The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-25
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MONTGOMERY THEATRE.

MONTGOMERY THEATRE.
 Wedaesday niHhti 'The County Chairman"
 Thursday matinee and night, "A Girl From Dixie."
 BIJOU THEATRE.
 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights with matfnees Monday and Wednesday. con Thanksgiving Day."
 The Players Christmas.
 By Wilton Lackaye. In happier climes for luckier men
 while carols welcome day, And sleeping folk are reused by
 Waits" with Christmas rounde- For us-a pounding Porter at the
 peaceful hour of three Raucous-bawling "Gitep quick, the
 bus won't wait on 'troopersr
 Seer"
 Oh, the frost is on the tree tops and
 tine snow is in the dell! (It's a shame we left our rubbers at
 the Lake View Grand Hote1!D But all the joys that poets sing and
 poetasters rhyme
 Are lost in wondering if the train will
 reach Podunk lon time" While children of the older growth
 their yonker's antics view. And in baby frolics sharing their lost
 fable-faith review;
 While peace of home and mirth of
 fest are found on every hand, We've the dank insult called dinner
 in western one-night stand. While your yule logs Cor your antfra-
 cites, or gas stove's) cheery
 flame
 of you local habitation's" one that's
 worthy of the 'name,") If in mansion Cor in chambers" or
 congested flat) you dwell, Makes all mankind feel the magic of
 the joyous Christmas spell: While your table groans Cor mur-
 play,
 The mummer's mixing grease paint
 for the Christmas matinec. Oh, lords of hearts and danes of
 homes,
 Whose joy of this time speaks, In the ringing of your laughter, in
 the holly of your cheeks; 'Twixt the oysters and the coffee let
 tear1ul toast be drunk To the Players poor penates in the
 top-tray of his trunk.
 For the holiday week the theatres of Montgomery have provided eS- ceptionally good attractions.
 At the Montgomery Theatre George Ade's high class comedy "The County Chairman and a fine musical comedy "A Girl From Dixie" are to be pre- sented. The Bijou Theatre offers "On Thanksgiving Day. rural drama for the first half of the week beginning with a Christmas matinee Monday.
 Much interest centers in The Coun- ty Chairman" which Is Mn Ade's only departure from musical comedy in his work for the stage. It's motif is politics, Western politics, and 1t is said to be a live wire of fun In column review of the come dy and the producing company the New Orleans Times-Democrat said | recently:
 The County Chairman made an | impression on big Sunday night au- dience at the Tulane Theatre last night which was unqualifiedly favor | able. Unhampered by the trammels of musical adjunct. George Ade's | dramatic work has the same true ring of real humanity and clean, healthy l sentiment that has characterized his | fiction, and The County Chairman stands in the drama for what Fables in Slang 'Arte.' and other sketches by the same author do In literature. It is filled with clean-cut characters. full of strong individuality, which represent familiar everyday types. The action of the play takes place in the early eighties, but except for the sake of securing the slight indefinite | ness incident to the mists which cloud | the details of manners and methods when one looks back a score of years 1t might as well have been given a present day setting. It brings forci- ply to mind the fact that, after all. the salient features of humanity and provincial politics change but little as time rolls up unless something hap pens to provoke a genuine upheaval | Of public sentiment" l A Girl From Dixie" was seen here last season and was great success. | Iheatregoers have happy recollec- tions or its haunting music and pretty | girls.
 | On Thanksgiving Day" Is one of those stirring dramas that have made Jake Wells's houses popular. An ex ised.
 l hc SOuuty Cnahfm0n.0 There will be gala night at the Montgomery Theatre next "Wednesday night. when George Ades quaint spec tacular comedy. not a musical comedy, The County Chairman" which Henry | w. Savage offers for the first time in this city. appears.
 MT. Ade has steadily advanced in the work of dramatic writing since his first venture The Sultan of Sulu," was produced. less than three years ago. There were other entirely successful works along the line of musical come dy; but in his first genuine play he seems to have achieved a success which overshadows all his other efforts.
 The theater-going public is familiar with the career of The County Chair man." It was produced in New York last season, and while dozens of thea ters were conducted on a panic basis Wallack's in which the Ade comedy was being given, enjoyed the most prosperous run In its history. There were many discerning ones who proclaimed the new work A thor oughly genuine comedy, rehecting a certain characteristic aspect of life fin the West as no other production has ever done. Rural scenes have been employed in scores of plays, many of which have been received with high praise. but in nearly every case they have been too sentimental to be char acteristically American, and the comedy types have been drawn so broadly that