The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-07

give it a distinctly pleasing flavor. It deals with the social and political con . ditions following the purchase by the United States of the little island of Iolo or Sulu in the Philippines. In a series of witty and whimsical situa-
 tions. MT. Ade shows what might hay, happened at this exciting period. The foreign sitting of the play has
 afforded the author, the costumer, the scene painter and the composer un- usual opportunities and great comic opera latitude. of which they have all taken full advantage The Sultan of Sulu" occupies a field peculiarly its own. It Is cleverly conceived and the
 music Is tuneful and popular. Tn, costumes are faithful to the locale. the scenes are triumphs of stage realism.
 and the chorus Is made up of young and pretty women, who are perfectly drilled.
 The song hits are many and are in
 troduced in natural way and scattered pleasingly through the two acts.
 "Thorns and Orange BlossOms.'' One of the newest comedy-drama productions of the season will be of fered at the Bijou Theatre the first three nights of this week and We'd nesday matinee, when Rowland and Clifford's exceptionally well selected
 company of players, headed by > Edna Earlie Lindon, who is well known here, will present Lem B. Parkcr's
 dramatzation of Bertha M. Clay's pop
 ular book, "Thorns and Orange Blos-
 soms."
 brief of the play is as follows: In Warwickshirc, England, under the
 bells of St. Byno's Parish, Violet Rca
 ton grew to fair young womanhood.
 reared by an embittcred maiden aunt.
 Violet had accepted her teaching that
 the aristocracy is the natural, logi-
 cal enemy of tn" common people
 From Warkickshirc came Randolph
 Lord Ryvers. patrictan hy birth, ar
 tist by nature. Learning her antipa-
 thy toward the Hri$tocracy he wooed and won her as Mr Randolph, a strug
 gling artist, At St lhillipo. Italy
 Richard Carstone. wealthy man of the
 people. met and loved the .rtsts wife.
 He sowcd the seeds ot dissention be-
 tween them. By accident they met
 Randolph's aristocratic mother and
 sweet sister Monica at St. Phillipo.
 His mothers hatred for tn" common
 people is as uncompr"misinG as his
 wife's for the arist"rracy.
 Tommy Swift q young Chicagoan,
 travelling abroad appears upon the
 scene With him and Monica. to SC"
 is to love. and her faithful suitor, Lord Rupert Forrest Hay, is left as far behind in Tommv's characteristic" American rush as a hobby horse on a race course
 In the second act Elndnlph's moth. CT. believing it hcr duty, acts about to rid her son of tn, wife. no matter
 to what lengths she must go. With
 the aid of Rirhara rarSton". she succeeds, and after Hn act of bitter domestic struggle. tn" curtain falls upon the wife's d"~perat" d"nuncia- tlon md flight from the hush"nd she believes wishes to b" rid ot nor. The third act depl"ts tF" wife's hcartrcnding, soul tryinG Struggles against illness, starvation. winter s
 merciless cold and villains efforts
 to degrade her. and Hoses aDon Lord 'Forrest- HaySs noble sfriftc" Hf life
 for the honor of his friends,
 The fourth act tdN'S Na "a- to
 St Ryno's. whence T"mmr And Mnni- ca have eloped, followed by a'r irat"
 mother. Ill and weary, Niol"' 'me"
 to St. Byno's to beg the aant wh" never forKave her marrle.g :. to shelter