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i [sEWBSErr«i t H e Atlanta Georgian. ~ VOL. 1. NO. 164. ATLANTA C A., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1906. PRICE:JBT JSBSS«B? < L is Offerings in Atlanta’s Playhouses three splendid pla ys at the grand next week • HE week Just past has been one 'P' of the most Important In local theatrical circles. The coming we ek bids fair to outrival It, however, ss the bill looks to be the best that has been offered during the entire sea son. Theatergoer* have found little at which to complain. "The Ham Tree" won for Itself fresh applause and new admirers; and Miss Amelia Bingham, one of the most talented actresses on the American stage, who will conclude her important engagement Saturday night, has delighted thousands of At lantans'. The coming week promises "Dorothy ....! Vernon, of Haddon Hall,”- for Monday [ and Tuesday nights, with a matinee on Tuesday afternoon: Annie Russell, in “A Midsummer Night's Dream/’ for Wednesday and Thursday nights, with a matinee on Thursday afternoon, while William Favershain, In “Tho Squaw Man," will conclude the brilliant week. On the whole the bill is one to make the most critical sit up and take notice. One may go to any of the performances and be delighted, or one may go to all of the plays and be de lighted. The three constitute three of the most gorgeous and expensive pro ductions on the road. At the Bijou the week’s bill Is "Tom, Dick and Harry,” a musical comedy, which is suhl to be above the average. DOROTHY VERNON PRESENTS PICTURE OF OLD ENGLAND In the realm of romantic drama this I of all Europe, and the costumes used season there are few productions more I In this production have been designed -rr Doiothy \ernon, of Haddon Hall, ha* not been neglected and N. Mel- whlch Ernest Shipman lia* prepared : vlllc Ellis, author of "The Marriage of for Laura Burt and Henry Stanford ‘ Kitty," “A Chinese Honeymoon." and for a starring tour. The scenes of Mr. ! " ,her popular successes, lias composed hi.torie romance ns dram- a complete score in the quaint old Majors real Historic lomance as mam- EngMah ballad style atized by ,Paul Kester all transpire i Readers will remember how delight- withln or In the neighborhood of Hcd- j fully Charles Major related the ro- don Hall, the most picturesque and j manee of Charles Brandon and Mary best preserved of Elizabethan manor Tudor In "When Knighthood was in 1 « 11* lower,'* and how cleverly Paul Kes- houses, and the scener.v has all been ter transferred its principal scenes and painted and constructed after actual , characters to the stage. It was one of photographs of the place. This work the few "dramatized novels” to pre- has been divided among acknowledged I serve the atmosphere and plot of the experts in their particular field, who j original story, while fitted to the re- have reproduced- some of the beautl- quirements of the stage in color, life ful scenes in and about Haddon Hall and dramatic climaxes. Therefore, in a most realistic manner. The fact playgoers may anticipate with pleas- ihat practically a whole wing of Had- urable confidence the forthcoming pro- don Hall has been built on the stage ! ductJon of “Dorothy Vernon, of Had- will give some idea of the massiveness \ don Hall,” Mr. Major’s latest popu- and solidity of this most elaborate j lar historical romance, of which Mr. production. i Kester is the dramatist. In the days of “Good Queen Bess” i The play will be presented at the the English court was one of the most : Grand Monday and Tuesday nights, elaborately and picturesquely, dressed 1 with a matinee on Tuesday afternoon. A SCENE FROM “DOROTHY VERNON,” WHICH COMES TO THE GRAND NEXT WEEK. FA VERS HAM, MA TINEE IDOL, COMING IN “SQUA W MAN” ANNIE RUSSELL 70 PA Y HER EIRS7 V7S7TTO SOUTH Miss Annie Russell, comes to the Grand Wednesday and Thursday, with a matinee on Thursday, in a role ut terly dissimilar to any previously por trayed by her. Miss Russell Is star ring this season in the role of Puck In a sumptuous and artistic production t.f "A Midsummer Night’s DreAm.” which comes direct from the Astor Theatre, where It played to immense business. The Astor is New York’s newest and most beautiful playhouse and Miss Russell had the honor to be the inaugural attraction. While It Is not without precedent for an actress of prominence to portray the mischievous Puck, it is rnost un usual. Preference in most cases has been given to the parts of Hermia and Helena. To be sure Ellen Terry played Puck at the tender age of 15. The one exception to the rule so far as can be recalled, was in 1859 when Laura Keene played Puck in her own production, at tho Variety. At any rate. It Is a long step from the ingenuous stage maiden so often portrayed by Miss Russell to Shakes peare’s sauciest boy, and tho favorite actress’ appearance In tho fairy role mnnot but excite attention. Jt has been the effort of Managers Wagenhals and Kemper to make this presentation of “A Midsummer Night's Dream” a notable one, so far as ac curacy of detail and true artistic beau ty is concerned. The effect striven for and attained has been the main thing, the sunshine and airiness of the fairy spirit and the rollicking fantastic merriment that accompanies the action. The ideas of tlje best authorities have been followed out and that beautiful comedy has been placed in the realm of pure fancy in which the substance i* imagination. < Titles from Haxlitt down have ever be- wuiied the absence of the dreamy feel ing in all previous productions of this Play, once. In the Phelps production •tt Sadler’s Wells, they were said to have had it. Phelps, It would seem, used gauze curtain or something of>the ■-ort and showed his figures In a kind of mist that gave the vague, faraway —nse on associates with things of the fancy. Gauze Is not used In the Run-. ^•*11 production, but the lights are dim | many times and there are plenty of "fher excellent aids to illusion. Col- "ted lights bob up In flowers when Puck »is.s«»K them, an owl hoots and blinks ids eyes and a whole troupe of little and fairies. Very well trained in antics of fairyland, as we under hand them, play leap frog, tumble *‘"»n Hill and Indulge In a most be- "it»hing crooning that gets as near ’u** soughing of night winds in the l*'***•» as any one could wish. Miss Hassell is a Puck In pastel shades. She •mnea in first flying very prettily by nmans of a wire arrangement, grace- mi and* appealing in her role of the madcap fay. She has a sweet sing ing voice and her song “Up and Down” > charmingly given, with a pleasing m rangement of the music by Augustus Barratt, who was -brought over from England to make special arrangement "f the Mendelssohn music for this pro duction. . A Popular element In the play la the fooling of Bottom and his fellow act- "!!«, a Bottom who Is extremely funny •mil who actually manages to be so when his own round, oily face Is hidden by the ass-head. John Bunny ™ Bottom, a most absurd lout, most magnificently dense, an ass on a co- 1 lossal scale. Other well known names appearing in the supporting company are Edwin Mordaunt, Atkins Lawrence, Oswald Yorke, Thomas Coffin Cooke, Lionel Adams, Catherine Proctor, Lansing Rowan and James Young. When “She Squaw Man,” Ihe drama by Edwin Milton Royle, In which Wil liam Faversham comes to the Grand next Friday and Saturday nights with a Saturday matinee, was first produced by Liebler & Co. at Wallpck’s theater, New York, a year ago, it was hailed as a triumph both , for the actor and the playwright. Mr. Royle, it was said, had written a play that stood at the very top of the dramas of its class, while In Mr. Frayersham an actor had been found who Impersonated the hero with a fidelity to nature that is seldom seen on the stage. It proved one of the .great .dramatic sensations of the season and stayed at Wallack's until last spring. The play tells a story of thrilling in terest that Is. bound to hold the atten* tion of the audience from the rise of the curtain to its fail, A An English army officer, for. loVa' of hla causin’* wife, shoulders the responsibility for a crime to save .her from disgrace and disappears. He turns, up again as a. ranchman in a Western state, where, in his hopelessness and loneliness he has married an Indian gJrJ. whose de votion to him has Won his affection. In time the news comes that the "TOM, DICK AND HARRY” AT THE BIJOU. "squaw man" lias Inherited a.title and the suicide of the Indian wife In de spair at. the prospect of being; parted from her child leaves him free to mar ry the woman he has always loved. Miss Julie Opp, an actress of high reputation, who has frequently been seen here In Important roles, Is the leading woman and has the part of tho countess, for love of whom the "squaw man" suffers disgrace and expatriation. Mis* Rosabel Morrison Mill appear as the Indian wife, some of the moat pic turesque Indian characters yet pre sented on the stage, and Theodore Rob erts as Tabyivana, tho Peace Chief of tho Utes, ought to duplicate the tri umph he scored as the Indian chief In "The C31rt I Left Behind Me." Other actors who have Important roles are W. 8. Hart, Kate Pattlson Belten, Har old RusBell, Hugo Toland, Morton Bel- ten and Emmett Shakleford, well known for his Impersonation of cow boy characters. ‘TOM, D7CK AND HARRY ARE AT BIJOU FOR NEX7 WEEK An Innovation In the way of a show Is booked for the Bijou theater next week. It is a musical comedy called "Tom, Dick and Harry," In which Blck- *1, Watson and Wrothe, who cornered the fun market |aat season, are the principal mirth-provokers. "Tom, pick and Harry" ts h novelty because It pos sesses a plausible, - Interesting plot and Is such a clever compound of music, frivolity and humor that It would make hit at the north pole. This Is the creation of Harry Williams, Aaron Hodman and Egbert Van Alstyne, and they have done their work uncom monly well. This sterling musical con coction Is In two acts. Act 1 shows the parade ground at West Point; Act II displays the Port O’Domingo, a mythical republic. Tho complications of “Tom, Dick and Harry" hinge on the edorta of Colonel Blud to secure his Invention of a (lying battery which has been stolen from him by three Spanish spies. Blckel, Watson and Wrothe, three musicians, are accused of the theft and thetr edorts to prove their Innocence arouses Incessant laughter. The situations are numerous, humorous and original, and there Is not a dull moment In this capital piece of foolery. George Blckel, as Tom, a German, Harry Watson, Jr., as Dick, the tramp, and Ed Le Wrothe as Har ry, a comical Irishman, who gets his pals Into all sorts of trouble becauso he handles the truth very carelessly, are each exceedingly funny. ‘'Tom, Dick and Harry" la superbly and con vincingly staged, and well costumed and can boast nf as fine a collection of chorus girls as ever graced any stage. Lovers of musical comedy will not find nny fault with this play. It la rich In everything that helps to glad den the heart and drive Hull care to the winds. ( PA WNEE BILL HERE MONDA Y WITH INDIANS & BRONCHOS Three sections of 60-foot earn will bring the great Pawnee Bill shows into Atlanta Sunday morning. No show that ever came to this city i came atronger Indorsed than does this j aggregation. It is the only wild w’est show now in this country and the only show that ever pluyed New York city six consecutive weeks successfully. Ma jor Lillie, who is "Pawnee Bill," Is the only owner of any show of magnitude, not controlled by the Circus Trust. The show will go Into camp on the ) grounds at Old Wheat and Jackson streets and two performances will be given there Monday. These perform- west, Jubilee singers, cow girls, trap pers. scouts and wild west people generally, headed by Major Gordon W. Lillie, Miss May Lillie and “Princess Wenona.” The second division is devoted ex clusively to oriental elegance of the Far East. Following the mounted her ald will be the various types of the orient, with a full Arabian band and band rif Hlngalese mu fdrlans. Then the Arab horsemen, Bedouin, Cossack, South Sea Island Kaffirs, Boers, Slngalese, Russians, Chinese cavalry, Japanese cavalry, Turks, Tliiplnos, boomerang throwers and representatives of many nation# of the orient. The Pawnee Bill show pays parttcu- ances will he preceded by a street pa- t lar attention to the comforts of the rade which is said to he a refreshing, guest, and the thousands who visit this departure from the old-titno circus pa- 1 exhibition dally are well cared for. Two rade. The parade will leave the show ticket wagons are on the lot and the grounds at 10 o’clock in the morning! town ticket office is open for the sale and pass over the following route: Au- of tickets. On the lot the red wagon burn avenue to Peachtree, to Marietta ! Is used exclusively tor the sale of gen- to Broad, to Mitchell, to Whitehall, to ! cm! admission tickets, .while at the Decatur, to Boulevard and return to! white wagon reserve seats and grand- the grounds. Ho large Is the street dls- - stand chairs may be purchased. (play that It has been found necessary Ah .the performance of this show' Is to make if up in two divisions. The given in the open and not In a series of first division Ik made up of the old perplexing ring* and Htages, the fea- ! west department and will contain the' tures are always in full view' of the | Indians, cowboyB, Mexicans and miiita- atidience no matter where seated. Every ry detachment, together witli prairie j seat with the Pawnee Bill show Is schooners, overland mail coaches, j provided with a comfortable hack and Rocky Mountain burros and historic j foot rest and every one is under wa- floats, bands of music. Lilliputian wild 1 ter-pmot canvas. DINKELSPIEL ON TIJIXOS THEATRICAL. opy right. net vUl haf to l>eglu mlt der speech liters. •Ttuie Torn!” leedle Eva. vot ts it. yes!” •*Vns dere nny vuii night stands In besfen, •i nch* Tomr* "Not yet, heirnuse only reek-atntnl actors efer got dnr»>!” WILLIAM FAVERSHAM AND JULIE OPP IN “THE SQUAW MAN.” illid Mein Lleher Iarm-j-: W I tetter from llorsi-le-nds, N. \ glad dot |dtxue«M vim pretty . road, druiiunerhig. In sidle of tier h'-atnesv of iler atino*t»hcrlcnts. , We notice III your letter vnre you obserf ,! dot der t’utrirnl Kensou for «ll» y*-*r vus for- funf. sechs-dn* 1st a!le»!” Home. Now. { rude Toni”* ..r r../-..ir...| your ; * V»il, leedle Eva, VOt Is It. yes!” re VS* j *i» It only sign audiences In tier bouse t< n der | night?" ... - r nde Tom’ - . for the fairst time. It Is tV.ater nnc „ ties, eggsnednlly d such ns din “tilde mention. For years I haf uot vltnesscd “ *i»bfn.” but ns i rind lection It ’ablti," rich you vltnesscd der tall* __J Shakespeare « Tom's L'lMo," rich you Untie iiirni • • me. nice lut*a. Looey, to go to der ml get eggnetrlse for Her mental!* nednlly der vorks of Shakespeare It rns s play fnll mlt a happy combination of tears, pat‘os, laughter and misplaced ferry tickets. Your mother spoke to me abouhl it. Hit I efer M*e der ploy, cud she vs* much obliged veil 1 redtntloned to her all dot I could reru"ttil»rn»!<•«* «l*nnM It. I enclose to you my memory of “Unde Tom’s C’nbln” In dese vyrds. as follow!tig, to vlt, l«ooey: AFT FAIIlHT. Iter scene baffle* toy desortptUui. so der Only uinl less, lieennse two Is not ttudl* net's.' Dev vt» critical*, uud they came In loaves hat four audiences, uud vot i der scales on der prices?” “Ten-twen-thlrt. leedle Kvi Don der orcfaei a ctibble of slow lier moonlight blisters der outside of der Ohio Ulrer und makes s climax. ACT SECOND. •Tnele Toml” “Veil, leedle Eva. vot Is it, yes?” "Let us hope dey vent der limit und paid thirty cents, rich gifs us f!.2D, yes.’” Hot. . .... •Tnele “Veil, leedle Eva. vot is It, yes?” “Vot U u shine?” “A shine. Iredle Eva, Is s large audience vi' h remains svsy from der theater!” •'NVfer mind, I wie Tom; ve can go to der fruit pitzness if dey hand us enough lemons!” Der two bloodhounds now approach der property tnnu near der calf of der leg, vlcb lakes s efimnx. ACT THIRD. “Htood pack, Hlmon Degree!” “Dls, to me?” “You may rip dls olt plnck skin, hut my heart Is more vhito dan yours, Hlmon Degree!" ,r !t should Ik*; you bet n glass of milk fer dinner!" “Minion, cease to vhlp me vile I ask you, vs re tlo.ve go front here?” “If I vns u mint-reader, I vouhl not pe In dls nltaneas, liu-le Tom!” Deu Eliza rushes Into der Ohio river uud Htsrts fer der udder shore, but der ice Is nailed to der floor und refuse* to l»e a ferryboat. Dls make* a climax. ACT FOLT. Tnclc Tom!" Veil, leedle Evn, tot It *1*. ye*':" Vns dam n pud place to vent to veil re die?” “Belief me, dere I*, leedle Ern, but It Is losed during der fen I rival season.” “Vy, fncle Tom?” “Ho dot der party dot mu* It entt took a trip around der viiu nlght-stnnd* und get some new Ideas how to make It hot fer us.” •Ttuie Tom.” * “Veil, leedle KvW. tot It I*, ye*?” “1 dink I hear tier hlredhoumlx buying.” “No. leedle Eva. It I* not >«o much hayiug ss It Is Imllcheadiott. Der bleedliouuds haf yust eaten up der scenery for der last lieu der manager *tep* oiiid und Informa tion* d>‘r midlem-c dot d»*r dogs lutf yon solids ted full der scenery. If der iruihiue vants it* money puck dey enn get It from der bleed hound*, tub vlll |m» untied. Dls makes der tuu*t t’rflllog e!Uunx »»f der show, und der audience fulls or.'d der tin- dow uud goes borne, eggscitetl, bat happy. CURTAIN. Vas dls anydlug like der vsy dey played It at Ilonaebeads, Looey? Maybe It Is dot my memory Is getting deflective, yet. You know. Looey, ven Khakespear* fslrst adaptation**! "Uncle Tom’* Cabin" from dsr French It rat bis Ides to ploy It only In der large cities. Rnt Khakespeare dlt not Ilf long enough to protect his vork by der copyright law, und here ve *ee It, going to der doga, scene by scene, und vllmax by climax. A his! ven der ttntsh comes re mar eggs- claim mlt dis same |>oer, “A nos* by any adder name vlll vln n horse race." Yours mlt luff. D. DINKELSPIEL. Per George V. Iltdmrt. SPECIAL SERVICE AT Y. M. C. A. SUNDAY Special services will be held at the Young Men’s Christian Association Bunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Dr. E. E. Wllllta, of Philadelphia, a well- known lecturer, will deliver an address and a special musical program has been arranged. REFORM TICKET WINS IN MUNICIPAL ELECTION. Special to The Georgian. Cairo, Oa„ Nov. 3.—A white primary was held here Thursday to nominate a ticket for city officers, the general election to be held November 6. Quito n good deal of interest w'as manifest?<i in the nomination, as a reform ticket In the field. The new ticket was successful throughout, with the excep tion of two aldermen, two having been I elected that were on the old ticket. The ticket nominated is as follows: H G. cannon for mayor. Aldarmen: K. P. Wright. J. L. Polk, \V. L. Lewis, J. W. Booth, K. B. Brown. J. H. funnel! defeated D. L. Wil liams by a good majority for clerk and treasurer of the council. SUBSCRIBING TO STOCK FOR NEW BOAT LINE. Hperial to The Georgian. Moron, Go., Nov. 3.-~The committee of the fhamber of Commerce which is getting stock subscriptions for the new navigation company to run a line of boats on the Ocmulgee bet we.* n Macon and Columbus, now has 313,ood with good Indications of securing the necessary balance pf 310,000. Sima the experiment of navigating the Oc mulgee with the chartered Nun Eliza beth proved such a success, the mer chants interested are enthus!a»tlc and are determined to put up :i strong fight against the high railroad rate*.