The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-16
SAVANNAH MORNING NEws:I WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16. 1901
AT THE THEATER:

"a Girl from Dixie win be seen to-
day at matinee and night perform
ances. In the cast will be seen Beat
riz. Bronte, D. L. Don, George Beane,
Charles K. French, Charles H.
Bower. Charles Scheffer. Blanche
Adams and vietry GaleA Matinee
prices. orchestra s1.OO and 75c; balcony
75c and SOC reserved; gallery Csc.
Night orchestra $3.50: balcony 75c and
s1OO; gallery soc.
Charleston. S. c.. March 15.-The
most brilliant theatrical event in the
recent history of Charleston took place
at the Academy of Music this evening,
when Sam S. Shubert and Nixon and
Zimmerman inaugurated the Southern
tour of their big musical comedy or
ganization from Madison Square thea
ter, and presented "A Girl from
Dixie" The theater was filled and so
typical of the South did the comedy
prove and so cleverly was it presented
that it's triumph was instantaneous.
The story which has to do with a
Dixie girl is bright, original and witty,
and both lyrics and music abound in
Southern atmosphere, and are doubly
charming by reason of their novelty
and tunefulness. The costuming and
scenic mountings are splendidly done.
The company of sixty people contains
40 handsome show girls and such
clever comedians and vocalists as D..
L. Don, Beatrice Bronte, George
Beane, Charles H. Bowers, Charles
French, Charles Shelter, Wilmer Bent
ley and Olga May. The tour of the
company will embrace the principal
cities South and West, and judging
from to-night's reception its progress
will be one of success.
Ezra Kendall has been taken in hand
by Liebler & Co.. and will appear as
star in a three act comedy called
The Vinegar Buyer" on Friday night.
The play is founded on James Whit
comb Riley's poem of Jap Miller"
with which Mr.. Kendall has been
enamoured for years. and around
which character he tried to persuade
Mr.. Riley to write a play some time
ago. Mr.. Riley, however, could not
be persuaded to change his profession
from poet to playwright. The stars
associates are c. H. Crosby Frank A.
Lyon, Ralph Dean, Roy Fairchild,
JOIlu -. 6dTIlck,4 harry 1d0lOn,
Frank A. Howson, Jr., Helen Salinger,
Lottie Alter, Lucille La Verne and
June Lathais.
On Thursday night the musical com
edy The Chaperens," will be seen. In
THE Chaperons" has been prepared
an entertainment of light musical
order, built on the lines of modern
farce. The story of the play is a
whimsical one, dealing with a search
for two seals, one of which has been
lost from will, and the other from an
aquarium.
The scenes are laid in Paris and
Cairo, Egypt, and the characters range
from that of a New York subway con-
tractor, played by John G. Sparks, to
a female sleuth, impersonated by Ma
bel Hite. A company of sixty will
be seen here, including John G. Sparks,
Mabel Hite, Genevieve Day, Harry
Ladell, May Boley, w. v. Strunz, Mae
Stebbins, Arthur Earnest, Ruth Lloyd,
Thomas Whiffen and Oscar Ragland.
Harry Beresford in THE Professors
Love Story" the scenes of which are
laid in Scotland, and the theme of
which was written by j. M. Barrie.
who has been classed by literary crit
les both here and abroad as the mod
ern Dickens, will be seen Saturday
matinee and night.