The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-05

torical drama, 'The Shepherd King" which comes to the Jefferson theare soon
 is David, the shepherd, impersonated by
 Mr. Wright Lorimer. The play begins
 at the home of Davids father, near Beth-
 lehem, where the simple life of the shep
 herd lad who afterwards becomes king is
 shown in its primitive surroundings.
 It requires a great deal to stir dra- matic critic but Miss Eleanor Robson
 has accomplished the feat several times
 with her performance of Merely Mary
 Ann Her latest conquest is of Clark
 McAdams of the St. Louis Post-Disptach. Mir. McAdams even lapses into poetry and here's his efforts:
 I saw a playa sweet, rare play In which sweet Mary Ann Made all her SIS into z's, As little slavies can.
 | And when she said to little Dick: ''Zing; zing sweet for him,' Upon my soul. my heart grew sick And both mine eyes grew dim. Mary Ann! What magic thine? That ours the wondrous treat l To list thine ev'ry little word 1 You do gay zings so zweet. | There Is something in B. c. Whitney's production of 'The Show GirP' or "The Magic City" musical comedy in two acts, which comments itself strongly to amusement lovers. It is said to be one 1 of the best musical comedies on the road and one of the best extravaganzas l which has come from the pen of R. A.
 Barnett. It ran for three months at Wal
 lacks theatre. New York City. l
 ical comedy that has had a long and
 successful run in Chicago, Boston and New York, will be heard at the Jefferson theatre in the near future. There is wealth of scenery and beautiful costumes,
 a chorus of dainty maidens and some | stunning show girls. The comedy through | out the piece is said to musically good and of the refined sort. The music, 1t | is claimed, is of the tuneful variety and quite likely to be heard long after the | engagement here.
 l All theatregoers know Joe Weber Marie Dressler. Charles A. Bigelow, Trixie | Friganza. Sam Collins, Edward J. Con-
 nelly, Sam Marion, Edythe Mover and all | the other long time favorites of Broad | way, and particularly of Joe Weber's famous Music Hall, the birthplace of more roaring successes than any the- atre in America. But there are also some new faces in his company, which Is one of the most important attractions of | its kind to be seen in this city this year, faces that win hosts of friends every | where. owned by players destined to be-
 come just as popular as the famous "old l guard"
 Football as it is played in the Land
 of Oz'' is exemplied on the stage of the | Academy of Music. New York, Montgom- | cry and Stone, who are said to have made | a profound study of the game MT.
 Montgomery will illustrate the foot | ball tactics employed at Oxford and Cambridge, the great English university.
 MT. Stone will use the American tactics of Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Colum- | bia. The contest will have piquant in- terest for all devotees of football, as it
 is the earnest aim of the comedians to ] elevate the game to the highest standard l of slugging and kicking. There will be | two doctors and an ambulance in at
 tendance at the Academy at every perfor- l nance.
 | Wilton Lackaye, who is shortly to ap- /; pear here In the dramatized version of
 Frank Norris famous novel "The Pit" , will have a new play this spring. He is l booked to appear in New York for q l four months run in a drama that has | been the sensation of the year in Lon | don Eng This will be the last appear ance of Mir. Lacnaye in ''The Pit in this {, city.