The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-02
AT THE THEATER

Monte Cristo" as presented by the
Murray Comedy Company at the the
alter last night. was one of the best
productions of the kind by a repertoire
company ever seen in Savannah. The
house was one of the largest Of the
week. and this is saying much. as the
company is giving general satisfaction.
and draws good business each day.
The bill for to-morrow's matinee will
be Foxy Grandpa"
Sergeant Kitty" the comic opera
success of New York, will be present
ed by Manager George r. White for
the first time here tonight.
Sergeant Kitty" was pronounced
during it's record run at Days Thea
ter and at the Casino, New York, to
be the best comic opera offered in
many years, and it pleased a large
audience in Charleston Wednesday
night.
The story of the play is sufficiently
complicated to permit of a great num-
Der of amusing situations that fit into
each other like the works of a watch.
Kitty is winsome, headstrong and
pretty girl who is in love with lieu
tenant in the French Hussars. She is
the ward of an eccentric aunt who Is
determined she shall not marry at all
because of her youth. Kitty is deter
mined to marry her handsome heuten-
ant and they arrange an elopement.
In series of accidents they become
separated and Kitty, pursued by her
aunt, reaches the meeting place ahead
of the lieutenant. She must be mar
ried at once before her aunt. whom
she has locked in a pastry cooks PAN
try, escapes. In her trouble she dis
covers that her lieutenant lovers or
Derby has arrived with his masters
uniform. Kitty coaxes the orderly to
don the uniform and act as a proxy
for the lieutenant and be married to
her. He is a stupid orderly and a
screaminGly funny scene follows. The
aunt escapes from the pantry and in
terrupts the wedding by causing the
orderly to be sent to prison for kid
mapping Kitty
There is another officer whose love
affairs mingle in a humorous way with
the love troubles of Kitty. This other
officer is the nephew of the command
| ing general and he cannot marry UNI
til he is as years of age without for
feiting a fortune to his uncle. He has,
however. married secretly. His wife
| follows him to camp. He does not
want her known as his wife and in
lover The complications that arise
! from this confusion of wife and sweet
hearts are too funny for adequate de-
scription in type.
To further augment the fun, there
| is, a captain who while travelling in a
railroad car with Kitty and her ec-
centric old aunt, fell in love with
; Kitty She, bit of hirt by nature,
| encouraged him and gave him a card,
telling him to write often He did not
get her card, however. The mischief
| loving Kitty gave him instead the card
of her old aunt who supposes her hus-
band dead and is willing to marry
again. The captain corresponds with
the aunt, thinking he is writing to
Kitty, and finally proposes marriage
and is accepted. When he finds at
camp that the girl with whom he fell
in love is about, he attempts to make
love to Kitty, but she has a comic
scene with him in which she tells him
he has been accepted as the future
| husband by her aunt and he will be
lucky. if he escapes marrying her.
Miss Helen Byron is the winsome,
mischievpus Kitty: Edith Blair is the
tail beautiful prima donna: Charles
| Wayne sis 7the' chief funmaker, and
Miss Virginia Palmer is the eccentric
old aunt Others in the long list of
principa $. are Myrtle Lorimer, Clara
| Lillian .5erville, Clara Sterling, Syl-
vain Langlois, Frederick Knights,
Wheeler Earl, George Pearce, Tom
Hadaway, George Lloyd, James Furcy
and Joseph Chafllee. Orchestra, $1.50
and 81; balcony, 75c and ST.; gallery
soc.
The sale of seats for Sherlock
Holmes .. engagement next Monday,
matinee and night, will open this
morning at O'Clock. Matinee prices
are: Orchestra, reserved, soc; ball
cony, adults. SOC; children, Csc. Ad-
mission at night Orchestra, ST.; bal
cony, 75c and SOC; gallery. Csc. The
Norfolk Landmark says: Enroll Dun
bar, supported by a clever company,
gave two performances of Sherlock
Holmes" at the Academy yesterday,
afternoon and night, and on both &C.
casions before good-sized audiences.
The play was well staged and we'll
put on.
Mr.. Joseph incarnation, known as the
Irish tenor, is again one of the strong
cards of the Great Barlow Minstrels'
first part, last season singing Why
Did They Sell Killarney" to repeated
encores. He has a beautiful song OF
similar character for the present show
in I'm Longing for the Dear Old
Home Again." Barlow's minstrels will
be the attraction next Wednesday,
matinee and night. Seats on sale Mon
day morning.