The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11
THE WEEK AT The THEATER
.The BlldWin-MelIyille Company to
Begin a Weeks Engagement To-
mOTrOw Night.

The "stilI Alarm to Be Presented
Wednesday Night - 1.-THE Black
Flag, the Opening Play Of the Bald
win-Mellville Company-Marie Jan
sen to Be Seen Here in ''Delmonico
ct g." Julia Arthur's Success.
The Baldwin Melville Company will
begin a weeks engagement tomorrow
night playing every night except
Wednesday, and Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday matinees. Wednesday the
Still Alarm" will be the bill. The Bald
win-Nellville Company will openwith The
Black Flag. The company is well known
here. It is headed by Miss Pearl Nell
Vile Her support this season is said to
i be the best she has ever had. In Mr.. w.
H Murdoch, the company has an excep-
i tionally strong leading man. He has been
& leading man for Kate Claxton, Katie Put
nam and Katie Emmett. MIR. James E.
4 Nelson has been with this company
the past five seasons. He was
one of the first men that played
the Spider in Miners Silver King. The
comedian Mr. James T. Green, who has
4 been connected with some of the best
4 farce comedies, is a good singer and clever
cancer. Last season he was the irish
Policeman in the Turkish Bath Company
Miss Durham is the soubrette. She is
a handsome young lady and has fine
soprano voice. Mr.. Jere Conkling, Rush
Bronson, Will Delnear, James Hester,
MISS Mile Willard, Nellie Willard,
4 Agnes Carleton have been in the COM
pa4y the last four years.
The company played recent engage
8 ment IN Augusta, and was given the
learuest endorsement there. The Chron-
q lcle says of its presentation of "The Black
Tag 1T is doubtful if more thor
#olghly pleased audience ever left the
a laeater. The Black Flag was received
n with every mark of favor, and most de-
81 SerYedly so, for this melo-drama has
q never been produced here in a style
#elUalling that of last night. MIR. Bald
q "u S company is all that he claims 1T to
ne' the standard repertoire company OF
y1e country. Every member of 1t &C
a united himself or herself nobly last
iuglt; the smaller part did not suffer, as
IS generally the case in popular price or
carnations, while the leading ones were
,ayed most admirably
fremen, like poets, are born, not made,
ana perhaps it is in the Illustration Of the
Unique character of this class of heroes
l Iuat Joseph Arthur's stage picture, The
81 S9l!. Alarm" has proved SO attractive.
ms was the first attempt made to repro
u.ce the thrilling incidents of the tire
man life upon the stage, and in fact the
oIl' one that has been given serious con
S1eratlon by the theater-goer. The sue
gess OF The Still Alarm naturally pro
q.eed many imitators, but, like all other
,JfrOWed creations the inevitable result
mas been to generate q desire to see the
7VHslnal This is why The Still Alarm
- demanded by play patrons season after
season and has now become almost ne
,esslty to the theater which provides all
We real good things.
Marie Jansen appeared in New Orleans
or the first time last week at the
q. ademy Of Music, which was crowded
70 the doors. Her performance Of the
eIar part in "Delmoni, o's at Six" the
comedy which had such a successful re
eepuon in the north and east this season,
was enthusiastically greeted and the