The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-30
DRAMA, COMEDY
AND VAUDEVILLE.
The Offerings at the
This Week.
Theater

while among the ladies Miss Beulah
Hexter and Miss Lola Moynelo will
divide the stellar honors. Miss Hex
ter has been seen in sketches, and mas
shown talent of high sort, while Miss
Moynelo has an excellent part and is
one of the foremost students in the
school.
The work of rehearsing the play be-
gan weeks ago. and under the direction
of Mr. Joseph f. Doyle. it is still in
progress. The success of amateur pro-
auctions depends often in a great
measure on thorough rehearsing and
hard study, and Mr.. Doyle has i'm
pressed this upon his students. The
stage management will be looked after
by Mr.. Doyle. which is a guarantee
that there will be no bitches, such as
sometimes characterize amateur pro-
auctions. The object of the school is
to produce. as near as possible. 'in-
ished productions, and no effort has
been spared to insure this.
Those who feel an interest in the
drama-and there are a number in the
city-should encourage the young stu
dents and give their support by at
tending the performance.
The school has a great many sub
scribers, who can procure their reserv-
ed seats at the box office next week.
others who wish can purchase tickets.
A great many tickets nave already
been disposed of, and there is hardly
a doubt that the play will be greeted
by a large audience.
The following is the cast of charac-
ters:
Mrs. Emptage Ga widow, Mrs. F. A.
Simon, A. Enrich.
Claude Emp l3e Cher SOM, Mr.. r.
A. Simon.
Justina Emptage Cher daughter),
Miss Edith Robinson.
Thee. Fraser (also her daughter,
Miss Beulah Hexter.
Sir Fletcher Portwood Cher brother)
Mr.. Jerry Eckstein.
Mrs. Clogs cher sister,, Miss Lille
Selig.
Olive Hallingham, Miss Lola Moy-
ne!o.
John Alingham, Mr.. J. M. Black.
Denzill and Peter Elphick CALLING
hams friends), Mr.. John Bell and DR..
II. l. O'Connor.
Mrs. Quinton Twelves. Miss Norma
Eckstein.
Horton. Mr.. King Purse.
Qualfe, Mr.. Maurice Meyer
There is trouble in store for the COM
edlans who make a living by imper-
sonating Irishmen with faces made IN
ike exaggerated babboons, and using
a dialect that sounds as though the
performer had a large wet sponge In
MS mouth. At a recent national con-
Vention of the Ancient Order OF HI
bernlans resolution is said to have
been passed advising the members of
the order to discourage the portrayal
OF the monkey-faced Irishman on Tho
stage, and 1t was adopted with a hur-
ran. The first action taken by any of
the lodges occurred recently at the
Jacques Opera House, in Waterbury.
Conn, when delegation of the local
lodge of the A. o. H. Missed from the
stage a team of Irish comedians. who
depended on the monkey makeup and
the sponge dialect as strong aids in
winning laughs from the audience. AS
soon as they made their appearance
the "A. o. II. men began their work
and carried it out so effectively that
the performers We're forced to retire.
II this plan is carried out in all parts
OF the country it will not be long be-
fore the babboon-face and the sponge
ih-the-mouth entertainer will disap-
pear and the ranks of the Jewish and
German comedians will be Increased Nv
the addition of the actors who have
hitherto won favor as Irish gro
tesques. Chauncey Olcott Andrew
Mack and few other "genteeI" irish
comedians, of course, are exempt from
the fiat of the A. o. H, but the Others
will have to beat retreat or take the
consequences.
The costuming of 1.-THE White Slave,
tnls season is. according to the plates
OF 1887, the period in which the play
hi l.
is In keeping with the policy the man.
agement has outlined. that of present.
ing BARLEY Campbell's Southern ro-
nance in such a manner as to give it
all the attractiveness of a new drama
Everything that the stage directors
art can do has been done to enhance
the beauties of THE White Slave i"
Scenic artists and property makers
have contributed their best efforts to
the general result. and an excellent
dramatic cast has been secured to i'm
personate the life-like characters with
which the play abounds. The special
feature of this production includes a
big plantation scene, in which fifty
men, women and children will APP
pear. A realistic steamboat explosion
and a rainstorm of real water.
AL. G.. Field, who has been i'll and
absent from his minstrel company since
Sept. p, left Mobile, Ala, in a pri-
vate car for his home, in Columbus
Nov. Is. Mr.. Field underwent a Sc
we're surgical operation, which very
nearly cost him his life. He is now
on the way to recovery, and his ply
sicians report that within a few weeks
he will be able to take up his work
again.
Paula Tanqueray, the Notorious Mrs.
Ebbsmith, Countess Stephanie De Moh-
rivart, Countess Zicka, Queens Cath
crime and Elizabeth of England, and
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