The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-19
s.sGerely Mary Annv Tuesday

One of the most conspicuous events Of the theatrical season here will be the appearance at the Montgomery Theatre Teusday night of Miss Eleanor Robson the youthful star who has made such success in Israel zangwiifs Merely Mary Ann" both in London and New Fork.
 Miss Robson returned from London last year where she played for three months at the Duke of York's Theatre, a run of remarkable length for an American actress to make in the Brit ish metropolis. And Miss Robson's suc- cess abroad was all the more remark ablo because she made it without any preliminary booming of any kind what ever and when she appeared for the hrst time on the stage at the Duke of Yorks Theatre it was to an audience composed entirely of strangers--strangers not too friendly disposed, but who were com peiled by the charm of the actress her self, by her youthful grace and by the appealing force of her art to give her the full measure of their approval.
 From that point Miss Robson's pop ularity grew and increased and on the closing night of her appearance in Lon- don sho was cheered to the echo and urged to return In shouts of approval The day following her arrival in New York city she gave a special Welcome Home" matinee at the New Amsterdam Theatre, during which she received tel- egrafns and letters from theatre man. agers in every part of the United States expressing their sincere appreciation of the credit she had brought to the Amer ican stage in foreign land.
 In Merely Mary Ann" the play in which Miss Robson has made her in- ternntional hit, Israel Zangwill has fairly outdone himself. The story is comonpiace enough and simply told. but with so much cleverness and with such an art that even where it Is least real, one Is compelled to wish that 1t might be real The heroine is pathetically Innocent country girl, an orphan taken in out of charity by the keeper of London lodging house. and compelled to be the drudge and maid-of-all-work Of the establishment. The hero Is composer of music, an arfstocrat, too proud t0 degrade his talent to the pop ular level but who prefers to owe his iandIady for his lodgings instead and who turns to the ignorant slavey for sympaths| only because he has no other friends. This incongruous couple plan an elopement together, but on the eve of their departure comes the startling news that Mary Ann is an heiress and Lancelot's pride reasserts itself once more and he refuses not only to marry but even to wrong a girl whose brother has struck ile." Mary Ann, heart broken by his desertion, goes away with her millions and six years later, wher they meet again she has become an educated. accomplished young lady. Fortune, too, has smiled upon him and the end Is what might be expected.
 Miss Robson's performance in the role of the slavey is a remarkable one --as William Archer, the famous Eng fish critic expressed it: 'She added a figure of peculiar charm to the gallery of remarkable stage creations" Her art IS of the kind that conceals itself and makes one feel that even the im- possible is genuine. Her company this season Is of exceptional strength and Liebler x Co, her managers, have done every thing possible to surround her with a cast of players commensurate with the position sine has attained.
 H. B. Warner, who won a high place for himself in the dramatic profession in England, and who Is known at the present day as one of the most accomp- lished leading men on the London stage, has been induced to come to America to play the part of LanceIot, one that ought to suit him precisely. Miss Ada Dwyer. who went abroad with Miss Robson and although an American of the most pronounced type scored hit in coclSneydom itself in the role of cockney lodging house keeper, has an- other of the leading roles in the play, and so has Ernest Mainwaring. clever