The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-17
AWEEK OF J0LLITY AND MUSIC.
GAY SIX DAYS or AMUsEsIENTs
IN SPITE Of LENT.

IN SPITE Of LENT.
Pretty Fanny Rice in Nancy" the
scenic Play, "a Romance of Coon
Hollow" and GiImOre's Band the
list of AttraetiOns-The Music Fes-
tiVaI to Add Interest to the Week.
The theater viii be open for six per-
formances this week, four nights and
Two matinees.
Wednesday and Thursday nights and
Thursday matinee. Fanny Rice. in Nancy.
Friday night, A Romance Of Coon
Hollow.
saturday matinee and night. Gilmore's
Band.
There is little doubt that Fanny Rice
and her company in the operate comedy
Nancy, made one OF the greatest sue
cesses Of the year in New Orleans last
week. The newspapers are unanimously
in praise of Miss Rice's entertainment.
and pronounce it one Of the cleanest,
brightest, cleverest, and funniest per-
formancess Of the season. The Times
Democrat says: Fanny Rice had every
reason to be proud of the size and char
acter Of the audience which heartily well
coined her return to New Orleans, and
still more proud Of the laughter and APP
plause which greeted her every effort
in the unique play entitled Nancy, which
has proved a very taking one wherever
she has appeared in it. Fanny Rice is
brimful of chic, yivacity. dramatic force.
and magnetism. She wins one without
letting him know how he has been won,
and her every look, tone and gesture
is bubbling over with the very essence
of comedy Her Nancy is a far-reaching
and unqualified success.
The Daily Picayune says; a large audi
ence laughed over the fun made by Fanny
Rice and her company in Nancy at the
Academy of Music. Fanny Rice IS a nat
ural comedian; she is bright and mag
netic; is Annie Pixley and Kate Castle
ton in one, and her good humor is con-
tagious. She sang at the piano her in
imitable little songs, SOFIA" and 1T Takes
a Girl to Do It. because her audience
insisted on having them. She also, for
the same reason, repeated her exhibition
of singing and dancing dolls, one of the
cleverest bits Of its kind ever seen. Fanny
Rice is an entertainer, and never fails
10 please. She is well supported.
The scenes of A Romance Of Coon
Hollow are laid in Tennessee on the
banks of the Ohio. Georgia, a child of
Philip Maury. a cotton planter has been
stolen and recovered by her father some
years later from a "Tarheel" village in
North Carolina. She is the soubrette and
the leading lady, and wins the love Of
Ralph Markham, who has been toying
with the affections of Clyde Harrod,
black-browed, gypsy-lil1e beauty, who
tries to be revenged Tor the loss Of her
lover by destroying them both. She per-
suades Lem Stockwen, a mountaineer,
and her discarded sweetheart, to assault
Markham. \ duel is the result. The
place is Coon Hollow, dell beneath
dam, TO which Ralph is accompanied by
Georgia, To make sure of the death Of
these two, Clyde and Stockwell blow
up the DAM and daring rescue of Geor-
gia by Ralph follows. This scheme fail
ing. Clyde shows Georgia a forged certii-
cate Of marriage between herself and
Ralph. and Georgia runs away, to be
caught by Tom Eastman and locked up
in room above the cotton press. Ralph
follows to her rescue. is knocked down,
dragged to the cotton press by Eastman,
who instructs Stockwell to start the ma
chinery and crush Ralph. StockweU re-
fuses, and Clyde does it, but not until
Ralph has been dragged away by Geor-
gia, who knock Eastman down and puts
him in Ralph's place Horriied at her
deed, Clyde dies with terrible Shrek.
The lovers are united and they all live
happy ever afterward. The Memphis
Scimitar thus speaks of Coon Hollow: A
packed gallery, well-flled balcony, and
a good down stairs" audience witnessed
the performance, and novelties were Of
fered to suit the most varied taste. The
gallery applauded, while the lower
house" kept silent. Then again the re-
verse was true, and the 81 per head por-
ton found lines or situations more suited
10 its taste and "ye gallery gods re-
trained from demonstrating approval.
Coon Hollow is a decided novelty in
way.