The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08
WEEK OF OPERA AND COMEDY.
GRAU's COMPANY TO BEGIN ITS EN-
GAGEMENT TO-MORROW NIGHT.

GAGEMENT TO-MORROW NIGHT.
Erminie, Tar and Tartar, Fra DIav-
OlO, Black Hussar and Indiana to
BE SUng-Nat Goodwin to Present
His New Play Ambition Here for
the First Time-The Palmer Com
cert and other Attractions.
Circuit Manager Michael of the Green
wall Theatrical Circuit Company has been
in the city several days giving his atten-
ton to the management of the theater
here. Mr.. Michael says that Savannah
will have a better class of attractions
next season. Already upwards of a third
of the season has been booked. The pres
ent season was the first the theater has
been under the present management. 1t
was really an experimental season, but ii
has proven very successful one. Next
year many of the attractions which nave
not been satisfactory, Mr.. Michael says,
will be weeded out and a higher class of
attractions will be substituted.
Savannah has the reputation of being
the best theater-going town in the south
where the companies play but one or two
nights, or a matinee and night perform
ance. OF course, it has not a sufficiently
large floating population for large COM
panies to play a weeks engagement, eX-
cept in rare instances. Mr.. Michael says
there will be about the same number of
attractions next year.
The management is considering the pre-
sentation of summer opera at popular
prices during May, June and July. No
definite arrangement, however, has yet
been made
The theater will be open every night this
week. Grau's Opera Company will begin
a five nights engagement tomorrow
Monday night, "Erminie."
Tuesday. night, Tar and Tartar"
Wednesday night, Fra Diavolo.'
Thursday night, BLACK Hussar."
Friday night, Indiana"
Saturday night, Nat Goodwin, in Am
bition.'
Our Country Cousin was played at the
theater yesterday afternoon and last
night. Mr.. Frank Jones takes the leading
part. Saturday audiences in Savannah
are almost always small. The audiences
of yesterday were as large as the merits
of the performance warranted.
Grau's Opera Company will arrive to-
day from Jacksonville, where it played
last week to the largest audiences ever
played to in the Park opera house. The
company commences it's engagement here
tomorrow night with 'Erminie." From
the low prices, %, 50 and so cents, and the
sale Of seats yesterday, Grau will be
greeted by crowded houses. The jack
sonville Citizen of Friday says: The OPP
era of "Erminie" was presented at the
opera house last evening by the Grau
Company, and in it the players scored
one of the greatest successes of the week.
The familiar and catchy music was sung
with a spirit and a dash that proved al
most irresistible, and the audience al
most by instinct found itself hummtng
the pretty choruses with the players be-
hind the footlights. The costuming was
appropriate and fine, and everything con-
nected with the production combined to
make the entertainment pleasing. Miss
Randall, in the title role, added to the
pleasing impressions that she has made
before Jacksonville audiences. Miss Ar
mold, as the simple and susceptible old
lection, while Mr.. Waldo and Mr.. Frear
as the masquerading noblemen, recalled
the original successes at the. the Casino IN
will be presented this evening. In this
production of the opera the great finale
of the second act of Lucia de Hammer
! moor" will be introduced.
The closing attraction of the week will
be Nat Goodwin's presentation Saturday
night for the first time in Savannah of
Henry Guy Cartoons latest contribution
to stage literature, Ambition" The
portion of the season at the Fifth avenue
theater New York, where it scored an
instantaneous success, and was pro-
nounced by many critics to be the best
thoroughly American play seen in this
country for years. The characters por-
trayed are those of officials in high life.
while the story in itself revolves around
the much discussed Cuban question. The
character essayed by Mr.. Goodwin is that
of Obadiah Beck, a United States senator,
and chairman of the committee on for,
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