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SECOND SECTION.
Phe Atlanta Georgian.
SECOND SECTION.
VOL. 1. NO. 200. - ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1906. PRICE: &«SSli:
A Week’s
Offerings in Atlanta’s Playl
louses
LE8TER BERNARD,
A* "Lena," the German Nurse, in “Sleeping Beauty and the Beast.”
MELODRAMA BILL
COMEDY AT STAR
Melodramatic comedy aet to muelc,
with a good sprinkling of high-class
vaudeville specialties, possibly best de
scribes the bill announced for the ap
proval of patrons of the Star theater
next week, and according to the etate-
inent of the management of this popu
lar price theater It will be good drama,'
too, with bright, fetching comedy of
the direct and appealing kind, flashing
through Its lines and Illuminating the
story with Its light, while patriotic sen
timent and poetic gayety will be well
expressed In the melodious accompani
ment.
The music of this production might
be spoken of os a separate and distinct Inally staged by Arthur Collins, at
“The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast”
Although the theatrical seasons for
some time past have resulted In many
new productions of a more or less novel
character, yet the absolute novelty pre
sented Is “The Sleeping Beauty and the
Beast," which Is a revelation of the
possibilities In scenic display that as
tonishes even ttyose who fancied they
had seen the best that could be done
In that direction. By means of this
brilliant production of an extravaganxa,
based upon a fairy tale, metropolitan
playgoers and others witnessing It gain
an accurate Idea of what the Christ
mas pantomimes, which are so popu
lar In London, really are. Different
managers In this country have tried to
present something akin to the famous
spectacles to be seen at the Drury Lane
and other London theaters during the
holiday season, but not until Klaw &
Erlanger, who are foremost American
managers and producers of elaborate
and costly works, Imported and put
originally on view “The Sleeping Beau
ty and the Beast," did American audi
ences have an opportunity for making
acquaintance with the manifold at
tractions In this form of entertainment.
This particular extravaganxa was orlg.
delight, although It Is Illustrative In all
instances, a throbbing, tuneful back
ground for story, scene and .situation.
Several strong additions have been
made to the Slnr company and next
week’s production bids fair to eclipse
all others, both In comedy and vaude
ville features.
The changes made In the company
for next week will make a decided Im
provement and that Is saying a good
deal.
New views have been secured for the
ever popular moving picture machine
and new Illustrated songs will be sung.
This bill will be presented every
night next week and at Monday, Wed
nesday, Thursday and Saturday mati
nees.
“Everyman.”
Ben Greet, the distinguished London
actor and producer, states that the first
Impression of “Everyman,” which his
talented company Is to present at the
Grand Saturday, Monday and Tues
day matinee. Is traceable to the year
1529, but there‘are good reasons for
believing that this quaint morality
play was In manuscript as early as the
reign of Edward IV—before Columbus
discovered America.
During the reign of Henry VIII an
edition of the play was published and
evidently at that time It was popular
and often presented. The next edition
occurs a century later. Dodsley’s edi
tion Is the best known and the one
most frequently found In the libraries
•f dramatic enthusiasts. Owing to the
Demendoua success of “Everyman,” as
Wted by the Greet Company, there are
Innumerable editions of the work, put
■lit by both American and English
Publishers.
'Everyman” had not been presented
within the last two centuries until re
vised by William Poel, for the Ellxa-
"etlian Stage Society of England for a
single matinee performance In the open
dr. The most enthusiastic member of
’lit society had no conception of the
dramatic strength of the play before a
modern audience until that perform
ance.
The aolemnlty. religious truth and
simple power of "Everyman" held the
"editors captive and many fell on their
knees as they do at Oberammergau.
Further performances were given and
persona of all classes became deeply
■merested In the wonderful work.
Clergymen of all aects Indorsed the
performance. Students of the drama
were delighted with auch rare opportu
ne to study the beginnings of the
drama at ihort range. But these wore
hot all, for “Everyman’s” appeal Is not
'•> the few. but to the many. The aver
se playgoer Is deeply touched by the
morality play and Its popular success
has been quite as marked as Its favor
with scholars.
The Merchant of Venice" will be
given on Tuesday night, as many
patrons of the Grand have expressed
“ desire to see the great players tn a I
Shakespearean production.
Drury Lane, and Is one of the most
fascinating, together with being one of
the most expensive of Its kind. The
unqualified success of "The Bleeping
Beauty and the Beast" Is Indicated In
tho flattering reviews by the critics,
and In the presences of the audiences
that All the theaters at every perform
ance.
The limit In devising alluring stage
pictures seems to have been reached In
the scene Illustrating the glories of the
'Tour Seasons” of the year. The ef
fect la the moat dazzling and artistic
over achieved by stagecraft In spectac
ular productions In America, It Is said,
and Is In all respects an example of
pantomime not to be Ignored.
“The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast"
will be the attraction at the Grand on
Wednesday and Thursday nights and
Thursday at matinee.
Lillian Russell's Graat Tour.
Lillian Russell Is making a complete
tour of tha South and middle West In
her new comedy, "The Butterfly," vis
iting a large number of towns In which
she has never appeared, but has long
been anticipated. During the present
season Mlsa Russell has stepped from
her pre-eminent position as queen of
comic opera to the front rank of the
light comediennes of the American
stage.
“The Butterfly" Is a comedy of the
most up-to-date variety, which was
written expressly for Miss Russell by
Kellett Chambers, a brother of the fa
mous dramatist, Haddon Chambers.
The scenes are laid In New York city
and Saratoga and Miss Russell's role
Is that of a fascinating young widow
who becomes Involved In a remarka
bly Ingenious and complicated series
of matrimonial entanglements. Man
ager Joseph Brooks has provided a
notably handsome mounting for "The
Butterfly” and the superior company
Includes such sterling comedy artists
as Eugene Ormonde, John flood, Tred
L. Tlden, John Jack, (Irani .Mitchell.
Charles Lamb, Roland H. Hill, Isabel
Merrill Richards. Kate Griffith and
Rosalie DeVaux. Miss Russell will
wear a number of very beautiful gowns.
Miss Russell will appear In "Hhe But
terfly" In this city during the course
of her tour.
Msntfisld's “Peer Gynt."
There are In Richard Mansfleld'a re
markable production of "Peer Oynt,”
fourteen massive and beautiful scenic
settings, several of unprecedented
splendor, according to those who have
seen It. A complete electrical outfit
costing many thousands of dollars was
especially built to produce the great
storm scene In the fifth act, when the
ship goes on the rock and Is submerged
by giant waves. Yet Mr. MansfleM
Is the first to deprecate any predom
inant value In mere plcturatlon. What
he lays stress on Is the charm of the
character anil story, the lilt of the poe
try and the unprecedented opportunity
“Peer Gynt" gives for the display of
almost every’ human passion and emo-
EXTREMES MEET A 7 GRAND;
OLD MORAL1T Y PLA Y AND
MODERN EXTRA VAGANZA
At leaat two excellent productions
will be seen at the Grand next week.
They are the Ren Greet Players, who
will present "Everyman" on Monday
night and Tuesday at matinee. "The
Merchant of Venice" will be given
Tuesday night. ‘The Bleeping Beauty
and the Beast” will be aeen Wednesday
and Thursday nights . and Thursday
matinee. There was reason to believe
that "The Sine of'the Father" would
be preeented on Friday and Saturday
nights, but later advices are to the ef
fect that the piece will not be preaented
here thla season.
The local management Is particu
larly gratified to hare secured the Ben
Greet Players, especially In tha pro
duction of "Everyman.” The reputa
tion of the company In Shakesperean
plays Is well known and fully eatab-
llshed. so that whan “The Merchant of
Venice" Is produced on Tuesday night
there Is every reason to believe a large
house will be In attendance. Four per
formances of "Everyman” will be giv
en, the flrst two being Saturday after
noon and night, and the remaining two
Monday night and Tuesday afternoon.
■The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast”
Is said to be the same gorgeous pro
duction which has won favor the
country over. The costumes are new
for the seaaon's work, while much of
the music has been augmented and
brightened up. The chorus Is large
and composed of beautiful girls who
can sing and dance. The scenic effects
are among the most elaborate of any
production In the country, so that the
beautiful fairy story may be made to
carry out the Idea of fairyland.
Many good performances are billed
for later In the season, but chief In
terest centers around the holiday per
formances. Tim Murphy !u “A Corner
In Coffee," will be seen at the Grand on
December 24 and 25, with a Christmas
day matinee. Richard Mansfield will
be seen on the night of December 27
for one performance only of "Peer
Gynt."
At Other Houses.
At the Bijou the new offering will be
"When Knighthood Was In Flower,"
one of the prettiest romantic dramas
of the season, and one which won fa
vor from fashionable audiences In high
priced houses. Miss Anna Day Is cast
for Mary Tudor, the proud sweetheart
of Charles Brandon, and the supporting
company la said to be m keeping with
the play.
At the El Dorado, a practically new
company will be seen In the old favor
ite melodrama, "Ten Nights In a Bar
room,” a play which will no doubt draw
a large audience at every performance.
' The Star will present Its usual popu
lar vaudeville and ahort play through
out the week. The usual matinees will
be given.
AT THE EL DORADO
“Ten Nights in a Barroom”
and “My Old Kentucky
Home.”
HIGH CLASS PRODUCTION
COMES 70 BIJOU NEXT;
SUPERB ROMANTIC DRAMA
In "When Knighthood Was In Flow
er,” Miss Anna Day haa been fortunate
enough to And a worthy opportunity
for a display of her talent and clever
ness. She more than pleaaes In every
respect. Her Interpretation of her role
la satisfying; deft touches here and
there have made It her own creation,
and not an Imitation. Aa Mary Tudor
Miss Day presenta a character which
never allows tha Intereat In It or the
play to abate; a lovable character,
marked aa It la by the opposition* of a
hot temperament which will baatow the
hand only where tha heart haa gone.
Aa Mary Tudor, action Is requisite;
hence there Is a danger of over-exu
berance, but Mlsa Day nevtr overact*,
nor does ahe make the oppoelte mla-
take. One feels that her quick, pas-
slonate movements are the result of
Instinct with natural Impulse; hut dig
nity, the dignity of a king’s sister. Is
always ready when need arises to bring
it Into the play. The coquetries of a
lovely and loving woman; the courage
which makes a woman ready to sacri
fice for the man she loves—the dignity
of the queen of France—outwardly re
signed to her fate—the final triumph
of a lone woman over her enemle* and
the sweet womanhood of a wife when
finally ahe Is united with the man of
her heart's choice—all these phases and
more are portrayed by Miss Day, with
a finely shaded artistry growing out of
ability—a thorough comprehension of
her part and a complete sympathy with
It.
Miss Day's support Is (a fact which
can seldom be stated with truth) well
In keeping with her worth, even to the
smallest part In the cast. Mr. Alfred
Swenson makes a most dashing and
handsome Brandon, and la an actor who
combines unusual ability with the nat.
ural graces of a gentleman. The play
la staged and costumed with all the
elegance that marked the flrst produc
tion, so that the desirable physical
quality of richness la provided—In the
prudence of Ernest Shipman, under
whose auspices Miss Day and Her Cri
terion Theater Company are appearing.
GOOD R0AD8 OR NO MAIL,
No gorernmeat can afford to delirer mall
over roads that art a fright for months
tn the year. Our government decllnea to
undertake It, TVhau roadt become eo hard
to travel that ratea of carrltra mint go
up to meet auch eoodltlona, the rural dallv-
nil;
, the rural
cry routee may be discontinued until bat
ter days come to auch aectlone of the conn
ft la a reproach to the Intelligence of
many atatea that they etlll make little or
no effort to overcome tha loaa reaultlng to
tnduatry from bad roada. It la an old atorjr,
of course. and needa no rehearsal, but
there la dally leas excuse than yesterday
for the continuance of neglected ur Ill-
managed highways. The profit In good
ronde Is too well known to be questioned.
It la right for the government to take
he etand that It will not attempt to de
ter Invested for huge returns to comtnunl-
put honestly and Intent-
Important highways, and
ties than that
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
No man I a ever too buay to be polite.
abk baa decided to be a blonde.
meat.—Buffalo News.
It Was Hard Luck.
“Hard luck Speeder had last night."
’No! What wa* It?"
"HI* automobile ran over a* man."
"Oh, wa* that all?”
"No, that wasn't all. The man was
Speeder."—Cleveland Presa.
The man who la moat ready to condemn
hla fellows Is generally the one that can
leaat afford to aland an Investigation Into
bis own conduct—Florida Tlmes-lfnlon.
"But, Tommy,” said hla mother,
“didn't your conscience tell you you
were doing wrong?" "Yea'm,” replied
Tommy, "but I don't believe everything
I hear."—Philadelphia Preea.
Stuyvetant Fish.
From The New York World.
No railroad president In the country
haa a more admirable record of efficient
administration than Mr. Flah.
Under Mr. Kish's direction the Illi
nois Central has been developed a* a
smalt stockholder road. Much of Its
stock Is held In live and ten-share lots
by Investors living along Its line. It
has never figured In Wall street coups
or combinations, [t Is altogether an
exceptional example of a great railroad
properly administered. ’
In return for theee services Mr. Fish
Is kicked nut by order of the specula
tor whose unprincipled methods he hns
refused tn sanction. No more malign
an exhibition of unscrupulous power
haa been known In the history of
American railroads. It Is the use of
the sandbag by a financial highway
man, aided and abetted by men who
were supposed to have character.
What excuse can men like Cornelius
Vanderbilt and John Jacob Astor make
to their own consciences for allying
themselves with Harrlmnn, Peabody
and Auchlncloes In this act of hlgh-
flnanre Infamy?
They All Do.
"Tut, tut.” said Smlthers. "You must
not complain that way. Remember that
I have to foot the bills."
"Yes. you foot them," retorted Mrs.
Smlthers. "You kick at every single
one of them."—Cleveland Press.
The offering of the Baldwin-Mel-
vllle Stock Company the flrst part of
next week wilt be the old but ever
new "Ten Nights In a Barroom." This
Is the play that has crowded hundreds
of play houses throughout the United
States nightly. Possibly no other play
on the stage Is so well known, has been
played so many times and so consist
ently "makes good.” The moral les
son Is the strongest that could be
taught on the stage, and the Interest
In this production by the Baldwln-Mel-
vllle Stock Company will be height
ened In the fact that every minister In
the city has been extended an Invita
tion and offered passes to one of the
performances.
The play opens with the view of the
exterior of the "Sickle and Sheaf,'
barroom kept by Simon Slade and his
son, Frank. The second scone shows
the Interior of the "Sickle and Sheaf."
The second act shows Joe again In the
saloon. The third act shows the home!
of Morgan, with Mary’s head bandaged
from the wound she had received at
Slade'A Morgan craves the unnatural
stimulation of drink, but refrains from
drinking at the request of his wife and
child.
In this act the acting of Mr. Mur
doch as Joe Morgan Is said to be real
istic In the extreme. His abstinence
from drink, after having been a slave
to It so long, brings on an attack of
delirium tremens, and this scene makes
one of the best of the entire production.
The next act shows a drunken quarrel
In a barroom, and Wllllo Hammond Is
killed by Harvey Green. The last act
shows Joe Morgan, as Squire Morgan,
"one of the likeliest men of the village.”
He has kept his word, and as a-roward
for his faithfulness fortune and happl
ness are hla.
"Ten Nights In a Barroom" will dive
the wonderful child actress, little Lot-
tle Salshury, a chance for her first
appearance-In Atlanta. This wonderful
little actress comes here from “A Mid
summer Night’s Dream" company,
where she haa been playing the part
of Puck. She Is a wonderful little
actress, and in the part of Mary Mor
gan will have ample opportunity to
show her talents to an Atlanta au
dience.
"Ten Nights In a Barroom" will be
Iven Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
ay nights, with matinees Tuesday and
Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday nights, with matinees Friday and
Saturday, the beautiful Southern
drama, "My Old Kentucky Home," will
be the bill.
The Essence of 8in.
If I have sinned In act I may repent;
If I have erred In thought I may
disclaim
My silent error, and yet feel no
shame.
But If my soul, big with an III Intent,
Guilty In will, by fate be Innocent,
Or being bad, yet murmurs at the
curse
And Incapacity of being worse.
That makes my hungry passion still
keep Lent
In keen expectance of a Carnival,
Where In all worlds that round the sun
revolve,
And shed their Influence on this
passive balk.
Lives there a power that can my soul
absolve?
Could any sin survive and be for
given.
One alnful wish would make a hell of
heaven.
—Hartley Coleridge.
8CENE FROM “WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WA8 IN FLOWER” AT THE
BIJOU.
w
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
HEN we read of the bull fight the very heart of the world's traffic.
“EVERYMAN
No Explanation There.
"The janitor Is sweeping the back
porches. I wonder why?"
"I don't know. I didn't ask him not
to."—Cleveland Press.
Million's new chauffeur Is a cheap
swindle."
'Then Million Is to be congratulated.
Mine's an expensive one."—Cleveland
Press.
MI88 LOUISE KENT.
Popular .Loflitvillt girl who it
playing heavy roles at tho El
Dorado.
provided by Spain as a part of
the marriage festival of the
young king we shuddered at the sav
age condition of the public mind In
Spain.
When reports reach us from time to
time of the extravagance, cruelty and
licentiousness of old King Leopold of
Belgium we feel, the World progresses
slowly. - .
When the atrocltlos In darkest Rus
sia are cabled to America, and we re
member the recent savage war of Rus
sia and Japan, we shake our heads at
the condition of Ood'a earth In thla
twentieth century.
But here In Belgium today, after a
month In Holland, reading the history
of these wonderful lands, right on the
scene of action, I am more than ever
Impressed with the remarkable growth
of the race toward the Creator's origi
nal standard of Man.
Holland and Belgium were old, old
countries before Columbus was born.
About the time of his discovery of
America Holland was a land of vast
wealth and culture.
It possessed great scholars, and It*
guilds of "Rhetoricians" were powers
In the world of literature, and society,
and politics. Every small village
boasted such a guild, and the common
people and laborers took part In them.
They composed verses, recited po
ems, enacted plays. They gave elabo
rate fetes, with splendid nngennta, and
the leading events ol the dny were
lauded or lampooned by them In such
an effective manner that kings and po
tentates took care to enroll themselves
as members of these guilds, so that
they should not suffer at their hands.
Hculpture and painting thrived, and
wood carving and other arts. Never
since have such magnificent books
been given to the world as were made
and Illustrated by hand between the
tenth and sixteenth centuries. "The
Books of the Hours” and the Btbles nil
written and Illuminated by skilled ar
tists. and of exquisite beauty, are pre
served In the museums of Antwerp and
Brussels. The glorious stained glass
windows In the old churches defy de
scription.
That wns an age when all religion
seemed to be pui Into elaborate orna
mentations of churches, and Into gor
geous windows.
There was none used on humanity,
Tn that age of art and learning cruelty
Inconceivable todny thrived.
Charles V. of Spain ruled Holland
and Introduced the Spanish Inquisition
to punish dissenters from his faith.
I'hlllp II. Of Spain, his son, followed
and with his wlte, "Bloody Mary.” of
England, succeeded tn plunging Holland
and Belgium Into religious wars which
lusted over elgthy years.
Hundreds of thousands of gifted,
brilliant und cultured men and women
were burned, hacked with knives,
starved to doath and burled alive, all
In the name of the Christ of love.
In Rotterdam. In The Hnigue, In Am
sterdam. In Ghent, In Antwerp, and a
score of other places, the old Imple
ments of torture are on exhibition.
Because Intelligent people chose to
sing hymns In the open air, and praise
God under the arch of his own skies,
they were subjected to these horrible
tortures, and finally burned to death.
Because other* knew such worship
had taken place, and felled to report
It. they met the same fate.
Here tn Antwerp a massacre more
terrible than the mnssacre of St. Bar
tholomew's took place on November 4
and 5, 1575. Eight thousand people
were killed—butchered. Six millions of
property was burned and aa much more
looted by the Spaniards.
Antwerp was at that era the most
powerful port In Europe. Its mer
chants lived In splendor, and It wa*
In two days' time It was turned Into
[a smoking niorguo.
It was the edict of Philip of Spain
that all those who sang hymn* or were
known to copy and carry them about,
all thhae who neld any Independent
views renatalng religion, or who knew
of such heretics and did not report
them, should be put to death.
Whole families were rendered extinct
merely to satisfy a savage king and
his terrible "council of blood."
Yesterday 1 visited one of the most
wonderful and least described ruin* in
Europe—the castle of the counts of
Flanders In Ghent. It was the strong
hold of royalty In the time of Charles
V and Philip II, and under Its halls of
feasting, and under Its sacred chapels,
lies the prison where poor wretches
starved to death or were burned In the
pit, which still yawn*, with all tha
other conveniences of torture created
by that nwful age.
And yet there are pessimists today
who dure aay the human race does not
progress,' thut man Is no better than
me was In past ages.
■Compare Queen Alexandra, Quern
Wllhelmlna, with "Bloody Mary,” or
Catherine de Medici. Compare young
King Alfonso nnd old King Leopold
with Charles V nnd Philip II of Spain,
or Henry IV of France.
Compare the weak and selfish exar
and all his cold-blooded alders and
abettors with these monsters, and they
seem little more than puppet*.
There Is no king or monarch In civ
ilised lands today who would dare send
out such an edict as Philip 11 sent forth
to the Netherlands. Should one arise,
he would at once be pronounced Ini me
and incarcerated In an asylum, as
should, Indeed, have been done with
(old-time butchers who were obsessed of
devil* nnd needed medical attention.
There is no land on earth, unless
Turkey, where the ruler would pro
nounce himself highly pleased, as Phil
ip did, when he heard of the slaughter
of 8,000 people In Antwerp.
Yet France, Spain, England were the
civilised and Christian countries of
(the world at that time; great paint
ers, great scholars, lived and worked
In all these lands where such atrqcltles
were permitted und encouraged by the
rulers.
The day of kings Is almost past. The
day of ecclesiastic power Is, too, on
the wane. Men and women are to cast
off the fetters of all traditions, and
co-operate In the management of state
and national affairs.
But meanwhile those who are today
vested with kingly power are really u
very decent. If a very worthless, sort,
when we put them side by side with
their predecessors.
Humanity Is far from perfect, It Is
selfish and cruel and greedy still; but
how much higher It has risen we can
not fall to acknowledge If we read the
histories of the cultured world a few
hundred years ago.
If you want to feel cheerful over the
condition of the human race today. In
spite of graft, In spite ol jobbery, and
murder, and thievery, and war nnd
dissensions In church and state, get
Motley’s "History of the Dutch Repub
lic," and read It slowly and carefully.
Then compare the whole world of
that period with the whole world to-
May.
I am sure you will arise from the pe
rusal of that master work of true his
tory with a sense of hopefulness for the
future of mankind.
■Miserable as the conditions of the la
boring people are here In Belgium, with
the exception of the great Socialistic
co-operatlvc society, of which I shall
write later. It Is as heaven compared
to hades when placed In Juxtaposition
with Belgium In the sixteenth century.
Every morning I am awakened here
with a great clanging of bells.
And above the sad world sobbing.
And the strife of clan with clan,
I cun hear the mighty throbbing
Of the heart of God, In man.
And a voice chants thro' the chiming
Of the belts and seems to aay,
“We ore climbing, we are climbing,
A* we circle on our way."