The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-28
AT THE GRAND.

Wednesday matinee and night.-sThs Gambler of the West, ..
 Th.rsday-~The Gambler of tAe west"
 Friday-John Drew |. Sysck str.w., Z The first full week of Lent with local theatres will be made notable only by the visit to Montgomery of John Drew Earlier in the week a fnelodrama called 'The Gambler of the West" will come to the Grand theatre for three performances. MT. Drew will be here Friday evening in Jack Straw. @.sthe, comedy that New York has pronounced to be his greatest l success In Montgomery MT. Drew has , al arge following. Some have our owr ideas about Mir. Drew's actorial methods, but nevertheless the Ameri-. can public has long ago agreed that he Is one of our best actors.
 Jack Straw" has met with SO much favor that Mir. Mangham. its author, has come to be regarded as one of the most promising of the new set of playwrights. f. as { Little is to be said of the melodrama ,that is to convey a story of the afore- time bad western country. It is fair to presume that 1t will be just as good as the hundreds that have gone before. The press agent is full of promises, naturally, and the three performances, will give Montgomery theatregoers full opportunity to pass judgment on 1t. q Surely it is far cry from John Drew to the The Gambler of the West" but 1t is leap that must be accepted by theatregoers in city unfortunate enough to have only one theatre kept open. Let us hope that Jake Wells will do better by Montgomery next year.
 As if to compensate Montgomery for the slender theatrical menu offered this week, next week will be full of good things at the Grand. Few weeks of the present season have been so mportant-important because next week is to bring to us William H. Crane. Edna Wallace Hopper. "The Man of the hour" and Madame Ala Nazimova. that remarkable Polish wo- man whose combination of beauty and dramatic art made her first appearance fin this country a national sensation.
 The Man of the Hour" has been seen in Montgomery. and if the com pany comes next week is one half as good as the company presenting the delightful play here before. the enter tainment cannot be recommended too highly.
 MT. Crane will be seen in George Ade's comedy. Father and the Boyss. Whatever Mir Crane does is done well. steady theatregoers in Montgomery still have delicious recollections of his American lord, although that play was a failure. MT. Cranes ever unctious comedy made 1t delight. It Is said that the character part draw for him by George Ade in his play this season, is one of the sharpest and most inte-
 
 undertaken to portray.
 aes Edna Wallace Hopper with her new husband. MT. Brown the New York broker will come to Montgomery with George Cohans Fifty mtIesE from Boston," It matters not that the Gohan comedy Is, of little eonsequence. All ofaus will turn. out to see Mrs. Brown who. let 1t be known, is still Miss Hooper--and ridiculous as it is we will turn .~out forsooth because Miss Hopper has a new husband.saa .g.
 The management of Madame Nazi- nova does not put Montgomery>in the one, night class. The Polish actress will tarry here to give three perform ances. The Polish actress has a wide reportorie. She will probably select two of Ibsen's plays and one of her most recent New York successes. for the Montgomery engagement. choice may fall on "A Dolls House" and ''The Master Builder from Ibsen. and "Comtesse Coquette," the latter in which she startled New York audiences. Montgomery theatregoers need not be told that the engagement of Nazimova is one of the most important of the season, and despite the holy season with many of them her business prom I ises to be big. e2- The Gambler of the West. a..rj s' A. H. Hoods eIaBorate! sceatc7 pro iduction "The dGanibief rof the West. will open a weeks engagement with ,matinees at thsH Grand theatre be-. ginning Monday nfgfft!. '@ ;HftA:9 Z It is said that "The Gafnbier of the West" is the most sensational of this l seasons vintage of melodramas. While | the circus people the past summer have been raising the limit in daring per formances, of the arena. MT. Woods | has devoted himself to raising the | limit in the sensational of melodrama- tic productions. owen Davis. the au- thor of the play has put to the. blush | all the authors of thrilling literature. | The time and place selected for the | scenes and charlottesville west when |