The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-28
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 AT CASINO THEATRE.
The Hoffman show Drew Another Large
 Audience.

| | Monteomery people last night for the | ,hird time this week offered proof that | hey are willing to patronize the good :, show, when more than 1,000 or them | went to Electric Park and the Casino 1 Theatre. Admirers of high class xau- devilie upheld the traditions of the | city. Always In the past the people Of the Capital City ffocked to the thing | they know is good, and last night they l showed that they recognize in Max | Hoffman's Company a class of unusu- | ally clever performers.
 | That Gertrude Hoffman and the other | artists on the bill this week are play ing to full houses does not in itself | mean that other attractions at the | Casino earlier in the summer have | been poor. On tke contrary. as a whole, they have been of an exceptions ally high average. If the attendance | has been smaller during the other weeks of the season, there mag Ne oth~ | CT reasons to give. Inclement weather
 during the first two Jg three weeks accounts in some measure for this.
 Montgomery has put it's stamp of ap- proval upon the Hoffman Company in a manner uamistakable.
 Moreover that the people of this city
 have hocked to the Casino to see the bill this week Is not an indica ton sole ly of the favor in which fany partic- uIdT one OH iHc pTOHkAm IS TesaTQe0 True, there are stars. and some of the songs are mores popular than others. Those who have gone to the park have carried away with them the recoIlec- tion of Gertrude Hoffman. of Bessie Kyle of the Dolly Sisters and of "Sli- vers" Oakley. They have left the grounds whstling Don't You Think You'd Like to Love Me-" and .on san Francisco Bay" But the real reason of the bills popularity Is found in the general excellence of Athe performance as whole. nigh class clever and arr, tistie
 If there Is eone number more than another which caught the hearts of the audience last night, 1t was the musical sketch Tn the Swin," and the song of Miss Hoffman and the Seminary Girls, Dent you Think you'd like to Love Mey Singling out one after, another of the audience the pretty chorus and it's leaders made their appeal. and if there was ohe of those who were asked the question who could not have given a positive answer in the affirmative, he Gid not show it in his expression.
 Taking the performers individually, however, Miss Hoffman was deservedly the object of the warmest applause. In Der singing, her limitations her dancing, Miss Hoffman Is ever the artist. It is as dancer, perhaps, that she is most the Iln1Sned actress or vaudeville, her abandon dances being one of the best | things of its kind seen in Montgomery
 in year. Her limitations of promin-
 ent figures on the contemporary stage
 were all warmly received. those of
 George Cohan and Anna Held being
 specially good.
 The Sisters Dolly in their songs and
 dances present a pretty and original
 number. Scarcely more than children
 these chaming little girls go through
 four or five dances difficult and clever in a manner which draws forth the
 warmest appreciation from the audi enee.
 A series of clever impersonations ar' given by the Otto brothers. German comedians, in their songs, while Tony l Hart has a monolegue sketch whics calls forth strong commendation. About "Slivers" Oakley and his base ball pantomine. 1t is hard to talk. "Sliv- ers'' himself. does no talking. He givei | 1t without comment, but with "Slivers' l in his own role. explanation is use l less. The people who saw him las night understood; they saw every mov' l in the game and explanation would have been superf1uous.
 The Casino entertainment closes witt | sketch of music and nonsense whicl I Max Hoffman has named "Everybod! | Works but Father" It brings everyone in the company on the stage and closei l with a finale which adds a strong fin ish to 6 performance strong through | out.
 The same bill will be presented at thu | Casino tonight