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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. N.vn itDAV. DECEMBER I*. in Which To Do And Only 8 Days More Crankshaw’s Is the Place jikMy exhibit of Diamonds, Watches, Cut Glass, Sterling Silver, J< ^articles in Silver or Silver Mounted has never been more attract and when Gift-hunting it will pay you to look over my stock, will discover when visiting my store. If you wish to make costly 2 wish to make moderate ones, I have these also. CHARLES W. CRANKSHAW, CENTURY BUILDING. 16 WHITEHALL STREET oases Vaudeville For Pre-Holiday Week and Souvenirs For Children. Great Success of New York Stage Visits the South. Brlttdauiour. the king of the Jail breaker*, the Wizard of the handcuffs, comes to the Orphemn next week for whnt promise* to be the most Interesting engagement of the vaudeville season. He Is a wonder, and a puzzle which the police experts of n hun dred cities have failed to solve. He per mits himself to be handcuffed with mana cles furnished by any detective, locked In a steel, cell with the detectives' own lock and key. tied up In a bag and the knot sealed—but lie comes out of everything amlllug In less time tbnn It takes to tell the story, llow he does It Is something he never tells. Hut he has promised to permit t the Jailer of the Atlanta Tower to test the strength of the strongest eell and the result • should he luterestiiiK. There Is a novelty for the children offered • at the Orpheum, beginning this afternoon' and continuing through the holiday season. Every child who visits the matinee will re ceive a pretty Japanese doll as a souvenir of the Orpheunt. Children are admitted free to the nintfnees If an elder brother or I sister or some growu-up accojuppules them, * and so the little folks may see the show for uothlug and have u souvenir thrown In. The vaudeville hill for the week Includes some excellent acts, besides the feature, Itrludnmour. The Mix Hamels are wonder ful whirling Arabs from the desert and their act is something entirely new to vaudeville. Kittle Johnson, the singing comedienne, promises to make a hit. James 1)1 Iks, in his new comedy musical act. should win applause, nnd Brooks nnd Ved- 1 dcr In their novel sketch arc billed as features of the program. l-es Jnrdys, French equilibrists, and Kimball uud Lewis, the grotesque gyrating comedians, and the moving pictures make up one of the most attractive bills yet offered. The Orpbeum Is growing to Ite u popular resort for shoppers who grow tired In the afternoons niul seek that rarest of all things In a city, “a good plaee to sit down and rest.” Their wraps ami bundles an* taken care of by the attendants, and tin hour or two at the vaudeville house Is a welcome relief from the weariness of a long day lu the stores. Out-of-town shop pers ere learning to take advantage of the new idea. •i box of dainty bonbons will be glv- eti every lady attending the Monday« night performance. Amateurs at Orpheum. ji The amateur bill nt the Orphemn Friday I night, which followed the regular bill, was 1 pronounceJ a “corker*' by un enthusiastic j audience. ! . The crowd was Just In the right humor ’ for an amateur night. And the “book'* was ; not spared. Ham Fite, a pretty little girl \ who sang, won first prize. K. E. Hclnnldt j ( was clever In wing nnd buck dancing, nndr he took second prize. Arthur Boy I, n young- ; ster. won third prize with his dancing.! There were four more amateur nets, but j they all succutnlied to that dread contngloii, l “the book.” before finishing. AMUSEMENTS. THE UK AND—Saturday ran Once and I (light, “The Mon and the Mouse." THE BIJOU—Saturday matinee nnd night. Nat M. Wills la “A Lucky Dog.” THE oitBlIEUM—Saturday mntlucc nnd night, high-class vaudeville. "The Grent Divide." the most striking dramatic success the American stage has seen for a quarter of a century, will be played at the Grand on Fri day and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee. This news will he received with delight by play lovers, for no drama of recent yeaVs has attracted as much attention or been so eagerly awaited as "The Great Divide.” For nearly two entire seasons It attracted crowded houses to the Princess and Daly's theaters. New York, ahd lias Just recently gone on tour after being pre sented in the metropolis over D00 times. The presentation will be under the di rection of Henry Miller, whose name Is Inseparably linked with the success of the play. The cast was selected by this distinguished nctor-manager with great care, and the production Is an ex act duplicate in every detail of the New York original. "The Great Divide" has been pronounced by many cities the "long-awaited 'great American play.*" No other drama has so well reflected fhe manhood, the freedom, the honesty nnd the indomitable spirit characteris tic of the people of our great Western country. With the first two acts laid In Arizona and the third In Massa chusetts. there Is offered In contrast two of the most vigorous nnd progres sive sections of the land. The story of the play represents a conflict between the free, untrummeled spirit of the West and traditions and conventional ity of the East. It tells the romance of an Eastern woman and a Western titan, whose wooing waa passing atrange and whose married life together was turbulent and dramatic In the ex treme. Written by William Vaughn Moody, the foremost of America's younger poets. "The Great Divide" possesses literary qualities such as are very rare In plays that are satisfactory from an acting standpoint. The story is told In unctuous, picturesque prose, Il luminated by a glowing nnd virile Im agination and replete with witty, epi grammatic dialogue brilliant with scin tillating humor. That "The Great Di vide” Is to be seen here so soon after Its New' York triumph Is a matter upon which our theatergoers are to be warmly congratulated. Owing to the, extraordinary demand to see this great- est of all American plays, the patrons of the Grand are requested to engage seats as early as possible, as previous # . "The Great Divide" ENSEMBLE 8CENE IN "GAY NEW YORK ” AT THE BIJOU. "Tho Lion and the Mouse.” It’s hard on a good company to face an audience like that nt the Grand Friday night, when rain and cold kept hundreds from seeing one of the best plays of recent years, presented by u company so capable that It left no cause for dissatisfaction—"The Lion and the Mouse." But the chill of the atmosphere did not extend to the In terior of the house and the applause given nt the end of the crucial scenes was hearty enough to make up what it lacked In volume. For the company this year Is a splen did one. The character of Ready Money Ryder is portrayed by Oliver Doud By ron In a masterly way. The character Is drawn from Rockefeller and Mr. Byron's make-up Is a close study of Plerpont Morgan, and the role seems to lit both the gentlemen who occupy so much space In the financial columns. Miss Marie Shotwell, as Shirley Ross- more, Is a most lovable und forcible "Mouse." and her opening scene with Ryder Is a gem. Her work In the In tense scene In the third act Is hardly up to her more, quiet bits, but she la thor oughly satisfying. One of the most at tractive women of this season is Miss Mabel Mortimer, as Kate Roberts, but she Is given slight opportunity. The sp»ry of "The Lion and the Mouse" Is too well known through Its former appearances to need review. It Is one of the new type of plays, a drama of frenzied finance, and one worth seeing. A visit to the matinee or Saturday night performance will be well worth while. G. D, Q. Pretty Girls, Fun and Music Promised Next Week at Popular House. ADELAIDE NOWAK. In "The Graet Divide” at the Grand next week. movn. Mine. Calve. Margaret Win*'*’ Flora Juliet Bowley, Dorothy Bound' MnrceJIne. .Mute. Eitrfies, Percy M.-mKo IIjizcI MacKay, Bertha Knllch. Hlg. « aruj Blanche King. Julie Opp, Laurence Inj Geraldine Farrar. David Warfield. I Abbott, Zens tel lo. Kleunoru pH t If"' r ' Alessandro Bond. Mine. IIerv!II»*-Uc:>'” Mary Garden, Mute. Bresser-GiituoH. • -•• Dnlinnres, Mine. Bureknrdt. Rleeard<> tlu. Murk Humltourg, Richard Bnblls dI Ernest Schell lug. BRINDAMOUR. The handcuff king who comes to the Orpheum next week. Record for "Madame Butterfly.” With the fiftieth and final perform ance of Puccini’s "Madame Butterfly," at the Garden Theater, New' York, the world's record for grand operas was broken, and Henry W. Ravage, the American Impresario, was the recipient of universal congratulations on the sen sational success achieved by this, the moat pretentious, grand opera produc tion ever attempted In the English lan guage. Giacomo Puccini, the composer of tha fascinating Japanese opera, and also composer of "La Boherne" ami ''Tosco,** sent a cablegram to Mr. Savage, In which he said; "You have aent me more royalties from your American production of 'Madame Butterfly* than all the other Impresarios In the world. By this. I know* that you have succeeded. Thanks and sincere congratulations?" Inez Bauer, Alice Hagemnn and others. Including a large chorus that Is said to be the best appearing In any musi cal company traveling through the South. For a Few Days Only We Will Sell the Theater Magazine for Chriatmas. The Theater Magazine for I'hrlstuin* Is a! splendid Issue, almost double In size nnd! with two Inserts In tints. The list of i contributors Is a notable one. Prominent { among those Is an article by Charles Froh-i man. n well-known manager, who writes; ns nn expert on the Interesting subject. ' "Why gome of Our Dramatists Fall.’** George Sylvester Viereek, the poet, writes! on the subject of criticism, and Archie Belli has un Interesting theory to advituce re- j gitrdlng the late Htclumt Mansfield. Otheri lending articles are "The HUtge Door nnd ; Where It Lends." by Horry P. Maw-son. ! "i’nstora! Plays and Players In England" \ by William G. Fitzgerald. "The Mechanism i of Grand Opera" bv L. 8. Fnrlow, nn Inter-1 view with Percy MscKnyc. the dramatist,! by Ada Patterson; “The Kllrnbefhnn Thea-‘ ter at Harvard University” by Ralph Her- ; gengren. nnd "Morntis Ton Joint" by Bcuju-i min DH’nsseres. There Is also n at ary; >•!, ll.v.) "IntnlniMnn" he Christmas at Grand. One characteristic of "Forty-five Minnies from Broadway," George M. Cohan's won derfully successful music-drama, which Klaw Si Erlanger will preheat nt the Grand for two nights, beginning Christmas matl- : tine. Is the careful attention to detail throughout. Not only has nn admirable pair of fdnyers beeu secured for the more Impor tant roles, ns proven by the presence of Ml** Emma Curtis, America's most charm ing slngtbg comedienne, at the head of the company, hut nn excellent dam-lug mid sing. |lug chorus to back them up. Then. too. ; the scenic phase has len-n made of more i tfcui secondary Importance, The three sets used are massive and rich, being convincing In their correctness and adding materially to th« frapressireneaa and appe-.il of the 'May. Scott Welsh will he seen iu the Vole «l "Kid Burns." experience with ■Inc* the company has started on tour has demonstrated that the applications for seats usually exceed the capaclty of the theater*. Lester Lonergan, last seen here as the star in "If I Were King,*’ and Misa Adelaide Nowak, for the past two sea sons leading lady with the late Rich ard' Mansfield, will portray the two principal roles. Miss Lolita Robertson, recently prominent in Mr. Miller's ' Brown of Harvard." is also In the We also will give extra close prices on Wood. HENRY MEINERT, 59 South Boulevard. Both Phones 17S7. Branch Yard, 516 Marietta Street. Atlanta Phone 2273.