Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-05
TALK ABOUT THE STAGE.

Miss Eytinge's Treasurer Chats on the
ms and Outs of Stage Life-SOme of
the Pieces She Plays.
In an interview yesterday with Mr. d.
5. Dickinson, Treasurer of the Rose
Eytinge Combination, and theatrical
representative of large experience, a
MORNING News reporter CLEANED many
interesting incidents in a travelling mana
gers existence, which proved to his salts
faction that life among the actors is not
all along a path of roses. While Mr..
Dickinson related many incidents Of
/ theatrical life in general. he was disposed
more to talk of the reputation which Rose
/ Eytinge had attained through long life
F of faithful and untiring study.
''What is Miss Eytinge's repertoire this
/ season? :" asked the reporter.
The Winters Tale Felicia Rose
I Michel A Woman OF the People, Led
Astray' and oliver Twist which last
/ will lie presented tonight"
( How does Miss Eytinge's impersona-
/ ton of Nancy skies compare with her
/ other leading characters?"
1T is unquestiOnably one OF her strong
/ est. though radically different from all the
I rest. Miss Eytinge Is conceded by the
most eXacting critics OF the American and
English press to be the best Nancy Skies
| ever known"
Does the piece draw well?'
'.TO this [ must answer both yes and
no. The truth Is, il is too horribly brutal
and realistic Tor the nerves of the refined
class of tbeatTe-gOers. but this very fact,
/ on the other hand, packs the galleries and
1 admission seats with people who prefer
/ the sensational and horrible to plays OF
mere beauty or sentiment. For this
1 reason Olive Twist has become our
regular Saturday night piece, and in many
/ cities the standing room" sign has to be
/ hung up before the overture IS finished.
| But / wish the piece was twisted out OF
/ our repertoire altogether"
''HOw sop
Il dislike to see Miss Eytinge in the
/ part. 1t Is too realistic for comfort. Mr..
/ Searle's imDersOnatiOn OF Bill Skies is
| equally strong, and they have played
| those parts together so often, and got
/ them down to so fine point, especially
I IN the murder scene. that l have actually
/ seen them drive people of sensitive nerves
I out of the theatre by the terrible realism
/ Of their scenes.'
Chow is the comedy of the play:'
"Well, come around tonight and see for
yourself. Mr.. Searle, the Manager, has
/ cast these parts with special care, and L
think YOU Will indOrse his assertion that
Charles Dickens peculiar humOr was
never interpreted better on the stage. As
I for Master Oliver himself little Winnie
/ Shannon plays the part, and does it beau
/ tifully and intelligently."
Here is what Robert Buchanan says in
| the London Liqht:
Not often. ia the course of long theatrical
I experience, have we been so completely
| moved as on Wednesday night last, when we
| visited the Olympic Theatre, and witnessed
I the performance of Miss Rose Eytinge as
/ Nancy Skies, in version of Charles Dickens
( oliver Twist Miss Eytinge comes from
I America. but she comes unknown
/ and unaccreditei. We have no
doubt whatever that Charles Dick
/ ems himself, had he lived till this hour,
would have freely recognized Miss BY
tinge as the incarnation OF his own supremacy
/ pathetic and truthful creation. Not touch.
I however delicate. was missed; nothing was
/ softened or eXtenuated; the whole magnlh-
I cent outlines were filled in: an over and above
/ an this there was-in the actress face, in her
/ voice and in her wonderful gestures-a spir-
I ituality perhaps unapproached at this hour by
l any actress on the English stage.
From the first moment that Nancy Skies
I stepped upon the scene, from the instant
l when. with a royalty r0guish smile, she hand
l ed the produce OF her days theft to Skies and
/ Fagin. down to the last glimpse OF the debased
/ vet glorious creature kissing the handkerchief
/ given to her by Rose Maybe, we felt ourselves
/ mastered by the powers Of an unique artistic. "