The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23
Little Nemoo Comes Tomorrow.

"Littie Memo" Comes Tomorrow.
 Little Nemo.'' with an all-star cast.
 gorgeous scenery and 15o people will come
 to the Jefferson theatre tom orrow night for an engagement of three nights and
 a Wednesday matinee The Nashville sTennessean of Tuesday of. last week tells
 something of the splendid spectacle
 which Klaw & Erlanger have sent south
 at an enormous expense. That papec
 says, among other things, of the pro-
 duction:
 Little Nenao' is with us through
 Thursday night. and a royal welcome to
 his most royal majesty. Through the
 mazes of Slumbelland and Wonderland
 melody, comedy and all the combined
 graces and attractions of stageland he led
 a Nashville audience Monday night. and
 when the curtain was rung down upon
 the final scene there was no doubt but
 that the most attractive performance
 of the local season had opened Its brief
 run within our midst
 The epochs of the drama are few and
 far between when local audence--or
 any other audience between the Gulf and
 Baffins bay-are offered such a series Of
 combinations as that presented at the
 Vendome Monday night. An all-star cast,
 headed by the inilntable Joe Cawthorne;
 the most effective scenic effects that one
 could hope to looi, up; lightning trans
 formations in colors and quicker shifts
 from rich and racy comedy to lyric mel ody; something to overwhelm the eye
 and to please the imaginative fancy be-
 yond magining-something to leave an
 impression not soon to be forgotten as the footlights flicker and fade in the pro- cession of performances through the thcs- pianic shifts from week to week.
 Through the different stages of the i. Wonderland of Sunderland, as depleted | by Winsor McCay. whose fancy first con- eeived the Little Eeno' masterpiece.
 the plot winds in and out. As the glitter and gorgeousness of the different scenes enhanced by the presence of from 70 to lO0 dancers pass-enters the one and only Joe Cawthorne, Harry Kelly, or Harry Clay Blaney or Master Gabriel-the quartet of fun-n.akers. who set a pace almost too dizzy for the funny bone to follow. It isn't often that a production carries along such an all-star cast, and less often still that such cast is linked | to so many other devices calculated to please and attract From one scene to another the audi once is led--through the Palace of Sleep. where King Morpheus reigns; through nlay grounds in the park. through storms It sea; upon o canpibal isle; on to where the weather is standardization one ohift to another that about reaches tho Anal limit of stagecraft and artistic ef- Get within the four. walls of theatre. The cast of fun-makers is headed by Joe Cawthorn. MT. Cawthorn is an artist I 0f the advanced school. In his particular nne, which is that of oozing and exuding mirth in massive globules he Is prcba- hay without peer upon the American stage Mr. Cawthorne could make pet gifed oyster gggle until his half-sheil ached, or soporific clam arise from his o1> 1>nAn nA paean of uproarious merriment. And 1t lakes an artist to do either of these two things-much less both. Ever try It? Az an attraction only step behind IS Master Gabriel in the title role of Little \ Memo No more attractive an atom Of human infinitesimality has come in many a long and pallid moon. He makes you 1sel as if you would like to crawl across x 0he footlights when no one is looking, otick him, in your vest pocket and duck 1n safety through the wings, to keep him os a household pet-eQually effective as a paper weight or a companion and adopt- I cd kid around the fiat. Master Gabriel t. Reserves all the encomiunns there are in the Els In addition to an attractive per oonality he Is also there with the art In both staple and fancy degrees and vari- ! 6ties
 Then come Harry Kelly as the Dancing Missionary and Harry Clay Bianey as " Flip, another highly attractive pair. Kelly V e one of the best and Blaney Is good. Put -tAis quartet together and you have all Ahe developments of full-dedged fun
 trust and humor combination. The rest f Of the cast was excellent. Miss Aimee
 Erlich as the Princess, Maude Campbell
 os the Candy Kid, Queenie Vassar, Ma
 talie Ate. Madeline Marshall, May Gun
 Herman. w. w Black King Morpheus l. Dave Abrams in his animal specialties, N Hart and Collins, the Greasy Roman " Wrestlefs. and some hundred or so high Ek diverting and light-pedalied dancer |E hes of the Light and Festive Toe. Quite Y on assemblage of talent ell around.
 The production is in three acts and