The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-31

how much care has 10 be taken ir
 making plays to serve specific purposes I may as well add an account of the scheme to hold up and silence Tender ioiners in the departing audience. The usual call for the star actress was
 made after the next to the last act. 4 l man came out to say that Nell thought assumed character before the play was over; but that. if her friends desired to have her thank them q the end ct the performance. she would DO 8lad and proud to respond. So those who liked her stayed in their seats to hear her say. T love you al1:" and even
 those who disdAinsd her declaration of
 love couldn't get out, for the aesiss
 were blocked by ushsrs carrying low
 CTS to the stage. There was nothing
 90 small as . mere bouQuet but %
 many big fiorai constructions that,
 when placed behind the footiights. they
 reached solidiy across from wing to
 wing. That sent friend and fee away
 with handsome sight to last them un-
 til they saw the agreeable reviews
 in the next mornings journals.
 The story of "Springtime" is the
 girl, after tagging her lover from
 their parish nearly to New Orleans. Is
 compelled to go back. for Jackson's
 battle Is imminent. She returns 10
 her home to see sixteen candles burn
 ine on the altar of the chapel, be-
 cause after living sixteen years she
 now Is dead to her father, and to the
 cousin whom he had afhanced her to.
 Her mind is deranged by her grief.
 sha doesn't know her lover when ne comes. nor her father. who stands
 ready to Kill him as soon as his prayer in the sanctuary Is done. The de- mented maid wonders in and repeats
 his prayer to God for mercy. in seeming answer, reason Is restored
 to her; whereat the fathers joy over
 comes his vensefuiness. and ne lets
 her 20 into the lovers arms. Authors are slow to. put altars in their plays. lest pious resentment be aroused: and they are apt to be incomplete Tn cor ners; but here the holy shrine, IL lumined with the candies, Is at the centre of the scene. and the prayers arc spoken with all possible fervor.
 Harry Lauder used to be . Scotch coal miner. Yvette Guilbert, . French seamstress and. Albert cheyaiier an English bookkeeper. Now they are In New York vaudeville belonging to three rival syn dicates. There is no need to believe. merely because 1t Is said 90. that Gull bert and Chevalier get thousand doi- lars a week apiece and Lauder s1,boo; but I don't doubt it. The opposiuon in vaudeville Is desperately aggressive. The receipts at the three houses are lifted during these engagements with prices increased by selling the good seats through 'speculators." one or two l thousand week above the average. | Such are the prizes that these poor sufferers hope to win eai6 my com- panion, as we watched the abuse or awkward volunteers in an amateur night" at cheap Bowery theatre.
 There's a spell of low pay every | year for Lauder in London. though, De. use the first manager to give him roance there made a perpetual con- tract for four weeks each season at fs, or about s30. At other times. no Is good in that city for half as mucn IS he receives in New York.
 It Is hard to comprehend Lauders value at first sight. He Is a runt or |, Scotchman, 40 or more, who doesn't ,ry to moderate the ugliness of his lace, and whose short legs make his ,laidies rather grotesque than pictur- ,suue. But the mans wonderful quickly asserts itself. and with the first songs, refrain, asserting that his bonnie lassie is "as sweet as ,ugar candy and very fond of Sandy. you are charmed--uniess you are the ,ne exception in a hundred. The twenty minutes that usually limit are extended to an hour. dur ng which he presents seven charac- ters, with dftty and tune of his own make for each one. and one rather liresome monologue. He has melo- lions voice. andt1<n0ws how toe act, ,ut it's his grinning unction' as a lover if his invisfbis sweetheart'ss that has anded him in such fashionable vogue, fl is easy to believe that he hasn't his manner a whit since, wash nr oft the days smut of the mine, he