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Sp>Pll?ipP The Atlanta Georgian. second section; VOL. 1. NO. 182. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1906. PRinr. In Atlanta two cents I. JULCl. oil Trains rjVB CENTS. L A Week’s Offerings in Atlanta’s Playhouses "THE SILVER KING" TO OPEN WEEK AT NEWEL DORADO Baldwin-Melville Co. To Produce Old Fa vorite Drama. The Baldwin-Melville Stock Compa ny opens the week with “The Silver King,” a melodrama that has made an iiiHiuntaneoas' hit wherever played. It alii be mounted with new scenery, /minted especially for this production by the company’s artist, Robert La- puuyade. 1 The story of the play Is a simple one. The . hero,. .Wilfred Denver,, Is forced to leave home, thinking he has com mitted 'a-miirdef. He goes West and there strikes .It rich In a mining veto- ture.-.'artd Is known as the Silver King. In the meantime theta Is.a man found In a train'wreck who looks like Den ver and Is Identified as him. Denver, umv a white-haired man, returns home is the Silver King and the piny pro- ■eeds along* these lines. The action is rapid and snappy throughout and there Is not a dull moment or line from the rise of the curtain to the full. There are many occasions for strong . omedy work which will be In the com petent hands of Mr. Pollock and Miss MISS SARA LEIGH, Who appears in “The 8ilver King at the Eldorado next week. “THE ROYAL CHEF.” STARS AND BRIGHT LIGHTS KEEP ATLANTA THEATERS LIVELY FOR SIX NIGHTS Deen engagea uguin lor me rum- y, and will appear for the first time iday night In tho "Silver King." s Seymour comes here direct from MISS BLANCHE WAL8H, Who rsturns to tho Grand, this tlmo In the Russian drama, "The Krsutzer Sonata.” 1 " 1 Pringle. Mr. Buhler will take the par. "f Wilfred Denver, nnd It Is said to he his strongest part. "Tho Sliver King” hud on Ils opening and throughout the tnno It’s been pro duced what has been probably the greatest run ever known to any tnelo- druma. After a record-brouktng run In Mew York, It was taken to other North ern cities. In every city It Immediate ly achieved u tumultuous success among every class of theatergoers. Tho ihlnking playgoer found Its vital prob lems of most engrossing Interest, while the dilettante, who regards the tho-j itter merely as « place ot amueetneui. j was enthralled by Its heart story nnd I t finance. Tho old favorite ot the Baldwin-,Mel- vllle Company, Miss Blanche Seymour, has been engaged again tor the com pany, i “ *■“ " “ Monda Miss Seymour New York, where she has been playing In melodrama for some time past, in her return the cortpafty gets one of the heat and most popular uctresses in the United States playing stock. She Is sure to make an Immediate hit, and will go at once to the top place among i he Atlanta favorites. "The Sliver King” will be given Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with matinees Tuesday and Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with matinees Friday and Saturday, and u special Thanksgiving matinee Thurs day, Bret Harte’s great Western melo drama, "M’llss,” will be the bill. BLANCHE WAL8H IN THE "KREUTZER SONATA.” The "Kreutser Sonata,” the most i onaplcuoua success of the season, and which Blanche Walsh Is to produce at the Grand Monday night. Is a new play in more than the ordinary sense. The author, Jacob Gordin, has written seventy dramas; twenty of them have been called master pieces. Of these the "Kreutser Sonata,” which perhaps Is ■ he most remarkable. Is the first of bis works to be performed In English. It was written originally, as were all Of Mr. Gordin's plays, In Yiddish, and was performed In this language at i he Thalia theater, New York, where It enjoyed a continuous run of over three hundred nights. It Is a play which does not depend upon, the elaborate nature of Its scenic effects for Its In terest. Its characters are not puppets Put on the stage to tell a story, but leople of flesh and blood. It shows how, under certain conditions, racial prejudices will lead to tragedy and ' time. Its Important characters all are members of one family, and there fore, Its atmosphere Is domestic and understandable by every one. The flrst act Is laid In Russia and the last three acts In America. Miss Walsh will be ably supported by George Sumner, Alexander Von MltxeL William Trav ers. William Wadsworth, Miss Maude Turner Gordon. Eleanor Carey and "then. The piece will be seen for one iKwformanee only. Five plays will be seen at the Grand next week, giving a total of six night performances and three matinees. The liooklngs never promised better enter tainment. Each play Is said lo have tvqn~ well.merited applause from theater goers till over tho? country, wljfie the Staging and costuming I* reported to bo of the very highest order. The bill goes tjte gamut of tragedy, drama and light opera. . tin Monday night Ulnnchc Walsh will ho seen In her latest and greatest suc cess, "Kreutser Sonata." tin Tuesday nlghl "Simple SiiimnRImple" will be seen. "The Virginian," with Dustin Far. nunt in the leading pan, will be pre sented Wednesday and Thursday nights and u Thanksgiving matinee on Thursday. Friday night "Tho Royal Chef will be presented. Paul Gilmore will conclude the week with' Ills per formance of “At Yale," whirl) has been received all over the country us a gen uine college play. - At the IHJou "in New York Town” will hold the boards for the jveek. with t’hurles Howard and James R. (.'arson as the piincipul fun rurntshers and a host of singers and dancers to enliven tho plot. At the Kl Dorado the bill at the open ing. of. the week will be "The Silver King," a favorite which has been one of the greatest money makers for many seasons. It Is as steady as “The Old Homestead" and Is always new. The Star has a new bill for' the week, with live vuudevllle and pretty girls. ”8imple Simon Simple.” The one genuine novelty of the the atrical season, "Simple Simon Simple,” will be the attraction at the tirand Tuesday afternoon ot matinee nnd again at night. “Simple Simon Simple” Is'a cartoon, musical extravaganza nnd Is Nixon ts Zimmerman's newest und best production. It Is a clever combina tion of old English pantomime, op eretta and’farce, and require, a strong" singing company of sixty people to In terpret It. Simon Simple and his col story revolves. Slmoi ot I he Best kn6wn Kefe fore tho public, «n»l ami Mo*e arc artoonH now to bo noon comfr HiipplementH which overy city ncwxpAper lasyen on that day. Annooiated with IIicho mlitchlevoux Hane Splegleherfccr, !i; Tony Blmple, the joking demmn; Tony, the Dago 8 watt on, the cop. and numerous other cartoon peraonugee, all of whom ax*lnt In making "Simple Simon Simple" the "frenzied ,fun feMtlval," as The Now York Herald proohilmed it to be when >ecn in that city. DUSTIN FARNUM AND MABEL WRIGHT, Who will appear at the Grand in tho great Western drama, “T /irginian,” dramatized from Owen Wistor's stirring story. BIJOU PROMISES BEAUTY AND FUN FOR ENTIRE WEEK WITH “IN NE W YORK TOWN” STAR VAUDEVILLE BILL IS ENTIRELY NEWJEXT WEEK New Artists to Bow to At lanta Public in Popu- , % lar House. , Everything that's good In vaudeville can be seen and heard at the Star, and then the comedy and melodrama fea tures are good, too. One of tho largest and strongest bills of the season Is promised Star patrons fur next week. Many now high-class vaudeville art ists will make their Initial bow to an Atlanta audience at the Star next .Mon day. With Saturday's performance of "Happy Jack” the Star will close one of Its most successful weeks. The big Star chorus £t pretty girls will be seen to advanfltgo in severs) clever musical specialties. They win )pear In brilliant new costumes and III no doubt make a decided hIL New Illustrated songa will be a fea ture of next week's bill and a collec tion of new moving pictures will be shown. Taken altogether, next week's hill will bo a mixture of good vaudeville, musical and comedy features without a dull moment during the entlro per formance. This bill will be presented all next week with usual matinees. Next w eek's attraction /oi' the Rljoa gives promise of being the real thing In the musical comedy line. It l>Hli‘s,tlle catchy'title, of "In New York Town." Some Idea of the performance may be gained from the following, taken from The <'hoitanooga Evening News: Wells' llljou thriller ol*ened Its third week last evening with the host show r which.hsiebeen produced at the-popular new play house mid one of the best at tractions of its kind which has boon seen In Chattanooga tills season. New York Town” ns a title Is not sug gestive of anything varying from the general run of farce comedy, but the jirodqctlpn so entitled proved to bo a blight musical comedy Jn' three parts. RITA REDMOND, Who comes to the Bijou in New York Town.” with no end of variety from beginning to end. ■ The changes of scenery and costumes nroalmost kaleidoscopic and the dancing und chorus formations arc a well sprlng of delight to the eyo. In short, the en tertainment Is a feast of color und song. Not one of tho musical numbers but Is worth hearing tho second time mid the work of the chorua Is not Inferior lo what Is sometimes Jieard In light opera. There Is all the fun and farco that one could wish, but there Is music enough for thoso who aro too serious to luugli at legitimate nonsense. And then the chorus girls are comparable to a bou quet of rosebuds. Each of these Is graceful In manner and movement and enter with a seat Into their part. | Of the leading fun-makers honors are about evenly shared by Charles How ard, as Ikey Hhlnalskl, and JameH It. Carson, as Baron Von Esslgs. The former Is perhaps better In most dra matic essential, but the latter Is fun nier as applies to his make-up. Both are on the stage at the same time and are the mainstay of tho comedy. Miss Louise Carver te highly original us a character comedienne and each of her acts merited applause and attention. Miss Rita Redmond, the leading wom en, rendered musical numbers which would have been a credit to more pre tentious light musical productions, and Miss Clara. Auatln was fascinating In manner and In song. Miss Jessie Aus tin was a most delightful little woman In diminutive make-ups and her rendi tion of several musical numbers, as sisted by the chorus, was a feature ..f the production as seen last evening. She contributes a freshness, vivacity and grace of manner to her Interpreta tion of each song which is seldom equaled. > / "Raffles" at the Grand. A fairly good-slxed audience gave s Miller Kent an enthualaattc reception at the Grand Friday night, when h* presented "Huflies," and so enthusi astic was this reception at one time that Mr. Kent was called upon to talk and he responded In a neat speech. Like some other things they tall about, the show might be termed h Miller Kent—that's all. Hts.coneemioi of what Raffles should be and Jus how he should act In those trying situ atlons the gentleman crook gets in was excellent, and his acting the same In the opinion of many he was cquall; as good as Kyrle Bellew, who made > hit In the same show, but Mr. Ken was handicapped by a company tha was not all-star by any means. Frank McCormack, as Captain lied ford, the gentleman sleuth whose In tvllect was pitted against that of th< gentleman crook. Injected too mill-: Nick Cart^rlsm Into Ids acting and lo overdid the aslnlnlty act. Of r.uii-S' Captain Bedford Is supposed to lie at Dieted with a P ol • gntl-m. Im Mr. McCormack put it i n too Krotfi Continued on Page 17. Continued From Pane 11.