The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31
EIGHT PLAYS THIS WEEK.
THE uALDWIN-MELVIIL co. AND
CARL GARDENERS ENGAGEMENTS.

rARI G ARDNER'S ENGAGEMENTS.
v,naaer baldwin to Present Six
PLAYS. Opening Tomorrow With "A
Matinee Performance of "Hazel
txtrLe"-CharIes Gardner, the Ger
man comedian. in His New Play,
.axarI." Saturday Matinee and
Night
Tho Baldwin Melville Company and
Karl Gardner of Little Bunch of Lilacs"
tame VIII be the only attractions at the
tbeater Ibis week.
The baldwin Melville Company will open
tts enga cement at to-morrows matinee,
with Hazel Kirke." At night Gillette's
NAV an the Comforts of Home" will be
Given. The company will play three
nights engagement with daily matinees.
The company needs no introduction to sa-
yannaa patrons of papalar and popular
price plays. ~
Saturday matinee and night
Charles \. Gardner, the German come
dian will be the star. He will present for
the first time in Savannah, Karl, the Ped
der" II is pronounced by competent crit
les to be Mr.. Gardher's most successful
venture and judging from press opinions
and the reception accorded the piece else
where, there is a rare treat in store for
orr amusement seekers. The characters
of the play are said to be strong, and the
situations are natural possibilities and
intensely interesting. Karl, the Peddler,"
Is not one-part play, as are most of the
pieces in dialect. The piece is lnterspersed
with pretty songs and music. Mr.. Gard
ner will sing his latest hit, Tell This to
Ny Sweetheart" also his famous songs,
"The Lily" THE Lilac" apple Bios
sons and many others. The three
Schuyler Sisters will introduce popular
duets and trios, and Miss De Forrest, the
famous warbler Will be heard
In announcing the coming of the Man
haitian Stock Company, Manager Weiss
assures the public that he never entered
into an engagement with so much conf
dence and pride as the present one in
spires, and ne feels certain of a series
of excellent receptions, such as have
greeted the organization in every city in
which it has appealed. Every play will
be correctly presented to the smallest
detail. Every role be it ever so small
will be played by an actor of experience
The plays to be presented are all tried
successes, ana produced by permission of
the authors.
lines Ford will be in Savannah in
February. The date has not been ar
ranged.
Henry E. Dixey will make his debut as
a magician under the management of Ed
ward L. Bloom at the Garden theater
New York, on Nov. Is. Considerable in
terest is attached to Dixey's debut in
magic, in view of the fact that the late
Hermann pronounced Dixey as the only
man he knew who had the natural abil-
Ity and talent to succeed him. In fact
Hermann tried for a long time to induce
DIxey to sign contract with him, assert
ing that If DiXey would travel with him
for one year he would abdicate at the
END of that time in his favor.
Lew Rosen, who is now the London resi-
dent correspondent Of the Washington
Post, has received an autograph letter
from Cardinal Vaughan, commencing
"Napoleon's Opera Glass - the book in
which Mr.. Rosen gives a detailed account
OF the relations between NapoIeOn and
such players as Talma and Mars and
such playwrights as Chenier, Lemercfer
and Goethe.
Christopher, Jr.," says George Backus.
who impersonates the title role, was the
second play written by Madeleine Lucette
Ryley. She conceived the plot from very
trif1ing circumstance. A young friend of
Mrs. Ryley had passed his life getting into
and out of scrapes, and was finally turn
ed out of his fathers house for something
Tor which he was not to blame 1t was On
case of give dog a bad name Some OF
the characters are old acquaintance.
whom Mrs. Ryley has slightly exaggerat-
ed, and two of them are exact reproduc-
IONS OF members of her own family 1t is
against their religious principles to attend
the theater, or when the play was pro-
duced in London she would have been
found out, christopher, Jr..' took Mrs
Ryley just about five weeks to write and
just about five years to place The first
person to whom she read the play was E.
II. Sothern On his recommendation DAN
sci Frohman read 1t and purchased the
rights to hold it for two years. At the end
of this time it came back to Mrs. Ryley.
and she submitted it to several likely peo-
pie 1t was finally accepted and produced
by Charles Frohman, who put it on to fill
in two or three weeks at the Empire the
alter. 1t proved such a success, however,
that he kept Ii on for fifteen weeks and la
ter placed it at another theater in New
York, where it was played altogether two
hundred times.''
HOW ELIZARETH WAS DRESSEn