The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-22
THEATRICAL CHAT.

Henry W. Savage will produce "The Lieutenant Commander by Henry M. Blossom. Jr., and Alfred G. Robyn. at the Studebaker Theatre, Chicago, during the summer season.
 Charles Frohman has secured for Amer ican production next season the new play entitled "A Great Lady" which has Just
 been completed by Haddon Chambers
 The London production of this piece will
 be made in Easter week.
 Joseph Hart and R. Melville Baker, au- thors of Foxy Ora ldpa," are busily en- gagged putting the finishing toucaes to Sunny Jim," which will be produced in
 May. Mr. Hart will next season make
 tour to the coast in Foxy Grandpa.
 Miss Marguerite St. John. the English
 actress has returned tO the stage and
 played the role of Mrs. Hunter .n Amelia
 Bingham's production of The Climbers,
 which began a weeks engagement at the
 New York West End Theatre recently David Warfield. in "The Auctioneer' is
 touring the West. One critic remarked:
 'He appears in a quaint old Hebrew char
 acter, and by the artistic excellence or ms
 work he has made the play The oid
 Homestead of the Ghetto. The piece
 is crowded with laughs from start to iin-
 ish. but there are just two or three mo-
 ments when the opportunity to demon-
 strate the wide range of his abilities Is
 given.
 When "rhe Highwayman." by DeKoven
 and Smith. was produced. the detective,
 Foxy Quiller. made such hit that the
 authors decided to build new opera cund that character. Foxy Quiller.
 which plays here soon. is the result. It is conceded to be a greater work than it's predecessor, and The New York Her aid classed it as superior even to good old
 Robin Hood," which is also by DeKoven
 and Smith.
 George Ade. who attended perform ance of The Sultan of Sulu" at Wal | lacks Theatre. New York, February 4, was asked to write a criticism of his own work Among other things, he said: "l
 have seen other performances of this mu- sical play. The show at Wallacks Is considerably better than the one l saw In St Paul in the autumn. The improve | ment is readily accounted for by the mem bers of the company, who say that dur ing the last four months the author and | composer have kept out of the way. No doubt further and more prolonged ab-
 sence will prove beneficial to all persons | concerned
 1 The following is quoted from an ap l preciative critic who witnessed MT. Skln- | ners performance of "Lazarre' fort
 night ago: 'Lazarre' is a beautiful play. | It Is better liked because Skinner has
 enacted it than 1t might have been had
 some other player prod Iced 1t, proba ply | because he has made it better compre- | hended. But it Is not 'Lazarre,' nor | Francesca nor Prince Otto.' nor Cram mont that has advanced Skinner; sepa- rateIv. no; collectively of course. He
 has been loyal to those ideals which he
 imbibed from training in the most rigor-
 ous school of dramatic legitimacy, and
 that legitimacy will never degenerate.
 nor will loyalty thereto ever be an unre-
 cognized, unrewarded element of a play CTS equipment
 | Most people who have watched the per | formances of Arizona" have probably | commented on the eccentric makeup of ! the cowboys who appear in the play. and are probably of the opinion that their pe- l Culiar manner of dress is the result of | vanity. This is not so, by any means. Every article of their outlandish costume | Is worn for purpose. Take, for instance, | the high heels worn on their riding boots; these are to prevent the foot from slip ping through the stirup in their mad rides in rounding up herd of cattle; the leather and wolfskin side brooches are to protect their limbs from the sharp points of the prickly cactus, and without the same an ordinary pair of trousers would he torn to tatters. The handker-
 chief which is always seen about the | neck is also useful. as by pulling 1t up
 to cover mouth and nostrils it prevents the inhaling of the deadly akali dust which gathers in great clouds on the arid
 plains The large sombrero is. of course,