The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-21
AT THE THEATER.

Miss Bob White" Willard Spenser's
most successful comedy-opera, will be
seen for the first time in Savannah to-
night 1t will be produced by a COM
pany of over seventy people, with full
orchestra. Manager Seeskind made an
especial effort to secure the production
for Savannah and did so with some diff
f1culty. The company is making a linn
lted tour South, en- route to New Or
leans for its engagement during the
Mardi Gras, and in this way he was
able to arrange for one performance in
! savannah. With the success which it
! mas achleVed in the North and with the
personal Endorsement of Manager Sees
! kind, the opera should draw a large au-
dlence. 1t is sent South by Nixon e.
Zimmerman. The Philadelphia critics
agreed that Mr.. Spenser has never
written anything quite so melodius and
entertaining as this work and their
opinions were echoed in the run of
over hundred performances at the
| Chestnut Street Theater last season.
| The production here will be identical
| with its metropolitan one in every re-
spect. The original scenery and cos
| TUNES will be utilized and the east will
| include among it's seventy members the
roll, Ethel Jackson, Mathilde Preville,
Alice Campbell, William E. Philip,
| Thomas Whiffen, Frank Deshon and
! Nicholas Burnham. THE Little Ty-
coon" and THE Princess Bonnie" are
Well-knoWn operas in the comedy world
and have made the author famous.
Miss Bob White is sustaining his
reputation in every line. 1t is new
opera to Savannah and for that reason
| nth l. nv
an excellent company, with complete
scenery and costumes, it's coming is an
event among theater goerS. A number
of theater parties have been formed
and the performance will have its So
cial feature. w -''a'
Hermann demontrated again to a Sa-
vannah audience last night that he is
one of the cleverest magicians of the
day. While he has discarded some
really good things, he has added some
which are as novel as they are clever.
| The escape from Sing Sing is one of
these. Noah's ark, or after the flood,
is also one of his new features. A
wooden device representing an ark is
brought on the stage, and the doors
are thrown open to apparently make it
/ Impossible for even mouse to be hid
den away in it, and yet from this ark
Herman pulls out a rabbit. Then takes
out a guinea, then another rabbit or
two, then rooster and several hens,
then several guineas, then a dog and a
squealing pig and several ducks and
geese and at last has the stage about
full of what Noah's landed with at
Ararat. The other trick was the Turk
ish elopement. This consisted in trans
fering a woman from a basket on one
side of the stage to a Turkish chair
on the other. Among the other clever
tricks are the flag piece, the fish and
bird and wineglass trick.
The vaudeville interruption" as the
programme announces, does not add |
particularly to the entertainment.
The Richards & Pringle Georgia Min
strels will be the attraction tomorrow
night 1t is vastly different from any |
similar style of attraction that will be
seen here this season. 1t numbers forty
of the best entertainers in colored min |
strelsy each one of them popular in
their respective lines, all original with |
new specialties. 1T is a laughing per-
Torrance" from start to finish and is
filed with merry ideas and of high |
class. This attraction is meeting with |
success everywhere, and this will be its
only visit here this season.
The cast which Chas. Fl. Yale and |
Sidney r. Ellis have engaged for the |
new production of their mechanical
trick spectacle, THE Evil Eye, the at
traction for Friday and Saturday |
nights. with special matinee Saturday |
at 3 o. M. promises to be one of merit |
and includes Miss Mayme Mayo, the |
very clever prima donna soubrette; |
Chas. Nj. Loder, the faVorite German |
comedian singer and dancer; John L. |
Guilmette George w. Kerr and the |
pantomirnists, Geo. H. Borani of the |
Bros. Borani, Eddie. Caron of the Three |
Caron Bros all of whom have been re- |
engaged for their former parts.
Among the new engagements are the |
Brothers Kennard. European panto- |
mimists and acrobats of the highest |
order. for the twin parts of Mid and |
Nod: Miss Josephine Baird, who has |
been specially engaged TO appear in the |
part OF Berarand; Gerda and |
a number of other new faces for the |
smaller parts. This with the Victoria |
troupe of Royal English dancers ana |
an augmented chorus of clever singers |
and pretty girls nsures without ques- |
ton the best performance of the fam,
Gus EVIL Eye" yet presented. The |
sale of seats will open this morning az
8 o'clock.
Tickets for ErD Concert.