The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-22
AT THE THEATER

Stage business" music and dancing
forms the curriculum, which Will be
thoroughly taught by Herbert Gresh-
am and Ned Weyburn and Frederick
Solomon the general stage and music
directors of Klaw and Erlanger, and a
large corps of assistants. The school
is under the general direction of Ben
d. Stevens. Ensemble, or chorus work,
has become one of the most important
parts of the great spectacular and mu-
steal productions which are now so
popular with theater patrons and the
object of this school is to increase the
efficiency of those engaged in this
branch of stage endeavor The stage
now offers an unusually good oppOrtu-
nifty for young girls dependent on
themselves and young men who can
sing and this field of employment VIII
be opened to them through this school
under more desirable conditions than
have heretofore existed for the be-
ginner. Klaw & Erlanger will employ
more than 1000 persons in stage po-
stions next season.
Lulu Chaser has been testing her
! powers as drawing card by display
ing her Autographs side by side with
those of Richard Mansfield in several
Southern cities and with a date only
one day earlier or later than the big
Julius Caesar" production. 1t has
been a kind of lion and mouse compe-
tition that has proved the strength of
the weak, and that comic opera with
dainty Dolly at the head is powerful
rival to William Shakespeare. Richard
Mansfield and circus train of scenery
and performers. In Norfolk Miss
CHASER played the night following Mr..
Mansfield, and the fact that this much
feared opposition to theatrical enter
prises had not taken al! the money out
of town was proved when the box Of
flee statement showed the very neat
little sum of $1,342.45 for Dolly Var
den."
Edwin Milton Royle has long been
of the opinion that the problem play
had no honest place upon the stage,
and that it was dragged on by the
force of great but misguided genius In
author and player. The new play
which he expects to produce in New
York this spring is modern and yet is
not based on sexual sin. 1t gives the
lie to the theory that only the impure
is of present interest. Mr.. Royle is
always pleasantly remembered in Sa-
vannah through his production of
Friends" one of the best plays on
the stage.
Gentry Bros trained animal shows
the largest exhibition of the kind in
the world. will soon be in Savannah
The Gentry Bros. performance this sea-
son has been greatly augmented, in
addition to which. is presented a min
iature geological display, showing the
various hay and meat eating animals in
their infancy, an attraction which is
calculated to increase the joys of the
little folks, who are the main patrons
of Gentry Bros. famous shows. In adj
dition to the numerous company of
performing dogs, ponies, monkeys and
elephants, which have always been seen
with the show. an entirely new in
novation is introduced in the presenta-
ton of a drove of performing Siberian
camels, believed to be the only ones
ever educated either in this or foreign
lands. The many resources of Gentry
Bros. combined exhibitions will be
properly indeXed and displayed in the
combined street parades, which will be
given on the morning of the date of
exhibition; the tents will be located at
East Broad and Bolton streets for three
days, beginning Thursday, April 2.