The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-14
Vaudeville all week at The Majestic

comparative dullness. there being but three performances at The Grand, one of them being & matinee. But to make up for what is lacking in quantity. the management announce play for Monday matinee and night that Is probably one of the most talked of pro- auctions of the present season, The Blue Mousse"
 Criticisms of this play have ranged from the highest praise to suppression by the police Virginia cities have been divided Some critics call "The Blue Mouse" a most delightful comedy. while other critics have labeled the production as vastly indecent and im- moral.
 The Blue Mouse" will be seen at matinee and night performances Mon. day, and Montgomery theatre -goerS will have ample opportunity to pass judgment.
 The second offering of the week win be sis Hopkins,' a play seen before in Montgomery and made famous through the character displayed In the take the part of "Sis," role in which she has played to Montgomrry audi ences on several occasions.
 But to return to last weeks oner- ings Undoubtedly the greatest ara matic event of the season In Mont ROufery was the tWO Odys ShSo of Madame Ala Nazimova on Frloay and Saturday nights. Many realized this fact. but on the whole. 1t could not be said that Montgomery appre- ciated the treat which had been oHereo them by the management or The Grand. Friday nights audience was rather smaller than one would have exnected. and rather reserved. Satur days audience was much larger ano more appreciatiye.
 It is very probable that Montgom- erians had received such bad impress sion of "A Dolls House" from com pany of the previous season. that .he announcement of any actress In the role. no matter how famous she might be, would be received with lukewarm
 Madame Nazimova's engagement was received with the greatest enthusiasm on the part of a large number Of thea- tre-goers of Montgomery however, who regetted exceedingly that such general coldness should mark her opening performance
 The management of The Grand an nounce the engagement of Nat Good- l. win and his new wife. Edna Goodrich at an early date. The play will De "The Master Hand" Last year Miss t,oodrich and Mir. Goodwin drew a ca- nacitv house, and the announcement of an engagement will be received with enthusiasm. The play announced was written for the co-stars by Car. roll Fleming and Florence Miller ana has met with. the greatest, success In Boston, where N was orisihaiS pi'' duced.
 For the lovers of the minstrel and black face fun. Lew Dockstader ana company are announced to follow Na' Goodwin. Dockstader is said to have a brand new show that far surpasses
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 The advance agent says of "The Blue Mouse:
 No vote for popularity honors was necessary to place The Blue Mouse at the top of the list as the most con vulsing farce of the present age. IL just happened over night. The place was the Lyric Theatre, New York. Next morning all Manhattan was in good humor and the laugh wave" Is now on its way across continent. Clyde Fltch Is responsible for the farce. which is an adaptation from the German, and the Messrs. Shubert have staged the production in a manner which Is said to be a distinct departure from the farces that have gone before. Caught over night The Blue Mouse" Is now 'caged" for an indefinite period at the Lyric, and that the other cities might laugh with Germany and New York, the Messrs. Shubert have duplicated this production and with cast of equivalent merit are sending forth the first fun halocast. f-fr
 That the piece ran over a year In Germany and Is now being played in Austria and France. and has even been seen in Denmark and Sweden augurs well for @ sensational hit in America. In adapting the farce Mir. Fitch has used much Judgment for he has given
 
 without that nauseating scent of vul- earity which is so often to be found in similar French and German pieces. .rhe Blue Mouse" in its German form, is by the author of Girls" There is really SO much fun to the Blue Mouse" that to miss 1t is to be regarded in the nature of a domestic calamity. It is the farce that all America will talk about.
 The cast presenting "The Blue Mouse," which will be seen at the Grand Monday matinee and night in- cludes Millicent Evans. Wilton Taylor, Godfrey c. Stein. Inda Palmer, M. Car oline Pearse. c. D. MacIntyre. Harry E. Millarde, w. G. Reynier, John Leigh ton, Richard Lee, Mary McGregor, Ma bel Trunnelle, John Dunne. James Com lev, Eugene Savoyard, Edward F. Mo Clellan and Louise Hall.
 Sis Hopkins.
 There Is much sweet sentiment in Sis Hopkins, that delightful rural comedy drama which comes to the Grand on Thursday next for an engagement, with Miss Rose Melville, the originator of the quaint country girl, playing the ti- tie role.
 The sentiment is of the kind which appeals to ones finer feelings, and this with Miss Melville's superb acting and the clean comedy of the play, has made 1t the marvellous success which 1t Is. This Is the tenth season that Sis Hop kins has been presented, and every where Miss Melville Is greeted with crowded houses. The story of the play is not complicated by any social prob lems It is a plain. unvarnished tale of the simple life of the people of Po- sey county Indiana, where Sis was born and brought up. In the action of the piece there comes into the life of this home-body girl. an interruptions man, who trading on her affections en- deavors to defraud her of pitifully small bit of meadow land. Discover ing his treachery Sis. whose philoso- phy brightens the play, leaves her home to go out into the world at first hand to learn what 1t really Is like. Clad in the homespun of the farm she departs; and when she returns 1t Is as the accomplished, beautifully gowned young woman of the world who, how ever, has lost none of her genttltty or purity of character