The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-13

theatre tnlS season. MoTe than tnat
 could not be said of any show for the Orpheum has had a number of extremely
 classy" shows this season.
 Playhouse Gossip
 Manager R. s. Douglas of the Jeffer son theatre has announced number of new bookings at his playhouse. They | include The Spendthrift' which comes for two days, the middle of January;
 "The Man on the Box and others of the same class. The season is now | fairly well under way.
 Last year when "The Virginian' played here the house could hardly | accommodate the crowd al one per formance. Arrangements have been
 made for return engagement for two days this season. The Philadelphia | Evening Telegram says: The Vir- ginian' with its strong passages. its
 das of clean comedy here and there, and it's vindication of the old moral | ities,' will never wear itself out" Madame Sherry" is the musical com edy rage of New York this season.
 Stealing into the metropolis quietly late
 in August at the New Amsterdam the
 atre the production scored sensational- l ly and Is attracting overflow audiences
 to every performance. The newspaper
 praise elicited by the piece is quite as sensational as the productions box of
 fee success. All signs say the New York run will last at least a year.
 Frank J. Mcintyre, who plays Bob l Blake in "The Travelling Salesman"
 has written a song for Leila Mc1n-
 tyre of Hyam and Mcintyre, who are
 starring in "The Girl of My Dreams.
 The song Is entitled T Can't Say Soft
 Soap to Save My Soul" 'The Travel
 ing Salesman" will be in Birmingham
 this season, playing at the Jefferson.
 A great play and a strong company
 are announced for the Jefferson the
 atre December 5 and 6 when Henry B. Harris will present Charles Kleins pop
 ular drama "The Third Degree" This
 play has achieved a universal success. | It has been heralded everywhere as a very worthy successor to MT. Klein s
 'The Lion and the Mouse, and in point
 of general appeal touches a subject equally as vital Ths company which
 MT Harris is sending here includes Fer
 nanda Eliscu, James Seeley, Lida Strat-
 ton, Lida MacMillan, Alfred Moore, Fra
 ger Coulter, Earle Williams, Ralph
 Ramsay. Walter Craven and James Cody. Mir Kleins play Is based upon
 n system of inquisition which 1t Is ad-
 mitted exists in the Inner circles of
 metropolitan police departments. This l practice generally referred to as "the l third degree" system has come to be | regar as of such importance that at It's recent session Congress appointed | a senatorial committee to conduct na- | tional investigation with recommends tions.
 | Robert TIilliard in Porter Emerson | .I~lx- Ik~@ p.@I
 play, "A Fool There Was at the Jeff ferson November 21 and 22, personates typical New Yorker of social and po- | litical distinction, who is alienated from
 his family and brought to abject ruin by | the lure of a sirenic creature of peculiar fascination. She vitalizes Kipling's weird conceit of the vampire woman who | is only "a rag and bone and hank of | hair" It is a blend of comedy and sym | bolic drama, with a last act that is about
 the only example of tragedy in our mod
 ern life plays. MT. Hil1iard has ere
 ated leading parts In many plays, from MT, Barnes of New York and Blue Jeans." to "rhe Girl of the Golden Vest and was a great vaudeville favor ite. The production is identical with that | at the Liberty theatre, New York. An ocean steamship scene is one of the big | effects.
 | Mrs. Fiske, whose position as America s
 representative dramatic artist is beyond
 dispute. is to appear at the Jefferson | Thursday, December 1, in her famous | characterization of Becky Sharp" Mrs
 Fiske's Becky sharp is generally con.
 sidered the comedy classic of the Amer ican stage and in later years when pres
 ent events become history, it will doubt. less be placed side by side with Jeffei. sons Rip Van Wrinkle" Langdon l Mitchell placed the stage under weighty l obligations when in making a play of | .Vanity Fair he succeeded so signally where so many aspiring dramatists had | before failed so dismally. The play has | been the most popular ever produced by Mrs. Fiske, and her own work in it has onened wide the fioodgates of critical en- 1 thusasm.
 | The Thanksgiving offering at the Jeff l farson will be "The Old Homestead" which comes for five performances, in- | cluding two matinees vounp man, not yet 10 years out of collage startled the country some time ago hy publishing a stinging satire on modern social conditions entitled, "A I title Rrother of the Rich" It occurred to this young man, then working on a bie Chicago newspaper, that his novel might he made into a striking play. Him. self unacouainted with the technical de- tails of playwrighting. he called to his aid an experienced dramatist, Miss Harriet Ford. While working on this dramatiza- lion. Joseph Medill Patterson. for that was the young authors name. evolved | the idea of incorporating some of the | iournslistic adventures to which he had | been party or witness, into the action or | a drama
 ."The Fourth Estate, the great news naner play that resulted from this idea, | found its way to the stage even before | "A Little Brother of the Rich, had nad
 a hearing. It was one of the great hits | of last season. Liebler & Co. will pre- sent "The Fourth Estate" at the Shu-
 bert shortly with a splendid cast. Charles
 waldron. who won pronounced success | in the leading role in New York and 1 Chicago continues in this part, and fav-
 orites of the calibre of Selene Johnson
 and E. J. Radcliffe render him able as-
 sistance.
 i The English pony ballet will be one or l the special features in Lew Fields and the Messrs Shubert's magnificent mus
 ical spectacle, 'The Midnight Sons,
 when this biggest Of musical amusements
 appears at the Shubert theatre. It will
 he presented here precisely as performed
 at the Broadway theatre, New York, Tor
 over half a year and it Is said the same
 number of players-2SO- actually ap-