The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15
A WEEK FULL OF ADJUSTMENTS.
THE BALDWIN-MELVILL COMPANY
= AT THE THEATER.

l,TO Open "A Weeks Engagement To-
Giant Mfne"-The Princeton Col
IeRe GIee and Mandolin CIub at the
Guards' Hall Thursday NiEht-The
Puritan Mcrrie-MakInE Tuesday
Sight-The "Ermfnie" RehearsaIs.
Theofheater will be open every night
lsthis week, the Baldwin Melville Company
playing the entire week. with three matt
nees. The matinees will be Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday. The Baldwin
Company closed its engagement last night
at the Academy Of Music in Charleston
and the News and Courier says the COM
pany has been playing to packed houses.
Manager Baldwin played Savannah sea-
son before last and is popular here. His
company is much stronger this season.
popular prices will prevail. night prices
10. 20 and 80 cents. Matinee prices ad-
mission 10 cents reserved seats 10 cents
extra. Tomorrow night, the comedy,
The Golden Giant Mine, viii be the pro-
duction. Seats are now on sale at the
box Office at the theater. Ladies Will be
admitted free tomorrow night if accom-
panied by a person with paid 80 cent
ticket
Otis Skinner closed his engagement at
the theater with the double bill OF the
Petruchio, last night. The attendance was
about one-tenth of what IL should have
been, to be in keeping with the merit OF
the star and his excellent company. At
the matinee His Grace de Grammont was
played to a fair house. 1t is unnecessary
to commend Otis Skinner. But for the
benefit of theater-goers in nearby cities
soon to be visited by him, it may be re-
peated that Mr.. Skinner is in fine form
and voice, and is supported by a very
strong company.
The Princeton University Glee, Banjo
and Mandolin Clubs will start on their
annual Christmas tour tomorrow. Their
concert in this city will be given Thurs
day night in the Guards hall. The clubs
this year are larger than ever. The man
dolin and Banjo Clubs are well trained
and have already attracted general atten-
ton on account OF their unusual excel
lence. The Glee Club, also, is very strong.
The Philadelphia Press says: Last year
the Princeton Glee Club special train
toured more than 1900 miles at Christmas
ing the praises Of "Old Nassau under the
snowy battlements of Pixies Peak. This
year the line of travel will be toward the
southland and the orange. Black Will
wave in Florida where no college glee
CLUB has yet journeyed." The club this
year travel, as usual, in a special train
consisting Of three private cars, one pull
man car and a baggage car. They run
on their own schedule. The organization
this year includes fifty-seven men, the
largest and best club ever sent out from
"Old Nassau" The local concerts of the
glee club have been held at Trenton, Nor
ristown, Princeton and New Brunswick,
and all have been eminently successful
and enjoyable.
The ladies of the St Johns Church
Rectory Society will give novel enter
tainment at the Guards hall Tuesday
night, Those taking part will be attired
in old style dresses and costumes, and
the han will he n "a
nearly as possible, an old-time New Eng
land country store house, lighted en-
refreshments in the old way, and a num-
Der of local singers will discourse an
Client songs and ditties The object of
this amusement is to aid the fund for
just been purchased and placed in the
church. At the conclusion of the songs
the stately minuet of olden times will
be danced and the remainder of the even
ing will be spent in dancing until o'clock
to the strains of Rosenfelds orchestra,
under the dictatorship of Prof. +. r. Sey-
mour, clarioneJist.
The Juvenile Choral societys concert
and dance on Friday at Masonic Temple
promises to be a brilliant success. The
Euterpe Musical Club, Mr.. Harrison plan
list. Mrs. Oledine Steel of Chicago and
other vocalists will take part.
The rehearsals of the opera Erminie
are being regularly. held every Tuesday
to Indictment weather and the illness of
Prof. White, but little progress has so
far been made The managers desire that
every member Of the association be pres
emit next Tuesday evening at s O'Clock.
The committee, composed of leading busi-
ness men, with Mr.. ]. F. 3; Beckwith,
! chairman, promises to give the opera in
as elaborate a manner as possible, spar
ing no money or pains in its production.
To accomplish, a rendition IN keeping pin with
| large chorus is necessary, at least 30
| sopranos, 10 altos 10 tenors and Is bassos.
! AS there are ninety-five names on the
| roll of the operate association, ii should
! not be difficult to get together seventy OF
them. 1t is desired that at least that
| number turn out to rehearsal Tuesday
night The committee promises the par
! Elephants a good time and the public a
splendid entertainment.
An entertainment which is looked
is the e Evening Of Elocution and Acting
| by the pupils of Miss Selig at Masonic
temple New Years night The entertain
ment introduces character delineations
! in costume, an evening reception in fash
ionable circles, humorous, and concludes
with the play Thirty Minutes in Fairy
land. Although the entertainment is more
ambitious in its scope than that usually
| known dramatic ability of their instruc-
| tress assures those who attend an even
ing's entertainment of unusual excellence.
4 An entertainment for the benefit of the
i Duffy Street Baptist church, will be given
tomorrow night at Yonge's Hall. The
i performance begins at 8 o'clock and re-
| freshments will be served after the enter
tainment is concluded.
The following are the important at
| fractions announced for this week in New
York: His Bxcellency'' at the Broad
Xelyss at fhe Firth the & Sagase thsater
Miss Brown" at the Standard theater;
Heart of Maryland at the Herald Square
The Sporting Duchess at the Academy
| vaudeville at Keiths Union Square thea
ter; 1.-The Shop Girl at Palmer's; Olga
| Nethersole at the Empire; Peter F. Dali
ley in The Night Clerk at the Bitou
Transit of Leo at Days theater; Hem
ny Irving at Abbey's theater; Frank DAN
iels in nrhe Wizard of the Nile at the
Casino; Nell Burgess in the County
Fair" at the Star; THE Home Secretary
at the Lyceum theater, and Bonnie
Scotland" at the Fourteenth Street thea
ter, and oliver d. Byron at the Grand
Opera house.
Court House iR Ruins.