The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-11-07
Adelaide Thurston.

Adelaide Thurston.
 Blessed is the actress who is rich in that indefinable magnetism called charm She 1t is who endears herself to the hearts of the refined theatre public and holds the playgoer from season to season in loving and expectant loyalty.
 Of such Is Miss Adelaide Thurston who like Maude Adams possesses the power to sway the emotions of the thea tre-going public by the highest art sweet ened with delicacy and refinement and ennobled by purity and dignity. So akin are Miss Thurston and Miss Adams in their personalities that MT. Charles Froh- man selected Miss Thurston to succeed Miss Adams in her greatest role, that of Lady Babbie in Barrie's '"rhe Little Min ister'' and for two seasons the young western actress played with a success equal to that won by the creator of the role.
 Miss Thurstons return each season is eagerly waited by the thousand who have learned to love her personality and ad- mire her art She comes to the Jefferson Wednesday matinee and night In a comedy, Contrary Mary" written by Edith Ellis. author of Mary James Pa Miss Ellis, who is a brilliant creator of appealing types, blending comedy and pathos, wrote the leading role for Miss Thurston and it fits her like a Paris gown. Her manager, MT. Francis x Hope. who is among the most successful of the younger men of the American stage, has provided his star with pow erful company and a costly scenic in vestiture. No company has left New York this season more deserving of sue cess and more certain to win it than Miss Thurston's Contrary Mary" The new piece is straight comedy with pic turesque settings and a plot that gives Miss Thurston every opportunity to re- veal each facet of the delightful person ality that Eliminates distingue comedy as the sun lights up clover field.
 Adelaide Thurston is Minnesota girl, born at Red Wing, and educated in St. Paul. For a short time she taught school in Duluth. She made her first ap- pearance on the stage in Kansas City in the winsome role of Carry In Alabama" from which time she has steadily risen to stardom.
 The seat sale begins for her local en- gagement tomorrow morning.
 Hackett in "Beau Brummel.n
 Through the various channels of dia- lect exaggerated beyond all means of reason, the modern stage, as far as the enunciation of perfect English is con- cerned, seems to have fallen into cer- tain measure of disrepute. Various parts of the United States produce various in- donation, and actors for years have tried, while playing role identified with cer- tain portions of the country, to closely initiate this fault of the natives. As a result perfect enunciation is somewhat of a surprise, and what is more impor- tant, greatly a pleasure. A few actors have succeeded in getting stage pronun- citation back to the perfect point where itsis supposed to belong. but none of them have met with a greater measure of suc- cess than has Norman Hackett, who ap- pears in the title role of "Beau Brummel' in this city at the Jefferson Thursday matinee and night.
 Mir Hac'-ett himself university grad uate, and perhaps the best educated man on the stage, brings to the character of Beau Brummer' that clear, thorough pronunciation which the role demands. and altogether succeeds in impressing his hearers with the fact that there still remains good reason for college graduates attempting to bring back the days Of per feet English to the art of the stage.
 Two entrancing love stories. both of different nature run through the spark ling, cynical lines of Beau Brummel." One is the old old story of mans love for woman, and the other tho theme of . mans love for his own flesh and blood, another man, the strongest proof of the greatness of the human makeup. No great play is complete without real love story and while love is not tho main sub- 1ect of Beau Brummel," the touch of human nature lends brightening inf1u- ence even to the gems of epigram which teem throughout the entire four acts. Sorely pressed for funds. and virtually engaged to marry an heiress whose in- come will put him beyond debt forever, Beau Brummel. while deeply loving this woman, discovers that she is marrying him simply because her father cherishes e place for the society which only Beau Brummel can give him. The girl will ling to sacrifice her great happiness for her fathers sake is in love with Beau Brummel's nephew, the ono man on earth whom the court dandy and idol really worships. Sacrificing prospects. his own happiness, and putting behind him the social triumphs which form his very life blood Beau Brummel resigns his flancee to his nephew, and goes out to the oblivion which he believes awaits him.
 Miss Olga Nethersoie.
 Olga Nethersole. the distinguished English actress will be seen at the Jef- ferson theatre Friday night In her great American drama, entitled ''The Writing on the wall' by William J. Hurlbut.
 This play when produced created sen- sation throughout the country, and is un- doubtedly one of the greatest American dramas ever written. It was the pri- of New York City, deciding to abandon ali of her tenement holdings and, was the play that inspired representative Mo Gavin, of Illinois, to offer his now famous resolution in the United States house of representatives, demanding radical and much needed reform, in the inspection of tenements in the District of Columbia
 s"The Writing on the Wall'' deals with . great sociological question. and one that 10 of paramount interest to every citizen of this country, irrespective of wealth or social position-the congested condition of tenements and their reformation. This play has already done much to bring about a remedy for one of the worst evils existing in the country today, and, even tuaIly it Is going to be the means of hringing about one of tho most beneficial