The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01

lately' and. alth ough the newspaper critics have been considerate. he doesn't think so: and if I may have another guess. It is that he prepared and pre- scented Becoming an Editor with a view to hitting back at Journalism. Surely Mark Twain. petted and pros pered by the press. never wrote nor knew of the speech which Daly, when turned out of the Farmer office de- livers with the Nehemence of a poiiE- cal campaign stumper. The purport of, 1t is that as the Farmer has null nplied it's circulation through, foo1ish- ness. just so an ignorant public rejects common sense In newspapers and pre- fers idocy. The genius of Daily has turned .peevish.
 A prediction lack of new drama of consequence gives me space to tell you something further about vaudeville. to the topmost grade of which In New York fourteen theatres are devoted with only four managements-the Mar ris. the Williams, the Hammerstein and the Keith 6 Proctor,--among whom the alliances for attack and de- fence equal in vigor those that former ly characterized the dramatic syndi- cates. have spent the afternoons and evenings of. two days seeing perfor- mances at four theatres belonging to the four antagonistic concerns. so as to describe the best new things in the houses of variety.
 The card played by Williams in this weeks vaudeville is the Twain Daily piece. but 1t doesn't win. Quite tri- umphant in the same show, though. is the more artful Books" a sketch of collegtaps with the atmosphere of American university life cleverly creat- ed by Author Philip Troup and Actor Harry Tighe with five companions. students father is abused by mistake for stunning book agent, and his sist- er.is cod5led as a sirenic actress. That is the intrinsically best thing in the program and felt like shaking the audienee'sl applauding hands. But my own hands clenched into fists during an ensuing quarter of an hour of as wltless dialogue as two boors ever delivered across footlights, yet 1t joyed the majority Further along I laughed with the rest as a pair of German dia- lect comedians who punned. joked and sang as- salty admiral and sailor on a United States warship. painted big and illusionary enough for a mel odrama. Vaudeville taste is various.
 Amelia Bingham in three dramas is
 
 vaudeville theatres. That Is to say, she gives a ten-minute passage each from Madame Sans Gene" with the laundtessz szduchesss defiance of Napo- Icons sisters, "A School for Husbands" with the abject wife of domineering husband turning rebellious and "La Tosca" with the murder of the lascivi- ous wretch by the imperilled woman, Miss Bingham Is an easy speaker in xEynV sVna fVa0 0h alatv these excerpts gracefully. acts in them forcefully and Is helped by an able company of five in a quite vaudeville stunt,
 Tho strainger introducted here is Fatima Miris. She is an ugly but clever Italian woman-or two women; for can't help believing that the seeming impossibility of her perfor- nance is solved by the guess that there are counterpart Fatimas. An actor from Holland came to. America two years ago and astonished us by acting six roles in one play. His com plete disguises were rapid and radical changes; yet there. was always a mi ute or so of talk by other characters Ito give him time for each shift of aspect. A single Fatima Miris purports to enact seven men and women in a brief meIodrama of forty-two entrances anu SA1lHss OHS uASdppGdIS at OuC OQpA and almost instantly-that is, in one second to never more than two by watch-reappears at another in a diff ferent character. In one instance--- which timed at a second and a half she transforms herself from a lady in evening dress to a moustached cavalier In doublet and hose. How does she do It? My belief Is that she doesn't do it at all. I think there are two of her twinkle in resemblance. as in most Of the stage magieians' exploits of vanishing and returning girls. Anyway, Fatlma Miris probably is of quite as much value with the audience as Amelia Bingham. They two are the weeks Norris telling novelties on that stage.
 Mighty Mike Donlin. whacker and twirler of basehalls, is Hammersteins trump card. of the week in the vaude- ville gamble. Along with Mike Is his wife Mabel Hite. an actress of eccen- tricity Mike is a big. brawny. hand some young man; and in the craze of baseball he is a popular hero. Mabel is better looking than her rural gawks and city freaks in extravaganzas have made known; yet she Is no beauty In her most favorable aspects; and so suppose 1t is even up when she does the work and Mike does the standing around They have got a newspaper humorist, George " Hobart. to write into "StealIng Home" things that Ma bel did in several long plays along with fresh fun wrought from her training of Mike for a joint vaudeville stunt.