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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

masters on the bounding nets. tNr a permits of many sensations, as .e-- as no end of comedy stunts, both of which arc amusing and pleasing to the audi ences. The act is a big headline feature and was imported for the United Booking offices.
 Chick and Chicklets is a novelty and it is going to be the act that will bring the children to the Orpheum this week. It Is a bicycle speciality. with all kinds of new and interesting numbers. A child is one of the features of the act and is said to be remarkably clever and daring in the stunts performed The comedy in the act is one of the best features and is al-i wevs sure of lot of big laughs.
 Ted and Corinne Breton present a dis tinetly different act in s''The Crazy Sail or and the l.ady'- an act which has proven very entertaining and popular on the circuit. It includes a speciality Of comedy. u number of musical numbers and some dancing.
 Billy Ney}drls and the Evans Sisters is another novelty, and it has been likewise . popular in every house on the circuit, The managers reports on the act say that it is entertaining and pleases the au
 diences everywhere. There are number of songs in the act, the costumtlg Is pretty and distinct feature. and the dacing is we'll liked and different from the usual run A singing comedienne makes the fifth act on the hill. and Gertrude Fiske is one of the best that comes to the Orpheum. She brings with her some of the new song effects from Broadway, as well as line of clever stories, which she has
 the personality to tell well and make i them a go.
 The bill will be cSmplete with new frs. run motion pictures and the enjoyable
 music by the orchestra.
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1 llmgford." In the dramatic form it is a
 Everything and everybody is kept moving so briskly 1t well nigh makes one dizzy.
 The play Is in four acts; the first showing
 the office of the Battle House in Battles
 nurg. Here J. Rufus Wallingford arrives
 and he wakes up the town. He has been
 q promoter of all sorts of schemes, and
 his operations have been on such an ex-
 tensive scale that the minions of the law
 are upon his trail, and they have given | him the title of Get Rich Quick Walling-
 ford Battlesburg is quiet little set
 tloment, and Wallingford sees the oppor-
 unity to make it a manufacturing city. Ills suave manner and nimble wit aid him
 in gaining the confidence of the leading | citizens. With no idea of what the scheme 1 is, Wallingford exploits a carpet tack to | match the carpets of the world. He makes | such headway that his enterprise is en- cotaaged by an investment of one hum | dred and twenty-five thousand dollars tee | local capitalists falling over themselves
 to put in their mite He. of course, re- tains controlling interest in the enter
 prise, and has the manipulating of the | cash. There is but one complication. His rretty stenographer. knows hs schemes. and she tries to persuade him from going
 to the bad Although he has developed a i fondness for her, he maintains that he is
 on the square, and by n singular coinci-
 denee everything comes his way He Is
 aided in his schemes by Blacke Daw. | who has been his pal for many ,.ay. The fact that the carpet tack factory has
 gone along So well has created real es- | iaie boom in the town. This all works | to the advantase of the hero. and by the
 time the fourth act is reached, showing ! Wallingfords residence two years later, 1 he not only becomes a millionaire, but the
 town Is one of the commercial centers on the map. The seat sale is now on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
GOSSIP OF THE STAGE
By PAUL COOK

ny PAUL SOOh
 goers. Although "Almap seems like all old friend to us now, this sparkling French vaudeville. enlivened by q charming musical score and exploit ing the stunning blonde beauty of Miss Grace Drew, was welcome addition to the weeks attra ctions. ''Alma" was probably Q very naughty young person in her original guise, but her conduct in the American version Of the piece is merely somewhat unconventional.
 One of the most regrettable features of playgoinG in the provinces, so-ealled, is the repetition season after season of plays with which We are already ac- quainted. It Is seldom that a notable theatrical success gets this far south in the initial season of it's presentation and when we do get glimpse of some play, or musical comedy, or light opera which has already been done to death by the talking machines, much of the piquancy of first night is lost. Then for several consecutive seasons We are treated to return visits, each time, alas. the perform apces dcteriorating, except in a few in- stances. The psAt few seasons down south have been characterized by great dearth of new material and tiresome repetition of pieces that have worn their welcome out rms Slale or dialfs IS, of course. the fault of eastern produ- cers and managers who have yet to learn that the south will patronize good at fractions all the time and not just now and then. People who have been in the habit of delivering the goods' in the past can always rest assured of a lib- eral patronage when they come our way.
 Miss Nobody From Starland' is q very good example of a musical show that has seen it's best days and should not be sent out again Tor a southern tour. This musical cemedy--if 1t can be called that-closed the current week at the Jefferson. The piece has good quali- ties but we are quite familiar with them and sigh for something new.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
BEULAH POINTER IN
 TWO PLAYS AT BIJOU
Will Present "A Kentucky Romance First of Week and Lena Rivers"
 Beginning Friday Night

Commencing tomorrow evening Miss Beulah Poynter will be seen for week $ engagement at the Bijou theatre in "A Kentucky Romance" her latest success, and Lena Rivers" one of the greatest favorites the Bijou ever had. Lena Rivers will be played Friday night and Saturday afternoon and night.
 The author of "A Kentucky Romance. Joseph LeBrandt, has drawn his charac- ters sldllfully and developed his situa- tions to powerful climaxes in an artistic manner. In the first act the dainty little actress is seen as an innocent child of na- ture. with no companions but the birds. She lives alone with a cruel drunken father and knows none of the pleasures; of life She lives on the Kentucky plan taton of the man to whom she is sub
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
1.-THE PINK LADY" TO
 BE AT JEFFERSON
KIaw and Erlanger's Big Musical Pro- duction on Tour Through South
 Will Be Here November IS

"The Pink Lady" that queen of mus ical comedy productions, will be pre- scented at the Jefferson theatre Monday night, November IS. by Klaw & Erlanger, with special organization of nearly 100 people and including the famous Pink Lady" orchestra that is touring with the company, which also includes the rather famous New Amsterdam theatre, N. r., Pink of Perfection" chorus array of beautiful singing and dancing girls of which so much has been written about and euiogized by the public everywhere.
 With all the prestige of tine greatest vogue ever enjoyed by a musical produc-. ton in this country and Europe, "The Pink Lady is making for new records in international stage history. It turned it's 400th consecutive performance at the New Amsterdam theatre in New York city in q run just ended and which be- gan last season and came down through the summer and up to the middle of this season without a break and accomplished an equally paeritorious success at the Globe theatre, London, England.
 To set up such an enviable record is warrant that this delightful combination possesses rare qualities of public favor. Just what they are is not so patent, but that the piece has elements which com bine in a delightful and impressive total is shown when one sees 1t. First of all is has score that is an amending pleas ure. This feature was contributed by Ivan Caryll. the celebrated light operatic composer. whose name has been linked for years with the most captivating of the London musical hits. The book was adapted from the French farce ''Le Sa- tyre of .Berr and Guillemaud, by c. M. s. Mcclellan, the American humorist, and 1t is a scream of livelness that would be a hit were it .divested of the strong ap- peal of the accompanying score. Klaw & Erlanger have outdone themselves in the production. It has color, warmth. ex- ouisite taste and animation to recommend it to one's approval. The whole is a de- light to the eye, the ear and to the hu- mors of ap average audience. Curtain at s:15 shafp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

sealiently married although the mar ll,u IS bltlzriy fought by the proud mother of the man and q wealthy young girl who desires to marry the hero of the drama. The girl, true to her sex, puts all her trust in the man she loves and they go together and are marred-se- cretly of course. Later the mother O the young husband finds them, and in order to save her large estate induces her son to deny the marriage. Her grief and disappointment, natural resentment at the injustice done her, gives Miss Poynter splendid opportunity for wide range of emotional acting.
 She leaves her Kentucky home and goes to New York. where she finds home among friends, and in the course of time becomes a favorite actress. Her hus band. repenting of the wrongs he has done her, seeka her home in New York and attempts reconciliation. The proud mother who bitterly opopsed her in form CT days also asks for forgiveness.
 The play is given an elaborate pro1'lc- ton. adequate settings, scenery and lef- fleets.
 Since the presentation of this play last season Miss Poynter has rewritten the last act. laying the scene in the e~ening, which gives 1er and her company an op- portunity to appear in evening attire of which they take full advantage, and the costumes orn in the act are a mar vel of creation.
 It is said that Miss Poynters costumes were specially designed for her from models imported from Paris by Mime. Deveraus of New York and Paris.
 It was in answer to demand on the part of theatfegoers that the manage ment made special arrangements with Miss Poynter to play Lena Rivers" Fri day night and Saturday matinee and night. The play is too well known to Bijou patrons to need description. and it was always one of tue -r test err of the season at the house. The an- nouncement that Miss ster pear for three performances in that play will doubtless pack the theatre to the capacity and a the same time it affords Ithe pat-ons an opportunity of seeing two distinctly different plays the same week The company Includes MT. Stanhope Wheatcroft, Ted V. Armond. Edwin Dale Harvey Hays, Jack Boyle, Mrs. Sadie Steelsmith. Miss Edwina Levine. Mrs Wheatcroft, Genevieve Malone and others.
 Matinees will be given Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday By special request, on Friday evening and Saturday. matnae and night Miss Poynter and her excellent company win be seen in her former grea. success, Lena Rivers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
GIRLS AND NOVELTIES
 AT THE ORPHEUM
Bill Has Six Pretty Women On It and
 Two Big Sensations-Looks Like a Winner

Siv girls and personal guarantee tha. more than one of them is pretty and worth looking at several times during the atre this week. commencing with the matinee Monday afternoon and running the week, with matinees daily at 23O and two performances nightly. at 7:so and 3 o'clock.
 Every act save one has woman in it. and every one of the women are said t, be clever and entertaining There will he an abundance of music, sin sing and dancing this week, and these are the features that Orpheum audiences like best and patronize most literally. Tonliaing the bill is a sensational European nov city acrobatic act. the Three Escardos.
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counter which for realism has rarely been equalled in the drama. The man she loves gets the better of the fight. and Is about to marry the girl when her ideas, bern from the distorted reasoning to which she is accustomed. makes her re- fuse him. She expresses herself as will iue to live with him, but will not agree to the marriage ceremony, which she be- lieNes to be "all bosh.'' The rich parents Of the young nsan fit through the play trying to save the young man from the sirl. wlio is all that is pure and lovely, except for her strange ideas. But all their efforts are in vain. Tn the last act the girl sees her mistake and agrees to the wedding, which suits everyone very much.
 The play is essentially a drama of to- day, dealing with conditions as they are found in any big city. The characters are all of flesh and blood. and the result Is that the story is an absorbing, throb- ping tale in which the heart interest and love go hand in hand. The usual charac- ters to he found in Bohemian circles are all ably depicted in the new play, many of them being of an intensely humorous nature The result Is that "The Common Law is sprinlSled with amusing incidents throughout, the comedy serving to Tighten the heavier motif of the play. The seat sale will begin Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
LOUISIANA LOU" TO
 BE SEEN HERE SOON
Musical Comedy With Scenes in and Around New Orleans Is Booked
 at Jefferson Theatre

When Addison Burkhardt and Freder- iok Donaughey went to work to supply the Chicago fsaSalie with its musical com edy for this season they selected the old French quarter of New Orleans on Mardi GIas day as the scene of Act 1. The .oea of using the picturesqueness of the New Orleans of today. although refecting tne Now Orleans of our colonial history, was never previously employed by our Amer ican playwrights, much as they are fond Of dwelling upon the theory that there is wealth of material in this country fo- native plays Instead. when they desire to write a musical comedy they seldom get nearer to America than Broadway, which is street in New York that exists mainly for the purposes of musical com edy and comic opera song writers.
 Even when native makers of musical comedy do depart from Broadway they go to Paris or Vienna or Egypt or China for their scenes. instead of seeking to stage some picturesque neighborhood of their own land
 The Chicago newspapers have praised highly the realism of the setting of Act of Louisiana Lou" which, with Harry Askin's special company, will be seen here for the first time Friday and Saturday and Saturday matinee at the Jefferson theatre.
 The setting shows a pocket or byway of the old Frencsh quarter of New Or leans as it looks today. A house thai hears every earmark of the 2oo-year-old architecture with which the neighborhooo abounds faces low. rambling structure Of more recent build-a house that cates no farther back perhaps than 1900. Then in the vista, one sees the queer quain' houses of the old inhabitants and Creole aristocrats until the whole blends witt the modern structures that begin to range from Canal street looking in that direction frem the French quarter.
 Act ? of "Louisiana Lou is laid on g nee plantation on the Mississippi abovs
 New Orleans; and there the action take' place on the lawn and entrance road ol an old mansion of the mixed southern colonial type. The seat sale will start "Wednesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

rYSHE past week in local theatricals
 was noteworthy for one splen- 1 did American play, and some lighter entertainment of very pleas .ng nature "The Man From Home," in which William Hodge appeared at the Jefferson theatre Thursday night
 was already known to Birmingham theatregoers on account of previous visit. and It's second presentation here was greeted by an audience prepared to enjoy its excellent qualities to tho full. Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson were in their happiest mood when they conceived and wrote this virlle play, exploiting one or the ouaintest character types seen on the stage in recent years. The co-authors made Daniel Voorhees, Pike of Kokomo a fine character study, and the ininita- ble art of William Hodge gave it a convincing embodiment, creating the sort of man who is known more or less intimately by the majority of Ameri- can people and one whose imperturbable rood humor, shrewd observations, in tspendent spirit and indomitable VIII readily endear him to all classes or theatregoers. MT. Hodge gave an ad- frirable performance. one that was greatly enjoyed and one that will be remembered until il shall please the fetes to bring him our way again. Tho company supporting MT. Hodge this season contains several members who appeared here last year and the new members gave a good account of them selves. The jabbering of real Italians lent the piece decided verisimilitude'
 Alma Where Do You liver was another offering of the past week that .,,lt ,,tith fhe favor of local thealre-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

The Bijou has lately begun to offer un- usually strong attractions at popular prices Last week Madame X'' was pre- sented by a company that compares fa- vorably with the best organizations that have yet presented that highly emotional play. Such performances at popular price theatre are worthy of note and also worthy of encouragement. People who could not afford to witness Madame X at the higher prices which the play first commanded have been given an opportun- ity of seeing 1t at third of the original cost and done by a company in most re- spects quite as good as the more preten- tous organizations. During the past week the BiJou has offered The Travel ing Salesman" notable play and very well acted. More high class plays are to follow at the Bjou from time to time.
 In vaudeville way the past week has been fairly entertaining, without any act Of great distinction being offered Vaudeville is like life and tfe weather and true love-it varies
 The forthcoming week at Birmingham theatres will bring us that delightful musical show, "The Pink Lady" with haunting melodies and pictorial beauty galore. Let us hope that there will be no deterioration noticeable in this sea sons production. The Pink Lady" was one of the best musical shows presented here last season. The dramatized yer sion of Robert W. Chambers novel, The Common Law" is also scheduled for this week at the Jefferson. This play is being tried out before 1t Is given a Broadway premiere. George M Cohan's stage yer sicn of ''Get Rich Quick Wallingford is all excellent play that will no doubt be ably presented during the current week Strange to say, the danatized Wallng- ford is a much higher type of man than George Randolph Chester has made him, and the transformation was wrought, of all people, by George M Conan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
GET RICH QUICK
 WALLINGFORD'
Great George NJ. Conan Comedy Will Be at Jefferson Theatre Tuesday
 Matinee and Night

There is a laugh raised within the first minute after the curtain is raised on the first act of Get Rich Quick wallingford', witch Colan and IIasris announce for presentation at the Jefferson theatre for ~Tuesaay matinee and rsght NoveMber T.
 After that the laughter is well nigh con- tlnuous. George M. Conan, who wrote the rseee from George Randolph Chester s book of the same name, might have called his version of it Get Laughs quick Wal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
JEFFERSON THEATRE

JEFFERSON THEATRE Tuesday matinee and night--'Get Rich Quick Wallingford-f Wednesday and Thursday nights and Thursday matinee-'The Com mon Law Friday and Saturday nights , and Saturday matinee Louisiana Lou
 BIJoU THEATRE All the week with Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday matinees-- ] Beulah Poynter-two plays.
 ORPHEUM THEATRE All the Heek-oiirls and novelties.
 MAJESTIC THEATRE All the week-Troupe of trained ] animals
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10
BIJou THEATRE
MAJESTIC THEATRE

AT Inc week-Troupe of trained animals.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-10

Alma Where Do You Liver was another offering of the past week that n,et with the favor of local theatre-
The Washington times., 1912-09-22
Capital Colored People
Hold Emancipation Day

Washington colored people began a
four days celebration today OF the fif-
tieth anniversary of the issuance Of the
emancipation proclamation by President
I.iprufu, september e. 1862.
III. most of the colored Churches today
special sermons were preached on the
freedom given the colored people by
Abraham Lincoln, and at the Metro
poiitan African Methodist Church this
afternoon special services will be held.
A number of addresses will be delivered
by colored pastors and lawyers.
There will be two special meetings
Monday, Tuesday, and wednesday.
The Washington times., 1912-09-22
Tobacco Combine
Is Being Formed

NEW YORK. Sept "a $4,000, 900
tobacco company, now in process of
formation here, Is reported to have the
financial support of Daniel @, Reid,
chairman of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railway Company, and sew.
eral of his associates. Mr.. REID is now
IN Europe, but Is expected to return
about October l.
According to the report options al
ready have been obtained on a large
number of Independent tobacco com
panies In all parts OF the country. The
present plan. II is said, is to manufac-
speciality of cigarettes. "
The Washington times., 1912-09-22
Dimples Made in London
AT Fifty Dollars Per

LONDON, Sept. 22.-The manufactur-
ing of dimples has been added to the
activities OF the west end beauty
specialists. II seems that there are per-
manent dimples and transitory dimples.
You can have the dimples for keeps at
$50. or for a special occasion an ephe-
neral. dimple at only IS or so, but the
latter lasts only about a week.
Making a permanent dimple means q
surgical operation, for a small PORTION
of the flesh of the cheek must be re-
moved, but many women think this fas-
cinating result is worth both operation
and money. One must suffer to be
beautiful.
The Washington times., 1912-09-22
Fort Myer Soldier
, Goes to New JERSEY

Bngadier General Bliss, in command
of the Department of the East, United
States Army, has ordered that Private
Bert Smith. OF ,119th Company, Coast
Artillery. be transferred to the Thirty
sixth Company, at Fort Mott, New Jer-
sey. He has been on dty at Fort
Myer.
The change is made at the request
of Private Smith. Corporal Roscoe
Blankenship, of the Thirty-sixth Com
pany. Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort
Mott, will come to Fort Myer. Corpo-
raj Blankenship has been changed at
his request. musician George MARITIME,
Of the 141st Company, Coast Artillery
The Washington times., 1912-09-22
Authorities Asked
To Isolate Family

The Public Health and Marine Hos
pital Service has been appealed to by
the health authorities of Spokane.
Wash. to isolate the family Of Antonio
Volcano, two members Of which are
said to be suffering from leprosy.
Volcano Ia an Italian railroad laborer.
and II is said he contracted the disease
almost two years ago. It IL reported
now that his eleven-year-o son has
exhibited symptoms OF the disease.
Surgeon General Rupert Blue probably
will order the family Isolated.
The Washington times., 1912-09-22

of Hygiene and Demography. 1t, is for
this purpose that he is coming to
Washington after an absence Of two
weeks.
The President will leave Washington
tomorrow night and before returning
to Beverly will visit Altoona, Pa, ana
New York. President Taft left Beverly
this afternoon, going TO Boston by au-
tomobile. Late this afternoon he will
board the Federal Express for Wash
ipRtpO
The Washington times., 1912-09-22
Attends Convention.

Harry o. sandberg. Of the Pan
American Union STAFF, is attending the
convention of the American Manufac-
turers' Export Association at the Hotel
Astor, New York city, 'as delegate of
that institution.
The Washington times., 1912-09-22
PRESIDENT LEAVES
! TODAY FOR CAPITAL
Will Arrive Tomorrow Morning TO
Receive Delegates To Hygiene
l.. Congress. i.

President Taft will arrive In wash
ngton tomorrow morning at $40, and
IN the afternoon will be host at q gar
den party at the White House for the
delegates to the International Congress
The Washington times., 1912-09-22

stationed at Fort Strong, Mass, has
been ordered to Fort Howard, Md. He
goes on his own request