The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-28
MISS GLASER'S HIT LITTLE WOMAN CAPTURED MONTGOMERY AUDIENCE. Dolly Warden" at the Theatre One of the Greatest Successes of the
 Season-An Excellent
 Company.

This Lulu Glaser woman is wonder. a witch.
 The adjectival vocabulary of a blase theatre goer simply fails when attempt is made to describe the manner In which she fascinated a critical audience at the Montgomery Theatre last night.
 AS a singer, Lulu Glaser is a success; as comedian she is a marvel. She Is picture on the stage. She is fun maker. pre-eminent; she has a beautiful face. perfect figure. laugh that makes one glad he is living.
 She proved last night that she knows too. how to make speech. when in response to remarkable demonstration she took the enthusiastic audience on the stage with her-fguradvely of course and patted them on the back as friends.
 The play? Oh yes. It was Dolly Warden" comic opera in two acts by StanishIaus Stange and Julian Edwards: during the reign of George. the First.
 It is sure enough comic opera, authough the story Is not burdensome nor over-frivoious. The music of Julian Edwards Is of the lingering sort-it fingers because he has not borrowed 1t from others. The story is developed naturally-what there Is of it-and the music. is fashioned to fit the period and the occasion. The piquaney; the tuneful, would alone make the opera a success and the lines of Stanislaus Strange are not dull nor slangey.
 Dolly Warden has been called dainty in the sense of decency, refine ment lightness. It entertains cultured folk There is such a complete absence of suggestiveness, 50 common to enter tatnments of this character, that one feels grateful for it.
 There are twenty musical numbers ar ranged in solos, duets. quartettes and octettes and 1t requires delicate discrimi- nation to say which was the best. The Dolly Warden solo of Mir. Girard, the WsrpF Mr Ts5rs psn,ss we sGae Met in Lane" and the auartette Lovaole Love" by Misses Brandon and Gale and MeSsrs Mulkey and Matrindell appeared to lead in popular favor
 The company presenting Dolly var denis the most capable that has been seen here in comic opera. at least, dur ing this season. The voices averaged better, perhaps, than any comic opera company which ever visited Montgomery. The ensembles were especially deserving of praise.
 These things considered, it was a high compliment to Miss Glsser that there was unrest in the audience when she was off the stage. F rom the moment or her entree she bew1tched the Montgom-
 The women caught their breath and gasped:
 isn't she just too outer
 And the men? Well, the men just sat and admired.
 At the close of the first act and after tour curtain calls the cunning little wo- man, laughing like she thought 1t was the greatest joke of all, came ooWn 10 the footights and said:
 .I am so glad I have made friends here. If our play has pleased you, 1t has served it's mission In behalf of MT. Whitney, my company and my little self, l thank you.'
 1t was done after the Glaser method, and 1t carried the conviction to every hear that:
 She's speaking to me and me alone" That is the Chaser secret of success, and 1t is a winner.
 The opera is invested with lavish scenic equipment and the costuming was gor- for magnificent display and Mir. Whitney the manager. has apparently spent his money with free hand.
 It is just the sort of production that I.nIu Glaser deserves. But Lulu GiaSer will bc remembered long after Dolly Warden has run its course.
 The cast of Dolly Warden was as follows:
 otticer.... .....,........H Harry thTaFu Lord Gayspark. London exquisite.
 .... .. ........................M Mark Smith Capt. Horace Harcourt, of the Eng
 fish Navy. vy...................H Harold Blake John Fairfax, Dolly's guardian.
 ....... .. ...................T Tom Daniel Lieut. Marlow and Lieut. Cra8shY of
 the English Navy-Edmund Muikay
 and Edward Matrindell.
 Letitia Fairfax, a London belle......
 ........... ........ Mary Conwell Lady Lucette and Lady Alice, ladies
 of fashion-Dorothy Brandon and Mar
 garet Gale.
 Lulua Gaser. as.............Dolly Warden