The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-07

has decided to enter vaudeville. He will
open in Atlanta week after next. Mr..
Woodward is very clever and it would
seem that vaudeville is his forte. He
will no doubt meet with success.
The amateurs who have been rehears-
ing ''Richelieu" under the direction of
Mr.. John Taggart and Mr.. Michael Scan
Ian are progressing splendidly. and the
play will be produced April q. Mr.. Tag
CART will impersonate Richelieu.
"A Western Romance was played at
Yonge's Hall Wednesday night for the
benefit OF Mrs. Fender, widow of the late
patrolman, H. b. Fender. The play is a
drama in three acts and was creditably
presented. The closing scene Of the sec
ond act was excellent. The negro was
the comedy hit. The company anticipates
touring the Southern states.
The opening night Of the theater will
be marked by the Dramatic Clubs pre-
sentation of '7-2o-S; or Casting the
Boomerang Augustin Days marvellous
ly successful comedy.
AS the first of the gaities that follow
the penance and fasting of Lent, the per-
Torrance, as the advance sale of seats
has already rendered certain, will be
largely attended. Perhaps, indeed, GER
tainly, the fact that the play is to be
given for the benefit of the Oglethorpe
Monument Fund, and is to be presented
under the joint auspices of the Colonial
Danes and Daughters of the American
Revolution, will be responsible for large
share Of the Patronage II will receive.
Euually as certain, however, is the fur
ther fact that the intrinsic merits of the
play, the talents above the amateur av-
erage of the cast, and the zeal and de-
votion which they have displayed in re-
hearsal and preparation give promise that
the performance will have a more solid
claim to patronage than any considera-
ton OF mere sentiment.
The play is a very funny one, indeed.
and it's essential humor is well brought
out by those who I'll the roles. Absurd
II undoubtedly is and the people who
walk through its scenes and make its fun
are not commonly 10 be seen in the course
OF everyday life. However, a modest i'm
agination suffices to conceive of their pos
sibility and the possibility of the things
they do and say, and this once assumed
laughs follow quick and fast through the
four acts of the play.
Through II two motives run side by
side One springs from the fact that Miss
Florence Bargiss hos had her portrait
painted, while summering at Nahant, and
the portrait, exhibited at the Academy
OF Design. mas tItaleu On lhHAhhA NV
marked sensation. Courtney Corliss, q
young man OF leisure and ideas. starts a
search for the fair original, in which ht
fiuds himself rivalled by Signor Tambor'
mi. late maitre de ballet who acts not
for himself, however. but as the ambassa'
dor extraordinary and plenipotentiRry OF
Lord Lawntennis. an English nobleman'
This IL the first motive. The second
SCARCE subsidiary 60 the FIRST. IN the lat
emf aspiration Of Nj. Bargiss 20 shine
as q star IN the literary armament This
ambition ~ famed into a blaze BY th'
yainQlory and fondness Of his wife, and
fostered BY the Rlles 81 Prof ehsloish
q modern blending % Micawber and Peek
snin. VINO hns founded "a magazine "foi
ths Outcastg 81 she pen"
The action 81 the play hinges on thes'
two motives The theory OF me boom
eranK. iDNeTloufy propounded by 'oriles
na1s ds1uFfnni proof iH fhr regularity win
Which enc foiiifs ~ fnf several eharaf
tara "fefurn ~ floor them" The cast q
~ foilVwAi
cosnnsy coriiss. . gentlemen o. leisure