The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1904-11-19
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Glen McDonough and Victor Her
bcrt's musical extravaganza, which
was the vogue Of New York, Chicago
and Boston, last season, having had
a run of $50 nights at the Majestic
Theatre and 1870 nights in Chicago.
will be presented at the Grand on
the evening of the rs tn OF November
Internationally Babes in Toy
land" will be the event of the dra-
matte season in Greenvile, as it has
been in all the cities of the north,
Hamlin & Mitchell have presented
this musical company of internation-
al fame, with their all-star cast.
Babes in Toyland' replete in bril-
liant scenic and electrical effects and
gorgeous costumes, is spectacle
which charms bewilders and entranc-
es everyone who sees it. Glen Nc
Donough has treated the nursery
fairy stories, which is dear to the
heart of every child, and to the heart
OF everyone who has been child in
years gone by, in an entirely original
manner. One sees Alan and Jane,
Beautiful Mary Mary quite contrary,
Boy Blue, Jack and Jill, Little Miss
Murfet, Red Riding Hood, and all
the other characters of fairy fame,
depicted by talented and beautiful
actresses and capable actors.
The opening act shows the home
of the Widow Piper and her thirteen
children. The succeeding scenes in
the three acts reveal the babes lost
in the woods, and later masquerading
in the imaginary country of Toy
land.
The plot of Babes in Toyland'
principally concerns Alan and Jane,
the central figures, and Old Barnaby
their uncle. The story in brief, is
this:
Alan and Contrary Mary are sweet
hearts. Tom Tom and James are
sweethearts. Old aBrnaby, who is
the guardian of Alan and Jane, de-
sires to destroy them, that he may
marry Contrary Mary himself, as
well as secure Aran and James wealth
Barnaby's first plan goes amiss,
however, as he sends Aan and Jane
out on ship, hoping they will be
lost at sea. His second effort NETS
with little ess success, for when he
tries to destroy his niece and neph-
view by sending them into the woods
where the Vale of Spiders is, he
succeeds in causing them much alarm
and fright, but they eventually find
their way into Toyland.
Here it is that the most intensely
part of the action Of the
play takes place as Alan and Jane
disguised as some of the dolls which
the master toy-maker of the world,
who lives in Toyland, has made, en- /
tiers into the drills and marches of
these toy soldiers, and so disguised
evade the detection of Old Barnaby i
and the search of the detectives which |
he employs to run them down.
After many complications, Contrary
Mary, who has run away from home
with Tom Tom and gone into Toy
land, too, discovers Alan and Jane,
and Barnaby discovers them also.
Barnaby forces Contrary Mary to-
marry him when Alan's identity has
become known, telling her if she re-
fuses he will hand Alan over to the
officers of Toyland as the meurderer
Of master toy-maker of the world,
who has been slain by some Of the
dolls who were made to walk and
talk.
The final climax comes when Bar
naby, intoxicated with success Of his
villanious schemes, drinks poisoned
wine and dies, and Contrary Mary, |
will be pardoned, claims Alan for her
husband.
Mary Marble, the dainty CONNIE