The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-08
"The Wheel of Love-"

me Wneel or Love-.
 Paul Gilmore in "The Wheel of Love-
 will be the attraction at the Jefferson
 theatre next Saturday at the matinee and
 Saturday night. The Wheeling Register
 says of him:
 Gilmore paid his annual visit to this
 city last evening at the Court theatre. and
 before large and certainly interested
 audience he presented his new play, 1.-The
 Wheel of Love- from the pen of George
 V. Hobert, who has provided so many
 good things within the past five years.
 Mr. Gilmore has the happy faculty of
 securing play that is most admirably
 united to his peculiar talents. Last sea
 son his college play, 'At Yale,' was a
 success, and prior to that his pieces like
 'The Mummy and the Running Bird"
 and 'tSatin Debonnaire" were all splen-
 did vehicles for him.
 "The Wheel of Love- is labeled a west
 ern automobile comedy and tells of one
 Jack Hartley, Texas rancher, who ar-
 rives in his automobile at a Jersey sum- mer resort in company with his Texas COW puncher, who acts as his valet and chauffeur He meets young lady whose father is trying to make her marry a millionaire of more than three score. The girl is opposed to the union and has asked, or rather appealed, to friends to help her out of marrying the old man. Young Jack is pressed into service and
 in doing so gets into a number of com plications which help make the play
 entertaining throughout. Things right themselves at last and it is Jack the girl
 marres and the old millionaire (who
 never appears on the scene) is euchred out and everything winds up satisfacto- . rily.
 Mir Gilmore was natural and interesting in the role of Jack Hartley. He was, of course. provided with bright lines. which i .Ja1
 and happy manner. It was plain to note
 at the close of the first act that the play had caught on. because there were sev- eral curtain calls, but at the conclusion of the second act, where a very mirth pro vol<ing climax is reached. the calls were so numerous that MT. Gilmore was com pelled to make a curtain speech in which he said The appreciated the applause and | that it was a real tonic toward buoying | them through the performance" "Wine-Women-Son One of the biggest musical comedy sue cesses of last season in New York was | the Circle theatre attraction, Wine, Wo- man and Song" and for more than 300 | performances the popular Broadway the | atre was crowded to it's utmost capacity. | This success. just as it was originally presented, with the exception of one or | two changes in the lineup of perform l CTS, is the attraction that will entertain at the Bijou all of this week, starting to- morrow night and including matinee performances on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday afternoons.
 The musical comedy went into the Cir | cle after several other offerings had been presented without success, and from the | first week, was given such receptions that seats were sold for weeks in advance,
 and not until the regular season had 1 closed and a post-season inaugurated was there a chance for rest for the per sons who had become recognized as | Broadway successes. The company was sent en tour, and General Manager Wells of the Bijou circuit made bid for it's | service, but was successful in getting but l two weeks of the tour, one of which he assigned to Atlanta and the other. to ' Birmingham, and it is safe to predict | that "Wne. Woman and Song will score | one of tho triumphant hits of the season here
 | When it is possible to display tho ''standing room only" sign at nine-tenths of all the performances that are given at the Bijou, it is safe to predict that the electric sign win flash that information | to the last corners at every performance l during the week. for the comedy merits ] the patronage and the Bijou itself is en- , toying its most successful season. "Wine. Woman and Song" is devoted to music and comedy. It is built upon | altogether different lines from that ex- hibited by any other offering of its sort ever presented in Birmingham. Its char acters are those of prominent players and comedians and the situations are entirely l original.
 The company is about the same that scored the great success at the Circle. Those who take the places of some of the original cast played the parts while In
 New York and were indorsed by the same
 reviewers who saw the originals. Some