The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23
AT HOME ONCE MORE.
Bah Has a fearful Scene With the
MGnOpOliStiC EGpTeSSmal.

morning SAID ne O4On>L care
for the Money That Vas Handed
Him, But He Took It, Nevertheless
A Private Wall or Two over Trials
in the Metropolis and Elsewhere.
Several Things Bah Wants to Have
Explained to Her.
New York. Sept. 22.-In one of the de-
lightful books written by that equally de-
lightful gentleman whose name can be
pronounced from the front or back and is
Just the same, which it is Mr.. jerome,
the question is brought up as to what
shall be the vocation of the hero Of a
novel 1t is agreed that three different
types of women shall decide this. One is
a married woman with several children,
supposed TO represent dOmesticity. The
other a brilliant girl Of to-day, gradu-
ate of Girton, supposed to represent in
tellect and the idea of the young woman.
The third is a religious old maid, sup
posed to represent the church, the home
and the opinion of age.
Each decided that the hero should be
soldier.
The married woman said that it was
because their clothes were so pretty,
they walked so well, and somehow you
always seemed to hear the sound OF mar
ial music in the air when one appeared.
The Girton girl said that there was
something magnetic about a soldier
something so attractive that no science
could fathom it, and you liked him
whether you wanted to or not
The old maid said that the soldier was
manly, and that before everything else a
man should suggest a man.
soLDIERLY BEARING.
Now, when Mr. Sothern appeared on
the stage last night it almost broke my
heart because he was dressed as a curate
but his walk was martial, his talk had
the flavor of the barracks, and, thank
goodness, in few minutes we were told
that he was a padre simply to Oblige his
brother, and that he had been soldier
before, and good soldier too. While we
can talk about our American army, it
must be confessed that many pensions
are given that are not deserved, but in
the land of good roast beef nobody gets
the Victorian cross who has not fairly
won it.
To-day it is the fashion to know about
India. From its princes down to its beg
CARS, from its religion to its diet, from
its jewels to its flowers, everything per-
tanning to this wonderful land has sud
denly become of ten-fold interest TO the
people who have never been there. So it
is easy to understand that a play with
the scene laid in this mysterious country
has special attraction of its own. The
scene of Sothern's new play is the pretty
bungalow of an English general in an
Indian town. who is the father of dainty
daughter and a cOwardly son. The son,
to whom the younG curate has come TO
teach Greek, mas had time to fall in love
with an undesirable object-that lesson
which most boys take 10 as ducks take to
water.
TYPES IN INDIA.
OF course, as the story goes along there
is the wicked native, the scheming widow
the pretty girls engaged to be married
in due time to the various officers, to
make the picture more picturesque, the
motherly mother, delighted to have sons
in-law right at her hand; and, most i'm
pOrtant of all, the slave who does the
comedy work, and fans flies off every
body. There is not very much TO the
story. 1t is jusb one of those pretty,
dainty love episodes that would be moth
ing in the hands of a poor actor But
given TO Mr.. Sothern, overwhelmed by
his magnetism, the little episode gains
greatness, and we stay through the play
only to wonder at the end of it how it is
that one man can so easily control a
house full of people. For that is lust
what Sothern does. He makes you alb
solutely conscious Of every feeling that
he portrays, and yet he never acts as If
he thought the audience believed him to
be a person of the greatest Importance.
THE ENDING OF A PLAY.
In the play everybody suffers from the
bungalow being torn to pieces, and from
their being on the verge of starvation,
and then the English troops appear Just in
90 . H. i
much shorter time than 1T would take
even for plumber to act in a New York
house, and the whole thing closes up
with ball, where everybody dances and
has good time, where the scheming
widow is found out, where the true lovers
fall into each others arms, and every
body in front and behind the curtain is
glad when the mass of drapery drops.
That is the way a play ought to leave
you-feeling happy. There is such lot
In the world nowadays to make YOU feel
miserable, that, when there is
something for you to see, certainly il
ought TO be sought out, and fer that rea-
son Mr.. Sothern's Victoria Cross. - de.
serves a special commentator of its own.
Tor 1T makes you, whether good or not,
feel comfortable.
VILLAINY BLONDNED.
There is a fancy lately for making the
adventures in every play blonde widow
Just why this is do not exactly under
stand, for villginy and black hair have
usually been supposed to go together. OF
course, it is rough on the widows, equally
Objectionable TO those who are borT
blondes, and those who are blonde by
right of peroxide of hydrogen. Who
started this scheme} And why is there
always an idea in books and in PLAYS that
from the time woman becomes widow
she spends her days in scheming to get
another man, and in a determination tC
be as villainous as she possibly can? NJ,
experience with women and widows has
been that If a woman wants to marry she
can do it; that she may not be able Il
get the man she wants, but that she car
certainly get some man, and that if I
woman is unmarried it is her own fault
The scheming widow, in addition TO hel
blondeness, is invariably plump, which
as ! understand it, is against all laws OF
villalny, for that tends TO make peopl,
thin. But perhaps it is that the fashion
in villains has changed, and that the
plump, fair-haired one is 10 take the plac,
OF the dark, gaunl fiendess, who groaneC
as If the sound came from the heels O
her shoes, and walked round in rustlinl
silks as if no one could hear her, when tn,
sound was perfectly audible TO a hous,
sfull OF people. Villainy, like flowers
changes with the fashion.
CoMEDY's ART.
But to return to Sothern. Which we al
DO year after year. ] fancy that / shoulc