The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-31

MT. Wilson's success last season is after all, his best advertisement for the present engagement, as Montgomery audiences appreciate what is genuinely artistic and deserving.
 In the character of Prince Hugo Von Rcppert MT. Wilson's delicate humor is forceful at all times and he can grow pathetic when occasion demands with charming tenderness "A Prince of Tat ters' tells a most interesting story and its situations are wellsconceived and finely executed.
 Messrs Yale and Ellis have staged "A Prince of Tatters" most sumptuousIy, carrying the full complement of scenery, which includes some of the most hand some sets ever painted. and make gorge ouS background to the beautiful ward robe worn by the company The com pany supporting Mir. Wilson includes many names well and favorably known, among whom arc, Fanny Bloodgood. Flor ehce Stover' Jane Terrell May Burt, Mir Ross ONeaL James Bevins, c. A. Me Mullen and little Bessie Burt.
 MT. Wilson will sing six catchy. sones during the action of the play. the names oi them being My Old Pipe:" "The .Jollv Kover;' "Schnitzelbank;" "The Winding of the Iarn;' Memory" and "Whisperins Breeze"
 Helen Grantly as Dona DoIores.
 Tn the Palace of the King" is too re- cent and famous a play to need very lengthy or particular description to in- duce theater-goers to attend a produce ton, especially when the announcement goes forth that the beautiful and talent ed young actress, Miss Helen Grantly, will be seen in the principal role.
 The play ran for POO nights in New York where it attracted much attention for its dramatic and picturesque power as well as for the magnificence with which it was staged.
 Tn the Palace of the King is a dram atizat;on made by Lorrim0c Stoddard, of novel by that popular and prolific novelist. F. Marion Crawford. The story which is set forth lucidly and in melo- dramatic fashion is briefly this
 The action takes place in the palace of Philip the Second. of Spain, in the year 157O. Dolores de Mendoza daugh- ter of the Captain of the Kings Guard, has loved since childhood Don Juan of Austria. half brother to the King. who at the opening of the play, has just re- turned from a successful campaign against the Moors. Captain de Mendoza. | man of stern sense of loyalty to the | interests of his profigate King. forbids | his daughter to listen to the suit of Don Juan, and lest she disobey him confines 1 Dolores in her apartment in the palace. 1 Dolores cOntrives Co escape from her i'm pr,sonment and gains the room of Don Juan, where, hidden behind curtains. she witnesses a quarrel between the King and her lover which ends in the appar- ent murder of Cardinal Luis de Torres by the King. Aghast at his deed. the King forces Don Juan to assume the guilt of the crime Dolores declares lis inno- cence puhllcy though by doing so she sacrifices her own good name. Don Juan is condemned 10 death, but in the final scene Dolores secures his pardon by threatening the King with the disclos' ure of the real murderer's pame. At the last the Cardinal, who it appears wal merely stunned, enters, and the play ends with happiness to thoso of the characters
 who deserve 1t.
 The play demands a lavish production splendid scenery, rich costumes and a crowded stage, Manager James B. Del Cher. it is said, las acceded to the de
 rnands of the piece and surrounded hls star with large and efficient comrEny
 while the scenic environment will be tht
 same that characterized the New Sorh
 run.
 Mss Grantly will make her appearance
 at tho Montgomery theater, Thursday
 night.
 ''The Runaways" Saturday.
 An elaborate s?ectaclH iS promised l2'
 Saturday matinee and might ;it the Moht'
 sOmery Theatre. when the. bg ShuDesl | Nixon (: immermau musical cxtrayaganzd