The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
! IN NEW YORK THEATERS

New York, Feb. 27.-There are
changes of bill in plenty this week
among the New York theaters, the most
important of them occurring at the
Broadway, New York and Knicker-
booker houses. In the first mentioned,
Raymond Hitchcock has renewed his
acquaintance with this public upon
most favorable basis, through the med
ium of a musical comedy of real merit
called 1.-THE Yankee Consul" The
book is by Henry NJ. Blossom, the au-
thor of Checkers" and the score is
the composition of Alfred G.. Robyn.
There is real music in this piece-music
of the light, tuneful and catchy order,
but of very considerably better quality
than we usually come across in enter
tainments of this description. The lib
retto tells of the adventures, amatory
and otherwise, of a rapid-paced young
American who has been sent as con-
sui to a Southern republic with the idea
that the experience may tend to re-
form him. But in his new surround
ings he manages to get into new COM
plications, which although very trou-
blesome to himself are intensely lu-
dicrous in the eyes of the spectators.
There is laugh after laugh in the yam
kee Consul" and any quantity of APP
plause as we'll.
Charles Frohman has been elect ed
vice president of the newly founded
English Sheepdog. Club. Mr. Froh-
mans own animal of this breed took all
kinds of prizes at the recent dog show,
and the owner is naturally even more
enthusiastic than heretofore regarding
his kennels. The English sheepdog
doesn't dazzle with radiant and rose
ate beauty. He is a blocky, long
legged animal without any tail, and he
has long, fleecy, wavy coating of
drab hue. In general outline he looks
like a four-legged bench with hair on
it. But the sheepdog has an extra
ordinary degree of mentality, is ev-
tremely loyal and loveable and his
moral tone wouldn't bring the blush
of shame to the fairest cheek. AS
ISOLATED with Mr.. Frohman in the new
club are Howard Could William c.
Eustis. ]. w. j. Morgan and other gen
tlemen of prominence in their various
Nhlks of life.
THE Tenderfoot," a musical COM
edy written by Richard Garlic, with
music by H. L. Hearth, made a high
ly successful bid for popular favor at
the New York Theater on Monday with
the librettist in the principle comedy
role. The Tenderfoot" possesses that
rarity in musical comedy, a real plot.
The scenes are laid in the West and
the chief character is a guileless Yam
kee tutor, played by earle, who is
speedily spotted as a tenderfoot and
made to dance amid the popping OF
Tevolvers and do other interesting
stunts regarded as humorous by tn
wild and woolly Westerners. There
is an interesting love story running
through the piece and innumerabl
catchy melodies that will undoubtedl
be Whistled for some time to come.
Shakespeare Is as Shakespeare Was
would undoubtedly be a good descrip-
ton of the impressive and highly in
teresting production of Twelfth
| Night" which Charles Frohman pre-
scented at the Knickerbocker Theater
during the week past. 1t is an effort
to present the comedy in a manner as
close to the original as is possible in
these days, The manuscript is re-
tanned practically without cuts and
there is lack of scenery and stage
carpentering that seems decidedly