The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
WEEK FULL OF PLAYS.
wELODRAMA, CONCERT, PICTURES
AND DRAMA IN THE LIST.

.Human Hearts" to Open the Week.
yeriscOpe Pictures Follow and the
week to Close With Wilton Lack
ayes Engagement in ''The Royal
Secret'-Manager Weis' Compile
ment to the Sea Girt Team-The
KrOnberg's Concert at the Guards
Hall.
thanksgiving week will be a merry one
in amusements. The theater will be open
every night and for three matinees OPEN
ing tomorrow night with the melodrama
Human Hearts" following with a veri-
scope exhibition and closing with Mr. Will
ton Lackayes engagement. The feature
of this engagement will be the
attendance of the members of
the Sea Girt rifle team in full uniform.
wearing their medals. The weeks at
fractions at the theater and the opening of
the Star course of entertainments are as
follows:
Monday and Tuesday Nights and Tues
day Matinee-"Human Hearts,"
Wednesday and Thursday Nights and
Thursday Matinee-Veriscope pictures of
Co-5ett-Fitzsimmons fight.
Friday and Saturday Nights and Satur-
day Matinee-Wilton Lackaye in 1.-THE
Royal Secret"
Guards Hall, Tuesday Night-The Kron-
bergs concert
The Manhattan Stock Company closed
las, night the longest engagement played in
the theater for many years having given
fourteen consecutive performances. The
company is an excellent one throughout
and its repertoire of plays has been sutfi-
GENTLY varied to keep up the interest and
patronage. The closing play was ''Mr
Barnes of New York" repeated by request
A good deal of interest was taken in the
award of the $25 in gold.
Human Hearts," with its human story
framed in scenic settings, comes to Sa-
yannah theater-goers for the first time
There is no denying the merits of the
production, if the notices in eastern pa
pers can be relied upon The piece has
had run of great success in all the large
cities, and is in its third year, but for the
first time on the southern circuit Hal
Reid. the author of the play, will be in
the cast, and will play tom Logan" the
crossroads blacksmith The story deals
with life in the hills of Arkansas The
first act shows Tom Logan married to
jeanette Armsdale, an adventures To-
gan is also loved by Ruth Larkim Fred
rick Armsdale, an old lover of jeanette
comes to the Logan homestead and
jeanette, disappointed in Logan as a hus-
band, consents to run away with him and
desert her infant child. Armsdae, fear
ing a just retribution at Logan's hands,
suggests that he kill him. Jeanette con-
sents and plans the details, but by an ac-
cident Logan's old father is stabbed to
death instead. Logan is discovered stand
ha. hndx RI,
hand. and though the murder has been
witnessed by Jim Mason, a tramp Logan
is accused of the crime by his wife and is
sentenced to prison for life. Logan now
realizes that he has loved Ruth all the
While. Once free from prison he searches
for his child. He finds her in the keeping
of his false wife and her lover. Aided by
the tramp, whom he had befriended Lo-
gan rescues his child, and the faithleSs
wife is accidentally shot by Armsdae
This play has an entire outfit of scenery
and mountings, and is in the hands OF the
original company that placed it on a firm
basis of success
Ever since the first exhibition of the
Veriscope pictures OF the sGbrbett-Fitz-
simmons glove contest, which took place
at Carson City New, March H. there has
been considerable discussion in the news
papers. of the country as to the decision
Siven by the referee on that 6oea sion. The
points of the contest that have aroused
the most discussion are the sixth four
teenth rounds. In the sixth round, up to
which time Corbett did nearly all the lead
ing, COrbett landed a right hand blow on
Fitzsimmons and sent him to the floor
The referee was slow in starting to count
and stopped in the middle of the count to
warn Corbett back to his corner, not count
ing until Corbett had stepped back This
gave Fitzsimmons three or four seconds
rrvl,s .L l.
though Fitzsimmons got on his feet when
the referee counted nine, yet many who
were at the original contest hold that he
was really down twelve seconds and should
have lost the decision on that account
Again in the fourteenth round, the foul
blow dealt by Fitzsimmons when Corbett
was down, has caused a great many peo-
PIE who were at the original contest, and
who have since seen the pictures to claim
that the decision should have been given
10 Corbett on that account. Corbett is seen
TO lead for Fitzsimmons when the latter
steps TO one side and lands the famous
solar plexus blow. Corbett sinks to one
knee and hand, and as he reaches the
hoor Fitzsimmons, quick as a fash, sends
IN the same hand and lands on Corbetts
jaw Corbett's head is seen to rebound
from the effects of this blow and he i'm
meGiately craWls toward the ropes in a
vain effort to pull himself together before
simmons and his friends claim that this
blow had no effect as Corbett was already
out from the effects of the blow in the
heart but none of them deny that the
blow was struck. although from the strict
observance of the rules which governed
Inc contest, F'izsimmons should have lost
lhe decision. In the veriscope pictures of
'as contest, every detail and action of
Une is taken to show a round of the con-
Jest as was used in fighting it at Carson
| Ivy consequently any one, by holding a
watch on the sixth round and counting the
uIae Fitz was down, and closely follow
ing Fitzsimmons movements in the four
tenth round, can settle these points to
u"T own satisfaction. The management
OF the theater has secured the veriscope
PICTURES of the contest, and they will be
seen here Wednesday and Thursday nights
and Thanksgiving matinee.
Many expressions of satisfaction have
p.eh heard from the announcement that
AIT. Wilton Lackaye in his production of
'ae Royal Secret" which will be seen
IHe'y and Saturday nights and al Satur-
uf s. matinee, will be seen in a costume