The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-17
AT THE THEATER

The Payton Sisters opened their
weeks engagement last night with an
entertaining play. the success of which
augers we'll for the remainder of their
stay in Savannah. The audience was
a large one and found itself vastly
amused by the production. The Sins
of His Father" had just enough serf-
BUSINESS in it to offset it's lighter por-
tons, and the parts were all wen taken.
The scene is laid in Salt Lake City,
Senter Payton appearing as a ranch
man and Miss lola Payton as his wife
These were two of the best roles in the
piece. Miss Vina Payton took the part
of their daughter, a very wild little
Westerner.
Between the acts there were excel
lent specalties.
"A Night at Delmonico's" will be
given to-day at the matinee, and
North Carolina Folks" tonight.
In securing Mr.. James F. Macdonald
to appear as William Fuller in Hello
Bill, the management has made what
would seem to be a shrewd move to-
front rank of favor. Since the death
of Roland Reed and the retirement
from the road of William Collier, there
has been pronounced vacancy wait
ing for some one with youth and intel
ligence to fill it. In Mr. Macdonald the
Hello Bill management believes it
has found Mr.. Golfers successor, and
1t is said that as the hapless William
Fuller, he gives an impersonation that
D.Il civ h
cant chair Mr.. Macdonald will be seen
with Hello Bill" Thursday, matinee
and night. The sale of seats will open
this morning at o'clock. Matinee
prices, so and rs cents; regular prices
at night. --- l----..--
There are said to be more laughs to
the minute in Are You a Mason;
which comes to Savannah next Mon
day, than in any comedy that has been
seen on the stage in a long time Ger
tain it is that wherever presented, its
success as a mirth-producer has been
quick and emphatic. The major por-i
ton of the fun is created by two pseu-
do Masons John c. Rice and Thomas
A. Wise. and there will be no straight
faces in the audience after these two
top-notch comedians get to work de-
eeiving the other, and themselves most
ated by this merry comedy, that 1t is
said to convulse with merriment even
the most captious and stolid play
goers. That it will be enthusiastically
received there is little doubt.
Klaw & Erlangers. spectacle, ben
Hur," which is touring the South for
a limited engagement of five weeks,
is at De Gives Grand Opera House
Atlanta, for one week, commencing
Monday, March 2, with matinees We'd
nesday and Saturday. Although Ben
Hur" is already we'll known, a word
regarding its massiveness will be of
interest. The production which comes
South is the same original Klaw &
Erlanger Organization which was seen
in Chicago and St. Louis last year
with the same cast, scenery, equip
ment, horses, camels and electrical
effects. There are few bars of mu-
sic-serving the same purpose as
voluntary before divine service-and
when the curtain rises it discloses the
ilimitable waste of desert; the tired
camels, the three wise men gathered
from Greece, from Egypt, from Hin
dustan, to greet the appearance of the
star, "a focus of dazzling lustre." His
star proclaims his birth. The play
opens with his birth and closes with
hosannas and rejoicings over the last
miracle he was to perform before his
appointed end.
Following the prelude comes the
brilliantly colored picture of the house
tops of Jerusalem, the terrace of the
palace of Hur. Next is one of the