The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-28
AIr. Harrison,s Irisb PIav.


Inc new play written by William Greer
Harrison ESQ.,, referred to in last SUNDAYS
CALL, is named "The 0'Neill." and the
Time OF action is the period of Anglo Irish
history during the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
when Lord Sussex was Lord Deputy OF Ire
land aud with his English troops made hot
tlme Tor Shane ONeill, Lord Tyrone, he
reditary Prince OF Ulster, and his gallow-
glasses and Kernes. The scenes are laid in
Ulster, London and Kenilworth Castle, and
besides strong love interest the play car
rles an Intensely patriotic one. developed
from the early struggles of the Irish people
to resist the Entertainments of the English.
DRAMATIs PERSONAL---VERY..
Shane 0'Nell, Lord Tyrone, hereditary
Prince OF Ulster.
0cahan (Coleralne), Lord Of Kyrne.
James Macdonnell, Lord Of Chimes.
hlagepnis, Lord Of Iyeach.
O'Hanlon, Lord OF Orior.
MacNlahon, Lord OF Urel.
MacCan. Lord OF ClanbressaiI.
Neal MacConnor, Secretary 10 the ONelll.
Rory OConnor. O'NeilPs young foster brother.
ENGLISH.
Lord Sussex, Lord Deputy of Ireland.
Sir Henry Radcliffe, brother 10 Lord Sussex
Sir Henry sydney, successor TO Sussex as Lord
Nahum Biggs. Puritan fanatic ard assassin.
Lady Sussex.
Lady Geraldine Butler, Sussex's ward.
Helen MacConnell, Countess Argyle.
marjorie Blount, companion TO Geraldine.
Elizabeth, Queen Of England.
OF the Queen. ,
The Earl OF Leicester. favorite courtier
ambassadors, lords and ladies Of the court ply
stefan, etc.
The business of the piece, which in its
construction MAY be called historico-roman-
TIC and spectacular, and will, therefore, be
expensive to produce, is about equally
divided into scenes of strife between
DISTANCES followers and the English. and
Il Vp-n mr. hn 4 l..
Geraldine Butler, whose being an English
woman and ward of his enemy Sussex
does not prevent the impetuoDs young Irish
man, daring in love as dauntless in war, de-
ciarlng his passion. Geraldine returns his
love aDd proves sort of Flora Macdonald
to him in the subsequent trouble he has
with the English, even to the extent of saw
ing his life when he has been sentenced to
death by her guardian, Lord Sussex. In
one OF these escapades the O'Neill is in
danger OF recapture on account OF his flight
Delns cut OFF by the destruction of q
Drldge across narrow gorge in the noun
tains, but O'Hanlon, Lord of Orior. an
Irish ally. calls his pkemen to the
front, some of whom quickly bind their
weapons together lengthwlse. throw them
across the break, and then four soldiers lie
down breast upward, side by side, on this
frall support-a bridge of Irish hearts-and
y Nell and Rory pass over their bodies
peyend the reach of pursuit. Some very
neat BUSINESS taxes place In the last act at
the court Of Queen Elizabeth where the
ONeill appears with his wild and pictur-
'esque body-guard of gallowglasseS, and
WINS the admiration of the Virgin Queen by
his manly bearing. She removes all obsta-
cles to his marriage with Geraldine, and
hnaily empowers him to return to Ireland
and make provisional arrangements for the
formation OF system of local government
A Varied Programme.
Vladimir de Pachmann, the Russian
pianist, will hold his last piano recital in this
city at Irving Hall tomorrow evening, the
10Th inst, when he will give a selection
from the works Of varied masters. Not
alone as a Chopinist has this unriyaled
master of the worries won his fame. In
Berlin, that city where every infant studies
the piano, De Pachmann won honors for
playing the severest classics, Bach and
Beethoven. His individuality fits the ro-
mantle fullness of Schubert quite as well as
ii does Sehumann's world of rich, strange
emotions; and with List he has won
tanrels which the composer himself might
have been proud of.
THE pPnnp