The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-20
"Red Feather Comic Opera.

Red Feather" the romantic comic opera, which is one of the big musical works booked for the Jefferson this win ter, will be the attraction at the play house Saturday afternoon and night This season the organization is again headed by Miss Cheridah Simpson, q dashing prima donna, who, as~Prince Eagle, in savages production of Wood Iand," added much to her reputation. Miss Simpson is singularly gifted by na- ture for the impersonation of the rather difficult dual role in Red Feather" and it would appear that her manager has surrounded her with an especially capable company.
 The Jacksonville Times-Union says:
 It has been many a long day since any better singing organization than the company that held the boards at the Duval theatre yesterday in the Red Feather has been heard in Jacksonville, and seldom has comic opera been more splendidly headed than this one, with Miss Cheridah Simpson as the Countess Eiilda von Draga.
 Miss Simpson scored most decidedly. She carried her audience with her from the start with her rich voice, held in such perfect control, and the song num- bers ill which she participated were the big features of the production. ITO Call Thee Mine" Soldiers of Fortune" "carissima' and Come, Sing a Rounde- lay were the real musical numbers, and they were encored time and time again.
 And then, unlike too many musical productions. the prima donna does not have all the singing to do. The support ing company is of the largest that has ever been seen and heard on the DuVal theatre stage, and the company can sing. and sing well. The music was pretty at all times, and some of the num- bers were delightfully."- charming in their sweetness and mellow tones. The or chestra carried by the company did no little, too to make the two productions of the Red Feather" the success that it was.
 The story of Red Feather" needs no elaboration. It was well acted out. as well as so excelently sung. The costum ing was unusually lavish, and the stage settings were marked for their elaborate ness.
 William H. Conley as Baron Bulver Strauss is a comedian of no mean abil-
 ty He kept both audiences in an up- roar, and his topical song, ''In Wash ington," was one of the big hits of the evening. In Richard Karl as Baron Ma patrick and Frank H. Smith as Bag stock Bowler of Sunny Jim, he had two worthy rivals, and the comedy work of these three left nothing to be adversely criticised. Mir Karl scored a pronounced hit in his rendition of "The Humorous Ghost"
 The other favorites in this DeKoveu opera went with the usual rush, and the singers into whose hands each had been given were wholly adequate In brief the Red Feather is a production well worth a visit, and it is safe to say that the popularity of this arstocrat of comic operas will be increased by reason of its presentation by this company. The attendance at the DuvaI theatre yesterday was remarkable, especially when it is remembered that there was a big counter attraction in the city. The matinee audience was fully up to the us- | ual standard in humbers, and at night
 the cosy and popular theatre was com fortably filled.
 l It was a tribute to the popularity of l the Red Feather" which is known here, and to Miss Simpson, whose reputation preceded her, and it establishes beyond ! all doubt the claim of every travelling