The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-08-12
HAZEL KIRKE.
a Play R.pe.,sd 500 Time. in One Theatre

The Hasenwinkle Company presenteu on
Friday evening last Steele Mackaye's popu-
lar English drama, Hazel Rirke. The piece,
when first played in New York by the Madi-
son Square Company, did not create any par
ticuar sensation, but it grew upon the pubic
and attained the unprecedented success oil |
being played nearly two years, nightly. It's |
history thus whets desire to see 1t, and Mon
tana Is gratified by very creditable render |
| ing by the Hasenwinkle Company. Some
| thing of the plot may be interesting. pus-
| ton Kirke L. Lancashire miller. He Is an
| honest, sturdy, iron-willed man. He loves
his wife Mercy" and his daughter " hazei."
But prior to the date when the play begins
| the miller has seen hard times, and his friend
" SQUIRE Rodney" favored him with financial
aid that enabled him to bridge his difficulties.
In return the miller pledged to him, while
she was yet child, the hand Of his daughter
"Hazel" esquire Rodney" was noble,
generous man, beyond the prime of live, but
loved Hazel" devotedly. Finally,
Young stranger" Arthur Carringford -
came to the neighborhood, was rescued rom
drowning by the miller and nursed back 10
health by Hazel" The old story repeated
itself, and the first thing they knew " Hazel
and the stranger were in love. Rodney
discovered the secret and relinquished MS
claim on " Hazel" but the iron-willed miller
drove her from his home with curse. Ihe
stranger, who turns out to be Lord Travers,
does the honorable thing and is quietly mar
ried to " Hazel" at a village on the Scottish
border, his family matters beingsuch that for
the time he kept his marriage secret from
his people A year passes by. The old mil
Ter loses his sight in a fever brought on by
his rage with Hazel" and " Lord Travers ."
and his wife are living secluded unhappy at
Fairy Grove. Then "Lady Travers" turns
| up demanding that Lord Travers," to save
, disgrace, shall mary a titled lady who was the
! ward of the elder Lord Travers and whose
: inheritance the old gentleman had squander-
9 ed. LADY Travers having taken this mat
ter TO heart, learns of her sons clandestine
| marriage and is brought near deaths door by
4 illness but on hearing that Lord Trayers'
r marriage with Hazel" was performed on
, Scotch soil and is technically void, posts on
to her sons retired home, finds Hazel
n alone, and cruelty working upon her fears
+ and love for her husband, induces her to hy
back to Lancashire, poor, disgraced girl
a where she stands in the night at the window
of her old home at Black burn mill and hear
her fathers curse repeated and all his woes
u and broken fortune attributed to her. She
flies away to bury her SORROWS in the Hood
! her shrieks In the raging waters are carried
TO her blind fathers ears and in his helpless
e agony the iron-will il broken and the door o.
. reconciliation opened. "Lord Travers," VIII
has been hunting his wife, turns up, hi
d friends rescue Hazel" from the flood
/" " Squire Rodney" does the grand, Dustoi
IS Kirke relents, IL turns out the marriage wa
II legal after all, Lady Travers" died In tn
"a room from which she drove Hazel" AM
n everybody Is happy.
This il the chain of incident on which tn
d. pIay is woven. 1t Is story Of pastoral pos
re bilities something like Dora or Willo,o Cops
al one of
n "The short and simple annals Of the poor,
8. and its strength lies in that " touch of natur
al which makes the whole world kim" 1t is /
O. drama what sweet melody il in music,
reaches the heart. IL is one of the few pia,
>, one would wish TO see again and again, ju
On a. one wishes TO hear the old songs sun
.r again. IL IL very remarkable play In j
- | construction for while the sympathy Is, pc
- hans. greatest for +" Hazel Kirke," there are
=, half dozen other excellent characters in Il
80 play, and 1t Is difficult to tell which awaken
y, the keenest interest. "Duston Kirke
!. "Aaron Rodney Lord Travers," Dol
Al Dutton," Mercy Kirke," and "Pittac
Green are each good parts. The present
ton Of the play by the Ideal Company W
~ very good indeed and 1t II one they will do w
" to repeat to their Montana audiences. Simp
Nv rs Is the play, it Is quite dramatic and the di
~ logue is highly interesting. Mr. Ransom
n Squire Rodney" Mr. Julian M Lo
= Travers," Afiss Stephany rs Hazel Kirkt
s aud Miss Salisbury N Dolly Dutton," we
Nv especially good. 1t Is rarely, indeed, a
We play has been presented here where itseem
y" there was such just conception and faithf
portrayal of the characters. Deer Lodge,
&c have several other cities, has been sadly ov
ms, done with theatricals this season, and
hat +" Ideal Company, playing on the heels
ion a half dozen others, and their stay prolonO
The by illness, did not do the business here thu
ION merits would else have commanded but Is
nv an excellent company for Montana, and vi
Gu the field now practically clear, will have
ed. successful tour.
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