The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-03-18

TO Il iair-sized and appreciativc audience
My Geraldine, BARLEY Campbel's pct-
uresque Irish creation, was last night
given at Craddock's opera-house. The
cast was good one, while both the plot
and the moral of the play are
well sustained throughout, although
the piece itself borders on the
very thrilling and somewhat on the
melU,drama sensational A conspiracy is
entered into by certain schemer and his
aids to Dust from certain property the
rightiul heirs, by establishing the alleged
error OF one Mary Carroll, through their
destruction of her marriage license, which
so disqualified the child imposing upon
even Mary's father in their fiendsh work.
This young Geraldine at a tender age is
then sent Tor some twelve years to convent
school in France, where she was kept in
Ignorance of her supposed illegitimacy.
Returning 10 her home, she falls in love
with a young man, Maurice, who is las.
cinated by her loneliness but is refused her
hand by the stern father, who declines Civ
ing to the sutton the sad reason. The
schemer's pal then PUSHES upon the scene,
and hurredly relates the real troubles
The mother and daughter swoon away
upon this open disclosure. The lat
ter Is then spirited away by
the villain, but is supposed to have
drowned herself in The lake. Finally, after
long search, she is found by her faithful
lover in the horrid den and almost craZed
and is rescued. Explanations take place,
and father, mother and daughter are again
| together, The schemer, in the meanwhile,
conscience-stricken at the sad havoc he has
created, determines, to surrender his ill
gotten property, and makes a confession to
the true owners, the CAROLS, and at the
same time the long.lost and stolen mar.
| riagc certificate is produced to the mex
prcssible joy of the misrcpresented family.
The possessions are thereupon restored,
and the miserable wretchcs who urged the
schemer on, but declined to repent, are
duly punished. Thereupon Geraldine and
Maurice are united and receive the dues
out OF which she had been so long de-
| frauded,
AS the silent, sad woman, Mary Carroll.
Miss Emily Baker, was thrilling all through
her role; the parting from her child, the
Indebtedness at her inability to prove the
legality of her wedding, the subsequent
meeting with her daughter just returned
from the convent school, the finding of her,
almost demented, in the dark den with rats
and snakes, was each admirably acted.
Miss Dellie Palmer, as Geraldine, also
played well her assignment, and exhibited,
with fine effect, the almost wild girl in her
weird surroundings during the close cap
| tlyity. Mr.. Power, as Phil Carroll, was
fully up in his emphatic deineation of the
stolid, stern man of iron. Mr.. Teddy
Craigin, with touch fthe blarney, brought
down the house with his representations
of the witty, ight.hearted Irishman;
as also did Mr.. McManus as Terrence.
Mr.. Il. G. Ellis, some four years ago gen.
eral manager of the Dallas Commercial
as Maurice, filed admirably his role as
lover and protector, possessing good and
well.drilled infection and accentuation
with n finely moduated voice. Con.
sidering the very late hour yesterday after
noon at which the troupe arrived in
the city, the utter iIadequacy
of oar miserable apology of theater ior
the use of exquisite scenery that belongs to
this excellent piece, their inability to use
their calcium lights and other scenic eff
fccts, they furnished Tor us most com.
mendablc evenings entertainment. There
will be u repetition OF IL ut the matinee to-
day, while tonight the Galley Slave will
be rendered by request.