The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-03
THAER SEASON
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Some of the Attractions
SaVannahians Will Have
This Season,

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The theater season will open this
month in a quiet sort of way. theatric-
ally speaking. The early attractions
are not usually those which pack the
theaters. Manager Seeskind is expect
ed next week. A telegram was re-
ceived from him yesterday saying that
he will be here on the 18th. All of the
theaters attaches will be here by that
time. The theater will open in about
three weeks.
Manager Seeskind writes that Sa-
vannah will have better list of at
fractions this season than it has ever
had. Among them are John Drew,
Mrs. Bruno, David Warfield, THE Co
lonial Girl" and when Knighthood
Was in Flower" The list will hard
ly be complete before September
Many of the attractions so far booked
are new to Savannah theater-goers.
and Manager Seeskind's assurance of
their merit is guarantee that Sa-
vannahfans will not be disappointed in
them.
Shakespearean revivals promise to
occupy a cOnspicuously prominent
place on the English speaking stage
during the coming season. Beerbohm
Tree is offering a sumptuous produc-
ton of 1.-THE Merry Wives of Wind
sor," in which he is associated with
Mrs. Kendall and Ellen Terry, and Sir
Henry Irving will soon appear again
in "Coriolanus.' On this side of the
water Louis James and Frederick
Warde will produce THE Tempest on
an elaborate scale; Richard Mansfield
announces a production of Julius Gaze
sar" and E. H. Sothern will again es-
say Hamlet
The first event of the metropolitan
season will be a Woman's Exhibition,
given under the auspices of the Pro-
fessional Woman's League in October,
at Madison Square Garden. This show.
in which $250,000 will be invested and
5000 of the gentler sex employed, is
to be a great fair of goods made and
used by women. In addition, there
will be an oval populated by the fem
ininity of all nations, reproduction
of street in Venice, an art gallery
a museum, a lecture hall and a gym
nasium. Women will serve as carriage
attendants, doorkeepers, ticket sellers,
police officers and programme carriers.
An orchest~Sl and two brass bands of
women have been engaged to furnish
music.
Il have put as much money as l
can into clothes" said Rose Coghlan,
the other day. Il always do Men
are just as susceptible to becoming
gowns as women. At all events men
have a. rooted belief that femininity
should go beautifully clothed and of
ten believe they have lost their hearts
when it is merely enmeshed in a web
of delicate lace, or some minauderie of
successful toilet that mystities while
it entrances them. The plays in which
| am to tour next season will be gown
ed as richly as any of my former
characters.
One of the big scenes in Klaw &
changers production of The Billion
aire." in which they will present Je-
rome Sykes next season, will represent
the Longchamp race course near Paris
on the day of the Grand Prix." This
piece will set up a new standard of eX-
cellence for musical production as
Klaw & Erlanger have done in other
directions in the amusement field.
Klaw G. Erlanger have decided to
call their new theatre on AID street for
the Rogers Brothers The Liberty
Theatre"
Only a combination of unusual cir
cumstances is accountable for the APP
| pearance of Mary Mannering in a new
| vehicle next season. In Janice Mere
| dith" she had a play which furnished
her with a role most suitable to her
talents. and the play was popular.
| other engagements precluded the pos
| sibility of Miss Mannering using the
play again, and as it was only shown
| in a very limited section of the coun-
try William Bonelli and Rose Stahl
will take it out this season.
/ Manager Sam S. Shubert of the Ca
sino and Herald Square theaters has
| discovered in a young Philadelphia So
! ciety girl a singer who is to make a
i brilliant reputation. She is Miss Mi
nola NADIA Hurst, not yet II years of
! age, and a girl of wonderful beauty
Manager Shubert has added her to "A
| Chinese Honeymoon" company to get
stage ease and where she will be I'M
| der the special instruction of Stage
/ Manager Gerald Coventry. Those who
| have heard Miss Hurst sing say there
| is a great future for her on the ope-
| ratio stage.
| The Equitable Life Insurance
| Society purchased three hun
| dred seats at the Casino last week for
| "A Chinese Honeymoon" as a treat to
| its principal representative from all
| parts of the United States. They are
now in New York on their annual visit
-Practical-"The Kaiser is going to
decorate 300 Americans who aided in
entertaining his wandering brother"
/ How useless! Why doesn't he do
| something of a practical character, and
give each of them ton of hard coal?"
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Working Him-Borroughs-"S Say.
old man, can you break a twenty so
I can get a five dollar bill out of it ?'
| Markley-"Sure; here you are. Where's
your twenty?" Borroughs-"Oh. you
| misunderstood met 1 thought you had
| a twenty. Thanks! One five will do"
| Philadelphia Press.