The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-01


 reality has a wondrous and cultivated voice. She has pleased audiences of white people in Montgomery The rest of the bill Is made up of gen. uine negro knockabout acts under the al- turing title, "Darktown's Circus Day." In this act number of negro specialists are introduced including rag time sing CTS, rag time dancNrs and Mack Allen, a negro who does a slack wire act which was pronounced by critics who saw the act in Montgomery last year, one of the most marvellous pieces of acrobatic work ever staged. Other specialists include Bob Kelly, singer and comedian. Leslie Triplett and Allie Gillam sketch team; Billy Ward. fantastic cake walker, the Troubadour's Comedy Four, buck and wing dancers, and Emma Chacon, Will Cook. J. Worries, Anthony Byrd. J. P. Read, Ed Greene, Sarah Green. and Ida Fren. comedians singers and dancers.
 Notes of Plays and Players.
 Fire which destroyed the Auditorium Theatre in Asheville, N. C., destroyed all the scenic equipment, all the costuming and all the properties of the George Faw- cett Company, supporting Miss Percy Haswell in her big production of The tated the discontinuance, for a time at least of this popular players starring tour
 This production was to have been seen here very early this season, but 1t will require at leasto four weeks to restore the production. and 1t might be possible that the tour will be discontinued entire ly until after the holidays. Up to the time of this fire the business with this company had been excellent, and The Favor of the Queen" as a play and Miss Percy Haswell as a star had been re- ceived with the utmost praise from both public and press.
 Klaw & Erlanger's free stage school opened at the Knickeroocker Theatre, New York, last Monday afternoon, with 370 pupils. young men and women seek ing an opportunity to enter on a stage career. The full complement, which will be about 1000 pupils, will be filled during the coming month. Stage business" music and dancing forms the curriculum, which will be thoroughly taught by Her bert Gresham and Ned Weyburn and Frederick Solomon, the general stage and music directors for Klaw & Erlanger. and | a large corps of assistants. The school is under the general direction of Ben D. Stevens, the well known manager. One of the most striking features in Au- | brey Boucicault's new play. Captain | Charlie" is a sword contest in the last | act. This contest is not a mere crossing | of blades, but a duel which lasts three minutes and in which Captain Charlie's weapon Is broken.
 William A. Brady denies that he intends using Grace George in the dramatized version of Frank Norris's novel, "The | Pit" A well known character actor will | be starred in the role of Curtis Jadwin.
 So great has been the success of "The | Favor of the Queen" in which Mir. George Fawcett is starring Miss Percy Haswell. that he has been asked to can l eel the Southern tour and take the play into New York early next month. at a Broadway theatre, for a run. This he has declined to do, however. and there 1 fore "The Favor of the Queen" with Miss Haswell and the excellent support ing company will not be seen in New York | until early next year.
 | When Richard Mansfield travels this year he wil have a more extensive en- tourage than even with Julius Caesar" or with "Cyrano de Bergerac." The req | son of this is that In addition to the long | cast of principal artists there are in "Old | Heidelberg seventy-fiye young men who l sing the college songs and the old Ger | man studentenlieder. MT. Mansfield will carry on tour every one now with him in New York, which will mean a travel ing list of nearly 125. His working stan will be unusually large, too. for the seen cry of "Old Heidelberg" is curiousiy in- tricate and massive and there is an abundance of special furnishings and fur niture for every act, besides three horses and a kennel of dogs for the student scenes.
 Bertha Galland has made an enormous success of Dorothy Vernon of Had don Hail.' and J. Fred Zimmerman, Jr., her manager. is now arranging for New York production.
 Before another season has rolled around the American stage may be em- bellished by another German dialectician star, and Weber and Fields and the Rogers Brothers will have a rival well worthy of their attention. James E. Sullivan in "The Red Feather has made such an extraordinary impression wher- ever he has appeared thus far that no less than three musical comedy pro- ducers have already submitted to him contracts in which the word star" has been most prominent.
 At the Belasco Theater. New York, the last four weeks of Blanche Bates in the intense Japanese drama, The Darling of the Gods are announced. Arrange ments for the presentation of this play in other cities make it impossible to ex- tend the present engagement, in spite of the large audiences that are still at- tracted by the charms of this Belascoan masterpiece.
 Having frowned upon high heels as a menace to health and musical comedy as a menace to permanent success. Marie CahilI, the star of Nancy Brown" has issued a statement in which she frowns upon stage kissing.
 T have read the article about the Baltimore actress who objected to being ardently kissed by the leading man." de- clares Miss Cahill. and must say that I am thoroughly in sympathy with her. The position she took was most woman ly.
 There are three men in the world who reslIv have the right to kiss a woman her husband, her father and her brother. The stage wooing of some actors is en- tireIv too ardent. and to degrade by over doing this matter is at best bad taste.
 "It Is unnecessary to make passionate love before an American audience. They | updarstand The quiet school of acting | ts Inc thing when alrs said and done, | and this does not include a smack of the Carmen kiss variety.
 This may all be well enough for the Latin countries, put the AheFlcahs are not a kissing race.
 ,TwouId be sad indeed if mere oyster | should interfere with the plans of Anna | 9JoId hut if looks as If 1t might. Jean nH.tnt, ryho wrote Mile Napoleon"