The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-10
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Mouhtain war, "A Fight Tor For tune." Rip Van winkle." "In old New Hampshire" ''The Country Boy'' and | Mick Carter. the Detective.''
 The Wilson (N. C) Daily News said of this company:
 'The Paige Comedy Company gave our l theatre goers a grand treat last night when they presented for. first time in our city A Fight for Fortune.' It was en- joyed from start to finish by our people as was manifest by the storm of applause that greeted the players every hit made. We have often heard of Thomas E. De- Pew, the star and funny man of the com pany, and to say that he Is comedian | of high rank does not express it, for he kept the audience in continuous roar all the time. 5A + @ Y
 "The Raleigh papers were lavish in their praise of this company and they are justly entitled to the name they bear as being one of the strongest companies today, and we can truthfully bear testi- mony ourselves since seeing them last night.
 Tonight they produce for the first time here The Country Boy.' The funniest play ever written. with a change of spe- cialties, introducing the champion chal- lenge buck and wing dancer of the world, Miss Mamie DuPree. Those who miss seeing this young girl will miss a sight of lifetime.
 Saturday the company will give a matt nee, playing Rip Van Winkle,' and Sat- 1 urday night they give Our German-Amer- ican Cousins when all new speciaities will be given.'
 What Conried Has Achieved.
 Reviewing the operatic situation in The Theatre Magazine for January, W" J. ! Henderson, the well-known music critic, | says:
 Much has been trumpeted through the | columns of the newspapers, which are overffowing with the milk of human kind ness toward all sorts of player folk, about the wonderful revelations which would be | made when Heinrich Conreids personally conducted season of grand opera in this
 bucclic town should begin its celestial | course. It would be a season of ensem- ble, of operas rehearscd till all the rough places were made smooth. of perform ances in which the stage management would glow with human intelligence. and | in which singers were to take their prop CT positions as figures in vast and con- vincing canvas of artistic conception. MT. Conricd has kept his promise to the letter in some matters. He has fur | nished new scenery for such a shop-worn | antiquity as 'Rigoletto.' He has rcle- gated to the limbo of obscurity the an- cient Damrosch sets of Die Walkure.
 which MT. Grau pasted together season
 after season. and has provided new and
 presentable scenes. He has even played l Baron Hausmann to the capital Of the Pharaohs, and has given the second scene
 of tine second act of Aida a better set
 ting than it has had since the days of
 the despised Mapleson at the Academy of l Music. He has robed the chorus in Ver- | dis opera in new and effective costumes,
 and he has stripped the ballet in the same work as no ballet has ever before been stripped in this shameless town. Poor old Kiralfy! he thought he was wicked in the Black Crook" days, and
 peachers fired bitter invectives at him.
 He'd be too good to earn his living in | New York now. Mir. Conried Is working
 for Art. He knows what the public re- quires to educate 1t to higher standards.
 Things fell together in Die Walkure' at
 the first performance. and at the second
 they were even worse. Wagner used to
 say that he desired plenty of clouds for
 the fight at the end of Act II. At the second perform ance. S1egmund Dippel had
 actually to push them out of his way
 in order to ascend the hill to meet his foe. That is Art and Stage Management.
 But let these matters pass, and let it
 be recorded that MT. Conried has placed
 to his credit an admirable. production of | 'Tanhauser,' in which Wagner's directions were faithfully carried out, and that he
 has introduced to this public an uncom- | monly fine tenor in Enr1co Caruso." Plays and Players. l Go-won-Go Mohawk, the only American Indian actress who is now playing In England, has been offered a three years starring contract by Liebler & Co. l Klaw and Erlanger's New Amsterdam l Theatre, New York, is now numbered among the show places of New York, as in magnifcence, it has never been equal led.
 l A very handsome folder containing | Chicago newspaper criticisms of ''The
 Pit' in which Wilton Lackaye is starring has been issued by his manager, William
 A. Brady. The dresses worn in the romantic play, | ''In the Palace of the King," which Miss
 Helen Grantly will present here shortly. are said to be exact duplicates of those | worn by grandees of Spain 40 years ago.
 Way Down East" which is approach | ing it's 700th metropolitan performance
 at the Academy of Music, New York. | continues to play to crowded houses. The
 pastoral has established a new record
 for prosperity in American theatr1cals.
 having been acted greater number of times by the three companies presenting
 it than either "The Old Homestead" or
 Monte Cristo.''
 Under Southern Skies,' Lottie Blair
 Parker's most successful play, which is
 now in it's third season in the Eastern
 cities, has been booked for a tour of the
 South next fall. This play should appeal
 strongly to the theater-goin people oi
 the South, as 1t is the first purely South
 ern drama that has ever been written
 Although there are twenty-three charac-
 ters in the play, there is no mention oi
 the North, or of Northern people.
 Roselle Knott, who is to be seen this tweek at the Montgomery Theatre as Mary
 Tudor. Is a Canadian actress Her home
 is in Hamilton. '+the Ambitious City, oi
 Ontario, Canada. Her press agent tells
 a story of how she as little girl, be-
 came fired with ambition to so on the stage while witnessing the portrayal Of
 Rosalind by Modjeska. One of her first an1a 1ements was with Richard Mans