The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-06
HOLIDAY MONTH SHOWS.
OPERA, COMEDY AND THE5DRAMA
ON THE DECEMBER LIST.

ON THE DECEMBER LIST.
The School Children Have a Merry
Matinee Party-The Emma Juch Cp-
era Company Next WeeG-"Tne Two
Johns" the Christmas Attraction.
Gossip from the Stage in Savannah
and Elsewhere.
The theater nearly overlooked with school
children yesterday. At least the lower part
of it did. FIVE hundred of them occupied
the parquet and dress circle, and with
nearly 100 teachers made up Mr.. Fslk's
theater party.
1t was as happy an audience as Milton
Mobiles ever played before. Both the actors
and the audience were pleased, and the
affair was as great a success as Mr.. Falk
could have wished il TO be. The colored
school children and their teachers occupied
The balcony.
December will be brilliant month at the
theater. Nearly twenty performances are
yet to be given. The companies and at
fractions yet to come are the London
Gayety Company, following "The Twelve
Temptations" and 1.-TWO Old Cronies" and
after them Margaret Mather, the Emma
Juch Opera Company. Dec: 10
aud II; Frederick Boyton in forgiven"
wild Oats" "A Social Session" ''The Pay
Train" James O'NeilI, 1.-THE Two Johns''
and Cora Tanner. 1.-The Two Johns" will
be the Christmas night attraction.
THE Twelve Temptations" will be seen
In Savannah tomorrow and Tuesday
nights and at Tuesday matinee. 1t is one
OF Gllmore's spectScles, and presents q
mythical story of the elements, an idyl of
ice ana sun. Il is not more improbable than
the average yarn" that is woven into the
ordinary drama. 1t requires some little
elasticity of the imagination, of course, to
people the solar aud polar regions with
creatures and objects so familiar, and to
make prime minister of Boreas and g
goblin of Jack Frost. The overcrit-
ical may be disinclined to yield
10 the Establishments of gnomes,
spirtls and queens of sun and snow,
T Tut TOO close criticism spoils any play. 'Fhe
WE'VE temptations was produced in New
I York about twenty years ago by James G.
PlsA, Jr., who was then proprietor AID
manager or the Grand opera house. he
Iavlsned fortune on its production. Some
olo-tine theater-goers who saw tho play
way tney never saw anything on such
magnificent scale. 1t excelled the BLACK
crooK" and other famous and dazzling spec
sacies OF shat time Il was produced Feb.
= 1870, and was an instantaneous success.
~ ran for thirty consecutive weeks, dis
puVe between the author and manager caus-
ing lts withdrawal, and it has been buried
ever since. until taken up by Mr.. Gilmore,
VINO mas revised 1t in all its pristine glory Of
pretty girls and rich scenery.
,,H Mllton Mobiles, who played last night in
from Sire to Son." is one of the few actors
VINO writes his own plays. His "Inter-
views" and "The Phoenix" have made him
ms q reputation as playwright, and his last,
.L "A son OF Thespis," promises, before he is
e1rough with it. to rival his earlier plays.
MOBILES early professional training was In
tne west. In 1868, then mere lad, he was
member OF q little band of strolling Thes-
pans playing In the mining camps Of Colo
raGo, Nevada and California. There are
scenes, incidents and character studies in
MS play From Sire to SOM indicating
nhmlstakably that even at that early
period he was close student of men
In 1869 Mr.. Mobiles had serious illness al
virginia City, New. The your,g actor was
destitute. but not friendless q gambler
named Morgan, a perfect TYNE Of Bret
hartes John Oakhurpp, treated him with
great kindness. taking him from his board.
ing mouse to his own handsomely furnished