The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-21

to at once delight her employer and
 hide her truly We're de We're self
 The girls love for the powerful
 financier is revealed to him by her
 mistake in taking his dictation. She writes in sweet abstraction T love you. I love you-I love you--' ad lib.
 Later. when the heart trouble extends to the employer. and he cannot keep
 his mind on his work 1t is she who
 corrects his blunders in business let
 ters Now and again she finds herself playing the keyboard of her machine
 like a piano to the tune of "Cuddle up | a little closer" At the last. when the Cherry fascinator finds that he simply
 must pluck the Mayclf peach. he | avows his love through dictation. It is all so sweet. She refuses to listen
 until he sternly orders her to.
 The Bachelor" seems like a popular
 success. None knows better than Fitch how to dose the paying public with the soothing syrup 1t cries for In this instance his plot may be very
 B. M. Clayish and much of his coloqui-
 al comedy q. M. Cohanish. and 1t is all
 about as thin as skinned milk, but the c. Fitchish touch is there. too. You may like 1t. and you may not but there Is no one else than Fitch who can so well hit of the familiar sights. sounds and unconscious details of average,
 
 gotten that in the staging of modern
 drama of the surface sort MT. Fitch
 has no peer in America today. Having tasted this latest Fitch sweetmeat and found 1t pleasant. though somewhat
 cloying. we look to his next Fresh
 every-hour molasses candy. The Happy Marriage" is to be It's name. Next!
 New let's reach high and low into vaudeville to get contrast in nov | Uv nf nd
 Jeffries blazoned big and bright on the
 facades of Broadway theatres. and I
 spent two evenings finding out about
 them. The Irving is Laurence, a son
 of the great Sir Henry. and himself a
 man of fine brain highly cultured. He
 wrote haunting tragedy of leprosy
 for his fathers art comrade. Ellen
 Terry; also a clever yet futile piece for
 E. H. Sothen; and once for a while he
 was engaged to become Mister Ethel
 Barrymore. The Jeffries Is man of
 fine brawn highly cultred. He is champion in recent pugilism. Could more widely different appeals be made to similar audiences?
 struck in at the higher level of Irving first. The program said he would act in "The King and the Vaga- bond." A minute served for its iden- tifcation as "Gringoire." a pet drama let with Lawrence Barrett and Beer bohm Tree, who personated a hungry yet saucy poet reciting to the despotic Louis xI rhymed account of "The Orchard of the King" wherein rebels hung from gallows trees. I was sur prised to see Laurence Irving appear as the senile tyrant instead of the roc mantle rhymster. There is. as you know, a standard Louis XI." in which the senior Irving gave marvellous depletion of senility climaxing in grewsome death. Sir Henry's other son, Henry B., (the B standing for Broadrib, the family name until the father legaIized his stage name of Irv- ing not long before he was knighted) Is now acting Louis in the long play in London, and it is said that he ob- jects strenuously to Laurence using the same character in vaudeville. Both are imitators of their father in de- lineating the crafty old king. but Hen- ry R. Is the cleverer actor.
 Gringoire in "The King and the Vagabond" Is Laurence Irving's wife. Maud Hackney, good-looking. con- tralto-voiced, boy-mannered actress who used to be the Daupin to her fa- ther- in- laws Louis. Maud is charming ly picturesque at Gringoire, and her
 recitation of the disloyal ballad, for
 which the minstrel nearly forfeits his
 life Is rousing elocution. This woman- mans wooing of the mefchant's dainty daughter is a rarity. An actress's
 make elieve gallant Is a travesty al- | most always, but Maud's Gringoire be- | hayes like a truly ardent lover of a girl.
 Jim Jeffries asF q pugilist on stage show is no new solar-plexus punch at the heart of drama to knock 1t out. Away back in the time when prizt- fight CTS fists were bare, not padded. and ring contest meant battered heads and | bodies that usually sent the antagon- ists a week to bed, instead of mere nose bleeds and eye-puffs that are invisible after a day. I saw John c.
 Heenan, after his historic fight with John Morrissey, appear as the wrestler in "As You Like It" with Adah Isaac's Rosalind. l recall that. as Rosalinds congratulation to orlando, You have overthrown more than the Dukes wrestler" there was a deafening out burst of laughter and applause. for the people knew that the slugging prow- ess of the Benicia Boy Gas Heenan was called because he had grown up in
 Benicia, Cab, had enthralled the Queen of Bohemia Gas Adah was called, because she frequently sat enthroned at the beer-and-cheese revels of bohemians in Pfaffs cellar) and that she had gone to tHe uyiHShehl ditat with him. They were a handsome pair.
 Later than that. yet still while prize
 fights were fought with bare lists and pugilists were real bruisers, Dan Collyer got even in a money way. after being whipped by Billy Edwards, by means of a theatrical tour as the headllner of q negro minstrel show. Dan first did an old Uncle Ned sort of
 yabbly negro which chilled my boy
 ish sporting blood, as I remember; but later in the evening he came forth
 with his face cleaned, his feet in clogs and the rest of him clad resplendently, to do a statue dance. It was tappety- tap scuffety-scuff. and jlggety-jig. to several bars of the music, and then | Sgladitorial pose by Dan. with his two little sons in the statuesque group. My oh my, but wasn't ho a hero in my youthful eyes, above Olympian gods of the figures that he initiated? And how I envied his little sons because they might grow up to be great prize fighters like him.
 The vaudlville theatre where Jem Jefferies became an actor was crowded handsomely. The block was girded by motor-cars that had brought smart wo-
 men as well as sporty men. l wonder
 ed what he would do as dramatic
 excuse from his exhibition on the stage.
 I had witnessed Corbett's monologue of
 self-appreciation. Fitzsimmons's sketch
 of bagpunchlng and boast-boosting,
 and Sharkey's acting the Frank Mayo
 dole in "Dayy Crockett" None of them