The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-23
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turns from Europe to find her father
 ruined financially and undergoing i'm peach nent a. the inspiration of the money octopus against which he has rendered unfavorabie decisions. Dur l ing her visit to Europe she has met and fallen in love with the son of John Burkett Ryder. the man who has rum ed her father Jefferson Ryder. who ia In turn Nin love with Shirley Rossmore. accompanies her to her home and asks for her hand. When Sh.r.ey is informed I of the conditions existing. she dismia- ses him.
 | The second act shows the private library. of the Ryder mansion on Fifsh avenue with fawning senators chair men of national political committees and judges kicking their heels in tae outer corridors as suggestion of the atmosphere of money power All of | them are sent gruffly away bee use John Burkett Ryder has an ap oift- rnent with Sar h Green. author of "The Octopus" book which she has written and whose central character, is John Burkett Ryder. under another name Miss Green. who Is Shirley Rossmore, enters Delighted with her frankness ano cleverness. Ryder asks her to write his autobiography and puts her in pos session of secret documents from watch to get the data After being one of the members of his household for considerable length of time. the mas terF subJugatfon tn her cleverness and Wit is so complete. that he asks her to marry his son in order to keep him tout of the clutches of the daughter Of the hated Rossmores She therstinon. admits her identity as the real Mss Rossmore.
 outwitted and cheated in his fondest hopes. Ryder orders her from his house Jefferson tnterferes. telling his father Arafa become her husband ShirIeys pride | interferes and she denounnes Ryder Sr- assuring him she would not allow herself to marry the son of nan who tramples good under his golden heaI and who refuses to lift his hand to save her father from pnmerited dis.
 Henry B. Harris name ,s nrooY. ths, the production w.n be given here in every way first-class
 'SI'he sIeepipG Beauty aud the Renns .s
 The most phenomenal Spectacular ex- travagaiza success will be seen. plavinr af the Msntgomery Theatre Friday nisht. The Sleeping Beauty and the Feast. and what American travellers are won't to style. tremendous Drury Lane spectacular nrodiiction, a fairy .extrayaGanza- which delights the heads Of the young and bring back. to the rarents those days when those very tales possessed inde$ sribable charms
 Beauty and the Beast" is no panto mime; 1t Is an extravaganza with B K coherent plot gorReously set and pre-. sented by well chosen company. It ia not so awfully English, as It has been strictly Americanized. It is of course the oft told fair1 story or rather two fairy stories with which every one Is. or should be familiar. The Sleeping Beauty and the Beauty and the Beast
 The Druvy Lane book was made by Messrs Arthur Collins and J. H Hood. end they have so interwoven the two fairy stories, that UT ierIying the spsr tacle, Is the, old and always Interesting motive of the conflict between gooo and evil; the powers of good being re- presented by the Queen of the fairies and her court. while the witch and her i'm and demons are the powers of evil. over which tue good finally triumphs.
 The idea, that while Sleeping Beauty and the Beastr Is represented as the greatest spectacular achievement Of the English and American stage. the story Is not smothered.
 The ballet of the -Four Seasons" and the "Enchanted Palace" are revelations to the theatre goers in the perform ance of The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast t, <