The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21


gaze, being so strongly concentrated upon
Mr MORRISON, IL drew his attention to the
stranger. Cnconsciously he played to him
the balance of the performance A sort
OF magnetic current seemed to draw them
together. As the audience filed out of the
theater the stranger asked the manager
OF the company where they appeared the
following night. Upon being told Column
bus, o., he remarked, I'm be there" and
hurriedly walked away The following
evening and the evening after the strang-
er appeared and witnessed Mr.. Morrison's
portrayal of Mephisto," Mr. Morrison
again noticed thin and the phenomena
or playing to person directly was re-
peated. For nearly ten days this went on,
Until one night the stranger was missing,
when his mysterious movements were ex>
planned. He had been an inmate of The
ldnauc asylum at Athens, O.. who had
escaped some weeks before. His one hal
lucination was that he had sold himself
to the devil and the weirdness of Mr.. Nor
rison's performance of the arch demon
had so attracted him that he had followed
the company from city to city and his re-
capture was, therefore. made easy. He
appeared promptly at the theater at s
O'Clock and Immediately after the per-
formance disappeared again, speaking to
no one.
The opening attraction next week is the
opera "Geisha," Monday and Tuesday
nights and Tuesday matinee.
In Henry Arthur Jones latest play, THE
Liars" Charles Wyndham is said to have
the longest single speech in any modern
play. 1t is said to contain over 800 words.
A similar objection has been made to Mr..
Jones latest work in its entirety.
Lewis Morrison produced Frederick the
Great" last week. The scenes are laid
in Potsdam, and 1852 is the period. The
story deals largely with the trials of a
young soldier, who is desperately in love
with the kings ward, with whom he be-
came acquainted quite by chance
When E. H. Sothern first visited Antho-
ny Hope in London the author still retain
ed the writing quarters in the temple
which had been the scene of his early
struggles. The actor climbed several
flights of stairs and knocked on the door
1t was opened by Hope, who glared. I'm
Sothern," said the visitor. I'm Hope"
was the rejoinder The actor entered and
found the room Uttered with papers,
books and manuscripts. He sat down. So
did Hope. Neither spoke Finally Soth-
ern said: Sorry 1 disturbed you" 80
am l., said Hope, I'm in the middle of
a chapter" Good day." said the actor
ended the first interview.
The towns which have lost theaters
through fire or accident this season are
Akron, o.; Cohoes, N. Y; Cincinnati, O.,
and Detroit, Mich. Towns which have
new theaters are Anaconda, Indianapolis.
Terre Haute, Cohoes, Portland, Me-, OF
tawa, Canada; Syracuse, N. Y, and Grip
pie Creek. Col.
Fanny Davenport denies most emphati-
cally that she will revive any of the Sar-
dou plays this season. Miss Davenport
pins her faith to "a Soldier of France"
and will appear in that piece exclusively
this season.
Bernhard has returned to Paris from
her tour of Belgium and Holland She
expects to visit the United States next
autumn.
William Gillette has just finished an
adaptation of French farce His trim to
London in the spring has been abandoned
and an English company will give TOO
Much Johnson"
Yvette Guilbert has such popuIaritv
at the Scala In Paris, that the hour for
her performance has been made earlier
in order to make time for her recalls.
Charles F'rohman will have two new
productions in the next four weeks. Tho
first of these will be "a Marriage of
Convenience" in which John Drew and
his company will appear at the Empire
theater. THE White Heather" will fol-
low at the Academy of Music, employing
over 200 people in it's representation.
After that he will produce a new play by
Joseph Arthur, entitled THE Salt of the
Earth" which will have a part for Annie
Russell, and the company presenting it
will number forty players. The last of the
quartette of productions. will be the Cir
Gus Girl" which will have a company of
seventytwo people. The plays VIII give
employment to 325 people in all. and they
will swell the number of actors on Charles
Frohmans salary list to over 1000.
A decided novelty in Wilton Lackaye's
Royal Secret" was in the fact that for
once the bad woman wore light har and
the good one dark. That is in .lirect VIC
lation of all rules of fiction where the
people who fail in the last act Invariably
own hair two dozen shades darker than
the successful peoples, but it counts for
brunettes.-Washingto Post
-Collegio Beda is the name given to the
new English college at Rome by Pope Leo.
in honor of st. Bede the Venerable. He re-
jected the names Pho and Leonino.