The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-11
Tuesday, Matinee and Night-"The
Smart Set"
Wednesday Night-"The Beauty
Doctor"

Wednesday Night-"The Beauty
Doctor"
Charles FELTON, Pidgins has present.
ed a most natural course of events
in his story of the sojourn of Quincy
Adams Sawyer among Mason's Corner
folks, with all of the characteristics
of the Inhabitants of a New England
village delightfully."- portrayed. The
dramatization of such a popular story
as Quincy Adams Sawyer" is sure
to be attended by successful results,
and presented by a competent COM
pany yesterday won and merited much
favorable comment.
Quincy Adams Sawyer" was never
intended for and never will be other
than a collection of events in the hum
drum life of a droning village, with
the interest largely centering in the
manner in which the characters are
portrayed. Mr. Pidgin's descriptions of
his characters in the book have been
excellently followed out in the dramat-
ization.
Mr. James Thatcher as Quincy
Adams Sawyer had little demands
made on what artistic powers he
might possess as an actor, but in dia-
logue and the portrayal of the char
acter he was pleasing.
Mr.. Harry S. Robinson as Obadiah
Strout, the village singing master, was
one Of the cleverest comedy character
izations seen in Savannah in many
days. Mr.. Robinson lost no oppor-
tunity in getting all there was in his
lines out to the best advantage. An
unusually large company, excellent
scenery and many fresh and diverting
scenes makes Quincy Adams Sawyer"
most delightful evenings entertain
ment.
Manager Seeskind offers but two at
fractions to theater-goers this week.
THE Smart Set a colored aggregation
that contains a number of clever sing
ers, according to the press accounts,
will be seen Tuesday, matinee and
night. Wednesday night the much
talked of musical comedy 1.-THE Beauty
Doctor" will be the attraction. This
production will be offered Savannah
ans for the first time.
s'The Smart Set"
Brilliant in color when viewed as
spectacle, funny in its comedy and with
excellent musical features The
Smart Set" will be seen on Tuesday,
matinee and night. The company num-
bers fifty colored people, and the pro-
duction this season is entirely new.
Among the stars may be mentioned S.
II. Dudley John Bailey and Marion
Marion Short. Seats are now on sale.
The matinee prices are: Orchestra, so
cents; balcony, reserved, so cents; gall
lery, rs cents. At night: Orchestra,
rs and so cents; balcony, rs cents; gall
lery, so cents. Entire balcony reserved
for colored people. The matinee will
begin at $3.50 o'clock; evening at SIS.
"The Beauty Doctor"
The young Coincidence, Miss Henri
eta Lee. who PLAYS the title part in
THE Beauty Doctor which is to be
seen Wednesday night, is congratulate
ing herself in escaping the inevitable
beautiful, chic young widow parts she
has been playing for the last few sea-
sons. While Miss Lee says the part of
the beauty specialist in 1.-THE Beauty
Doctor" has most of the characteristics
OF the fortune-hunting Hoyt widows,
still she is not a. widow on the pro-
granlme and is correspondingly happy.
1t seems part of the managerial
idea when casting plays to preferably
employ actors and actresses who have
made regulations in certain lines of
character, and Miss Lee, who made her
original entree as a widow on the stage
in Hoyt's "A Contented Woman" as
the notorious Mrs Ebbsmith was sub
sequently engaged by Hoyt for all of
his plays in which a widow, scheming
and otherwise, appeared. After Mrs
Ebbsmith she was engaged to play the
sporty and fiirtatious Mrs Guyer in "A
Trip to Chinatown" then she became
the calculating and scheming relict of
Piggot Luce in "a Milk White Flag"
following it with the less audacious,
but equally knowing Hattie, in "A
Stranger in New York" Thus, willy
nilly, weeds and crepe have been Miss
Lees portion Electrically, although
there has been no sorrow in her out
side life, and now for the first time in
some seasons escaping the inevitable
widow, Miss Lee is making the most
of her opportunity by imparting a
sparkling breeziness to the part of
1.-THE Beauty Doctor"
Seats will be on sale tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock. Orchestra, $l.5O