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SOME SHORT STORIES OF
EHE THEATRICAL WORLD
The theatrical season is proving al
most dlsartrous over the entire coun
try, last week it was reported that
Wver three hundred companies had
“gone in,” that is, cancelled their
tours after reaching certain points,
and returning to New York, their birth
place. As news of many failures in
things theatrical is old news in the
metropolis, we of this little town need
not feel ourselves unduly conspicuous
whon we are rated as “a poor show
town;” we rather resent the Idea
otf not being able to afford to see good
shows, and we pride ourselves on the
fact that we keep up with all the book
successes, so that we are quite as
aloua to witness the dramatised ver
sion of any book whose popularity
has been founded on true literary
worth, but—and here’s where the shoe
pinches—all the most desirable plays
all those the majority of us have
cared to wlteeis have been at the
price of “one fifty." True it is we
could take a seat In the cheaper part
of the Temple of Thespis, but who
among us really cares to advertise the
fact of our inability to pay “one fifty"
a seat ? So the majority of the really
good plays have played to rows and
rows of “paper,” (1. e. persons hold
ing passes) and the box office receipts
have been discouragingly small.
Managers aver that as productions
are becoming more and more expen
sive, owing to the Realistis School
which demands real tapestries, real
Louis, the anything furniture, real
Paris gowns, real silver service and
for all we ksow, real soup in the sil
ver soup tureens and real cigarettes
In tha silver boxes, which the hero
and vlllian handle with such nonchal
ance. They must look to the dear
public to pay for things it lays such
store by; then we are tearfully inform
ed that “Sir Henry Irving, for the
first time In his trips to America, had
to consent to play to less than three
dollars a Beat,” which show's how Sir
Henry’s bump of caution has devel
oped in tilt lest several years.
Some of Ss felt our Hearts beat
high with hope at the promise of a
couple of Shakespeare productions and
we hied us to the temple in great glee
for most of us had been beguilded by
Ithe press agent’s carefully weeded
notices of the star's personality, her
gifts tar rendering the lines of The
Immortal Bard as they should be ren
dered, and the general excellence of
the whole company was duly expected
Now It & too well known to dwell
on wtlh perhaps half dozen excep
tions, (two of which are “Wtly M ac ‘
beth, and -Katharine" In “The Tam
ing of the Shrew," all Shakespeare s
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one could scarcely be serious or sad
when one saw a matronly, full-figured
(the irreverarit would say fat) lady
of decidedly certain years, pining and
yearning for a youth who could readily
pass for her son-in-law. There has
been more Than ooe disappointment
for us on this head, and the worse of
it has been usually the star con
s.dered herself of sufficient luminary
power to make her selection of a
supporting cast of less than second
ary consideration: The dear public
naturally resented this, and “once bit
ten, twice shy.”
So far this season there have been
three truly first class plays presented
with perfect casts, scenery and ac
courtrements. They were Mrs. Le
jlo-ne, who lias founded a school of
acting, prefect iu every detail, and
who is such a perfect artist as to
have only genuinely good actors in
her companies. Then Paul Gilmore,
who is of the John Drew school, and
who clings as closely to detail as
does Mrs. LeMoyne; then Amelia
Gingham, with the unique experience
of being an actress, a manager and a
theatrical promoter ali in one. Her
acting is realistic and she has had
so much experience in ail the lines of
theatrical business, she knows an ar
tist need never fear anything from
her surroundings, wediocrity in the
humbiest character in her plays
would not be tolerated, so her pro
ductions are always realistic, and
would be even without the gowns,
furniture, so vaunted by the press
agent.
And this press agent, by want
of his calling, his powers of making
silk purses out of the ears of porkers,
his ability to outdo Hermann in mak
ing thinks seem what they are not,
his ability to think up new points of
interest iu the career of his employer,
and, above all, his magnificient nerve,
by all Hie rights of heriditary, he is
the lineal docendant of jointly An
nanias and the llaron Munshausen,
It must ho in this fertile brain that
the lithographic horrors are planned,
impossible precipices for plays whose
topograpy might be the Desert of Sa-I
liara, so far as the bearing of the
pictures on the play are cvoncerned;
heroines, with long, silky locks, whose
living prototype develops red hair in
the play; slim black mustache vil
lians, who wear evening clothes on the
bill boards, but who proves to be fat
and whiskered and top-booted in the
pity, and again “afiT% bitten, twice
shy.”
Locally, the manager of the opera
house is worse off than the politician
who is in the hands or his friends.
The manager is in the hands of the
syndicate, whose business it is to look
shows, and who exacts a good, fat
fee in advance for the favor. (?) Then
along comes the particular Annanias-
Muncliausen, whpse place it is to
hand out l lie lithographs and the hot
air notices for his company, and then
the dear public is allowed to part
with its money, with the privilege of
abusing the management for "a bum
show" or any other dainty form of
adverse criticism it feels like mak
ing, and Die management must smile,
pocket its losses, (for strango as it
may soein, it actually cost money to
run an opera house) and trust to
blind luck for a good show to come
at a reasonable price and fair weath
er.
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Aside from going down in the an-
THE BRUNBWICK DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 190>.
nals as a poor town for attractions,
there is grave danger of our being
known as an exceedingly rude one.
In a place whose Inhabitants must
catch a ttrolley or a train for their
homes, the rush for the door before]
the curtain has descended is under
stood, but in a place like this, where
time is at a discount, where hacks
are of the night-owl variety, it is un
pardonable t; leave the theatre as
though it were a "hurry-up” lunch
room, and the train was about to
leave. More than one visist'.ng com
pany has commented on this commo
tion attending the climax of a play,
and to those who are desirous of favor
ing the principals with a curtain call.
If the season does not continue to
be strewn with wrecks, we will prob
ably have the pleasure of seeing two
or three first class shows.
Alice Louise Lytle.
A Handsome Display.
Passing up Newcastle street, one
is attracted by the pretty show win
dows of Kennon Mott, the jeweler,
and stepping inside the store, you are
dazzled by the brilliant display of
jewelry, silverware, novelties, etc.
Mr. Mott has probably the largest
and most varied line in the city and
is noted for the fine goods he car
ries. He is now doing a large Christ
mas business.
TAX NOTICE.
Additional time has been granted
by the mayor and council in which to
pay 1903 city taxes. The last day
under the ordinance, was November
30th. By special order, I am author
ized to receipt for taxes until Monday
December 28th, 1903. The digests will
then be turned over to the clerk of
council, who will be obliged to issue
executions against all In default. Pay
now, in erder that you may save costs
of execution.
Geo. H. Smith, City Treasurer.
Administrator’s Sale,
GEORGIA, GLYNN COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has applied to the ordi
nary of said county for leave to
sell land belonging to the estate of
"Mary J. Grovenstein for the payment
of debts and for the purpose of distri
bution. Said application will be
heard at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary for said county to be
held on the first Monday in February,
1904. This December 15th, 1903.
W. L. Spelr,
Administrator of the estate of Mary
,T. Grovenstein.
C. P. Goodyear,
Max Isaac,
Petitioner’s Attorneys.
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My entire line of merchaum and
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307 Norwich St
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Rates per week $3.50
We have the finest feather beds in
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Special attention to
TRANSIENT TRADE
PERHAPS your overcoat ueeds a
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Fancy glassware of all kinds take
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