The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-10-10
THE NEWEST MUSICAL COMEDY COMES THIS WEEK

He Is modest to degree, cares moth.
ing for society and less for appear.
| ance. yet there are certain things upoa
which his closest friends dare not
| chat him.
Franklin p Adams. the Always in
Good Humora' adams, as lie is known
through the fact that such n thestead-
! ing OF the daily column ofswitsSbser-
Vation and hnmor he contributes TO
the New York Evening Mall. is quite
the reverse in temperament from his
| collaboration in tLo." Adams is whirl-
wind. quick, excitable. and although
quite as charming in his ways as o.
henry, more simbued with the spirit OF
hustle OF the American business man.
instead Of the poetic dream of Ma
| nana, which Is TIRE ideal of o. Henry.
Lyrics flow from Adams pen as
readily. and even more so. than do
prose from less gifted intellects. and
besides his daily column OF humor
and wit he writes and publishes on
Saturdays in the New York Evening
| Mall clever imitation of little coun-
| try weekly which he calls the Gotham
Gazette. to which the principal con-
trihutor is Miss Euphemia Simpson, a
| character he created and which he has
dramatized in "Lo."
A. Baldwin sloane. the composer of
the eighteen numbers i'm the score,
| has written many popular successes
| since he first sprang into national
! fame as the composer of Jack and
| the Bean Stalk" but never has he
written such music as for 10" The
| inspiration OF the wonderful lyrics, the
| atmosphere OF intellectually, which
| this play has had. seem to have in
| spired him to much higher grade of
| music without Ia the least impairing
its charm. catchiness and jingle. I'd
| this the,0peHipg.hArs OF the first NUM-
Der. Good Murhing. Mr. Sailor,., which
are herewith produced. will abundant,
| lpstestify. II
Sloane. Is a little, chap who reminds
lone OF nothing so much as a bundle
of wire springs animated by sixty
horsepower battery of electricity.
Alert and eager, conversant through
his eighteen years of contact with the
theater In every trick of the trade, he
combines as does no other composer
a marvellous knowledge of what the
people will want to hear before the
tickle public itself has decided what
will be the fashion. for fashions
change in music and plays as quickly
and surely as they do in suits and
hats. ''The Gingerbread Man." THE
Mocking Bird" Sergeant Kitty"
and "Lol Nose" are other scores he
has composed.
The cast is thoroughly up to the
/ standard of the men who will present
Lit. Foremost is John +. Young, who,
as Happy Johnny Hicks in The
Time, the Place and the Girl" has
| been acclaimed comedian par excel
lenee from Chicago to San Francisco
and return. Miss Juliette Lange. a
Chicago girl, has three solos and
sings them with a mezzo-soprano
voice which for range and beauty, as
Well as sweetness and sympathy, has
never before been heard outside of
Grand Opera. Elizabeth Goodall plays
the role of Spanish Countess. and
those who remember seeing her as
Molly Kelly. the nurse in THE Time.
the Place and the Girl" know she Ia
an actress of rare ability as well as
yoluptutons beauty, David Kirkland,
who played the role of Indian. in
l"Strongheart'' with Robert Edeson for
1.-TWO years, plays similar. part In
ll''Lo,r while Miss Annette Hail.. OF
i Whose past work Mr.. AEkin refuses to
ldiyalge anything, looks like. a second
Edna May and is expected to be a
Veritable sensation with her youth,
Ibeanty and voice. Dorothy Bremen,
1.-THE leading soubrette, is a miniature
May Irwin, bubbling over with fun
and iollity, while Mabelle Moyles. last
seasons Fiji" in The Merry Wild
llw," has an important role Also
here is Robert Wilson. last years
Laurie, in THE Time. the Place and
the Girl" George A. Lemming and
lanes A. Reynolds, the latter OF
whom as General Taxieab. has intro
duced an entirely new characterize,
ton to the stage.
| Among the eighteen musical Num-
hers are You Can Always Be My
Sweetheart" Little Old Main Street.
| Snapshots" "Yucatan,' .Tammany
on Parade" 1.-THE Yankee Maid Is, the
| One Best Bet" Love is All that, Mat
| tiers" and International Love"