The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-22

stes the oId Earl who takes her out, to supper and falls desperatyle in
 love with the charming young woman.
 Being his widower he offers his hand,
 and title to Molly in marriagey wnicn she accepts under the impression that
 he Is giving his consent to the marri-
 age with his son. In the end Of
 course everything turns out happily.
 Among the many famous songs. m
 The Little Cherub" are Experience.
 which Miss Williams made famous.
 T Should So Love To Be a Boy. be- tween the verse of which four hand
 some young girls give exhibitions or
 rowing. boxing, riding, swimming ana
 finally football kicking real foot-
 bah Is sent flying oyer the footlignts s
 by these athietis yodug women who are adepts at the game Miss Williams
 has series of burlesque limitations of
 Maude Adams. Ethel Barrymore. Rose
 Stahl Madame Nazimova. Wm. Gill;
 cite and others, and she also gives q
 burIesque on the Merry Widow" waltz
 that has made such a big h.t.
 John Drew an asMy Wtfe.1
 Charles Frohman win present John
 Drew at The Grand Friday night in a
 new four act comedy entitled. My
 Wife" The play ran at the Empire
 Theatre in New York city for four
 months and comes here with the
 original cast. Tho e medy is from the
 French of Gavauit and Charnay in
 which it Is known as ''Mademoiselle
 Josette. Ma Femme" and the present
 adaptation has been made by Michael
 Morton. Tn Paris 1t has had a nine
 months run at the Gymnase Theatre
 and In London where 1t is playing at
 the Haymarix ct. 1t Is now in it's sec
 ond season. The comedy is of light
 ST and brighter order than the Pinero
 play. "Iis House in Order" 'in which
 Mr. Drew appeared last season. In-
 deed 1t is said that My Wife" has re-
 stored the favorite comedian to the
 vein and style of work with which his fame is more closely allied and in
 which his admirers like best to see him. He win have for his leading lady Miss Billie Burke, who comes here
 from the Vaudeville Theatre. London. where she has just made two suc- cesses in straight comedy after five or six years of conspicuous success on the musical comedy stage. Ferdi- nand Gottschalk, who was last seen bere as c member of Mir. Drew's com pany during the run of The Duke of KiiIicranlxie'' will have 6 quaintly comic role exactly suited to.his style of characterization. Miss Dorothy Tennant will complete the quartette oi Comedians who will 1t is expected be supplied with several highly amusing scenes similar to those in which the famous Duke of Killicrankie" quar- tette figured. Other members of Mir. Drew's organization are Walter Sod erIing, Morton SeIten Albert Roccardi, Mario Majeronf Axel Brunn, Herbert
 Budd. Rex McDougaIl. ?. soldene Powell Frank Goldsmith. L. c. How ard. Ida Greedy Smith, Hope Latham. Mrs. Kate Pattison SeIten and Mary Lorraine. Following is brief cot line of the story of My wife":
 Beatrice Dupre, the ward Of Gerald Eversleigh, who is forty-two years old Is ordered by her parents to marry a man she detests, her affections being given to a certain youthful Rene Falandres, whom M. Dupre' looks upon with unfriendiy eyes. AS saTrix- ] les" inheritancec of large fortune de- pends on marrying before she is eigh- teen--which win be in two months matters are urgent; especially as Falandres is suddenly called away to Morocco. So she proposes to Gerald that he shall contract with her a marriage only in nameg After con- venLent time they obtain a divorce when she will be at liberty to marry Falandres. With great reluctance E1NCASAIAeAA SOhGctAN~f e@ta@ Ae@A SsAO US~-e-- act we find the happy pair staying at a Swiss hotel. A French lady killer called M. Valboure makes love to Trixie in the romantic Gallic vein; but she gives him no encouragement. A certain Baroness Granclos finds a letter from Rene to Mrs. Eversieigh
 full of the most ardent prostesta- tions. Emboldened by the discovery, vaihoure attempts to embrace her. but is fepulsed with indignation. Evers- leigh enters and the result Is a duel,
 in which he is wounded slightly. At this Juncture Monsieur and Mme. Du- pre- arrive unexpectedly from Eng land. and. learning that ''the relations
 between their daughter and son-in- law are strained. and finding Trixie in tears, they express their displeasure
 warmly. Exaggerated by tbS "impos- sible' situation in which he finds himself, Eversleigh returns to London
 with the idea of resuming his old
 bachelor life; but TrIxie who has grown fond of him. and is cooling to-
 wards the absent Falandres. arrives and embarrasses him with endear-
 ments, which, bound by his agreement he cannot honorably accept. The diff ficulty Is removed by the arrival oi
 Falandres. who has married while in Morocco. The play ends with Trixie