The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-06

Especially is this true in Tempest and
Sunshine" It's characters are real peo-
pie, whose troubles and joys are real as
their comedy and pathos. The people
dealt with are great in their simplicity
and grand in their intensity. embodying
all that is fair and just-a people whose
hearts are bursting with love, truth and
honesty and from whom justice cannot be
bought.
The popular novel by Mary Holmes
was a success, and the reception of Miss
Dixie Lee as Tempest and Miss Srys-
tai Wizard as Sunshine" everywhere is
simply a reproduction of the scenes of
enthusiasm which attended the premier
in the Windy City and in other places
where the company has been seen. The
management has spared no expense In
providing his stars with a supporting
company as strong as the best, and the
result is eminently satisfactory, both from
a financial and an artist viewpoint. The
story is wholesome and true, and the
gamut of human emotions is run during
the progress of the play. 1t entrances,
thrills, delights and edifies. 1t has fam
cies of fiction founded on facts, and
gives even the frivilous something to
think about after they leave the theatre.
Lem B. Parker Is responsible for the
decentralization OF the book He has gone
ing at all is worth doing WE'LL and the
result is a play well worth while. The
very height of stage realism. is getting as
near to nature as the laws of mlmicry
will permit, and this has been the sole
object of the author
The story deals principally with two
beautiful southern girls who are sisters
and their sweethearts who mix things up
generally In their wild endeavors not to
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readily see the laughable. situations that
must follow. Southern melodies will also
be heard. The seat sale opens at the
box office Monday morning at 8 O'Clock.
"a Stubborn Cinderella
"A Stubborn Cinderella" is the latest
musical play from the prolific pens of
Will M. Hough and Frank r. Adams,
with music by Joseph Howard, and has
registered an impression upon, the news
papers and dramatic critics and the play
going public unparalleled In theatrical
history. The play is upon decidedly
higher plane than their former successes,
1.-The Time, the Place and the Girl The
Goddess of Liberty" etc. "A Stubborn
Cinderella has been given a production
that has never been equalled In the me-
tropolis of the west, .
Heretofore the plays of these authors
have been fun of slang and have dealt
with Incidents in the lives of the working
people, but in "A Stubborn Cinderella
they have chosen college boys and girls.
the unsophisticated daughter of a Scot
fish earl and various other representa-
tives Of smarter class of society for the
principal characters. The 'Broilers, or
pony ballet, as they are better known
who have always been such a feature in
the former plays Of the aforementioned
authors, are still conspicuous ina Stub
born Cinderella
This production has 90 pretty and fas-
cnating chorus girls. or the costumes It
is only necessary to say that, to the
casual spectator. it is q matter Of wonder
how the girls find time to make their
changes, so rapidly do. they discard one
set of gowns for another, each more ele-
CANT than the first, until in the last scene
they seem to have reached the culmina-
ton of gorgeousness, with their orange
colored costumes of the California Orange
Fete. AIS
The production was staged by that mas
ter Of this line Of theatrical endeavor.