The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-15
"Rnhea in Toxland :.

"Babes In TOyiand."
 Babes in Toyland," Glen McDonoush and Victor Herbert's musical extrava- ganza, which was the vogue of New YcIk, Chicago and Boston, having had a run of 25O nights at the Majestic Theatre, New York, and 150 nights in Chicago, will be presented at the Mont gomery Theatre Tuesday night
 Unquestionably Babes in Toyland" will be one of the events of the dra- matic season in Montgomery, as it has been in all the cities of the North where Hamlin & Mitchell have present. ed this musical company of interna- tional fame.
 Babes in Toyland," replete in bril- lient scenic and electrical effects and gorgeous costumes, Is a spectacle which charms be wilders and entrances every treated the nursery fairy stories, which are so dear to the hearts of every child, and to the hearts of everyone who has been child, in an entirely original manner. One sees Alan and Jane, Beau tiful Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, Boy Blue. Jack and Jill, Little Miss Muffett, Red RiIing Hood and all tha other characters of fairy fame. depicted by talented and belutieul actresses and ca pablo actors.
 The opening act shows the home of the Widow Piper and her thirteen chill dren. The succeeding scenes in the three acts reveal the Babes lost In the woods and later masquerading Nin the imaginary country of Toyland.
 The plot of Babes In Toyland'' prin- cipally concerns Alan and Jane, the central figures. and old Barnaby, their uncle. The story in brief Is this: Alan and Contrary Mary are sweethearts. Tom Tom and Jane are sweethearts. Old Barnaby. who Is the guardian of Alan and Jane desires to destroy them, that he may marry Contrary Mary him self. as well as secure Alan and Jane's wealth. Barnaby's first plan goes amiss however, aS1he sends Alan and Jane out on ship, hoping they Will be lost at sea. His second effort meets with little less success, for when he tries to destroy his niece and nephew by sending them into the woods wher } the Vale of Spiders Is. he succeeds in causing them much alarm and fright, but they eventually find their way into Toyland. Here it Is that the most in- tensely interesting part of the action oi the play takes place as Alan and Jane disguised as s )me of the dolls which the Master Toymaker of the World wno lives in Toyland, has made, enters lnto the drills and marches of these toy sol- diers and so disguised evade the de- tection of old Barnaby and the searen of the detectives which he employs to run them down.
 After many complications. Contrary Mary, who has run away from nome with Tom Tom. and gone into IoSlano too. discovers Alan and Jane and Barn aby discovers them also baFhaoy forces Contrary Jane to marry him when Alans identity has become re- vealed to him, telling her that IT snt refuses he will hand Alan over 10 tnt M officers of Toyland as- the muroerer o' the Master -makeer Of the Worio who had been slain by some oI tns i dolls who were made to talk ana wa,n n. The final climax comes when Ist VI. hau' s.s, intoxicat ed with the success oL ms VI. lAinous schemes, drinks poisoued wine and dies and Contrary Mary. owing ls technical point in the laws oL roy. ] land which says any conoeh'hsu man