The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-13
AT THE THEATER

BARLEY Campbelrs THE White
Slave was the attraction yesterday.
Both the matinee and night perform
ances were fairly we'll attended, but
not by as large audiences as the play
deserves.
The spectacular investiture was
good, and many novel scenic effects
are employed to add natural appear
ance to the various pictures. The
wreck on the Mississippi. with rain eff
feet, camp on Red Devils Island,
with the fire flies sparkling, the pass
ing steamboats,, and blowing of the
whistle were all excellent mechanical
and electrical effects.
Liza, IT, white slave, is taught to
believe she is an octoroon, and at the
death of her master" he tells the
secret to his quadroon housekeeper,
under oath never TO. divulge it, and
throughout the play she goes with this
stain upon her, and not until the final
scene does the secret out that she is
a free born white woman" and the
daughter of her casters" own child.
who has years before died, and to hide
her shame, Liza has been brought up
to believe that her mother was qaud-
room. In this wise she is relieved of
neT DOHudSe ana leII Tree 10 marry
the man she loves.
The cast is made up of characters
representing the various types of the
time. and place-the year 1857 in the
state of Mississippi, and the various
roles were all in capable hands and
pleasingiy enacted.
Lacy who deals in ''niggers and
horses" and typical ante-bellum
slave owner of the hardest-hearted and
cruellest sort imaginable, was intelli-
gently portrayed by Thomas Garrick.
Liza, the white slave, was admirably
played by Miss Helena Collier
The hero, Clay BrittoH, was essayed
| by John e. Ince, and he gave to the
| part the clever and manly impersona-
| ton called for by the author. Walter
Woodar as Mr.. Stitch; Job, the colored
preacher, and all the minor parts were
satisfactorily cast.
The singing and dancing of the sex
| tette of real negroes carried by the
company as plantation darkies, was
/ tip-top, and their splendid voices were
. heard to good advantage, in my Old
| Kentucky Home" and several other
| familiar songs.
Much interest is being taken in the
| Forthcoming presentation of David
| Harum," by Charles Frohman, with
| William Fl. Crane in the title role mex
Thursday. The sale of seats
begins Tuesday morning. The
| success of the play, and o
Mr. Crane in ii. has been of unusua
proportions. In fact none of the book
made plays of the last three seasons
has had so great a measure of success
and the work possesses qualities which
will give it life for years. Mr.. Cran'
made a very close study of David Ha
rum" and before the production of tn,
play, went to Homer. N. Y, and Wis
tied all of the places mentioned in TIL
book. In making UP as Harum he ad
heres closely to the description of tn
4 man given by Westcott, and he GER
tainly "looks the part" Great car
was taken in giving the play the neces
Il sary atmosphere and the production i
i most complete one. Everything il
4 the way of furniture and properties il
i carried by the company, including
j live property known as the bay boss.
The first act setting is an exterio
scene and is pretty. The second show
n IIarlm's office in the bank and tn
third shows the old fashioned sitting
room in Aunt Pollys house. The price
4 are: Orchestra. 1.50; balcony, 81 90 an
75c; reserved. SOC admission to balco
a ny; gallery, 25c.