Athens Theater

ATHENS THEATER

Augustus Thomas has written more than one play and written each well but none have done him more credit than "The Hoosier Doctor," the play which Digby Bell presents at the Athens Theater, Friday, Oct. 28. It is a comedy drama with real flash and blood people in it and the scenes he has created are with almost photographic accuracy and are vastly interesting, entwined as they are with romance and sentiment. The majority of people never grow too old to enjoy a love story, whether it be among their own of kin, or that gleaned front the pages of a novel, or better still, watched in the living scenes upon the stage, and that is how it happens that so many theatergoers find much that is admirable in drama, and especially comedy drama which tends to show the humorous side of what would seem to many, the humdrum things of life. "The Hoosier Doctor," is just such a comedy and after one has witnessed it, one is more or less surprised to find "what a lot of funny things there are in life, if someone will point them out to us."

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"Vanity Fair" will be the offering at the Athens Theater Saturday, October 29, and Manager Haber promises that all will be new in his excellent entertainment excepting the title. There will be new faces, new costumes, new scenery, new novelties in profusion, new and tuneful choruses, and two new and spirited burlesques; one, "A Winter Carnival" is laid around the famous ice palace seen some years ago in Montreal and which offers a host of opportunities for wholesome mirth, brightness of color, and catchy music. Among the many novel mechanical effects is that introducing the enchanted Turk, Madame Dockrell's renowned menage act; Topack's flery steed "Spot" and The International Female Bicyclists. In the olio to follow the curtain raiser will be seen the most famous female bag puncher, Pauline Mayhew; the great comic juggler Sparrow in a new act; Morrissy & Rich in bright songs and witty sayings; Ruth Ward in her laughing song; the charming Darling Sisters, chipper comediennes in a gingery repertoire of popular airs; Topack & Steel in an ecoentric turn of splendid worth ; Pauline Mayhew who sings coon songs to beat the band, and not least the hotly contested three mile race on bicycles, which is an European importation and a novelty of the century. The finale will be that frisky satire "Creme de Menthe, " arranged by Fred Huber, with music by Walter Webb, which includes some "of the latest musical numbers especially the West Point Gavotto by 16 girls richly costumed; the moving pictures (a saucy novelty) and "The Majors," headed by Marige Tabeau, the wizard of the baton. Magnificent scenery and adequate costuming have been provided and an excellent entertainment can be relied on.