The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-25

with sketches for several of Mir. Saw ages new forthcoming productions, and
 will begin next week on his return to
 New York to work on the scenery of
 the. new romantic light opera, The
 Student King by DeKoven and Strange
 George Ade's record d-breaking com
 ady success, The College Widow" as played by Henry W. Savage's Eastern i nnd Western companies, is still keep ing up it's wonderful pace. The collec- tion of frat" pins acquired by Ger truje Quinlan, Frances Ring, Dorothy Tennant and Lida McMillan, of these
 respective companies, have run up into tho hundreds The members of both
 organizations have joined In sending a
 unique gift to Mir. Ade. who reaches
 Cairo. Egypt, in two weeks, previous
 to an ascent up the Nile
 Charles Kleins play, "The Lion and the Mousse" and George Ade's Comedy Just Gu tof College" are playing game of tag throughout the country. ''The Lion and the Mouse" followed "Just Out of College" at the Lyeeum Theatre New York; the Ade comedy followed the Klein play at the Park Mouse" followed Just Out of College" at Powers Theatre Chicago, and the last named play gives a performance at South Bend succeeding The Lion and the Mouse" which played an en- gagement there of two nights prior to Its appearance In Chicago.
 A summer school of dramatic art and etiquette will put to sea about the first of June and. cruising to Lab rador, return about the first of Sept ember ready for the succeeding theat- rieal season. Marie Cahill, who will be seen here in Molly Moonshine" at the Montgomery Theatre in March, apd who has created considerable interest in her efforts to found what she wants to call the Mary Anderson Guild" and which was at first outlined as summer home for chorus girls, has fin- ally hit on the above method of estab- fishing the first branch of the guild. She has commissioned Messrs. Swasey. Raymond and Page, naval architects and engineers of Boston, to go ahead and get her the proper boat
 Odette Tyler, who is creating a sens ation wherever she appears in David Belasco's drama, The Heart of Mary land." had a narrow escape from a serious accident, last week, in Chicago. The bell upon which she swings, to Iprevent its ringing the signal for her lover to be shot. became loose on it's | Ifastenings, and swung to the right, in- stead of forward and back, when Miss
 Tyler threw herself upon 1t. She did
 not lose her nerve, however. but fin- l ished the scene without the audience
 suspecting her danger. When ths cur
 tain fell she was nearly faintlng from | the strain and MT. MacLean, her hus-
 band. who is also In the cast had all
 most to carry her to her dressing room.
 It Is not generally known that Mme. Sarah Bernhadts began her career up-
 on the stage as a participant in Bib Heal play but 1t was there that the Divine Sarah" had the real beginning
 of her career. When seven years old she was placed in Mme. Fressard's school, Auteum, having been made a
 Roman Catholic. Two years later she found herself in the celebrated Grand
 champs convent of Versailles. and while in this convent in 1857. she so distinguished herself in a biblical play
 enacted before the visiting archbishop
 of Paris. that if was matter of short
 time before she was enrolled in the
 Conservatory as Q regular student of
 the drama.