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

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 "The Girl From RectOr's"
 The engagement of "The Girl From Reotor's' in Birmingham will be in | augurated at the Shubert theatre next Friday and Saturday.
 | This play enjoyed run of over 300 nights at Weber's music hall, New York, to the biggest business in the history of that house. "The Girl From Rector's" is from the pen of Paul M. Potter, who was also responsible for "Trilby." ''The Queen of the Moulin Rouge" and other far-famed successes. MT Potter declares, however, that "The | Girl From Rector's'' is the greatest eff fort of his career and the enormous business the piece is doing seems to bear him out. The story of the play, briefly, is this:
 Louie Sedaine Is "The Girl From Rector's", a merry, dancing, dashing little slip of humanity. She Is in love with Richard OShaughnessy, a young , fellow of ample wealth, who. at the opening of the play, has plunged into dissipation as a result of the influence of Colonel Audrey Tandy, whose head quarters is at the famous Broadway restaurant. Richard has wearfed of bachelor life and welcomes the visit of Mrs. Witherspoon Copley, wife of Gen. Witherspoon Copley of Battle Creek, Mich, and her daughter by her first marriage, Miss Marcia Singleton.
 Marcia Is engaged to a stupid, elderly | cousin of Richards. a college professor, but Richard skilfully mana ges to end that engagement and bring about his own. He drives Colonel Andrew Tandy out of his rooms and good luck takes Miss Sedafne off on a supposed visit to | her father, Grand army veteran in Buffalo, where she. spends few months each year. Richard hies himself to Bat tie Creek and arrangements go forward for the marriage and the scenes shift from the east to the west. The com- plications begin at the same time. Mrs. l Copley's husband, the general, Is thought to be in Martinique looking af- ter extensive plantations, but he Is to return in time for the wedding. An other guest at the Copley home Is Judge Caperton of the American court at Shanghai who spends 10 months of l the year abroad, leaving his wife to I travel in Europe. 4
 l General -Copley turns out to be none other than Col. Andrew Tandy, who, lin, at disguise has been making merry | in New York. Mrs. Caperton, one or the leading society women of Battle Creek, and wife of the judge. is none other than Louie Sedaine. who has l spent ner lOnS VdcdLlOnS III tHe NiClHlly \ Of Rector's instead of going abroad. It is through her frequent visits to the restaurant that she gains the title of 'The Girl From Rector's." Tie com plications that follow keep the audience lin a roar of laughter from the rise of the first curtain to the fall of the I last. The cast presenting the piece is regarded as one of the strongest that | has been sent out of New York in many years. Seats begin selling | Wednesday.
 | "The Rosary"
 This beautiful new play, The Rosary" under the direction of Rowland and Cliff ford, will be presented at the Bijou | theatre this week with matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
 It is now running at the Garden theatre in New York; and recently closed three months engagement in Chicago
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