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


 1 thors that the big scenes of this drama should each have a separate motif in music to carry them through appropriate | y. Consequently, after considerable thought MT. Furst was selected as the best possible man to take up the themo of a play and write about each scene a motif that would fttingly express every sensation that was comprised in 1t.
 By one of those peculiar and to us un- | fortunate freaks of fate, Madame Nazi- nova, who has played in every city of any size in the United States, and whose fame Is international, has never been seen l in Birmingham
 l This deficiency is about to be remedied for on January Il and F Nazimova will be seen at the Shubert theatre.
 | Madame Nazmova's career as an Eng | fish speaking actress dates back five years. Before that she was, however. a very highly rated actress in Russia. She accomplished the remarkable feat of
 learning the English in six months and | from the very beginning was conceded by every critic in New York city to be an actress of the first magnitude
 The story of Madame Troubadour," | the operetta which comes to the Shu- bert theatre soon is founded on a well known French classic Felix Albini. the German musician. Is said to have | suggested the use of this particular story as a plot for operetta. Two | German authors translated the novel. and now Joseph Herbert has performed l a similar service for the Messrs. Shu- bert. who produced Madame Trouba- dour' in English The cast is composed of but eight principals and much of the dialog Is carried on by means of song. The original cast will be seen When George Evans comes to tho Jefferson theatre next Thursday, mati- nee and night, with his big Honey Boy" minstrel organization one of the real novelties of the production will be the appearance of James J. Corhett in black face, as the interlocutor of the show. This departure of 'Gentleman Jim has scored another real success for the ex-ohampion. Corbett has de- veloped into a pretty good actor in recent years and when Honey Boy' Evans proposed the idea of his going into minstrelsy and suggested that such stars as Edwin Booth. William H. Crane Nat Goodwin, Chauncey Olcott and others equally prominent were all graduated from the semi-circle of mins strelsy, Corbett jumped at the idea and took Evans bait. hook. sinker and all. During the second part of the min.
  heard i.. his famous story of the recent quarrel between Jeffries and Johnson. Mark Sullivan, who has scored a ro. markable hit in "The Man Who Owns Broadway" was once cashier in one of the largest banks in Boston, but gave up banking career for the stage.
 The eight dancing girls in "The Man Who Owns Broadway" represent six of our largest cities. The two Livermores come from San Francisco, Mary GildeA and Grace Kenalaw belong to St. Louia Molly MacCabe comes from Boston, Mar tha Ross claims New Orleans as her birthplace, Rae Winter comes from Chi. cago and Bertha Munroe belongs e New York
 Rarely does a manager succeed in finding two phenomenal successes in mus ical comedy in one year. And yet both "The Dollar Princess and "Thc Arcad- ians' have been hailed by all the New York critics as plays that at least equal "Florodora" and 1.-The Merry Widow" anu some even go further in praisng them as the best light musical plays since the famous Gibert-Sullivan comic operas "The Dollar Princess will bs seen in Birmingham in the very nsas futuret