The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-22

its weeks engagement Tomorrow after
noon with the nautical play, A Legal
Wrong.
Tomorrow night Wilson Days comedy
The Devils Web, will be presented. Tues
day matinee bill, BARLEY Campbells great
masterpiece, The Galley Slave, and Tues
day night the comedy, The Black Flag
Matinees will be given daily at 8 o'clock
The night prices will be TO- 20 and 80 cents
The matinee prices will be, admission, 10
cents; reserved seats 10 cents extra.
Ladies will be admitted free tomorrow
night, if accompanied by a person with a
paid 30-cent ticket. The following Is
from the New York Dramatic Mirrors
Atlanta correspondence, of recent date
cat the Lyceum the Baldwln-Melville
Company, during its weeks engagement
did a splendid business, crowding the
house almost every performance, and sew
eral times during the engagement the S.
r. o. sign was out. The company always
gets a full share Of patronage. The play.
ers are excellent, and the productions well
mounted. At the closing performance
Ten Nights in a Barroom was presented
to one of the largest audiences the Ly-
ceum ever held Every seat and all the
boxes were sold.
Mrs. Ponderburys Past, founded upon
the famous French play. Madame Mongo-
din, will be produced by Stuart Robson,
in conjunction with Mime. Janauschek,
the famous tragedienne, at their coming
engagement in Savannah. This comedy
delighted Parisians for three years, and,
being witnessed by the editor OF London
Punch, was cleverly adapted to the Eng
glish-speaking stage by him. In London
last season, II scored one Of the big the
atrical successes there, and when pro.
duced in New York by Mr.. Robson, ii
brought financial results to him which
nearly balanced even with all that the
season had brought him while touring the
cities In which he had engagements So
clever have been the authors of the play,
that they have turned material usually
found In tragedies-a knife, a secret,
womans past, a midnight designation In
an artists studio, a wife's inopportune
arrival, and even a sleep-walking act
into comedy and instead Of feeling the
chill Of apprehension creep up ones back
and our hair standing up in dread and
horror, the auditor is amused. To supple
ment this play, which is rather short,
one-act comedy, entitled, Mr. Gilmans
Wedding, has been introduced at the ne.
ginning, which in it's way Is no less anus
ing than the longer drama and In which
Mr. Robson will enact the part OF a young
husband
David warfeld and Lee Harrison of the
IN Gay NEW 10TH company, WHlcn began
its southern tour this week. are both In
veterate story-tellers, and each one makes
the other the hero Of numerous good an
ecdotes. Harrison tells an incident that
befell Warfield when that comedian made
his first appearance In the garb OF an ac-
tor Warneld was formerly an usher in
a theater in San Francisco and developed
such success as a mimic that his friends
urged him to go on the stage. He was
always the hit" at amateur perform.
ances. and at last the opportunity was
offered him to become a full-hedged pro-
fesslonal. A company was organized to
go UP to a country town and play during
fair week He was engaged and made
great preparations FOR his speciality. On
the opening night his nervousness ana
lack OF knowledge as to the proper pitch