The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-24
Henrietta crossman.

III you. GILL AppTSCldLc real DuTleSQu0
and satire be sure to see Henrietta
Crcsman In "Anti-Matrimony' at the
Grand Wednesday. March /. When
amt Matrimony" was first done in
New York the first night audience
rubbed their eyes and wondered il the
seemingly serious things said were
really made to laugh at. Then when
the play had progressed for a time
they realized that gigantic joke was
being played on them and that Anti
Matrimony'' was really burlesque
There was great roar Of laughter
when the people realized this and from
that on there was one incessant guf-
faw. Not in years has anything so
cleverly been produced. MacKaye has
stamped himself genius. Taken in
the spirit in which it is meant, anti
Matrimony'' is the funniest thing that
has struck town in years. Seat sale
opens Monday at 10 o'clock.
Tho Al. G. Field Greater MinstreIs.
From Portland, Name, to Portland,
Oregon-from Winnipeg to New Or
leans the name of AL G. Fields
Greater Minstrels has become house
hold word. In the long line of Amer.
lean minstrel managers Sal. G. Field
occupies a position distinctively alone.
A quarter of a century ago Mr.. Field
organized his first minstrel company
and he has given to this organization
all the best efforts of his life During
this long period of time other minstrel
organizations. have appeared some
have glowed radiantly for awhile,
others have f1ickeredi but dimly; but
all have now Disappeared with the
one exception Of the AL. G. Field show,
and there is no amusement organiza,
ton in America to which the ex-
preston Like good wine it improves
with age" could be more fittingly at
tached
For the present season-The Silver
Jubilee Twenty-fifth Anniversary of
the ALL G. Field Greater Minstrels
an organization has been perfected
which excels all previous of this most
successful manager, and which estab-
fishes more firmly than ever his
claim to precedence in this distinct
lively American form of amusement.
Fields minstrels will be seen at the
Grand opera house Thursday, March
2. Seat sale opens Tuesday morning
at 10 o'clock. Prices. Main floor, $1.00,
balcony, roc and sec Gallery, 25c.
At the Colonial.
Tonight at the Colonial Theatre
will be shown the great Reliance pie
ture entitled rhe Vows" featuring
the worlds greatest motion picture
star. Miss Marion Leonard. A synop-
sis of the great picture:
The Vows--W Walton, religiously in
clined, studies for the priesthood, and
becomes asnoyice in a monastery. Be
fore taking the vows he thinks he
should see the world, and the old
monk gives his consent, believing il
is harmless within. The youth Sc
cures employment as a reporter and
is assigned to interview "a famous
actress--Miss Carter Her beauty and
assumed air of domesticity and limo
cence infatuate him. Calling at her
apartments unannounced, however
he surprises her in wild gathering
Of stage people. and fast young men
and the flowing wine and ribaldry APP.
pail him. With bitter arraignment he
drives the guests away, and in high
ly dramatic scene reproves Miss Cart
err. Shaned and awed, she admits, for
the first time that she loves him, and
the impetuous youth Immediately
plans for the wedding, rushing off to
tell the good monk The priest knows