The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-12
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THE White Slave" Will be the at
traction at to-day's matinee and to-
night
For two decades the play has en-
tertained those who admire love
story, heroic sacrifice and lofty senti-
ments. 1t is a clean, wholesome play,
in which there Is not a suspicion of
suggestiveness. BARLEY Campbell in
all his works taught a good moral
lesson, and In a way calculated to do
the most good. 1.-THE White Slave"
solves no problem. 1t demonstrates
the power of truth, the reward OF
chastity and at the same time it faith
fully holds the mirror up to nature.
Strictly speaking. it is a character
play, there are many quaint creatures,
men and women who are prototypes
of past generation, every one Of
them drawn with the skill of Dick
ems or a Thackeray. Negro slavery
in the South is shown without exag>
geration and without prejudice. The
good people of the story are Kentuck-
ians. while the evil gentleman halls
from. Mississippi
Having lived in the South for a term
of years, during which time BARLEY
Campbell was editor of the Southern
Monthly Magazine and later official
reporter of the Louisiana House Of
Representatives, he acquainted him
self with the customs and manners OF
the South, and studied the chief char
acteristics of the people. Like Mark
Twain, when a boy he became fasci-
mated with steamboating on the Ohio,
and many times run the river from
Pittsburg to New Orleans, towing a
feet of coal barges. During these
trips he used to write descriptive
stories for the illustrated weeklies, and
1t followed that he came to know
every bar and channel, as well as
every bend in the two rivers.
These impressions he stored away in
| his mental storehouse, together with
all historic data, and in after years
and at a time when he occupied the
first place among American dramatists,
when his plays were being acted
throughout the civilized world, he be-
gan to develop the plot of a drama
work, the play was written and pro-
duced early i'm 1882 in New York city,
and was called The White Slave"
William III. Crane, whose appearance
here has been awaited with a great
| deal of interest, comes to Savannah
| next Thursday, when he win be seen
| in the dramatization of David
| Harum." Long before the book had
reached the point where its sales ex-
eeeded those of any other story ask
ing the attention of the public. Charles
| Frohman secured its dramatic rights.
| What he paid for them is something
| that is not told, but the price is known
| to have been considera BILE. Mr.. Froh-
man had the dramatization in his safe
| for some time before he finally con-
| cluded arrangements with Mr.. Crane
1 to appear in it, and since then the
combination of David Harum," Crane
and Frohman has been a particularly
| fortunate one.
when We Were 81" will be seen
| next Friday and Saturday nights and
at Saturday matinee.
Scarcely another actress on the stage
to-day combines such wide culture, So
| cial vogue and knowledge of eminent
/ men and women as does Mrs. Lee
| Moyne who will appear at the the
alter, Christmas matinee and night.
4 She learned her art in the Union
| Square Stock Company, New York city,
| the old programmes of which TEEN
with the names of actors and actresses
since famous. Among those with whom
Mrs. LeMoyne has been associated
| with several of them while yet in her
| teens) are J. II. Stoddart, the late
| Charles Coghlan, Charles R. Thorne,
Sara Jewett, w. J. LeMoyne, Annie
Russell. Herbert Kelley, Effie Shan
non, Elsie DeWolfe. and many others.
! She met her husband in the Union
| Square Company and was welded to
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