The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-11-24

/ TONED In the foregoing are hHOWH Vi
have been seen here. Mrs. Durant de
Ponte spent several months here two
winters ago, and made many friends
| during her visit. Ralph Stuart was
here this season with Lady Hunt
worths Experiment" and Cuyler Has
| tings is the excellent young actor who
! appeared here in the leading role of
Sherlock Holmes" last season.
1.-THE Way of the World" Clyde
Fitch's play, in which Elsie de Wolf
is now appearing, has been so success
full that a prominent publisher has al
ready made arrangements with the au-
thor to reverse the usual procedure and
to have a novel made out of the play.
Fitch is working on it, and it will be
published during the holidays.
A London correspondent, writing of
Beerbohm Trees production of 1.-THE
Last of the Dandies," the Clyde Fitch
play in which the English actor APP
pears as the famous wit and dandy,
Count D'Orsay, says more beautiful
scenic production has never been seen
on the London stage. The writer also
speaks well of the play, and, COM
menting on its reception by the review
ers, adds that the fact is the London
critics, like some London actors, will
not see much that is good in anything
hailing from the United States, wheth-
er it is a new play or a newcomer on
the stage.
Maid Marian" the new De Koven
and Smith opera, a successor of Robin
Hood" has met with success in Phila-
delphia, where the Bostonians are pro-
ducing it. 1t is said to be a pleasing
comic opera, but net as. good as Robin
Hood" Who expected that 1t would be?
May Irwin is just as positive as she
can be that she will never, no, never,
be seen on the stage again after this
season.
Kyrle Bellew, in "A Gentleman of
France" kills so many people before
the play ends, it is said, that the stage
work is drama that needs a Coroner,
not a stage manager.
Rudyard Kipling and Cosno Hamil-
ton have made a dramatization of Mr..
Kipling's novel of The Gadsbys, - and
it is to be produced at the Prince of
Wales in London.
Odette Tyler, who is starring with
her husband, R. D. Mclean, in Corr
| olanus" was compelled to remain out
of the cast for several performances
last week owing to an attack of quin-
| sy. She has entirely recovered, and is
again playing her role in that produc-
| ton.
Mrs. Fiske has Just closed her latest
| theatrical venture in New York-"Mf-
! randa of the Balcony"-at the Man
| far 40 fAla
| ure.
Mrs. Durant Da Ponte of New Or
| leans, we'll known to number of Sa-
vannah people through having spent
some time here with her sister. Mrs.
E. H. Hinton, two years ago, made
| her professional debut on the stage of
| the Republic Theater in New York last
week, supporting Grace George in I'm
| is known on the stage as Roza Du-
rant The reception she had almost as
| sures her success as an actress.
Manager Dave Weis of the Columbia
| Theater. in Brooklyn. formerly mana
ger of the Savannah Theater, will give
Thanksgiving dinner to $50 Brooklyn
newsboys this week. The dinner will
be given in the Columbia Theater. The
Weis' enterprise: "A Thanksgiving
dinner to $50 newsboys Of this city and
| vicinity is the latest enterprise of Dave
Weis, manager of the Columbia Thea
ter. The invitations were sent out
| through the counting rooms of the va
rious local and New York newspapers
and the invited guests have decided
with almost a startling emphasis tc
attend the banquet, which will take
place in Columbia Theater on Thanks
giving evening, beginning at o'clock
| AS one of the boys put it: Say, fellers
1 it's to be a giniwine turkey scrap or
de dead. wild pie on de side; are We
wild us?' A chorus responded. We is.
The Columbia Theater will be hand
somely and appropriately decorated fol
the occasion. On long tables, stretch
ing from end to end, 10 lusty Lone
Island turkeys will hold the fort, rein
forced by cake, celery. cranberries
milk, cider, soda water, etc. Some time
since Mr.. Weis sent out invitations tc
prominent women of Brooklyn to assist
him in giving the dinner and the re-
| Spouse he received was very cordial
and gratifying. The tables will te
served by some prominent society buds
and matrons, and an excellent concert
will be given while the feast proceeds
Mr.. Weis has received many offers OF
provisions and pecuniary assistance
but these have all been declined. Ran
dolph Guggenheimer, president of the
City Council, although having many
previous engagements, has accepted
Manager Weis' invitation to address
the little newsboys on this particular
day"
The coming Southern tour of Nine
Nordica and her probable visit to Sa'
vannah, makes interesting to many
people who do not know her history, a
little sketch of few incidents in hel
life. Lillian Nordica or Norton. was
born in the little town of Pennington
Me. The history of her career is not
| one of easy conquest, but of vanauish-
ing circumstances which would have
overcome a less dominant will, and
that unlagging cultivation of natural
gifts by which alone. absolute great
ness is obtained. From her mother
Amanda Norton. she inherited the
qualities OF will and energy that mark
the New England character. and from
her father. Edwin Norton, she received
| the poetic strain, while her musical
gift came from father and mother
| both noted for their vocal accomplish
ments. Mrs. Norton, convinced Of the
future IN store for her daughter, re-
manned at her side both IN this coun-
try and Europe. directing her artistic
/ training with rare judgment. The
mand Of viii may be better judged
from the fact that the cablegram am
/ nOuncing Mr.. Nort0n's death was