The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-19
Al. H. Wilson.

Al H. Wilson, the German dialect con- edian, in Sidney R. Ellis comedys "The German Gipsey," will be the attraction at the Jefferson theatre next Thursday matinee and night
 MT. Wilson will undoubtedly be wei comed by crowded houses during this engagement, as he has always been drawing attraction here. young man of undoubted talents is MT. Wilson, gifted with the unusual quality of be- ing able to extract tear or convulse his auditors with merriment. He is also the possessor of singing voice that is noted for purity and sweetness of tone. So rich is 1t in quality that the sobriquet "The Golden Voiced Singer" has been most applied to him. As one musical ex- pert expressed 1t, "When MT. Wilson sings. 1t Is like pulling the love strings of the heart"
 "The German Gipsy'' is by Robert Sid ney, who has written a number of suc- cesses, and 1t is claimed that this is his best. It tells a heart story that is convincing and holds ones interest. The scenes are located in the state of New York at the present time, the stage pie lures representing an ancient manor house and grounds, typical gpsy camp in the woods and a harvest field, with the wheat waving under the sheen of a bright harvest moon. The story deals with a band of Zingara gipsies from Ger many, having in their midst a young German. He is loved by the Gipsy Belle, while he in turn has lost his heart to another and seeks to leave his roaming existence to become a house dweller. The gipsies endeavor to reclaim him and par tially succeed, but love conquers in the end and they are forced to wander away without him.
 Interspersed with the serious element are complications of a farcical nature, which disclose the trials and tribulations or the young German Metz in his eff forts to escape the matrimonial snares Of a designing widow and the jealousy of his hot-tempered uncle, who, being in love with the widow himself. misinter- prets his nephew's actions and seeks to annhilate him.
 The piece gives MT. Wilson an oppor- tunity to use his voice in songs that reach the heart.
 The list of MT. Wilson's new songs is as follows: Under the Harvest Moon," "Gretchen,' "The Love Trust" No Love Like Thine" My German Rose" "eThe Girl For Me-" and German yodel.
 Eleanor Robson.
 Miss Eleanor Robson, who has made such a phenomenal hit both in New York and in London, in Israel Zangwill's s "Merely Mary Ann,' will be seen at the Jefferson theatre next Saturday. matinee and night.
 Seldom have a star and play re- ceived such enthusiastic notices as Miss Robson and Merely Mary Ann,' both in America and in England. Miss Robson herself was praised to the skies and 1t is said that nothing so appealing as her impersonation of the slavery heroine of MT. Zangwilrs comedy has been seen on the stage in many long day.
 Merely Mary Ann is the dramatiza- ton of MT. Zangwill's story of the same name. The heroine Is a little country girl, who has become the drudge in @ London lodging house. Pretty, underfed. overworked, her only friend is her ca- nary, until one of the lodgers, a talented, but penniless composer of music, wins her affections by few words and acts of kindness which later on he supplements with kisses. The courtship of this in- congrous couple is full of comedy and pathos and at last they plan an elope- ment. Of the purity of Mary Ann's pur pose there is never any question. The composer is more worldly-wise than she however, and his conscience troubles him severely. On the eve of their departure comes the news that Mary Ann has fal- len heiress to large fortune left by her brother who had struck ile'' in America. This arouses the composers conscience to grater activity and he is utterly un- able now to wrong the millionairess as he intended to do the slavey. Neither can 1he marry a grill sweet and pure and charming though she may be. who is so much below him in social position. And so they separate.
 This was the conclusion of MT. Zang- wills original story, but he has added an act to his play to tell how Mary Ann,