatre-goers in which
city was produced for two hundred
cons utive performances, and needs
n, her an introduction nor an apology
brief however, it may be called an
incongruous, incoherent, irreconcilable
mass, with marvellous laugh provoking po-
tentialities. The company presenting it
this season is a capable one and each has
been especially selected for their various
parts.
Mr.. George ODER, the noted and YER
satlle comedian, who, this season is
starring in the clever George H. Broad
hurst Comedies is conceded to be with
cu ractcrs. Mr.. Obers wide experience
am excellent training have peculiarly
ftteG him for the rather difficult task
OF pc aging three such widely differing
roles 8 the up-to-date drummer" in
What ilappencd to Jones'; the sorely-
tried strategist in why Smith Left
Home" and the amorous millionaire in
THE Wrong Mr. Wright" That he has
tI,,.
there can be no question The critics
have united everywhere i'll singing Mr.
Cber's praises and in CHASING him with
Americas foremost comedians. IN sur
rounding himself with an unusually ex-
oclent supporting company Mr.. Ober has
shown great wisdom; each actor or act
ress being carefully selected with regard
to his or her fitness 70 the PARTS as
signed IN the several plays presented. This
insures a smooth, evenly balanced per-
Torrance A complete scenic equipment
il also carried for each production Mr..
ODER and his company viii present What
Happened to Jones" on Friday evening
September 18th, and "Why Smith Left
Home" on Saturday evening, September
18th, and ''The Wrong Mr.. Wright az
the Saturday matinee, September 18th.
The engagement of Mason and Mason
in Rudolph and dolph" promises to be
very successful one when those mirth
provokers appear at the Academy on
Wednesday night, September 10th. Local
theatre-goers have been looking forward
eagerly to the annual visit of these clever
German dialecticians who have bazed the
pathway of laughter from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
The new comedy that Mr.. Robert
Downing will appear in during the com
ing season, was written expressly for
him by Herbert Bashfor, Esq editor Of
The Literary West" and will be pro-
dUced with special scenery and company
OF players engaged especially for each and
every character. Mr. Downing has been
spending the past two years in the West
and has made study of the characters
that may be found n the play. The
story is interesting from the fact that
most of it is from life and those who are
familiar with the State of Washington
and it's people will readily recognize them
as they appear upon the scene. Ii abounds
with strong comedy situations, inter
twined with bits of pathos and hear in
terest that holds one from the rise of the
curtain until the end of the play
Newspaper men who have watched Mr.
Downing's career for a number of years
predict for him the success Of his life
in this play. James p. Collier, who is as
ISOLATED with Mr.. Downing in the man
agement, is favorably known for hte good
things, he usually bring in the South. he
being a former resident of this State at
Wilmington.
On Monday night, September 81, the
patrons of the Academy are again to have
an opportunity of witnessing the beautiful
and ever-welcome ''idyl' of the Arkansas
Hills, Human Hearts, All who have
sat under the spell of this interesting
story of plain honest people, will surely
avail themselves of tie chance of seeing
it again. and those who haven't, should
not fail to attend.