The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-22
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Hundreds of little hearts Tn Mont- gomery are happy today and there are more than few score old heads. that are internationally chuckling and smil- ing. The cause is a little one. He hardly weighs forty pounds. Gabriel l is his name and he appeared at the Mont gomery Theatre yesterday and again last night In Melville B. Ray mond's cartoon comedy Buster Brown"
 But there are those hearts that are heavy and some little fellow in Mont gomery hasn't stopped whimpering yet. Gabriel is the cause. To student of human nature the scene yesterday af- ternoon in the lobby of the Montgom- cry Theatre was a sight to have walked leagues to witness. Every Montgomery mother and father. who had seventy five cents to spare, had washed their own little Buster and saw him hie hap oily to see the presentation of the char acter that Outcault has made almost as familiar to American childhood as San ta Claus.
 There were hundreds of fond fathers and mothers who had seventy-five cents to spare yesterday afternoon and the capacity of the theatre was overtaxed. Some who came late. got no nearer Bus ter than the box office. where Arthur Hirscher ruefully told them that there were no more seats. There were prob ably 150 of these youngsters and they held an impromptu meetings to express their disappointment How did you ex- press it when you were six? You might believe that you would have looked at it stoically and turned away whistling, but you wouldn't. You'd have wept. They wept in a manner that made Sam Hirscher stop counting the money and made Ed Mahoney leave the stage to see if some one was Kidnapping an or phan asylum.
 But the theatre was lacked and jam med with youngsters who did see Bus ter and last night the old ones xied with young ones in their eagerness to eee Gabriel again. Many is the young one in Montgomery who will today see in newspaper the Buster Brown page, and no one power on earth could make hin believe that the mischievous boy thereupon pictured, did not actually live and breathe and talk and walk and do things. This Is compliment enough for Gabriel He depleted Buster in the most convincing manner The women raved, the children shrieked their de- light, the enthusiasts said now ain't he great little chap?' and the bali headed blase person admitted there was
 something about the kid that got next to you"
 The newspaper reading public is so familiar with Buster Brown" has read so many laudatory columns of the work of Gabriel as Buster and Ali as Tige that 1t is useless to say anything further about these two than that they deserve everything good they have had said about them.
 Charles A. Louder. a man weighing close to 200 pounds surprised the au- dlence by doing one of the most grace fnl dances ever seen in this city and let IL be said that in this wing of the entertainment the company was espe- claily strong. There are few better dancing teams than Burt Jordan and Rosa Crouch and Rhea Lusby was the quintessence of grace in her toe dance speciality
 Miss Josephine Rellis should be com mended fer her excellent rendition of
 sweetheart Lue" and the male chorus was osrecielly strong.
 me inevitable Raymond march and orlii or sixteen pretty girls was capti- Eatins and the costumes and scenic ef- Iects were entirely adequate. It was son. '"is seS