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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-03-24
RELICS OF THE SOUL. Il 1
The Confederate Museum In Richmond aud
Some Of Its Priceless Treasures.
SEVEN or THE STATE ROOMS DESCRIBED
Records ana Icmentocs that Hiss
issippi, Louisiana, Texas, Tpnncs.
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ITEiLipt.on OF the Confederate museum at
MicINmonu. With the sketches OF the re-
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iana; iHSas kentucky, Tennessee and Mis-
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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-03-24
UNSATISFACTORY.

F..
The Mississippi Room was during the
Confederacy used by Mrs Jefferson Davis
Prcs:,ln rnfafS s, rec r,eeeption apartment IN il
tneiI private and important conferences
WITHIN the cases OF This important room
are many valuable relics, with interesting
histories; conspicuous among them, q pair
a. pamaloon worn by the eTstwhie Pres
1 ,1 Davis Oh the day Of the evacuation Of
ioh and south c!taroina. The panta-
ICONS are OF blue jeans, the yarn having
been dyed spun and woven rrtcv the SUI
cloth to MIR. Davis for a full suit. When
hlr. Davis and party separated IN Georgia.
s chianseG Ar his Giio,hes and M private
preserved them all these years
ANOTHER valuable relic, with an interest
uls nls'EEy IS the hathand Of The late
lieer, presented BY a Washington gentle
nan During the cavalry engagement at
charges and countercharges were made di,,
through the lawn OF the home Of the dom
o orS Eran'dmother: The ladies took to the
the north Of the house by the Federal
forces The Confederate made several at
cghn pts, TO u:s,odse them, and were in turn
kept up q, lively firing, and those in the
eeiiar , an opportunity. Of Witnessing
| Miss Eliza. Triplett, seeing from an OMEN
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rushed out and by main strength dragged
| tiou LIZ .Cei,al az VINO were alive, and
tnerc stauncled and dressed their wounds
| Not long after this, General Fitzpatrick
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humanity's cause. Miss Richards came to
mo door, ana was saluted by the General
He said She came TO thank the ladies or
the house for the help extended friend and
zoe IN the late cavalry engagement and
| 10 know II n could do anything for them .
| There IS nothing you can do, General
while we only did our duty" Miss R:cka I'd
ireplica. ON, yes, YOU may If you please.
| leave me your hat-band." This the Gem
oral very gracefully did. In this room is
soon TO be placed the suit of clothes In
| which President Davis was captured
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who are held in tender and fearful remcIn
branccs, how many have gone because thew
The times., 1897-03-14

week will be the latest nielodramatie sac
cess, The Land Of the Living from the
pen of Frank Harvey, the English play
wright author OF Woman Against W0-
man. Wages OF SIM His First Wife,
and many other well known and successful
plays. The Land OF the Living touched
upon the past, present and future OF char
aeters, the counterparts of which we meet
every day. Human nature abounds at
every turn. It tells a powerful tale OF
country and city life, and though at times,
when the opportunity arrives, borders very
much upon the extreme sensational, there
is nothing inconsistent or unnatural in the
production Tie scenes are picturesque
in the extreme, and take place ia London
and South Africa The story OF the play
concerns the fortunes Of Gerald Arkwright;
Reuben Tredgold loves AFkwright's wife
He ruins ArkwFight and tries TO Kill him
In the diamond mines of South Africa.
Then he returns to England, and telling
Mrs. ArkwTight that her husband is dead
is about to marry her, when Arkwrght
turns up.
The times., 1897-03-14

After several months or engaged hiisS,
it is to be hoped the period was blissful,
theengageme ent between Gerald DuMaurier,
son of the late English author and artist,
and Marguerite Sylvia, an obscure lady in
Beerbohni Trees company has been broken
off The first days of this hetIothai We're
spent under the barren bushes in Lafayette
Park, last Thanksgiving time. The Eng
lish company were playing at the marble
fronted theateT. RehearsalS OF the L Iarker
play We're held day ana night Whenever
an idle moment afforded it, Gerald and
Marguerite stole over onto park seat,
and sat silent, holding han DIS, smiling
raptuously, and entirely oDliviouS TO either
cold or those about them. That was be
fore word had reached Mamma Du Maurier
OF the promise thai had been given while
the ship was On thes deep blue sea. Then
letters came Tue Teams of paper used
by the Du MaHsier; family and all their
friends, beseecaing Gerald not to marry
below his stationf effected handsome
gain to the EHglsh excheQuer in excess
postage. Family pride seems 10 have pre-
vailed, for the artists son viii not marry
the obscure Southern beauty. or, perhaps,
the fires Of love have burned down to black
embers. They famed TO fast at first.
Between the time that they met, lie asked
| and she consented, there elapsed but four
days. 1t was all effected on the ocean
which mitigates the responsibilities, or
| who can he held accountable for what they
| do when they are all at sea?
The times., 1897-03-14

The Lafayette viii have the other pre-
mier. and. sad to say, it will come off on
the same night as the other piece, Easter
Monday This is giving a little too much
of good thing This is not the Lafa yette's
first experience as a dramatic nursery.
Last season it sent The Lady Slavey' TO
a career of credit, and this season Beerbohm
Tree first gave Gilbert Parker Seats OF
the Mighty at Manager Albaughs house
the night after Thanksgiving. The new
piece in question is called For a Title.
The author name has not yet been dis
closed, but the piece Will not be given anony
mously This piece comes in connection
with an interesting bit OF news. The play
VIII be producedby Rhea, whohas arranged
with Mr.. Albaugh for spring supplement
ary season OF four weeks two in this city
and two in baltimore. 1t is said that an
other new play v will be- produced during this
enga cement. Manager Magee will augment
his present company for this engagement,
and is now negotiating with several we'll
known pia yers. 1t is his intention TO make
this supplemental season busy one The
new productions Will be Ella aboratcly staged
under the personal direction of Joseph NJ
Francoeur, who added to the artistic
achievement of julia Marlowe and the late
Alexander Salvini when their stage di-
rector. Mile Rhea will spend her summer
abroad, as is her custom, while MI Magee
will combine work and pleasure on his
new yacht now being built
The times., 1897-03-14
The Widow Won Him.
from the New York Herald J


Because Frederick VI. Meyer could not
marry two women at once he is held by
Magistrate KudIich in the police court.
Louisa Scherer, twent ty-four years old,
says Meyer paid attention To her for
several months and they became engaged
February 21 was set for the wedding day.
and she says he deceived her. She bought
a trouSseau, partly furnished a flat, and
on the day elected all was in readiness
for the ceremony. The guests were
there and the supper ready, but Meyer
did not arrive.
A messenger came at last with a note
from the delinquent one, in which he
said he thought he was under more OBJ
legation 20 marry another woman. Miss
Scherer immediately disH issed the guests
and that night retained a lawyer The
next morning she obtained a warrant
Miss Scherer took Detective Mccarthy
TO the flat of Mrs. Beiga, with whom
Meyer boarded, and was told that they
had gone to Brooklyn together. Nc
Carthy went back at 6 O'Clock and Mrs
Reiga, who had returned told him Never
was still out The detective returned at
9 O'Clock. obtained an entrance and,
disclosing his identity, demanded TO be
taken TO Meyer. This tiIue he found the
man.
The prisoner told the detective that
he could not marry Miss scherer, because
he was under more obligations To Mrs
Beiga and was going to marry her.
The times., 1897-03-14

''The Span OF Life comes TO the Grand
Opera House this week. The play takes
its name from an exciting and novel Incl
dent that occurs in the last act The scene
is in the African gold country. The vii
lains have destroyed bridge that spans a
certain raging cataract, knowing that it
is the hero's only escape from their clutches.
Among those in his party are three old
friends, formerly acrobats in tine circus
When it is discovered that the villain and
his Ininiohs are coming. these friends Of
the hero put their knowledge OF acrObatis
business TO good use. The taIlest and
strongest stands on the very brink OF the
canyon, another acrobat stands on his
shoulders, and third on the shoulders OF
the second, thus forIniBg'a tower some fiji
teen or sixteen feet high. The signal is
given, and this column OF human beings falls
SO that the top man gfasps a tree on ths
other side OF the chdsm, and a bridge OF
bodies is then formed. over which the hero
with his wife aud child pass 10 the otheI
side in safety. While this is but one of
the strikingly sensational features To be
seen in The Span OF Life, = it is certainly
without precedent in plays that have been
given upon the stage.
The times., 1897-03-14

marvellous faculty for touching the popular
heart. They were absolute mOnarchs in
their realms while their reigns lasted.
Mckee Rankin appealed to a class a
fraction above the others with his Dan
ties, still a strong stock piece, and his
"Canucks,' but in True TO Life he
approaches more nearly TO the sensation
loving Denman Thompson is well know II
as the actor and author of Joshua Whit
comb and The Old Homestead" two
plays of great popularity and long life,
because both of them contained elements of
sentiment, hunlor and truth which ap-
pealed TO all psrts of any tbeater Oliver
Dowd Byron made a name for himself as
an actor and an author with his Across
the Continent play thoroughly ad-
mirabe Judged in the liAht OF technical
development at the time it was written.
HIS heritage OF popularity from this
piece sustained him in many other less
commendable efforts
The balance of the list is short 1t in
| cludes Walter Sanford who has written
ali his own melodramas, the most famous OF
which was My jack Duncan Harrison,
who wrote Honest Hearts and Willing
Hands, and THE Man From BOSTON, for
John L. Sullivan. Though the pugilist was
nominally the star, Harrison, who was his
leading man, did all the acting: Lillian
Lewis is woman Of nervous energy and
self-belicf, who acts~out her own writ
ings, the latest sample of which was An
Innocent Sinner which the very few who
saw 1T will never forget, for reasons OBJ
| yious TO themselves.
1t is a familiar saying that good actor
| is good for nothing else. In the main this
| is strue. but man gifted with the geniu for
| Of Providence, and is no more an anomily
than the parsons who are not surgeons or
| the authors who cannot so much al mana ge
| their own finances, or the doctors who
| are totally ignorant Of law or theology.
Actors often make efforts to diverge from
| their confined line. Their sUperfluous en-
| ergy naturally SeiZes upon what is most
| familiar to them and most practical. This
| is either to write plays or To manage. The
actor-managcr has been a success n Eng
| is the only conspicuous foreign success as
! actor-author, whereas somany of our play
ers have distinguished themselves in this
/ hyphenated profession. If any deduction
! is to be drawn from this evidence, it is
| that the English actor is practical per.
son, and the American is more imaginative,
creative and artistic The American IL
more consistent to the inexactitude of his
art
The times., 1897-03-14

You probably didn't know atAnna Held
returns to Europe next Wednesday. Liz
zie Macnichol, of this city, is singing con
tralto roles with the stock opera company
in Philadelphia. Robert IngeTson calls
his new lecture Truth A Boston girl
sent Walter Jones cabinet photograph of
Sotsa, to remind him that his imita ton
could be improved. The gallery fell off
at the Academy one night last week, but
no one was hurt. Vivian Burnett's opera
for his class society in Harvard is called
..Foors Gold" Robert Edeson, the hand
some and efficient Juvenile of the Empire
stock, will be Maude Adams leading man,
when she stars.
The times., 1897-03-14

Helena Modjeska has appeared for the
last time on the public stage. This is as
serted by her permission, and it is oonsu-
tuted sad fact by the retnrn of her i'll
ness, which last year nearly took her life
She was to play in Cincinnati the week of
January 20. On Monday she was stricken
down with n trouble W hieh the hysicians
learnedly called plegmasia thrombo-phle-
bits. The gravity of the Illness was in
proportion to the dignity of the name.
Her right shoulder and arm sweiled abfor-
mally and she could not move without pain
After a few days it became evident that
only protracted rest could restore the
The times., 1897-03-14

We are to have more firSt-nights next
month. The play-hatchers have kept clear
of this estimahle dog town since the wreck
age OF Roaring Dick" landed on Gotham
sands. But there is no occasion for pref
udice. Washington's Judgment and Wash
ingtons mascot are both all right, and
all that a play needs to bound into sue
cess off our spring board is to deserve
it. The Columbia will be the nursery
OF one of the new pieces, and it Will be
the first experience of this little theater
with first night which is a first-night,
otherwise, to borrow from the French,
premiere. The date OF this interesting
event is set for April 12.
The new piece is Il threeact piece, The
Mysterious Mr.. Bugie," by Madeiaine Lu-
cettc Ryiey, who wrote Christopher, Jr."
for John Drew and An American Citizen"
Tor Nat Goodwin. Mrs. Ryle ought to write
a good farce. In the ''CitiZen" her best
act was the inimitabe third, where she
threw sentiment to the winds and waded
neck high in farcical lines and situations.
Her sentiment was the weaker portion of
the piece. / imagine her penchant has al
always been for unadulterated comedy, but
she was writing for comedians who nat
urally demanded sentiment and pathos to
make their audiences weep, simply because
their professional purpose is To make them
laugh. SO Mrs Ryley will doubtless give
her original talents full swing in the farce,
and we may expect something quite worth
while. MIR. Joseph Holland viii play the
principal part, which, | believe, S not Mr.
Bugle. Miss Annie Russell viii be Mrs.
Bugie. and Mr. Guy Standing will be in the
cast. Miss Russell and Mr.. Standing were
here last i'll Sue" The event is five
weeks away, but that only gives US the
more opportunity to work up our enthusi-
asm.
The times., 1897-03-14

Two of our principal theaters have novel
ties for us this week. The fame OF the
'.Beauty'' and Maryland" had preceded
them. but the gIories of The Last Of His
Race and Miss Francis OF Yale" have
not yet attracted widespread attention.
That is because they are both Of recent
production Mr Clarke has not had mis-
play on but three weeks, and the Morton
farce was hammered into shape on the
road previous to giving it a metropolitan
premiere last Monday in Baltimore. Such
criticism as have been able TO find speak
well Of both pieces Creston Clarke is an
intellectual gentleman OF good judgment,
and theatergoers have confidence in him
The principal players in Miss Francis OF
Yale" have PERSONAL or professional asso-
citation with Washington. There is La
viuia shannon Mrs Giles ShineD. who ever
claims this city a home, and Etienne, the
little Englishman with the French name,
is known to Us for his comic antics as the
student who masqueraded as ''Charley's
Aunt
By the way, the press gent for Miss
Frances in moment OF overanXiety TO en-
large the family circle Of Morton draTnatists,
sent ne an item saying that Michael Nor
ton is a brother OF Martha Morton, ''and
OF Hugh Morton, author Of An American
Beauty - l am inclined to think that
he thought this without thinking. Hugh
Morton is merely the nom de theater for
one Mr. Mcclellan, who started Town
Topics on its Journalistic career. Mar
tha and Michael are the only ones OF their
own family at present known as drama
lists.
The times., 1897-03-14

Another event of importance the same
week will be the presentation of a Charles
Klein play at the National, ''Dr. Belgraff. =
Klein has written "Heartsease" and Ell
Captains book, and he is writing plays
for other important producers. Wilton
Lackaye isthe star i'll this instance. Though
a Washingtonian he has grown into cos
mopoltan eminence which entities him
to register from New York Mr. Lackaye
has made a big success Of his first starring
season. But why shouldn't he? He is q
fine actor and a strong card, his play is
by a prominent dramatist and his com
pany includes Marie Wainwright, c w.
Couldock, Forrest Robertson, Alice Evans,
Byron Douglas and Joseph Allen amongthe
leaders
The times., 1897-03-14

In The Last of His Race the new ro-
mantle drama in which Creston Clarke
makes his appearance at the Columbia The
ater tomorrow night, Mr.. Clarke has q
part which is said to give him ample OPP
portunity to display his unusual ability
as a romantic actor. Trained as he has
been in the most artistic companies Of both
hemiSpheres, and with the dramatic cinstinct
inherent by birth, as a nephew of Edwin
Booth ana a son of John S. Clarke, In this
play, as the old Prince okolski and The lover
Louis, is said to have created a master
piece. The play is a purely romantic story
and tells tale of love, as do all such plays,
and deals with an interesting story of O
long-lost son who is at last restored to
his rights as the last of princely race.
The time of the play being the Marie An
toinette period, gives opportunity for u
lavish display of costufnng and scenery,
all of which has been taken advantage OF
by Mr.. Clarke's managers.
The times., 1897-03-14

One Of the brightest sketch teams seen
in Washington this season was Clifford
and Huth at the Lyceum last week. Their
sketch was conceived and executed with
originality and special talent. Rich & Kar
ris have engaged this team TO replace May
Irwin and John Rice in ''Courted into
Court" next season, and they are not mis-
taken in their choice.
The times., 1897-03-14

lillian Russell drops An American
Beauty presently to begin rehearsals with
Della Fox and jefferson De Angels,
partnership now Familiarity known as
1.-THE triple alliance" There was wide
diversity of opinion as TO the merits or
the opera, though all agreed that Lillian
retained her beauty. Some Faved over the
piece, some raved against it There seemed
to be no middle ground. But the theater
was packed nightly and Lillian looked
ingenuously into the bright eye Of the
calcium tank and was happy Negotia-
tions are now pending looking to the
replacement of Miss Russell by Pauline
Hail when the original beauty leaves to
Join the triple alliance. Miss Hall is a
stunning looking woman, or was before
refinement, and the part is such a one
as she would appear in to especial ad-
vantage But l am inclined to think that
Russell and not the opera was the magnet
for all tie noney that rolled into the
Columbia till last week
The times., 1897-03-14

the troupe with $40. The managers OF
the opera house Were two young business
men, who promptly discharged the tell
!. tale janitor and rendered Manager Richards
the SSS. lie absolutely refused to take it,
but that night the house managers pur
chased eighty weight 81 tickets to the show
and put them i'll the ticket box, so that
Richards might get his money back Ever
since then the members of the company
have been endeavoring to figure outwhere
they come in
The times., 1897-03-14

hence exactly. He finds Washington a
good Sunday night concert city, and the
booking agent doesn't know OF so many
that he can afford to give up those he has.
Besides, Manager Albaugh might not find
it convenient to give Sousa any other night,
because it would break in on a weekly at
traction
The times., 1897-03-14

other night at the AlhambTa in that city
a woman i'll a front seat, who was requested
toremoye herhat, not only refused, but drew
a razor and sIsshed the officer who had
spoken to her. This episode is also inter
esting from the peculiar nature OF the
weapon used.