The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-27
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 The New York critic who said that George Ade's The College Widow was the most sensational success of this decade" knew what he was writ ing about.
 An audience that filled every seat in the Montgomery Theatre--an audi ence. the most representative of Mont gomery that has assembled in the Perry street playhouse this season. passed judgment on Ade's best comedy last night: The great audience agreed with the New York critic. The Col lege Widow is more than a sensa- tional success. It Is the best comedy that Montgomery audience has seen in ten years.
 The presenting company was the CTS that has been seen on Montgom- cry stage since Dustin Farnum gave us those vivid pictures of the West in "The Virginian," and Dustin Far mum was supported by company of stars. Miss Dorothy Tennant and MT. Truesdale went Mir. Farnum one bet ter because they have larger com pany than Mir Farnum had. There are forty-two players in The College Widow" and at least a score of these are such distinct types that their in- depreciation requires finished art in its highest expression. They meas ured fully to every demand, just as was expected when 1t Is remembered that Miss Tennant and MT. Truesdale were the origtnators of the parts they played: they were the Jane With erspoon and Billy Bolton respectively of the New York company which start led even the metropolis with It's ef- fectiveness.
 The success of the entertainment in Montgomery is to be commended the more because of the misfortune which befell the company yesterday after noon, and the resultant delay in the performance last night The compa- ny, and the cars bearings it's scenic equipment, were in the train which was wrecked just outside Montgomery and the scenery did not reach the city until after nightfall. Sam Hirscher and Arthur Hrischer had so much pride in affording their patrons an opportunity of seeing the play that they worked ceaselessly to perfect the arrangements but 1t was $40 o'clock first act
 It was a high compliment to the players that the large audience wait ed patiently. At midnight every one in the audience went away feeling amply repaid for waiting. They felt that they had been rewarded by see ing a play that will be remembered with cycling years play that will live for it's perfect characterization of popular phase of American life
 MT. Ade told Wondrously clever story of American political life when he wrote The County Chairman. He is, however, a young man and wrote of politics from observation, the dis comment that made him such an able newspaper writer. But 1t was when he touched upon American college life that he sunk the plumb line deep. Here he was at home, as they say fin the street. He is not many years from Purdue University; he is a. fraternity man; he has perhaps fallen a victim to the wiles of the college widow" whose "departed' are the boys of last year; perhaps he has been a quarter back on the eleven or has kicked few goals. At any rate he knows the col lege man and the college environment, and in "The College Widow he reach ed the zenith of his successful career Recent developments indicate that he will never do so well again.
 The College Widow" Introduces all of those types that many of us have known so well. They are so distinct, so real that one felt like calling them Mat, and Tom and Rat and 'Bin ard Bing." They W ire all there, too, and they were all enamored of the widow just as we used to me.
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