The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-05

better feelings overcome him, and then
and there he resolves that, for his
daughters sake, he will become a bet
ter man in future and an honor to
his child. The secret of her birth is
revealed, however, by Col. Gould him
self when the hand of his supposed
daughter is proposed for and accepted
by a young Southern gentleman. His
rival hears thes story also, and in or
der to win her himself he tries to take
advantage of it. The girls own father
makes his appearance at this unlucky
moment and the rival lover remem-
bers him as an escaped convict, and
threatens to send him back to prison
unless he aids him to win the girls
hand. A brief outline of the plot hav-
ing been furnished, the author fur
nishes the rest. He has provided an
American play for an American pub
lie. full of startling surprises and dra-
matte climaXes.
Tomorrow night way Down East
will be the attraction and Savannah
theater-goers will have an opportunity
to renew acquaintance with stern old
Squire Bartlett" who believes in
"livin' 'cordin' to the Scripters;"
motherly Mrs. Bartlett, his typical
wife; Anna Moore, who was more sin
ned against than SHINING; David Bart
lett, the farmers only son, and the
other familiar characters in Way
Down East" They will have an OPP
portunity to chuckle with Hi Holler
and to smile with RUDE Whipple, the
eccentric town constable. These char
acters have become as familiar to the
theater-goers as the play in which they
appear. Seats now on sale. Orches-
ira, $3.50 and 81; balcony, 70 and SOC;
gallery, 25c.
The sale of seats for Miss Rose Ce-
ella Shay's production of Faust" on
Thursday night will begin tomorrow
morning. The young prima donna
made most pronounced hit wherever
she appeared last season and the season
before. She is at the head of her own
incorporated company this ason, and
has been we'll spoken of wherever she
has appeared. There are some renown-
ed artists in the company, including
Alexandra Lion, the famous basso of
the French Opera Company in New
Orleans; Joseph Fredericks, who is
thought by many music lovers to be the
best lyric tenor that this country has
yet turned out; William Stevens, a
tenor who is hardly less well known
and who made such a success with the
Damrosch Orchestra last season;
Lawrence Mooney, the baritone
formerly of the Royal Carl Rosa
Grand Opera Company, and 9TH
er singers of note. The musical
conductor of the company is Signor
Carlo Nicosia, who was for years Mas
cagni's concert master, and the organi-
zation as a whole is unrivaled in its
excellence. The company carries its
own full orchestra, which will augment
the regular orchestra of the theater.
The prices are: Orchestra, $1.50; ball
cony, 81 and rs cents; gallery, so cents.
The man of adjectives who tells in
advance of the coming of the Happy
Hooligan" Company Friday, matinee
and night, next week, certainly pos
sesses an exhaustive vocabulary. Here
are some of the things he says about
the company and production of this
clever farce comedy. which always does
a large business in this city:
Happy Hooligan" is a conceit of RI
diculousness, comicality and oddly
which is inexpressibly droh grotesque
and charming ITS whimsicalities are
polished and refined and its production
is neither gaudy, tawdy or obtrusive.
There is in it no absurd buffoonery or
doggerel verses but 1t is a quaint fam
tastic exposition of the eccentricities
of Mr. F. Opper's genial hobo, made
celebrated in the funny pictures in the
New York Journal,