The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-05

the American rights to the drama, which
offers her an excellent opportunity, and
she intends to produce it late this season
with another play on a special occasion
yet to be announced
Julia Arthur's receipts at Wailack's
theater one week We're the largest in the
history of that house at the prices now
prevailing. Up to Miss Arthurs engage
ment the most money ever taken in at
a single performance was 81 SO Miss Ar
thurs receipts were considerably more
than that. Manager Lewis has been try
ing to cancel time on the road so as to
prolong the run of "a Lady of Quality"
but without success.
John Philip Sousas new opera, THE
Bride Elect" will be produced for the
first time at New Haven Conn, Dec 20.
In the early part of February the opera
will make its first appearance at the
Knickbocker theater in New York for a
long run. The company will comprise a
chorus of fifty, twelve coryphees and a
military band.
The material of which Rose Coghlan's
dress, worn in the ballroom scene of 1.-The
White Heather is made, is said to have
cost the mere trihe of $27 yard. 1t was
furnished, along with the other costumes
of this scene, by the management
One of the livelest numbers in Sousa's
Eel Captain" which De Wolf Hopper
brings to Savannah this month is the trio
''The Typical Tune to Zanzibar" Sousa
wrote the words as we'll as the music to
this melodious trio.
Maude Odell will originate one of the
leading roles of Joseph Arthur's new dra-
ma, THE Salt of the Earth" Miss Oden
haG or Of
Lyceum theater, and has made several
pronounced hits, chief among them one in
''The Prisoner of Zenda." She is a Beau
fort lady and has many friends In Savan-
nah.
After DeWolf's initial presentation of
lei Captain in New York everybody in
the streets seemed to have caught the in.
lection of Sousas music. 1.-The Typical
Tune of Zanzibar seemed to be the favor
lite. Few people knew that the words, as
well as the music of this dainty little mum
Der, were written and composed by Mr..
Sousa, who, in fact, wrote quite a mum.
Der of the lyrics of "El Captain" but the
Zanzibar number is the most popular Of
his rhymes The trio tells of a pathetic
love tragedy in these jingling phrases:
Under her window he softly crept
While father and mother and Towser slept.
Then piunking tune on his light guitar.
From out of her chamber emerged the
maid,
Begging the name of the tune he played;
Said he as he plunked his light guitar,
:" tbs a Typical Tune of Zanzibar -
yours for aye" the maiden cried:
I'm ready to marry-to be your bride,
Only PUNK again on your light guitar,
The Typical Tune of Zanzibar"
Looking with love on his bride to be.
He tuned the strings in another key;
Then plunked again on his light guitar
The Typical Tune of Zanzibar"
high,
Into his arms and ready to fly;
But Towser had heard the light guitar
And the Typical Tune of Zanzibar
They buried them down by the ocean
spray,
Where oft al night, so the neighbors say,
Is heard the PUNK of the light guitar
And the Typical Tune of Zanzibar"
De Wolf Hopper has been telling some
body why he quite recting Casey at the
Bat" 1t seems he had not met Thayer,
the man who wrote the rhymes, until
chance threw them together at the Play
ers Club in New York, and Mr. Hopper
was disappointed because the author was
small man of delicate build and effemin-
ate manners. II asked him." says Mr..
Hopper, "for his version of Casey curl
GUS to know just what the author inter-
probation would be-
II was disappointed. He ran through
the several verses in the most ordinary
tone of voice with an absence OF gestures,
and with scarcely a rising or falling in
Election to relieve the monotony of his ex-
preston. But for the words, you might
have fancied he was reading a spring
poem
1.-THE worst of all came when he reached
the XIII him; kill the umpirev part. You
know how the cranks say it-just roar Il
out savagely, as though they meant It. But
Thayer put no particular emphasis on the
lines; he spoke them just as he had the
rest of it, in a sad, Fireman, save my
child style, conveying absolutely no idea
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