The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-19

to make the play a success. It IS one or Miss Clay's best known works and num- bers its readers away up into the thou sands.
 The management promises one of the most expensive productions now being or fered to patrons of popular-priced thea tres and a carefully selected company to interpret the various parts. No doubt, "Dora Thorne' will draw as well as the former Bertha M. Clay dramatization, Lena Rivers," which broke the record at the Bijou theatre in point of attend ance.
 There will be the usual matinees on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
 Grand Music Festival.
 The music festival to be given at the Jefferson theatre May 13, IA and 15, with Innes orchestral band as a great feature, will be a great event. There will be dis tinguished solosits, including Signor Zara of the Royal opera at Rome, the greatest interpreter of the Toreadors song now living, and a large chorus trained by Philip Memoli.
 Innes has band that is said by high class musicians to surpass any brass and reed organization in the world. He has the finest reed players known to the con cert stage and his Is the only wind band that plays symphonic music with the same beauty of color and the same artis- tic phrasing as the best symphony orches- tras It is in fact in every essential d orchestra.
 Innes Is an authoritative conductor and no orchestral leader gives more delight ful reading of Liszt's symphonic poem, Les Preludes," with which the first nights programme begins, than does MT. Innes.
 There will be five performances in all three at night and two i'll the afternoon.
 An exchange is responsible for this story:
 "One of the characteristics that make MT. Innes so admired and enjoyed by all who meet him is his keen sense of humor. He is full of originality and while al- ways ready to have joke on some mem- Der of his big company, he no less enjoys an occasional one on himself. He tells of once giving a summer concert 1n New Jersey He appeared on the stage, bowed his acknowledgment to the applause oi the audience and, taking up his baton, gave the first programme number which happened to be the Preludes by Liszt This selection never fails to create a great burst of enthusiasm, so he was not surprised at its completion to hear the expected applause. After lowing several times he responded with an encore. This number too, seemed to meet with the same continued applause and after rev moments he responded with second en' core. Innes and his musicians, like al public performers, are inspired to then best efforts by a responsive audience but after playing a third, fourth, fiftf and even sixth encore, Innes began te wonder if the concert would not develop into an all night affair."
 "The musicians being by this time breathless, and thinking to quiet his audi ence, Innes walked off the stage, but still the applause continued, not from one section of the house but from every nook and corner. On reaching the wings Innes remarked to a stage hand 'tha audience is the limit. Never before have I heard such persistent applause 'Wha | do you mean, replied the man who hap | pened to be an Irishman. Why saie Innes, the handclapping.' "Thot, tho ain't handclapping, replied the Irishman | 'thots the audience killing mosquitoes. "Innes at once went back to resume l his concert, but for the next encore ht played the Mosquito Parade, at whicf | the Irishman gave him knowing ant merry wink from the wings"