The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-21

Henry B. Irving puts on the shoes of his father in The Lyons Mail. mel odrama which might be changed into | a more arousing melodrama of ROCKY Mountain stage coach hold-up than any | of those used In our low price and low | taste theatres, but Is obsolete as en- | tertainment for more cultured play goers Sir Henry's greata acting Of the | very, very good and very. very bau
 men who looked so much alike than | one came near to losing his head TOT | the others crime justified its reten- | tion in his repetory, but 1t remains to be seen whether his sons admirals
 performance will be accepted as reason enough for adopting 1t into his. The | most interesting comparative point in
 the newly revealed performance-and the physical and temperamental like ness of the young man to his father makes the avoidance of comparison dil ficult--is that in this inherited role he Is less closely suggestive oi his parent than in his first Amercan char acter. the Malatesta of "Paolo and
 Francesca" winch Sir Henry never
 played. In the beautiful poetic frag-
 ment known as King Rene's Daugh-
 ter" Dorothea Baird Irving's appear
 ance as Ialan the suggests Ellen Terry
 as the blind girl nearly enough to make
 an uninformed onlooker wonder
 whether the co-star of the Henry Irv-
 ing of today were not a daughter or
 the co-star of yesterdays Henry Irv-
 ing.
 Brooklyn Borough believes 1t has q
 taller novelty in Cecil Spooner as the
 heroine of The Girl Rallies. What
 Beecher and Talmadge used to be to
 the pulpit of Brooklyn so are Cecil
 and Edna May Spooner to it's stage
 Brooklyn sent Otis Skinner forth 10
 wider renown. but locally the spoon
 CTS are the dearer pets. Not dearer in
 price. for skinner costs two dollars in
 his home comings, while the Spooners
 have been there steadily in stock
 company at half a dollar for the two
 with quarter dollar matlnees ana
 change of play every week-untll this seasons departure on a starring tour'
 which now brings her back to Brook- lvn Borough. Cecils audiences look, as the Beecher and Talmadge congre- cations did, and they watch her crack a safe as approvingly as their parents listened to their favorite preachers ser mons Brooklyn's love Is of a kind that endureth all things.
 Nevertheless there is an air or dread as the audience gathers and seats lt- self Our Cecil as a girl Raffles' Has i she gone wrong since quitting Mother Spooners theatre and taking in tn" , road with Charles F.. Blaney. the melo- dramatic expert in criminology? The l program affords quick relief. with this line in the cast: 'Rafflrs. only | nickname Cecil Spooner." She is a | school girl in a short frock and long | hair. both of which sh" flaps ana ! twirls in childish glee But when she l learns that the old man in who's" [ thieves den she has been reared is not | her father and that the papers to prov" her the daughter of an English lord are in a safe in mansion up the Hudson' she becomes. life Rallies. an amateur cracksman. First, she goes there as a guest at a garden party. and gives a song and dance. with tn" other | guests for a ballet and chorus But that is merely an afternoon prelude.
 In the middle of the night, she puts on a boys clothes and turns burglar. A wonderful expert she is. too. for m | fifty-four seconds by the watch she drills a hole into the lock of the sate. sets off a charge of dynamite, and the door obligingly breaks away from 1 bolts and hinges to fall intact on the floor Gee, but 1t Is dandy Joh | Those ordinary burglars who see II must be astounded. But not so the ac- of Cecil Spoonet some thing extradorinary IS to be expected when Cecil goes a-burglaring