The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28

has acquired fluent technic which he uses with great taste. His crisp staccato is very agreeable With numbers like Glazounow's Lac Nuit'' and Sarasate's "Jota Navarra,' he was very successful and dissolved the compositions of Saint Saens, Mcdowell, Jonas, Liszt, which came later on the programme, with the same facile elegance.
 The Treble Clef club, as is well known has always stood for the best and highest in music, and in bringing such artists as Hartmann and Calzin is maintaining the reputation established.
 Tickets for this concert are on sale at the box office and Adams Drug Co.,. and can be bought from the club members.
 For the third concert of the season the club has arranged to furnish the associate members with tickets to the first concert of the music festival to be given on the evening of April 2S. On that occasion the programme will include the Damrosch Orchestra, Reed Miller, Corinne Rider, Kelsey and the Treble Clef club-the club singing "The Blessed Damozel,' by De Bussey; and two groups of songs.
 While the entertainments given by the club have always been delightful, due not only to the splendid chorus work of the club, but to the high-class artists engaged to assist them, it Is especially fortunate in being able to give to the associate mem- bers the musical treat, such as they will enjoy in the opening chorus of the fes- tival to the accompaniment of great or- chestra.
 Frank Daniels in "Hook of Holland" Frank Daniels whose name brings to the face of every theatregoer in this city a pleasant and good-humored smile, is IL: the management of Charles Frohman, and will be seen at the Jefferson theatre on Thursday night.
 With his discernment in such matters MT. Frohman has selected for the me- dium of MT. Daniels appearance under his direction the musical play, Hook of Holland" last seasons biggest success and one of the most attractive musical pieces ever brought to this country by MT. Frohman. The Miss" has been dropped and the iece is now known as Hook of Holand' but the story and music remain unchanged.
 MT. Daniels in Hook" is happy com bination of sta and play, insuring a de- lightful entertainment of fun and music This musical play belongs to the same class as "The School Girl" "The Three Little Maids' and other delightful pieces that have been popular with American theatregoers in the past several years Its music and book have been written by Paul A. Rubens, who gave the public Three Little Maids In Hook of Hol- land'' he is said to have provided as charming and pleasant melodies as his oth uorlrc k1 I.
 sessed. and to have furnished a decid- edly attractive, romantic story, the set ting of which is more quaintly pictur- esque than that of any of the other plays in the same category. While "The School Girp' and Three Little Maids'' had Eng fish environments the present play has been located in Holland, it's scenes being laid in Amsterdam; and, therefore, the effects, dresses and stage pictures will be oddly beautiful and have that strange charm for the e. that all Dutch ar tistic creations possess.
 Of the 20 odd songs. there are several that are positive musical gems and that have attained wide popularity because of their real musical excellence as well as the novelty of theme and treatment. Among the special favorites are: ''Vio- loncello," "A Little Bit of Cheese, :" Cream of the Sky'' Flying Dutch man" "Tra-La-La," and q Want to Be
  Your Wife"
 In Hook of Holland" Daniels has found one of his best fitting roles. This musical comedy, after running two years in London, was brought to New York last season by MT. Frohman and was pronounced in New York to be the big gest song play of the year. Its settings, the title indicates, are Dutch, and the scenic artist and costumer, as well as the composer and librettst. have been given the opportunities for quaintness of treatment. The songs of Hook of Holland" made a veritable sensa ton when they were first heard on Broad way; there were so many of them, and every one was so good. The music of Hook of Holland Is by Paul A. Ru- bens, the composer of Three Little Maids" while the chatter of the play is by MT. Rubens snd Austen Burgon
 The book tells the sweetly simple love story of Sallie Hook, daughter of a rich Amsterdam distiller, who is deeply smt- ten with little bandmaster of the Mounted Artillery. The handmaster has