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HEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 19T3.
Theater Offerings
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Foil to nodernity
•T'HB Atlanta Musical Association
| held a meeting Saturday even
ing arvd decided on the date for
the next Symphony Concert, which
win take place at the Atlanta Theater
In December. At this concert there
will probably be a prominent soloist
on the program.
Mortimer Wilson, director, has
worked hard on the rehearsals and
groat care has been displayed in se
lecting numbers for the program
Mr. Wilson also is a composer.
Hans Sltt, the European score reader
of note, who has edited nearly half
of the foreign musical publications,
has approved most heartily Wilson's
original work. More than 25 classic
symphonies has Mr. Wilson In his
repertoire, which h© conducts from
memory.
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H err de cortrz woltfiin-
GBN ana Mrs. Oarthew Yorston
will be haarfl. In an operatic re
cital at the Hotel Aneley, December 1,
Mias Mildred Hiixriaon accompanist.
The patronesses of the affair will
be Mrs. W. L. Peel, Mrs. John Mar
shal! Slaton. Mrs. Milton Arrowood,
Mrs. E. M. Horlne, Mrs Frederick G.
Hodff.aon, Mrs A. P. Coles, Mrs. Thoa
B Felder, Mrs. Alex Sllrling, Messrs.
W. Woods White, C. B Bldwell, V. H.
Kriesrahalier, George W. Wilkins and
Ben lee Crew.
The following program win he pre
sented:
"Die Jjoreley" (by request)—Mart. j
Elizabeth's Entrance; Dich theure
Halle, from Tannhauser—Wagner.
Rudolph's Recital from 1,0. Boheme
—Rossini.
Ensembles from Ixjhengrln -Wag-
mr. (a) Act 1, FTUw'e Solo; Da Aerm-
•ite Kannst wohl “nle ermessen;” (b)
Ereerpts from tile duet Act III.
Act I from Walkyre (Duet)—Wag
ner.
Jewel Arte of Marguerite from
Panet—Gounod
Arioso from Pagliacct—Leoncavallo.
Scene and Duet from Cavalleria
Hustlcana --Mascagni.
Tile part of l»la 1n 1Mb scene Is
sung by Miss Marguerite Carter, a
pupil of Mrs. Kurt Mueller.
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V/lME. SYBIL-OWEN HARTLEY
| I was heard in a voice recital
Tuesday evening at Cable Hall.
A most appreciative audience greeted
the Hlnger in her first Atlanta recital.
The first group opened with the
aria, “Cry Aloud, Spare Not,” from
Patten’s “Isaiah ” Then came
Nymphs and Shepherds,” an old
English composition; Henschel’s
Morning Mymn:” a group of Ger
man songs by Brahms. Schumann and
Halle, selections from the “Marriage
pf Figaro,” Mozart, and “Tosca,” clos
ing with some English songs.
Miss Elizabeth Stillw'ell accompa
nied Mrs. Hartley and she gave three
piano solos during intermission.
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" A/l lSS JEANNETTE LOWNDES
gave a song recital Saturday
afternoon at the Barill Home
Studio on Myrtle street. She has
been the pupil of Alfredo Ihirili for
several years and has reached an en
viable stage in her work.
Following is the program:
“The Monotone,” “The Violet," Pet
er Cornelius.
“Liihuanian Song." "The Maiden’s
Wish," Fred Chopin.
“In the Woods,” “The Sea,” Mc
Donald.
Flower Song from "Faust,” Gounod.
"My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice,"
Saint-Saens.
"Ah, lx)ve but a Day," Mrs. H. H.
1 '.each.
“The Maiden and the Butterfly,"
I >’Albert.
"The Hills o’ Skye," Victor Harris.
By TARLETON COLLIER
It 1* all very easy to say the stage of to-day, with Us “realism,” Its
shopgirls and white slave traffic. Its detective stories and crook stories, and
all Its heterogeneous Jumble of alleged real life Is not performing Its func
tion of purveying wholesome entertainment and Instruction. Such talk Is
all very meaningless also, and pretty much of a pose. The modernist’s
frame of mind demands just that sort of tiling. Women are questing the
ballot nowadays, and are talking eugenics, and are vitally Interested in
vice commissions and tarlfT schedules. Romance: that is, romance genert-
catly. Is sleeping.
C HARLES AND FANNY VAN and one of their cast in the
center; above, Muriel Godfrey, as the mother of Ben-Hur;
below, left, Robert Hilliard, in “The Arpyle Case,” which fol
lows “Ben-Hur” at the Atlanta, and Lillian Lee Anderson, in
“The White Slave.”
of outlaws and the fifth the cabin of
the squatter on Nobody’s Claim. Th^re
will be thrilling events a-plenty, and
together a sensational attraction js
the prospect.
There will be the usual daily mati
nees at 2:30 o’clock and night per
formances at 8:30. Monday night will
be ladies' free night, as usual.
‘Sad Sea Waves' Are
Material for Bttrlesquers
“By the Sad Sea Waves" will be the
title of the musical burlesque that will
be offered at the Columbia Theater
this week. A number of new faces
will be seen in the cast, changes
among chorus and principals alike
having been arranged.
The show of the week will furnish
the company opportunity for the dis
play of costumes and for. attractive
arrangement of the chorus. New
songs and features are promised.
A considerable vaudeville bill nas
been arranged as well, and the man
agement promises the attraction or
the week to be well up with the stand
ard that has won general recognition
of the Columbia as a house of enter
tainment.
Drama Notes
Robert Hilliard, as Asche Kayton
solving the mysteries of “The Argyle
Case,” is alert to seize upon every
new device that the up-to-date detec
tive uses for confounding the crim
inal.
Now there Is the dictograph. Con
cealed In some other unlikely spot. It
picks up every word spoken in a
room and carries it over the wire to
a stenographer,
Even then th* .criminal could say
the stenographer made false notes.
But what can a criminal do when
confronted with tile dictograph's
newest attachment, the roneophone?
What can he do when a detective sets
a phonograph going and It repeats to
him the words that will send him to
his doom?
You see what he will do in “The
Argyle Case,” a detective play In
whose authorship Detective Bums
figures as a collaborator.
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Concert, agencies in Prussia arc
alarmed at the agitation to pass a
law which regulates their business
and allows an agent a commiaaion of
5 per cent as & maximum.
And yet—
Romance is not altogether dead.
There is still alive in every heart a
flickering ember of sentiment, bow
flickering ember of sentiment, how
ever feeble. There is a vague regTet
that James K. Hackett left off be
ing a swashbuckler and became an
alert business man on the stage, and«
that Rothern turned to Shakespeare,
and Robert Edeson to the “prob
lem play." And in every mind there
ifi a question. Hasn’t the stage a
mission in exploiting now and then
Instances of sublime courage and
epic greatness and romantic person
alities? Should it not now and then
incarnate ideals Instead of ideas, nnd
dreams rather than cold, dictagraph
shoplifting - divorce-damaged-goods
facts?
The question leads to a Justifica
tion of spectacles like the perform
ance of “Ben-Hur” that will be
Atlanta for a week, beginning Mon
day. It is a play based on a. great
"white slave " The title does not ap
ply to a victim of the South, when
real chattel slavery was in vogue. It
is a melodrama of the old school.
At the Forsyth theater the bill Is
promising, as usual. The headline
attraction, a troupe of elephants, is
sufficiently unique to draw attention.
The Jewell Kelley Company at the
Bijou and the White Way Burlesque
Company at the Columbia promise
shows of the usual standard.
Ben-Hur Appeals to
Lovers of Stage Pictures
Ki&w Erlanger have set much
store by the production of "Ben-Hur,"
that will be the offering at the At
lanta Theater this week, with mati
nees Wednesday and Saturday. The
notices of the show call it "the inter
national Ben-Hur.”
These same advance notices are
eloquent In describing th© methods
of staging the play. The press agent,
for instance, declares:
“The play appeals to every person
w r ho enjoys a super spectacle. Th©
vivid pictures of life under the glo
rious Oriental sun is a sure magnet
for lovers of good art in the theater.
, lastly, the height to which stage art
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ME Story of Christmas," a new )
cantata by H. Alexander Mat- I
thews, will be sung for the first
l ine In Atlanta, at the First Baptist j
< hurch on the evening of December j
)\ under the direction of J. P. ('Don
nelly. organist. The soloists will be
Mrs. Peyton H. Todd, soprano; Mrs.
James H. Whitten, alto; Mr. Solon
Drukenmiller. tenor, and Mr. Harry R.
BoBtee, baritone. They will be as
sisted by a large chorus.
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into
the
hnmaji story, and according to every
promise, it has been staked with me
chanical art and with a display of
imagination. There are features that
border on melodrama. There are
moments, as during the chariot race,
that are excttln* and specatcular.
There Is a storm at sea, and a yell
ing mob In the amphitheater, and a
picture of the Jerusalem of story.
Altogether, In ‘‘Ben-Hur,” there
should be comething toward the ful
fillment of the esthetic mission of the
stage, something to lift
tor out of the humdrum
magic olden times.
“Ben-Hur" will be at the Atlanta
all the week. The Lyric will house
all week a play whose name. "The
White Slave,' Is rather misleading
In the light of the significance that
modern times have given the term
specta-
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has been brought in the race scene—
a scene in which every nerve and
emotion of the spectator is tense with
excitement and suspense—would
in itself have niude the play a pro
digious success.”
The grove of Daphne, the picture
of Jerusalem when under the domi
nation of Rome, the race in the arena
of the Circus of Antioch, the curing
of the lepers on the day of Jesus’
triumphal entry into the Holy City,
the realism of the storm at sea and
the rescue of Ben-Hur after hi* light
with the waters. He says, “All are so
literal in their splendor and appeal
that one may expect to hear of the
play's success In years to come.”
Thomas Holding plays the part of
Ben-Hur. Others of the company
are Arthur Linden, Walter M. Sher-
win, George Sydenham. Virginia
Howell. Muriel Godfrey-Turner and
Mary Condon.
The curtain rises on tbe evening
performance at 8 o’clock, and in the
afternoon at 2 o’clock. No one of
the audience will be seated during
the prelude, which shows the appear
ance of the Star of Bethlehem.
After “Ben-Hur” there is a re
version to the ultra-modern play in
two notable instances. Next week
Robert Hillard in the detective play,
“The Argyle Case," will be at the
Atlanta Monday, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, and the all-star oast of "Fine
Feathers,” including Robert Edson,
Wilton Laokaye. Max Figman, Rose
Coghlan, Lolita Robertson and Lydia
Dickson, will follow, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday.
Elephants and 'Vans'
I On Bill at Forsyth
Miss Orford and her Wonderful Ele
phants will be the headline feature
of the week’s vaudeville bill at the
Forsyth. The exhibition of the ele
phants and their stunts will be in-
I terestlng. no doubt. There are three,
tail of them well trained, even to waltz
ing and tangoing in the most ap
proved style. They keep house, con
duct receptions, dress and undress and
otherwise act after the manner of
real people
Miss Orford. their director, is a con
siderable atthiction in herself, being
an accomplished dancer.
Other features will be Miss Norton
and Paul Nicholson, in what is termed
a "dramatic cartoon,” whatever that
is; Charles and Fannie Van, assisted
by Fred C. Van, in’ their comedy
sketch, “From Stage Carpenter to
A tlanta Playgoers ’
Weekly Calendar
At the Atlanta—“Ben-Hur;” J
Klaw & Erlanger’s spectacle, all
week, matinees Wednesday and
Saturday. Performances at 8 and
2 o’clock.
At the Lyric—“The White j
Slave," by Bartley Campbell, all
week, matinees Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
At the Forsyth—Keith vaude-
\ ville, all week, daily matinees.
Featuring Ruth Orford’s Ele- \
\ phants.
s At the Bijou—Jewell Kelley
\ Stock Company, in “Nobody’s
v Claim,’* all week, daily matinees,
j At the Columbia—“By the Sad
Sea Waves,” burlesque comedy,
all week, daily matinees.
Ackter;" Ruth Rove with new songs
anti gowns; the Vivians, accomplished
sharpshooters, and Ward and Weber,
in songs and dances.
Heroine at the Lyric
Not IQ 13 ‘White Slave'
Bartley Campbell’s play, “The White
v Slave*" .will be at tlio Lyric Theater
this week, with matinees Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
The play tells a story of Soutiiern
life in the ante-bellum days, and re
veals considerable knowledge of the
times and people of “befo’ de wah”
times. It is told after the manner of
th© conventional and popular melo
drama. witli Its intermingling of com
edy and pathos, humor and tragedy.
The story is this: A girl grows up
in an aristocratic Southern home un
der the belief that she is an octoro'
and falls a slave into the hands of a
man who would betray her. She es
capes with her lover, and after pass
ing through many perils, comes at last
Into happiness, with the knowledge
that she ts a free-born woman. Of
this slender material, the author has
woven an Interesting plot, it is said.
The play is old. having been pro
duced first in 1882, but possesses a
vigor that has given it long life and
the promise of many years yet to
come.
Pretentious Five-Act
Melodrama at Bi/ou
The management of the Bijou The
ater promises o..e of the most at
tractive novelties of the Jewell Kel
ley Stock Company’s season in the
show for this week. And it will cer
tainly be pretentious, being a five-act
melodrama entitled “Nobody’s Claim.”
The story in the play is that of a
Western mining camp.
The scenes are laid in California,
the first at a mining camp hotel, the
second in the bar of the hotel, the
third in a gulch through which a Train
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