The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-29

| We1nN80uH | Thursday niRht--~The Bondman." Friday night--ssrhe Umpire" l Saturday, Matinee and nisht--"Piay- | flag the POnies."
 There will be but one dark night at | the Montgomery Theatre this week. l Tuesday night. Playgoers will have | an opportunity of seeing evefy.n.hs .1,s | from farcical musical comedy 10 the | uasterpiece of that high priest CT I melo-drama. Hall Cain.
 The week starts off with the drama I fixed version of Mrs. Mary J. Holmes's | sT.ena Rivers" which will no doubt 1 attract a large number of those who | have read this well known hoVel, nn wednesday night Edgar Selwyh, | ubo claims Alabama as his place or | htrtb will appear in "Strongheart, | tba nlav in which Robert Edeson made | such a hit last season. MT Seiwyn l has. apparently. been very successtul | in this role.
 One of the star attractions of the | season will be the engagement Of Will | .o,, Tackave in Hall aims latest melo- | drama "The Bondman." This play is | fresh from the Drury Lane. in London, | and has made a tremendous hit In tnis l country. ,,oh l will no doubt appeal to Montgomerians | Is 'The Umpire" which IS piied TOT l Friday night. This is the first attempt | to cast around baseball scenes. al- | Enough football plays have been sue | caasSI,I for several years. 'The Um- | hire" made a great hit in Chicago, l where 1t was stamped as one Of the | seasons successes. | Yorke and Adams will. present -Piay. ing the Ponies" the scene being laiu | around the Metropolitan race tracks I and teens with interesting situations l and catchy music Saturday.
 | aLsna Rivers!"
 l Ii is held that plays derived from successful books appeal to two classes | of people, one being the readers or the hook who go to see 1t in play shape ont of curiosity, and the other the reg | uIar theatres -goer who makes IL | noint to see everything that holds out | nrornisa of good entertainment. IT | this IS so. it is easy to understand tnas ] the dramatized version of Lena hiv- l CTS" by Mary ]. Holmes, which IS 70 | he made known at the Montgomery
 Tbeatre Monday night. has proven att | tractive. The book has had a tremen- | doua sale-the publishers claim over | m 0O, 900 copies--and should all the l reaaars want to see it in It's play form | it's success could not help but be enor- | nous.
 The opening scene of the play IS an | exterior On one side Is Granny Men 1 ois's little cottage, with It's vine-cov- | srad uoroh and the old-fashioned flow 1 ara Tn the distance is seen the old | Wassachusetts hills and the little vil- l Iare of slocumville. The second act IS | taken to the green fields of Kentucky
 where Granny and Lena have gone 70 | ola Iivingstone estate are shown In | sLa iast fhree acts, two interior and l one exterior. | No expense or work has been spared 1 in making the production a good one
 and much attention has been paid 10
 the cast. Miss Beuiah Poynter heaains | if aa Lena The dramatfzatton Of the
 storv has transplanted much of the | hook and its comedy to the stage.
 @StrOngheart."
 The engagement of Edgar Selwyn, who comes to the Montgomery Thea Ire Wednesday night is creating in- terest among playgoersa urohs- | heart" in which MT. Selwyn will play the college bred Indian. has proved one of the most successful plays or
 "stronEheart" is most ingeniously constructed to demand several kinds of serious attention. The theatre-goer of whatever type, in whatever mood
 
 tain him. The atmosphere is that of A modern college, for the scenes are laid at Columbia University. A rous- ing football game. which aids mate
 riaIly in the development of the drama, sends the first half of the play rapidly and realistically to a tumult- nous climax. The undercurrent of se- riousness which underlles the breezy, unfiagEing comedy of the earlier scenes first comes to the surface in the second act, when Strongheart is wrongfulIy accused of an act of treach- cry. The racial prejudice then aroused oulrninates when 1t is discovered that
 Stronghaart is suitor for the hand of Dorothy Nelson, the sister of his college chum. And yet what more nat
 ural than that Strongheart should se- lect his wife from among a people
 who have welcomed him to their
 homes, have made him the leader in
 their sports; in fact. have made him as one of themselves.
 He Is the son of a mighty chief,
 who, after graduating at Carlisle, has
 been sent by his tribe who appreci- ate the advantages of the white mans civilization. to ColuNb bia. There he has won the love of Dorothy. who, not sharing the prejudice of her friends and family. wishes to accompany Strong
 heart to his tribe. But the Indians |
 of their race a fit wife for thelr fu-
 ture chief This romantic theme. se-
 rious in it's aspect. is developed to a
 logical conclusion through the scenes
 typical of college life of today with
 its youth. its gaiety and It's frolic.
 There Is comedy, clean. healthful;
 comedy in plenty contributed by se-
 ries of fresh conventional types. such
 as really people our colleges today,
 not such as are frequently represent
 ed for fctional or stage purposes. l The BOndmnn.
 One of the most interesting offerings
 of the season will be the coming of
 Wilton Lackaye in Hall Caines "The
 Bondman." MT. Lackaye will be seen
 here on Thursday evening.
 The Bondman. that is to say, Hall
 Gaines own dramatization of his novel
 of the same name. has been running
 for over a year at the Drury Lane
 Theatre London. In England 1t has
 created a sensation and is accepted as
 the greatest Of all the Hall Caine sue
 cesses. When William 4. Brady visited
 London this summer. he secured the
 American rights for MT Lackaye and
 also made arrangements with Arthur
 Collins for the importation to America
 of the entire Drury Lane production.