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SATT*It 1»AV. APISH. \? Closes in Five Weeks—Casino Opens. CIRCUIT SEASON THING OF THE PAST Review Shows Many Plays, Good, Bad and In different. When the lout curtain fall* at the final* of “The Gingerbread Man" at the Orand next Monday night. It will remain down and the leading play houae of Atlanta will be dark with the exception of a few lecturee and ama teur affaire, until a lunntr etoclc com pany open* late In May. | At the Bijou live more week* of pop ular priced play* are promUed, and many who have been exclualv* patron* of the Orand will turn toward the Ma rietta atreet theater for their nightly amusement. The Bijou eeaaon cloae* on May II, and on May 20 the Caalno at Ponce Det-eon will begin Ita round of rammer attraction*. At the Orand, the JCdgar Fawcett Stock Company will play a summer en gagement, opening on May 27 and con tinuing Indefinitely. If the company haa the patronage which haa been ac corded It In other cltlee. Its run will extend probably throughout the sum mer. The season at the Orand has been marked by a few extraordinarily good attractions, and It has had few which have been very bad. There haa been some bright comedy, a few serious dramas, and unusually faw really good muaical comedies. It Is hard to say whether the season has been better or worse than those of the past few yesrs. Perhaps the year might be credited with a good average. U'hat has been the best offering the season? That Is a question wh many are debating, and the answer must depend largely upon the Individ ual views of the theatergoers. In the writer’s opinion, the best drama of the aeason came close to the cloee, Mrs. lteslle Carter's great "Du Barry," a masterpiece of Belasco's pen, presented by a put mistress of emotional acting. In the short list of comic operas. Fritxl HchcfTs "M’lle Modiste" lingers best In the memory. Among the few muaical offering* of a higher order. Emma Raines and Mine, flembrlch shine side by side. Of musical comedies, ns dis tinguished from comic opera, there la little choir#, there having boon a sin gular dearth of catchy music and a lack nt humor which makes one wonder what haa become of the funmokera of otber days. The beat of thoaa which vtailed Atlanta were aucceaaas of post seasons and not creations of the year. Perhaps “The Girl and the Governor," •The Ham Tree," "The Man from Now" and "Forty-live Mlnulea from Broadway" pleased the greatest num- ber. The aeason haa been marked by the appearance of comparatively few great stars of the theatrical firmament, quite a number of well-known players came South this season, however, msny mak ing their first tour In Dixie. Among the leaders of the three-sheet bills were Annie Russell, whose “Puck" was a dream of beauty; William Faversham In "The Squaw Man;" John Draw, Otla Hklnner, Dustin Farnum, whoa* “Vir ginian" was ona of tha most pleasing S ays of tha aeuon; Olga Netharaole. obert Edsson, Robert Do rains, who awoke discussion In a Bernard Shaw satire, and William Crane, who headed a capable company of English players. Nat C. Goodwin and Miss Maxlna El liott. his beautiful wife, appeared sep arately during the aeuon. Lillian Rus sell drew crowds to see the one-time favorite of the front row*. Blench* Walsh appenred twice during the eea aon. The three son* of the Immortal Joseph Jefferson made their appearance nt different times. But there are many names famous on Broadway who never ventured Into Dixie. "The Gingerbread Men." "The Gingerbread Man,” which will be teen at the Orand Monday after noon and evening. Is the only one of all tha big musical ektravagansaa en tour that carries Itvs established comedian*, Ilk* Ben Grlnnell, who wee the princi pal comedian at the New Tork Hippo drome; Roe* Snow, who was the origi nal Fairy Queen In the notable produc. tloa of “Jack and the Bean Stalk;".Ed die Radway, who starred In "Smiling Island;" W. H. Mack, who starred for a number of eeaeon* under his own management In farce comedies, and Will Donnelly, the latter one of the few comedlane on the stage today who poe- sesiee a tenor voice of quality. It I* to the effort* of this quintet of laugh-producers that the greet meed of success achieved by "The Ginger bread Man” Is due. Just as surely a* the drama with "one pari" Is on the wane, no surely la the musical comedy , with a single comedian a thing of the past. Than ara very few Individuals on the stage today who can amuse an au dience for two hours and a half. The play-going public la moved by a desire for entertainment nowaday*, and not, by a curiosity to see some particular “star." This haa been proven over and over again during the past faw seasons by the avalanche of “name" failure*. The attractions liberally patronised by the public today are not thoee which exploit a single fuotllght personage, but those which appeal on the ground of genuine merit. ; The Gingerbread Man." With Hat big roster of comedians and Mngera, | possesses the strongest all-around cast j that has left New York this season.' for In addition to Messrs. Grlnnell. 1 know. Redway, Mack and Donnelly, It I ■ ontaina Homer Lind, the baritone. who| s "aeon before last sang with the Harage English Opera Company; Grace Belmont, who was prims donna with «»» pi mi a nt* uiiiKriumu jiiiii i carries an ensemble of slxty-ffve girls, who have been clirlstened "The Ainerl ran Beauty Chorus." “Bertha, tha Sewing Machine Girl." An unusually pretending offering at tha Bijou next week Is the new A. II. Woode big production. "Bertha, the Hewing Machine Girl," which haa scored a great success wherever ap pearing (bla season. The piny contains four act* and twelve scenes, and the etory Is laid In New York city. Among the great scenes are: The Grand Cen tral station. Central Park, the Lower East Side tenement quarter, the "Sweat Shop," the race between a mo tor boat and automobile, the engine house of company No. 12, the burning tenement house, the Bertlllon room Ih tha Tombs prison and the famous Es sex street police court. The piny will be acted by a very competent com pany. with Miss Edith Browning, a talented young emotional actress. In the title role. Other well-known play er* In the cast are: James Grady, Har- 3 ' Forest, Willi* Kobnrds, Frank P. even, Addis Bt. Alva, Margaret Brownlee and Leona Frances. Ssmos In Pioture, The coming of Dr. Edward Burton McDowell to the Grand next Thurs day night will be pleasing end Inter esting to the members and patrons of the Atlanta Lecture Association. Dr. McDowell’s visit last April, when he presented his lecture on “Panama In Picture and Proa*," I* still discussed In connection with this timely topic. He comes this year with a new lecture, which flret gave hint hla reputation on the American platform, and Is regarded as his beat effort. "Samoa, the Tropi cal Paradise of tbe South Pacific," Is hi* subject, which Is the story of a summer cruise. Illustrated by original motion pictures and copyrighted pho tographic slides, colored by a master hand. Ah the result of hi* extended wander ings In the Samoan, FiJInn and Ha waiian groups. Dr. McDowell, with an eaulpment of three cameras, secured forty motion pictures and more than 1,01)11 negatives of still subjects. This enterprising traveler has the undis puted right to say that hi* motion pic ture camera whs the first to be op erated In either the Samoan or FIJI tslande; and that hie moving pictures of savage life and customs In these remote lands are today the ohly ones In existence. Pictures at Amuse U. A trio of the best Mat* ever offered la Atlsate Is irhst Is promised nt the luiuse II on the Viaduct place for Monday and Tuesday, When "Love’a Thermometer." *'A NOTE: Out out this advertisement, marking your choice of seats, and mail or call, with remittance, on W. 0. Humphries, 519 Empire building, Atlanta. As sev. eral applicants may want the same seat, purchasers are asked to specify their second choice. The sale of season tickets, at $3, $4 and $5 for four performances, or an average of 76 cents, $1 and $1.25 a seat for each performance, is open how. The sale of single seats, at an advanced price, will be .open May 22. Prices for tho boxes will be given on appli cation. A prospectus, giving fuller information, and a souvenir card, will be mailed to those who desire them. Will be the l>lli. The erst picture wilt show au April bridal rouble spooning In the perk. Au they are affectionate, n thermom eter near liy runs the mercury up the tube, but when they quarrel and grow emit It dropa Mlow.freeling. "A Venetian Trag edy” la an Italian play. It depicts love In trigue snd murder. "Cserarte of Fire" Is s tire works display caught by a color camera. It ahewi all aorta of beautiful designs In Are, smt In one of thn most strik ing films eysr seen in the SuntU. At the Twin Theater. I* the north side thsster of the Twin Theater on Whitehall street, the hill for Monthly end Tuesday wtll Include "The Electric- llelt". nud "A Furious Dream." Th* first shows the wonderful things that nan happen to a cost when gslvsolaed by a sserstsd electric belt. The next. "A fu rious Dream," la uven funnier than the "Dream of tbs Itsreblt Fiend." In this dream. Ih* lod upon which the victim I* asleep goes through more gyrations than any trick la tke far famed "Dcvll’a Auc- tloa" la the south stile theater, "tho Wrestler and the Itnll," a Scene from old Mexico, will be tbe first picture play ahowu. "Moclsllsm to Nthlllaui" Is the name of tho second picture piny. It ahowa beautiful scene* from Russia and tells the tsle of n lltieslnn whose wife Is killed by the t'nassehs, and how the buabaml tarns SI- htlllt for revenge and blows up enter general’s JWlac*. "A 11 . . Ilushsnd" Is a farcical short piece wbl Is sure to please. Sat ■Melt The third week ofvsmievillV in the Pas time l’alaea theater will t>* Inaugurated on Monday afternoon, beginning promptly nt o'clock, and running rontlnuouily until 6 o'clock. The second continuous program BDDIg BEDWAY ANP H18 SIGHT CHOCOLATE ECLAIRS IN “THE GINGERBREAD MAN.** will start «t 7 o’clock, and continue until 11 o'clock. The writ-known mudrrll* trim of BmltU .... -—tkctrh- nrtlstH, with clever cion for the third nud Oiinphell, cuturdr »kctr tliftlr llfninln* l*u*u« mid dnnduf,. will head the hill work. *MImH ftditlmen While has A number of new ■L. itnl offcrlnK* iumI tenutlful pic tnrre for her third week At the Unutlmr luring tbe present work tins a >« au eiit#rtiUn«r of Ability. "KulltftlDf Hroril!!*” I» fhn ArdcAl skit Which will bring iitire coutpApy for A flush* A ft* a rcpntallou ground circuit A. Isowl* Holden hAA nn entirely changed monologue for jipxt week, and will preiteiit It. IIIn work ad n Hebrew Impcfiionntor during the present week, baa stamped lilm id title of the J t together the tdr each aeries of arts has Ikh*i» presented. The mMiiAgi*m«nt has almost completed the 111 (••ration* which go to make the run time j'ntncc ttenter nttrnctfve, r * week will proluthly aee the last pnlntera, plumtwrs and workmen About the building. A number of Itnprovemrnta are being noted on the first floor, where Is lo cated I'eiiny Wonderland and Its myriad of Attractions. Jt will Ik* open to tho public. 8t. Nicholas Auditorium. "Kioto," the Japanese skating Juggler, will take tin* place of John F. i>avid»V>. the champion high Jump skater of tm* world, ns the vnudcvlllc attraction a*, the Ht. Nicholas amlltnrlnin. nt Ponce Hefseon park, after Hntimlay night. Tonight Is the Inst chance to mm* Dnvldhon In Ills daring dart through the nlr. The nfatiageincnt of this, the largest skating rlitk In tbe South, has engaged "Kltiso" to perform In the auditorium each evening from 0:16 to h:45 o'clock, nnd on Tuesday. Thursday and Baturday nfternootfi nt the matinee from 4 to 4:80 o'clock. "Kluto" la one of the most expert Jug. glcrs In the Flowery Kingdom to begin with, nnd to his Kaxtern art of Jugglery no tins folded the mastery of the Western pnxilmc of skating until he has become u master of both. | SINGERS OF RENOWN TO MAKE •FESTIVAL AN ARTISTIC SUCCESS Chorus of Two Hundred Voices and Great Orchestra of Fifty Pieces Engaged , By Director Browne. Thomas Evans Greene. Baritones—-Signor Gutsseppe Cam- panarl, Mr. Claude Cunningham Violin—Mr. Otto Oik. Cello—Mr. Julius Sturm. Accompanist—Mr. Joseph Hobson Cralghlll. Organist—Mr. William E. Arnsml. Director of Children’s Chorus—.Mr. B C. Davis. Conductor—Dr. J. Lewis Browne. Following le the program for the four performances: Festival Program. . / May 29, 8:15 p. m. Scenes from "Olaf Tragvnsnnn (Grieg), for eoli, chorus and orchestra. Soloists: Mme. Schumann-Helnk, Mme. Dell Kendnll-Werthncr. Mr. Claude Cunningham. Also, Griegs “Land Sighting, for men’s chorus mol orchestra, with baritone obligate (Mr. Cunningham). In addition, solo num bers by Mme. Schumann-Helnk. Mine. Kendall-Werthner and Mr. Cunning- ham, nnd Important Items by the grand orchestra. - Night of May 30. 8:15. La Corsicana" (opera In one act, by J. Lewis Browns), for soil, chorus and orehestra. The God and the Maid" (Von Flelltx), for soli, chorus and orchestra. Soloists: Mme. Charlotte Maconda. Miss Amanda Murdock Maull. Mr. Thomas Greene, Signor Giuseppe Cam- panari. This concert (opera night) will close with tho final sextette (with chorus) from Gounod's "The Queen of Sheba.” ay 31, (Night, 8)16.) obn's "Lobgesang." (“Hyn DR. EDWARD B. McDOWELL. Whose Illustrated lecture'on Samoa Is attracting attention. As the month of sknil! ' ly III I Its t _ and entrancing music. pastime of skating Is Increasingly stronger, sud blghtly tbe big rink at l’onee lie. I.r,m, with Its thousands of etli level floor ‘ansa The May-June Music Festival, which will open In the latter part of May and continue through tha first of June, will Inaugurate an experiment unique In the South—muelc. of the first ordsr at popular prices. Dr. J. Lewi* Browne, the festival's director, and Incldehtalty one of the four Judge* who will past an music at the Jdmastown Exposition, will present artists like Madame Schu- mnnn-Hclnk. Campanarl nnd Bessie Abbott, all of the Metropolitan opera house In New York, with eight olhar artists, a chorus of 200, and an orches tra of over fifty pieces, twenty-six of which have been selected from the Cin cinnati Symphony Orchestra, at prices of to, II and to for the season of four performances, or at 75 cents, tl and throughout th»||l.25 a sent for egch performance. In addition, there will be a chorus of 400 children selected from the public schoole of Atlanta, with Professor B, C. Davie a* director. Madame Schumann-Helnk and Cam panarl, the latter one Of the moat dia Unfinished baritones In grand opera, are well known In Atlanta. Miss Ah bott has never appeared here. It may be Interesting to know that she Is a granddaughter of former Governor An drew Pickens, of South Carolina, and later ambassador to Russia. She, Is one of a group of American singers Ilk* Fames and Nordlca, who are Amer ican born. The following Is a com plete list of the artists: Sopranos—Miss Bessie Abbott, Ma dame Charlotte Maconda and Madame Dell Kendall-Werthner. Contraltos — Madame Schumann- Helnk, Miss Amanda Murdock Maull. Tenors—Mr. George Hamlin, Mr. SUNDAY EXCPR8I0N TRAINS WILL BE DISCONTINUED. Special to The Georgian. Lynchburg. Va., April IS.—At a con ference here between representative! of, the Norfolk and Western, Chesapeake! and Ohio and Southern railway with an Inter-denonilnatlooal church com mission. the railway people agreed to the discontinuance of Sunday excur sion rates In the future. GLYNN COUNTY TO VOtI ON COURT HOUSE BONOS. Bp<*i*UI to TN tloorglAtt. Brunswick. Ga., April IS.—On April 18 the v rttlxenft «»f Olynn county will have un opportunity to vote on the propoHftfon to iaaue 175,000 worth of county bnnilf*. Fifty thousand dollars will he required to complete the new court house and about twenty thousand dollar* for the new Jail. SCENE FROM "BERTHA, THE SEWING MACHINE GIRL.* VISIT HAVANA NOW “BEELINE’S” S. S. Brunswick Round trip to Havana includes all expentas on steamer. Return- f l en tame boat per- ta two days in Ha • .jna, but good for six months if desired. Fortnightly from Brunswick. Cia. The safest trail icoet eajoysble trip of lb- aasiua. Kactl Jay a period of de .Iglit. Luxurious staterooms. Broad promenade decks Flue c n I * I a e. write early ouil encage your rooms J. G. LIGEOUR, Commercial Agt. Deal. 3, Brunswick Steamship Co., Brunswick, Ga. ■ Memlelssob of Praise”), a symphony—cantata for ill, chorus and orchestra. Soloists: Mine. Dell Kendall-Werth ner, Mlse Amanda Murdock Maull. Mr. George, Hamlin, Miss Bessie Abbott, prims donna soprano, from the Metro politan Opera House, New Tork, will appear at the concert In an operatic aria, a group of songs, and sing the solo part In Gounod’s "Gallia." a mo- tette for chorus nnd orchestra with so prano obligato. Additional features will be fugitive eolos by Mr. Hamlin, nnd Mendelssohn's violin concerto by Sir. Oik. Afternoon of June 1, 3 o'clock. A Gala Day-time Program. Mme. Dell Kendall-Werthner, Signor Giuseppe Campanarl and Mr. Julius Sturm, soloists; a chorus of four hun dred children from the public sahnols, under the direction of Mr. B. C. Davis, and the orchestra In a "popular" list. Besides hit regular chorus of 20ft se lected from local talent. Dr. Browne has decided to add a limited number <>f more than local significance. As to the seats, 1,415 will be sold at 75 rents each; 1,035 at 31, nnd 1,0#* at 11.25. Single seats will be placed on sale May 32, and of course, a alight advance will be charged. Those Who would like further details of the festival, au contained In a pros pectus, would do well to write Dr. Browne at 510 Empire building. Sea son tickets are now on sale at that address. . Cure For Rheumatism ORIFFITH’8 Compound Mixture o Qualac, Stlllingla, Eto. •be old Rrllsblo" Ini,vital Itemed- tot KHEL'MATIHM. XMRALOIA, SCIAT ICA, OOCT and I.111BAGO. Not#—This dptclAc ft-me-iy nas been ed* vsrtlied In the Medk.vl Jjoraals end used I In privet* practice for ever IS year*, snd we hare inpli proof to Justify us In msk- ; Ins the assertion thit this preparation ulll , rsltsvs or cure SI psr esnt of (he esses In dicated. Does Not Disturb tbe Stomach, Affordi Quiet Sleep and tree tee a-Good Appellla Atlanta, Oa, Distributing Depot: JACOBS' rnAIL>fA( V CO, tVhofnsalo Dmggtsts. And for sale by Retail Druggists (ensrstly. 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