The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-16

Alba Haywood to Be Seen Here for the
First Time Wednesday Night in His
New England Character Comedy.
The Burglar to Be Given at Three
Performances, Friday and Saturday
Nights and Saturday Matinee.
The theater viii be opened for four per-
formances this week:
Wednesday night. Edgewood Folks.
Friday and Saturday nights and Satur-
day matinee, The Burglar"
Alba Haywood. the talented young char
acter comedian will appear Wednesday
night in ''Edgewood Folks" and Down
in Injianny." a double roll. "Edgewood
Folks" which was always one of the best
OF New England comedies, dealing with
yankee types of character is said to be
better than ever this season. having been
entirely revised and rewritten up to date.
The specialties. which are numerous, in
cludes. among others, character imperso-
nations and songs Of Mr.. Haywood. the
pretty dances of Miss Genevieve Story, the
ballads of Miss Nellie Louise Davis, and
the popular selections of the Edgewood
quartette. Down in Injianny," which
| opens the performance is a bright little
curtain raiser. in which simple and touch
ing pathos and natural and infectious HUI
NOR is admirably blended.
The Burglar is by Augustus Thomas,
author of Alabama" I'm Mizzoura.'
New Blood" and other New York sue
/ cesses. This pathetic idylic drama was
MT. Ihomas nrst great success and Sc
/ curely established his reputation as a
draInatist when it was produced in New
4 York by the Madison Square Stock COM
1 pany some years ago. The scene in the
third act between the burglar and little
! Edltha which has been pronounced one of
| the most beautiful and pathetic on the
/ stage, was adapted from a short sketch
called "Editha's Burglar" written by Mrs.
/ Frances Hodgson Burnett, authoress of
/ Little Lord Fauntleroy." The cast of
The Burglar" includes the child actress
/ Little Lottie Briscoe who has established
/ Tor herself a great reputation as Editha
throughout the country. Little Lottie is
! the possessor of a wonderful voice in ad-
/ dition to her talent as an actress. The
/ leading part of THE Burglar is in the
| hands of the clever young romantic actor
/ w. X. Ogden. In the cast are Frederick
/ GARNER, Walter D. Green, Louise Allen
/ Marie Falls and others who have been
Unidentified with the former success of the
/ piece.
For years 1t has been the custom Of play
wrights in picturing politicians to make
\ them dishonest, INSCRIPTIONS and an I'M
! desirable element of society, with which
the public had to put up. OF course il is
gross libel to say that all politicians are
dishonest, for among them are many men
of sterling worth and reputation. In writ
ing THE Senator" Lloyd and Resented
i took for their principal parsonage a poll
| tician and they departed from the beaten
| track by making him an uncorruptable
man, as upright as the day and with a
nature full of nobleness. This character
was surprise to the public which had
| been in the habit of seeing politicians carl
catured and they rather liked the change.
1t is the character of The Senator that
Crane assumes in the play and his delinea-
tion of it has won him a worldwide repu-
tation.
R. A. Barnet, author of 1892 and other
popular burlesques, had called his work
| to be produced in Boston this winter
Upidee But he has discovered that there
| has been copyrighted and produced a
comic opera with that title. He has there
fore, been obliged to change his title, and
| has copyrighted Excelsior, Jr.
The following are the important attrac-
lions announced for this week in New
/ York: Vaudeville at Tony Pastors s;
/ Christopher Columbus at the Garden
| theater; w. F. Hoey at the Bjou theater;
! Vaudeville at Keiths Union Square; The
| Brownies at the Fourteenth Street thea
/ ter; Rose Coghlan at the Star theater;
| The Masqueraders at the Empire; The
| Cotton King at the Academy of Music;
/ Love on Clutches at Days; Wonman's
/ Silence at the Lyceum theater; Too Much
/ Johnson at the Standard; Lillian Russell
at Abbey's theater; Fanny Davenport at
/ the Fifth Avenue theater; Rob Roy at the
| Herald Square; The Bostonians in Prince
\ Ananias, at the Broadway; A Milk White
| Flag at Hoyt's; Esmeralda at Palmer's
/ theater.
There are very few cities of its size
/ where the love of music is so general as
/ in Savannah. The number of finished
/ musicians of amateur performers, and the
great mass who love sweet and harmon
/ ious sounds-an of these aggregate a
large number. This sentiment is shown
! by the liberal patronage extended to real
talent, but the real music lover cannot
brook anything that is not good. Hence
artists always draw well. In great many
cities there are organized efforts to bring
out clubs and companies purely musical
The object aimed at is to bring to the
city during the season the best concerts
that can be secured. There is no pleas
anter or more elevating manner in which
to spend an evening than al a musicale or
concert All such efforts should receive
| the endorsement and patronage of all
those who favor rational and improving
amusements. The Young Mems Chris
tian Association is trying to fill this want,
and the Mendelssohn Quintette Club fur
nishes as sweet and artistic music as the
most exacting could expect AT the con-
cert tomorrow evening well selected
programme will be presented, consisting
of ten numbers, the details of which will
be given tomorrow.
Local Daily Weather Report for the
Morning News.
Weather forecast for Georgia: Increas-
ing showers in northern portion; southern
winds.
Comparison of Jmean temperature at sa-