The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-17
AT THE THEATER.
Miss BIair's Successful Presentation
of "a Lady of Qualify"

Miss BIair's Successful Presentation
of "a Lady of Quality"
Miss Eugene Blair was seen in "A Lady
of Quality at two performances yester.
day. The audience was not large at either
performance, but the engagement alto
gether was successful.
For the Elk's benefit tonight "a Day
and Night in New York" Hoyt's new
musical farce, will be acted for the first
time in this city with Otis Harlan in the
principal character. The play is said to
have proved quite as successful as any of
Hoyrs previous effusions. In the metrop-
oils, according TO managerially- furnished
information, the farce pleased large aud
fences during an extended run
Mr.. Hoyt has provided in "A Day and
Night" the story of a piously-reared
youth who is transformed into a reveler a s
a result of paternal disgust with the man
ner in which he has been raised. The
father is a gruff and knowing old navy
officer who regards his relgiously-inclined
son as failure, and who determines TO
teach the hoy some of the delights of life
as it is lived in New York city's tender
loin. So, when the youth goes to the me-
tropolis to engage choir-singers for the
church of his native New jersey town, he
is introduced to a company of soubrettes
and actors, and is made to believe that they
are persons suitable for church work
An eX-actress of the group discovers to
her CONSERVATION that the victim of the
evenings fun is her fance, She having kept
him in ignorance of her stage connections
When he recognizes her, she denies her
identity, and seeks TO interrogate him re-
garding the sweetheart for whom he has
mistaken her. She finds him to be quite
a man-of-the-worid for he drops his air
of sanctity, and leads the rioting and fun.
His pious mother, accompanied by the ru-
raj minister, arrives while the revel is at
its perihelon; but the mother is reprimand-
ed by the old 'salt'' for having undertaken
TO make milksop of the boy The ac-
tress and her sweetheart are united in the
end
Mr.. Harlan viii be seen as the trans
formed church-goer; and it is said that the
role is quite as full of opportunities for the
comedian as was that of Mudd in "A
Black Sheep" Other members of the
company are Hattie Wells, William De-
we're, Celia Clay Edward Wonn, LLOYD
Wilson, Charles Zimmerman, Edward
Garvio, Robert Cowan, Jules Jordan.
Alma Kramer Hattie Williams. Cecile
Sands, Sidney Mansfield, Harry Donnehan
and Mae Lowrie. New songs and music
are promised, and handsome settings and
appointments will be used, il is stated
The illustrated lecture on Manila and
the Philippines. TO be given next Tues
day night by Mr.. Frank r. Robertson. nj
the Guards Hall. under the auspices of
the Young Mems Christian Association as
the closing number of its star course.
will hardly fail to prove OF much interest.
Mr.. Robertson is an experienced lecturer
on travels. His lectures on India" ana
Japan" have delighted large audiences
all over this country His new lecture on
the Philippines is the result of careful
observation last fall. Indeed the time
spent in actual compilation and photo
graphing, although very great represents
but small part of the brain toll en-
bodied in this greatest efficient presents-
lions of the events in the Far East. The
lecture is in every way timely and i'm
portant His solid word pictures with
the true dash and swing, and his clever.
amusing, beautiful photographs appeal 10
that great audience now more interested
in military and national matters than ever
before.