The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-10
AT THE MAJESTIC. Vaudeville all the week.

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 With two star attractions. one clos ing the old theatre and one opening the new, more than the usual interest attaches to the coming week in the local theatres. Play lovers will pay but one more visit to the old MSnt- gomery Theatre, which will be equally as important an event as the opening of The Grand" in Sd far as the attrac- tion itself goes.
 Following the opening of the Grand on Thursday night, Messrs. Hirscher Brothers will keep open house the rest of the week, Human Hearts" that time-honored melodrama that is al ways pleasing, and Barlow Brothers Minstrels finishing out the week.
 The closing of the old Montgomery Theatre will not be without it's re- grets, for many of the older patrons have seen there Americas foremost players in their palmy days as they added fresh laurels to their large col lection. It has housed admiring hosts of the elder Jefferson when he be- witched with his Rip Van Wrinkle" and Bob Acres" 1t has encompassed the dramatic echoes of Salvini's matchless reading voice as 1t has been filled with the melody of America's most gifted song birds. It has witnessed. within it's historic walls. theatrical stars in their ascendency, up to the zenith Of their histrionic career on on down the paths of glory" that '1ead but to the grave"
 In its time 1t has been ample for the housing of brain-children of master minds of years agone. Here upon this stage for decade the confines have been ample for the masterpieces of the immortal Bard of Avon and other plays depending more upon the truth of frrNfIfa If CnnnAnff0n fn- fnIfch ones soul with their strength of thought than the creaking machinery and trickery of the modern stage pres- tidigitator. .s---s But the hurrying world demands more than mere words now. It de- mands the crowding into four acts the life history, compressed with word, scene and music. To compact requires larger area of stage. more modern equipment for seducing the artistic senses. The evolution has forced a change and Montgomery's handsome new theatre IS the result.
 "The Grand Mogui." which will be the last attraction at the old Montgom- cry Theatre. is the most elaborate mu- sica1 production that has been to Mont gomery this season, or that will come here.
 This company makes only nine. cities south of Washington, and will shortly open an engagement in New York. A special train is employed to transport 1t, and an entire orchestra is carried.
 Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger have given their personal guarantee with this pro- duction, and there is little doubt but that it will be greeted here with 8 crowded house.
 asThe Grand AEoguI.
 The big production is booked for
 Tuesday night. It is Frank Pixley and Gustav Luders' latest musical comedy success in which Frank Mou- Ian and Maude Lillian Berri play the principal roles, supported by a superb
 company of 100 comedians, singers and dancers headed by such well-known players as John Dunsmuir. George l.. | Moore, J. B. Carson, Seymour Brown Sarony Lambert, J. K. Adams, J. V. Tullar. Clara Belle Jerome. Marie John | son, Edith St. Clair. Pauline Thorne | and Lillian Sterling.
 It was produced at the Colonial Theatre. Chicago. last season and ran 1 for ten weeks ,and at the New Amster-
 dam Theatre. New York, for three months and was subsequently, present.
 ed in columbus and Milwaukee. The success 1t achieved in both cities prov ed sensation.
 'aThe Grand Mogul" is in every re- | spect a worthy successor to Pixley and Luders' hit, ''fhe Prince of Pill sen," which has been presented many | times in this city.
 The new musical comedy Is staged fin three acts. The opening scene | shows the garden of the royal palace at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands; the second, the throne room of the palace
 of the Grand Mogul of the Island oi Inde in the Philippine Archipelago, and
 the third, a fortified courtyard of the l palace. | Novelty of story. locale. incidents and