The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-07
AT THE THEATER

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Pinero's latest play, Iris" with
Jeanne fowler in the title role viii
be presented by L. J. Rodriguez to-
night.
Iris is the widow of Mr.. BeIlamy,
who left her a fortune as long as she
did not remarry. BY temperament she
is at once impulsive, irresolute, quick
to act. quicker to repent, with heart
attuned to love and a digestion Injured
to luxury. Love calls her to Laurence
Trenwith, a penniless passionate boy
whose only hope of providing home
for her lies out on a British ranch.
Luxury and a desire for security. i'm
pels her to accept the hand of Fred
erick Maldonado, a millionaire finan-
cier of Spanish-Jewish origin.
A stolen kiss in a midnight inter
view with the boy, however, causes
revulsion, and, bidding him follow her
to Italy, she sends a line of dismissal
to Maldonado. At her villa on Lake
Como, she is still irresolute. But
Trenwith's determination to go to Brit
ish Columbia carries the day when
news arrives of the simultaneous dis
appearance of Iris's fortune, and her
trustee. She promises to await his
return, living on the pittance salvaged
from the wreck.
However, Laurence is no sooner gone
after another midnight interview,
piteous in the anguish of the woman
than Maldonado comes out in his
true colors, Mephistopheles in
lounge suit and sombrero. AT the
opening of the fourth act Iris is mis-
tress of a luxurious fiat in Park street
and of the millionaire. His cheque
book, worked her downfall insdiously
placed at her disposal, when poverty
was pinching her. Laurence returns
to claim his bride. She confesses all
to him-her suffering and gradual fall
ure in the struggle for existence and
ultimate surrender to M'aldonado.
Laurence leaves her at once, simply
saying: Il am very sorry" Mai
donado here bursts in upon Iris, stun
ned by this latest blow Of fate, with
the abuse and violence of an Othello.
His hands are at her throat, her
SCREAMS fill the room, when he changes
his mind, turns her out into the night,
and sets to breaking up the furniture.
Orchestra $3.50, balcony 75c and SOC,
gallery Csc.
Election returns win be had from the
stage, Tuesday night, when, Under
Southern Skies" will be seen.
Under Southern Skies" first appeared
in New York city, where it ran for
three months at the Theater Republic
(now Belasco's Theater), and has prov
ed to be the most successful play for
Lottie Blair Parker, who wrote the
play, also wrote, Way Down East"
and she employed the same methods
in writing it that made, Way Down
East" so successful. A feature of the
performance, and one that never fails
to take the audience by storm" is a
Halloween celebration. This has never
been done upon the stage before. The
pumpkin dance has proved especially
amusing.
Her Lord and Master" which Miss
Helen GRAVITY will revive on Thursday
matinee and night, is a wholesome and
entertaining play 1t is a simple love
story that had its beginning under the
snowclad peaks of the Rockies, and its
happy denouement in London
drawing room. 1t is tale of a young
woman's life-a story of young
woman's heart. AS presented by Miss
GRAVITY and her excellent company,
1t promises to be one of the dramatic
treats of the season.
The difficulty in determining the con-
dition of an audiences mind from the
manner in which a play is received.
moves Paul Gilmore, who will appear
here on Friday, matinee and night, in
The Mummy and the Humming Bird"
to remark that the American theater-
goer is almost the only one of his class
whose exhibition of displeasure at a
performance is evidenced entirely by
his silence.
The story of "The Mummy and the
Humming Bird" is told in a sharply
refined manner, and it is refreshing
TO witness Mr.. Gilmore's clean cut
methods in the presentation of the
character of Lord Lumley.
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