The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-13
.Loyers and LunatIcse la Good.

gomery Theatre tonight In The Duel
 'LOyers and Luhaticsy is Good. | A crowded house greeted Lovers and | Lunatics" at the BiJou last night and ' nobody in the big audience regretted | going to the performances The neat
 enthusiastic and spirited peEiiornmanes pi, na,i.s i It Is said that chorus girls who are l good lockers and good dancers become | fewer and fewer each year. The Lov- CTS and Lunatics" company somehow | seem to have gotten a corner on a ! chorus that both looks well and dances we'll And, after all, the success or a musical comedy depends upon an & exs l ce.lent chorus. Because Lovers and ! Lunatics" is well supp lied in that line 1 the performance pleased the audience 1 that packed the neat playhouse from stage door to footlights.
 Not that the chorus was the only meritorious feature of the evening g entertainment! but because its excel fence was surpfise m , vlsw ,,rIs ph sre s,e not to be had, is 1t given preIerence over the other pleasing items m the ne, evenings entertainment Ihe company has a lot of girls who can dance, sing and wear clothes with sufficient grace To make the chorus even more at- tractive the management has clotneo lt handsomely and sumptuously
 A good looking chorus and good dancing are looked upon as essentials to a musical comedy of the first class and nobody who saw the performance of last night can doubt that Lovers and Lunatics" fell short of these es- sentials. The absence of johnny Ford and Mayme Gehin, who were first seen in the production of the piece here and who have wide reputation as spirited and fancy dancers, was not regretted. While they may have ex- celled in the roles they did, the cho- rus that helped them out was not as good as the handsome aggregation which disported Itself on the Bijou stage. The piece is here for four per forrmances, including Wednesday matinee and anybody who loves de- lightful and spontaneous musical com edy will stand in their own light tf they S0nt sec if
 The music of the piece is not dts tinctIy original What musical come- dy music of this day is? The orig inality of Lovers and Lunaties' lies largely in the use of the we'll dressed and goodlooking chorus. They put on several original dances and groupings The automobile stunt" for instance has not been done often enough for it to become cheapened h several in- stances the chorus was used in novel and original way.
 Wilbur Mack, who came here with ont any sort of a general reputation,
  star of the evening. MT Mack. as the autonobiling Hamilton, was without doubt the company's best bet. He is a natural comedian and his comedy doesn't run to the slhpstick brand. Now, in "Loyers and Lunatics" where lovers are mistaken for iunatics ana Iunatics are mistaken for lovers, there is a good deal of noise and running around, but MT Mack produces as1ine and as gentle a brand of comedy as one would care 10 see, ftefinement Ia the keynote of his performance and 1t Is a pleasure to watch his work
 Toe Morris, as Ikey the Hebrew gen tleman, who never did unTerstahd anything. was naturally expected to be good and he did not disappoint eS- poctations. His paro1ies were alto gether good. The audience vas pleas ed to give a number of encores. but Mr. Morris got a goodly hare ot these encores and his parodies. perhaps. pleased more than any other feature of his work still, he is comedian of whom nothing, except good, can be said. His humor is of the frank and unostentatious sort and the "udience gave it due mead of appreciation
 A clever piece pf burlesque was done by J. Maurice Holden in the part of a sentimental and foolish old maid The audience got more laughs out Of A scene between her and lkey than any other incident in the performance MT. Holden did some clever-sotne very clever-work and for 1t he .s due a generous measure of praise.
 Miss Lawson in the part of Nellie