The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-21

scene in act third, and the rescue; the bridge scene in act fourth, where an au- tomobile jumps an open bridge, and the cyclone in the last act. These all were great presentations and especially was the cyclone scene. It is only those who have witnessed cyclone in its reality who know how this one Is reproduced In the play. Of the play itself there Is a. good plot, and though the story Is roughly told 1t Is interesting from start to finish. There are some people who do not like melodramas, but the casual the atregoer would not have thought as much after looking at the audience at the Granby last night and noting the ap- plause. Big audiences are looked for all the week.
 Jos. A. Mason as 'Bill Bass from Chi caso: Eleanore Relia as Lula; Helen Vaughn Jackson as Bridget O'Raffert. and O. H. Johnstone, as Dolan Mckinney, were all good in their respective parts. There will be a matinee this afternoon and the piece will be repeated nightly through the week with matinees on Thursday and saturady afternoons"
 There Is a matinee Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and a performance every night during the week.
 "The Road to Ruin."
 Following the marked successes of tho past weeks, the Mabel Paige Stock Com pany will inausurate another week of melodrama tomorrow that will surpass In every detail anything of the kind at tempted before. The play will be the fa- nous melodrama, 'The Road to Ruin." which deals in a realistic manner with the famous wine rooms of New York, aand the melodramatio situations which grow out of the thousands of episodes that happen there yearly.
 It would be hard to realize three more startling scenes than the climaxes of this melodrama, and between the three great events of the play there Is 8 con- nected chain of incidents that keeps the audience always Ion edge" interested and anxious.
 One of these scenes is a great third story duel in a window above tho roofs of the surrounding houses in which the william and the hero engage in mortal combat, the conclusion of which Is the pitching of the former out of the window to the ground below.
 A second thrilling scene Is that Of a subway express train, said to be one Of the most natural pieces of scenic effect that the Mabel Paige company has yet produced, and a scene that sends thrill after thrill down the spine of the most hardened theatre goer.
 And the last of these great pictures is the gradual sinking of the williams ac- oompIice to a certain death in the quick sands If would be difficult to imagine anything that permits of greater dra- matio situations and lines than to see woman gradually drawn down into the sand doomed for many minutes before sbe finally disappears. Every second while the sand is closing round her Is tense with dramatic action, and 1t is said that the scene will bring tears to the eyes of hundreds of people in the au- dienoe.
 In addition to the usual matinees Mon day, Wednesday and Saturday there will be a special Thanksgiving matinee on Thursday. There will also be the usual night performances every night in the week.
 People attending the Monday matinee of this production will find it equal In ev- cry way to the performances later in the week. for the entire company will be letter perfect and the performance wlli