The silver state news. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1907-1909, 1909-03-16
BABES IN TOYLAND
FRIDAY NIGHT

BaDeS IN Toyland, Glen Mac
Donough and Victor Herbert's musical
extravaganza, which was the vogue of
New York, Chicago and Boston, hav-
ing had run of over one year and
half at the Majestic treater, New York,
one year in Chicago and an equally
lengthy run in Boston, will be present
ed at the Nixon ouera house next Fri
day evening, March 10Th.
Unquestionably Babes in Toyland,
will be the event of the theatrical sea-
son in Winnemucca as it has been in all
the cities Of both the north and south,
where Victor Herbert and Glen Mac
Donough have presented this musical
extravaganza of international fame
with its all-star cast.
Babes in Toyland,' replete in
brilliant scenic and electrical effects
and gorgeous costumes, is a spectacle
which charms, bewilders and entrances
every one who sees it. Glen Mac
Donough has treated the nursery fairy
story, dear to the hearts of every child.
and to the hearts of every one who has
been child in years gone by, in an
entirely original manner. One sees
Alan and Jane, Tomtom the Piper 3
son, beautiful Mary, Mary, Quite Con-
trary, Boy Blue, Jack and Jill, Little
Miss Muffett, Red Riding Hood, and all
the other characters of fairy fame de-
picted by talented and beautiful ac-
tresses and capable actors.
The opening act shows the home Of
the Widow Piper and her thirteen
children. The succeeding scenes in the
three acts reveal the babes lost in the
woods, and later masquerading in the
imaginary country of Toyland.
The plot of "Babes in .Toyland'
principally concerns Alan and Jane, the
central figures. and old Barnaby, their
uncle The story in brief is this: Alan
and Contrary Mary are esweethearts;
Tom Tom and Jane are sweethearts.
Old Barnaby, who is the guardian Of
Alan and Jane, desires to destroy them,
that he may marry Contrary Mary him
helf, as well as secure Alan and James
wealth Barnaby's first plan goes
amiss, however, and he sends Alan and
Jane out on ship, hoping they will
be lost at sea. His second effort meets
with little less success, for when he
tries to destroy his niece and nephew
by sending them to the woods where
the Vale of Spiders is, he succeeds in
causing them much alarm and fright,
but they eventually find their way in
to Toyland.
Here it is that the most intensely in
teresting part of the actioo nf the play
I, takes place, as Alan and Jane, dis
guised as some of the dolls which the
master Toymaker of the. world, who
lives in Toyland, has made, enters into
the drills and marches of these toy SOL
diers, and, SO disguised, evade the de-
lection of old Barnaby and the search
of the detectives which he employs to
run them down.
After many complications, Contrary
Mary, who has run away from home,
and with Tom Tom reaches Toyland,
discovers Alan and Jane, as does old
Barnaby, who forces Contrary Mary to
marry him when Alan's identity has
become revealed to him, telling her that
if she refuses he will hand Alan over to
the officers of Toyland as the murderer
of the master Toymaker of the world,
who has been slain by some of the dolls
who were made to walk and talk.
The final climax comes when Barna-
by, intoxicated with the success Of his
villainous schemes, drinks poisoned
wine and dies, and Contrary Mary,
owing to technical point in the laws
of Toyland, which says any condemned
man claimed by widow vii be par
loned, claims Alan for her husband.