The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-25
THIS WEEKS PLAYS.
and "The Devils Auc-
ton" tho List.

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y ton" il the List.
4 Monday Night-"Kidnappsd.n
Tussday and Wednesday Nights and
Wednesday Matinee-"The Devils Auc-
ton"
Tbesa are this weeks attractions at the
thester.
4 "Kiduappedn is the opening attraction
@.o-morr " night. The story, which deals
4 ,ritb city life, Of home aud street, is told,
60 the critics say, in pure and choice
&Isr1uage. Is charmingly acted and hand
soTeIv costumed. The effects introduced
1 sra remarkably realistic, being a correct
4 -snreseutation Of a police patrol wagon,
4 containing a squad of police and drawn by
4 snan of blooded horses, a sensational fire
/ scene. tic. The pinnacle OF excitement is
1 reached 10 the last act, when, at the climax
/ ~ a fist fight the police patrol wagon dashes
/ an tine stage Just in time to arrest villainy
1 and yindicate the right This scene is en-
! tjrely original with Mr.. Higgins, the auth II
1 of the play, who was the first to produce
tbs effect on the stage. So successful has
been this effect that 1t is already attempted
nv initators, a sure sign Of success. The
cast is said to be an exceptionally strong
one
GsThe DEVILS Auction" is a regular visi-
Gor 20 Savannah. This year IL comes re-
/ facilitated aud with many new features.
1 The Birmingham Age says OF recent per-
Torrance in Birmingham;
Charles H Yale's cleverly rewritten
"Deyirs Auction" might have been given a
different name, 80 greatly is 1t changed Tor
| tbe better from the original as presented
4 here last season. This new "DevlFs Auc-
tiopn is superb; the costumes are the fresh-
cat and most beautiful seen In
PirpInyham for three seasons, and the
s1 ~ hA
It's deliVhtfully engaging class ever given at
OiRrie3's. Too much caunot be said In
,,raise of the exquisite costumlng and the
srristio stnRe settiugs They are wonder
fnIly attractive. THE Devils Auction" Is
not n nav performance to Birmingham
theater Coers but that of last night, so com
nletelv renovated, newly costumed ard with
scsnerv extensive aud beautiful, was Alto
gether different from anything witnessed
here before.
r D MaoLean has married Marie Pres
colt. Richard Mansfield has married Be-
atrice Cameron and Benjamin Tuthill has
married Sylvia Thorne. Miss Prescott was
some time since divorced from Mr.. Perzel,
once vine merchant, Beatrice Cameron
from Mr. Phoehus, q newspaper man, and
Tutbill from little Ida Mule Mr.. Mac
Lean, whose name is Shepherd Of Shepherd
town, Va, has been married before, 30 has
Miss Thorne, and the only one Of the lot
who has had no previous experience In the
matrimonial line is Mr.. Mansfield. who
registers himself as ''or New York and Lon
don."
The turning Of the Casino into music
hall by no means auRurs that comic opera
is not to have a permanent home IN New
York bue it shows that comic opera, to
pay, must be sung and not kicked into sue
cess by dizzy, frizzly-haired blondes with
sbapsly limbs.
Judic made her rentree at the Paris Chate-
let last week and failed completely. She
has almost lost her voice.
L. Deceive OF Atlanta, who il the owner
AMI manager Of two opera houses in that
ely, and DIR. Henry Horne, manager Of
the Academy of Musis at Macon, have pur-
chased the latter handsome theater. This
greatly strengthens the southern theatrical
circuit, as the Macon house was on the mar
kot and might have been purchased In the
interest OF q double circuit. To compete
with the southern circuit now a theater
would have to be erected In the following
cities: Augusta, Athens, Savannah, Macon,
Columbus, Selma, Birmingham, Mobile.
Jacksonville, Knoxville, Brunswick and
some other smaller towns.
This circuit was formed some years ago
and johnson, owner OF the theater in this
city.
Mr.. J. Tannenbsum is the booking agent
for the circuit, with his Office at 1927 Broad
way, New York.
The latest dramatic idea is play in which
real Caunlbals are TO be feature, when
produced at Vienna. It's author is Mr..
WestmArk, who has lived in Africa, and
his play, Among the Anthropophagi," is
an attempt to put on the stage something
spproximating what he has seen in Africa.
Stuart Robson's son who was born abroad
few months ago, was christened David
Morton Robson last week in the Church Of
st. Vincent de Paul.. New York.
Bernhardt is credited with the intention
OF becoming the lessee of a Paris theater
for the dramatic season Of 1894