The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-01
Alice KAuser, .
 Woman of ldesI.1

i terms, end they were willing Q Meot N mora than half way. From 0eng oo LII enterprise grew and dourished. untd uGV from the 400 plays in her manu1cx1pt c1o1S etsL-among them sll the Broadway 4qck' cesses within the meuiory of the el44 inhabitant--she furnishes the a&txle1@o for nearly twoscore stock couDa scattered from New York to 1an x E cisco.
 But Mss Kauser is proudsst e achievements as the h1froducer q known playwrights. Through hor aDo1 Paul Kester, Lorimer StoddAx4 040E Haseiton. Langdon Mitchell aAA Burton Harrison havs rscefve4 start, and shs has been irstSuuAent&f bringing '.Nistress Men" selleug # and .-ress of the DsUrbsrvfllo9 the thsatsr sotng public. sNothinG ceeds like sucsss." Her profeasannnl clss broken history of prosperity and AAvauce mont. She has seen the stock ustone grow from . sman beginning 70 itg 1co ent Importance, and on suh3eofo nnN1GI to do with tfs bearing on the AUo111 stags as whole shs wsaks w3en
 thority. s X # '-what influence has the stoe1k o ~ pany on the general aspect.of the .DenCy shs saM In answer to m infsevlSN
 question. ''In tho first plAep. the Gs~ s~ set and also the begt Stock eomD4E1 create their own cliantele, and, onGo rct 6s atsd, they educate 1t 10 the apDToc1o11r of the highest and best in the d16s1 By its wise audiences that might otnG wise never zee anything. above the A11o novel class of stags uterakure my hoG0 the best that has besu written. MI staged-for your stock manager N5nGE keep up to the average of the other t1ss aters in his city-and well actsd-for o
 of our best artists have received t[11< training in stock companies. s DI1t
 Bates. for example. started under Ne1jyf9 Henrietta Crosman served her n0v1l1nGo In Harry Davis company. and An Bingham started her profeonIonA1 coyt4 tn . Denver stock company. A16 GK step by step. the popular taste in roGuQG until we get Isben on the board1 e }a { Baltimore stock company.
 Indeed. 1t is true" continued 1Glga Kauser in answer to the antervleNersG exclamation of surprise. 'A0soree FnW- cett produced 'Ghosts' not long go. an1 amases you. perhaps you. will he aston- ished to hear that In rspsrtory compG< nies of good standing nothing ia 70 euo- cessful as Shakespeare But you knoW where the proof of the pudding is and can give you half doxeu fnstances Of successful Shakespearean productions at random. Percy Haswell played 'Romee ! and Juliet in Minneapolis recently and broke all financial records of the theateF Midsummer Nights Dream ran for threo weeks in Kansas City. an unusually lone engagement for anything in stock; and As You Like It. Julius Caesar and Richard III.' have all been recently pro- duced in stock with marked success. Tn. the case of the last the receipts Wex4 better than those of The Pride of Jeu. nico,' which preceded 1t. These facts, hr the way. lead me to the opinion that va are shortly to nave widespread revival of Shakespeare. There is a new ganern- ton rising who have never seen Booth and Forrest, but who have read and studied and appreciate the greatest dra- matist.
 the presence of a permanent company in a city Is of benefit to the other the aters. This is particularly noticeable in the sale of lower priced seats. For thie and other reasons many of the metropol- tan managers. among the number Charles and Daniel Frohman. are in hearty sympathy with the development of that branch of the theatrical entor~ prise. so much so that they have recently made numerous concessions to the ad- vantage of stock managers. One of thcne is the elimination of the touring of the second and third companies, which for- merly covered everything in sight, ana the substitution of special companies un- der other management. which are re- stricted to the cities where there are no stock companies.
 Many of the best stock companies hAvo oltgrown that name and undertaken orig inal productions. and it is here. unieoo am much mistaken. that the, long com blaming American dramatist will dnd the opportunity he has been searching of prophet to predict great things xos 1 the stock company in the future-''
 Mary A Morley.