The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-09
WITH PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
The "HuStleT" the Farce Attraction at
the TheateT This Week.

Bay So
sons Plays
"The Hustler will be the farce attrac-
tion OF the week at the theater. II will
he seen tomorrow night for the third
season in Savannah. 1t is presented this
season by company of farcial, singing
and dancing comedians, cute and pretty
soubrettes and vaudeville speciality peo-
ME. The principals of the company are
! I. Tiorney, D. J. Heffernan. James P.
Smith, James F. Cook, Harry Watson,
lanes Bradley, Thomas H. HUMPHREYS,
r. C. Reynolds, Alice Hutchins, Irene
Hernandez, Mamie Mayo, Julia Taylor
and May V. Warren. James P. Smith
aud James F. Cook were the greatest sue
cesses of the summer season in New
York. They presented their tramp aero
batic act successfully in every concert
hall, and on every roof garden in the city.
]. I. Tiorney is one of the cleverest farcial
comedians in the country, and Irene Her
nandez most skillful dancing soubrette.
The first attraction of the season that
is Of a serious nature comes next Thurs
day night in the form of the melodrama
The Operator" introducing The Only
Twin Stars in the World" Willard and
William Newell The introduction to
the play and players is written by John
j. Mentally of the Boston Herald, and
says.
With tremendous crash, rattle and
roar, the hiss of escaping steam. the glare
Of the flames from the freboX and the
cracking and falling of huge timbers of
q trestle, a good sized and very heavy loco
motive tender make headlong dive fully
twenty feet, apparently upon the sharp
rocks of rivers dry bed. This, in a few
words, is what occurred in the fourth act
OF the new play The Operator at the
Grand opera house.
Well may the average playgoer pause
and ask himself, What next2" 1t seems
as if realism had gone mad-but it is
quite evident that large portion of the
patrons of the play house want 1t, for GER
tainly plays which have an abundance of
realism-realism carried 10 the extreme
Of ensationalism-are among the best
patronized and best playing Of the current
attractions.
Audiences have been thrilled to behold
on the stage woman swimming in tank
of real water, exciting regattas rowed by
expert oarsmen in costly SOULS, steam
yachts fitting here and there, spirited
races by trained race horses, with famous
Jockeys riding them and laying the whips
across the backs of their blOOded animals
TO urge them to greater break-neck speed,
and an actual fire engine dragged across
the stage almost as swiftly as it can be
driven in the street and with equally as
much racket
The stage has had buzz saws, balloons,
log Jams, expert burglars cracking burg
lar-proof safes, loads of hay, real oxen
driven by real farmers, and express trains
flying along at terrific speed, throwing
out showers of sparks and tongues Of
fame.
Until last night it was reserved for
Boston to witness the wreck of full-sile
locomotive-the most tremendous and
gigantic attempt at realism ever wit
nessed-and wrecked in such a wonder
fully realistic way. 1t was, indeed, a
remarkable picture, the GROWING sensa-
ton in a play of sensations.
The cotton compress scene in Down in
Dixie, which will be seen here a week
from tomorrow, is pronounced the most
picturesque and generally effective scene
in which some one is in Imminent peril of
being killed by machine. Until Down
in Dixie was produced the buzz-saw
seine in Blue Jeans" held pre-eminence
among stage incidents involving the use
of dangerous machinery. A Cincinnati
newspaper carUoonist has put forth
clever sketch in which a buzz-saw is
shown graciously yielding the center of
the stage to a cotton compress, while
around the stage are grouped derricks,
pile-drivers, locomotives and other popu-
lar dramatic props"
Mario Tavary, whom Charles II. Pratt
is to star in grand opera, is a blonde, with
blue eyes, an aquiline nose, a piquante
mouth, and an arch expression. She
has sung at almost all the leading
grand opera houses of Europe, notably
those at paris ~ PpfpT4e h11prr Inn oh
and Milan, and at Covent Garden, Lon
don. Not since Mr.. Pratt starred Emma
Abbott leaving out OF the question Emma
Juch's unfortunate experience with the
company sent forth by the voiuble and
volatile Edwin Locke, mas a grand opera
singer been toured, as is now TO be done
with Nine Tavary, throughout this
country
William Pruette, who is to appear as
Rob Roy in the opera of that name to be
produced the last week of October, Is
singing in the meanwhile in Sousa's
Music Festival at Manhattan Beach.
The Gladiator has been acted by Rob
ert Downing more than fifteen hundred
times with such success that IL has to be
repeated at every return engagement.
His version of the piece differs from Spar
tacus, the Gladiator, which was in John
McCullough's repertory, and deals rather
with ethical motives. 1t concerns the
persecution of the early Christians in
Rome and their horoic adheren q TO their
faith until death The interest of the
tragedy centers in half a dozen charac-
tiers, but large caste is employed in
making effective stage pictures.
Rajane, originator of Madame Sans
Gene, IS to appear as the petulant Manone
Lescaut.
Charley's Aunt is to be played shortly
In French in Paris.
Sara Bernhardt's next play is Medeia.
Two of Mrs. Langtry's horses have Just
won races.
Charles Froham is progressive. Twenty
horses were il the big produc-
ton Of 1.-The Girl Left
Behlnd Me-" at the Academy of
Music, New York, last season. Thirty
two horses are in the bigger production
OF Shenandoah" at the Academy this
season.
There is a scene in the new spectacular
comedy OF the Earth" which represents
tne moon by earthlight.
Ten years ago Nat Goodwin was grot-
eSQulun in tFT'ha L. u e.