The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-26
AT THE THEATER

Tonight Manager Seeskind will pre-
sent with his Endorsement, the Whitney
Opera Company in When Johnny
| Comes Marching Home" the patriotic
comic opera which was a success for
200 nights in New York last season, and
will be taken to London by Mr.. Whit
ney at the close of the present season
One of the prettiest stage pictures
that has been evolved this season ac-
companies the proceedings in the sec
ond act of the opera. The refinement of
scenic art is beautifully Illustrated In
| the back drop, representing a river
traversing the lush bottom lands Of the
cupied by a weather-worn mansion, ia
miliar on the big cotton plantations of
| the South before the war. bit OF the
negro servants quarters, clambering
rose bushes and wide spreading trees.
It is moonlit scene. and the lishting
! is managed so well that the simmer
ing effect of the moons beams on the
! river is reproduced in way that is
! said to create charming illusion.
! The period of the action at this time
is the springtime of the year, when the
voices of nature make music. The i'm
tation of the evening song of the frogs
is as perfect as that of the chipping of
the cricket in Joseph Jeffersons pre-
| sentiment of THE Cricket on the
| Hearth 1t is heard at the rising OF
the curtain on the scene, and may east
| ly escape the inattentative ear of the
person only conscious of the general
| beauty OF the stage picture. 1t dies
away shortly, but 1t fingers in the MEM
ory of the sensitive and imnressiona-
bly, spectator as fascinating inciden-
tai in the production, and as a happy
! thought on the part of the producer.
Mr.. +. G. Whitney. 1t is this atten-
ton to detail that is so satisfying to
anyone having the artistic sense.
Tomorrow, matinee and night, Marie
Wainwright VIII be seen as Viola in
Twelfth Night" In the wide range
of English dramatic literature, there is
no play so diversified of incident and
character as Twelfth Night" Shakes
peare never showed versatility in his
study Of men in a more marked degree,
nor touched them off with more de-
licious humor than in the variety of
characters he brings into the view in
this charming comedy That Miss
Wainwright is the best Viola on the
sensus of the general critical opinion,
and that as Cesario, that is, as Viola
in male attire, she Is the most exquis-
lite picture, a beautiful vision of SUI
preme grace, is the generally con-
coded fact. The matinee prices are:
Orchestra, rs and SO cents; balcony,
adults, so cents; children, rs cents.
Night: Orchestra, $3.50 and 81; bal
cony, rs and so cents.
Shakespearean revivals are always
interesting, and when they are made
In the way Augustin Daily used to do
them at his New York theater they
are instructive as we'll. MIR. DAILY
never allowed either cost or labor to
stand in his way when he wished to
put on one of the works of the Strait
ford bard. He had the reverence for
those immortal dramas that every stu
dent must feel and to present them in
an adequate or slovenly manner was
as abhorrent to him as a fracture of
the decalogue is to religious man.
The result was that Mr.. Days Shakes
perean production were so nearly per-
feet as It is possible to make them, and
they have never been equalled IN ar
tigtic merit In this country. Miss Ada
Rehan, SO long the leading woman Of
his company, was his co-laborer in