The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-14
FEW PLAYS THIS WEEK.
The "SilVer King" and "YOn YOnSOn"
the Principal Attractions.

The Swedish Dialect Comedy to Be
Seen for the First Time in Savannah
Wednesday Night The "Silver
King's'' visit-Stage Gossip Picked
Up Here and There.
Tuesday matinee and night-The Silver
King
Wednesday night-Yon Yonson.
These are the weeks attractions at the
theater. The Silver King is considered
by many to be the greatest melodrama
ever written. Probably the reason that
the play is such a lasting success is due
to the fact that it does not depend upon
stage carpentry and scenery for interest,
but rises superior to these accompani-
ments. Columns have been written in
its praise, sermons have been preached
about it, and still the mention of the per-
Torrance is enough to fill the largest the
aters Carl A. Haswin, who has played
the leading part of Wilfred Denver more
than a thousand times, is now the sole
owner of the American rights, and he
has surrounded himself with a most ca
pabe support. A great deal of mana
gerial effort and money have been evoked
to render the piece a greater success TINS
season than ever before and it VIII be
produced with that carefulness to de-
tail which has characterized all metro
poltan productions.
of the recent contributions to stage lit
erature, probably the most unique ana
original is the Swedish dialect comedy,
"Yon Yonson," at, the Savannah theater.
1t has enjoyed an unusually prosperous
career and has been warmly commended
everywhere for it's humor, picturesque
ness and undoubted merit as char
acter study. The story of the play is
quite an interesting one. A Swede enll-
grant wanders into a station on the
Northern Pacific road to wait for tram
TO take him to a lumber camp where he
had obtained employment. An Irish dam
sci, on the shady side of thirty-hVe, tries
to keep him there as her husband He es-
capes and HES him to the lumber camp
where he saves a young lady. who al
forwards proved to be his sister, from a
horrible death in a log jam. The emf
grants father years before invented a
mill for cutting logs and died soon after.
leaving another man to profit by ms IN
Nention. The emigrant unravels ana
squares things and comes out on top IN
the third act Mr.. Gus Heege is the emf
grant, Yon Yonson. He is as natural ana
wholesome as his Minnesota pines. HIS
face suggests all out of doors on hne
May morning. His voice is as musical as
the wind that sweeps over the snow
covered logs and trees Of the camp. Many
complimentary things have been said
about Mr.. Heege's impersonation. II Is a
creation and takes rank with the Rip OF
Mr. jefferson in artistic finish.
The Dixie Dramatic Association VIII
present play called Nevada" by
George W. Baker at Nonge's hall Oct;
% for the benefit Of St Pauls Episcopal
church. This association is devoting its
energies now to the replenishing OF the
church fund, especially since the disband-
ment Of the rectory society week or two
ago, which ceased It's labors as such
when informed that the Dixie Dramatic
Association would take up the work OF
aiding the church fund The original pur-
pose of the rectory society was to pro-
vide or begin a fund for the purpose
Of securing IA rectory for the pastor Of the