The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
NOTES OF THE THEATRE

Minstrelsy "as our daddes knew it,
Is said to be the brand that Messrs.
Primrose and Dockstader, the reunited
veteran minstrel stars are presenting
this season. After separation which
had existed nearly 10 years, Messrs Prim-
rose and Dockstader consolidated their
respective companies last season and
made tour of the principal cities of
the United States and Canada. The sue
cess of the reunion of these famous min
streis was so great that arrangements
were made for its continuance. Messrs.
Pryimrose. and Dockstader are said to
have surrounded themselves with an all
star cast. They are presenting a spec
tacular revival of old time minstrelsy
and will be in Birmingham at the Jeffer-
son theatre next week.
All the girls in all the department
stores will want to see Rose Stahl in
Maggie PEPPER, when she comes to the
Jefferson theatre shortly, and not that
alone, but the patrons OF tho said de-
partment stores viii be found in large
numbers In the orchestra seats. just as
curious to see how Charles Klein has
put the department store ON the stage.
But, by and large, Maggie Pepper is
just Rose Stahl. II is the individuality
of the actress sunk in the character
which makes an appealing and very
human figure of this girl. She is just
the kind OF girl you find behind the
counter, because the actress has studied
and sympathized with the conditions I'M
der which she works.
The lines of Maggie Pepper are
scintillant The audience is swept with
constant waves of laughter by the pet
expression of everyday thoughts which
come over The footlights. And 1t is this
big. human touch which went far to win
success for the play. Miss Stahi sounds
the keynote of the play, but the excel
lent company which surrounds her de-
serves praise for the splendid acting sup
port she receives Mr.. Robertson, Miss
Adams, Miss Claire Miss Dahl, Mr..
Reynolds and the rothers all do their
share toward making the piece enter
tanning. Maggie Pepper is a comedy
and one which will doubtless attract
iaree audiences throughout its limited
engagement.
Victor Morley, who viii be remem-
bered here in 1.-The Three Twins will
be seen this season at the jefferson In
1.-The Quaker Girl" The Portland Press
said of the attractions
1.-THE Quaker Girl" with Victor Nor
lev. the Enelish comedian in the leading
role. at the Jefferson, last evening. made
one of the big hits of the past half dozen
years.
1t was the FIRST taste that Portland au-
diences have had of musical comedy this
year, and it is safe to say that memo
ries of it will linger in the minds of
those who had the pleasure of seeing and
hearing 1t. for many months TO come.
The hunor and the comedy is not of
the broad farcical kind. but it is bright.
keen and clean and In the hands of Mr..
Mor'ev and his verv talented associates,
is made an entertainment that was worth
while, in the fullest sense of the words.
An unconventional character in 1.-THE
High Road Mrs. Fiskes new play by
Edward Sheldon, Is that of Alan Wilson,
wealthy artist, connoisseur and coll
lector, who brings the world of romance
to an uneducated and untutored child
of the farm only TO lose her when she
realizes THAT there Is q greater good
than beauty and that even an unwilling
mistake involves vast consequences The
child of the farm is the May Page of