The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-14

fun makers. The box office opens
Wednesday morning. The prices are:
Matinee, orchestra, reserved, soc; bal
cony, adults. soc; children, 25c. and
the usual prices for night perform
ance.
While this will be the eighth sea-
son OF Human Hearts" on the road,
II is promised that the presentation
TINS year will in nowise be inferior TO
that or former seasons. With this end
III view the management has secured
new company for the portrayals of
the various characters in the play,
cnleI among whom can be mentioned
Mr. L. p Sullivan. Mr.. Sullivan will
De seen as Tom Logan, the hero of
the play, and it is said the character
htS MIN perfectly. Human Hearts
VIII be the attraction at the theater
Sept. "a.
Few, except those Immediately con-
nected with theaters, have any idea of
the amount of money expended by
managers for what is technically
known as "perishable props" In AIDE
laide Thurstons new play for this sea-
son, AT Cozy Corners" to be seen
here shortly, a $4.25 violin is smashed
at each performance, making the ex-
pense on the season for the props"
alone over $1,000. In the last act of
the musical comedy, THE Defender"
thousands of yards of colored strips
OF paper are unwound on the stage, in
curing an expense, for each perform
ance, of $27, and the money expended
by Lewis Morrison for red fire in
Faust would start a bank. Some
seasons ago there was a melodrama
produced, in one act of which every
G Of e.
broken and destroyed at each per-
Torrance. The mere breaking of a
violin in AT Cozy Corners may seem
a trlt1lng expense, yet when it is con-
sidered that over 800 of these are bro
ken to 'smithereens' in a season it
becomes a matter of financial consid-
Grafton to the management. The ''bar-
keep" in S. Miller Kent's Cowboy and
the Lady is said to have broken not
less than $4,000 liquor bottles last sea-
son, and Ezra Kendall as THE Vine
gar Buyer" will be called upon to
drink not less than a quart of real
Hoos1er cider at each performance.
Mr.. F. Marion Crawford's new play
"Unorna," in which Mrs. Bruno will
be starred this season by Wallace Mum
ro is to have its initial stage presen-
tation, Sept. %, at the Academy of
Music in Norfolk, Va. "Unorna" is
dramatization of an incident in Mr..
Crawford's story 1.-THE Witch of
Prague" the stage version having been
made by Espy Williams in collabora-
ton with Mr.. Crawford. 1t is expected
by the management that the piece will
prove one of the dramatic surprises
of the year. Mrs. Brune's we'll known
versatility has, according to Mr.. Craw-
ford, fitted her most eminently for
the difficult title role. Her work in
"Thedora" caused her to be hailed by
many Northern critics as the "Ameri-
can Bernhard"
Among the many good plays that
will be seen here this season Is "Lifes
Great Lesson" a Southern drama from
the pen of Clarence Mako. Miss
Freda Gallick is the star, and is sup
ported by a chosen company of New
York players. The play is pronounced
by critics to be one of the strongest
plays of the year. 1t depicts the life
of one of the old F. F. V. families of
Virginia, and the scenes are located
in an old family mansion on the Po-
tomac river and in Washington, D. c..
The production has met with enthu-
siastic praise everywhere, and may be
ccounted one of the genuine hits of
the season.
Frank Daniels, who stars out shortly
in Barnet's Miss Simplicity is still
at his country place, at Rye, N. Y.
where he divides his time between
driving his Shetland ponies and SWIM
ming in the Sound.