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

Birthday Party" will be given at Masonic
Temple on Saturday evening, for the ben
eft of the fresh air fund.
Thirty children will appear in the play,
which has It's scene abroad, in one Of
the continental countries. The little ones
have been rehearsed under the direction
of Mrs. George Schley, and 1t is promised
that they will play well their parts"
"And unending laugh" is the way the
management of Browns in Town" de-
scribes the farce-comedy which will be
the attraction at the theater Wednesday
matinee and night 1t is replete with hui
morous complications and is said to brm
over with witty thrusts and q choice Sc
lection Of catchy musical numbers. The
action OF the farce all takes place dur
ing one summers day in the country
home of a man supposed to be Mr.. Brown,
but who, in reality. is the young hero.
The plot hinges on the desire of a young
man who marries at the age of q
against the wishes OF his father, and
takes his bride to a country place to con-
coct a scheme whereby he can break the
news to his irate dad. He wishes to be
alone. but his friends and relatives hap
pen in, and in trying to keep hts mar
rage a secret, causes quite a number of
complications to arise. Three acts are
used 10 tell the story, the first being
morning. the second afternoon and the
third night. The advance sale opens to-
morrow morning.
Has David Belasco cornered the play
market? He went abroad last summer
and bought right and left everything that
looked as If IT might be a success on
this side of the water. They've all been
locked up in his trunk ever since, and no
one gets even a peep at them. He has
, been making plenty Of money out Of
"Zaza" and Madam Butterfly" and he
has been singing It all in new plays. AL
ready he has in his employment several
| playwrights of prominence, among them
Lee Arthur, author of I'VE 'Uns OF Ten
nessee," and Charles Klein, who wrote
1.-The District Attorney" and several COM
| lie opera books. But this is not all.
Blanche Bates is under contract to him
and so is Dave Warfield and a number of
others now engaged by other managers.
The taste OF the public in comic opera
has changed sufficiently of late to i'm
| press managers 10 the point OF extreme
shyness in touching IA new production Of
! that order. Manager Erlanger, in dis
/ GUESSING this subject. said The time was
\ when the music was the main thing.
/ with good composition any kind OF book
/ would do Now this is all changed. The
| book Is what we have to look al most
/ carefully. and they are very hard 10 get.
There IS plenty of good music being Of
] fered TO managers these days, but IL seems
| next 10 impossible TO get librettst who
/ can at words to &C. Most Of the writers
are too polished and ambitious. and they
do not seem to be able 20 put enough
humor IN. ] wouldn't touch the best
music In the market now unless the book
was extraordinarily good"
This clever bit OF dogRerel r. the way
/ W. J. sDeming took 90 make application
| for a place 10 the summer company which
| walter Baldwin Is organizing.
/ MI BALDWIN, let me say,
HsvinF nothing on to-day
/ cola outside. can't take a tramp,
+ Have 90 spare a two-cfut stamp
T Just . Tine 90 let you know
Things with no are rather slow.
Though I've hustled llkr q Turk,
/ Ffil you nnd me- ont NJ work
/ Aafenirrd Dramatc Mirror,
Situation not much clearer