The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-06
AT THE THEATER.
MyrLle-Harder's Company in Two
Good PIays

The Myrkle & Harder Company gave
two performances yesterday, but the au-
dience at neither was large. The com
pany gives a creditable performance and
deserves the patronage of those who ad-
mire popuiar-price plays. New bills win be
put on this afternoon and tonight, and
the specialties will also be changed.
The only attraction of the week outside
OF the Myrkle & Harder Company is Rich
ards & Pringle's Russo Minstrels to-mor-
row night. The features introduced by the
company this season are said to be novel,
numerous and startling and include many
innovations in the field of minstrelsy
whAe the singing portion of the show is
the strongest ever put together. The St
Paul Cathedral Choristers, q quartette of
girls, IS one of the features that has been
secured. In comedy the company includes
blly hersands with bran new act, fun
hler than anything he has yet done; Har-
ny tldler also has an entirely new act;
John Rucker who is styled the Alabama
Blossom" and VINO is conceded to be the
most original of all colored comedians, is
with the company, as are McCarver, Reed
and McCarver, the original Georgia
Cracker Jacks" in laughable acrobatic
act. A street parade viii be given at 2: 80
O'Clock, when two brass bands, a picka-
ninny drum corps, horses donkeys and the
entire company will appear.
The Young Mems Christian Association
feel that it has secured an exceptionally
hne attraction in the Fadettes Woman's
Orchestra which is to give a concert next
Tuesday evening at the Guards Hall. The
Memphis Commerciaf-Appeal says of their
orchestra's appearance in that city Nov.
%:
Had the Southern Lyceum Bureau en-
Joyed the privilege of selection from the
entire list of attractions before The Amer
lean public, it would perhaps have been
unable to excel the one provided for a
Memphis client to present at the Lyceum
Theater yesterday afternoon and last
night. The Fadettes Woman's Orchestra
was both novel and dec ded5y meritor GUS
organization, and in each of the concerts
found early and emphatic favor with the
brilliant and critical audience. The Fa-
dettes We're not hera}ded as the strongest
orchestra numerically before the country,
but it was said for them that the ladies
composing 1t were thorough masters of
their respective instruments and accom-
plished in both concerted and SOLO work,
fulfilled. The organization numbers
about twenty, and the fact that
this does not furnish complete instrument
tation, as reclzoned by exacting conduct
ors, but adds to the distinction of the
Fadettes. For the number of Instruments
the work was remarkably full and finish
ed. In the audience were men and women
who have heard the most pretenlious of
male orchestraS, who have bread krowl-
edge of music and requirements in its in
depreciation, and it is perhaps The best
criticism to state that not one of them
left the Lyceum with even the shadow of
disappointment. This is true not only of
the rendition of the various numbers, but
of their character, as well. 1t was an am
bilious programme-one to test the intel
hgence and skill of those undertaking it,
and that it fully satisfied is sufficient tri-
butte to the gifted, well-schooled and at
tractive women composing the ochestra.
The Fadettes have gained an interna-
tional reputation, and the press of Eng
land, especially in London, has more than
once applauded the fame of the organi-
cation. They are pre-eminently the most
finished woman's orchestral organization
in America. The orchestra is conducted
by Mrs. Caroline B. Nichols. The violin
solos by Miss Bertha Webb and the cor
net selections by Miss Anna White were
especially enjoyable.