The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-28
AT THE OPERA-uOysE
Some Excellent Acting, and an Appreciat-
I've Audience-Points of AN Affecting and
Artistic Drama.

Some Excellent Acting, and an Appreciate
I've Audience-Points of an Affecting and
Artistic Drama.
Last night to a fine audience at Grad
docks opera-house. Hearts of Oak WIS
given by Mr.. James A. Herne's company,
a most picturesque drama, handsomely
mounted and admirably acted in all its
pathos and affecting story and thrilling in
cidents. 1t is an idyl of the seashorc. A
sailor-boy is expected home after II
long voyage. lie had LETT girl
behind him with whom he had
grown up, and the children loved each
other. She longs for her ship to come in
ireighted with her love and life. Now this
boy and this girl, when they were infants,
somehow drited into that harbor from
wrecks, and were picked up and brought up
by II rough honest miller by the sea, who
has also been sailor. He is arugged fellow
with big heart, and he dreams chat the
rirl he has nurtured may love him to be
his wife. lie Is encouraged in the dream
ing by an old tar companion, and proposes
to the girl before her ship comes home.
She accepts him out of gra,itude-he thinks
out Of lOye-and promises to he his wife
When the young sailor comes there is
heart struggle-they make u sacrifice to
duty, as they have been taught is light by
their foster father; the miller clasps his
young bride, and the sailor goes 10 sea
again, In two years he returns to his old
home. There is child in tue houSe-hcr
child, not his. He loves her still; tenn
porary absence has done nothing to
cool his passion, and he Resolves to
90 To the Arctic sea to freeze, as
the right and only thing to do. And she Is
suffering the saue Kind of torture. ihty
havca scene on the beach, where each con.
iCsscs love for the other, nud each : guided
by that sense of duty which impGlcd them
10 tear them'elVcs asunder two years be-
lore. She tells HIM IT, go, and never return
AS the only 81 ely tor both her and him.
And SO they part, AS they believe, forever
The husband has overheard the inter
view and seen the parting. He knows the
crushed in heart, but strong IN will to carry
out his own prcccpts ct stern ddiy lie
makes recent financial disaster by which q
loses his mil and money, pretcNt Tor 20
ing back tn sealIrlug llie, He sends Tor
his pro'egcs, the sailor ami the young wife
aud mother, and tells them of his bankrupt
condition and llans. lie is going To the
North sea on a venture, and lac makes the
young sahOr promise To stay At home and
protect his VIII, am cnlld during his ah-
senCe; aud IL he does not return in five
years, to marry the mother, and Or a iuthpr
to the child. SO the compact is made, and
Terry DennisOn sails away to the North
pole, aud Ruby Darrell and ChrystaI Don
niSOn aud little Curystal live in one home,
as Terry had desired. In lime they
hear of Tcrrys death among The
icebergs, erect tombstone tn his mem
DRY in the little village churCh-yard, and
often bring the child to slrew her fathers
grave with flowers, The five years of watt.
ing pass, and Ruby and. thrysal coma,
with llt,lc Curystal, now q years old and
over. With sad memories for the dead, con.
sciences clear and loving hearts, they 90
into the church to be married, aud leave
the child without to play about her fathers
grave. Then AN old gray.haired, blind
man comes on, feeling his way with a stick,
and, hilt,ng at the church door, he hears
the hymn ot the marriage service. lle
finds the child, or rather, the child
finds him, and the two have
u pretty prdttlc and very strong,
pathetic scene. The old man fluids that he
Is himself on his own grave, talking to his
own child, and the talk is about her mother
and father, And what is gniug on In the
church. The Cuuple come out oi church.
looking happy, see the chiid's interest in
the poor stranger, VINO keeps his face hid.
den, and tells little ChrA stul to lead the old
blind man to their home to participate In
their plain wedding festivities, thus the
child leads her father to the door, where he
a,nts and falls, anu being recognized by
owen GnrrowaN, an old comradp, he is
taken to Garrnway's hut aud cared for, ms
more appropriate than to cloud ChryStal's
second wcddii 3 with the appearance of her
first husband like skeleton ut the
feast, The child continues the acuuaiut.
ance, aud brings the oli man flowers; aud
ChiySul aud Ruby c,mv vita more sub.
sthntlNl ththgs lnt IA = COMFORT. AT their
entrance, he is dyinP. tic, however, tells
the StorN o( how lac haui ched to he the
comrade OF Terry hcnu'sun among the ice.
bprgs, ui his own hludntss ~ how Terry
sent n MESSAGE IN Chty.ttl aud Ruby, and
requested little tutysial to put her arm
around his uVcE, ,iSS am and call him
father This the ohild lovingly does
aud Chrys'al, ulreA0y attracted by the
voice, now rrcNgu the face, aud Terry
DcrniS'n div' van his Niic anl child in
his arms. The scrur Is peculiarly sad, and
yet happy; Tor Ferry knows his dearest
wish l. fulfilled, ard death is y sweet relior.
Tnc dthnucm,nt Is skiliully worked
ont, aud the treatment IL en-.
tieiN crg'nal. The situation of the
ciS, calls To mind two or three stage tigures
.-EuuGh Arden, the Man - Airlir, aud KIN
Van Winkl, but the husincssui The scenes ),
the details aud The ciltc $ 10 be produced
Hrc entirely different, The first acts of the
play are little biz heavy IN matter, but
the scenery is compensa'ing- very ,labor.
ate sea coast scehc aud an Interior mill
scene. Both are massive and realistic. In
the third act. The bany cuts u pretty figure,
and the din ier Is most animated and
charming home picture. The meal on