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16 THE StJNNT SOUTH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 3,1892, NYE AT THE PLAY. HE TALKS ABOUT THE GOTHAM. BALLET IN A Graphic Description of the Black Crook and How the Actors Succeed in Making Their Living—A Comic Opera That Bill Likes. [Copyright, 1892, by Edgar W. Nye.] The revival of the “Black Crook” and Lottie Collins in New York has given, as I may say, an atmosphere of earnest yet diaphanous freshly laundered ruffles and firm young muscle which pervades all the other theaters also and makes the life of a bass viol player a most hazard ous one. I was perfectly astonished a month ago while here with my family, and as I bad other shopping that could be done larer 1 allowed the family to look casually upon the billboards, while 1 promised myself that later on I would do the balance of my trading for winter and also do a little Dr. Parkhursting be sides. The “Black Crook” is a play which one gets the synopsis of and reads after he gets home, but I'll bet a dollar that he cannot do so on the ground. I will give AT THE BLACK CROOK, a brief epitome, so that those who wish to understand the play itself before at tending it may do so, enjoying the scenic and incidental parts while pres ent, thus saving a great deal of time. The quality of the dialogue is flat enough for the commencement day at an idiot school. If a blind man were to come home alive after attending the “Black Crook” lie wonld have to put his brain on his asparagus bed. It would be useless for other purposes. The general literary tone of the play reminds one of the works of Steve Brodie, or the persiflage of Mine. Yucca, who lifts the horse at Hulier's dime museum. And yet one does not go away. I was alone, and at 10 a. m. could get one lone s t by the man who plays the popgun in the orchestra. I sat over three hours holding a large fat lady with a real alli gator neck and moss green freckles on it. At first she rested equally on me and a gent on her right, but the gent on her right got weary, and taking a linger- j the rightful heir to the throne of Milan There always is more or less foreign sub stance in lettuce, but I could not ignore the fact that there was indeed a diamond ring. 1 looked it over with a sigh and gave it to the waiter girl. Everything that one finds that way he should retnrn. If I were to go to that house again I would get two pieces of pie and a hearty welcome. At this point we see by onr pro gramme that it will be continued on next page, and that Lyon & Healy’s brass bands are used exclusively in this theater; also that members of the “Black Crook” company wear the celebrated Voila self heaving chest from Paris. Buy no other one. We now turn over onr programme and find that the Run around railroad can receive a few more people if told in time, and even go over to Brooklyn for people who are well con nected. Then the next scene is a rocky pass. It is over the Runaround railroad, I presume, and expires the day before you start. There is also a “danse rustique” and some coryphees. I’ve seen a good many coryphees in my time, but I never saw one that I would care to place in charge of the infant class at Mount Calvary Sabbath school where I live. They seem too frivolous to me. They do not live for a purpose. The Grotto of Stalacta is a good thing. Imagine a beautiful cavern lined with rock candy and faced with neapolitan ice cream, then stalactites of pure lemon ice and stalagmites of tutti frutti, lighted up with powerful electric lights, toned down with beautiful prismatic tints of eveiy hue, and a torchlight pro cession of coryphees carrying a large wire bannerl After the appearance of Fielding, the wonder, who has no connection with the play, the four young ladies from Paris come in and oblige. They dance nimbly about at a great rate, standing first on one leg and then on the other. And yet they were once poor girls living on the Rue de la Bastille, with very light laundry bills even then. It is wonderful how other nations succeed in this country. These four poor girls are now able to earn a good salary in a few moments playing leap frog and cutting up at a great rate. Then all day they can go and see the city of New York and the pleasant animals in Central park. They lead lives of ease which come as near that of the Pullman car conductor as anything 1 know of. The Casino has come forward and re formed, hoping in the bright and glori ous future to greet the good and great and occupy the parquet along with Mr. Palmer and Augustin Daly. The “Fencing Master*’ is one of the prettiest and most romantic comic operas I have ever seen. It is Italian, but not ef fusively so. The principal scenes are laid in Venice, and all the trading and visiting seem to be done in gondolas. Marie Tempest is the fencing master—a daughter who has been reared as a son by her old father till she is the most skillful swordsman in the place. She becomes the court fencing master, and during the campaign keeps the royal fences in repair. Francesca, the young swordsman, falls in love with Fortuino, ing look at the ballet he went away. Count Wolfenstein is a character in the play, and lives on bis title and eleven dollars per week. Rudolph is a poor artist, who paints campaign banners, and so cannot get auything only every four years. But while he is in the hands of his enemies and chained to a large pillar of the dungeon of the castle he is ap proached by Hertzog, called the Black Crook, a man who lives in the mountains and has dealings with the devil, ever and anon swapping him a soul for a milk cow or a town lot. It must be remem bered, however, that all along here rapid fiddling occurs, and beautiful girls, re lieved of their wraps by kindly hands, come in and dance in a sprightly way, which reminds me of the Jardin Kerbiff, in Paris, where I was once at. All at once the orchestra opens with a sort of bugle call sounding like tummy da da, tummy da. da, rat te tat, rat te tat, tummy da da, tummy da da, and then some more girls come upon the stage and cut up so that I put a corner of the fat lady’s Paisley shawl over my head. Next came a view of hell, and the old lady removed the shawl and told me I could look now. It was a beautiful sight. Dragonfire runs this department, and when he cracks his knuckles the sparks of electricity snap forth like everything. He is clothed in medicated red flannel from head to feet, and in face reminds one of the magician Herrmann. I met Herrmann once in Tiffin, O. We played against each other. We stopped at the same place, as regards hotels. He asked me to sit at his table. I said I did not mind doing so if he wonld not play any tricks on me. He said he wonld not. Before we got half through he begged my pardon—he is a very polite man— and said there was some foreign sub- ftanca in my lettuce. I said doubtless. and owner of a line of gondolas on Fifth avenue. He is sent on a perilous mis sion, which it is hoped will result in his ignominious death, but Francesca re solves to go with him, and buying a new Wade& Butcher sword she goes with him, joyfully knifing several of his prominent enemies and asking their friends to send in the bill for same. GAVE THE RING TO THE GIRL. Fortuino, however, loves another, but not beyond his control, as she seems to be a bit of a flirt, and in fact Francesca encourages her to elope with a well known Venetian proprietor of a trolley line on the Grand canal. He comes every evening and plunks with his Venetian plonker to a low, sad refrain referring to love that curls up and dies for lack of proper attention. Francesca is in favor of this matter and encourages his passion, egging the young lady on, Fortuino agrees to meet this girl ana speak to her freely; also to tell her that fc e is very likely to come into possession of the throne by showing his subjects that they are at that time paying too high a duty on wearing apparel, and that wages have gone down, thus turning the tide of added wealth, called the unearned increment, into the pockets of the rich. Francesca so assists the other man that he gets the young lady just before Fortuino arrives, and pretty soon there has to be an explanation, and no longer can the beautiful boy swordsman con ceal the fact that he loves Fortuino and would cheerfully die in his defense, as he had almost done already several times. By and by all is well, and Fortuino wondei'S how he could have been such an ass all along, and tbe audience cor dially join in also, having wondered for some time why he did not know more Then Francesca goes away to her rooms and returns in a long dress made of Italian red and yellow plaid with a special train to it. Julian P. Thomas, M. D. Specialist on skin, cancer ami blood diseases. Hirsh building, 40 1-2 White hall street. tt ON TOP. Ten times more students have entered Draughon’s Practical Business Collnee, Nashville, T- nn., in the past 60 days, than have entered any other business college ia the same period of time in Middle Tennes see. Bookkeeping, Penmanship, Snort- hard, Typewriting, Telegraphy, etc. We have recently bought the Nashville Commercial College. Send for 72 page eata- louge. Address J. F. Drattghon, Pres’t, Nashville, Tenn. THE DECAY OF NEVADA. Half a Dozen People Now Found Where once Dwelt Thousands. The most remarkable thing noticed by the observant traveler in the far West is the retrogression of the State of Nevada and the decadence of its towns in recent years. Paralysis has struck many of the mining camps and nearly obliterated once flourishing towns. Not unfrequently one finds but half a dozen people in a town that once had thousands, and very often, in a place that once had hundreds, one finds but a single individual—a lonely link between the present aud the past, and generally a gray old hermit who lin gers like a belated ghost whom sun- suine should have sent bkek into lim bo. Yet, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, the place is in variably mapped aud chartered as a town; has a govern ment mail service and its duly accred ited postmaster, and to the outside world exists as palpably as ever. Of course, the hermit is the postmaster, and very frequently he is some sort of an elective oliicer besides. In the settee that he is “monarch of all he surveys,” aud that his “right there is none to dispute,” lie is a sort ot Alexander Sel kirk II.; for his nearest neighbors are tile scattered ranchmen who live from fiiteeii to lbity miles apart, and his im mediate society is that of the lnuLdss who dig in bis garden, when he hap pens to have one. Yet he invariably appears to be more than sati-fied wi.h his iot, and, apparently, would not ex- cnange positions with liie president. With him good health, good appetite, a full cupboard ami a weallu r-iigiiL cabin discount the glory of the world. Ignc rant of Luck. From the Detroit Free Pr. ss. “Heah, you Silas,” exclaimed the o’d colored woman to her husband, “lake dis yer rabbit font you gib m< yistiddy fei lu«k. Tain’ no good wha’ sun de’ver. It’s jis bad, da’s wka’ M am.” “8ho nufT!” queried Silas, faking the talisman from Imr hand with a look of paiued surprise on his old face. “< lo’se.” “1 nebber heered dat ’bout er rabbit foot befo’,” asserted Srias. “What you been doin’ wid hit, Mirandy ?” “Noffin ’tall. Dis mawiiin’ I taken my bes’ dish ober to Miss Ellen’s an’ I trip on de do’ step and fall down, an' plumb break dat dish in a dozen pieces.” “Hu’t yo’se’f, Mirandy?” inquired Silas solicitously. “No, I didn’t,’’ replied Miranda, half crying over the loss of her di>h. “Co’se not,” exclaimed Silas* tri umphantly . “Ef you hadn’t a bad dat rabbit foot wid you, you break dat brack neck ob yo’s, sho, failin’ down dein do’ steps. Heah, you take dis yer rabbit foot right back now, an' cai’y hit wid you all de time. You don’ know nufliu’ ’bout luck ’tall, Mi randy, you doau’.” aud Silas Blade her put it in her pocket. 536CARROLL AVE. ChilC/\G0. WHOLESALE SUPPLIERS OF \LLKlNDSGFPQRTRA!TS.FfiAIViES.PRlETS. ETC. 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As he neared the place where the en trapped brute had disappeared, his quick eye detected a panther’s head protruding from some bushes a few rods ahead. He took hasty aim, fired, and the creature fell dead. Examination revealed the fact that this was not the panther in the trap, aud the excited barking of the dog a few rods in advance showed that other game was near. Leaving the dead panther he hurried on, and soon came in sight of the entrapped beast, which stood at bay snarling fiercely at the dog, wliieh kept at a safe distance. Mr. Rich fired at the panther, but only wounded it slightly. In the ex citement of the moment he threw down his gun, seized his hatchet, and ran forward, thinking to make short work of his game; but in that he was mis taken. The panther made a sudden spring, knocked the hatchet from the hunter’s hand, and furious with rage and pain, began tearing and biting him. 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