The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-03
A WEEK FULL OF PLAYS.
,,oxTE CRISTO." "a COUNTRY CIR
rrS, AND FAST MALI ON THE
LIST.

Lanes O'NenI 10 Open the Wcek-"A
,.,ntry Circus at Three Perform
.,res. Then Comes Fast MniIy and
Rolnnd Reed-The Lyceun's Fourth
t,tertainment This Week.
The theater viii be open every night
.-.. week. except Thursday night.
Monday Night-James O'NeiH. in Monte
i C-izto.
tuesday and Wednesday Night and
,,s5-esfay Matinee-A Country Circus
Friday Night-Fast Mail.
saturday, Matinee and Night-Roland
h Reed.
There is hardly a better known actor
o, the stage than James O'Nein and his
..,rrt of Monte Cristo is probably as well
known AS any play before the people. Mr..
o.Vem is popular among all classes of
,r4ater-goers. Beyond the announcement
of hts appearance nothing is necessary.
The sale Of seats is now in progress.
The Country Circus will be the attrac-
lion Tuesday and Wednesday night and
At Wednesdays matinee.
II was a happy idea Of Mr.. Charles
BARNARD when he utilized the sawdust
ring i'm the drama. 1t required a great
deal Of study to properly introduce a cir
ans i'm a play, but he seems to have struck
the popular chord The play is laid in the
region of Cape Cod, in the town of Mas
phi. and deals with the family OF an old
sea captain who returns after a voyage
Of three years. bringing a child of 10 with
him. This child is his own daughter; her
mother was a celebrated Castilian beauty,
who died when the child was quite young
She was raised in a harum-scarum way
aboard a whaling ship, and. of course,
IS unlike other girls and easily shocks
the good old Puritans of the Cape. About
this time Tony Barnum, the handsome
advance agent of the Country Circus. stole
through town, ana meets Savilla and falls
in love with her Immediately, and she with
him They leave town at once and are
married, and she becomes the famous
$4,000 beauty, and the star of the circus.
Upon the episode of her leaving home
hinges the whole plot of the play The
old captain, his friend, DR.. Swope, and
the two maiden ladies' of the family hear
that she has Joined the circus, and start
for Brocton to see If their fears are cor
rect. Arriving at the circus, these simple
country folks are hailed as "Reubens,"
and the fun, fast and furious, begins. At
last Savlla on her snow-white Arabian
charger, comes into the ring, is recog-
nized, explanations follow, all Is forgiven
and everything ends happily.
The Fast Mail is a railroad play. The
author and manager has contrived to
weave into a consistent story nearly all
the good points of the sensational drama
which tradition has handed down, adding
a number of ingenious mechanical effects
The fourth entertainment of the Lyceum
course will be Mr.. Roberts Harper's Illus
trated lecture Thursday night on Around
the World on a Man-o'- War" Mr. Har-
per is the son of an English army officer
who won distinction in the Crimea, and
is a gentleman of large literary and scien-
tihc requirements, "A veteran traveller of
wide experience and observation, and an
enthusiast on all matters relating to
photography. AS a lecturer he has an
easy colloquial style, a power of vivid
description, and a fund of dry humor
which keeps his audience constantly in
terested and entertained. The tri-lantern
per in Illustrating his lectures, are en-
tirely new, compromising every novel
device known, and many never before eX-
hibited, and producing pictures of colos-
sal size if required. Mr.. Harper has just
returned from his annual tour in Europe.
with some hundreds of views that are a
veritable revelation of the power of in
Simultaneous photography to reproduce the
most appalling appearances that attend
upon the use of high explosives in modern
warfare, and the most beautiful and strik-
ing effects of nature by land and sea. His
lecture is a picture of the incidents and
adventures of a three-years cruise; life on
the modern war ship; the wonders of An
dalusia, the Alhambra, Algeria, the AIedi-
terranean coast, Turkey. Egypt, the Nile,
the Suez canal, Hindoostan, Australia,
New Zealand, etc; islands of the Pacific
ocean, etc. Some novel and extraordinary
effects are introduced.
The following are the important attrac-
lions announced for this week in New
York: Vaudeville at Tony Pastors;
Christopher Columbus at the Garden
rheater; Camiele D-Arville at the Bijou
theater; Vaudeville at Keiths Union
square; The Shaugran at the Fourteenth
street; The Old Homestead at the Star
theater; The Masqueraders at the En-
pre- Rebelhous Susan at the Lyceum;
Too Much Johnson at the Standard;
Rejane at Abbey's theater; w. H. Crane
at the Fifth Avenue theater; The Fatal
Card at Palmers theater; Rob Roy at
the Herald Square; Nine. Sans Gene at
the Broadway; The Founding at Hoyts;
Two Gentlemen of Verona at Days the
alter.
If the sincerity of Hillary Bell, the
dramatic critic of the New York Press
and also of the New York Home Journal
has ever been doubted. it cannot be
doubted any longer Mr.. Bell attended
performance by Mrs. Potter and Kyrle
Bellew at Hamerstein's opera house in
New York last week, and he sent to the
Home Journal criticism which praised
highly the acting of Mrs. Potter. The
publisher of the Home Journal sent word
back that Mr.. Bells heart had carried
away his head, and made a request that
The article be altered. Mr.. Bell replied in
turn, that as a dramatic critic, he had
but one opinion to express with regard to
any performance, and inclosed his resig-
nation from the Home Journal