The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
THE WEEKS ATTRACTIONS.
THEATER TO BE OPEN TWO NIGHTS
AND A MATINEE.

The Widow Goldstein Wednesday
Night and the Devils Auction SAT-
urday-Frederick Warde in a New
PIa9-Nat Goodwin Returns From
Europe-Nevs of the StageIand.
In a few weeks the theatrical season
will be fairly open and the attractions will
| begin to come more rapidly. The theater
viii be open two nights this week and a
Saturday matinee. The Widow Goldstein
will be seen Wednesday &ght, and Charles
H. Yale's Devils Auction will give two
performances Saturday. The following
week will come Marie Jansen in Nancy
Hanks, Bancroft, the magician, and the
| extravaganza, 1892.
The Widow Goldstein is a comedy by
| Lillian Lewis and Lawrence Marston. 1t
is in three acts, the time of action being
the present and the scene New York. The
piece is more of a farce than a comedy,
and the plot is a complicated one 1t
makes everybody get into trouble, and the
resultant mishaps and mistakes go to
make up the farce, which is said to be
very funny. Harry Rodgers, the comedian,
is in the principal part.
As sure as Christmas is to come, so IS
Yale's DEVILS Auction. It's annual pilgrim
age to Savannah is a certainty. OF shows
of its class the Devils Auction is a very
coed production. 1t usually has new fea-
lures every year, though the principal ac-
ton of the piece is the same. Some of the
new features this year will be new alb
surdity entitled, The Bashful Maidens;
song and pantomime speciality; and bur-
lesque on the bicycle craze.
Thomas w. Keene Louis James, Walker
Whiteside and Robert Downing will be the
only opponents of Shakespearean plays
this fall. Julia MarIowe, Ada Rehan and
Margaret Mather will be the only female
stars to act Shakespearean characters.
There will be in opposition over three hun
bred farce-comedy actors, over twenty
farce-comedy stars, seventeen stars using
modern or romantic plays and thirtyslx
melodramas.
Thomas W. Keene, the tragedian, has
contemplated the revival of the play,
Drink, this season. For the present, how
ever, Mr.. Keene will stick to his extensive
repertory. which includes Richard III,
Hamlet, Othello, julius Caesar, The Mer-
chant of Venice, Richelieu and Louis XI.
Later In the season he may produce q
strong historical play, which he is now
studying; the scenes of which are laid in
America. That excellent actor, Charles
B. Hanford, is supporting Mr.. Keene.
Edwin Milton Royle and Selma Fetter
Royle are playing Capt Impudence in
New York. The play was written by Mr..
Royle, and is a Mexican war drama. Mr..
and Mrs. Royle will be remembered for
1nair q favU
of that beautiful play, Friends, which
was also written by Mr.. Royle.
The title Klondike has been filed for
copyright with the librarian of congress
fourteen times and as many more times
the glittering word appears as part of
title. In some instances a complete play
has been sent on, but in most cases the
authors seem to think that name alone
may be copyrighted. The fact is that
ever so many plays bearing the title Klon-
dixie might be used without legal re-
straint, provided that none of them was
| stolen from another.
Nat Goodwin sailed from Europe last
week. Immediately upon his arrival he
will begin rehearsals of An American Cit
izen, which will be put on in few weeks.
Mr.. Goodwin will again have as his lead
ing lady Miss Maxine Elliott.
Frederick Warde will be seen this season
in new play called Islander. The play
is taken from DisraeHs romance 'sThe
Rise of Islander" An interesting drama
OF the cross and crescent, just at this
time, when the country in which the
scenes are laid has recently been the thea
ter of war should prove especially attrac-
tive.
James O'Neill has recently revived The
Dead Heart, which che will produce ex-
tensively this season. Mr. O'Neill was in
jured the other night by being struck with
the wadding of a gun, which was fired in
the scene of the storming of the bastlle
His injuries, however, were not serious.
At the presentation of Humanity at the
theater last Monday night not a lady in
the parquet wore a hat.