The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-29

Managers of three theatrical com
panies sat around Montgomery hotels
yesterday and sighed Tor personal
acquaintance with Roy knaDesnue
and the use of his lates flying ma
chine.
Members of three theatrical compa-
MES stalked the streets of Montsom-
cry, considering the breadth of their
hank rolls and the time required 10
restore railroad schedules. Scores Oh
winsome girls pouted around Montgom-
cry restaurants and cried when they
thought of missing a week in New Or
leans, week of Sazaracs. of Raymo
gin fizzes, of marvellous Creole COOK
ing, and whiffs of French market cor
fee.
And il The New York Times build
ing had doomed up on Commerce street
and George Considine and peeped cor
daily from a cafe, New Yorker
would have been willing to wager
small amount that the Gulf storm had
struck old Gotham and the fury of the
wind had sent Forty-Second street
through the air and settled 1t down In
Montgomery. Alabama.
What else could 1t mean? On cafe
corners "a manager anxiously consult
ed time tables and told the property
men what to do with the trunks. Lead
ing men majestically STROBE past come
where the biggest and coolest could be
secured and the little DANES, whose
nightly exercise is a F1oradora nod,
hop skip and jump in all sorts OF
clothes, turned up their noses when
smart young provincials smiled as
they passed them.
Be it known that The Clansman"
Company, booked at the Montgomery
Theatre Thursday, The Wonderland"
Company, which played in the Hfrscher
house Wednesday and the tom, Dick
and Harry" company that worked three
nights at the Bijou, were all maroon
ed In Montgomery, all seeking ways
and means to reach Pensacola Mobile
New Orleans, Pascagoula, Tasmania,
Terra del Fuego or any other seaport
town south of Montgomery and north
oe the other place.
eaThe Clansman'' wanted to get into
Mobile last night. Tom, Dick ana
Harry were seeking the same place to
increase the already large floating
ed to entertain Pensacola people.
But Aeolus God of the Winds, and
the head of the Weather Bureau at
Washington had decreed otherwise.
1--WE can't get train" said Bick1e OF
the tom, Dick and Harry Company.
IAN airship is too darned expensive.
We are all good walkers but powerful
guess it's me for Montgomery, where,
If the situation does not clear up. l
will start a theatrical boarding house
or get on the police force"
'"The Clansman" Company made a
desperate effort to get to Mobile. The
Tom Dixon's quarantined out of many
Southern theatres like the Mllow few
er. had a date in Mobile. but fate again
gave the company the stony stare and
when the Tensas bridge was reached,
the conductor pulled the bell cord and
paraphrasing the old song. sang:
20 Mr. Engineer stop this train
We've got to get off and swim"
If we were .TommeFs" in stead of
"Clansmen" suggested a member of the
company 1--WE might use the prom ice,
get the band to play some Eliza Cross
ing music let the bloodhounds loose
and sprint into Mobile but as we are
not "Tommers" I guess this train had
better about face and allow us to go
back to inhospitable Montgomery. rig
up a moving picture machine and al
low me to sing illustrated songs for
a living"
The wonderland" people went to