The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-11
neWS of tbe Stage
A1entgomery Theatre--Friday night,
 sThe Heir to the Hoorah."

Mentgomery Theatre--Friday night
 "The Heir to the Hoorah."
 Bitou Theatre-AiI week, wednesdax
 and Saturday matinees, ~The Britt
 Nelson Prize FiEht, Movinss Pictures
 This week will bring us comedy drama, The Heir to the Hoorah." that has been pronounced sensational sue cess wherever it has been seen. It bristIes with Americanism, and it's hu- man heart interest has made 1t one of the great plays of this decade.
 The company presenting The Heir to the Hoorah" Is one of the ablest on the road. Such players as Guy Bates Post, Ernest Lamson, Jane Peyton and Nora osBrfen. could not make failure of any play.
 The Bijou Theatre will offer moving pictures of the Britt-Nelson prize fight all of the week. These pictures are said to be the most vivid and life-like that have ever been secured of pugi- listic encounter.
 For the benefit of ladies, the manage ment will give matinees Wednesday and Saturday, at which time additional pictures will be shown
 ssrhe Heir to the HOorah."
 4 new comedy with a cryptic sound- Ing title. ."rhe Heir to the Hoorah," IS announced for it's local premier at the Montgomery Theatre next Friday night.
 The play had a long and successful run" at the Hudson Theatre, New York. The Heir to the Hoorah" is am nounced simply as an American com edy by Paul Armstrong, staged by the late Kirk LaShe1le.
 "The Heirsto. the Hoorah" Is coni- edy; it's four scenes are located in q mining town "just East of the Divide" .us 1ax 1are e.A ovav for it supports a swagger hotel and boasts at least one 'palatiaf" resi-. deace. In the very first act 1t is ex- plained, that 'The Hoorah" is an inn- mensely rich gold mine owned by Joe Lacy, his brother Dave and their friend Bud Young. ''The Heir" is not heard of until Act IT., then 1t develops that he is baby born to Joe Lacy, and his wife, Geraldine, while they have been estranged. Joe is rough and tumble miner with lots of money, no grammar and heart which would stand assay with the best samples from his mine. Geraldine is conventional little snob in Act l., completely handled" by her ambitious and gfasping mamma. Mrs. Kent. who. having secured marriage settlement of $100,000 on her daughter proceeds to separate her from the hus- band for whom she, the mother.in-Isw. has no further particular use. There are all sorts of complications and the two subsidiary love stories wend their way through the plot until the little Her" of course, reconciles his mother Geraldine and his father Joe in the last act.
 Armstrong's charaeterization is the charm of the comedy and LaShelle's good taste and delft selection Will prob ably be demonstrated in the casting of it. The people, all but five or six, are the people of the West, typical Americans, whose broad humanity and Innate kindness more than compensate for their crudity of speech and man ner.
 Guy Bates Post piass Joe Lacy. Many local theatregoers will remember Guy Bates Post cordially as Steve in "rhe Virginian." Ernest Lamson is conge- nially cast as Dave. Joe's biz brother
 Jane Peyton, we'll remembered as Harriett Fordyce in ''The Earl of Paw. tucket," which had long run in New York City, is a sprlghtly Western widow and mine owner, Kate Brandon by name, who falls in love with Hal Kelly, an Eastern collegian, who hav- ing gone broke in Wafi Street poeS West to -recoup his fortunes Wright Kramer plays Hal Kelly. He has been seen here before in several of Frohs mans companies and in stock. Nora OBfien Is cast for the enotiona1 rola of Geraldine. LocalAtheatre- roers uyiII remember her as leading woman win Viola Allen in Twelfth Night 7" pretty lngenue character, Madge, will pc interpreted by Louise Rutter, the F