The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-11
THIS WEEKS SHOWS.

THIS WEEKS SHOWS.
.ns' Minstrels and The Colonel
oO4 the Attractions
5,.sd.v Night-Gormsns' Minstrels.
t,-.,,-dav Night-'The Colonel"
c,rnaus' Minstrels are making a hit in
,ho south. The performance is described
,hrs by an admiring critic:
The curtain rises on a ship scene entitled
- .,Cruise OF the Neptune" The stage
VIE IA realistic and the company Is at
s9IsI p nautical costumes. The chorus il
W ~ ,rafty all the voices in it being well
sv'yy5 and sweet Frank Farrell takes
eLa art Of Capt. Yardarm" and makes a
sIo j1tarlocusor. John German as "Bos-
~ SDlicen and George German In his
1-isb specialties and famous negro song,
'iPush Dem Clouds Away" are great hits.
Tho performance terminates with the rem
iit,op If the operetta, 1.-THE Golden Ball"
T TSa entire company participates. The
1.I,sio IL catchy aud the situations oomical
in the extreme
With complexion like the rose
Mid the SHOWS,
Due TO powder on her nose,
SUPPOSE
She twrls upon her toes
In abbreviated clothes,
And exhibits spsngled hose
To the beaux.
When life frayed and faded grows,
Like her bows,
She In garrett sits and sews,
Furbelows;
Till her weary eyelids close
In the peace of deaths Tepose
lie she reaping what she sowBf
Heaven knows.
Tbe largest theater IN London Is the
britannia, Hoxton, which holds 8, 500 per-
sons Terrys is the smallest, for it will not
bold more than 600 OF the music halls,
the Alhsmbra and the Pavilion rank first,
with capacity respectively Of 2,799 and
1850 persons.
Il Is rumored that, although Verdi is
within a few weeks OF his 80th year, he has
recently announced his intention of starting
upon the composition of a new opera. When
tIAida" was produced at Cairo 10 1871 IL was
pretty freely stated that this was to be the
last OPERA but sixteen years later musical
Europe was startled by the production of
probably the greatest work that Verdi ever
wrote, for in that year "Otello'' saw the
light at La Scala. The influence of modern
modes Of musical expression upon the great
est composer of the italian school was
readily traced in this last work of Verdi,
IN.
this, there is no doubt that "Otello" is by
far the greatest work of its composer.
The decentralization Of the Homestead strike
in "MoDongahela, or Homestead In '92 -
u.s. according to Alan Dale, not a play at all
but merely series of tablesux, depicting
very realistically tle recent trouble In the
Carnegie mills. As a panoramic display
the effort is q success; as a dramatic effort,
GEalV tn aDnRal thaRfaF.uOara N ia Fad
ure. No story Of conference Is told; there
Is merely the record of events that was
made public by the newspaper. There is no
romance In this version of the strike, no
attempt to show the effect of the difficulties
upon domestic happiness, no love story of
consequence, nothing but grim mobs and
handsome pictures The mobs stand around
AMI say stilted things that read better than
they sound, and the audience seems to be
waiting for the principals TO appear.
"MOnongahela" Is like the chorus of comic
opera, without the comic opera.
It Is said that Patti, when she comes to
this country again, will give a series of OPP
cratic recltals In costume, and that she will
appear for the first time in the second act
OF Mascsgni's opera. "L'Amioo Fritz"
Emma Juoh, who sang IN Savannah ia
"Tannhauser" last winter, Is to leave this
country for two years and go to Europe
This news is very sac but IL her manager =,
Charles E. Locke, accompanies her, her loss
will probably be endured with some degree
Of resignation.
81 have made it rule. +" remarked lead
ing lady, "never to act In theater here
they use calcium lights"
II don't blame you, dear, )" Cooed another,
"hissing is so contagious"
Mrs. James Brown Potter was landed in
Boston on Saturday from Europe, and there
is quite fuss among the Hubibee because
she was not fumigated. She is in good
health, but looks very thin and fran
"Sinbad" celebrates its 500th performance
at the New York Garden theater Sept, IL,
1t has been very prosperous 10 New York.