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■cussian, and, once seen,
quickly forgotten.
wound
to tak
fought in
world to
'in-lug scenes that haw ever t>een
iaged.
Skinner bring* Intelligence, feel-
and a keen sense of art to hi* i>or-
r; ‘Va! of the young priest. He ha*
*\f r done anything ho convincing and
The play itself and the acting
fl appeals to all those who appre-
' af “ the best and finest art in the
“' atri *. Moreover, the play is one
problem play. It deals with tl
of men and women and as such
them In a human, natural way,
played by the Baldwln-Melvtllc
pany In a clean, wholesome t
and Is decidedly Instructive and
OTIS SKINNER IN “THE DUEL.
VOL. 1.' NO. 170.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1906.
A Week’s Offerings in
VARIED OFFERINGS BILLED;
DRAMA, MINIS!RELS, MUSIC
AND PR Ell Y GIRLS DANCING
No more attractive program of the
season can be offered than the one
promised at the Grand for the forth
coming week. Four plays wiU be pro
duced. every one of them being a top-
liner, and guaranteeing a week of the
bpst entertainment offered in a long
lime.
•The County Chairman" will begin
the week with three productions of
George Ade's now famous play. There
will be performances on Monday and
Tuesday nights with a matinee on
Tuesday. “The County Chairman" is
well and favorably known wherever
there is a theater worth while, as It
has been produced with uninterrupted
•mceess during the last three years. It
is among the earlier works of Mr. Ade
and contains much of the cream of his
genius.
Otis Skinner, an undisputed star of
the theatrical firmament, will come on
Wednesday for two i>erformances—
inatlnee and night—In his latest and
moet pronounced success, “The Duel.”
Mr. Skinner is too well known to the
Southern theatergoing public to need
an introduction. His name in a cast is
a guarantee of merit, both as to acting
and play, for Mr.* Skinner always has
the pick of a score or more of star
productions, and his well-known se
lective genius has enabled him to win
an unrivalled reputation He will no
doubt be greeted by tremendous au-
diences,, as he will be seen twice only
In Atlanta.
George Primrose and bis band of
merry minstrel players will be seen
Thursday matinee and night for two
performances only. The Primrose min
strels pre said to be bigger and better
this year than ever before, which Is
sayUg a whole lot, as the company has
long held a leading place in the world
of minstrels.
“The Isle of Spice" will conclude the
offerings for the week r being fully
worthy to follow its predecessors. It
has pretty music and pretty girls ga
lore. It abounds with magnificent
scenic effects.
'A* the Bijou happy George Sidney,
the funniest little Hebrew comedian
who ever wore u whisker, will depict
the fortunes of “Busy Izzy” again. The
tall man with the voice, our old friend i
LeMoir, Is with him again and if he
doesn’t bring a host of pretty girls it
won’t seem like Izzy is himself.
At the El Dorado the week’s bill in
cludes , “The Confessions of a Wife"
and “Sappho," presented by the Bald-
win-Melville Stock Company,
The Star will have its usual vaude
ville features and the moving pictures.
An entirely new performance has been
promised.
FAMOUS GOO-GOO GIRLS IN "THE ISLE OF SPICE.
“THE SQUA W MAN” IS REAL;
YIZZ Y IS BA CK A GAIN;
PLENTY DOING AT BIJOU
That well-known purveyor of Jewish
character, George Sidney, who for the
past four years has been amusing the
theater-going public through his comi
cal doings In the character of Busy
Izzy, has a new edition of last sea
son's success, “Busy Isay’s Vacation,”
which he will present at the Bijou for
one week, commencing Monday even
ing. The piece frolics along the line of
his “Busy Isay" offering, relating to
his vacation, and it is needless to say
that musical numbers, catchy songs and
funny sayiijgs constitute the piece.
The first act is laid In the Grand
Central station, New York city, where
the “busy one” has assembled all his
friends in order to take them on a gen
eral trip of recreation. After consider
able delay in starting, during which
time the guests amuse themselves by
singing, dancing and joke playing, they
are put aboard the train and.hustled
off for Ocean View, California. This
beautiful place is situated on the shores
of the Pacific, and affords un gnipk
opportunity for a beautiful scenif
dressing, which lias been supplied by
the artist's brush and electrician's in
genuity. A large contingent of thirty
chorus girls, symmetrical in form and
unusually attractive from a beauty
standpoint, have been provided to give
a background to the numerous sons-
These, as well as the principals, tuv
clad In the richest of costumes, ranging
from knickerbockers to the flowing
robes of an oriental princess.
Among the many songs introduced
are the following: “On Old Broadway.’’
“Clancy,” “Bronco Buster Jim,” "'Twas
Busy Izzy," “Summer Days,” "Animal
Flirtation,” "Going Away to California. 1
“Moony Time,” "Something Silly.’’
“Dreams,” “The Four Lemons,” “Hr
Sure the Girl You Love.” “I'd Like t<>
Like a Girl Like You,” and tho big
ensemble number, “Fencing.”
the men and women in the play war/
other than the characters they portray
ed, that they ate and drank and lived
AN A ME RICAN MASTERPIECE]
, and the rent. Tho inatlnee Idol has be-
MISS MYRTLE VANE,
On, of the Baldwin. Molvill, Stock Company at tho El Dorodo.
OTIS SKINNER COMES TO SOUTH;
SCENE OF HIS FIRST RECOGNITION
The most notalc play produced In
New York last season was “The Duel,”
whUh is t«> be made known here ut
'he Grand Wednesday matinee and
night for two performances only.
It was notable for a vuriety of good
ami cogent reasons. To begin with, it
the work of M. Henri Lavedan,
"tie of the greatest of French content
porary dramatic writers, and one of
dm “Forty Immortals.” It had been
produced originally at the first theatre
;1 ‘ the world, the Comedlo Francaise.
Paris, where, on account of i:
'heini. and the ntustery with which it
handled. It created a sensation.
Tin Duel” wus i\ext translated into
•ngiish by so reiver a Ilterateur as
‘■"Uis N. Parker; it had f * “ Mjm
"tis Skinner, to
{tU *d In Paris by
produced under the direction of Charles
iVohman.
•None of the plays produced In New
T'»rk In years received so much <
• d attention and rL the i
ntu ’h praise. “The L
Mn, Y «f two brothers, long estranged.
• m- a priest, the other a doctor who Is
; ‘ old, sneering agnostic. A married
'"man enter* into the life of the doe-
!,,r - The latter confesse* his Illicit
l"Vf\ The woman alarmed at her own
H * ikness together with the man's pow-
* r ° v «*r her, rushes to the confessional
f " r strength and advice. The doctor
I’diows her and it is only when t‘.._
!fi *n come face to face that the woman
MGrovers that they are 1
' 'hen the due! df words
hi. ii the doctor defies the
• " ,4 I* the woman from him
i ri. Hf asio, Qotj t„ tielp him save l.»
Ami. The climax of the second act
l o-Hcnts one of the strongest and i
i
| tliut creates
I cannot be ***•
One rises usually from a perform-
| anco of the much-trumpeted "great
American drama” or the reading of tho
; long-looked-for “great American novel"
with a feeling of disappointment that
leases one cynical. But if Edwin Mii-
1 ton Boyle has not written the great
American play lie has at least written
a Western play which is a master-
• piece.
j It would be a mistake to accept “The
Squaw Man’’ as a picture of American
life—in that sense it Is not American.
It Is u picture of an old English family
I in its country seat-Hhen n bold crayon
sketch of a ranch amid tho bnrren
buttes of far Wyoming. But the men
and women whom Boyle has drawn are
real. They are creatures of flesh and
blood and soul—they have their weak
nesses and their strengths—they havfe
such sorrows ns come to men and wom
en who love too well and too late.
“The Squaw Man" is a melodrama.
The term has become a name to sneer
ut by those who turn up their noses at
the popular-priced houses—but life is n
melodrama after all. With the same
plot written by a Blaney or a McCor
mick and presented bv an average com
pany. It would be tawdry, flashy—
“overdrawn.” Yet Mr. Boyle lie* not
hesitated to write the lines boldly—to
give increasing strength to situation
after situation. Ho has put the
struightfonvard word Into the lips of
straightforward men. has painted the
barroom of n Western cattle camp
without drawing a veil over its vices,
hut always remembering that a man Is
a man, whether you find him West or
East of the divide. And more than all
else, he has given action, action—al
ways action. If the opening of the first
act Is seemingly insipid it is because
a story of the past must Ik* told—there
c no dull moments after thnt.
There arc periods in this story of
human life when the watcher of the
drama finds himself leaning forward
with brenthlei'H Infer*.!, Ktraltllitir eye
mill ear to enteh every rietnll or the
tale iih It In told. There In no hulling
In the plot. The scene change* front
, ... ' ..... , , . eri* is an inuiau iiuh. iiimi: mu iiui
In Wyoming without being dragged In recruits from the Itlnlto hammered
by the heels. But the tvnole story la ■ | mo tln ability to repeat thetr lines,
natural and this Is one of Its charms. »j»hey aro cowboys with till the vigor
The man who wrote It has had Ills ( j plains, creatures with real blood,
troubles and his Joys—they have loft, (
ihe |r impress In his work "The Squaw i To * C J}J ot ' tenUon H || ti.e excellent
**«. . * 1 MTh^Ttrartnian^fhe LimT I bit" of character portrayal‘Is Impos-
West since The \ Irglnlan, .^e book. 1 3 n,| e , but one cannot refrain from
It is greater than The \ irginiun on , .icrtinir ihi‘ pnicndid conception of
the stage. It is something to watch I ^Hartthe
with the interest of the school hoy at Tibvwnnv cf Theoddre Roberts,' and
LS«»~«krJTro» ‘stVf 1 £ K "ie
his well-worn Dickens from the shelf
to scan a favorite chapter which
knows by heart
work, finished, artistic, satisfying. Mis;
Opp is given but few opportunities, hut
she gives them her. beat, and tlm^ is a
IImn.nv•» ». mif the com-t she gives tnem-ner. oc»i, unu imq «
Impresses one for Mr.! great deal. But you cannot understand
boy at the melodrama you ferget that jj t , ^ i , . . ' -
GEORGE PRIMROSE, MERRY MINSTREL, |
THE MAN WITH POETRY IN HIS FEETj
Ooorge Primrose and his all-star
minstrel company of blackfaced artists
ill hold high carnival at the Grand
Thursday matinee and niarbl for two
performances. Mr. Primrose himself
heads the orgunlgntion and ban taken
particular pains to surround himself
with a ccmpany of comedians, singers,
dancers und musicians of tho first
order. 1
Tho second part of the entertain
ment will ho a new departure In mih-
strelsy. Instead of vaudeville there
will be Introduced Borne novel Ideas,
depicting negro life in Dixie, with
song, dunce and story. It opens with
a.-typical negro sketch, wherein the
pathetic us weii as the humorous side
of darky life Is shown. Then the
scene change* to a field of snow white
•"•‘""ngiish lawn to the mesas of the j cotton In bloom mid bud. ut sunrise,
in n perfectly natural way—the j ^ j,| un t a ti y n quarters und a
. .yf t .oieestershiro find themselves 1
'river which winds lazily toward the
distant hjlls. As the sun comes out,
' “ Is heard in the distance at the
□f which the cottages are seen
* on life and the folk-song of
GEORGE SIDNEY AS BUSY IZZY.
COMING TO WARD CLOSE OF WEEK
IN-MELVILLE
COMPANY'S NEW BILL
The Bald win-Melville Gompany's
second Week of stock «t the El Dorado;
will appeal to lovers of the- melodrama, j
Tiie eafly part of the week “The Cun- 1
fesslons of a Wife” will bo the bill, on |
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with
:i:*-y and Saturday. “Sap- j
will hold the boards.
“The Confessions of u Wife” Is a
melodrama, from tho pen of Owen Da
vis. It is a play full of heart Interest,
thrilling climaxes and strong scenes.
Seven years before the play opens,
Alice, the daughter of a blacksmith at
Pineville, is driven from home by the
cruelty of her aunt. Hhe goes to New
" ‘ | here nieetr. and marries the
' tho play. /Shortly afterward
\ ho has another wife living,
1 when her child Is bom she Is an
outcast In the eyes of the world. Her
husband in one more attempt to dis
grace her. Is killed and she finds her
self the happy wife of Ashmore.
“Sappho” Is perhaps the most talked-
of play on the sfnge. It has been eon-
unheard, by ministers all over
country. Truthfully It can be said,
‘ n is no worse than any
It deals with the love
treats
It Is
c'oin-
....] enter-
I lie darkey is heard In the distance.!
During this scene Mr. Primrose will in- j
OF’SPICE” FULL OF GINGER;
city and a rcvclatlr.n.
The final number of tho performance
Is a magnificent spectacular transform
ation, entitled “The Evolution of the
Negro,” staged ami produced by George
Primrose. It Is In five pictures, open
ing with tho “Darky in the Moon,’’ p U !l «f tuneful music, pretty cos- pany of well known comedians
oVJ*K«ntucky turn*. “«• 8p.ee- .Ml b-
home, the emancipation, .darky heaven and the lavish environment of costly tirand opera house Nov ember
and the birth of the rose. scenery and presented by a large corn- 17 with a matinee on flehifilgj
The story of the piece is interesting
and abounds with comic situations and
brllllunt dialogue and lyrics. • On the
occasion of Its premiere performance
at the Majestic theatre, New York
city, where it ran for three solid
months to phenomenal business, the
New York Press hud this to say:
“The isle of Spice’ aroused a large
audience to genuine enthusiasm Inst
night. Seldom, indeed, has u musical
play been received us favorably In this
city. It is rollicking good fun. Tho
music is of the lilting kind; comedy
forces hilarity, and the chorus 1*
smarter, prettier and more full of gin
ger than any yet seen in New York.
The person who believes ho has an
aesthetic temperament committed to
ids tender cure may not go into rap
ture* over the ’Isle of Spice.' It is not
production for the rare individual,
but for the great, big, good-humored
public. There I* that mystic some
thing that gives one a sense of elation
before the first act !* well under way.
Perhaps it is the music, perhaps it Is
the stage setting; again it may be the
bewitching attractiveness and delight
ful abandon of the chorus In full regi
mentals, but whatever it Is, a lifting
feeling comes to tho spirits, and be
fore long the grumpiest person In the
audience Is joining in 1 the applause.”
The story is laid on an island in the
China sea, and is the joint work of Al
len Lowe und George E. Stoddard. On
this island reigns King Hompopka, and
to his Oriental realm come two Yan
kee sailors in a balloon. They are
hailed as messengers from the sun und
great is the honor that is at first their
portion, hut evil befalls them; their
real identity is revealed, and when the
future looks black with a Boxer ready
for a beheading matinee, in march the
comrades of the two unforunates from
the American warship, and their lives
are saved.
FRAULEIN FRIEDA SIEMENS.
The Siemens-Giles Concert Company will appear at ths Grand for
ona performance on ths svtning of November 22 under the direction of
the Alkahest Lyceum Bureau. Frsulein Frieda Siemens is a distinguished
German pianists, while Mist Christine Giles is a violinist whose delight
ful playing is not more noteworthy than her soprano voice. Both have
been hoard in Atlanta in previous seasons and have received most favor
able comment from musical critics.
MASKS.
(To Julia Marlowe.)
Light* and music and tears.
And Tragedy's Mask o’er all.
Yet our smiles hold sway throughout,
the play, '
We laugh at the Curtain's fall.
Lights and music and song,
And Comedy’s Musk o’er all.
Yet there’s ne'er u heart but plus-
part y *
With tear* ’til the Curtain's full.
—ANNE PEACOCK, In T. Th« .i
Magazine for November.
