The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-02-10
AT THE THEATER.

! and his band, will be seen and heard
in two concerts tomorrow, matinee and
! night Sousa is not new to Savannah
| where, for his music is heard the world
over. 1t did not need the recognition
of England's King or the decoration
bestowed by the French government
| to establish Sousas supremacy in the
| field Of military music. His success
abroad was commensurate with his
popularity at home. TIE reason for
that is not difficult to find, for a bet
| ter concert than that which Sousa gives
can scarcely be imagined. The must
clans seem inspired by the cordial
friendship which they have no diff
Guilty in recognizing as existing be-
tween them and their hearers, as we'll
as by the intangible, yet powerful con-
troll maintained by their leader. and
they play with an intensity that in
it's supreme moments is uplifting. The
Sousa Band goes at its work with an
assurance which comes only from COM
plete confidence in themselves and
their master. and with the balance
between the various instrumental
groups so admirably maintained there
is never the slightest deviation from
tone quality.
The dominant element in all this Is
necessarily Sousa. The band repre-
SCENTS Sousa in all it's details; the in
strumentation is according to the Sousa
ideals; the disciplinary force is, of
course. Sousa; the character of the
concerts represents Sousa's ideas of the
proper musical pabulum for the masses
and the individuality and strength of
the man is apparent in every depart
ment of his organization. At the night
concert 'Tannhauser's" overture will be
played by special request.
Wednesday night THE Four Cohans"
will be seen in 1.-THE Governors Son"
The Cohans and their play are both
new to Savannah theater goers. So
was Miss Bob White" Willard Spen-
ser's delightful opera recently produced
by Nixon & Zimm erman and to which
Manager Seeskind gave his personal
Endorsement as a good thing. Mr..
Seeskind stands for THE Governors
Son." as he did for Bob White" and
the lovers of comedy and music may
rest assured they will not be disap-
pointed. The Richmond News in a coll
umn notice of the production. has this
to say and good deal more besides.
THE Governors Son" is an ingeni-
ously conceived and carefully worked
out piece of popular humor 1t is a
succession of glorious pictures in raj
ment rhythem and scenic ambiency;
field day for the bald heads. for the
stage is filled with marvelously drilled
beauties. while over this bending, sway
ing array, colored by faultless artistry,
there presided as drief priest in this
temple of the sacred lamp, George Co
han and host of comedians, arch en-
emies of boredom and the ancient gags
1t is probably the most enchanting di-
version of it's kind ever seen in a Rich
mond theater. THE Governors Son"
tells the story Of a giddy chief execu-
tive who suffers from selfishness when
he gets into an aureate feminine at
mosphere, while his son, who IS doing
his best to follow in his fathers foot
steps, teaches him lesson with the
bribery and corruption treatment as
the price of silence, and takes a, hand
in the settlement of the domestic dis
putes of two errant couples, with the
inevitable results. How husbands and
wives are led to believe that they are
the victims of bigamous adventures,
forms the basis of as funny an intrigue
as ever supplied the motive of a musi-
cal farce. The plot is simple. although
far-fetched; the canvas of the piece Is
crowded with multiplicity of intrl-
cate details, and into the intrigue the
author has infused an amount of ami
nation and merriment that render the
piece highly diverting. However, the
individual effects Of the performers are
certainly the thing. There is no criti-
cism to be uttered, no description to be
attempted of George Cohan as the
Governors Son. When he is on the
stage Laughter is continuous, and the
audience seemed never to tire of his
eccentric dances. His touch and go
methods, without any horseplay what
ever, is exceedingly funny and wholly
convincing"
Much curiosity has already been
manifested in Savannah in the appear
ance of Kathryn Kidder, who will be
seen here Thursday night in her new
play, molly Pitcher" The name OF
the piece is familiar to every student
of the American Revolution who has
read the exploits of the woman who
distinguished herself by loading and
firing cannon at the battle of Mon
mouth. Glen McDonough, the author
of the play. is said to have succeeded
admirably in writing a play around
this historic incident. The battle nat
urally is made a scene of the produc-
ton and Is said to be presented on
even a greater scale than the battle
of Shenandoah. The scenes leading up
to the battle of Monmouth are reported
to afford Miss Kidder a splendid OPP
portunity for the display of her talents
as a commediene. She is supported by
a company that has been specially Sc
lected by her manager George H.
Brennan, for the run in New York later
in the season. In the cast are Lester
Lonergan. Olive Oliver, Ethelwyn
Hoyt. Jean Chamblin. Marion Ash
worth. r. C. Hamilton, Orr S. Cash,
Seymour Stratton. Samuel ]. Monroe,
H. David Todd. Richard Sterling. Will
liam Bechtel. Charles Kennedy, Alfred
McArthurs, Bertram Godfrey, Edward
OConner, Gilbert DeViers. Bernard
MoCiIire and Michael O'Rrion