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

ton of being the great est violin virtu-
 oso America has ever produced. Next
 year he IS to be heard in an extend- ed tour of concerts. His engagements
 will extend from Boston to Denver and from Montreal to- New Orleans. One
 of Macmillens recent successes has been acquired in London, where he gave
 six recitals in succession at Queens
 hall, the large amphitheatre being
 pa cked to its capacity at each con- cert English critics rank Macmillen
 as the peer of any violinist who has appeared there this season, of itself sufficient to brand him as an artist Of great merit
 In Macmillen's native city, Merietta
 O., the young artist was accorded an ovation when he arrived there during his first tour after an absence of II years. Five thousand enthusiastic clt ; izens met him at the station and es- corted him to the courthouse. from the steps of which. despite the cold wealth CT, he played Home, Sweet Home" A score of students unhitched the horses from the artists carriage and, attaching rope to it. drew him | through the, streets of the city to his
 old home. Hands, built for the violin, are of all things about the most neces- sary physical requirement of great violin virtuoso. In this respect Mac millen is said to be without a rival
 among the present day virtuosos. His
 fingers are long and wiry while the
 hand itself is slender. This combina- | tion enables him to stretch great dis 1 tances on the finger board As result
 chords and reaches which. for most violinists are impossible, are as easy for
 MacmiIlen as the simplest airs. Playhouse Gossip
 Charles Kleins American play "The Lion and the Mousse" which Henry B.
 Harris will produce here at the Bijou the week of January 23, has won from audiences wherever presented the most cordial demonstrations of approval and
 it has certainly taken rank as the nota- ble success of the new century De-
 servedly is this so for 1t Is finely effective dramatic presentation of a
 subject that is at present of para | mount interest with the American peo- pie, the corruption of the civil govern
 ment by the power of concentrated wealth.
 With Ward and Voxes, who come to the Bijou the week of January 30, are d score of first class principals, includ- ing Lucy Daily and her pony ballet,
 May Kilcoyne, one of the statesque beauties of the stage; Susie Kerwin, who was prominent in the days of the Wiber Opera company; Richard Barry, who possesses a delightful tenor voice.
 and many other associates whose man.
 ner are well known in the leading pop
 ular priced show shops in the leading cities.
 The coming engagement of Ward and Vokes in the Trouble Makers" in this city is one of the most important
 of the current season.
 Would you steal to make yourself
 pretty in the eyes of your husband? ? That's the question which is asked in "The Thief" that powerful success
 which was produced at the Lyceum theatre, New York, crowding that thea
 Ire to the doors for two solid seasons.
 and which comes to the Bijou theatre for an engagement of one week be- ginning February 6.
 It's new idea, and 1t has a distinct dramatic value. for it is both thrilling to women and fiattering to men. Usually 1t Is the man who takes this risk to satisfy the indulgencies of his wife or his sweetheart, but in the case of The Thief" the tables are reversed and a woman Is the central figure. That Is