Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-15
THE LOVE STORY.
Mrs Langtry's New Play in Which Sna
VIII Star Next Season

Mrs. Langtry's New Play in Which Shs
VIII Star Next Season
The Love Story the new play with
| when Mrs. Langtry viii open her long New
| York engagement next season at the Fifth
Avenue Theater, is by Pierre Leciercq,
brother of Mss Carlotta Leclercq wao,
taxing part, produced 1t under her dlrec-
| uon Wlth success at a special matinee late
IN May at the Strand Theater IN London
Inc play is in four acts, IS s2ii 20 nave a
| GOOD out rather redund|at pds- ana 10 DC
| very well written aud We INSTRUCTED
Inc story of the play relates TO tae en-
oeaVor OF rascal manager or bank 10 capt
| ure an helress before she learns OF hef
| good fortune, and in doing this to defeat d
| young literary man whom she loves and ac-
| cepts.
The young heiress is named Madeline
Borth. and this part, played in London by
MISS Janet Achurch, viii be taken mere eV
Mrs. Langtry. The villain, MarchcaStie, II
the course of business gets news OF the
death OF Miss Borth's wealthy uncle, pro
poses Immediately, and is refused. linen
shortly after the young author, Paul Fai-
shaw, offers himself and is accepted faui
mas been for some time in love WIN Mace
line, and. though there has been apparent
GOODNESS, her natural liking for him changes
into love when she has discovered that ne
is the writer of novel called The Love
STORY" After the authors acceptance
Marchcastle makes things very uncomforta-
bic for him by making 1t appear tnat ne
(FaishaWJ has proposed Tor mercenary mo-
tlves, having kept back the news CT the
girls good fortune. Falsnaw is sent away
by Miss Berth, and the villain on proposing
again is accepted.
The day of the marriage the train on
which the bridal party is taxing their we'd
ding journey breaks down in the vicinity Of
little cottage in Wales, where Falshaw IS
living alone and miserable. The night is
fine, and as he is about to go on long
mountain walk his landlady tells him of the
train and that BRIDE and bridegroom are
without nights shelter. Tho landlady
wants him to give up his room. He does,
and starts on his walk
Mr.. and Mrs. Marchcastle quarrel. She
tells him she does not love him and loves
Falshaw, who she now believes innocent
He, fingered, tells her that the young au-
thor is not guilty, and how be made him ap-
pear.so. The husband tries to kiss his wife,
and Falshaw arrives back from his walk.
The landlady comes in and tells how the po-
lice arc on the lookout for defaultIng
bank aamanager. Marchcastle decides to
leave, and attempts to escape by back
way, while Falshaw and Mrs. Marchcastle
go to the station to see if they can get a
special train to take them to London.
Marchcastle then comes back TO the room,
takes drink, puts out the Lights and shoots
himself. He falls on the sofa, dropping bis
revolver on the table His wife comes back
from the station without Falshaw. She gets
an idea that she is not alone in the room, and
fussing about the table trying to strike
light fires off accidentally second barrel
of the revolver. When the room is Lit Mrs.
Marchcastle thinks sho has killed her hus-
band. When she is about to be arrested,
Faishaw says he did the shooting, having
quarreled with the dead man. At last
proof is found that neither is guilty.. A
reticule is found with bullet Undecided in
the pages of a copyof "The Love Story"
The heroine, the hero and the bag were not
in the room when the first shot was fred,
hence the second one hit the bag.