The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

cialties were all good and the company
as whole is a splendid one"
Ladies will be admitted free on the
opening night. with every paid 3O-cent
ticket.
When a comedy company can visit
the same territory three successive
years and play each time to largely in
creased receipts over the year before,
1t must possess something to command
attention on the part of the public
something which places il a little be-
yond the average theatrical attraction.
Hello Bill" Willis Maxwell Goodhue's
jolly comedy, which comes to the thea
ter Tuesday, matinee and night, has
for three years toured the entire East
ern country to increasing business, and
has been pronounced one of the funni-
est farcical comedy concoctions the
American stage has yet seen. For it's
present tour the company includes
James F. Macdonald, Arthur l.. Cog
User, S. S. Wiltsie, Frank t. Glenn,
Gideon Burton, Robert Watt, Miss
Margaret Dale Owen. Miss Mildred
Claire, Miss Pauline NJ Hickler, Miss
Kathryn Vincent and Miss Marion
Kirby. The sale of seats will open on
Tuesday morning. The matinee prices
are 90 and % cents. Regular prices
prevail at night.
One of the theatrical events Of the
season will be the appearance of Ger
trude Coghlan in alice of Old Vim
cennes,' at the theater shortly. In this
play, dr9matized from the pages of
Maurice Thompsons idyllic romance of
Revolutionary days. Miss Coghlan por-
trays an American heroine, who is q
type of exquisite beauty, of tender
sweetness, of wholesome womanliness
and of heroic fire. Her success in this
role has placed her in the foremost
rank of Americas most gifted actresses.
The production is one of the most
elaborate on the stage, and it is in
every detail the same that was seen
at the Garden Theater in New York
last winter for nearly 100 perform
ances.
Are You a Mason" the comedy
hit, which will be seen at the theater
on Wednesday, Feb. 25, is said to be
rip-tearing. jolly piece. full of comic
surprises, bright lines and amusing
situations, and it is played by as strong
a company as Rich & Harris ever Sc
lected. At its head are John c. Rice
and Thomas A. Wise, who impersonate
two pseudo Masons, and each is SEEM
ingly a bigger liar than the other.
Amelia Bingham has returned to
New York at the Princess Theater, to
make her annual production in Clyde
Fitch's The Frisky Mrs Johnson"
While the comedy is not entirely orig
inal with Mr.. Fitch. having been part
~ taken from the French 1t is never
theless very much on the Fitch order.
The scenes of the play are laid in
Paris at the present time, and Miss
Bingham has presented her play upon
most elaborate scale, the stage set
ting being most effective and the cos
tunes beautiful The story and plot
of the comedy is most simple. Mrs.
Johnson is an unusually attra ctiVe
widow and has the reputation of being
most frivolous. A younger married
sister is carrying on a Irritation with
a young English nobleman. Her sis
ter's husband opens a note sent to his
wife by her admirer, and in order to
save her sister the widow claims the
ownership of the missive. This ex-
PLANTATION, of course, satisfies the hus-
band and saves the wife from expos
ure of any kind.
George AIDE, who attended a per-
Torrance of 1.-The Sultan of Sulu' at
Wallack's Theater, New York, was
asked to write a criticism of his own
work. Among other things he said:
Il have seen other performances of
this musical play. The show at Wal
lack Is considerably better than the
one l saw in st. Paul in the autumn.
This Improvement is readily account
ed for by the members of the COM
pany, who say that during the last
four months the author and composer
have kept out Of the way. No doubt
further and more prolonged alb
sence viii prove beneficial to all per-
sons concerned"
Mr.. Charles FELTON, Pidgin, the au-
thor or Quincy Adams Sawyer" from
which popular novel the successful
/. New England play Of the same name