The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-25
Monday Ladies' Souvenir Day.

to wear, so that she may not be re-
cognized. Suddenly the bells begin to ring,
the mob begins to scream, and above 1t all
rings out as one voice, the mass being sung
by the sisters, who have been captured and
are led to execution. You hear the yells and
bowls of these infatuated men and women,
and then You hear the s Teet, clear tones OF
the women, who, having lived we'll, can die
we'll. Fabienne cannot withstand this; she
makes a rush for the window, throws back
the shutters. displaying herself to the popu-
lace, and within very few minutes she is
arrested. Later on her lover tries to get her
out of prison by inducing his friend to change
the death warrants, and this is probably the
stronges scene in the play; as paper after
paper is read out it is dropped, because who
will dare kill women who are widows with
children, aud who can dare to send to face
her God women whose life has been all
slnl Nobody can take her place, but the
fertile brain of the actor has thought of an
expedient Even the guiliotine RESPECTS the
mother who is about to bear babe, and
let's her pass by unframed. The actor
writes a paper, and asks that Fabienne
shall sign it she will not do il until she
reads it, and when she has resd it she tears
it into pieces, declaring she will die before
she
WILL PERMIT HER PURITY
to be sulied. Then her lover, driven to des-
peration. calls out to the mob, as il he were
jeering at her, that she is not telling the
truth; that she is denying her future mater
pity becau>e she does not wish to let the
women around her make q laughing stock
of her, but FabIenne, standing quite alone,
calls on her God to witness her perfect
purity, and her desire to die to prove 1t. An
awful silence follows this, even the rough
mob bowling as she passes by them on her
way to her death. Her lover PUSHES to res
cue her and is shot by the soldiers who sur
round her, but he dies pressing TO his lips a
little religious souvenir that was dipped IN
her hearts blood.
OF all the plays that Sardou has written
this is the strongest The people are real.
the surroundings are absolutely true 10 the
time, and every detail is carried out TO per-
faction. One scene shows room in the
Tuilleries, where the beautiful queen had
danced and sung when lovely women and
gallant men were about her. The walls
still showed their elaborate decoration OF
roses and lilies and plump cheru"s, whlle
against them we're built common pine
SHELVES, upon which rested-what! Death
warrants. my friend.
The play is a story that delights ones eye;
that makes one remember people who SUI
fered and lived and died in those dreadful
days, and yet 1t is one as perfectly and as
clearly put together as those screens chat the
Jauanese artisans work over, ana whicn
corsist of small pieces Of wood. each care
fully fitted in, until the perfect piece is OBJ
tanned. and not q nail has been used to mar
the surface. The play, besides teaching US
all bit of French history, shows US now,
when a woman has TO choose between
HER GOD AND HER LOVE
she seldom hesitates. It is a good play to
see well constructed aud full Of that some
thing that we call heart because there are
so many emotions that we have no name
for. Forbes Robertson. who played the
hero. does a marvelously good piece Oh Work,
and there is one thing that wish American
actors would initiate bin IN, tnat IS, l
wish they would spenk as distinctly as ne
does. You remember him, don't your ne
PLAYED here before with Mary An
ders n, aud is counted one OF tho read
ing actors Of London to-day. Inc part OF
the fmpulsive, loving hero suits him per-
fectlv. and one is glad 70 see man VINO
looks manly play the part Of SO loving ani
tendsr-bearted a character. say charao-
ter. buf, my friend. II you 90 and see tuis
play. a. / advise you 10, you will come
away as did feelii g that you nave pssh
seeing, not puppets pulled ~ sIlngs y
move hers and there as the stage MANAGER
dirseis. but - have seen llyins ~eA an1
Worusn suffe ing, loving al1 d fihs' A..
By The By. when this PLAY Nhs y - . eoe4
in ~ ne. 81 actor wes Teisstihs De HNe.'
lines that denOuDosf ltobespieffe, L7l
mao got up in the asdienee ana esl.ea IVY
''My friend, yOa Qusbtn " ilsiiit tl.as sge'i
man be- sss the lfsi one % naass g9e ia'e''