The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10

fsSAVH8e attractiouS, th the Eole ph st4N nor Gargelina. This was Mir. Marion's 3 l first appearance ac an actor in several years.
 s.The Bad Samaritan" will begin the season at Henry ". Sayages Garden Theatre. New York. September IF. The Evolution of q Comedian. ! Frank Daniels the popular comedian, began life as dentists assistant, and
 ascribes his success to his watching, as
 a boy, the grimaces of his employers clients while in the torture chair. Writ | ing of these early experiences in The Theatre Magazine for September, Mir. Daniels says:
 | The first time felt the stirring of
 great dramatic instinct within me when
 I stood at the open window of den-
 tist's office in Boston, waving a feather | duster as siren waves her tresses, and | whispering wooingly to the brats on | the street.-the brattiest brats In Bos- ton. all special friends of mine-"Dag- | gy's out" "Daggy" was my brother. Dr. Daggett. D. D. S. He was q book
 ish man. who cared a thousand times
 more for Shakespeare than teeth, and
 who let one perish while he drowned
 and muttered over the other. He should have been the actor and the dentist,
 'on the level" He was 25 years older
 than I, and a kind of father who didn't
 spare the rod or cane, or even the fire shovel, and spoil me. The only serious
 mistake he made In bringing me up was l in giving over to me the position of honor and trust as his office boy. &C., | cepted 1t with grateful tears and sin cere promises. but betrayed my trust.
 Once he left me to tend the slow fire | over which he was vulcanizing an an-
 cient maids new mouthpiece. and let | 1t boil too long and hard, with the re-
 suit that the rubber blew up and tore a
 hole in the ceiling. and nearly ended
 my youthful career by blowing off my head.
 Deciding that cold business was not | for me. and that had an artistic tenn perament, applied for work at a wood carver's, and for three years was toll
 erated-I should have said employed by George Mathews of Washington | Street. Much of my time I spent get | ting into my employers good graces by
 cracking jokes. doing jig steps and standing on my head. I was pretty
 nimble with my tongue and legs. but
 my woodworking was-well, sometimes
 would work straight away for a week, | turn out something that was at least l striking. and, carrying 1t to Mir. Ma thews. wait for the praise deserved. It came.
 That's good he would say. Throw l 1t in the stove
 T wanted to so on the stage. For a year I hung about managers offices. They received me as warmly as they do other beginners, and they added a few
 cheerful remarks about my personal ap- pearance.
 "'You're too small they said with re- | markable unanimity.
 Huh,' said one. Your face is about
 as expressionless as a sravestone.
 Think you'd better hire out as chief I at | way you'll ever make hit Al. Fields New Show. Al Field is coming and the up-coun- try critics are saying that his min strel show is the greatest ever. The opening part is a representa- tion of a Gridiron club dinner at the Arlington hotel in Washington. The Grioiron club, as most people know, is a select assemblage of the news paper men of distinction whose head quarters are in Washington, and it's annual event is a dinner at which the prominent men of the hour are guests and the objects of toasts and unmer- ciful "roasts."
 In the Gridiron number the public men brought into view are Uncle Joe" Cannon, Our Own Teddy" Chauncey Depew and other Equitable Life Insuo rance officials; Dr. OSsler, Admiral To-
  Scotty," Gen. Kuropatkin, Gen. Oyama, newspaper reporters, senators and congressmen. This act has setting representing the Arlington hotel lob by and banquet room. The closing act is a"Dance of aNtions' which con- cludes with part named the Feast of the Flowers" Between the two main acts is the olio program, in which appear the Quaker City quartet, Ryan, Lester and Ryan in a physical culture act. Powell and McClain's Darktown band. Billy Clark, the Man Behind the Fun. PTTHY PARAGRAPHS OF PLAYHOUSE PEOPLE.
 Lulu Glaser will play Miss Dolly Dollars" this season.
 Ethel Barrymore Is due here early in the fall playing Sunday" Montgomery Theatre opens Wed- nesday night. Bijou Theatre opens soon. Casino close next Saturday night.
 Wallace Munroe, one of the cleverest men in the theatrical business is managing the tour of Louis James this
 season. - They will be in Montgomery in October. Nat Goodwin opens his New York
 season at the Lyceum Theatre tomor- row night in The Beauty and the Barge" in which he will play the part | of a merry. whole-souled old captain of A Thames barge. The play is by W. w. Jacobs and Louis N. Parker. In connection with his many depart ments in the Empire Theatre building, New York. Charles Frohman has just established a play bureau for the leas" ing of plays. Having an extensive list of popular successes, Mir. Frohman's plays are always in great demand by the stock organizations throughout the country.
 Al S. Roth has arranged to. open the tour of the revival of Sowing the wind" with Suzanne Santje as the stel lar feature, in Newport News, Va, on Monday, October ?. MT. Roth selected Newport News as the locality for the
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