The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23

the story through from it's inception to it's catastrophe. It is. a story which moves like an inexorable fate and carries it's victim, the weak and selfish Joe Brooks to his final and inevitable end. It ran for two years in New York and since then on the road, and 1t has delighted over 10000 people. The company pre- senting 1t is now engaged upon it's first tour of the south. and is said to be as strong as the best which has yet been seen.
 "A Gentleman From Mississippi which scored here so heavily recently, will play a return engagement at the Jefferson on February 21 and 22 It is 2 comedy pure and simple, telling wholesome and do- mestic tale that is entirely likely and pos sihle and using to tell 1t the especial at mosphere of Washington, the nations 5 capital.
 In the music of "The Golden Butterfly there is an irresist tible appeal that clam ors for response from every nerve cell In music lovers being. The audience falls under the seductive spell the in- stant Ilma's voice is heard singing For get Me Not,'' the charm increases with each progressive wave of harmony the score becoming so graphic and fuu or heart throbs that the music alone is al- most sufficient to unfold the story with out words. As one critic says the or chestra itself fairly sings this tender love story. The music is marked with a Hun garian charm and daintiness. Immediate ly on lifting the curtain the. audience Is transported in mind to one of the fair est and most beautiful gardens of Buaa Pesth, the second act reveals the mag nificent interior of the green room of the Buda Pesth opera house; the third act shows grape harvest festival-the paint ing of this scene alone cost thousands of dollars, and it presents picture of rare beauty and surpasses anything of its kind ever attempted in light opera. Grace Van studdiford will be heard in ''The Golden Butterfly at the Jefferson on Tuesday, February 1.
 Announcement that Florence Davis, whose work has stood the highest test of popular approval by southern audi ences during the past many seasons, has been booked us a special offering at the Jefferson February 25 and 26, will be re- ceived with genuine pleasure here, inas- much as Miss Davis has never been known to present anything other than an offering of real merit. Are You 8 | Suffragette?'' is the title of the latesi comedy success. in which Miss Davis will appear in the leading character. Th' play is said to offer her even wider scope for the display of her many talents thar | anything that she has heretofore beer | identified with. That comedy based upon votes for women should allow fol | unlimited fun. as well as dramatic incl dent, goes without saying. While "Ar' | You a Suffragette?" is being heralded al belonging to the class of comedies whicl at present are so immensely absorbing from reliable sources 1t is learned tha | the author of it, Frederic Arnol' Hummer. had other intentions than on that appeals solely to the laughing sid' of human nature.
 Edith Taliaferro has been selected b. Klaw & Erlanger and Joseph Brook
 for the role of Rebecca in the play "Rebecca of Sunpybrook Farm" d ,n ling in Boston at the Fremont theA re
 Miss Taliaferro has been playing sth role of Polly, in Polly of the Circus. l She has been on the stage since chilu hood, appearing in. Mrs. WigKs of tn