Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-11

OF Tea. OF AT a private chTQ Iau4c. 't ="
with them TO the theatre is quite another
natter. The craze at present IS card
playing, the fayOrite games Deing
progressive euchre ana progressive whist.
IL has invaded the very choicest circles
and tne people brought under its iniln-
enCe are is deeply possessed Dg IL as II IL
were way OF salvation. especially timely
IN The ienten season, perhaps even llt-
lie more SO. With very large proper
tloa Of society people Of the present time
keeping Lent is really oaiy phrase with
very little meaning. The old folks who
nave had their day shake their heads as
If there were something wrong, but the
+ young people tnink i is all right and 20
/ on ENJOYING themselves in their own way.
"ADONIs' GOING TO ENGLAND.
/ DiXeY has resolved to beard the British
lion In his den with "AdOnls" and a cast
OF 90 Americans as his weapon. The COM
paDy will sail from this country May T..
he venture Will demonstrate the ability
OF an American play IN the bands OF
cast entirely American to make a hit
among the cOc6neys and swells Of the
mother country. so bold an attempt as
the present one has never been made.
When Booth or Barrett APP
peared in England they were supported
by company, with one or two excep
tions, Of Englishmen. The Dauites and
r'fANi9bdA > AIOAuduDuAb III tuFtA Jul
lesque were Americans, but the cOmpa-
MES were so small as to make cOmpari-
son Of their venture with DIXey's hardly
fair. The result Will be watched with
more than ordinary interest by both the
profession and playgoers. A fortnight
hence DiXey closes his engagement here,
at which time ''AdOnis' VIII have had
run Of COP consecutive nights. There
are three people in the piece
who have never missed a night in all that
time, either through sickness or recrea-
ton. One of them is, OF course, DiXey
himself, and the two are Messrs. George
Howard and Walter Gresham. Each OF
the three is naturally proud OF his record,
and 1t would require a pretty severe at
tack Of sickness to make any one of them
fall behind his companions in this race Of
endurance. On the last two days of his
stay in the metropolis DiXey Will be gwen
great send of. In the first place there will
be a banquet at DelmOnicO's, which will
be participated in at $40 a plate by 100
representative gentlemen chosen from the
different leading walks OF life. The next
day the MOhican Club, of which DiXey is
one OF the vice presidents, will give him
farewell benefit Of extensive proper
tiOns. On the evening of the 600th per-
Torrance there will be many novel and
attractive features connected with the
performance of "Adonis.' Mr.. Rice has
made arrangements to give awayupOn that
occasion the most extraordinary SOU
Venirs ever seen in connection with a
theatrical event in this country. 1t will,
IN addition to containing new and strik-
ingly accurate bust Of DlXey. include a
big album deliberately gotten up and hold
ing between its covers every one of the
DiXeY souvenirs up TO the present time.
The cost Of this arrangement viii be eX-
ceedingly heavy, but the money will
be well invested, for the reason
that people will be likely
TO put away the memento thus obtained,
and treasure il up for years, TINS keepin z
DiXey and "AdOnis" constantly before
their memories. After his farewell to
| New York, Dxey VIII have about -four
weeks to himself, which he will devote to
his mother and attending To private af-
fairs. He will be accompanied abroad by
1 his wife and children, and his elegant
marsIon, recently purchased at great cost
/ will be rented. His first appearance IL
London will be on May 81. This whole
move is rather sudden, but Dixey is tC
receive 81, 500 per week for IL weeks, and
I he thinks that fact excuses his seeming
haste. "Adonis" will be played in Paris
and Vienna after the London engage
ment, reappearing in this country a
/ Boston Monday, Oct. 4.
A MUSICAL ROMANCE.
Most people have heard long before this
| the tuneful snatches which 90 to make uG
that popular little opera, known as "rht
jolly Bachelors" It's, unsteady speak
ing. full of rarely beautiful little buds Of
/ melody, which one cannot DANISH from
his head tor DAYS after they once gain en-
trance. Three or four years ago a rustic
lad in homespun wandered to the meJrO
polls from the wlds Of New Hampshire
I He was lank, and his whole appearance
was bucolic in the extreme He had
never been inside OF an opera house, and
such thing as a music lesson had never
been even dreamed of. lie had a great ear
/ tor melody, however, and had picked NJ
the secret of manipulating the keys of q
4 piano. He was on the point Of starving
when he was made porter in the packing
box department of Clatiln's wholesale
dry goods store. He was not worth his
salt, and as his only ambition seemed tC
distgure the boxes with musical hero
glyphics the superintendent final
ly discharged him in dis
gust A year later he came t.
the notice of Dan Hopkins of concert
fame, and 1t was not many months before
he was known to the world as the com.
poser of ''The jolly Bachelors" Now it is
announced that for $4,000 he has just
sold ''rhe Gentlemanly Savage, a new
creation Of his genius, TO Emma Abbott
who Will bring it out at Detroit this
month. If the story of the country lad
from New Hampshire is not a musical
romance, would like TO know where one
is to be found. ".
Columbus News.