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The importance of Saturday nights
engagement Ct the Sweet Glover"
company at the Elks theater next
Saturday night. the 10th inst. is
doubtless not thoroughly understood by
the theater-goers If Pine Bluff 1t
may not be generally known that Mr..
j. Martin Moss. a former Pine Bluff
boy, but of late years of Memphis
Tenn, is with this company and has
an important role in the cast Mar
tin as he is familiarly known in Pine
Bluff Joined the Sweet Clover" csm-
pany at the beginning of the present
theatrical season, and, it is said, has
been acting we'll his part His many
friends here will be pleased to know
that he is to be here next Saturday
afternoon and evening. and that they
will have an opportunity of witness
ing and commencing his efforts in the
line OF work he has chosen for his
profession Aside from this fact there
is another reason. which is of some
what local importance, why the "Sweet
Glover" attraction should be we'll re
ceived in Pine Bluff. 1t is that Miss
Edna Robb the clever young emo
aotpn -ln
acter of Lois Hocombe" is a Mem
phian, Whc is fast gaining laurels in
this, her field of work. Since joining
the Sweet Clover company as it's
leading lady. the first of the season,
Miss Robb has made a decided hit at
most every place of Importance the
company has visited. She is very pret-
ty, bright, sparkling and witty, and
those who are present at the Elks' the
ater next Saturday night will not be
disappointed in her.
Every autumn Tim Murphy pro
duces new play. Every spring the
genial comedian revives one of the
successes of his repertoire In that
way he enlarges his list of characters
and keeps fresh IL his own mind and
il the minds Of Lis public the char
actels which have been most admir-
ea Theft are in fact few actors
with rcpertoires tetlay. Mansfield and
Irving have a long list cf plays ident;-
fed With their fame Ada Rehan and
Mrs Fiske have abundant reserve ma
terial Nearly all the other cOnspici-
Gus stars squeeze a play dry inca sea
season. if it is not dry beyond squeez
before they start Mr.. Murphy is for
tunate in the possession of group of
plays and characters which are al
ways welcome. Most cclspicious
among his successes are 'The Carpent-
bagger,' "A Capitol Comedy "a
Bachelors Romance" and "Old Inno-
cence' He is now planning his spring
| tour and has selected "a Bachelors
Romance" as the play he will revive.
This fascinating play is by Martha
Morton, a we'll known dramatist, who
has recently added tc her fame and
fortune by writing the prize winner
| in the theaters contest. Her prize
play is to be given in New York on
the same night that Mr. Murphy re-
wives her most celebrated previous
success. Several years ago she won
prize from the New York World. Sol
Smith Russell first played ga Bache
! lor's Romance" and as socn as he
could secure the play, Tim Murphy
duplicated the other Comedians tri-
umph. David Holmes, the book worm,
| is one of the freshest and most en-
gaging characters in the American
| drama It is an honorable and praise
worthy ambition Of Mr.. Murphy's to
keep such characters before his pub
lic It is said that this city may be
one of tie few which are to see the
revival. At the Elks' theater Febru-
ary %.