The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-05
AT THE THEATER.
Manager Wells BENEFIT Performance
Tonight.

'h"h"Ser WeIs beneht Performance
Tonight.
The opening attraction of the week is
Manager Sidney H. Weis benefit by Warl
a Nokes. They will present THE Floor
Walkers" farce-comedy without any
particular plot being merely a vehicle for
introducing a series of specialties. Its
only purpose is TO make fun and excite
laughter and TO charm by singing. There
is no plot, no sequence and no connection.
1t all just happens. The play in the
hands of an inferior company would fan
fiat. In the hands of Ward and Vokes
and their excellent company of artists it
is said to be a succession of laughs.
The Augusta Chronicle said of the Ward
& Nokes Company after its recent appear
ance in Augusta: There is fine chorus
of pretty girls under the able direction of
Herbert Dillea. The programme of must
cal numbers presents nearly twenty spec
ialties A large audience laughed and APP
plauded for two hours and a half last
night, and enceres. were frequent The
chorus was large and well dressed, for the
most part in evening dresses that would
| have been worthy of any social function.
1t is a well-dressed, wel-staged well acted
performance"
Manager Weis' friends have promised
MN d bIS audience anu he III IuIu mas
promised them an enjoyable entertain
ment.
The grand concert to be given by the
Theodore Thomas orchestra on March 10
is all the talk among musical people. 1t
will undoubtedly be the musical event of
a lifetime with many, as the programme,
in difference to the requests of its Savan-
nah management, has been made of eX-
ceptonal interest. The box sheet will be
open at the theater March Y. but tickets
can be secured now, and those who wish
desirable seats had better get them at
once, taking advantage of the opportunity
offered in another column. The demand is
lively.
The concert to be given by Prof.
Schuette, assisted by members of the Sa-
vannah Music Club, at the De Soto, Tues
day, March 49, promises 70 be very inter
esting occasion. A varied and enjoyable
programme has been arranged. Prof.
Schuette is a high-class all-round must
clan. and virtuoso on the clarinet. He
hopes next fall to bring out Nilsson, a
promising and talented young yiolinist.
Rentfrow's Jolly Pathfnders" will be-
gin an engagement of five nights and daily
matinees tomorrow afternoon. The COM
pany appeared in Savannah last season
and played to large audiences. 1t carries
its own band and orchestra and the mu-
steal part of the programme is no small
feature of the entertainment Tomorrow
afternoon will be presented THE Devils
Gold Nine" a play new to Savannah
Tomorrow night the comedy drama 1.-The
lightning Express will be given. La
dies will be admitted free tomorrow night
if accompanied by the holder of one re-
served seat ticket
| George KEENAN, fellow of the Ameri-
can Geographical Society of New York,
the National Geographic Society of Wash
ington d. c., and the American Anthro-
biological Society. author of "Tent Life in
Siberia and siberia and the Exile Sys-
| tenn" will arrive in the city to-day TO give
| his famous lecture Russian Political EX-
lies" illustrated with lantern Slides to-
morrow night at the Guards Hall, at $50,
under the Y. NJ. C. AS auspices. The
| Chattanooga Times said of him: 1.-The
| large lecture room of the First Baptist
| Church was crowded to its utmost capac-
| lily by the best people of the city TO lis
ten to the lecture by the celebrated traV-
eer and writer, Mr.. KEENAN,. For more
| than two hours the unusually large aud
| intelligent audience listened with uniuter
rupted interest, and at times with bated
| breath to the dramatic pictures of the hor-
! rible fortunes inflicted upon the political
/ prisoners in the mines and prisons of Rus
/ STA and Siberia. AT times there were aud
| ible manifesto lions of the excitement and
| patriotic rage engendered in the bosoms
| of the listeners and when the lecturer as
sumed the miserably poor, thin and de-
| graded costume of the convicts, together
with the letters and badge of degrade
| ton the interest was intense and the 81
! lence so deep that the speakers words
1 sounded like an echo, and the hard, half
| suppressed breathing of the auditors was
! plainly noticeable The interest did not
/ nag for a single moment. From the time
| Mr.. KEENAN, took his listeners 10 the
/ prison and mines of Karrah, in Siberia.
| 10 the mohheffe of his final eulogy on the
patriotic love of freedom of the prisoners,
/ the audience was entranced, and when he
/ smoke of the sufferings of the delicate wo-
/ men and girls, miserably clad, marching
/ barefooted through the mud in the cod
! and rain. there was not a dry eye in the
| hall To listen to Mr.. KEENAN, is TO be
with him on his travels for the time"
A movement is on foot among the mem
bers of the Brunswick T. P. A. to have
the play. "A Fools Paradise" given in
that city for the benefit Of the association.
The play has been twice given most sue
| cessfuly by amateur talent in savannah,
and If arrangements are made for its pre-
sentatfon in Brunswick the same cast that
gave 1t in Savannah Theater will take
part ~ lA
OFFERS LIBERAL REWARDS.
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