The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-12-20

medium size and inclined to stoutness
 He has q shrewd, sharp yet kindly eye and mouth that is intensely expressive. His cloth cap removed he is seen to be bald with a fringe of reddish hair run ming around his loose, old-fashioned run about collar There is the wart on his cheek and he has the complexion of one who is out a great deal in the open air. The actor is said to thoroughly hide him. self under his makeup and in his move ments he is thoroughly Harumesque. George IT. Brennan has opened negotia- tions with Dr. Sigurd Ibsen, son of the famous Norwegian playwright, to visit America next season for the purpose of delivering a course of lectures on the Ibsen plays. Dr. Ibsen is cabinet min ister of his majesty King Oscar s Nor wegian government. He enjoys fame as an orator and is a writer of distinction.
 MT Brennan's original plan was to induce the playwright himself to visit this coun- try but this project was abandoned owing to Ibsens advanced age and failing health. The popularity of the lbsen
 movement in America is attested by the three lbsen companies now touring this country under MT. Brennans direction, two of them playing Ghosts with Mary
 Shaw and Alberta Gallatin as stars and the other appearing in 'Hedda Gabler
 in which Elita Proctor Otis is the stellar feature.
 Jerome Sykes is said to have repeated
 his Foxy Quiller' success of two sea- sons ago in his presentation of 'rhe Bill lionaire" As the bluff American who cannot begin to spend all his money, MT Sykes is decidedly amusing, and he keeps everybody in roar of laughter by his topical songs about the incidents in the lives of famous men. The second act is a most novel one. The stage is turned into an auditorium of a tiny theater, and regular mimic audience files in with the disagreeable phases sometimes seen. The big hat and the man who goes out between the acts are all burlesqued. and the result Is one of the funniest acts that the local stage has ever seen in a musical farce. Theatergoers who delight in musi- cal presentation will look forward to the coming of "The Billionaire' in this city
 with interest.
 Crane is such favorite all over the
 country that the news of his great sue ! cess in "The Spenders' comes in the na- ture of things agreeable. Chicago is the latest city to stamp with approval the comedian's new play for its engagement
 there which has just come to an end, was enormously successful. The play is q clever satire on a phase of New York society. It contrasts some honest, rugged westerners with a number of "gold brick society people of the east and, of course, gave the play and it's genial star such a warm welcome.
 In his new play "A Prince of Tatters," tale of old New York. Al H. Wilson
 has six new and original songs, their titles being "The Jolly Rover,' Memory"
 'Schnitzelbank." Whispering Breeze" "rhe Winding of the Yarn and My Old Pipe"
 Jefferson De Angelis and his opera com pany in 'rhe Toreador" will appear at the Jefferson theater shortly. The press i has quickly and sincerely indorsed the New York impressions of The Toreador' as being the best of the London Gaiety comedy hits. The book tells a capital
 and wel-connected comic story; the lyrics l are rhythmical and fanciful, and the