The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-01
oNE PLAY AND ONE CIRCUS.
rpEDRICK BRYTON TO PRESENT
FORGIVEN THURSDAY.

strong Romantic Drama Which
was Well Received on Its First
presentation Here-Stuart Rob-
cons New Play-With Some of the
pIavers-RigIing Bros. Circus to
appear Friday Matinee and Night.
savannah theater-goers will enjoy only
.,e MAY this week. but it win be a good
ona Frederick Bryton will appear in his
rang romantic drama Forgiven"
..,i,h he so successfully presented here
The beginning of the season. and will play
both matinee and night. Thursday
NOV 3.
Two other shows, "A Nights Frolic"
and Nellie Banker were to have been here
.,3s week. but the national election, the
lions and one or two other inconven-
u ,,rces seem to have broken into their
her plans, and they changed their dates.
prt Bryton will give the lovers of the
.,r,antic drama a treat. His appearance
Aare in the early part of the season left
sncb pIeasant recollections that many
,rbo saw him before, will go again, in
q addition to those, who, learning of the
a,orits of his show, will see it for the
n first time &
q DForgiven" is said to be one of the best
American plays ever written. The secret
a kf its success can be told in one word
q katralism. From the moment the cur
81 toin rises on the first act until the final
fau at the conclusion, this great play holds
tbA spectator's attention. Mr. Bryton has
81 lected company. and each character is
well and strongly portrayed. His John
81 Damond" is one of the strongest char
q acterizations ever seen on the American
stage. ,rr,.,,
hos taken in at the various theaterS, in
n door receipts, nearly 100000. This is
an unparalleled record, but, in the judg-
ment of every unprejudiced mind, most
deserved one.
Novelty of idea and freshness in the in
vention of detail is the great essential to
a successful farce comedy. Mrs. Ponder
bury's Past" which Stuart Robson, in
conjunction with the great tragedienne,
Madame Jauneschek, will produce at the
theater shortly, Is said to possess dou-
bic amount of these requisites. The comedy
was first produced in Paris and is the out
mi of two able French writers. So well
had they woven their stage story that it
claimed the attention of the volatile Pa
rislans for three years. Then that able
journalist Charles Burnand saw it and
realizing it's great merit, adapted 1t to the
English speaking stage. This eminent
writer wisely left in 1t all its original good
points and humor and added to it much of
his excellent wit. When produced In Lon
Fl DON 1t at once created as great an impress
sion on theater goers as 1t had in the
q French capital. When Mr.. Robson was
abroad last year, he secured the play for
his repertoire and gave it it's first Ameri-
can production in New York.
Murray and Mack, the team of Irish
comedians, were seen at the theater last
q night in "Finnegan's Courtship." The
show is a sort of McCarthy's Mishaps af
flair, and is full of laughable situations,
Ii one enjoys Irish comedy. There are a
couple of pretty girls and several pleas
4 ing specialtes in the show.
Wilton Laekaye, who will be here some
time in January, is a notable actor who
enjoys the distinction of having played
more original parts in New York in the
4 last five years than any other actor now
on the stage He is a native of Loudoun
county, Virginia, was originally designed
for the prizes thood and educated with that
view at Ottawa College, Canada, ana
Georgetown University. Doubling his vo-
cation for the ministry he studied law
for a year, but in 1888 went on the stage
with Lawrence Barrett in his production
Of francesca da Rimini, at the Star the
ater New York. He has since been with
many companies, his more notable roles
~ being Prince Saviaui in Jocelyn, Don
Stephano in Featherbrain, jefferson
stockton in Aristocracy, De NoirVille in
Roger lie Homie and Solomon Strong in
NJ The Idier.
When she was a little girl Miss Della
foX, in her native city of st. Louis, played
the Midshipmate in an amateur "Pina-
lore company. From that hour she was
stage-struck girl, and when she played
a week as 9-year-old child, with James
n y Neil in "A Celebrated Case her theat-
real ambition was confirmed. After
few years at school her opportunity came
ana she played childs parts with Marie
prescott until she was offered al engage
meht with the Bennett & Moulton Opera
company, then became soubrette with the
Conreid Opera Company, which she left
10 JON the De Wolf Hopper Company,
Where she has made a great reputation
III the part of Matayer in Wang" and
Iater IN "Panjandrum," gaining her recog-
HIIoh as leading opera coincidence, and
oHe the the most popular favorites now
mere was much enjoyed.
charles Frohman is in receipt of no less
enan twenty-five plays a day the year
hermann the Great has arranged to
enter his horses in the New York horse
snow. They have already taken ribbons
az san Francisco, and it is quite likely
mat they will win additional prizes in the
metropolis Herrmann's horses attract
attention wherever he appears, as it is
.ne magician's custom to drive from the
s-dtlon to the hotel either in his tandem
or IN his four-in-hand
~ is an old saying that when one used to
ASK IN Akron, o.. what claim that town
naa 10 distinction, the answer was invaria-
by mat 1t produced shoesrings and Henry
f. ABBEY The history Of that great man
dser, whose sudden death was such a
SHOCK 10 his friends, is not to be separated
rom the later history of the theater in
america. Mr.. Abbey introduced in this
country more famous men and women of