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Show Hffjri J LOUIS JAMES AND FREDERICK WARDE. HIM B i jitf Louis James and Frederick Warde will be seen ImI next Mondaj, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings M i in a .new heroic drama entitled "Alexander the i-U'l Great," in which the contending elements are in- f nj satiable ambition, romantic and self-sacrificing B lf! love and covetous envy, which entails a tragic H ' A finale. The last named quality is typified in the H ' character of Perdlccas, which will be played by B ' jj, Mr. Warde, a crafty, cunning, merciless states- H I man, who would betray any one, man or woman, H to further his own selfish schemes. Alexander, H I' the greatest military genius recorded in history, H who is made to appear in the play as being too H magnanimous to suspect the motives of Perdlccas, H ' 1 on whom he has bestowed political honors, will H '!? be assumed by James. The play is said to be B" replete with stirring incidents, interspersed with H y scenes of martial pomp and royal pageants and B j I tempered by the charm of exquisite romance. H! i m Managers Wagenhals and Kemper, according Hj ', w to report, have spared neither money ,nor Inge- B' II nuity in making "Alexander the Great" one of the B; 1 most notable spectacular dramas of the year. The B ! p costume designs typify the varied customs of dress B in many of the ancient civilizations, notably those B H of Greece, Persia, Egypt and India. While elab- B : orate in each instance, two of the scenes have en- B i gendered the most enthsiastic comment. One of B ; them shows Alexander's besieging army outside, B the walls of Mallia and gives a vivid Idea of the, m gv great catapults, battering rams and pther weapons B I of ancient warfare; and the other, the exhausted' m I troops of Alexander among the glaciers of the B .1 mountain tops above the clouds, in a state of, Wm i ' mutiny at their prolonged exile from home. It is B $ I here that Alexander, having conquered practically B I all the known people of the earth, imagines that, Wm rf he has arrived at the end of the world and, as' HLc history informs us, weeps because his still un- Kh&J satisfied ambition has nothing left to feed upon. p 1 He finds consolation in love, the only satisfying HBf f emotion to which humanity is heir. He is cheated B 'f of love's reward, however, by death, which is fln- Hb i ally brought about by his hidden enemy, Per- H $j diccas. At Wednesday matinee and on Thursday B ' night a superb scenic production of, "Julius Caesar" Cae-sar" will be offered, Mr. James appearing as Brutus Bru-tus and Mr. Warde as Marc Antony. |