The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-25
McDoNALD's THEATRE.

McDoNALD's THEArRE.
 All of the week-The Knowles in
 Hypnotic Demonstrations.
 Here's a pretty batch of theatrical amusements for Montgomery this week. At least three Montgomery favorites are to be here. This public has learned what to expect of Elizabeth Kennedy, Mrs. LeMoyne and dainty Adelaide Thurston The last two come with new plays and Miss Kennedy is to appear in Shake speares deathless comedy. "As You Like It. r Mrs. LeMoyne's new play, Lady Berin- | thia's Secret" Is. by Stanislaus Stange that versatile genius. who writes comic operas, straight comedy and tragedy per- haps when he Is out of sorts. Miss Thurston's play Polly Primrose" is by Paul wilstach, one of three successful brothers. Mir. wilstach wrote "A Gay Deceiver," for Anna Held and "A Capi- tol Comedy for Tim Murphy. Polly but always satisfying charm of Miss Thurston and it will no doubt prove to | be a delightful entertainment
 But there are other entertainments this week. "When Reuben Comes to Town" Is under the management of John Hall who last year gave us an admirable cora- edy in "When We Were Twenty One l It is a musical comedy that has been highly praised by some exacting critics Miss Mountford will present new play, | ''When Her Soul Speaks" by Elmer Grandin. It is said to be an interesting play and carefully produced.
 McDonald's will be open all of the week The two Knowleses, billed as demonstra- tors of hypnotism. will be there. some of the feats are said to be amazing and the entertainment is said to be relieved of sombreness by some comedy worx.
 Wswhen Reuben Comes sr Town"
 MT. John T. Halls successful musical comedy, "wIs en Reuben Comes to Town. will be the attraction at the Montsomery Theatre Monday night.
 Unlike the average musical extravagan- ga. known as comic opera or musical comedy, there is a tangible story run ming through the plot, as it Is graduaily developes and reaches Its denouement' holding the closest attention.
 It is said to be a refined comedy. run of rich humor. abounding in amusing sit- uations and set oil with scenery or the most realistic description.
 The artists for whom the play IS ve- hicle for the display of their talents are well known in the world of musical com edy. Anna Lloyd in the leading role, Is said to be eminently fitted for the part and she is surrounded in the play py such we'll known people as Edgar Hal stead. Douglass Flint, Burt '. Irayer' Edouard Durand, Adalyn Hall, Ella Opry' Jane Lowell Georgie Russel and Beatrice Litchfeld besides a number of other clever people. In all the company num- bers forty, including a bevy or pretty girls.
 The costumes worn add greatly to the scene. Among some of the musical num- bers are: "The Girl Who Plays the Races" Just Like Scene in Play. '"There is no Love Like the old" My | Little Chocolate Cream" by Anna Lloyd. l Miss Kennedy in GAS You Like It."
 The charming actress, Elizabeth Ken nedy, is coming to the Montgomery The atre next Tuesday matinee and night anu will present a most complete and clap crate production of Shakespeare's AS You Like It"
 This enchanting comedy is no doubt the | most ideal of any of the plays written by the Bard of Avon" Although the plot is borrowed from the novel or tale of "Rosalynde," by Thomas Lodge, contemporary author. yet Shakespeare m passing the materials furnished by the novelist through the alembic of his own imagination, created new characters anu incidents and imbued the whole with higher cast of thought and feeling than could be attained by Lodge. It Is in fact | the alchemic transmutation of the baser | metal into pure gold, which genius In US l adaptive faculty can alone achieve.
 The contemplative Jacques; that prince of philosophical testers, Toucnstone' anu the rustical Audrey. are pure conceptions of shakespeares fancy. worthy Of the master mind that gave them oirth' me late annotators of Shakespeare have ex- ercised their erudite talent of analytical | disauisition, by endeavoring to trace the | gradual development of the great poets power, in the successive works he pro- | duced. "As You Like It." Is. by this | process of analytical inquiry. referred 10 | that epoch of the authors life when ne had attained the perfection of poetic and l romantic comedy. It was the period when | his brilliant youthful genius shone forth | with all it's freshness, mingled with the l thoughtfulness of maturer age" What- ever the theory of these annotators, all critics and literateurs will concede that "As You Like It." is one of the most delightful conceptions of that master in- tellect.
 As an exactng play it is very exactins. The cnardCEer OI ISOsdhuu ID NA approachable except by actresses of that high order of genius now so rarely found in the modern school of the drama. Nor are the other prominent characters scarcely less difficult of portrayal. What a host of portraits. life-like and vivid, are concentrated in the group the poet has people his Arcadian forest with! How beautifully probable is the whole dramatic action of the play, when, in the language of Campbell, Shakespeare has snatched us out of the busy world in a woodland solitude" He makes us breathe the fresn air, partake of its pastoral peace. feast on it's venison and sympathize with It's ban ished men and simple rustics. What tablet of characters! The witty and i'm passioned Rosalind. the love devoted Or Iando the friendship-devoted Celia. the duty-devoted Adam. the humorous Clown and the melancholy Jacques; all these, together with the banished Duke, make the Forest of Arden" an Elysium to our imagination.
 To realize this picture on the stage in all its varied and distinctive beauties IS indeed a difficult task. But no doubt we will find Miss Kennedy and her strong supporting company fully equal to 1t.
 Miss Remedy in her last seasons artis- tic portrayal of Madame Trentoni in Clyde Fitch's Captain links of the Horse Marines" won the admiration of local theatre-goers and established herself as one of Americas leading comediennes.
 Mrs. LeMovne in New Plsy.
 AErs TaMovne and spIendid cornpany