The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-28
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s For the first time in: nearly five months the doors of the Montgomery Theatre will swing open Friday night. The amusement hungry people of Mont- gcmery. will have the unusual first night privifige of witnessing bright. lively and colorful musical comedy, '"1he Liberty Belles.'.
 In past years the season has been opened at the Montgomery Theatre by either a magician's entertainment to a mediocre farce comedy, The management this year introduces the season with an appetizing musical r5ss. .E4Ea4E
 "The Liberty Bellies" were here last season. but no reminder of that fact is needed. The play made a decided hit and its excellence Is fresh in the minds of those who witnessed it.. its catchy music and its bright lines have by no means, forgotten the fla nous boarding school scene with the Pink Pajama Girl and the school girl songs and stories.
 The present company has been out of New York over a week. In spite of the torrid weather an excellent busi- ness has been done. The company has played to crowded houses.
 The principals of the company are said to be very clever. They come with high reputation in their line of work. The comedy work will be done by William H. Conley and Joseph Vance. They are said to be very taking in their specially work and the true musical comedy gives every op- portunity for breaking into the action with a bright and taking speciality. Miss Lottie Stayely who will play Mar gary Lee has also a rputation for brightness in this line and Friday nights audience may expect some of the newest and best things in special ty work.
 The Theatres patrons will notice a number of important changes in the Theatre. The interior as we'll as the lobby has been frightened and burn ished and an abestos curtain has been hung. Fire escapes have been strung along the side of the building and other improvements have been put in- to effect.
 A force of hands Is at work upon Jake. Wells BijouTheatre formerly McDonald's.- Extensive changes are being made. The Bijou will open be- fore October l. The exact date and the opening bill have not been announced.
 The Liberty Bellies.
 An expensive, elaborate production, four clever comedians, a pony ballet, twenty-five beautiful girls. the Radium Ballet. are a few of the many good things to be seen in The Liberty Bellies" at the Montgomery Theatre next Friday evening.
 The halloa ara fwaptv UtrIo uybo o ro in the first act represented as students in seminary; they are throughly self reliant and independent and find or make for themselves liberty and more of 1t. They are led by two school girls who In the play are known as Margery Lee and Dorothy Grey. These two girls have married secretly in the first act; their husbands sere- made the seminary and later enter the seminary masked as burglars to frigh- ten the girls. They are arrested and the girls are about to be expelled, but they save the school authorities the trouble of dismissing them by decamp- ing through a window. These belles then open a cooking school and the se- cond act Is laid therein.
 An uncle each of Margery and Doro- thy. one of whom believes in matri- mofly and the other of whom does not, now are Introduced and the subsequent complications are based upon their divergence of views upon a question so all important to Margery. Dorothy and their husbands. That the uncles are rich and threaten to disinherit the girls for disoobedience, heightens the interest.
 The third act shows a scene in Flor ida where the complications of the fret fxun f,,rt and finally satisfactorily and happily strengthened out.
 Wm. H. Conley was engaged for the part of one of the rich uncles and is afforded ample opportunity to intro duce his clever specialties and imita- tions. Joseph Vance. another we'll known comedian and dancer, plays the other unclie. Lottie Staveley, late of the Wizard of Oz company has been se- cured by MT. Berger, and will be seen in the part of Margery Lee, introdu- cling her famous limitations of we'll known actors and actresses. and her topical songs. The pretty Miss Mable Kipp will be seen In the pink pajamas and also in her artistic dancing act later in the play. Nonie Terrence, of Washington. D. C., the noted soprano. has made a great success with her piano and vocal speciality. and the LeNoble sisters are also with this at- traction and will appear in their cele- brated acrobatic dancing speciality en- titled Tn Our Modest Little Way" There certainly appears to be a great line of entertainment in The Liberty Bellies" and full house should be the result.
 In producing Harry B. Smiths musi- cal comedy, The Liberty Belles." which will be the attraction at the Montgom- cry Theatre on Friday night Mir. Ber- ger. the manager departed from the customary way of having the songs and music composed by one man. MT. Berger considered that a greater var ietv of styles could be secured by calling in different musical geniuses. Accordingly. the score of The Liber- ty Bellies" possesses wider variety than has ever before been noticed In production sof this character. The songs for both 'principals and the mil