The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-03

she mas come with rect ana ankioS bare In . boys loose trousers. Yet ! Mary 10 not the sight have mention | ed. The very exceptional human ex- hibit is John Drew abed and then | getting out with pajamas on. one of Beiasco's exploitations of Mrs Carter was to pose her in regal bed. as | Aaadame Du Barry, to give audience to | obseQuious statesmen. Those who | paid homage to Drew, as the incon- | stAnt George, were on the other side or Inc footiights. and their curiosity l was proven by the general focusing | of opera glasses. t.a .t.i
 Drew iA in bad when the act begins | Ills head lies on the pillow with not hair dtHordered. His arms stretch out over the quilt in light blue sleeves. A knock at the door arouses him. wno, thsrs7 Mary; Whats she sure, as agreed. Well. he's changed his mind and won't go. He is sitting up now and the jacket section of his pajamas is visible. He asks her to go away, and lies down to sleep some more. Next she springs in through the window, and he slides lazily out Of bed. Ills paJamas are as shapeiy full length as though fitted to him by tailor. He let's Mary and us view him In his nighties about half minute. Mary says he is an azure vision" He hastily puts sp a chamber robe that turns him into a gray dream. His feet7 They are in slippers. He must have shod them deftly and slyly, in the same motion of throwing his legs out of bed. This is @ nice point in the comedy that Gladys Unger has cleaned from the French with no dim- ming Of its original brilliance. and I'm sorry I can't be explicit. can pick flaw of insincerity in the come dian's art. He wears stockings in bed. Mary scolds him long and severely; not for sleeping In stockings. though, but for his inconsistency; and her fearless "inconstant George" comes to.
 The entrance of Sam Bernard re- minds one of Nat Goodwin's disgruntl- ed return few seasons ago, to farrell cal comedy because the public had once again manifested its insistent wish that he stick to funmaking instead of the heroic. In the less conspicuous cities he slipped in, as a Curtain raiser" to the frivolity of the evening, a very tragic little affair called The Man Who Makes Them Laugh" The lear laugh was that the ficticnal incident showed very profoundly how miserable and woeful Is the heart beneath the jollity of the comedian. Crackerjack comic fellow is the hardest possession for the theatre public to retain. Crane 
 that only the real seriousness of a great business falling off sends him back to fun. Louis Mann Is happiest when sad. Francis Wilson compromises to occas- ional sober one act pieces in brief con- nection with full-lengths of farce. But the examples are to numerous to re- count.
 The most serious thing Sam did in connection with "The Girl and the Wiz ard", the new play written for him by J. Hartley Manners, was his failure to squelch the report that in 1t he would challenge comparison to War field in "The Music Master" Then. during rehearsals and by easy degrees, songs were slipped in; choruses, a prima donna. finally show girls. The result was a sure success; and with 1t come regard for the Bernard ambition. He had two or three scenes of sober and appealing sentiment. but he had many, many more of delightful drol- lery, of the most irresistible humor. He played the serious passages we'll but 1t would not be difficult at any time to secure an inconspiCuous actor quite as competent to play them. The laugh able scenes he amplined and delivered with a natural sense of humor. human ity and art which would be impossible to surpass--if. indeed, to match--in the comic stage of the universe.
 
 from prologue-and happen to know
 that before the theatre was aired af- ter its huge and glittering first night" audience the question under manager ial discussion lay between the choice | of cutting it to couple of minutes or amputating 1t altogether. A good
 deal that could have been told In few words was acted in full in q Ty- rolean glen, which lacked romance in aattfpU fxrtfa d totally a Mannera' exposition of young love lacked TO- nance in the telling. That over. we settled down-or. rather. sat up--to two acts of pretty songs. of gay dances, of agreeable sentiment and of hilarious fun. The impecunious and rascally old count would not let his daughter mar Try the handsome hero because he saw himself wealthier as fatner-in-law to the millionaire called the wizard be- cause of his ability to transform the most valueless bit of rock into pre- cious stone.
 At night keep my jewels in the box" the wizard explained. Then I turn a calcium light on the safe so that any thieves that look in can't miss it."
 play of his has been acted once. The kindliest of the critics said: We shall not look upon its like again" So the wizard engages a stranded opera troupe to give 1t second performance "just to make that fellow c liar" He engages a large company so half of the players can sit in front and make a good-sized audience. The heroic tenor loses his voice at the last moment. so Bernard has to take his place. Need I say more? Two weeks after seeing "The Girl and the Wizard" one hard ly could disentangle its plot and incl dents from those of a lifetime of mus sical farces. Yet as surely as the play is without the slightest novelty, just as surely 1t is rollicky, good, clean. cheerful fun.
 "I said to MT. Manners Bernard ex- plained in a between-acts speech on the first night" |" Why don't you write a play for meT
 why, people would laugh at us.' "'Well-" was the terse and typi- | cal Bernard reply.
 The woman who becomes a second | wife while the mans first wife lives around the corner with a second hus- band and a young girl goes to and fro | between mother and stepmother, Is likely to be called hard names. The | title of a new play specifies her rather politely, though. as an intruder" The | intruding woman and the repulsing girl | agitate the talk until 1t comes to an | altercation; and when the younger | tongue goes beyond the reach of speech | to retort. the older hand hits back with | a smack on the cheek. Then the step |