New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-11-21
VOLUME VINO. 1913.
..aran ana wsfe'' at the Varieties Theatre


/ nights ac tie garieties Theatre. As usual
with adaptations, fully one-half ofThe book
il left out, and the play. for this reason, is
1 quite anothe8 thing from the novel, being
| full of .nyttgiea 10 ons who has not read
the story. and vbounding in unexplainable
| touches, which require study Of the entire
I plot 70 clear up. The author has left
I nothing unsad to give us the character Of
! GeOGreY D2lraaya frederick Robinsonl,
| The adapter gives US scarcely anything to
I go upon. We fn6 before US q heavy, stolid
! and phlegmatso man, go represented on the
! stage. and done with good effect, too, but
where arc we 60 took for those hidden
| springs which, By good dramatists, are an
covered 80 easily before the behOlder and
! hold him In their chain In short, it is
| essential foS one to read Wilkie Collins
work before Augustin Days can be com
| pretended.
Annie SilDesecr miss Clara Morrial is gov
erness to Btanehe, daughter Of Lady Lasesdie
! She has loved Geofrey mot wisely, but TOO
| we'll and tells him where the play begins
| in the big summer house, at Windygate,
| she is under che impression thai Lddy L7tft-
| die suspects, and that it will be necessary
| for her to leave tho house. GeoUTey, like
nine-tenths or men similarly placed. Is al
ready turning oyeS in his mind means
whereby he may get rid Of her, for he Is
anxious TO hold good place in his fathers
will lie is entreated and persuaded, and
| finally consents that he will ovCrtake ANR}s
after she has left the house and marry her.
! When she is safely off and her WHEREABOUTS
! is a mystery, the summer house scenes close
| and are transferred to the hall at Windy
| gate, in which place her disappearance
! without clue, gives rise 20 o great deal Of
| speculation and 40 end of suspicion. dir,
! A77,old Brtakoorth wv. II. Southard} is
| friend to Godfrey, and the latter procures
I him to visit Afs41ie SiLreSter at the Scotch
inn where she has really gone, and tell her
he must fail to keep his appointment to
| marry her, and he whites her promise on
the fourth page of one of her letters to him
and sends it by BrtakworM to pacify her.
! The friend arrives, conveys his message,
| and il about to depart. but a storm comes
| I'D and he can not leave the inn. 10
satisfy the hostess, he acknowledges I'm
/ 1tie sSjlccStev as his wife, and she calls
! him heP husband, BY the Scotch
law this is sufficient to constitute
| any single woman and any single man. man
! and vile. The letter and PROMISE in the
| rage of Anne. crumpied in the hand and
flung on the floor where Blshopriggs, a COW
etous old serving man, picks it up and
I pockets il. The third act reveals TO
| Anne .Silgestcr the cheat that has been
| praeticed upon her, and when Geofrg an.
! nounces in triumph TO her, that by the
| Scotch laws, she is married to Arnold
! Brink worth. there is dead faint and
| tableaux. CTEis is the picture billed on the
streets.) HeoFf8 casts sleeps eye at
| gay and fascinating widow who has just
moved into the neighborhood, and this lady
| comes up with Anne S1treSter who attempts
70 expose Her ought-to-be husband, bat is
| ,n..9 by tho fierce defense Of the widow,
M-s. GEcHaDs, who in plain language retorts
| u.sun her in the accusation that she is no
| better than she should be. As final coup,
| Anne sSiicestet brings out the letter and
| promises which she had bought from the
e,votous old Bishopriggs. This silences the
| widow. T.bleaux Every woman in the
land can understand the feelings Of the two
! women who now face one another, and this
| Interview Is decidedly pointed and splendid
l.. acted. Il is here Miss Clara Morris
shows the spirit shat it i3 in hey and develops
IL naeterly conception Of the authors,
meaning (n0t the adapter's, it being hard
| 20 lell y hat ne doee meanl. Ia the fourth
| act Il sorS Of mock cour is held in the Par
! lor af the London House. Brin6lC0rh tells
| his simple story, and it is believed. The
| letter Is produced. and by the Scotch law
! DelmayeP and Sy{oestcr are pronounced man
| and wife by the verdict of the assembled
| friends of both parties. for the promi Sc to
marry was written to the would be wife at
| the Scotch inn. DclnGyer and SireStcr are
now man and vito TO a certainty. In the
! fifth and last act is shown the papered room
| at Salt Patch, where years before dumb
| murder had been committed by Hester Del
| tridqe who smothered her drunken brute Of
a husband with q damp towel, and whose
| dreadful act renaiued without tongue to
| her secret, and the dumb woman speaks
and promises GcoFrey she will enter the
room at night and strangle -4n1sie Syl0eStcr
| in the same way, provided her secret is
kept Annie retires to rest, and " hen asleep
| the room is entered by Geo6iy and the
murderess, whose heart tails her. Anne
wakes up. Friends rush in just in time to
see Godfrey die OF paralysis-tableau.
| just as in other adaptations presented at
the Varieties. it is only the splendid acting
| of the company that saves it from continued
empty benches. To one who has not read
| the novel there is nothing in it, no play
upon the feelings, no invocation Of
! deep emotion aud the mirror held up to ma
| ture is a smoked glass. Sir Patrick L2t1edie
is the finest of the stage characr ers. He is
| full Of sarcasm at the wees of this frivolous
age. the period when everything high and
holy is turned into q burlesque, where Gro
| Quet taxes tho place of entertaining conver
| satinn, and the modern Briton comes to the
| front a. = man Of muscle whose highest am
b.s!on i 20 run further. gov faster and put
up his props 20 better advantage than
any other InRn. He unmasks such a man
in exposing GeoFry Dehnayero and gives
away hia ni"cc just &s he reads q lecture on
'moist sugar. Whenever any point is 10
be made sSsr Patrick comes ouC and makes
it, and III hiR the author Of the novel has
uDdoIbtedly given representative of the