The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-11

~f@t|o &MaNM6fQ G4ptdihCN that she did not think 1t helped direct
 ly, but that 1t served to keep the man.
 agers awake during the reading.
 waffs of the stage.
 The newest song hits in New lork are Cheyenne" "Jessamine ana T Won't Play Unless You Coax Me.
 Clara Palmer, who starred last year
 in -The Girl From Rays IS with Marie Cahiil. who comes to the Mont gomery Theatre late in March with her musical success Molly Moonsnine. Henry B. Harris { of New York
 has been in receipt of an offer from a committee representing the American resident in Havana to build theatre there for the presentation or Ameri- can plays by an especially organized company.
 The Savage English Grand Opera Company on it's record-breaking tour l in Winnipeg and the cities of the 1 Northwest--st Paul, Minneapolis Sioux City, Omaha. Kansas City and St. Louis | are the cities named in the itinerary on 1 its return eastward
 Grace George, who Is Mrs. William A. Brady. produced her new play The fktSAtEI GlEE III IUe WOAA DS &tAE@s ' ] Hughes. at the Olympia Theatre. St. ! Louis, last night. It Is story Of a | girl who sets aside a fortune to wed l a poor young man who will not marry | her with her money. Adversity comes | to the couple and by a strange freak of | fortune they come into large sum Of
 money.
 Robert Edeson will continue to pre-
 sent "Strongheart" for the entire sea- | son of 1906-O7. In the following Sep | tember Mir Edeson will present one of | the several new plays which he has ur- | der consideration. Stanislaus Stange, | William, c. De Mile and Charles | Klein are now writing plays, any of
 which may be set aside for MT. Edeson's l use.
 David Belasco is making preparations | to celebrate, In a fitting manner, the | five hundrsdth performances of The l Music Master" which will be very | soon. David warfield. the star of the
 play. has played Heer Won | and he is looking forward to the completion of the fifth century with l as much enthusiasm as if he were a schoolboy. MT. Belasco expects that 1 the performance will be witnessed by all the prominent people in New York who can get to the BiJou Tneatre. lt will be interesting in more ways than one. For example, the original cast Tn ''The Music Master" is intact and all l the leading parts will be played at the 1 500th performance by the same persons who presented them on the opening | night.
 Gertrude QuinlAn has the laughing hit of "The College Widow" She im- personates Flora wiggins. the daugh- l ter of the boarding house keeper and ! the nemesis of any student behind in
 his bills. Flora suggests several of
 Ade's fancies separately elaborated in
 his Fables in Slang" but the original
 came under his observation when he was a Chicago newspaper man. She | was a proud and unbending cashier in 1 an ail-night restaurant, wore cheap 1 1ewelry and spoke picturesquely atro- cious English. The restaurant was l patronized by a number of rough-and- ready comedians, who were always | ready to give the cashier a shot. One night she had been under the fire of q long string of bantering customers, the | last of whom had given her an awful
 broadside smile at which she merely
 sniffed. Ade was right behind ready to pay his check. You are not angry?" he asked. Now. do you know" said
 ''Haughty Harriet5' that is something I never get"