The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02
BIT Two PLAYS THIS WEEK.
Otis Skinner and Barney Ferguson Are
the Only Attractions.

9is Grace de Grammont to Be Seen for
the First Time Here Friday Night.
Ferguson, of MeCarthy's Mishaps
Fame, in His New Play, Duny's Blum
dsrs, Saturday.
The theater will be open but two nights
this week
Friday night Otis Skinner in His
Grace de Grammont.
saturday matinee and night Barney Fer
ruson in Duffy's Blunders.
one Of the notable engagements of the
season will be that OF Otis Skinner. next
Friday in Clyde Fitch's successful new
comedy His Grace de Grammont. In this
brilliant comedy Mr.. Fitch has selected
his characters from Anthony Hamilton's
Memoirs of Count Grammont. Other than
this the plot of the play is entirely origi-
nal The play deals with court life dur
ing the reign Of Charles H., Of England
and shows something of the artifciality
Of manners, etiquette and profigacy Of
the fashionables of that period. About
these he has constructed an interesting
story of strong romantic interest. He has
certainly selected a striking personality
for his central figure in the Chevalier de
Grammont, who was q favorite at the
court OF France fn.the reign of louis XIV
He was eXiled on account of his love af-
fair with Madame Houdancourt, the kings
favorte, and took up his residence in the
court of the English monarch. The play
begins about this time in English history.
The characters are all historical and in
clude, besides de Grammont and Charles
j. Lord Arlington, Lord Jermyn, the no
torous Lady Castlemaine, Mrs. Middle
ton. Mistress Warmester, Mr.. James Ham
nton and Miss Hamilton The last two
are the brother and sister of the author of
the Counts Memoirs. Miss Hamilton is
the heroine. Fitch has idealized the char
acter of de Grammont in the play and
has given his personality something of the
romance and heroism of d'Artagnan.
No comedian comes to Savannah who is
accorded a more hearty welcome than
that funny little man" Barney Fergu-
son, who in past seasons has delighted au-
dlences with his clever work in NC
Carthys Mishaps. This season he will be
seen at an early date In an entirely new
play specially written for him entitled
DuGys Blunders, which is said to be
been seen in. He is now under the man
agement Of ]. Wesley Rosenquest of the
Bijou and Fourteenth Street theaters of
New York, who has furnished him with a
company of over twenty people picked
from the best available sources. Every
thing in Duffys Blunders will be new
the music, the songs, the dances, the
speclaltes, besides novel scenic effects in
GLIDING Roof Garden Scene with cleo
Wilson Barrett made his first appearance
IN America this season in New York, on
Monday, November 26. He began two
months engagement al the American The
ater He produced his own dramatization
Of Hall Gaines thrilling novel the Manx-
man. 1t is an out-and-out melo-drama, of
the Adelphi type, and tells rugged story
IN graphic way. Mr.. Barretts perform
ance is picturesque and effective, and
Maud Jeffries, his leading woman, is sin
guiarly beautiful and natural.
Marie Wainwright has never called at
tenton to her costumes. She never lost her
diamonds. She has not been thrown from
her carriage. She does not possess a pet
dog. She does not negotiate for foreign
rights with "well-known" playwrights.
She does not hide the fact that she is the
mother Of two well-grown daughters. They
walk 10 and from the theater with her.
And yet Miss Wainwright is a paying star.
Sssieretta Jones, the Black Patti, is de-
scfloed as lNind-hearted prima donna that
mas never sued for alimony or jumped a
contract. She simply sings.
The company which will support Come
dian William II. Crane during his coming
tour Of the south and west, and the one
which is now being seen with him in New
YORK is said to be the best with which he
mas ever been surrounded He will
give one performance of The Senator
IN Savannah, a play which has
had more success than probably any other
American play produced during the pres
eHt generation. The play is promised
careful representation, and in it Mr.. Crane
viii be seen in the title part.
stage News asks: why is it that chorus
men in comic opera invariably receive
larger salaries than chorus women? The
Ialler have to provide their costumes,
winch are frequently quite expensive, and
lne men have to spend little on clothes
and stand in the background. Further
more the women of the chorus are sup
posed to be mcre<or less pretty, whereas
usdhess seems to be a requisite for their
companions"
Richard Mansfield played recently at a
massachusetts town, and a local dress
maker sent word to Katherine Grey who
pays leading roles in his support, that she
would present to Miss Grey a gorgeous
party dress" provided the dress-maker's
name be mentioned always in the pro-
sramme. The dress is still at Lynn.
Isn't 1t glorious! exclaimed the en-
thusiastic girl, as she leaned over the
tanrail. Doesn't it fill you with wild
delight to feel the breeze fan your cheeks
aS YOU fly before the wind, the white caps
speeding after your
Yes; it's all right to have 'em speed
ing after you here" replied the sallow
passenger, but out in Indianny-"
men he remembered and became silent.
Puck.
MISCELLANEOUS
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