The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05

concert will be one of the, if not the,
most interesting of the series, without ref
erence to the number of artists who may
appear.
1t may not be amiss to state here that
the club entertains no such idea as that
1t can give unanimous satisfaction to all
of the GOO or 200 ladies and gentlemen who
attend the concerts. But it does hope
that each person present will be pleased
with three or four of the eight or ten
pieces on each programme, and will be
altruistic enough to listen patiently and
quietly to those numbers, which, while
not particularly liked BY him or her,
may be exactly what is preferred by
others, who are equally entitled to have
their tastes consulted, and, if possible,
gratified. The box sheet will open at
the theater tomorrow morning at 8
O'Clock.
The leaders of st. Johns Rectory 60
city will give their entertainment, Ye
Puritan Merrie Making, Wednesday even
ing. Guards hall will be transformed for
the occasion into an old New England
barn, lighted with candles. All kinds of
representations of the ancient Puritan
manners will be attempted, and those in
attendance will be attired in costumes
suitable to the customs and manners of
the times. Tempting delicacies, crullerS
and plenty of good old cider will be
served. Love songs and other music will
be sung, and the nlinuet will be danced.
The evening will be varied with dancing
to Resenfeld's full orchestra, under the
direction of Prof. E. E. Seymour. The
come noted for their entertainments and
suppers.
Hon. Henry Watterson will deliver his
lecture, Money and Morals, before the
Savannah Lyceum Thursday night, at
the Guards hall. Many Savannahians
have heard the lecture, which is consid-
cred Mr.. Watterson'S best effort. 1t was
recently delivered in Washington, and the
Star says of it,
notes, and apt interpretations dispeled all
impression of labored memorization.
Throughout it was full of poetry and phil
osophy, lighted by brilliant wit. The
interest of the audience was not of that
casual and languid sort so commonly
yielded to a lecturer. The applause with
which the lecture was approved time after
time was not the sort that IS marked in
the manuscript please insert" 1t was
spontaneous earnest and deserved, and
showed the influence eXerted by the lee
turer over the judment, the Imagination
and the emotions of MS hearers. The
thought running through the lecture was
that the proper and most profitable pur-
suit of man is happiness here and here
after, and that this happiness is to be
found in the appreciation of the blessings
following a fixed star of ambition for
wealth or honors which occupies the
whole mind, having no thought for the
sources Of true Joy passed on the way ~ Mr.
F. Hopkinson Smith, Feb. IA or 10, Richard
Malcolm Johnston Feb. 20, and Prof. Il; ).
Clark'S ShakeSDearlan TeduiilS Ou hlllS
Lear, Feb. q. This viii be the last of
the course.
Gorton's minstrels will be seen for the
first time in Savannah Friday night. The
Jacksonville Times-Union says of the
Company: mo minstrel show has
stronger hold on the affections of jack
sonviile theater goers than Gorton's
They are old acquaintance, and they
bring with each returning season new
reasons for unrestrained merriment. The
comnany this year is stronger than ever
before and its annual tour through the
south has been a success whose continu-
itv was not broken by its reception IN
Jacksonville"
There were few plays seen here last
season which would be more warmly wei
Coined hack again and which would be
IibaraIly patronized by theater goers than
Eduin Milton Royle's comedy dra-
ma 'sFriends." The average play
survives but one, or at the best,
b,,t two seasons. One of the most
notable exceptions to this is Mr. Royle's
Sterling play with the excellent company
which made such pronounced artistic sue
cesses. When 1t is announced mat the
nlax. with the leading members OF the
original cast, will again be seen here for
me third time at a Saturday matinee
and night this week, it is safe to predict
that Ii win be greeted by as large and as
militant an audience as its merits de-
serve Savannah theater goers know the
NAV: many have seen il more than once.