The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-18

delights in every word and his role of Rritheof Arlig is real and whole scouled. In addition to this the play Is interspersed with several musical and pretty ballads and they are sung with excellent taste and sweetness.
 Second in interest is the little maid en, Corinne Malvern, who in the child's part, wins her way into the heart of each one In the audience. She Is nat ural, just a merry little child, whose life is bound by love and sheltering care. and who at once responds to the simplicity and sweetness of the wan derer The little lady has talent marked and of a high degree.
 Playhouse Gossip
 "The Girl in the Taxi" which comes to the Jefferson theatre soon has a sup per scene that Is filled with interest and laughs from start to finish. The manner in which Bertie Stewart, the youth who is dining out" with young lady for the first time, manages to buy $50 supper with but s10 in his pocket
 Is one of the most original conceits in this rapid-fre importation from Paris. It might be mentioned that Bertie raised the s10 by pawning his fathers suit of clothes.
 Once every season Lew Fields may be counted upon to do something really startling in the way of producing a rip roaring musical play. His batting aver age, In this respect, is "'way up above the average" MT Fields latest incurson into the realm of mirth took place last spring when he gave a waiting public "The Summer Widowers." The same pub lie had been lavish in its praise of 1The Midnight Sons.'' Then came "The Jolly Bachelors" and everyone said surely the end must be at hand. But MT. Fields con tinued experimenting and tinkering with the result that "The Summer Widowers" is really the biggest thing he has ever done.
 "A wild, laughable show" is the man. ner in which the New York Globe char acterized the first performance of "'The Lottery Man." the early part of Decem- ber 1909. when this play by Rida John son Young was first produced by the Messrs Shubert with Cyril Scott as the star. The piece. after having enjoyed a season of seven months prosperity, has be en booked for a tour of the Shubert theatres outside of New York.
 Alan Dale makes this striking com ment: "The operetta at the Lyric the atre actually dares to offer music as the main attraction for a musical show. No molasses-no ragtime-no dribble-no sen tmental mush Just music. Long before Act 1 was over the delicacy, grace and charm of the music trickled into the crevices of our appreciation. There were duets and trios ever so often and each was prettier than the other More con- sistent, gracious and tuneful music has seldom been heard. Madame Trouba- dour' is a bewitching musical surprise and I would like to hear 1t again."
 "The Prosecutor" a new play with William Courtleigh in the leading role will be the offering at the Shubert soon. with a cast including William Owen, Wallace Worsley, Eva Mcdonald, Clara Blandick. Nancy Avril, Bigelow Cooper, Charles E. Verner James McKean, How ard Sloat and many others. The scenes of the play show gambling place in New York tenderloin, the district attor- ney's office and an apartment in a New York skyscraper. Political bosses, gam blers, prosecutors, detectives, men and women of fashion and men and women of the demi monde are in the passing show, and the complications are of the sort that arise from the crowded sour rying life of Gotham.