The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-06

lett, the Squire's wife; Anna Moore.
who was more sinned against than sin
ming; David Bartlett. the Squire's stur-
dy son; Kate Brewster, the SOURCES
pretty niece; Hi Holler, the chore boy,
the infectious laugh: Rube Whipple. the
quaint town constable and his "all
bound round with wooden string"
Seth Holcolmb. he with a penchant for
life long bitters;" the village choir,
and the village doctor. Such a gracious
welcome may not await Martha Per-
kins, the village gossip and mischief
maker. nor LenoX Sanderson, the viii
famous city chap.
These are the chara cters round which
Mrs. Parker has written her play. They
are residents of New England country
side. They are plain people, and the
story written about them becomes their
plainness. Incidents of their everyday
life have given the author her theme.
The play portrays the simplicity come
dy and tragedy of the community the
purity and sweetness of which might
run uninterrupted forever, but for the
casting of the shadows of the wicked
city This comes in the form of the
cultivated city man with more money
than morals, who has betrayed a con-
fiding, rural lass under the guise of a
mock marriage.
Homeless, she seeks the shelter of
well meaning, country squire, whose
religion prompts him to send forth the
hapless Magdalene, lest she contami-
nate his own precious son, to whom the
sins of the world are somewhat I'M
known.
The son, loving the girl for her sweet
ness of character, follows her, rescues
her from death in the winter storm,
and the father, overcome by remorse,
forziVes and bleSSeS.
There are variations of a refreshing
and humorous sort which relieves the
play of a sombre setting and make the
spectator feel the lesson is being adj
ministered in pleasing homeopathic
doses.
Miss Rose Cecilia Shay will be heard
Thursday night in two grand operas
81 Paghacei" and "Cavalleria Rustl-
cana" The management has deter
mined to change the opera from
Faust" to the two operas above. The
sale of seats will open this morning at
9 o'clock. The prices are: Orchestra,
81 so; balcony, 81 and rs cents, and gal
lery, 80 cents.
That there is a revolution in public
sentiment in musical matters has len
very clearly evinced by the success of
the Shay Grand Opera Company
wherever IL IdS epBteltQ inns oNeA-7Sti'
Fashionable audiences have been the
rule. This is not very difficult to ac-
count for. No such organization is
said to have come out of New York
in recent years in the way of a grand
opera company. The young prima don
ma herself would be an attraction alone,
but with her support it is natural that
the audience should be large.
Happy Hooligan," the genial hobo,
made famous by F. Upper in the New
York Journal, and put into dramatic
form by Frank Dymont, will be the
offering Friday matinee and night. The
company presenting Happy Hooli-
gan" numbers forty people, and the
scenery, costumes, music and other fea-
lures, are all new. Billy A Ward will
be seen as Happy Hooligan, and Eva
Davenport as Rosie Moriarety. Charles
Saunders will be seen in his role of
Michael O'Shaughnessy. Seats OH
sale Wednesday morning at o'clock.
Matinee prices are orchestra Soc bal
cony, adults SOC. children Csc adnlis-
sion.
No greater tribute to the popularity
Of writer could be paid than the
patronage that has been accorded
Charles w. Chase's dramatization of
"Thelma," during the last two seasons