The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
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from most successful run of over 100 nights at the Criterion Theatre, New York City, complete with all its original equip age, scenery, costumes. accouterments, accessories, music, etc., George w. Gables The Cavalier" is an attraction that is worthy of more than passing men, ton, inasmuch as 1t is e distinctly South ern play, dealing with q Southern subject, and permeated with Southern sympathy.
 As is we'll known ''The Cavalier" Is play of the Civil War, with the unusual features that when 1t treats of the con- fiict 1t docs so with Southern sentiment. The story deals with the fortunes of a lovely Southern siri. who On her wedding day discovers that her husband Is a spy in the pay of the North, and she straight way repulses him with horror, although she cannot summon sufficient courage to denounce him. and thus secure his in- stant execution. The wedding and the discovery are the subjects of the first act.
 Tn the second act the heroine. as Southern spy, is striving by gallantry and resource to compensate for, or defeat. her husbands treachery. The latter, in the guise of . wounded Confederate officer. exchanged for a Union prisoner, succeeds in spite of his wife's oposition, in obtain ing ( Confederate command, and in ac- complaining the death of young Union ist ofiicer, whom he regards as a rival and also he betravs into Northern hands an ambulance train In which 8 large amount of bullion had been concealed.
 In the third act the heroine turns the tables on her renegade husband by ven- turing to union headquarters, established in the old house where she was married, and recovered the ambulance by sending q message to . body of Confederate scouts who succeed in surprising the Federal offi- cers while occupied in an improvised merry making Her triumph, however, nearly costs her life, for she receives a bullet from the pistol of her husband in- whom she has learned to love. She does not die. but lives to hear in the last act the intelligence of her husbands death and the vows of a more acceptable lover
 Plays and Players.
 Blanche Walsh will be seen in ''Resur- fection" at the Montgomery Theatre soon. It Is said to be one of the greatest plays of modern times.
 William A. Brady is beginning extensive operations In England His spring list of productions for London includes Grace George in Pretty Peggy" "'Way Down East" the mammoth "Uncle Toms Cab in," and perhaps Wilton Lackaye in "Ths Pit"
 '"rhe Lily and the Prince" one of the most successful romantic dramas of last season, is announced for Southern tour this season.
 Alberta Gallatin and her company ap- bearing in 1bsen's Ghosts are now on their way to the Pacific coast. Her return journey will be made through the princi- pal cities reached by the Nor. ..lern Pacific Railroad. Miss Gallatin will finish her tour In May in West Virginia, the State, which her late father, General Albert Gal- latin Jenkins, represented in Congress.
 Elita Proctor Otis commenced her tour in Ibsen's 'T1edda Gabler in Clarks- burg, w. Va., last week under the direc- ton of George H. Brennan, appearing be- fore the largest audience in the history of the local theatre. Just before the per formance, the star received a cablegram from Ibsen wishing her success and God speed Her company is a particularly strong one, including such well-known names as Donald Robertson, Marion Ash worth. Wilfred Lucas, Frank Donnl- thoRne, Anna C. Titus, Laura Palmer and Henry Austin. The company will be seen in Montgomery.
 Jerrod Shephard's play. Duchess Du Barry" has been produced at Payton's Fulton Street Theatre, New York. Ths scenes of the play are laid in France during the reign of Louis XIV. Mama