The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-04-03
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 Her Picture" comedy in one act by Rachel F. Baker, authoress of MT. Bob |" "The Chaperone," "A Kings Daughter, . After Taps" etc. This comedy repre- sents a beautiful passage in life. A young artist of some fame in India falls In love with a beautiful young lady whose portrait he Is painting. She apparently returns his love but when he proposes he is tilted without cause or explanation. Heart-broken he enters the army where he distinguishes himself Eight years elapse; in the meantime he returns to England and settles down to live bache- lor's life, with his sister as his housekeep- er thinking his love for the woman he met in India quite dead His sister be- comes engaged to young man she had met on an ocean liner who proves to be the brother of this same woman. He meets her again and finds it has all been mistake and that she had loved him all these years but that an old aunt who did not want her niece to marry any one but her son, had unscrupulously inter cepted her letters and by changing the answers from ''yes', to "no" had caused all the trouble. They become engaged and are married, The whole play is a beautiful and touching scene and requires more than usual talent In acting.
 ''To Meet MT. Thompson is sprightly comedy in one act. It represents eight young ladies, living in a small country town, all congregated at the home of one of them to meet MT. Thompson; the first eligible young man that has been in the place for some time The young lady at whose house they are invited rather expects he will be there early to have tete-a-tete with her, and when the bell rings runs to the door fully ex- pecting to meet the young man, but on finding that it is only one of the young ladies, is utterly disgusted The two sit and talk about MT. Thompson till the bell rings again when they both exclaim and fly to the door but only to be dis appointed again and so on until all the young ladies have arrived, when at last the bell rings again This time they feel sure 1t is Mir. Thompson, but it proves to be only a note from him to Miss Den son to say that he has been delayed and cannot be there at all. They all express the disgust and contempt that such situation can call forth. However they get their heads togther and as there are very few things that eight young ladies cannot accomplish, succeed in meeting MT Thompson. This finale is left for the au- dience to see.
 
 ''The Opra'' is a comic musical sketch. An aperatic company advertses for sing CTS. The first to answer is young lady of good musical ability; the manager tests her voice and Is much pleased, but before she Is fairly through her song he has another applicant, a German comic sing CT. The manager tells him he will not do, but he continues to sing his comic songs much to the managers disgust prf-ixr al ic Io1x Irish comic songs. and who also insists on showing what her voice is capable of although she too fails to please the man ager, who tries to stop both of them They are both singing entirely different songs and as the first applicant has con tinued her song and the manager is att tempting to stop the uproar, singing also the effect of the four voice together Is very ludcrous. "The Opra" all through Is great fun-provoker and so well rem dered that all who hear 1t cannot fail to be well repaid