The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-24
"The Man of the Hour"
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 The past three dramatic seasons had no more brilliant or emphatic success, perhaps, than George Broadhursts great est of all American plays, ''The Man of the Hour which will be the offering at the Jefferson theatre tomorrow matinee and night.
 ''The Man of the Hour is American to the core, and one of its marked charac- teristcs is the fact that every character in it is a distinctive individuality, and so impresses an audience. It is hardly con- ceivable that one can get anything but good from witnessing this play. It ap- peals to the noblest and most generous attributes, and excoriates meanness, hardness and dishonesty to the last de- gree
 MT. Broadhurst has gone straight to the heart of nature for his story, but he has gorifed it and dealized it with his art, and such is the office of art-to assist nature. The story is a powerful one of love, devotion to principle and self-sac- rifice as opposed to hypocrisy and dis honesty, and it's scene may be laid in any large American city of today.
 The attitude of the press toward ''The Man of the Hour has been most inter- esting because wholly unusual. On the day following the New York City pro- duction there was a perfect unanimity among all the newspapers as to the suc- cess and worth of this great play. This was echoed in the weekly papers and re- echoed in the monthly and quarterly magazines. Educational bodies unquali- 1iedly indorsed the play; men in all de- partments of activity-in business and In art in education, in professional life and in the church-found in the play an in- spiration for praise In Chicago and Boston, where the play has had long runs, the press was also singularly unan- ftanr in r,rp pica If Hour" and the general verdict is that it is the best American play yet writ ten. MT. William Winter, dean of Amer 1can critics succinct and forceful tribute Here is a play that means something, was repeated b ythe entire Chicago press. The most distinguished of English critics, MT. William Archer, who witnessed the play when on his tour of the United States, in an article in The London Trib- une, stated, "O that England had an author who could write such play as The Man of the Hour and had man agers with the courage to produce it"
 Messrs. William A. Brady and Joseph R. Grismer, the managers thus compli- mented, have left nothing undone to place before the public in first-class manner what is critically regarded as the great est play of the day" It's destinies are carefully watched over by this man. agerial firm, always the best of every thing is their WatchWord, which accounts for the beautiful new scenic production shown this season and the special cast of players including Thomas Chatterton, John Kelly, Alexander Carlton, Harry Mills, P. J. Rollow, R. E. Clark Helen Avery, Doris Hardy and others.
 "Top O. the World"
 Here Is what the Louisville Courier Journal said among other things of the .yrop O. the World" which comes to the Jefferson theater next Thursday night;
 The '"Top O the World" the half-week's attraction at Macauley's, which opened its engagement last evening. comes at most appropriate time. A time when the public, theatregoing and otherwise has been literally forced into absorbing all sorts of sensational stories relative to the discovery of the coveted goal at the top of the earth. It is relief to get away from all these scientific theories and truths regarding the North pole and he carried into Santa Claus land and the re-