The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-31

The theater VIII be open but two nights
this week.
Tuesday matinee and night. cleveland's
Minstrels.
Wednesday night, Wang.
At the Guards Hall Wednesday matt
nee and night, United States Marine Band
concerts.
cleveland's Nlinstrels are well known in
Savannah This weeks engagement viii
be the first in Savannah this season. The
company has been doing a splendid bust
ness in the south and has received excel
lent notices wherever It has been. The
New Orleans Times Democrat has this
TO say of it: The entertainment offered
| by Mr. Cleveland has several features that
are refreshingiy new and worthy Of IA
| vorable comment. For the first part the
curtain rises on the artists in the court
costumes Of King Ferdinand and Queen
Isabella of Spain. Directly back Of the
chairs occupied by the royal personages
/ hangs a heavy curtain that parts and
! discloses a company Of cOlored MINISTRIES,
/ with another curtain that afterward parts
| as the first one did and brings to view a
! troupe of Arabs in their picturesque cos
/ tunes Of the desert Following this first
part there are several good spec.alties
/ and a laughable battle royal in which four
of the coiored actors are introduced with
monster boxing gloves with which they
slug each other zealously. After other
/ specialties there is a colored dance, and
the performance is brought to a close with
/ an afterpiece ent3tled Growers reception
/ TO Queen Lii" OF the comedians, the
| Crawford brothers Charles and Edward,
carry off the hOuOrs. The singers of the
company are all Of a high class and the
/ quartette selections offered are particular
/ ~ pleasing. William Norton in a rich,
/ deep baritone voice, renders "A Bedouin
/ Love Song" VI. Rale and J. NJ. Woods
\ are also worthy Of special mention for
/ their vocal offerings. The entertainment
/ offered by the troupe Of Arabs consists
/ IN feats Of balancing and strength. One
/ stalWart member of the company supports
\ upon his shoulders eight men at one time
/ as the climax to the exhibition. William
| Henry Rice is particularly amusing in his
hlrleSque on Queen Lii, and adds not
I little to the success OF the production.
/ Cpburn and Baldwin are excellent in an
| instrumental musical entertainment.
| Wang will be seen for the first time
] III odNtAlilaH lfllS week. Inc opera mas naQ
probably as great success as any comic
] opera. The company presenting il NUM-
/ bers sixty people and carries it's own
/ orchestra. The opera is a merry one. II
has little Of plot, but everything about
/ 1t Is catchy. In fact its complications
| Of beautiful songs, witty sayings, its
| fetching view of an oriental harem, It's
/ fantastic costumes, its white elephant
| pretty girls, laughter and nonsense, all
! but defy explanation or analysis. What
may be dignihed by the name of its plot
/ Is familiar even where the opera has
/ never been given. Its songs, THE Man
! With an Elephant on His Hands," "a
I Pretty Girl" "A Summer Night" "You
/ Must Ask the Man in the Moon" and
| score of others, are sung here. Wang is
/ yet to be heard in its entirety. The char
\ acter Of AIataya the Crown Prince of
! Siam, assumed by pretty Virginia Earl.
| is a take-om on the present King of
/ Siam when under the guardianship of the
/ regent. The real crown prince was crown
/ ed as Chulalonkom 1. Having had an
/ English governess he speaks English per-
/ fectly. In the opera his European pro-
| clivities are expressed largely by the Gig
arctic habit. In reality these proclivi-
/ ties have led him to such great deeds as
/ the granting of religious liberation and
/ the emancipation OF slaves. He could not,
however, find fault with the pretty pic
ture of his boyhood as impersonated by
Miss Earl.
There is genuine interest in
the United States Marine Band
Concerts at the Guards hall
Wednesday afternoon and night The
concerts are given under the auspices of
| the Savannah Lodge OF Elks, and will
afford the only opportunity that viii be
| offered perhaps for many years, for tho
music loving people of Savannah to hear
| the celebrated band Of the republic. The
gr \
ern states, and is undertaken solely at the
urgent request of the senators, congress-
men and leading citizens of the south,
who desire to hear this famous organiza-
/ ton.
The Marine Band, or as it has been
| aptly called The Band of the Nation"
stands at the very head of military organ
cations of the world, not excepting the
| Grenadior Guards of England, the EN-
peror's Band of Berlin, or the French or
Russian national bands that play for
royalty
Secretary of the Navy Herbert, speak
ing of the tour of the band through The
southern states, recently remarked:
Members of congress and prominent cit
liens of the south have requested that
the band be permitted to make tour OF
their cities. The department considered
that it should recognize the wishes of the
public in a section of the country which
has had few opportunities of hearing the
Marine Band, and it should especially do
so when the tour can be accomplished I'M
der circumstances which will awaken in
terst in nigh order of music"
The present director of the band, Prof.
+. Fanculi, was appointed two years
ago. He has been a resident of the United
States for the past fifteen years In his
youth, he was educated and graduated
from the conservatory of music at Flor
enee and for several years conducted
grand opera at various theaters in Flor
ence He was a classmate of Marchin-
nelh, the present musical director of the
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company Fan
ciulh has proved himself worthy conduc-
tor of the Marine Band, and is rapidly
winning a reputation among musical crit
les as one of the leading band-masters of
the world. Had he not accepted the lead
ership of the Marine Band. he would have
succeeded Patrick S. Gilmore, the diree-
tor of the Twenty-second Regiment Band
of New York, Gilmore having many times
expressed his preference for Fanciulli.
The managers of the city hospital have
taken hold of the opera Mikado and will