The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09

cert in Boston.
M. Grau win make personally about |
$4,000 out of the visit of the German |
Prince Henry to the gala performance |
at the Metropolitan Opera House.
If Joseph Jefferson is a soufce of
pleasure when speaking from the stage
he is also worth listening to when
talking about it, In a late discourse
he remarked that audiences to-day
don't want the plays that discuss mat
ters that it is not customary for men
and women in good society to mention.
Many good people doubtless contend
that the world would be a good deal
better if it were less prudish and more
frank, but to reform the world on that
point the work must be begun in the
school and in the home. 1t is not the
theater's mission to begin a labor of
that sort after boys and girls have ar
rived at the theater-going age. think
authors make a great mistake inducing
managers to produce plays that, how
ever good their purpose or admirable
their quality, may drive some people
out of the theater-plays which people
cannot discuss between the acts or talk
about above whisper as they go
home"
r. D. Mclean, who has been star
ring with Odette Tyler in "Coriolan-
u.s." is the latest victim of the appen-
dicitis in stage-land. The tour of their
company has been closed until Mr..
Mclean RECEIVERS from an operation
and can resume his stage work.
James K. Hackett has exercised the
prerogative of a star, and will not
support his wife, Mary Mannering,
when she makes a short spring tour
in Camille" under Frank McKee's
management. Mr.. Hackett made this
announcement last week, and says all
of his time will be occupied in getting
The Crisis" into shape for his use as
the successor of Don Caesars Re-
turn"
Klaw & changers production of the
Drury Lane spectacle, "The Sleeping
Beauty and the Beast at the Broad
way Theater, is drawing audiences to
this house that are making the wise
man of the Rialto stare. Receipts in
excess of $4,000 are now the ordinary
thing. What makes this production
such a delightful entertainment is
that all it's dazzling spectacular ac-
cessories are but incidental to a most
interesting story, interspersed with
steal numbers and comic interpola-
lions. The aim of the producers was
to present a mammoth production dis
tsnctively artistic in its every aspect.
This object has certainly been
achieved.
Otis Skinner, in his revival Of Fran
cesca da Rimini," has reached the
highest point ever attained by him,
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beauty of his production form a fit
background for his own brilliant char
acterization. In the present revival
Mr.. Skinner has demonstrated that
francesca da Rimini' is one of the
best acting and most picturesque
plays of the day.
Robert Mantel is playing in Phila-
delphia. Stuart Robson is playing in
St. Louis, Otis Skinner is playing in
Baltimore, Ethel Barrymore. Denman
Thompson and Warde and Voll1s are in
Washington, and Richard Mansfield is
in Cincinnati.
Isadore Rush is playing with the
"F'1orodora" company i'll Philadelphia.
''It is not acting to have a play writ
ten around you," says Richard Mans
field.
Katharine Kidder has begun an en-
gagement in Boston, in molly Pitch
err which she gave here so admirably
Maude Adams is a beneficiary in a
bill now before the Senate which car
ries an appropriation to repair losses
sustained by her uncle during the Civil
War.
II don't know a single rising young
minstrel" said George Wilson The
other night. There are plenty bright
young men, too. But these days, when
a man suspects that he is clever, he
spoils his chances by getting the swell
head"
Large audiences have greeted Jo-
sef Hoffman, throughout Texas,
where he played in the principal cities
during the past week. He was received
everywhere with the greatest enthusi-
asm. Tomorrow night he Will play
in New Orleans. From there he goes
to Mobile. He will play there on the
18th, in Memphis on the 18th, Birming-
ham, 14th; Montgomery, 18th; Atlanta,
18th, and Savannah 18th.
The box sheet IOr T6SeFV6Q seats IOf
his recital here, under the auspices of
the Savannah Music Club, at the sec
ond of its Artists Concerts this sea-
son, will be opened at McArthur's Mu-
sic House, on Whitaker and President
streets tomorrow morning at 10
O'Clock. To secure reserved seats mem
bers of the Music Club must present
their membership tickets there. Re-
served seats for others than members
also may be purchased there.
Col Henry Watterson, pride of
Kentucky, and Titular High Priest of
the "Star Eyed Goddess of Reform
attended a performance of Arizona"
at the Columbia Theater, Washing
ton. the other evening and was moved
to philosophic flights by a sentence in
Mr.. Thomas text: 1.-The world should
pity a woman who has money" The
golden voice of Grace Thorne intoned
the sentiment at the climax of act
Third; the curtain fell a moment lat
er. Col. Watterson leaned toward Gen.
Madison C. Butler, senator from
South Carolina, and reflected aloud.
Money? What is money anyhow? It's
value is only measured. by the inten-
sity with which we desire something
that money will buy Now for instance
the last pair of top boots that 1 pur-
chased-that was before Kentucky
gentlemen took to wearing shoes
cost me S$175o."
Negotiations are in progress for the