The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
BUSTER BROWN

Thomas, the playwright, at the club was
 lessened when he informed them that Woodruff owned the links, which he had constructed himself. Now they are all practicing and threaten to hire an ex- pert to coach them to beat him next summer when a Lambs tournament will
 be held.
 The fact that the scenes of the play, lover Night" are laid on the Hudson river steamboat, "HendricS Hudson,
 brings to mind another boat play of 25 years ago It was called "Fun-on- the
 Bristol" and was played with great sue cess for several years in the States and Canada, by an actor named Sheridan. It was one of the big hits at that time, was a great money maker, and was consid- cred a big novelty. The Bristol was one of the Fall river line of steamers, plying Long Island Sound. and was considered the pride of the line in her day She has long since gone 10 the junk pile, and her place taken by larger and more modern boats. Sheridan took the play to Eng land, and also to Australia. and he died in the latter country. Fun the Bris- tol,n was an excruciatingly funny play. but it is said that the company owning the boat objected to it on account of the ridicule and unfavorabe light in which 1t placed its officers Of course, there have been no end of plays in which the action has taken place on board ship, but the only one that comes to mind that in any way resembles the way in which the steamboat is used in lover Night" is old Fun on the Bristol.'
 Laughter as a tonic beats all the best patent medicines. It drives away dull care, chases away the blues, and makes despondency look like 30 cents. This tonic and laughter in large chunks will be on tap when Richard Carle, supported by Edna Wallace Hopper, makes his ap- pearance in the city in his latest and greatest musical comedy, Jumping Jupi- ter"
 Miss Billie Burke, who comes to the Jefferson theatre, on Tuesday evening, January 2S in The Runaway" the com-. edy in which she is said to have scored her biggest success in New York. has had d meteoric career on the American stage. Five years ago no one had ever heard of her In the autumn of 1907 she appeared in New York as John Drew's leading woman in My Wife" and in less than a month everyone in the United States who takes any interest, in things theatrical was talking about her and longing to see her The next year Charles Frohman made her a star and her pop ularity has been growing ever since.
 When iJolfn Drew comes to the Jefferson theatre he will present the new comedy, "A Single Man. the work of Hubert Henry Davies. the English playwright already well known in this country for his '',The Mollusc' and Cousin Kate. The mention of these last two plays will at once identify MT. Davies as one of the few contemporary writers now contrib uting genuine comedy of the first order to the English speaking stage. Mir Da- vies' Cousin Kate was full of heart, revealing fine humanness in it's enaction. The same writer's "'rhc Mollusc" was full of mind revealing in every line q witty outlook on current life worthy of Hazlitt or even Lamb, Mir. Drew's com pany will include Miss Mary Roland, Thas Lawton. Ivan Simpson, Thomas Kelly, Louise Drew and others.
 Clinton Preston. one of the featured me nlbers of the Baby Mine company, was. several years 2 valued member Of the Alcazer stock company of San Fran cisco, during which time he played a 70 ,1,r ta,. s,tx..z tnx