The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-23

of footlights, with a crashing orchestra
 in a pit just beyond. and yelling mass
 of people in the dim distance. some of | them squatted on their launches in
 terror, and The Year One" ended then | and there in a fiasco.
 1 But Burgess retained his patents. and | when General Lew wallaces Ben Hur' was staged, the treadmills were util- | ized in the chariot race three at a roy I alty of s35 apiece per week--yielding
 an annual income of about $5.oo0. And l before Ben Hur" ceases The F'utu-
 rity Winner" begins to earn money for | him.
 The modern horse race of the stage at It's best has consisted hitherto of | the start of the horses, their passing out of sight instantly, an interval of | hul1abafoo by the actors to arouse en- thusiasm over something that Is in- visible and finally dash into view by | the racers for a finish. But in this | vaudeville dramalet, three thorough
 breds run madly a distance of half a | mile or so on stationary treadmills while a panorama is moved rapidly be-
 hind them, and the illusion of an &C., tua1 race Is created. And Neii Bur gess's Income continues.
 One of those divans that encircle high center piece is in a. drawing room in Panhandle Pete" and I wondered
 
 ed under the seat to hide. lifted the top of the center like a lid, protruded his frowsY head like a jack-ip-a-hox,
 and then sank out of sight when a
 woman came fin. She took of her bon
 net and jabbed a long hatpin down
 through the cushion-like lid. yell of pain came from within. and Pete popped
 up with the pin thrust through his ear. describe that because. positive
 ly. it is the only novelty in the play. But the people at suburban the atre were tickled by the unoriginality
 because they were used to laughing at
 some of 1t. and because the rest was newly brought from Broadway sources.
 James Harrigan was familiar &C., quaintance from vaudeville, not ident-
 flied at sight but recognized when he
 began to make up as a tramp. The idea of the show is to do what has been done with Nat Wills. Walter Jones. and Ward and Vokes-make Harrigan. the tramp, star comedian of a musical farce. So there is the tramp juggler. repeating his dexterous tricks and rag muffin antics. besides having a spell of of monologue filled with jokes on mat rimony. and another spell of doggerei parodies of popular ballads. His faith ful adherents laughs loyalty at every old thing he does, even to striking a match on his unshaven chin. and talk ms With CTdmmeQ with bread. Nevertheless. they laugh a lot more at the hatDin stuck through his ear. And then, again, when he induces | unsuspecting girls to stand over the grating of subway ventilator. so that the draught blows their skirts over their heads. the glee Is hilarious. That | oeVlce IS taken from recent Broad | way play, and 1t isn't polite, but if | proves that. while some folks will | laIgh et stale run. those same folks | will laugh harder and longer when the fun Is fresh. ~
 Theodore Roosevelt was made a per. sonage in, play of trusts yersus Ia DOT lately, and auiiences cared so little Tor the President as thefefn brought down to a theatric ieyeL that the niece has been retired for %f,econstruction with the political eIement afiminated This week we havb William jennings Bryan on the ytageJ hy the proxy of an initiative actor, but in this case if Is A | sketch in vaudeville.
 Night here offer a reward of a blue ribbon for false high forehead that won snow It's Junction with a real low Iorehead. Our women folk go shopping with a sample of dress stuff. and come nome with ribbons of precisely the same color That actors don't make inc tints or flesh and papier mache exact " alike Is proof that they can't Yet iohn w. RHnsome renders himself lia ole 10 the accusation of being a mali ,ious enemy of MT. Bryan, Instead of the exploiting friend that he pretends to be, when he makes the Nebraskan pink half way up his forehead and white above that line I won't specu- ate as to the inside condition of the 'rain fin head thus variegated in tints outside. And when the color line is
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