The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-09
AT THE THEATER.
.,Xbcn We were II" Will BE Seen
To-night and Tomorrow.

..U,bAn We Were ~ will be seen for
+bo first time in Savannah tonight. The
NAV will be repeated at matinee and
again tomorrow night.
n Y. Esmond has given to the Ameri-
o,o-English stage very remarkable and
clever play. 1t comes at the right time.
?. comes as a wholesome check to de-
cadence and degeneracy. 1t is sweet as
mountain air that has been kissed by the
heather and all the men are brave. SYM
nathetic. honest, loyal fellows. They are
not ashamed to wear their heats on their
sleeves. they do not care how many DAVIS
neck at them" So wrote the critic of the
New York Herald about the play when
We We're Twenty-one." when it was pro-
5uoed in New York. The success of the
nlav was immediate, and being a valuable
niece of dramatic property, there were
scores Of managers who desired to obtain
il Mr. Edw f. Rice, however, was the
fortunate man. He had entered into a
three years agreement with the popular
actor Mr.. George Clarke and was looking
about for a suitable play for his star.
His Judgment in selecting when We
We're Twenty-one' for Mr.. Clarke has
been justified by the success which has
met the presentation of this modern
classic in every city thus far visited by
the company.
THE Three Musketeers" will be seen
Friday and Saturday nights and at a Sat
urday matinee. Edmund Days version of
the play as presented by Harry GLACIER
differs in many respects from the Fechter,
Salvini Sothern and O'Neil versions. 1t
is equally as entertaining and in many
Wavs more pleasing to the greater mass
of theater-goers. Some liberties are TAX
en- with Dumas story for the purpose of
securing greater dramatic force. The Day
version, while presenting an excellent op
porunty 20 Mr.. GlaZier for display of
the depth and range Of his abilities is
especially praiseworthy, in that, though
written for a star, it does not give all
the work 90 the star to do. Some of the
other parts are given almost equal prom-
nence. The Gkazier production is most
complete in every detail.
To avoid the necessity of cumbersome
acts the play is divided into eight tab
leaux. These are the court yard of the
jolly miller, an inn where D'Artagnan is
introduced to Paris, the second, the ante
chamber of the Queen. where begins the
story of Anne of Austrias love for Buck
ingham and in which she gives him the
diamond necklace in token of her love;
the third is the quarters of the Muske--
teers, where D'Artagnan meets the insep-
arabic boon companions, Athos, the cyni-
cal, wine-bbbing, deeply thoughtful SOL
der of fortune; Portheus,4 the, simple,
great-hearted courageous musketeer, and
Aramis, the gentle; the fourth, the ruined
walls of Fort st. Leon, where D'Artagnan
goes to fight each of the three friends
and is finally made one of their number
after the fight with the Cardinals guards;
the fifth, Madame BonacieuX's house,
where TO prove his love D Artagnan ac-
cepts the mission from Constance of go
ing 20 England to recover the Queens dia-
monds from Buckingham; the sixth, he
meets Buckingham aboard the ship The
True Britain, RECEIVERS all but two of the
stones and dives through the cabin win
dow to intercept Miladi, who has stolen
the missing gems; the seventh is an inn,
Where he secures the missing stones from
Madi the last is the throne room of the
imperial palace, where the Queen con-
POUNDS and defeats Richelieu.