The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-20

| During the engagement the company will produce: The Chimes of Nor
 mandy" The Belle of New York;" | "Boccaccio." ''The Circus Clown" and
 perhaps Fra Diavolo." The Winter Season.
 Here we are on the edge of the winter theatre season with no man knowing when or how the season will begin. Eastern companies that come South base their bookings on the ] Tulane and Crescent theatres of New Orleans where they get a weeks time.
 If this were not so interior cities would not be able to secure so many attrac- l tionS of the higher class.
 Now, these companies are at sea- to ! use a common phrase. If they cannot ! get their week in New Orleans and the consequent big business they may find ] themselves in a condition where it will be necessary to cancel all Southern dates.
 Thus 1t is that there is an uncertainty about the opening of tho Montgomery Theatre I have seen the September and October bookings of the Hirschers and if this quarantine situation Is not cleared up Montgomery theatergoers will misg some of the best things of the season. It has been the custom to begin the season with the ordinary en- tertainments. but this year it was pro- posed to start with the best. Stegomyia fasciata has decreed otherwise, how ever, and the actors must await the pleasure of the she-mosquito.
 The quarantines will not embarrass the Bijou Theatre which will open on
 its regular schedule. This theatre is booked through Stair and HavIin whose companies do not depend on New Or
 leans. Indeed, Montgomery Is the Southern end of the Stair and Havlin circuit and there will be no trouble or inconvenience to these companies from quarantines. The Bijou will open about October 1st.
 It may be said that between the two theatres Montgomery will have the op- portunity this season of seeing moro new plays and more famous stars than ever before. Among the good things due here are Kyrle Beliew in Rallies" Eleanor Robson in Merely Mary Ann." George Ade's The College Widow" George Cohan's Little Johnny Jones'" Tim Murphy in his new play "A Corner in Coffee" Viola Allen. Sothern and Marlowe. savsges' Grand Opera Com pany Wilton Lackaye in The Pit" and many others.
 New Things In New York.
 It is probable that the Eastern man. agers will produce more new plays In New York this winter than ever be- lore. mere IS nOp6 III lHS iHAlCAtioN that more American plays will be pro- duced than ever before as all of the 1 well Known American writers of plays will be given a premier before the sea son is ended.
 George Ade has turned out two new ones that promise to be as popular as his College Widow" Ills Just Out of College" will be produced by Charles Frohman and his "The Bad Samaritan will go out under the direction of his patron saint. Colonel Henry Savage.
 Among the other new ones to be fos- tered and financed by Charles Frohman are "CIarice" by William Gillette, liam Steele, '"rhe American Lord" by George II. Broadhurst and c. T. Da- zey, "Mizpah" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ''Old Grogan Graham" by Paul M. Pot ter. "On the Love Path" by c. M. s. Mcclellan, and two new plays by Au- gustus Thomas ,the man who wrote Alabama" one of which is to be play ed by John Drew. ..-...::
 George Conan will send out No. 2 Little Johnny Jones" company In which this remarkable young chap has scored such success. He Is at work on another musical comedy which will be called Forty Minutes from Broad | way which will be produced by Klaw and Erlanger.
 Among the attractions to be offered this season by the prodigious William A. Brady are: Marriage of William Ashe." in which Mrs. Brady (Grace George) will star; Wright Lorimer in his stupendous production of '"The shepherd King" a new play "As Ye Sow" Al Leech in Girls Will Be Girls" Robert Mantell in a Shake spearian repertory to be broken occa- sionally with "The Dagger and the Cross," a new drama which Brady's agents think Is a winner; Wilton Lack aye in 'The Pit" with occasional pres entations of "Trilby." The Pillars of Society" and Mir. Lackaye's dramatiza- tion of Les Miserables."