The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-16

While the company gathered by MessrS.
Barton and Wiswell the new theatrical
firm, Is said to be the strongest aggrega-
ton Of vaudeville and comedy stars
found in any theatrical organization. De-
spite the cost of the production and it's
expensive scenic adornment and stage
and electrical effects. there will be no
increase in the prices.
The management has secured score
of pretty dancing girls and they will
wear dozen different costumes, making
40 costumes that have to be carried for
the chorus alone. All Of the principals
are equally well costumed, and this
show makes one of the most elaborate
of the season in costuming effects. There
are a number of very pretty girls in the
chorus, and in addition a big feature has
been made of their ability to sing and
dance.
The Flats has always been a favor
lite attraction with a large number of
Birmingham theatregoers, and when It Is
learned that the old show has so many
new features the people, 1t Is thought,
will patronize it with marked 1iberality.
At the Bijou there Is performance
every night during the week, and a
matinee Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day afternoons.
s"The Girl Behind the Counter
Lew Fileds' big musical comedy tri-
umph, 1.-THE Girl Behind the Counter"
is coming to the Shubert next Friday,
matinee and night. It's story is said to
musical comedy purposes. It concerns
itself with the adventures of Henry
Schniff, poor German, who unexpected
ly inherits large fortune. Previous to
receiving this inheritance he has board
ed with Mrs. Willoughby, twice a
widow, who kept a small lodging house.
Unable to pay his board bill, he mar
ries her, believing that to be the cheap
est way out of his dilemma.
When he comes into possession OF this
fortune, which Is estimated at over s.,
900, 0O0 she acquires social aspirations of
the most extravaganza character. BY her
first husband she has a daughter named
Winnie whom she Is DESTROYS of marry
ing into the English nobility. Schniff,
by reason of numerous complications,
gets into department store known as
''The Universal" in London, and there
first is taken as a shoplifter and later
he is mistaken by the manager of the
store as a Scotland Yard detective.
These situations afford splendid oppor-
tunities for the exercise of the comic
versatility of Dick Bernard, who plays
Schniff, and enables Lew Fields to make
a production of much unique elaborate
ness and scenic display. Winnie, the
daughter, although wooed by a British
nobleman, falls in love with a young
American who has made fortune in the
mining camps of this country, while
Schniff and his wife, after numberless
harmless chickering's, in which he points
out the absurdity of her social aspira-
lions, become entirely reconcled The
book is by Leedam Bantock and Arthur
Anderson freely adapted and reconstruct
ed by Edgar Smith and produced by Sol
Fields. The music Is by Howard Talbot
1.-THE Girl Behind the Counter run for
a couple of years in London and nearly
year and a half in New York The
company to be seen in 1t here was or
ganized and sent on tour under the per-
sonal supervision of Lew Fields him
self.
Seats on sale Wednesday.
"a Gentleman From Mississippiv
Tho attraction at the Shubert theatre