The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
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One of the most entertaining shows
at popular prices seen here this season
was that given by the Wills Musical
comedy Company yesterday at a matt
nee and at night. The bill at both per-
formances was 1.-TWO Old Cronies," but
might have been anything else for there
was no attempt at producing a play.
1t was simply a collection of fun and
good specialties. Some were notably
good, among them an imitation on the
violin of various familiar sounds, such
as the song of the mockingbird, a pig
squealing, a church organ and an ac-
Gordon. This number alone is worth
hearing. There was also rainbow
skirt dance, of the kind made popular
by Lois Fuller several years ago, in
which the lights were managed with
very pretty effect. Richards, the man
soubrette, is a whole show in
himself. Altogether, the company
gives very diverting per
Torrance. "Sweet Sixteen will be the
bill to-day, matinee and night.
The sale of seats for THE Silver Slip
per, tomorrow night, is one of the
largest of the season. The sensation of
the play is the Champagne Dance"
1t is performed by six young women,
who are considered the best dancers
from the school of George Edwardes
in England, and were brought here I'M
der contract by Mr.. Fisher especially
for this dance. The girls are dressed
in bright yellow dresses and the young
men attired as walters.
The story of THE Silver Slipper
deals with an inquisitive and saucy
young Miss on the planet Venus, who,
when caught in the act of peeping over
the edge of her star at this wicked
world, petulantly kicks her slipper a
silver one, from her planet into space
For this act of indiscretion, she is tried
by jury of women, there being no
men on that planet, and is sentenced
to earth, there to remain until she has
recovered her slipper In her exile she
is accompanied by six of her sisters.
The slipper, when kicked from Venus,
falls into the gardens of Sir Victor
Shallamar, an eccentric astronomer,
who has invented a telescope which ne
claims will bring the other planets
within thirty miles OF the earth and
who for the study of his pet science has
founded "a college,. Here is where the
complications and the trouble begin
SA4N my last 0llLll TIC pay - GLuCQ,
Thursday matinee and night theater-
goers will have the Georgia Mnstrels
The management promises this season
as good, if not a better show than ever.
They have retained the leading mem
bers from last year, and added lot of
new ones that are said to be exception
ally clever artists.
Savannah theater-goers who saw
Paul Gilmore last season in The
tyranny of Tears will hardly fail to
see him Friday night in THE Mummy
and the Humming Bird" The story
shows that a gentle answer does turn
away wrath. This is what makes the
sweetness of the play. The wife's fol-
ly, or, rather, thOughtlessness, is not
met with harsh rebuke, but with the
gentleness OF true love; and so adroit
is the husband, the Mummy, in extri-
eating his loved one from the meshes
of the designing and unprincipled
Humming Bird that one first admires
his cleverness, then laughs at the hui
man parasites discontinue and final
ly applauds the courage and devotion
of Lord Lumley. No wonder that Mr..
Paul Gilmore, who this Season appears
as the Mummy has become an idol.
Reports credit him with a perform
ance of far greater merit than anything
he has ever done-eVen superior to his
work in THE Tyranny Of Tears"
Mrs. LIE Moyne will present Stanis-
laus STANCES new seventeenth century
comedy, Lady Berinthia's Secret"
Saturday, matinee and night. The
period of the play is 1893, that far-away
time when men were as much the
slaves of fashion as the women; when
wigs, canes, snuff boxes and lace hand
kerchiefs played an important part in
the civilization of the age. The airs
and graces, the affectations and hy-
pocricies, the vices and indelicacies of
the age furnish the playwright with
excellent material, and it is said that
the author of Lady Berinthia's Sc
cret" has taken advantage of these
opportunities with the result that he
has produced a play that is worthy to
be classed with "School for Scandal"
and other English comedies, with the
added advantage of the methods of
modern stagecraft applied to its con-
struction. The matinee prices are: Or
chestra, 81 and rs cents; balcony, so
cents, admission. Night Orchestra,
$3.50 and ST. balcony, rs and so cents.