Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-02-02

of amateur disciples of the dramatic
art that can be gathered together in
all Southwest Georgia. 1t will be
strictly home talent, but home talent
of the highest order of merit. From
the moment the curtain rolls up on
scene one, laid in England until it
rolls down on the last scene in be-
nighted Africa, the audience that will
pack the auditorium, the galleries, the
aisles and the staircases will be treat
ed to series of nervous thrills, spinal
column shivers, estacies of delight and
heart-welling signs, such as would
galVanize the most satiated and hard
ened of theatre goers. For this per-
Torrance is strictly in a class by
itself.
The performance is to be given for
the benefit of the Hospital Association.
Embraced in the cast are many of the
best known young people of the city
likewise a few of uncertain age
Some are former artists of the foot
lights, locally speaking, the memories
of whose former triumphs still linger
fresh in the public mind. New gar
| lands are soon to be laid upon the old.
Among the new and budding aspirants
for histrionic honors are also several
whose accomplishments are said to
render them dangerous rivals for the
honors now worn by those of more ma
ture experience. The friendly compe-
tition among the cast for the bo-
quets and floral baskets coming across
the footlights insures a finished per
| formance
Scenes one and two, as stated, are
located in England, while the last
two scenes are in Africa, where the
principal male characters are engaged
in hunt for an English girl who has
been kidnapped by the Arabs. The
possibilities for blood-tingling scenes
can be appreciated. The missing dam
sci is not one of the lost Jewels, how
ever, they being stones of rare value
taken from the Arab temple. Cliff Will
liams is the william of the play, one
of those sinister, plotting Satanic vii
lains who so play upon the galleries
that the entire police force is neces-
eary to restrain them from stormiua
he stage TO rend him to pieces. A de-
'ightfUl foil to this arch-Dlotter is the
| low comedian Colorado Pete Efforts
TO conceal the identity of the star who
is to convulse the audience with laugh
ter and relieve it from the tersioH
| of the villains acts Of treachery and
designing atrocities have been una
/ vailing. Tell it not in Gath"-whis-
ner it not in Leslie-Hist! Colorado
Pete to the rescne! It is orr friend
the inimitable. the ever-delightful. the
only, lee Pansford! Sombrero.
ton boots, janglirg spurs ,nisto's
bowie knife and lariat. full of witt
cisms as an old man is of sage adj
vice. handsome debonnair, courageous,
dashing, the right man at the SPOT.
the rescuer of endangered maidens!
Will February % never come?
And for a real, genuine, oldtradi
toned English aristocrat, who could
play the part better than Earl Will
liams. The Duke of Connaught would
! seem like a plebeian beside him. The
aristocracv of natural American man
hood is always infinitely superior 10
the king-made article. And with dra Il
and monocle, assuming to perfection
the English society idler of the period,
but with grit, determination and gen
uine manhood beneath the veneer, who
will picture the gentleman of elegant
leisure better than DR. ouie Grub?
"The Lost Jewels Of Hotchjcotch'
will be a thriller. The thrills are all ia
the play and the actors will thrill the
thrills as they never thrilled before
But. of course. it is not all thrills. in
! tensely dramatic as are many of the
scenes. breath-holding as at times they
; compel the audience to he. Love plays
its gentle part-and that is where
some of the actors, through the benz
fit of previous experience, excel
Sweet, winsome maidens, the flowers o
Americas, a garden noted far and wid'
= for its beauties, have been cast for the
$ parts for which nature nodded them
|. Most alluring of all the scenes will
s. be the dream dances, with eighteel
| Young ladies, in the most graceful mo
s tons, the very poetry of actions, yera
translated into rhythmic steps. Tn
male actors may play their parts wei
perfection may be stamped upon a
they do. but they will be veritably !
the discard in comparison with tn
artistic finish of their more cleve
sisters
More seriously speaking, THE Los
Jewels of Hotchjcotch" only thos
. suffering with bay fever can pronounC
this name--will be one of the mos
Z delightful entertainments of the sea
son. The cause for which it is bein
rehearsed and presented is a gloriou
one, one that appeals to every Amer
Gus man or woman, the noblest inst
tuition in the city, the hospital. Eve