The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-27
AMUSEMENT TS

comprise Lucy Daily. Fred wyckoff.. Robert Evans. Abe Friedland, Richard Barry Low Kelly. Harry Parent, Ed. Gilmore, Caroline Hooker, Nae Kii- coyne and Leslie Lyle.
 1.-TWO Men ana . GirI.s
 Tim Murphy win be at the Mont Frederick Paulding's romantic comedy, Two Men and Girl" which is rec commended as one of the best plays on the stage today, an unsurpassed ve- hicle for the popular comadian's art.
 Two Men and . Girl" is q society comedy with the society people of pa rade. It has unconventional elegance instead of the hackneyed drawing-room article. The very locale of the play re- veais its vivid fresh air charm. It takes place in summer colony in the woods on the banks of lake in the Adirondacks, where nature is at her most romantic. Cupid cannot keep his meddlessorne hands of. and the moon syor1ks overtime.
 bachelor-lawyer who Is in love with a girl whose heart seems already given. 1t develops that the lovaable mans rival is a swagger but rascally younger brother. whose whole career has been the shame of his people. The older brother dare not unseaf his lips against the boy and thus his heroic self-sacrifice bids fair to wreck his own romance without saving the girl from a future of inevitable wretched- ness. Of course, she marrfes the man who will make her genuinely happy. and the evolution of the story is most charming.
 As John Crosby, the homeiy, kindly, eccentric Bachelor. MT. Murphy has a role in which he revels. There are two other love stories in the comedy and half a score of amusing character sketches. The lines are witty. tho situation develop frequent surprises, and the whole effect is one of roman tic fun.
 aRed Feather Y
 sRed Feather" which will be seen at the Montgomery Theatre Wednes- day night is a reversion to straight comic opera, the music by Reginald de Koven. book by Charles Klein, au- thor of The Music Master" and of The Lion and tho Mouse" and the lyrics by Charles Emerson Cook.
 The story is interesting and the thread of the plot is mare closely fol- lowed than has been usuA of late Mir. Cooks lyrics are singable and clever, and MT. de Koven's music is satisfy ing. There are at least a dozen musi- cal numbers, all pleasing, and many of them up to the very best work that Dc Koven has ever done. Possibly with the intention of surpassing his notable Robin Hood'' music, Mr. De Koven was most ambitious in his writing for the Red Feather score.
 In staging the opera, the ziegfeld Opera Company spared no expense fin giving the piece rich mountings. For the prima donna role. Manager Joseph NJ Gaftes has engaged Miss Cheridah simpson. a singer of recognized abil- tty. who is an artist of altogether diff ferent calibre from the usual run of comic opera stars. She has a splendid voice and a charming stage presence, is clever actress and is a very well come addition to the all-too-short list of capable singers in light opera. Par ticularly pleasing are her entrance songs, "Tos Call the Mine' and the song, Garden of Dreams"
 Tn the company there are a nunbe or of well-known comedians and a large and well-schooled chorus. A feature of the local presentation win be the augmented orchestra.