The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-04
"Serqeant kltty.1

'Se. geant Kitty" the comic opera suc- cess of New York, will be presented by Managar George R. White at the Jef- ferson on next Thursday matinee and night.
 Sergeant Kitty was pronounced, dur. ing its record run at Da1y's theatre and at the Casino. New York, to be one of the best comic operas offered in many years. It is comic and 1t is a real opera. It has plot that can be discovered without the aid of a guide. the music Is light. spright- ly and melodious and of a high class throughout, the book Is excellent the lyrics are strictly up-to-date and the sit- nations are rational and follow in natural sequence. From the rise of the curtain on the first act to the drop of the curtain on the final scene the opera bub- bles with refined fun and melody. The book ano lyrics are the work of R. H. Burnside and the music Is by A. Baldwin Sloane, whose tuneful 'Mocking Bird" was a musical treat
 The story of the play is sufficiently complicated to permit of a great number of amusing situations that fit Into each other like the works of a watch. Kit ty is a winsome, headstrong and pretty girl who is in love with lieutenant in the French Hussars She is the ward of an eccentric aunt who is determined that Kitty shall not marry at all because of her youth. Kitty Is determined to marry her handsome lieutenant and they ar range an elopement. In series of acci- dents they become separated and Kitty pursued by her aunt, reaches the meet ing place ahead of the lieutenant. She must be married at once before her aunt whom she has locked in a pastry cooks pantry, escapes. Tn her trouble she dis covers that her lieutenant lovers orderly has arvived with his masters uniform. Kitty coaxes the orderly to don the uni form and act as a proxy for the lieuten- ant and be married to her. He is a stu pid orderly and a screamingly funny scene follows. The aunt escapes from the pantry and interrupts the wedding by causing the orderly to be sent to prison for kidnapping Kitty.
 There is another officer whose love af- fairs mingle in humorous way with the love troubles of Kitty. This other off cer Is the nephew of the commanding general and he cannot marry until he Is twenty-five years of age without forfeit ing a fortune to his uncle. He has, how ever married secretly. His wife follows him to camp. He does not want her known as his wife and introduces her as the wife of Kitty's lover The compli- cations that arise from this confusion of wife and sweethearts are too funny for adequate description.
 Kitty gets her name of Sergeant Kit ty" when she dresses In the costume of the orderly to aid her in her plans to get married and reach her lover from whom she is again separated by military or ders. While in the soldiers costume she Is forced to tell who she Is and she says that she is an officer and when pressed says she is a sergeant. Then minimizing ly says her name Is Kitty and the sol dlers have a lot of fun with the supposed boyish officer and dub him Sergeant Kitty"
 In the end of course, as in the end of all good comic operas, the complications are all stfaightened out and the various lovers are duly married to their sweet hearts.
 Miss Helen Byron Is the winsome, mis- chievous Kitty Edith Blair Is the tall beautiful prima donna; Charles Wayne is the chief funmaler and Miss Virginia Palmer Is the eccentric old aunt. Others In the long list of principals are Myrtle Lorimer, Clara Lillian Serville, Clara Sterling, Sylvain Langlois. Frederick Knights, Wheeler Earl, George Pearce. Tom Hadaway, George Lloyd, James Furcy and Joseph Chafllee.
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