The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-04
ADJUSTMENTS
Bijou Theatre This Week

Since the advent of the stock company
 at the Bijou theatre Manager Schiller
 has presented many notable productions,
 both of the dramatic and comedy or
 der, and that each has been successful
 goes without the saying. Of the comedies
 offered all have had big attepdance, and
 this seems to be the popular form of en- | tertainment during the warm weather
 now prevailing.
 The Schiller Players have demonstrated
 their ability to do the really good things 1 in modern theatricals and with the wish of giving local theatre-goer only the
 best in high-class plays. Manager Schil-
 Ter will offer for the coming week Clyde
 Fitch's last. and what is said to be his best, effort-"Girls."
 Girls" is a play of the bright and breezy order, which handles the question of independence of women so cleverly and in such an amusing vein that it is un- ! questionaby the one big comedy hit of recent years. The reception this piece was accorded on the occasion of it's premiere l at Dalys theatre. New York, was dupli- cated on the recent road tour. Nightly l immense audiences applauded the high | minded declarations of the three bache- l 1 tie down in a studio apartment and de-
 termined to carve out-their fortunes with out the aid of mere man. There are l three of these delightful and pretty bach l elor girls, each one of the kind you meet I eA cry day.
 But these bachelor girls are not the only 1 examples of delightful femininity in Girls" There is the lady who is past ], hor Fist birthday by some years; who Is ! sfi in ri ,!, and willing to tie her wagon to the star of any man who will make the offer to lead her to the altar. She is an ''elocutng" spinster and her work affords just the necessary foil to the other types pre- sented in the piece. Laughter is spontan- eous when one sees Girls and the great est feature of the comedy and the reason
 for its unqualified success is the fact that the girls are real girls-in their talk, in their manner of dressing and in the things that happen to them. Of course, before the curtain drops on the last act mat ters are all straightened out, and the in- dependent girls have lost their repugnance for the masculine gender and all ends happily by each falling very much in love with the men they had before af- fected to despise.
 Pamela Gordon, the chief man-hater, will be assumed by Nora Shelby, and 1t
 is safe to declare that the role will be given a finished portrayal. Marie Gay
 will have the part of Violet Lansdowne,
 vii have the part of Violet Lansdowne,
 and Helen Scott will enact the role of
 Kate West, these being the three charm ing bachelor girls.
 Clifford Bruce has been cast for Edgar Holt, the partner of the legal firm of Spraguc & Holt, and who in the end wins the hand of the fair Pamela.
 Iua Thomas will be the darling elecu- tionist" ready to marry the first man that is kind enough to ask her, while Forrest Seabury, John Todd Rollo Lloyd,
 Harry Thomas and Ebert Benson have parts that materially assist in the laugh
 provoking scene of this exceptionally clever comedy.
 AS has been stated Manager Semon has
 placed in different parts of the theatre
 special cooling apparatus. and has also
 added a number of large and nolseess electric fans. Patrons of the popular
 Bijou can now sit and enjoy the perform
 ance in the coolest theatre in all south- land.
 There Is q performance each evening
 and matinees Tuesday, Thursday and
 Saturday. Seats are now selling,