The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20
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MONTGOMERY THEATRE Thurs s day Night, Robert Edeson in "soi- s disrs of Fortuna" Friday Night, . Mason and Mason in Rudolph and .gAdolph."
 If these crisp temperatures continue one may look forward to goodly audiences at the Montgomery Theatre the two even- fngs of this week the playhouse is to be opened to tho pubic.
 The offerings are inviting. Indeed the engagement of Robert Edeson is note- worthy. He is one of the sterling young nctors of today and his reputation in the larger cities augurs well for what may expect of him Richard Harding Davis s9eyer wrote anything more interesting than Soldiers of Fortune" It is virile and wholesome The book was dra- nnatized by August Thomas, foremost of American pfaywrftefs and has been char. acterized as his best production. The company is managed by Henry B. Harris. who has way of keeping faith with the public. Sos all of these things consider ed, Mir. Edeson ought to meet with an audience in Montgomery that will make his heart glad.
 Of course those who patronize the theatre to laugh will want to see and hear the funny Masons who come Friday evening in Rudolph and Adolph." Their manager claims to have an especially pleasing entertainment this season.
 Robert Edeson Thursday.
 Soldiers of Fortune in which Henry B. Harris Is presenting Robert Edeson at the head of his own company will be <~sx l. vt,,e~ f,. all rrt Montgomery Theatre Thursday night. Its succes Is now a matter of stage history for it Is now in the third year of it's popu- tarity. After a run of 15o nights at the Savoy Theatre in New York 1t has been presented with unvarying prosperity in the cities of the East and the forth. Augustus Thomas has received much commendation for the stage version of what is considered to be Richard Harding Dayis's best book. No novel of the past decade contained 6 greater number of in- cidents or characters so well suited for characterization and MT. Thomas has suc- ceeded in fashioning play that many people have characterized as his best.
 Robert Clay, the hero, is the type of American manhood so wildly appealing to everyone. As the principal parsonage of the book he won hosts of friends and when 1t is said that in the play he re- mains the same lovab1e, resourceful man of great deeds and great modesty it seems a safe prediction that he will be as well loved by theatre.goers everywhere as he was during the past season in New York. MT. Thomas has set forth with skilful fidelity Clay's apt handling of the diG1- cult situation resulting from the revolu- tion in Olancho and his tender protect ing love of Hope Langham.
 Mir. Edeson's artistic equipment and personal adaptability for the role of Clay enabled him to respond easily to the demands made by the alternating comedy and pathos in ''Soldiers of Fortune" His portrayal established him Instantaneous ly as a worthy claimant for stellar hon. ors.
 MT. Harris has surrounded MT. Edeson with company well qualified to the roles to which thAy have been signed. It in- cludAs Harry HarEood. Ellen Burg, Ed win Brandt, E. W. Morrison, Dorothy Tennant, Frazer Coulter, Helen Ware, Taylor Holmes, Richard Sterling, Macey Harlan, Horace W. Raulton, Byron Ong- ley and others. Joseph Physioc has fur nished a series of settings that are pic turesque and really tropical in beauty.
 Mason and Mason.
 Broadhurst and Currie's bright musical company supporting the Masons in Charles Newman's. farce comedy, "Ru- dolph and Adolph," will be at the Mont gomery Theatre Friday night.
 These clever dialect comedians as the two eccentric German-Rudolph, the horse doctor, and Adolph, the ladies' tailor whose resemblance to each other forms complications in which they figure. Their antics are excruciatingly funny. their singing and dancing are inimitable.
 In the supporting company the folow- ing we'll known farceurs have prominent parts: Miss Beatrice Mckenzie, Miss Bessie Phillips, Miss Ada Henry, Miss Louise Rutter, Miss Emy Precan. Miss Magwa Foy, Miss Lizzie Lemke. Charles H. Bates. Robert B. Mack. James Horn berger.
 There is a chorus of pretty "show girls" who can dance and sing. Many new and tuneful musical numbers have been aded and a number of high class speciaities are an attractive feature.
 Plays and Players.
 Gertrude Coghlan has begun rehearsals for "The Last of the Boissacs." in which she is to star this season She will carry play, which was written by her father.
 Rose Coghlan says she will never again play the role of an adventuress or a wo- man with past, but will in the future appear only in roles of the type of Pene- lope in Ulysses" as she believes that the public is tired of the problem play.
 For the first time in the history of war plays, we are promised a true story of Southern chivalry, where the Confederacy dominates throughout, and where "honor is given to whom honor is due." in the approaching presentation of George w. Cables fascinating Southern romance, "The Cavalier" dramatized by Paul Kes- ter and Geo. Middleton, and offered under