The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-18
neWS of tbe Stage

entoved enormously successful engage ments in all the principal cities of tn,
 Cnited States ever since.
 Dolly Warden" Is dainty. picturesque
 refined and has been aptly termed |; Dresden China Opera, proving conclus lively that in opera as yell as drama
 vulEarity Is not a necessary essential
 for success.
 The title of the new warfield play is
 The Music Master" It is in three acts
 and its author Is Charles Klein, who
 wrote also the same stars previous sue.
 cess. The Auctioneer,"-in which. fl
 will be remembered. Mir. warfieId loy-
 ally refused, last winter, to act under any but Mir. Belasco's management. IL
 Is important, there fore to note that hereafter MT. warfield will be an in- dependent star. appearing only in in- dependent theatres. and under the stage direction of David Belasco. It was MT
 Belasco who discovered his genius and at the start. established him not only as a successful Broadway star but al so caused him. to be recognized as a true artist, one of the greatest character players this country has produced. Mir. warfield remains true to the Belasco standard. placing himself right on the fighting line in open opposition to the Theatrical Trust.
 Vladimir De Pachmann's art Is most sincere and single minded says the authoritative critic of the London World. in May of this year. The mere elegance of 1t Is extraordinary. He ob- serves the most fastidious care for pro- portion and measure. and there is no trace of exaggeration as sentiment on the one hand or harshness or coarse- ness on the other.The superficial nearer might be forgiven for thinking 1t Is all very obvious and very easy; but in truth Pachmann's Is a most con1- plex and carefully studied art; and 1t Is just the astonishing number of sub tie variations of tone and tone- color which makes his playing so full of charm. With the advance of time the gulf between him and what may be called the quasi i-orchestral pianists gets wider, and he seems to think more of the instruments ancestry and its iimi- tations. and less of attempting to en- large Its scope"
 Mesers.. Wagenhals and Kemper have at last ofiicially confirmed the report that Frederick Warde and Kathryn Kid der will be joint stars under their man. agement next season. The play selected for them Is "Salambo" the most ambi- tious work of Stanislaus Stange whose dramatisation of Quo Va dis" would alone entitle him to fame. The new play is founded upon Flau- bert's great novel of the same name, on of the masterpieces of modern French literature. The background of its stirring exciting story is the Var baric splendor of ancient Carthage and lends ample opportunity for an alluring dramatic spectacle. Managers Wage hals and Kemper promise a production that will compare with Cleopatra" Ben Hur." and other show pieces of recent years.
 An important feature of MT. Charles E. Hanford's repertory the coming sea- son will be his production of Don Caesar De Bazan. Judging from the success MT. Hanford has had for the past three seasons as 'Petruchio" in the Tanning of the Shrew. he should score another notable triumph in the dashing comedy role of Don Caesar.
 The combination dining and sleeping ear Peggy" and the state-room coach
 Paris" now being built to order at Del. will house the Peg BY from Paris company during It's next seasons tour. which is to cover the four quarters of the United States. The train will also include two newly con- structed cars for the transportation of scenery and baggage. The vehicles when coupled up will be known as 'the Peggy Special de Luxe"
 
 It costs a lot of money nowadays 10 mount a musical play The first or Ter for shoes for the production of The Maid and the Mummy" Richard Earle and Robert Hood Bowers new musical melange was three hundred and fifty pair, the same number of stock ngs, silk ones, were also ordered. These were for the chorus alone which Is made up of forty girls and eight men, The girls have ten complete changes of costume each. and the men six. It Is 'tated that The Maid and the Mummy" s one of the most handsomely dressed musical plays now before the public.
 Prof Charles M. Gayley. of the Uui- 'ersity of California. has performed Ln interesting experiment in The Star if Bethlehem" a nativity play. The lew drama Is arranged from about hirty old plays and liturgical frag- nents. such as used to be acted by ,uilds and workmen in the streets of nediaeval towns or in religious houses, he connecting links being composed " Prof. Gayley in the manner of the The miracle play called The 'econd Pastors Play" incorporated in his drama. contains. by the way, in he episode of the shepherd Max, who teals a sheep and puts 1t into a cradle, that it is his own child, the Irst known instance of comedy in the English drama.
 Tn the first part of the Al. c. Field Greater Minstrels the setting is such as O suggest the minstrels of centuries go clasping hands across the infinite pace of time with the minstrels of to- lay. Three massive stairways lead to he stage and the embellishments are egal in their splendor At the open ng of the spectacle after the musi- fans have marched in. there appears a roups of minstrels in the costume of