The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-15

ing than ever. The house continues to
be crowded night after night.
William Faversham crowds the Cr1-
terion nightly, and at the matinees in
his role in "a Royal RIVAL His sue
cess at the Empire, so marked the past
two seasons as leading man, has been
eclipsed by his appearance as a star
The opening bill at the Murray Hill
theater is Under Two Flags" he
fourth season of the Donnelly stock
company. William Bramwell and Alice
Johnson have the leading roles, and
there is very clever support. The
Murray Hill is as popular as ever and
the play is filing the house.
Arizona" at the Academy of Music
is likely to run for a long time. The
patronage does not increase, because
the play started out with standing
room only and Keeps this up night
after night. Cavalry, real cavalry,
forty or more, appears in the first and
last act.
Andrew Mack has launched out at
the Herald Square in TON Moore.
Mr.. Mack is so well known to New
York audiences that a full house first
night was but to be expected. The play
is clever and Mr.. Mack is more clever.
1t is likely that the play and the prin-
cipal actor will continue to fill the
Herald Square as long as it is present.
ed.
The roof gardens are all doing well,
though their season is near an end.
The forces of the independent actor
managers are growing The example of
Richard Mansfield, who certainly has
earned great returns while following
| his own somewhat eccentric lines, has
| had its effect on other good actors.
| James K Hackett and Frank Keenan,
have successfully broken away from
| the ranks and there are rumors on
the "Rialto" of others to follow.
The smart lines in Capt. Robert Mar
shall's latest play, 1.-THE Second in
| Command" have come in for more
| than the usual share of attention since
John Drew introduced it in Gotham
last week The following are a few of
the brightest sayings caught during the
| action:
Love is a luxury that only the i'm
moderately rich or the extremely poor
can afford to indulge in"
I'm afraid I'm such a rough sort
that 1 have no bright side at al"
ut is the only, the most exclusive
set that can keep out of the newspa-
pers nowadays"
Yes. Journalists ought to serve an
apprenticeship of five years with in
visible ink"
ct wrapped my heart in the brown
paper of experience and laid 1T away
in the archives of the might-have-
been"
"That medicine is such bitter stuff.
Tastes very much like materiallzed
morality"
Although Maxine Elliott has been
best known as a rarely beautiful wo-
man. vet she has a wit whose only de-
feet is its extreme subtlety-it may Of
ten fail to affect properly the person
against whom it may be directed NOT
long ago a lesser professional sister
approached the actress with this ques-
ton: 'To what element do you attrib-
ute the large measure of your success,
to your beauty or your art?'
The wife of Nat Goodwin looked at
her uuestioner laziy. Then languor-
ously she answered: But, my dear,
my beauty and my art are one and the
same"
Richard Mansfield is rehearsing his
dramatiZation of mons. Beaucaire,
but he has already decided upon
change. He will drop the first word
from the title and let il go at that. Not
only does he believe that that word is
100 difficult for the average American
to pronounce, but Is years ago Mans
field wrote a play himself and called
It Monsieur" He has a tender spot
in his heart for the old play, and moth
ing could induce him to give it even
this much of a rival.
Mr.. Otis Skinner has turned his sec
ond successful week in Francesca da
Rimini" in Chicago, and is said to con-
template taking his entire production
ovar 70 I.ondon this Spring at the ter
mination of his American tour. Box
er's tragedy, according to Mr.. skinner
has never been presented in the Brit
ish metropolis, and he thinks that The
interest awakened In the famous old
tragedy by Mr.. Stephen Phillips treat
nlent of the same theme would add tC
its success there at the present time.
HOURS FOR REHEARsAEs.