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SCENE FROM “THE BONDMAN.
A WEEK’S OFFERINGS A T LOCAL PLA YHOUSES
LACK AYE IN" THE BONDMAN”
AT THE GRAND NEXT WEEK
WILL BE THEATRICAL EVENT
Powerful Dramatiza
tion of Hall Caine’s
Great Novel.
Wilton Lackaye will be wen at the
Oranil Monday and Tuesday In Halt
t'alne'n latest dramatic aucces, “The
Bondman"’
This, the latest of the Hall Caine
dramatisations, which has been run-
nIn* at the Drury Lane Theater, Lon
don. Tor over a year, promises to be
one of the real dramatic treats of the
present season. Following upon the.big
run In England, Hall Caine has re
leased his American rlgHts to Mr.
Laeftaye, because ho believed that In
this popular and virile actor he has the
one man capable of doing full Justice
to' the character of Jason, the principal
, of the play. The first American pro
duction of this play was given at the
Olympic Theater, St. Louis, on Mon
day evening, September 1#, and from
the press criticisms that have been
received In this city, It Is evident that
the play made a sensation and Mr.
Lackaye one of the biggest hits since
his Bvengall.
The story of “The Bondman" Is very
similar to that disclosed In the au
thor's well-known book of the same
name. It tells of the power of Chris-
tian love over Pagan vengeance and
the turning of Jason, the true, coarse,
the avenger—Into Jason, the lover, the
saver, nnd the bondman. It Is a re
markable story of human Interest with
love as Its keynote and much pictur
esque scenic effects to assist In the
telling of the story.
The play Is produced In four acts
with seven scenes, three of which are
laid In the Isle of Man and three In the
Islands of Sicily. Particular Interest Is
attached to the reproductions of the
Manx harvest fete and the convict
sulphur mines In Sicily. Mr. Lackaye
carries, with him three car loads of
scenery and effects, much of which has
been especially Imported from the Dru
ry Lane, London. A company of eighty
people appear In support of the star,
and Included In the cast are many of
the most prominent of our players. Al
together Mr. Lackaye'* visit to this
city should he a memorable one and
those anxious to secure seats should
make reservations at as early a date
as possible.
Matinee will be given Tuesday.
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PASTIME THEATER
OFFERS HEW BILL
When the curtain rolls up at ihe
PaMlm© Theater on Monday afternoon
jit the Initial matinee therf will be pre-
4 to the patrons of this popular
home of polite vaudeville an entirely
new program of highly diversified
vaudeville acts.
As an opener S. E. Richards & Co.
wHJ present their wonflerful galaxy of
illusions and magical tricks. Their
knowledge of the occult art ia said to
wonderful and the sleight-of-hand
triiks and feats of legerdemain will
baffle the closest observers. With case
and grace they will draw fowls from
the ulr, produce rabbits from the au
dience, and make gold fish swim through
the air. The closer you observe this
pair the less you will see.
Following thia novel act will come
Harry Howard, w'hose songs and say
ing* have made hundred* laugh.
With J. C. Murphy, the minstrel man
w ho has the reputation for giving solos
on a pair of minstrej bones, there comes
a posted challenge of $1,000 for anyone
who can beat him In this art.
Miss Edna Morley will make her
debut at the Pastime next week as ft
singer of illustrated songs. She Is sure
to make a hit.
NEGRO PAYS PENALTY
ON THE GALLOWS.
Speelnl to The Georghiu.
Milton, Fla., Sept. 28.—Kemp Holt,
ft negro, was hanged In the Jail yard
today for the murder of Monroe Buck-
halter. a negro, at Oak Grove, this
county. November 24, 1906. The trap
fell at 12:15 o’clock and he was pro
nounced dead at 12:20 o’clock.
MOULDINGS
I^late rails, chair rails.
GEORGIA PAINT A GLASS CO.,
40 Peachtree Street.
NEXT WEEK IN THEATERS
GRAND—Monday and Tuesday nlghta. Tuesday matinee—Wilton Lack
aye In "The Bondman,"
Wednesday and Thursday nights and Thursday matinee—"Par
sifal,"
Friday and Saturday nights, Saturday matinee—“Dream City.”
BIJOU—Alt week, matinees Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday—Ray
Raymond In “The Candy Kid."
ORPHEUM—AIJ week, matinees dally except .Monday—Vaudeville.-
PASTIME—All week, dally matinees—Vaudeville.
SOUTH SIDE THEATER—All week, dally matlneea—Vaudeville.
ST. NICHOLAS AUDITORIUM—Skating.
“PARSIFAL”—THE TEMPTATION.
HAGENBECK, ANIMAL KING,
SCOURS ENDS OF EARTH
TO GET RARE SPECIMENS
Methods Employed in;
Capturing Wild Ani- I
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mals For Exhibition. !
Wagner’s Great Story Wed
nesday and Thurs
day.
Atlunta is again to have '•Parsifal"
thia season, and the announcement will
be received with gbnulne pleasure and
acclaim by overy lover of the sublime
in art.. Managers Martin and Emery
will again give local playgoers an op
portunity to see their splendidly
equipped company live In the charac
ters of Wagner's great religious festi
val story. The company Is still more
capable than that seon here formerly,
the aim of the management being to
approach perfection as nearly as pos
sible by securing the best available
talent for the several roles. It can be
accepted In the utmost good faith, on
the pledge of Messrs. Martin and Em
ery, that the coining presentment will
be one of exceptional artistic merit
and In every way Worthy of the lofty
and mystic nature of Wagner’s mas
terpiece.
Hut In an art story of such colossal
imagination not only must the char
acters live again; they must move amid
the surroundings and environment In
which they were placed. In the au
thor's mind. The demands which “Par
sifal’’ makes on the scenic painter, the
stage manager, the electrician and the
stage carpenter are of the most exact
ing kind, and more difficult to meet
than can lie encountered In any other
known production. Managers Martin
and Emery, without wishing to attach
any undue Importance to the scenic
beauties of the production, wish It
known that they positively give an
exact counterpart of the Balreuth stage
effects. What that tnenns In expendi
ture, Ingenuity und infinity of detail
can be Imagined. 4
, Three. performances of “Parsifal
will be given at the Grand Wednesday
and Thursday, October 2 and 3. During
this engagement the rule of beginning
the performance at 7:45 will be strict
ly enforced nnd the public Is most
earnestly requested to subscribe there
to, as none can be sented during the
action of the piny. The Thursday mat
inee will begin at 2 o'clock.
Jhe most fnnious wild animal exchange In |
it* world la to 1m» found nt Htelllgen, nl
pretty little suburb of the port of Hamburg. !
It Is presided over by Pur! Ilagenbeek. one I
of the owners of the ttngenbeck-Wnllnee j
circus, which conics to Atlunta next Mon-;
day. slid who may lie well described ns the j
world’s roojogjcnl purveyor.
He Is the one Indlvhluitl to whom you.
must go If you lire seeklug n hippopotamus
or n rhinoceros, or any other rare beast. I
He keeps them In stock Just ns a horse
dealer keeps i» number of horses. Ills col
lection of wild beasts, reptiles and birds
Is Inrger nnd more vnlnnble thnn the mil-
ninls found In nny one xoo'oglenl garden
In Europe, Ills depot, which Is nlso it
zoolngtcnl pnrk, occupies *oum twouty-tive
acres of ground.
How this curious mercbiiiidlHc Is collected t
nnd transported to Jlnuibiirg makes thrill
ing rending. Take, for Instiitice, the Hon,
the acknowledged king of hensts: Few vis
itors to rt zoological garden nre it wore that
they nre tnketi in the wilds of Abyssinia
milk and pieces of fowl until old
brnve the terrors of n Journey across me
sens to Europe. Tigers arc idituiucd In
much the same way «s llous. although
many adult ones are caught In large idf-
full*. I.Ions vary a great deal in price,
ranging from Moo to iih much iih M.ooo
apiece, frown Prince, the leading lien of
the HngeiiheckAVallnce circus. Is prohiild?
the Hlberlnii variety Is worth from f 1.209 to
$1,600.
It Is the same with most wild beasts.
Von have to take them from their mother
when quite ytiling, ft N perfectly feasible
of course to surround a grown nuitiml and
AITHEJRPHE1
Fine Vaudeville Bill at Pop-
. ular Theater Next
Week.
RAY RAYMOND, “CANDY KID,"
AT BIJOU ALL NEXT WEEK;
ROLLICKING MUSICAL COMEDY
“CROWN PRINCE.”
Famous Hon with Hagenbeck and
Wallace shown.
flave you ever held* fbtif aces in a
to-thunderation-wlth-the-lmit ppker
game?
The management of the Orpheum
claims to have a hand of no .lew- than
eight aces—and sighs that tlulre are no
trumps in ptfker, a** thesi aces are ail
trumps. ■ #
Vaudeville, as everybody knows, Ik
the poker game Jof theaterdnin. Chips
have no home in a peker game. The
blues have no home In a high-class
vaudevfiW theater. Every deui’ in po
ker brings forth a imnsfoAnailon. Ev
ery act of a well •roUii'Jttd vaudeville
bill is different from every other act.
The singer and the dancer and the
acrobat and the comedian and the mu
sician literally chasd e.1911 other across
the footlights In vaudeville.
And so, ft* Is with un elght-aced
vaudeville hand that the management
intends to take in the pot next week
and not a hand in cards.’ Take a peep
at the hand.
First, there is Mr, and Mrs. Gene
Hughes artil company, In a one-act far
cical playlet, entitled “Suppressing the
Press.” . Those who keep In touch with
the big vaudeville houses In the East
heed not be told who Mr. and Mrs.
Hughes are. They have been head
liners for years. “Suppressing the
Press” was recently awarded a $1,000
prize by The New York Herald In a
contest conducted by that pai>cr.
Another team that comes highly rec
ommended and Is not nnkriown bv the
patrons of the Eastern vaudevill* the
aters Is Hoey and Lea, the famous He
brew dialect comedians and parody
singers, who will appear at the Or
pheum next week. ThlsJj their first
visit to Atlanta.
What promises to be one bf the clev
erest and most unique acts of the bill
the coming week is thati of Emhk
} Whitman, the dancing violinist. The
clever feat of playing an accompani
ment to a violin with a pult* of nlm-
j ble toes is one calculated to amuse as
well as to please the eats., .. .
The management has not failed to
provide a clever acrobatic feature. The
Valdlngs, aerial artists, arc said to be
unusually clever on the flying bar*, and
they will contribute ,ho little toward
making the bill of next *v/<jck one of
unusual merit.
Here Is what, the booking office writes
about the Mellnot Twin Sisters and
George Whiting, a trio of singers tnd
dancers,. with a side-line \>f comedy:
“Mark oof* prediction: They will moke
another prth and Fern hit.” Every
body remembers Orth and Korn In
“Sign That Book.” Nuflf ced.
Marlon and Pearl, eccentric and gro-
i tesque comedians and cross-fire con
versationalists, will contribute much to
the comedy end of the program of next
week.
And for the special delectation of the
ladles and children has been added
another, head-liner, Beaumont’s pony
circus, In a remarkable display of ani
mal, near-human. Intelligence.
The klnetograph closes the bill and
Mathlessen's splendid orchestra keeps
things humming all the while.
number of «lralTcs, nu nuPlimf which Is by
no inciins ensv to ohtiitu, nnd n Itcnst thnt
In getting rather Kcnrco. They nre caught
by natives, who bunt them on quirk Abys-
winlun nonles. When they come aero** n
herd of gtruffos they drive them forward
fast ns they can. at mieh n pnee that It
are
tiVcrgliin’s renders*to learn' that giraffe
nHI from $4.(W to $5,000 n imlr,
Magnolian Wild Horses.
Mr. Hagenbeck *eut out recently to ne-
euro K«»me .Mongolian wild horse*. His trav
elers penetrated to the northern Inirdeu of
RAY RAYMOND, “THE CANDY KID.”
the Hold desert, whore the/ found tbom-
orsouieii. nnd taking with them
fifty hiv-od mart’s In fowl, the collectors
sought the desert home of the wild horse. |
After a series of exciting ndveiitnres, fifty-
two young colts frmu the wild horse species
were wttrwl and in»nrl.dted on domestic
mares taken along with the httittlug party.
This expedition was In the field nearly
eighteen months, and Its expense totaled
$50,000.
Tin-
shows
parade of'the IlugeiiheckAvntlaet*
la the biggest free feature; all the
•s are opened, and the pageant Is nearly
miles long. The principal streets will
trav»-rs«Hl Monday morning. The big
v will evblldt on the regular circus lot.
BLAUVELI-MARBLE
IN “DREAM CITY"
Mme. Lillian Blauvelt, prlma donna
soprano with Joe Weber's production
of "Dream City," which comes to the
Grand Friday and Saturday, was born
in Brooklyn In 1873.
Last season she starred in this
country In the romantic opera, "Tho
Rose of the Alhambra.” Mme. Blau-
velt will positively sins ,ln "Dream
City’; during Its engagement in this
city.
, "Dream City” Is conceded to be the
cleverest and most pretentious produc
tion ever attempted by Weber, And has
met with the greatest sgcoess, as It
played to the capacity of Weber's
Broadway Theater at every perform
ance all through last season.
As Mr. Weber le retiring from tho
footlights, after years of hard and con.
sclentlous work, he has been more than
fortunate In enlisting the services of
that clever comedian. Little Chip. Lit
tle Chip has In the past few years en
deared himself to theatergoers the
country over, most particularly In At
lanta, through his excellent work In
"Babes In Toyland" and "Wonderland,”
and the Bijou Company, and la con
sidered to be without a doubt tho most
worthy successor to Weber himself to
day on the American stage.
The other leading character In
“Dream City" Is In the hands of that
magnetic Atlanta favorite. Mary Mar
ble. In the role of Nancy, the daugh
ter of the old Long Island German far
mer (portrayed by Little Chip), Mis*
Marble Is credited with giving one of
the most attractive aad winning por
trayals of a dainty stage miss seen
on the stage In many years, vfilrh Is
winning her new laurels for her clever
work at every performance.
Plenty of Life and Fun
to Attraction at Popu
lar Theater.
There has been a great variety In
the class of attraction at the popular
Bijou since the Inauguration of the
sixth season of the house, and now that
things have commenced to settle down
to the point of real class, the first of
the musical attractions Is about to be
ushered in, In the Introduction of "The
Candy Kid,” an American comedy play
with a lot of mualc,
aVnt time ago the ability of Ray
Raymond, a Juvenile singing comedian,
attracted the attention or the managers
and at the start of this season the
young star was placed at the head of a
company of merry entertainers and
sent en tour with "The Candy Kid."
Huge successes have Indorsed the judg
ment of hla managers, and the house
management everywhere made It a'
point to list tho attraction for the sea
sons yet to be born.
The play Is a musical comedy drama
It Is really a musical shot,', but there Is
a story that is overflowing In thrills
and exciting Incidents, and just the
sort of attraction thnt Is best liked In
Atlanta, nnd at the Bijou. It may be
that It Is kin to melodrama, but there
are so many musical numbers and a lot
pretty girls and clever comedians
l "The Candy Kid" Is entitled to a
place with the musical class.
The action of the play Is almost
everywhere. It starts at one of the
great schools and continues In foreign
lands, and the scenic production Is de
clared to be one of the most attractive
ever brought into a theater of the pop
ular price scale.
There Is a singing, dancing, rollick
ing. hurrah sort of color to the play
from the first curtain until the show
has ended, and all through the play the
clever young leading man will be very
much In evidence In specialty, leading
musical numbers and as the hero of the
drama.
There will be performances during
the week following the regular UIJou
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Prirra donna in “Crcc.ru CU,»” cs ruing io the Grzr.d
Saturday.
In a blaze of glory the South Side
Theater, located at No* 44 East Hunter
street, between CentraJ avenue
South Pryor street, will be thrown <>p< n
to the public on Monday night,
ternber 30, when a polite and refined
vaudeville program will be offered. The
theater will be under the same nuin-
agement which has conducted the pas
time Theater, on Peachtree utieet.
.successfully during the spring JJ
summer season. Two thousand n
hundred dollars will hardly cover tnc
expense incident to transforming tn
building Into a cozy theater.
The management announces an exu
program for the opening week,
each act will be a whole show ">tn
Itself. Harrison, West and Harris”",
featuring LaPetlte Harrison, the sinu -
eat comedian In the world ','f 11 * J’t the
top-liners. This trio Is celebrated IA
world round and their act wl" JJJ.
great one. Professor Willis, the llg
nlng crayon artist, whose R " c ';‘
drawings of persons and things a
made him famous, will appear «n« "
a number of lightning sketches _ r
from life and memory. M Ith
color* he Is a marvel. ..
Aitken and son, the celebrated M
llbrists, now at the Pastime Tilt
where they have bee.n the feature o
bill, will come to this theater In J •'
edy Acrobats," am! set the huu- _
a tumult. The audiences always
Joy sentimental songs, and mr
rerson Miss Lillian i'arl. who
naturally sympathetic voice,!'
the Illustrated song. "On «•« 11
’Neath the Old Willow Tree. , h
Carl and Cart In “The T<i<
Century Tramp." , M „,«■
The Booth Side vltaseppe In
and original scenes will close lh
After Monday the inallnees «
dally and the prices teu »nd t
cents.