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Wednesday Night—“ The Uelle ol
New York.”
Friday Niglit—Rose Cnghlau in
■•Forget Me Not.”
The Baldwin-MelviHe Repertoire
Company closed a successful engage
ment last night. The company is one
of the best repertoire companies tour
ing this part of the country. Two per
formances. “A Young Wife,”
at the matinee, and "Reaping the
Whirlwind,” at night, were given yes
terday.
The Theater will be opened two
nights this week. "The Belle of New
York,” is playing to large audiences.
Bose Coghlan is the other attraction.
Both of these, it is safe to say, will
play to full houses.
Hattie Wells, the young woman who
does all sorts of Terpsichorean maneu
vers while perched upon her toes in
the last act of "The Belle of New
York,” which will be the attraction
at the Theater Wednesday evening,
had her affection for children severely
jarred during the season of "The Belle
of New York" in Boston. Miss Wells
was strolling through one of the
“fne JBelle °F NewYo^k
principal streets when she came upon
a group of street gamins who were
gathered together as if discussing some
issue of vital importance. The young
woman paused to listen and was hor
rified to hear one of the smallest of
the crowd —a boy of scarce ten years—
turn loose a flood of profanity that
would have done credit to the cap
tain of an Erie canal boat. Just a
moment previous Miss Wells had de
cided to ask the boys which Sunday
school they attended, but at the out
burst of Billingsgate she changed her
mind. Calling the youthful offender
to her, she proceeded to deliver a nice,
sisterly lecture to him on the break
ing of the Third Commandment, at
the conclusion of which the boy look
ed up at her and then turned to the
others and remarked: “Hully gee,
ain't she purty?”
Miss Wells blushed and pretended
not to notice the compliment, but
realizing she had made an impression
on the young heathen, she said as a
sort of clincher:
"My little man, do you know what
becomes of little boys who swear?”
.into MI. SYKES 1M) GRACE i A 111 Cll ON It "Fft\l Q 1 ll.Lhlf."
"Sure t'ing," remarked the street is to be presented atthe theater Tues
srab. "when dey gits to tea man dey day evening, Dec. 17.
can git $2 a day for driving a truck."
Miss Viola Allen lately concluded a
Mme.- Nordica opened her transcontl- four-weeks’ engagement at the new
nental recital tour, under the direction Garricl{ Theater. The Record said of
of Manager Loudon O. Charlton. Nov. engtM? ement: "Miss Viola Allen
14. at Scranton. In spite of a snov. . . t . null . .
storm and a car strike, an audience of fairly captured the heart of Philadel
-6.000 people greeted her and gave evl- phla in her charming Dolores during
den re* of th-lr appreciation, through- her late engagement at the new Gar
out the evening, with demonstrations rick Theater in 'ln the Palace of the j
of enthusiasm. The tour will include King.' And this notwithstanding the
about 100 concerts, extending Into fact that Irving and Terry had just
Texas and Canada as well as to the flung their banner to the breeze dl-
Paclflc coast. Mme. Nordica is in su- redly across the street. Last Patur
perb voice and radiant health. Hei day, the Lth, tne line in front of the
gowns prepared especially for this 1 box office was four abreast. reaching
lour, are made by Worth In Parts, uf- j clear out Into the Htreet.whllethegal-
I* r his best and latest designs. One, a lery line extended up
'loth of gold, is embellished with lace to Juniper, and up Juniper and .•>*■**
that Is valued by experts at 60,000 : nut. It is Bafp say *; hat ,
francs, another, of grass green velvet, an unexampled ev f® ( f W ul "
l* unadorned except for exquisite neck In Philadelphia, coming at U did a t r
garniture of rare old Irish point lac-, three successive weeks of a single play ,
Her Jewels which include a tiara and a that is seldom gianted tn any one.
•ollar, hiV gorgeous In their brilliancy Miss Allen will appeal hete Jan. 8.
sith’such external adjuncts to her own j ~ , ha ,
oatural advantages of refined beauty, l . It might not be too much .o say that
regal bearing, and in conjunction with
her peerless voice and art—for Nordi
ca stands alone in the w r orld to-day as
a concert soprano. The season promises
to be a long series of brilliant triumphs
and ovations.
In the play of “Human Hearts" are
many situations to gladden the specta
tor, to cause him to laugh, and to bring
to his eyes the tears of sympathetic
pity. This strong and beautiful varied
play will be given at the theater
Christmas matinee and night, and
none who attend will regret the time
thus spent. It is a play for young and
old, and it affords entertainment for
all classes of people. Its human story
deals w'ith emotion, common to all.
There is fun all of the time that the
curtain is up on “Foxy Quiller,” the
successful de Koven and Smith comic
opera which is now in its second season
under the direction of Klaw and Er
langer. The plot opens with the ar
rival of a young sailor, who has been
promised the hand of his sweetheart
if he can scrape up two thousand
pounds. He saves it out of his w f aees
of three pounds a month—a stage mir
acle which is seldom duplicated In
modern life. The sailor has the whole
sum in his vest pocket when he meets
a strolling company of actors of whom
one, a Japanese dwarf, is a klepto-
maniac. The dwarf promptly steals
the sailor’s savings. It is then that
the famous detective, "Foxy Quiller”
is called in, and, in his Sherlock
Holmes deductions there are opportu
nities for all kinds of fun. Quiller goes
to Corsica in search of the thief, and
while in that country is engaged by
a Corsican to spy upon his enemies
with whom he has a vendetta. Then
“Foxy Quiller” is in his glory, for be
tween the robbery and the vendetta
there are clues to burn. And so the
fun comes fast and furious and big
Jerome Sykes as the detective, keeps
the audience in roars of laughter all
of the time he Is on the stage. The
music of the opera is written in Mr.
de Koven’s best style. In placing the
scenes of the opera in two countries
so dissimilar, it has given him an ex
cellent opportunity to illustrate the
difference in the musical styles. In
the first act is to be found the Eng
lish folk song and much choral work
of the highest class, while in the two
other acts the theme is in lighter vein—
the music of Italy, bright, tuneful and
rich in color effects. "Foxy Quiller”
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS: SIND AY. DECEMBER 8. 1901.
no other characterization of recent
years has afforded the genuine fun and
Interest that has Stuart Robson's im
personation of "Bertie, the Lamb.” The
public has again and again demanded
his return to the character, notwith
standing the new and clever portrait
ures which Mr. Robson yearly present
ed. Since the first presentation of
"The Henrietta,” fourteen years ago,
Mr. Robson’s name as Savannahians
recall, has been indissolubly linked
with that of.“ Bertie, the Lamb,” audi
ences have felt that to see him in this
character meant to be made to laugh
heartily, and in a way the role has
become an American classic. Tl*e
“Lord Dundreary” of the elder Soth
ern, years ago. the “Bardwell Sloate”
of Florence, the “Colonel Mulberry
Sellers” of John T. Raymond and the
“Rip Van Winkle” of Joseph Jeffer
son are only to be compared with it
in the esteem in which it was held
by theater-goers.
In his revival of "The Henrietta.”
Mr. Robson's aim has been to make It
the most noteworthy presentation tnat
has ever been given of the play in its
long career. The scenic settings, the
costuming of the ladies and the all
star cast, conduce to make the dra
matfeß presentation the most notewo; th
ever seen in this city. A peculiar sen
timent attaches itself to the present
presentation as it is announced that it
is positively the last time that Mr.
Robson will be seen here in the role
of Bertie, as he has ambitious plans
to appear in new characterizations in
the future.
News comes to Savannah that “The
Bonnie Brier Bush” has stood the quiet
town of Toronto upon edge. Mark
Twain saw a performance of it in New
York, during the closing week of its
run there, and said, as he left the
theater. "It is better than any sermon
I ever heard.” Henry Irving laughed,
and cried, and applauded with undig
nified vigor at a performance of "The
Bonnie Brier Bush” in New r York, and
afterwards almost took dear old Stod
dart to his bosom in expressing his de
light, „ '
J. M. Barrie's new play, "Quality
Street,” and the performance of it by
Maude Adams and her company are
sufficient to fill the Knickerbocker The
ater, and this work will probably run
till' the end of Miss Adams’ engage
ment early in January, when it will
be followed by “The Toreador,” a
musical farce which has had a pros
perous career at the Gaiety Theater,
in London.
Henry K. Hadley, the young Amer
ican composer, will not have cause to
complain that his symphony was neg
lected or failed to be a source of prof
it to him. With “The Four Seasons,”
as he called the work, Mr. Hadley
won the prize of SI,OOO offered, by Ig
nace Paderewski and later the second
prize of a smaller amount given by
the New England Conservatory of
Music. These two awards yielded the
composer nearly $2,000.
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry are
to play in Chicago this week: Viola
Allen will be in Brooklyn; William H.
Crane, Indianapolis and Louisville;
Bertha Galland, Baltimore; Janras
K. Hackett, Philadelphia; Herbert
Kelcey and Effie Shannon, St. Paul;
Mary Mannering. Detroit; Julia Mar
lowe. Boston; Otis Skinner, Philadel
phia; Blanche Walsh, St. Louis; E.
S. Willard, Boston.
There are days when half the the
aters of Paris are thrown open to the
public, free, gratis and for nothing.
At the theaters subventioned by the
government —the Opera, the Theater
Francais. the Opera Comique and the
Odeon—the "spectacle gratuit” has
come, in the long course of time, to
be a kind of political obligation. At
the others it has come, by imitation
and through public policy, to be a kind
of forced concession to the proletariat,
to show on days of , popular rejoicing,
how the management and artists love
the people. The spectacle gratuit,
which is invariably a free matinee,
is thus a peculiar Paris institution.
Perhaps its most peculiar feature is
that more than half of those who see
the free show from good seats have
to pay for them. It is an attractive
sight to observe the riffraff tumbling
into the great, monument of the Sec
ond Empire’s greatest effort, the
Grand Opera—individuals of every age,
of both sexes and of all conditions—
with their bottles and their bundles
and the smell of cheese and herring,
eager to enjoy for a few hours the
splendors and the luxury belonging to
their betters.
Joseph Jefferson announced in a
speech mg.de after a curtain call at the
National theater, Washington, that
those persons who are saying he in
tended to retire from the stage did not
know what they are talking about. “I
intend to remain on the stage just as
long as I can,” said Mr. Jefferson, "and
I shall continue playing ’Rip Van Win
kle’ here and elsewhere during my reg
ular seasons.”
Stuart Robson’s organization is a
17 DAYS OFF
IS CHRISTMAS. |
Do Yoo Comprehend,
Mr. Parent?
If you do, then our remarks
are not necessary to prompt
and vigorous action.
You’ll come right here and
settle the question.
•That lovely child of yours
must have a wheel and must
have one from Bryson’s.
It’s no use talking, that’s set
tied, buying now is the thing
to do. And here Is where
Juvenile Wheels
Are sold. We have them in
abundance, and the right kind,
too. Do you think we are go
ing to offer you some tinsel
thing to lay up trouble for
your child and bring sorrow
to you. Not much. Our chil
dren’s wheels are Just as
strong, just as easy to ride.
Just as well made as as the ones
for grown-up folks, and our
prices are very low. We buy
Juvenile wheels In big lots
because we sell plenty of ’em.
This is a "sure nuff" bicycle
establishment, and we keep
wheels to sell, not to look at.
So come here and be content, i
Your child knows where to
come and your accumulated
wisdom should lead you to 242
Bull street, where we will as
sume command of your funds
and send to your loved one
on Christmas day the biggest
package of
Holiday Happiness
Known in Santa Claus’ realm.
Don’t wait. Come! Come
quickly!! Come here!!!.
T. A. BRYSON.
The Children’s Friend,
with Wheels for the Holidays.
A CHINCH ILLA HAT.
A chinchilla hat shows one of the
most elegant effects in the season's
millinery. A buckram frame is used for
the shape, whose wide brims lifts at
the sides to show an under trimming
in a rich green foliage. The flower
edge is of white crush roses mingled
with a delicate lace, soft falls of the
two dropping over the bent brim of
the back.
CHIC ODER TOGGERY.
The photograph which depicts the
young woman in process of the toilette
also Illustrates the day’s passion for
fine under garments. Delicate, frou
frou nether toggery without a doubt
enhances feminine loveliness, and when
it is all in white, as this is, it is more
beautifying still. With the exception
of the chemise, which is the usual
white lawn and Valenciennes slip worn
every day by properly dressed women,
the various details represent the cor
rect thing for elegant evening costum
ing.
The petticoat Is made of the finest
white swiss. and is put together at the
gores with embroidered bands of the
same. Tw o deep flounces of French lacf
finish the bottom, and the lower por
dencies of the different members. Mary
Realty is a devout Catholio'-a strict
observer of all the duties of the church;
Miss Rossmore a Methodist, Miss Lau
ra Thompson a Presbyterian, and Miss
Estelle Carter a Christian Scientist.
The male members of Mr. Robson’s
company are composed of nearly all
branches of religious belief, Mr. Rob
son's orthodoxy alone being suspected.
It is said that instead of the bicker
ings that are suppose 1 to obtain to
the “right of precedence" In the aver
age company, that ihe discussions of
purely moral and religious subjects ar”
the enjoyments of this excepfional or
ganization. Christian and pagan, Jew
and gentile vie with each other in the
upholding of their respective creeds,
but personalities are never indulged in.
Robson is one of the coming attrac
tions In Savannah.
ABT’S MAMitU.IV ItIXITAL..
Local Musicians to Assist In tbc
Programme.
The recital to be given at Lawton
Memorial Thursday night by Valentine
Abt. assisted by Mrs. W. Harry Teas
dale, contralto, and Miss Emma Co
burn, accompanist, promise* to be very
Interesting. Mr. Abt accomplishes on
the mandolin what few will give him
credit for until heard.
While the mandolin is an old instru
ment. and though both Beethoven and
Mozart have written for it, it Is only
during the last few -years that an Im
petus has been given to its manufac
ture and perfection. The Instrument
has now become a permanent adjunct
to our concert stage and Mr. Abt is
master of it.
The following excellent programme
will be presented:
“Blow, Blow. Thou Winter Wind’’ fJ.
Sargeant); "Sayonara” (Homer N.
Bartlett), “The Violet" (Albert Milden
berg). Mrs. W. Harry Teasdale.
’’Kaust Fantasle” (Oounod-Alard).
"Nocturne, ” op. 8, No. 2 (Chopin),
"Cradle Song" (duo for one mandolin*
(Houser). Valentine Abt.
"Spring Night" (Schumann). "I’ll Not
Complain" (Schumann). "In My Gar
den” (Schumann). Mrs. Teasdale.
"Andante Concerto," op. 64 (Mende\*
Pale brunettes will find this chea
peau a delightful head piece, the soft
grays—and- -whites- admirably setting
off such complexions. If chinchilla
can not be afforded, one of the furry
felt plateaux, so much employed now,
can be used in the same way over
the crown without loss of style. The
white roses and intermingling lace
may be of inexpensive qualities, partic
ularly if the hat is for evening use.
tion of each gore shows a garland
decoration in lace braid.
The stockings worn with the stylish
court shoes of black patents leather are
in pale blue silk, with a back boot
effect in black.
The fluffy mass over the chair back
is a long evening wrap of white chif
fon over v-added silk. A wide band of
shirring shapes the back into the waist,
the cloak tying at the throat with a
blue satin ribbon fringed at the ends
and embroidered in natural colors.
Striking effects In stockings are not
confined to the expensive silk articles.
The same eccentric combinings of pale
color with black are seen In lisle
thread, the handsomest designs selling
at SO cents 'he pair.
sohn), "Perpetuum Mobile” (Rleß).
"Spring Song" (duo for one mandolin)
(Mendelssohn), Valentine Abt.
"One Summer Night" (Grieg), "My
Thoughts Are as the Mighty Hills"
(Grieg). "Two Brown Eyes" (Grieg),
"To a Violet” (Grieg), Mrs. Teasdale.
"Valse,” op. 64 (Chopin), "Legende"
(Wieniawski), “Fantasia' (Abt), Val
entine Abt.
"Ave Maria," intermezzo from “Cav
nlleria Rustlcana" (Mascagni), Mrs.
Teasdale and Mr. Abt, obligato.
Miss Emma Coburn, accompanist.
Tickets are on sale at the Y. M. C.
A., at Ludden & Bates S. M. H. and
McArthur Sons & Co.’s.
08 GEORGIA AUTHORS.
Second I.ecflire Course Entertain
ment by Miss l.lllle Sellg.
The second attraction of the Savan
nah Lecture Course will be Miss Lillie
Sellg, who will discuss “Georgia Au
thors” and "American Songs and Their
History." at Guards' Hall, Thursday.
8:30 p. m. Miss Sellg will fcive the fol
lowing programme:
Georgia Authors:—"Results of the
War,” Alexander H. Stephen*.
“Sunrise (Hymn of the Marshes,
Glynn County)” Sidney Lanier.
“A Boy's View of It," Frank L.
Stanton.
"In Memorlam (Bona venture),”
"Frederick Napoleon, Mirabeau, Con
doreet,” Thomas L. Watson.
"Amarlcan Songs and Their His
tory.”
After the recital the members of the
Y. M. H. A. will have a dance. Tickets
oan be had at E. & W. Laundry and
the Red Cross Laundry offices.
—Professor Waldemar Schmidt, the
Danish archaeologist, Intends to visit
all the great museums of Europe in
order to collect material for the publi
cation of a catalogue of the Egyptian
antiquities contained in them.
—Made an Impression.—City Girl—
“ Lord Nabob must have made quite an
impression In this section, didn’t he?"
Country Girl—“ Yes. Indeed. We took
him to a picnic and he sat on a pie."—
New York Weekly.,
gAVANNAH THEATRE.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT ONLY.
RETURN OP THE EVER-RINGING SUCCESS
The all the favorites
INCLUDING
bbLLb MR. EDWARD J. CONNELLY,
OF MISS EEULAH DODGE
NEW YORK 50—OTHERS—50
Prices ii.so. ti.oo, 75c, soc, 25c. seats on sale now,
PM IDA V MOHT—lloae Coghlan In “Forget Me Not.”
savannah! TUESDAY, DEC. 17
THEATRE. I
Most Important Operatic Event of Season
THE
Klaw & Erlanger SAEE
OPERA CO* Seats
PRESENTING WILL OPEN
JEROME SYKES
IN SMITH & deKOVEN’S NEW OPERA
FOXY QUILLER
WITH AN INCOMPARABLE CAST OF ARTISTS, INCLUDING
- ELEANOR KENT FRANK TODD
LOUIS CASAVANT ALBERT Si SYKES
ADOLPH ZINK O. J. McCORMICK
ALICE FVERTSON # GRACE CAMERON
MARION BENT 1 HARRY MACDONOTTGVt
WM HAVENS ARTHUR T. EARNEST
JULIUS STEGER MARIE CHRISTIE
ALMIRA FORREST JOS. FROHOFF
LILLIAN SEVILLE EDWARD EVERETT
AND OTHERS
The KLAW & ERLANGER ORCHESTRA.
AMERICA’S LARGEST OPERATIC ORGANIZATION
Additional Service
BETWEEN
Savannah & Montgomery
AND ALL WESTERN POINTS
—VIA—
Seaboard Air Line R'y.
Schedules are effective, commencing Dec. i. as follows:
-GOING—
No. 71 No. 73
Leave Savannah 7:10 a m 8:30 p m
Arrive Montgomery 7:40 p tn 8:00 a m
Nos. 7t and 73 make close connection at Montgomery for
Birmingham. Nashville. St. Louis, Kansas City, Cincinnati,
Coicage. Mobile, New Orleans, and all Western points.
—RETURNING—
No. 72 No, 74
Leave Montgomery 8:20 a m 8:00 p m
Arrive Savannah 8:25 pm 1 8:00 a m
Pullman Buffet Drawing Room Sleeping Cars
on trains Nos. 73 and 74 between Savannah and Montgomery.
Ail trains run through WITHOUT CHANGE OF CARS.
For full informatien and sleeping car reservations, call at
Ticket Office, corner Bull and Bryan streets. Phone 28, or
write W. P. SCRUGGS,
Traveling Passenger Agent, Savannah, Ga.
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FROM THE MORNING NEWS. SAVANNAH. GA.
A DRESSY HOUSE WAIST.
One or two smart house waists al
low a pleasing variation of costume
without great outlay. The one color
house dress being more of a luxury,
the demand for odd waists Is as great
as ever, and some of the shop model*
are as charming a* cheap.
The one photographed is a very
dainty affair of white silk, with clus
ters of ttno tucks between rows of,
black silk braid, the plain back show
ing this as well. A slight pouching
Is made at the front, whose sides finish
with a narrow frill edged with the
braid; between them appears a charm
ing Jabot effect of fancy white lace
over a vest of chiffon. A stitched
bell of the silk girdles the waist and a
white lace butterfly with osprey,
aigrette is worn tu the hair.
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