The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22
Musical Comedy At Bijou

William Norris My Cinderella Girl" the farcical play with music, which comes to the Bijou this week. was written as to book, by Richard Walton Tully the author of 'The Rose of the Rancho" a play that elevated Frances Starr to stardom. The music was written by Will liam Frederick Peters, composer of the score of The Mayor of TolSio," in which Richard Carle won so much success. The chorus numbers were originated and staged by Gus Sohkle, one of the best known producers of chorus numbers in America The piece was staged by Will liam Norris My Cinderella Girl" had run of 300 nights in Chicago where
 it kept large crowds convulsed with laughter for a year.
 The farce has to do with college life, and with baseball. The scenes are laid about Siwash college. and the central fig ure IS Tom Harrington, young student who has baseballitjs. but whose father is strenuously opposed to baseball, claim ing that it is uncouth and even degrad- ing. The young man, despite his stern parents objection Is a star player on the team, and when the father comes to visit him at college, is put to all sorts of trouble to keep his father from knowing that he is on the Siwash team. By hook and crook, and through the aid of his fellow students. the father is hoodwinked, and by dint of much prevarication the young man gets by with his deception and incidentally keeps the audience con culsed with laughter from beginning to end. stt. fs ,-, There are numerous quaint characters in the piece. among the students as well as among the faculty, and they keep the fun fast and furious all the time: there is Mrs. Pinney, the boarding housekeep- CT. who is a .host in herself, and there are odd types of students who add to the hilarity. In addition to complete plot full of ludricrous situations, the piece or-
 fers a dozen good musical numbers. and
 they aressung by a prize beauty chorus. The production is' a handsome one. and the company comprises well. known metropolitan players who are seen at their best in this their latest creation There will be matinees Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday and performances nightly.
 Ruth Grey at Orpheum a.
 In speaking of Miss Grey and her. re- | markable performances one who has seen and investigated the occult for years is prone to employ a superfuity of ad- Jectives. Whether what she does Is the result of gift or whether her work may
 be explained on scientific principles, or whether 1t rests In her dim, unexp.Ored
 unknown, remains with her critics to de- l termine. S
 | It Is true that she sits blindfoded and l tells theatre full of people one after
 another, their inmost thoughts. She d. l rects, while in a state of somnoleney, the l pursuit of hidden treasures, the proper
 course for the perp,exed to traverse
 describes scenes Of years previous, re-
 cites occurrences that she could know | nothing of and has even on orca sions
 told the names of theives. what they l have stolen and where the booty. has
 been secreted. In fine, the mind of her
 auditor is an open book, and she reads it at will. to the, perfect astonishment
 and perplexity Of. the thousands who hear l and see her u t, 4tsiAggr tfsr
 Messages and letters that have been | written and sealed at home. which she l does not even ask to touch, much less see, are readily answered, And Miss Grey lcre-
 ates furor in every city she visits. such as has never been paralleled ing this or any other time. ;i;S
 1 Madame Plavatsky and the BaldNins I were not so wonderful in their palmy l days. as Miss Grey. Her cabinet seances l her spirituaiistic manifestations are all ! said to be beyond the ken of the human
 mind, and wherever she goes immense