The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-03
AT THE THEATER

II who have dashed, with blue face,
against the whirling snow of the Alps,
and have gulped wars hell down my
throat at Lodi and at Waterloo; /,
Jougrat, of the Imperial Ensign, sat
me down in a theater last night to
see, as in dream, pictures of the mis-
ty past reappear.
'They could not let me rest in my
allotted shrine. 1t is a period of dire
tumult for the hero of history Still
wrapped in the battle smoke of Arco-
las Bridge of Blood and SCARED by
the teeth of the Austrian army, l was
hustled forth into new world a
world, half lights, glimmering
and shimmering through the night;
half upholstery, with here and there a
rustling programme that oozed dis
tracing cologne and Haunted defiant
commercial challenge in the face.
II sat well into the cushioned or
chestra chair as the swarm of butter
flies came in. They fitted past me
like colored plates in a nature book,
green, pink and white and always
beautiful. There was the sometime
metallic CLINT of bald head, or the
oppressive presence Of close-set eyes,
topped by glasses and super-intelli-
gence. But it was the butterf1ies-a
fantastic cloud of them with their
gaudy wings sweeping along either
aisle, that subtle. scented procession
of opera night feminine Importance.
"A long time l waited for the little
ergeant-through period of glorious
melodies we'll fit for the introduction Of
our Emperor, but he came not. All,
twas but in the play that / saw those
glorious uniforms of the Imperial
Guards. 1t was a sacrilege to see them
in giddy dances. But what a glorious
scene and alluring sounds through
which to live back through the scenes
Of carnage and the deafening crash
of the artillery. Twas well worth an
old Guards time to witness it."-thus
spoke Jougart.
Sergeant Kitty is as inappropriate to
the delightful musical comedy present.
ed last night as most of the other
pieces of its kind. but this detracted
nothing from the singing of great mer-
it and the sparkling comedy so well
interpreted.
Savannah has partaken more album
dainty of popular comic opera sue
some of the best to be seen at any
of the Metropolitan play houses have
been furnished by Manager Seeskind
for the faded appetites of those who
have seen so many. but Sergeant Kit
ty'. was sparkling I'm dialogue, melo-
dious in score, and all that the man
agement of the theater had so unre-
servedly guaranteed.
10 he or
ing on next Monday, matinee and
night. A dramatized story, by that
rare genius, Sir A. Conan Doyle, is In
itself a special treat, and the fact
of William Gillette having made such
a play possible, should add still further
to the attractiveness of a performance.
Lovers of real good, old-fashioned
minstrelsy will be pleased to learn Of
the announcement of the Great Bar
low Minstrels for "Wednesday matinee
and night. This season Manager ]. A.
Coburn has taken the greatest of pains
TO surpass all previous efforts. Seats
on sale Monday. Matinee prices rs
and soc; night, 25c, SOC, 75c and 81 90.
The Academy of Music has had
many notable successes on its stage
and among them have been the lead
ing rural dramas with phenomenal runs
but the latest and biggest success in
this class of plays is Quincy Adams
Sawyer" which jumped into New York
city the first week I'm August and
won approval at the very start. The
sweet and pure country atmosphere
that pervades the play, the quaint and
simple story. the naturalness of the
scenes, and the wholesome good nature
of many OF the amusing incidents-are
the qualities IN Quincy Adams Saw
yer" that pleased New Workers. and
Will doubtless fully as much please
the patrons here on next Saturday
matinee and night.