The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10
neWS Of tbe Stage

l tan" and a splendid production is prom ised.
 The third week of the Olympia Com pany closed last night with a presenta- tion of Fra Diavolo," MT. Seamans singing the name part and Miss Deval as Zerlina- In this opera Mir. Seamans proved that he was more of an actor and singer than has been suspected. His Fra Diavolo" was revelation to the audience and he won frequent applause. { As Zerlsna Miss Deval, whose h!ic voice never failed to delight Monteoui- cry audiences, measured beyond expec- tations as an actress. Her conception and execution of the bedchamber scene was delicate and refined. It was q neat bit of acting. : From Montgomery the Olympia Com pany will go to Dallas, Texas. but 1t is expected the singers will return here for a weeks engagement later In the | season at the Bijou Theatre.
 Manager Searnans is felicitating him self that the yellow fever scare has not injured his business.
 'Of the thirty-two persons in our company" he said yesterday, "only one left us on account of the fever scare. This is not remarkable when 1t Is known that nearly everybody with us was reared in the fever zone. At least tWeiVe members ok our compahy al from New Orleans. Two or three of them are from Mobile. Several are from Texas and Mississippi and others are from Tennessee and Kentucky. We do not advertise ourselves as Southern people before Southern audiences be- cause people who go to the theaters do not care where actors have been reared if they deliver the goods to use the vernacular."
 It Is worthy of note that those of the principals in the Olympia Company who are Southern men and women are Mir. Pitkin, Mir. Adde, Mir. Matson, Miss Ken dall, Miss Deval, Miss Coulter and Miss Null. MT. Pitkin is a son of the late Hon. J R. G. Pitkin, for years post master of New Orleans. and a brother of Miss Helen Pitkin, Society Editor of The New Orleans Times Democrat; Mir. Adde Is the son of a leading profes- sional man of the Crescent City and has numerous relatives in Mobile. Both he and Mir Pitkin worked some time as reporters on New Orleans newspapers. Miss Deval and Miss Null are daugh- ters of well known New orleans fami- lies and Miss Coulter Is from Honey Grove. Texas. Miss Kendall was rear ed in Kentucky. Mir. Matson, the clever young tenor singer. is New Orleans boy.
 Mir. Seamans Is a Minnesota man who has been managing an opera company in the South many years and MT. Eagle ton. the popular comedian, is a Cana dian.
 From time to time additions have been made to the chorus, men and wo- men, by employing persons in Louis jana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia until nearly every one of the eighteen persons in the chorus are from the Southern States.
 New Role for MT. Harris.
 Taking a principal part in Henry W. Savages big production of George Ade's newest comedy The Bad Samar- itan" which opens at the Garden The atre. New York. on September 12. is MT. Wadsworth Harris, whose many friends in Montgomery remember him as leading support to Frederick Warde, Modjeska and other prominent players.
 Mir. Harris, like many other we'll known actors, has given up Shake sperian roles for somethink in a light CT vein and 1t is a subject of congratu- lation that he has become a member of what promises to be the most pop ular success of the season.
 Those who were so fortunate as to hear Mir. Harris In a dramatic recital at the Beauvior Club last winter and who have witnessed his successes in the heavier lines, feel sure that an equal success awaits him in his now field and look forward with keen zest to his early return to Montgomery.
 George Ade's "The Bad samarftan."
 George Ade's latest comedy "The Bad Samaritan" was presented for the first time on any stage at the Columbia Theatre, Washington, D. C., September {, where 1t scored hit equal to the phenomenal favor accorded its famous predecessor, The College Widow" which had its premiere in the same city and theatre one year ago.
 In The Bad Samaritan" George Ade has depicted another phase of Ameri- can life radically different from the To- calls of his two other successful plays "The County Chaieelan" and The Col lege Widow" One act Is laid in small interior village, and the play wright has shown the altogether mod ern tendency of people to bask in the. favor of newly rich person. Tn this case it is Uncle Ike" Gridley, a re- tired hide and tallow dealer. Gridley starts out as a self-constitute6 philan- thropist but finds that with the &C., quisitiOn of new friends his bank roll shows 8 constant dlminution. He en- dows colleges, lays corner-stones, starts embryo Melbas on their careers, and makes of himself thorough good fellow until he finds that. as he expresses it, people are sitting on his lap and taking money out of his pocket" He shuts down on the para sites and proceeds to have a good time on his own account.
 While the comedy element predomi- mates. Mir. Ade has written pretty lit- tie love story around Uncle Ike. and the housekeeperl of the village hotel. Richard C1o1Aan who has the leading role Is credited with a hit. Others in the cast are Anne Sutherland, Ceceylle Mayer, Grace Fisher, Adelaide Orten. Augusta True, Edward See. Samuel Reed, >Wadsworth Harris Jacques Kru- ger, Nicholas Burnham and E. Y. Back us. An interesting feature of the per formance was the appearance of George Marion, general stage director for the