The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-03-25
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
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(Continued from TWenty-sixth Page) >~~~~~ ingly well in New York where it is the proper caper to pretend to thoroughly understand everything about automobiles and horses, and not a few laughed up- roariously at jokes they failed utterly to understand. Miss Chaser will be seen at the Jefferson theatre in April.
 Viola Allen will present Clyde Fitchs play, "The Toast of the Town" at the Jefferson theatre next month. It appears from all accounts that Miss Allen has achieved the greatest success of her ca reer as Betty Singleton In this play MT. Fitch may have written a better play than '"Fhe Toast of the Town" but the general impression is that he has not done so He has evidently provided Miss Allen with a great role, and one in which she shines with particular brilliancy.
 Charles Howard, the scholarly dramatic critic of the Boston Globe, wrote enthu- siastically in that paper of the opening performance of Mrs. Leslie Carter at the Fremont theatre on Monday evening" Feb ruary 26 It is seldom that serious critic will permit himself to be carried away so completely by a stage performance. Evidently. when he saw Mrs Carter 8 Adfed, ne 1elI that only tHe nlSneSI pTdlSo he could bestow would do justice to her work The following is MT. Howard's s tribute:
 Mrs Leslie Carter trlumphed on the stage of the Fremont theatre last evening as she has never before triumphed in Bos- ton. In Adrea. the tragic play written for her by David Belasco and John Luther Long, she revealed a command of the resources of dramatic art that compelled I,ax recognition as one of the really great actresses of tho period.
 After giving such a performance she can no longer be regarded merely as an emotional actress of tremendous physical strength; she must be accepted as an ac- tress of the highest artistic attachments and given the homage due the greatest tragedienne of American birth now upon the stage.
 i" 'Adrea' was created to give full scope to Mrs. Carter's emotional accomplish ments, and she realizes all it's possibilities to a degree that must have astonished any one who had not seen the actress since she was last in Boston, two years ago.
 Mrs Carter gives an impersonation of the character of Adrea that could not be surpassed in denotement of tragic force and intensity. In the calmer moments in
 
 pathos. she was always artistic and ef- fective."
 The management of Charles R. Han ford says:
 The present theatrical season is near enough it's end to warrant the direct statement that it is in every respect the most satisfactory and successful that MT Charles B. Hanford has ever known. No viclssitudes which could occur between now and it's close could so lower the aver age as to make 1t otherwise The an- nouncement of the most successful season of MT. Hanford's career has become all most as regular an annual institution as the farewell tour of some of our great singers, but frequent as 1t has been 1t has in every instance been made in abso- lute good faith. Each year of MT. Han ford's career has shown so marked an ad- vance in popular appreciation over its predecessor that his management felt that prosperity was at flood tide. Yet instead of ebbing. the wave of public interest in MT. Hanford has increased and spread. each year registering new highwater mark. In some of the cities which MT. Hanford visited this season. there Is no doubt that the limit of his drawing power has been reaehed. unless before his next tour. new and larger theatres replace the structures which this season held as many people as could find seats or stand Ing room during Hanford engagement.