The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04

Company. Miss Miner will make her
 debut in Salt Lake City with this com ; pany on it's cross continent tour. Charles Frrohman's next two produce
 tions will be "The Mountain Climber
 with Francis Wilson and 'The Duer' with otis skinner,
 Marie CahiIl in her new musical comedy Molly Moonshine" with her
 own big company will come to the
 Montgomery Theatre next month.
 The Heir to the Hoorah'' with Guy
 Bates Pest the remarkably clever
 young actor who pleased us in The virginian," as the star, is one of the
 excellent things due here soon. 2 In Baltimore Charles Frohman pro-
 duced Ella Wheeler wilcox's poetical play, aMfzpah.' It has a musical as well as 8 dramatic side and the poetess has written 1t in collaboration with 1 Luscombe Searelle The play is based
 on the Scriptural story of Esther and
 is in blank verse.
 George Ade has sailed for London | After brief stay in the English cap- l ital the author of 'The College Widow and 'The Shogun" will embark by | steamer for Cairo for trip up the | Blue Nile, and will probably take a :, caravan for an incursion into the Holy
 Land, and may make a pilgrimage to
 Mecca.
 January 2S, in Denver. Florence Rob- erts produced for the first time on any l stage an emotional drama entitled | Pauline Darcy in which she acted | the title role. From all accounts she | l play. Miss Roberts is the young wo- man who gave fine performance in I Montgomery of Ann LaMont" during | Christmas week. The play was not | success.
 George NJ. Conan in his new play, | George Washington, Jr.", received hearty and enthusiastic welcome at the l Court Square Theatre, Springfield,
 Mass. last Wednesday evening. The | play moved along so smoothly that the | audience, Manager Gilmour. newspaper
 men and the guests from New York | could hardly realize it was a first night l performance. Mir. Conan made a short | speech after the second act, thanking | the audience for the applause showered l on his new play and company.
 Ethel Barrymore with her brothers. Lionel and Jack Barrymore, in the
 double J. M. Barrie bill at the largest rion, New York, are playing the largest
 business since the theatre came under Charles Frohman's management, seven
 years ago. Miss Ethe1 Barrymore has achieved a triumph in Alice Sit by the Fire" which is a play of unusual
 surprises and wonderfully quaint com
 edy. Proceeding this. Lionel Barry
 more appears as Pantaloon in little play that has been ~escribed as "a
 masterpiece in miniature"
 The sentence of the public of New l York on David Warfield is that he shall
 spend at least two years on Broad
 way, at the Bijou Theatre. He may
 have an indeterminate sentence. Play goers are loath to let him stop play
 ing in ''The Music Master" at the | Bijou Theatre. and Mir. Belasco may | find himself confronted with a demand i that Warfield remain there for third year. The theatre Hs packed from gallery to orchestra at every perfor- nance. There Is no question that David Warfeld is the best patronized music master in the metropolis. His list Of pupils so far has extended to nearly a million. What other teacher of music can say as much?
 Reginald DeKoven Is rapidly completing the score for the new l romantic Student King" which Henry W. Savage produces Easter week. As the opera will be orcnestrated for great number of instruments and as there is some characteristic music written by the composer. Mir. De- Koven has arranged through his foreign correspondents to secure several new wood wlnd instruments, one to have an intermediate pitch be- | tween the oboe and the saxophone, which will be used to reinforce certain mellow echoes from an invisible [ chorus The scene ot action of the opera is in Hungary, and Is laId near Buda-P Pesth.
 Bertha Galland, who Is the latest clever young star to come under David Belasco's management. has warranted his selection of her to play the title role in Sweet Kitty Bel liars" by her splendid work in that character. The dainty Bath comedy Is received rapturously everywhere Miss Galland is a beautiful girl and finished actress, and the self willed Kitty could not have better ex- ponent Mir. Belasco expressed him. self as delighted-anc he is not easy to please. He has surrounded Miss Galland with great company, and the scenery she is using Is all new.
 "The Galloper." Richard Harding Daviss' new farce which farms all ac- counts has attained a vast degree of success on the road with Raymond Hitchcock in the tie character. will probably be rendered into book form by the author. Mir. Davis is a proli- ic writer as war correspondent, novelist and dramatist. Several of his works have been dramatized, but this will be the first instance of any of his stage works being "novelized." The idea of rendering play into story form is not d new one; several