The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22

the dearest, daintiest little piece of brie- a-brac around which an author could build a sensational comedy, and the term sensational comedy means a comedy that has more up-to-date surprises in 1t than all other comedies written in the past ten years.
 Birmingham has had a long and pa rient wait for a chance to see William Hodge as Daniel Voorhees, Pike in the first and most successful of the Tark- ington- Wilson comedies. "The Man From Home This is the fourth season that the play has been presetned. yet until this fall. hardly dozen cities have seen MT. Hodge in it. His entire first season was spent in Chicago, then came 70 weeks in New York, while la st season ended in a blaze of glory with run in Boston of 27 weeks dura- tion.
 A young man, not yet ten years out of college, startled the country some time ago by publishing stinging satire on modern social conditions en- titled "A Little Brother of the Rich. It occurred to this young man. then working on a big Chicago newspaper, that his novel might be made into striking play. Himself unacquainted with the technical details of play wrightlng, he called to his aid an eX perienced drama tist, Miss Harriet Ford. While working on this dramat atizaton, Joseph Medill Patterson. for that was the young authors name, evolved the idea of incorporating some of the jour nalistc adventures to which he had been party or witness into the action of a, drama.
 "The Fourth Estate,' she great news paper play that resulted from this idea, |, ton rE4 l, e., "A Little Brother of the Rich had had hearing.
 Julius McVicker, who plays the role of the Kaiser in "The Girl and the Kaiser" in which Miss Lulu Glaser is now starring at the Herald Square th eatre, New York. used to be an or ganistf in church in Detroit. His first engagement was with Louis
 James He has played in Ben Hur." ..The Prince of India" and other dra- matic productions, but his present en- gagement is the first in musical com edy.
 Having but renently left a Broadway production for reasons which the rialto is still in doubt about, Miss Kitte Cor don. the statuesque English prima donna who was first brought to this | country by the Messrs. Shubert. is ne- | gotiating with this firm for the Lon
 don rights to The Girl and the Kaiser . 1 To add atmosphere" to the wonder | fully picturesque Czardas in The Girl and the Kaiser" the Shuberts have en- gagged two Hungarian dancers, Victor l and Blanche Hyde, who lead the num-
 Der They will be seen at the Shubert. I The New York World says: Had He Came From Milwaukee" Sam Bernard) been performed in. London 1t would l have created a riot. It is more than likely that He Came From Milwa uS ee' will not have to go back. He" will have plenty to keep him busy for long period at the Casino. The play comes Ito the Shubert soon.
 | After the success of Alias Jimmy
 valentine,' a play in which interesting types of the underworld were trans ported bodily sto the other side of the 1 footlights and involved in the action of stirring realistic drama, 1t Is not at all surprising that MT. Armstrong has worked along similar lines in The Deep Purple" which he wrote in col Elaboration with Wilson Mizner. well known magazine author, From all ac-