The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-22
4 WEEK OF MERRY SHOWS.
a TRIP TO CHINATOWN" MIN
sTRELs AND LOST PARADISE.

The. Finishing Touches Ia the IntcrI-
or of the New Theeter being Put
on-The Chairs Reset and the
stained Glass windows In-The
management Undecided As 10 the
home over the Slain Entrance.
The attractions at the theater this week
are:
Monday night, "a Trip to Chinatown
thursday night Al. @. Fields minstrels.
Friday and Saturday nights and satur-
div matinee. Lost Paradise"
The new Savannah theater will be en-
-t-eiy complete within few days In
s,fte of the fact that the interior was in
SHANE for performances some days ago,
s.ot. Kessler has been pushing the work
forward as rapidly as possible, and it viii
NJ. be long now before he will give up
lie lob as completed.
During the week just ended the chairs
have been reset according to the diagram,
stained glass windows have been put in
ali over the house, eleven new scenes have
b-eu completed, ana the interior Of the
house has practically been finished up.
AR n. c.. Chan, who has had charge of
4. ).
CONNECTED his portion of the work in the
toilet rooms and has arranged two water
rrugs one on the stage and one in the
front of the house to each of which a
b,se viii be attached, and these are now
ready for use by the firemen, who will be
in the house at each performance, should
there be any occasion TO call them into
play.
Besides this the frescoing in the lobby
has been completed and that on the cell
ing above the main entrance Will be nm
isned before tomorrow nights perform
a9ce. The management Is IN doubt as yet
a. TO whether the proposed dome over the
main entrance will be put up. This was
a part OF the plans, but it is considered
that the building will appear complete
without it, and may be that it will be
lefl out.
open at all hours of the day is proving IA
great convenience to the patrons of the
theater. The arrangements so far have
proven very satisfactory, and it is the
promise of the management that every
thing possible will be done for the con-
yenieace OF the patrons of the theater.
A Trip to Chinatown and the original
Hoyt's Company viii be the weeks open
ing attraction. While the play is not new
i'm this city, it has a history that makes its
coming OF more than usual interest. For
65j consecutive performances IL held the
boards at Hoyt's theater, New York,
Aad never been approached before, the
longest run previous to that time being
"Auonis, for COZ times, ending April II,
1856. When the play was removed from
HOyt's theater q few weeks ago, it was
still crOWdng the house, and had it not
been for its road engagements previously
made, would be running there SOW.
Daniel Decatur Emmett, known through
cut the minstrel world as '.Uncle Dan"
Emmett, and the author Of Dixie" will
hc in Savannah this week. He is travelling
with Al Field, of Field MINISTRIES as Mr..
Fleld's guest and leads the orchestra of
The company when Dixie is sung. Uncle
Dan" is now so years old. Though not
s0utherner by birth his love for the south
and a force of circumstances gave Dixie"
a song that VIII be sung as long as the
country exists to the world. He was born
in 1T. Vernon, Ohio. in 1915, where he
has lived for several years in INDECENT cir
cumstance5, in a little house of two
rooms. After leaving school he became a
printer, and at the age of seventeen years
he was soldier in the Black Hawk war,
fifer in the army. lie would not enlist
in any army against the SOUTH His first
verses in song were:
Get out Of the way old Dan Tucker,
You came too late to get your supper"
etc.
He did not originate the word Dixie. 1t
started from Mr.. Dix, who owned large
areas in the south. He inaugurated the
backing of faces which has had much TO
do with the popularity OF minstrel per-
1Ormances and his Dixie Walk Round"
In 1857 he was a member of Bryauts
Ministries then playing in New York.
one Saturday night at the conclusion of
performance Mr.. Bryant told him that
ne must prepare aud have ready for Mon
day night something new and lively as a
walk around" Sunday, the day follow
ing, was a rainy day. Emmett remained
in his room and produced "DiXie's Land"
q song that has given him unperishable
fame. "Uncle Dan" recently gave to the
confederate veterans the original copy of
words and music of the song. When he
wrote Dixie he said he liked II himself.
but was not sure whether the public
would like 1t. He knew though, that if it
was not all right Kate" would Aknow,
and when she said she saw no fault in il
he was satisfied. 1t became at once pop
ular thcre-the boys took ii up on the
streets-and but for the war he thinks 1t
would have been continuously as much
SO north as south. Kate was Mr.. EN-
metfs first wife. Next month the old
minstrel viii celebrate his four scores
Of years. during which, he says, he has
never been sick a day.
Arrangements are pelng made by a COM
mittee which has the matter in hand to
Mrs. Launcelot Haynes a complimentary
benefit concert before they leave the city
ioH good, the early part of next month. In
lGe departure of these two ladies SaVan-
nan will lose two of its best singers, whose
places it will be difficult to fill Such a
mark of appreciation for all that they
nave DONE as is proposed is only the
proper thing to dc, and their many friends
and the whole public will join in making
the concert the enormous success that it
deserves to be-