The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24

The Boston Festival Orchestra concerts
81 Nav are the leading events yet to come
Following these will be the May Musical
Festival on the 18th and 14th Nine. ST.
q Playter's concert for the Cathedral
81 fund is on the 5th. Nine Playter has Sc
cured some of the leading vocal soloists
and instrumentalists In the city to assist
81 taken in the concert. One of Its features
8 will be the introduction of little Yettie
d Herman the child prodigy. who has been
81 for time under Nine Playter's instruc-
ton, and whom she regards the most re-
81 markable child musician of the day.
The coming of the Festival Orchestra is
81 being anticipated with great pleasure. The
81 visit of the orchestra being limited to two
Il concerts it was thought wise to give one
81 programme that would be both a concert
B and an opera; thus from to the orches-
ira, seated upon the stage, will with the
H assistance of sololsts render a complete
concert programme of one hour, consisting
Of instrumental numbers by the orchestra
and arias and solos by the different ar
lists. Then the orchestra will be seated
in front of the stage and the principal
II genes Of the Barber of Seville" will be
rendered in costume with proper stage set
tings, The principal roles are assumed by
Rose Stewart, Del Puente, William LAWN
and Alfonso Rosa. They put the comedy
through with spontaneity which matches
the rollicl1ing beauty of the music, the So
loists being abetted by Mr.. Mollenhauer
as conductor.
3 Prof. Schenk's theory has been drama
TIED at last, and not by Paul Potter or
sydney Rosenfeld. 1t is used in a one-act
German play which has it's scenes laid in
s. an imaginary country. DR.. Schenk through
the operation of his theory is able to
settle the difficulties that have arisen
through the struggles of women to receive
equal rights with men. The play is called
& The Chained stork."
The information comes from Kansas
City that with the close of the present
season the partnership Of Primrose and
81 West, the great minstrel men, will be dis
B solved. They have been associated in bus
E mess for twenty-seven years.
The author Of May TWINS great comedy
success, "The Swell Miss Fitzwell," Mr..
Fl. A. DuSouchet, is about the most re-
markable of all the contemporaneous writ
ers for the American stage. His success
has been made almost lin a day." for it
was only a short time ago that Mr. Du-
Souehets light was hidden most ignomi-
nlously under a bushel, for he was then
employed at a meager salary as a tele-
graph operator In one of the large news
paper Offices In New York city He con-
ceived the idea of writing a comedy, and
4 from that moment his fortune was made
lie jumped from under the bushel into the
SHOES Of what has turned out to be the
most successful of modern farce writers,
and his first success has been followed
II BY many others.
very apt bit of repartee is remember
ed Of Richard Mansfield long before he
became great and famous However, ii
vas not before he had confidence in his
own capacity for dramatic accomplish
ment for that time never was. He has al
ways believed in himself just as firmly as
me public now believes in him. In the
Gays of his youth, recalls the Chicago wo-
man who was party to the play of wit,
4 Ne made some remark, significant of his
4 seh-conlidence. 81 wonder" said She eff
4 there is anything vainer than you actors"
Yes replied the modest Mansfield, my
Uorts to attract audiences"
Il Jack Mason, in a Mirror Interview last
q week, said that he has entirely reformed
ana is hopeful of winning back his many
aomlrers by good work hereafter. The once
Ppular actor also announced that he will
never again be professionally associated
Tl'l his wife, Marion Manola. The friends
% Mr. Mason hope sincerely that he will
Atn these pOnH resolutions a n reform
Savannah theater-goers are familiar
WIN his troubles here last winter.
Edwin Milton Royle, the actor. accord
ns to the latest story, is practically re-
p"nslole for the vogue of John Philip
''sa. Some years ago Mr.. Royle in his
"'nderlngs about the country discovered
1 '''' Sousa in theater orchestra I'm Wash
's'on. where he played first violin In a
looal theater for remuneration of SIS a
Nt'N Mr.. Royle. who is possessed of dis
Eliminating taste, realized that in Sousa
/ mere was something more than the aver
we lheater musical butcher, and gave him
we position of musical director of his
own company, and did much to advance
interests. Later on Sousa went back
20 Washington, where first he had been
discovered, and for several years he was
O1e OF the features OF the town. and WIS
"a pat VI Tic it<iaibtHAAdA ANNNP~
IONS, although nominally present only in
capacity as bandmaster, as'either Har-
,lson or Cleveland during whose admins
I'Vons he was connected with the Marine
'H1, sousa, though OF Spanish extrac-
.'n' 1as none of the natural Incidence of
Latins. he is a hard worker and gets
ugh with considerable daily task In
w he Is an odd contrast to his father.
'ose favorite aphorism was that The
o.. ~. MI
ior sleep.
aflous nations have various notions OF
''l constitutes strictly moral play our
.-,f ahused THE conquerors" was ac-
p,'a by The stage censor Of England
N'ut murmur. while our dearly be- |
he Gelaha" has been characterized
.... D.. i'arlslan critic as being grossly indie
d. 81. Hill, the inan who made Margaret