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COMIC OPERA AND TRAGEDY
WEEK'S ONLY OFFERINGS AT THEATER
"Dolly Varden” Tuesday Night and John Griffith in “Macbeth” Friday
Night—Some Coming Attractions.
Tupudof Xifeht, ‘‘Dolly Vnrdon.”
Friday Niftht* John Grfltith In
•‘Macbrlh.”
Comic opera and tragedy are the
only offerings of the week for Savan
nah theater-goers, and in neither case
will there be a matinee.
For some reason the matinees thus
far this season have not received the
support that a majority of them had
reason to expect. There was a time
when matinees were popular, and
unless the patronage warrants there
will be even fewer matinee perform
ances.
Tuesday night "Dolly Varden" will
be again offered amusement lovers.
The opera was seen here last season
and at that time was all that could
have been desired. The scenery, cos
tuming and company were excellent.
Friday night Mr. John Griffith will
be presented in “Macbeth.” Although
he has never appeared as a star in
this city this tragedian comes well
recommended and his production will
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probably be witnessed by many admir
ers of Shakespeare.
“Dolly Yarilen.”
F\ C. Whitney is one of those suc
cessful managers who has found the
Open Sesame” to the storehouses of
all good things in opera.
A Whitney production, albeit, they
are generally of the comic order, is
serious in purpose and desire, and us
ually gorgeous enough in the matter
of embellishment for grand opera,
careful* enough for an Irving stage,
TUESDAY NIGHT
F. C. WHITNEY PRESENTS
The Greatest Comic Opera Success,
Dolly Harden
By Strange & Edwards.
200 NIGHTS IN NEW YORK 200
Our Own Orchestra*
nok°on r Ju£° r ~ M) ’ Ba,con ’ r $l 0 ° and 75c - Gallery 50c. Seats
FRIDAY NIGHT
JOHN M. HICKEY PRESENTS THE EMINENT TRAGEDIAN
John Griffith
Aided by a brilliant company of legitimate players In a stupendous
production of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy
HACBETH
Complete and Correct Fireproof Scenic Equipment
Dazzling Electrical Effects. 1
Startling Chemical Illusions.
Sensational Battle Tableaux, Etc.
A tale of Enchantment in Six Acts
Prices: 25c., <;oc., 7*c., SI.OO, #i.so.
m Reserved seat sale opens Wednesday.
• and so appealing in voice, scene and
costume as to enlist the requisite
praise.
One of the best examples of this
Whitney demand for volume and rich
ness is exhibited in his production of
Rtange and Edwards' successful
opera “Dolly Varden."
"Dolly Varden” is now in the
fourth season of what promises to be
the most successful of any comic
opera produced during the last dec
ade. Orchestra, $1.50; balcony, SI.OO
and 75 cents; gallery, 50 cents.
“Macbeth.”
The announcement of the engage
ment in this city of John Griffith on
Friday night carries with it interest
to the best class of theater-goers, and
this interest is intensified by the fact
that he will present Shakespeare’s
immortal tragedy “Macbeth.”
Mr. Griffith's presentation of it will
have most adequate aid in the com
pany he has selected, and the fire
proofed scenic equipment furnished by
his management. Novel and thrill
ing electrical effects and chemical il
lusions have been added. Mr. Grif
'fith is personally a most interesting
HISS MACD HOLLIN'S MAKING ITPl T P IN HER, PORTABLE DRESSING ROOM FOR 'DOCIjY VARDES.S
character, a combination of the men
tal and physical—in appearance he
suggests the peerless Edwin Forrest
and has the frame and strength of
the champion pugilist, James .1. Jef
fries, while mentally he is a great stu
dent of classic literature and is fairly
a crank on the works of the divine
bard, Shakespeare. Seats on sale Wed
nesday morning.
Thos. W. Ryley has closed a con
tract with Miss Ida Conquest for a
period of.five years, under which she
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS* SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 13. 1904.
is to be exploited as a star. The piece
selected for her first appearance is
“The Money-Makers,” by George Rol
ditt, which has made an unqualified
success in London. Arrangements are
being made to open the season in New
York about the first of December. Miss
Conquest is well known in her line of
dramatic work, having been leading
woman for John Drew, Richard Mans
field and N. C. Goodwin, also at the
Empire Theater, New York. *
Women of the May Irwin type are
few and far between, but such an one
is Miss Langtry Ashton who so clever
ly and humorously porti'ays the title
role in the screaming farcical musical
comedy, “Alice, Where Are Thou?”
by H. J. W. Dam, which will be pre
sented here on Tuesday Dec. 6. Miss
Ashton has long been a leading mem
ber of the principal comedy attractions,
her most recent engagements having
been played with George Sidney 'and
Ward and Vokes.
When “A Girl From Dixie,” begins
its second tour, the same big cast of
principals headed by Genevieve Day
and D. L. Don will Interpret the prin-
cipal characters in Harry B. Smith’s
charming musical comedy.
It Is hard to recognize the dar marks
of a hypnotist in the kind of Jew
that Harry G. Walters plays in Fred
E. Wright’s new show, "The Beauty
Doctor," hypnotist he is, so the pro
gramme says, but in the laughter that
greets his attempts and the mix-ups
resulting therefrom, the audience real
izes the comedy that rtin result from
a misapplied function. "It is to laugh”
seems the watchword of most of the
Jew comedians, and Walters In his in
terpretation of the landlord-hypnotist
is said to extract all the humor there
is in the role.
Everywhere that the delightful new
De Koven, Klein and Cook romantic
opei’a "Red Feather,” has been pre
sented it has been considered the musi
cal event of the season. This is due,
in no small way, to the rendition of its
principal gems by Grace Van Stud
diford the primma donna and star of
the organizi\jion. Her voice has de
veloped into a gi'and opera soprano of
volume, flexibility and brilliancy.
The fortunes made out of popular
songs have been proverbial since the
days of “After the Ball,” yet' it is diffi
cult to realize that a composer may
receive almost as much from the pub
lication of one melody as from the
entire opera in which it is sung. “The
Royal Cher - is a most prosperous mu
sical comedy, but there has been a con
stant race between the royalties com
ing from it and those coming from the
sale of Ks best song, "O'Reilly.” More
than half a million copies of this ditty
are said to have been sold up to date.
The reference to politics in George
Ado's "The County Chairman" are pe
culiarly timely. Here are some of
Ohem:
"You didn’t tell me,” remarks young
Wheeler, "that I was a candidate."
“I don’t tell things,” replies Hackler.
"That's why I’ve lasted so long in poli
tics.”
Mrs. Briscoe, the wife of the village
Pooh Bah, says to Hackler: “I've got
a husband. He thinks he's going to
vote for Judge Rigby. Well, Jim
Hackler. all I got to say is he votes for
your man, else he don’t get nothin’
to eat this winter.”
"You know what Sherman said of
war?" observes Hackler.
"He said it was H—l,” Wheeler re
plies. " .
“That's because Sherman had never
been in politics."
Mr. Zangwill, a man of genius, and
one of the most distinguished of living
Jews, has lately added to his rather
complicated personality anew element.
He was Rlways an ardent Hebrew' na
tionalist, a bold social thinker, a prolific
and yet thoughtful creator of Action.
He has now become a triumphant play
wright.
Arthur Dunn, starring successfully
In ‘The Runaways," tells an amusing
story on a German oornetlst who is one
of the seven men carried with the com
pany to augment the orchestras -of
theaters visited. This Teuton was
lodged on the third Aoor of a small
hotel |n Minneapolis. On the morning
of his second day there another roomer
complained to the Boniface: "I can’t
stand that Dutchman next to me, lie
tooted his blooming cornet all night,
though I kept rapping on the wall for
him to atop.”
Motnewhat later the cornetiat appear
ed his face beaming
"Fin# apprrclatinner von mnlk vmi
! got nest to me,” he said. *'A!l night
long #f#ry tint# 1 played t tuns he
knocked on de vail for an encore. I
played ‘Efery Morn I Briny Dee Vio
lets’ to him fourteen times, and still
he vasn’t satisfied.”
DECADENCE OF COMIC
OPERA LYRICS.
Is the writing of comic opera lyrics
a lost art?
Persons who do not concede this to
be so must at least confess that at
present it seems to be a generally mis
laid art. Bright, tripping verse of the
sort that used to come from the pen
of W. S. Gilbert in England and of J.
Cheever Goodwin in America is so
rare in both countries nowadays as
to rank properly with Etruscan pot
tery. Out of all the musical comedies
produced during the past five or six
years, particularly those which orig
inated in this country, it would be a
difficult matter to pick twenty songs
in which the sense is not involved, the
humor anything but verbal buffoonry,
and the rhymes true. Robert Brown
ing, who did not hesitate to mate
words that were far from uniform in
sound, would have recoiled at hear
"kitchen” placd opposite “proposi
tion,” and at similar rhymes used in
lyrics which pretend to more ingeni
ous couplets than "blue” and “true,”
“clear” and “dear.”
It is an interesting fact that the
quality of comic opera “poetry” has
deteriorated as the quantity, or num
ber, of its authors has increased.
When J. Cheever Goodwin wrote
“Wang,” a piece in which the lyrics
are amazingly bright, and which is
being played now by De Wolf Hopper
wdth even greater success than ten
years ago, there were not five recog
nized w riters of lyrics in America. Gil
bert, who really introduced the present
form of operatic verse in "Pinafore,”
with without rivals in England. Now
dozens of poet-tasters spill their ink
vapidly, and nearly every comedy pre
sented is the collaboration of an en
tire syndicate of rhymers. The high
er average of education in Great
Britain is responsible for the fact that
most of the lyrics that are at all
worth while come from London, where
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MISS I.OUISB RIPI.KY
All Dolly Vardvn.
men like Cupt. Basil Hood, Lionel
Monckton, Paul Reubens and Adrien
Ross hold forth. None of these has
come up to the standard of the Jlngler
who wrote of "a Shipper little chappie
on a big black block,” but some of
them have done very good work, not
withstanding.
- In America Harry B. Smith is to be
thanked for a. number of clever lyrics
—such as “The French Clock,” from
"The Three Dragoons,” and “Mary
From Maryland," from "A Girl From
Dixie.” These are exceptions, how
ever. to the rule of puerility In
subject and execution. The advent of
such men as John Kendrick Bangs,
who, with Roderlc Fenlleld, has writ
ten "Lady Teazle" for Ltillan Rus
sell, should lift the standard of musi
cal comedy in this country. Literary
men have a habit of correctness and
precision which makes for the best
even the best comic opera lyrics. Miss
Russell, who ought to be a pretty
fair Judge of these things, said re
cently to the New York Telegraph
that the llangs-Penfleid lines were the
cleverest she had ever sung.
This promise, together with the ap
pearance of a volume of lyrics from
"Fantnna,” Is the ripest that the sea
son has to Home of these rhymes
from "Fontana,” which Is by Robert
Mmlth. and is now Ac log played by
Jefferson De Angelts and his company
at tjie Garrick Theater, Chicago, are
notably accurate and witty. The
cntchfevt of them arc entitled
"I>*'tiy end Toon " "A le*eon in Klt
qurt.” "A Truculent Governor," “My
Word” and "What Will Mrs, Grundy
Closing Out
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Say?” It will be observed that even
the names are more or less Gilbertian
—more, in comparison with such mod
ern cognomens as “Sallie” and "The
Darktown Swells.” It is gratifying
to note that “Fan tana” is a hit.
Another Masfleld Story.
To Richard Mansfield an enthusias
tic woman admirer had paid tribute of
praise, adding, “I suppose, sir, that
when in the spirit of those great roles
you forget your real self for days.”
“Yes, madam, for days, as well as
nights. It is then I do those dreadful
things—trample on the upturned fea
tures of my leading lady and hurl ten
derloin steaks at waiters.”
“And you do riot know of it at all?”
“Not a solitary thing, madam, until
I read the papers the next day.” *
Not the Oly One.
■William H. Crane, before his de
parture for Europe, told the following:
“In submitting a story to a certain
magazine a disappointed literary aspi
rant requested that in the event of his
manuscript being found unavailable he
be favored with the reason. In a week
the manuscript was returned, and on
the customary printed slip accompany
ing it was written:
“ ‘Dear Sir—The superscription to
your manuscript seems to us to best
express our reasons for refusal. Re
spectfully yours, " The Editor.’
"Opening the manuscript at the title
page the puzzled aspirant read his own
handwriting:
“ ’ “His One Great Sin.” About 4,300
word*.’ ”
In New York
Theaters .
New York, Nov. 12.—The engage
ment of Madame Rejane at the Lyric
Theater in an extended repertoire,
shifting from the lightest of comedies
to the most impassioned of emotional
dramas, promises to be pretty nearly,
if not quite, the most notable series
of entertainments in the French lan
guage ever brought to the attention
of this public. At another theater not
far away a month of revivals of old
French plays by an imported stock
company had served rather to whet
the appetite than dull It, and this cir
cumstance undoubtedly proved bene
ficial to the Rejane subscription sale,
which has been very large for all the
pluys announced. It Is unquestionably
a fact that Madame Rejane Is the
greatest of living French actresses—
greater even than Bernhardt, by rea
son of the fact that her art knowa no
limitation of scope. Bernhardt In tragic
or merely strenuous roles is, of'course,
pssrless In her time and generation,
Odors of Perspiration Royal Foot Wash
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Clops Chilling, cures Owen ting, llclilng Swollen, Tired Fret,
lie at druggists, or press Id from BATON PRtta CO., Atlanta, Ga. Mens?
kiosk M not sails tied, kkunpis for l-ceii! stamp.
but Rejane sweeps through the gamut
from mere frivolity to the highest
range of impassioned personation, and
her talent is as resplendent as the
ever-varying rays of a perfect dia
mond. The welcome she received upon
the occasion of her opening perform
ance at the Lyric was earnest, vehem
ent and prolonged, showing that in her
previous engagement some years ago
she had established herself very
strongly indeed in the regard of this
community—a position emphatically
strengthened as the evening pro
gressed to its termination. The per
formance, indeed, was eminently satis
factory in all its details from the
charming contribution of the star to
the personation offered by the hum
blest member of the supporting cast.
Some of the plays, such at "Zaza,”
“The marriage of Kitty,” etc., to be
introduced during the Rejane engage
ment are familiar to American audi
ences.
New York is mildly convulsed over
the most recent vision of Miss May
MR. JOHN GRIFFITH AS MACBKTH.
Irwin’s press agent, who appears to
be possessed of an altogether remark
able imagination. Early in the sea
son this vivid dreamer of dreams suc
ceeded In widely circulating the ru
mor that Miss Irwin was to be led to
the matrimonial altar by former Sen
ator David Bennett Hill of New York,
known to all familiar with his career
as a confirmed, dyed-in-the-wool bach
elor, to whom the charms of the fe
male sex, no matter how alluring to
men In general, have no attractive
features whatsoever. The report in due
course was denied, but not until It had
accomplished Its purpose of concen
trating interest upon Miss Irwin,
At the Belasco Theater David War
field in “The Music Master” grows
Savannah
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rather than diminishes in the esteem
of the public. The luxurious playhouse
is Jammed to Its extremest capacity at
every representation of this touching
and delightful play, and it will be In
the line of a distinct misfortune if
Warfield is compelled to leave
York at all during the current sea
son.
It la quite likely that another sen
son will see New York in possession of
a theater to be devoted exclusively
the purposes of negro minstrelsy.
Dockstader's engagements on Broad
way during the past two yenrs ha' 1 '
been so very successful as to stimu
late the formation of a syndicate
whose agents are now looking f° r
suitable site for the purpose mention*
ed. Should the plan develop as Irm
rated. Doekstsder will plsy In
York each year from November
Mari-h, devoting all hut the hot ' v “" '
er pert of the remaining interval
the other large olUes.