The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-16
RAKIna PONDER.
AT THE THEATER.
"The Silver King This Afternoons and


The Silver King This Afternoons and
ToniRht's Attraction.
Inc Silver King will be the attraction
at the theater this afternoon and tonight.
The play is so well known to theater-
goers that nothing need be said of it in
commentator. A synopsis of it may be
of interest to those who have never seen
it.
The curtain rises on Wilfred Denver,
the hero of the play. He has lost money
at the races. and is trying to drown his
despair in drink He is tainted in his
misery by Godfrey Ware, a former suitor
of his wife, and gOaded to madness by
Wares sneers he threatens to kill him.
lie reaches Wares chambers late at night
and finds them occupied by a gang of
burglars headed by a swell craftsman,
Capt Skinner, who uses his social posi-
ton to obtain points for criminal enter
priseS. Denver is seized and ChlOroformed
and soon Ware enters. and in the strug
gle which ensues Skinner shoots him with
DenVers pistol. After the burglars have
left Denver slowly RECEIVERS Consciousness
and gradually, as the effects OF drink and
chloroform wear off, he recalls the pur-
pose of his being there. Cropping for his
hat he touches Wares lifeless body, and
the terrible conviction is forced upon him
that he has killed the man. Concealing
his revolver he rushes away, feeling him
self a murderer and a fugitive.
In the second act he returns to his wife
and makes a confession of his supposed
crime, when she assists him to disguise
and he departs for a northern seaport.
Before the train reaches it's destination,
Denver jumps from it to avoid detection,
and after so doing makes his way to an
inn where he learns that the train from
which he but recently jumped, had further
on collided with some wagons loaded with
petroleum, and the car in which he had
been was burned. Thus, by his supposed
death, he securely leaves England, goes to
America, where in a lucky deal he be-
comes the owner OF a Nevada silver mine
and immensely wealthy. He returns in
n few years, changed by sorrow and re-
morse, to find his wife and children about
to be elected from their home by Skinner
for unpaid rent. Denver then discovers
that Skinner and not himself is the guilty
man, and the play closes with the triumph
of innocence and the punishment Of guilt.
Tomorrow night Yon Yonson viii be
seen here for the first time. The Augusta
Chronicle says Of fits presentation in Au-
gusta as a counter attraction to the Bar
mum & Bailey circus: 1t was Yon Yon-
son against the circus Yon stood pat
and when it came to the show down he
displayed a full house. Jacob Lift knew
he had good thing, and he seemed to
Know that Augusta people are apprecia-
tive. There were in the audience r@any
visitors, but the Augustans were out in
full force, and they were among the most
cultured in the city. This characteristic
of the audience was particularly notice
able. No purer, sweeter play has been seen
on the boards in this city than Yon Yon-
son. 1t is the dclineation of the Swedish
character in all it's rugged honesty and
beautifully touching simplicity. Mr.
Eeege as the hero is nature itself. Never
for moment did he vary from the ideal.
And he was supported by one of the best
balanced companies that has ever been
in this direction. The play itself is one
that makes people the better for having
seen it. 1t holds up to the audience all
that is good in human nature with just
enough of the scheming villain to make
a contrast and bring out the virtues that
make life worth living. The good is tri-
umphant, but charity and mercy are
soothingly mingled. 1t was play that
awakened the echoes of mirth and touched
the tender qualities of human nature.