The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30
JEFFERSON OPENS
 ON FRIDAY NIGHT
MANAGEMENT ANNOUNCES PAR TIAL LIST OF THE ATTRACTIONS TO BE SEEN IN RMlNGHAM DURING COMING WINTER.

In announcing the opening of the sea- son at the Jefferson theatre next Fri day night, with Tim Murphy in Cupid and the Dollar as the attraction, Man ager R. s. Douglas makes public a partial list of plays and players who will appear at the Jefferson during the win ter His bookings have not yet been completed, and for that reason full list of attractions is not forthcoming. Manager Douglas says the number and variety of plays already contracted for, though, justifes him in the statement that Birmingham has a splendid season ahead.
 Despite the fact that many things have worked against the big road shows" said Manager Douglas, 'the list shows that we will not only have some of the best the country affords, but we will have some of them for two and even three nights.
 Among the attractions already booked for two and three nights I might men, tion The Merry Widow which has just celebrated it's 35Oth performance in New York; The Wolf which deals with life in the Canadian backwoods; Hortense Nielsen and company; Henrietta Cross- man. who will appear in Shakespearean roles; James Young In Brown of Har- vard; The Red Mill The Traitor, and many others. Taken as a whole the bookings up to the present time indicate that the producing managers are not holding back because of any panicky feeling of any money stringency. Some of them are a little slow, to be sure. but before a month has passed I expect to book F or 15 good attractions, any one of which will fill the Jefferson
 Manager Douglas has been busy for the last two weeks getting the Jefferson ready for the opening. The spacious theatre has been renovated from top to bottom, several new scenes have been added, many of the seats have been new ly upholstered and evidences of the paint CTS brush may be seen here and there. Nothing has been overlooked in the way of details Everything is ready for the opening Friday night and it will be an suspicious event
 The following is a partial list of the attractions booked for the Jefferson dur ing the season of 190S-09:
 Tim Murphy in Cupid and the Dollar; Fanny Rice in "At the French Ball"; On the Bridge at Midnight; Hortense Nelson company in "Monna Wanna; "rhe Thief: "Brewster's Millions; Devils Auction" Louis James in Shake spearean repertoire; "The Land of Nod'; Black Patti and her Troubadours; Count ess Olga Von Hatzfeldt in "A Daughter of America": Miss Hook of Eolland": "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway, Dandy Dixie Minstrels'; "The Wolf; Sis Hopkins; Al G. Field Greater Min strels; Buster Brown, Dockstader's Min strels, Smart Set; William H. Crane: Norman Hackett in "Classmates'; Man of the Hour; Henrietta Crossman in Shakespearean repertoire; Fifty Miles From Boston; James Young in Brown Jefferson in "The Rivals; Charles B. Hanford; Henry w. Savage's ''The Merry Widow; "The Honeymoon" Rogers Brothers in "In Panama; Max Fxman; "The Shepherd King; "rhe Ciansman"; Lola From Berlin; "The old Home stead" 'The Time, the Place and the Girl"; "Checkers' East Lynne" "The Virginian", Florence Davis in Under the Greenwood Tree; ''rhe Cat and the Fiddle; Human Hearts; "The Follies of 1907"; His Honor The Mayor; Flor ence Gear in Marrying Mary: Adelaide Thurston; "The Right of Way; "rhe Great Divide; Paul Gilmore; "The Girl Question" Al H. Wilson ia When Old New York Was Dutch; "rhe Red Mlll"; Rosabe Morrison in Faust "The Traitor'' "The Three of Us.''