The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
Creatnre'R Return.


two farewell concerts by Createre and
his Italian band in the Montgomery Thea
tire at and p. M, Wednesday. Creatore
was recently heard in Montgomery and
the concerts created unbounded enthusi-
asm. ...'.
No bandmaster since Gilmor has
aroused his auditors as does Creatore,
and the organization under his control
is without question one of the, greatest
bands ever heard in this country. Crea-
tore has his men absolutely in contact
of his baton. and he gets effects from
the myriad combinations of sweet
sound before him that stamp him at once
the genius, and satisfies the taste of all
lovers Of good music and as we'll reaches
the heart. &c.,
Creatore, says one critic, 'is simply a
wonder.It was impossible in the very out
set to understand his enthusiasm. and
then, as eye and ear became employed,
It is likely that even the children could
see the reason for 1t all. It WAS as If.
with his own hands. the leader was play
ing upon magnificent instrument COM
Posed of more than a half a hundred
living, thinking. breathing men. each
given voice of supreme range, although
differing in tone, each capable and will
| ing and all ready to show individual color
in the tone pictures, or to, lose. their
| identify the great MdSSeS VI, IlkHL anu
| shade. Sometimes <Creatore' coaxed his
men as tenderly as a lover pleading for
| a kiss; again he demanded OF them her.
culean effort with the force of a general
who feels that the height must be taken
| through a storm of shot and shell.
Through every phase OF his command the
| leader lived the score and. forgetting all
else. drew from his wonderful human in
| srument every thought and impulse the
ali =
conditions
The programs for these two concerts
are of wide range in their composition
and contain many of the favorite ope-
ratio selections in which the leader and
band have no equal in their interpreta-
| ton.
"His Excellency The Governor"
At the Montgomery Theater on Sat
day, matinee and night. Miss Sadie Mar
| tinot will present for the first time in this
city His Excellency the Governor" a
play which for brightness of dialogue
| audacity of conceit, and cleverness of
construction is said to- excel any other
| comedy produced at the New York thea
| ters in recent years. 1t scored an initial
| run of one hundred performances at the
Lyceum theater in New York. contin-
| uing until the accession of the heated
term compelled its temporary cessation,
only to be reproduced at the Empire the
| alter the following autumn and achieve
there further run of more than two
hundred nights. Miss Martinez was iden-
titled with the play at the time of its
initial success, and now has the sole
rights for its production, and, under the
| management of Mr. Jules Murry is gain
ing with His Excellency the Governor"
| throughout her extended tour the same
| distinguished favor accorded it in the
| Metropolis.
The Richmond Times Dispatch of Jan
uary. 16, 1904. says:
His Excellency, the Governor" a COM
edy written in a delightful vein of hui
NOR and played by most capable COM
pany' at the head of which was Sadie
Martinot, was presented at the Academy
yesterday. matinee and evening.
The play is one in which there is no
strainlng for the comedy element The
bright comedy runs its course so smooth
~ ana with so little effort. that the au-
dlence keenly enjoys every line and every
scene, without losing it's dignity or be-
coming unduly hilarious. The curtain
iaiis on an act when the audience least
expects 1t.
There is nc leading up to a climax.
Inc hnal scene of each act comes in the
natural order of things. without giving
any noisy warning of it's approach.
Miss Martinez. as Stella. the .even-
ing star was fascinating in manner and
speech, buoyancy and spirit pervadin1
her work that made it Irresistible AZ
no time was her work anything bur that
of finished artist. She was frivolous
dainty and charming at one and the same
moment, but her methods were a1s,..il'-
subdued, and never over-reached az
mark 'Ne
Mr.. William Webb. as John Baver-
stock, the private secretary, was onaint-
ly droll in his humor and was odJ,,,