The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-15

Tho Great Comedy Hit "Seven Daysr
 A plausible sort of chap who pro- notes publicity for Seven Days" (need- less pursuit by the way: Seven Days" doesn't require publicity, came to Bir- mingham yesterday and submitted "a piece" for publication. That piece" started off:
 Our text this morning Is from Pear sons Magazine, back number: Seven Days is an evening of merrinent unre- strained"
 Might offend. Some persons might think a sermon effect about play, and a tear comedy at that, smacked of the sacriligious."
 "All right" returned the publicity promoter, settling into a chair. Let's talk 1t over Wherein the impropriety of sermon on theme that brightens life, expands the heart with happiness and makes everybody glad of every thing? Seven Days does this. Why let me tell you that in all my years around the theatre, and they are some I've never seen so many clergynen at @ play as I've seen at Seven Days Never performance in all the year and longer of the run of Seven Days at the Astor theatre in New York that there have not been several clergymen in the audience. Calvary Episcopal church chose Seven Days when 1t gave . theatre party to the 82 girls of it's vested choir. curate of the parish who came along assured me that this play had been chosen because 1t would entertain the girls better than any other in New York and because at the same time, 1t was wholly proper" 2"
 Seven Days" claimed to be the best American comedy ever written, a play that tickles all and offends none, that makes you laugh till your buttons pop off. will be at the Jefferson theatre Monday and Tuesday and Tuesday mat jnee Sew on your buttons and go and laugh.
 KyrIe BeIlew's Varied Career
 The career of Kyrle Bef1ew, the famous English actor. who comes to the Jefferson theatre "Wednesday and Thursday. January IS and 19, with a matinee on Thursday in his greatest role. 'Raffles,'' vies in picturesqueness with that of Dion Bouctcault
 The eldest son of the auxiliary bishop of Calcutta. he was destined for a career in the Church of England and In due course studied for orders at Balfoi college. Oxford. But his was an duVeH luTOuS nature ana university life became intolerable to him. At 19 he ran away to sea. For three years he served before the mast in an English merchantnan and afterwards with his fathers aid secured commission in Her Majesty's navy. He was first at : tached as a mfdshipman to the cruiser Conway and afterward to the battleshin Dreadnought. Soon. however, he tired of this and roamed to the goldfields of |. Australia. And 1t was here that after several years of hard knocks he. first applied, hungry and penniless, for a position on the stage. By an odd chance the leading juvenile in a stock com pany in Melbourne had been taken i'll and he secured his place for several Rlonttis. But theatrical life in Australia in those. days was an extremely pre- carious venture and he decided after all life on board shin was much more cer- tain of daily rations than that behind the footlights. When he, arrived. in London he read an advertisement in tho Times. Wanted, light comedians4to join q provincial company" He applied for and secured the position
 From that time Mir. Bellew threw