The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-03-27

Last night Miss Agnes Herndon appeared
Mt CraddocIs 0pora.housc in BARLEY Camp
bells thrilling dram0, "Fatc, or II True
Woman The play itself fnrni'bes ample
scope for tho display of hlstronic talent, ms
II Is full of emotional situations, with little
gems and sparlsles Of humor here and there
Helen Faraday, tho leading role, with
Miss Hendon in the character, 10 noble,
true woman, whose heart is all her hus-
bands and whose happiness is wrapped up
in his love. Her love Is SO deep and pure
that il guards the citadel OF her husbands
affections with n jealous care, that takes
alarm ut the slightest approach, 1t Is not n
jealousy of the unreasonable, unreasoning
| kind. but that which is born of that gen-
uine alteration the true wife feels for her hus-
band. A ward OF her husband, who
proves TO be M adventures, comes
between husband and wife, and causes sep
aration. She does not estrange the huS-
bands affection, but the wife reads Alright
her schemes and her love resents her en-
croachmonts upon tho happiness of the
household The husband is under pledge
to n dead sister to protect this ward, and, be-
levng her to be a pure woman, his pride
reyolts at what he thinks is his wite's unrea-
sonable jealousy, and the elimination is sep
aration. The adventures has been married,
but has deserted her husband because of
his poverty and he loses his reason and for a
time isinc0rcerated In mad house. In the
final act all is explained and light dawns'
where before was darkness The husband
learns Alright the character of the adventures
discovers how he has wronged his wife, Is
touchdown with remorse and is Mt last
made happy by the devotion of his wife who
flies to him in his distress and his anguish.
This is but brief outline Of the play.
Miss lIerndon evnced II perfect con-
ception of the part and her
execution thereof in all It's details was rev.
citation in dramatic art. She more than per-
sonated the character she became it for the
nonce, and the emotions of love, Of jealousy.
Il jealousy tempered by pride and womanly
dignity, of grief and abject woe, were so
wildly depicted that the hearts of the audi
ence were thrilled and swayed by the majesty
of her genius.
Mr.. Charles Abbott, as Frank Farady,
the proud yet loving husband, while
u young actor of marked ability, was rather
tame in some of the scenes where emotion
should have swayed him as the wind does the
forest. His support in the main is most ex-
cellent, and he is worthy the position he fills,
but he might add to his power by greater
display of feeling when love and pride are so
iercely contending in his bosom, though it
may be that in his conception of the
role he suffers pride to partially
stihe the manifestation of feeling.
Miss Marion Darcy rs june Temple, the nd
ventures who mars the Maven Of n happy
home, is pains-taking actress and filled well
the measure Of her part, being particularly
fine in the scene between herself and her
deserted husband, where she scorns him and
drives him from her with loathing and cruel
words.
Mr. Harry Mack is the comedian, and as
NJ. T. Blaze the broken-down Snowman, is
exceedingly funny.
Miss Josie Loane, otherwise Sally
Ann Waddlos, the romantic chambermaid,
who dotes on Ledgers, Saturday Evening
Posts and the nickel series of literature gen.
orally, is MS charming II commedienne as
ever graced the Dallas boards. She has a
keen sense OF the ridiculous and the humor-
Gus and it assets itself not only in the rem
dtion of her lines and her part, but now and
then it etlervesced spontaneously.
Miss Herndon's company is superb, she her.
self, the brave, beautiful daughter of the
South that she is, is an incarnation of dra-
matte genius. Her voice is grand, her enun-
citation perfect her presence graceful.
Tonight she appears in "Lady Challoner,"
a melodrama, where all her powers can be
prominently displayed, and in the sleep
walking scene the most eminent dramatic
critics Of the country have pronounced her
as peerless, and the scene itself as equal in
intensity Of interest to the seep-walking
scene in Macbeth.
There will be q matinee this afternoon,
when all who cannot go at night will have an
opportunity of going.