The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-09

ZoA HARLES SOMERVILLE takes kV occasion in brilliant essay to O ask which does the most good, Clyde Fitch, with his lace work plays, or Theodore Kremer, with his calico melodrama2 Birmingham audiences have had many opportunities to study the work of both authors. Clyde Fitch plays have been frequently seen at the Jefferson theatre, while a Theodore Kre- mer play is the attraction about every other week at the Bijou. But the Fitch plays are acted by Amelia Bingham. Mary Mannering, Ethel Barrymore, Maxine Elliott and other stars" who are the pets of society and draw large con- courses of low-necked gowns and claw hammer coats. while the Kremer plays are interpreted by fair-haired heroines whose names are heard but little in the theatrical world, beetle-b browed villains, who are not as bad as they pretend to be, and noble young men who make the her oine happy by marrying her, but are not so admirable as they appear on the stage. Likewise, the Fitch play is pre- sented amid the rustic of fine clothes, the futter of fans and the gossip of smart folk, while up in the gallery real tears are shed for Kremer's heroine in distress and the villain is hissed right heartily The work of the two play wrights is typifed by MT. Somerville's 8 apt slmile-lace and calico. MT. Somer- vile reaches the conclusion that neither MT. Fitch nor Mir. Kremer is a great dramatist, that both are after the al- mighty dollar and that both succeed in getting 1t, but he thinks, perhaps, Kre- mer does the most good. The play that makes a newsboy resolve to lead a better life accomp1ishes more in the end than the satire which excites a smile in so- ciety but nothing more.
 There is great excitement in the h. dian Territory and Oklahoma among the legal lights and, strange to say, dress suits figure conspicuously in the furore. One would think that all the dress suits in these vigorous, but unspoiled. locali- ties existed on the pages of clothing cat alogues, but not so. The meat of the matter is this: There Is to be a session of the Oklahoma and Indian Territory Bar association in Shawnee, December 24 The Indian Territory lawyers fear that they will not be able to shine Tn comparison with the noted barristers of Oklahoma, so they are planning to ob- fuscate their confreres by appearing at the banquet In full dress. In other words they are determined to wear evening clothes to a man. It Is reported that there are eleven lawyers in South Nc Alister who feel able to wear dress suits
 Whether this is the total number of suits proeurable in that town is not stated
 but other towns in the territory will be communicated with and the scheme preached for their consideration If the Indian Territory lawyers carry out their intentions there will be a great scramble for evening clothes along about Decem. her 24 and some enterprising fnancie. ay corner the dress suit market Wna, the red man will think of this claw. . hammer invasion Is yet to be recorded.
 According to the press dispatches Mrs Florence Maybrick Is not only broken. hearted and desolate after fifteen weary years spent in an English prison, but she is without money and all that sht has to depend on to keep her from want is the proceeds from the sale of hel book, Mrs. Maybrielk's Own Story Her Fifteen Years Of English Prison Life