The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-12
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, DECEMBER II, 1897

something, and she kills him. That's
where the perfectly divine funeral march
comes in, you know. Then she rides away
through the clouds or something ana
somebody makes some magic fire. which
burns Nalhalla-and that's all
Thank you, dear. How perfectly iovely
it is to know so much about Wagner. But
you have been In Beyreuth, haven't your
Yes, l never miss his operas. am
perfectly devoted to him"
How lOvely!'
The two worst weeks in the year for the
atrical attractions are the week before
| Christmas and Holy Week in Lent. Some
| Of the best companies do not play in either
| week. They find that it is cheaper to lay
| off because it a least saves travelling eX-
! penses and gas bills in the theater. IL
| must be a good show that can pay eX-
| penses at a time when the public are in
tercsted in spending their money for
! Christmas or paying attention to their re-
! hgious duties the six days before Easter
| Sunday.
have often wondered why it Is that all
| the musical mokes" play the same old
| tunes on the various instruments Whlch
! they carry with them, says a theater
| gOer. Is il possible that the capacity of
! the violin, or the xylophone, saXophone,
| comets, trombone or other not well-de-
! fined devices for making sound Will not
permit Of more than one or two arias, or
| is it because they haven't enough talent
or are too lazy to learn anything else?
! The cornet duettists give us "Ah, Have
Sighed to Rest Me- until every one wants
a rest. The saxophonists attempt Alice
! Where Art Thou?" The bell performers
tinkle THE Blue Bells of Scotland" and
the calliope pipes THE Carnival of We
It,fo -bs ryfxr
thing new may convince the public that
they have some artistic ability and are
not mere mechanics or puppets.
New York, with all its great interest in
the Wagner operas, never undertook to
hear them in such a thorough scale as
that which is projected next season in
London, "Beyreuth in London is the term
by which the scheme may best be describ-
cd, and CoVent Garden is to be the scene
Of the attempt 1t is now announced with
a seriousness that obviously looks for ac-
ceptance, that the performances are to be-
gin at O'Clock in the afternoon, with an
inteImission of one hour between acts.
The audience will be expected to go home
to its dinner between the first and second
acts. For the accomplishment of this
purpose this first intermission will last
one hour and half.
be produced at the Renaissance theater,
in Paris, Sarah Bernhard will be seen as
a working girl supposed to be only % years
old. The French critics are noticing a
tendency on Nine. Bernhardts part as
she grows older to play younger and
younger roles, and it is probably a good
thing for the French stage, says Leander
Richardson, that "Uncle Toms Cabin"
hasn't penetrated to that country, or we
might one of these days find Sarah star
ring as little Eva. In her new play she
doesn't appear until early in the third act,
but from that point onward they say,
she practically carries the whole perform
ance. Bernhardt is now 90 years old.
A stranded payer walking homeward is
no fiction of the farcical humorist. Wash
ington has just had a real case in Alice
Marshall, who was found hungry and i'll
in the streets after a journey afoot from
Richmond, where the disbandment of a
Hogans Alley company had left her with
out money or friends.
''The Little Minister" now the leading
exponent of the" kail-yard" Scotch dialect
on the stage. is to have a rival. 1t is an
nounced that Thomas Winthrop Hall, col
laboratng with James Macarthur has
dramatized Beside the Bonnie Briar
Bush" Mr.. Hall is a well known maya
zine writer, whose home is in Norwalk,
in this state, and whose contributions TO
the various periodicals has won more or
less renown. In their work Messrs. Hal
and Macarthur had the assistance of the
wife of the first named gentleman, Jennie
Dunbar Han who, prior to her marriage,
was a member of E. II. Sothern's COM
pany. For the next year or two we must
be prepared to hear the delightful, but I'M
Ineligible "Hoot, mon, gang ava" and
Aiblins, Jock, but you're a Draw lad" 1t
is inevitable, although awful.
Frederick Paulding has retired from
Walker Whitesides support, and gone to
San Francisco to play in the Alcazar the
alter.
Otis Skinner has kindly sent all the pa
pers in the case relating to the discussion
recently stirred up at Indianapolis by a
clergyman who mathematical the theater
without knowing that Mr.. Skinner was in
town to talk back.
These eX-cathedra utterances by clergy
men who talk from hearsay and have no
personal knowledge of what transpires
upon the stage or among theatrical people,
MIR. Skinner says, do not harm anyone but
the speaker. The sensible people in his
congregation know that he violently boasts
of never attending a theater, and is
therefore not at all a valuable witness in
regard to those matters and things con-
corning which he talks with so much as
surance. They are also aware that to this
extent he proclaims his own falibillty and
with Dogberry, writes himself down an
ass.
The theater like all other Institutions
(the pulpit included that are conducted
by human beings, has its faults. The I'M
dercrust is soggy and unwholesome and
sometimes the upper crust also becomes
tainted in spots for reasons that must pre-
and women to a true sense of morality
But there is a cry ringing down through
the ages, "let him that is without sin cast
the first stone" and somewhere man is
enjoined not TO bear false witness against
his neighbor. /
Beerbohm Tree will act Marc Antony in
his production of Julius Caesar al Her
Majesty's theater, London, reducing the
play to three acts. London has had no no.
I IL.