The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-11
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c.GEMENT AT THE THEAfER'
ans Revenge the Opening
a -. Auraction-The Engage
NE VIII Be About the Last of the
n-Amateur Entertainments
aid the Boards After Easter.
ia one OF the First.
A va, Rsiss Company will appear at
IN, ...tsr this week, presenting a change
tle '-' rfgbtly. Tomorrow night A Wo-
Of VA Psvenge will be the attraction. At
liia' .-formance ladies will be admitted
lii4s -,,sn accompanied by paid 30-cent
The following is from the Colum-
tlo - state: 1.-The Nat Reiss Com
-. is something decidedly above the
p'.. Of the popular price shows. 1t is
,.,ly new to Columbia, but after to-
-lsss performance will be ever welcome
thoroughly first-class company
c' Ogarita is not travelling on her
- as she is an exceedingly clever and
--.r.ctive actress. Her acting is well
sa,,r5ed and real The company is made
80 If tfrst-class talent"
za,sra a charming and popular little
. will be given at the theater soon
- ater The operetta was arranged
a. Mr. Tobn NJ. Black who assumes
'pSoj,rg role in the production. The music
-, selected from standard comic op-
~ with great care and judgment, with
80 result that Zelena has very clever
tii,retto set TO the very brightest and most
p,roi,7e, music that has been written.
Nll1'' In,
prownies and Excelsior, Jr,, will be in
troduced. The dances and groupings Of
- shorils are under the direction of Prof.
Piock and this assures their being grace
full and original,
the exciting times of the Franco-Prussian
war and the operetta is rich in bright and
catchy musical numbers. Rehearsals
bave been going on for some time. The
rrincipal characters will be in the hands
of people who will do them full justice,
and the chorus has been carefully select
cd and well trained. Calcium lights with
color combinations, will be used, and the
oneretta will be superbly mounted. The
chorus will number eighty voices and the
accompaniment Will be furnished by an
orchestra.
CAPT. Charles King, whose army stories
ers. seems in a fair way to add to his
laurels as an author those of a success
full playwright, says a Milwaukee dis
patch He has recently signed a contract
with the Actors Society of America for
the production of his play Fort Frayne,
at the Broadway theater, in New York,
May Z 1t adds no little honor to the pro-
duction that this play was chosen by the
board Of directors from among a dozen
~. a1aa -
ciety The play was written in collabora
ton with Mrs. E. G. Sutherland of the
Boston Journal, and Mrs. e. S. Fry, the
leading lady of the Boston Museum, sew
eral years a go. The play is not, as might
he supposed, a dramatization of the sue
cessful novel by Capt King of that name.
but the novel is rather the outcome of
the play, After the play was written it
was submitted TO friends of the author
and dramatic critics for their opinion, and
while thus on the rounds the manuscript
of the play was lost and Capt. King was
advised by his friends to write a story on
the incidents of the play, and under the
copyright of the novel he could protect
his rights in the play. Once the novel
was off the stocks, Capt. King resumed
work on the play, which was again re-
produced, and this it is which is now set
for production by 1.-THE actors society,
Capt King will leave for the east some
tine next month to assist in the preparaA
ton of the production. His contract with.
the society is for three, years, and it is
understood that after the New York pro-
duction the play viii be brought west.
At the same time it is put on the boards
IN New York it will be produced by the
Actors society in London.
There was a curious accident during
one of Olga Nethersole's best scenes IN
Camille at the New York Garden theater
last week. Armand, in the gambling
scene, had shrieked denunciation at his
supposedly faithless love, and amid
breathless silence poor Camille sank into
low seat At that instant a music box
Of the common or garden variety struck
up Tit Willow" and played unchecked
for nearly a minute. Whether the box
was forgotten bit of stage property that
some jar had set off, or was somewhere
in the orchestra, it was impossible to tell.
In any case, an incipient smoker from a
goodly portion of the audience bade fair
to mar the scene before the luckless box
took pity on the actress and ceased play
ing.
At Carlsruhe singers volunteer to take
part in the choruses at the opera with
out compensation, and the Court theater
nnds no difficulty in securing capable SUI
pernumerares and actors for the less inn
portant roles who are glad to appear for
nothing. The theater and the opera both
have high position in Germany.
The report of the debut of Jeanne-M Marie
Langtry is the heralding of a new and ex
quisite star in the social armament of
London. Jeanne for a long time, upon
the absurd advice of Mrs. Labouchere,
was not known to be the child of the ia
NOUS Jersey Lilly, but her niece. Jeanne
always knew the exact relation though,
and adored her mother with something
akin to worship.
The Paris courts have permanently re-
fused 70 allow the performance in Paris
OF Night in Venice, in which George
sand and Alfred de Musset were TO appear
as the leading figures. Both of these celeb
rites We're presented In such light that
Two OF their descendants secured the in
terdlcuon of the piece, although the the
. Ter IN which it was to be given is a pri-
Nate one.
, Sardou, whose latest play, Spiritism,
mas already been discontinued in the rep
ertolre OF the Renaissance thea ter in Paris,
ADMITS that this work is one of the great
81 failures he has ever had to suffer. He
9 ialms, however, that he is a victim Of
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