The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

twin characters being assumed by leading
artists. Henry Irving drew crowds to the Ly-
ceum theater, London, for months by his i'm
personation of the title role and won triumphs
IN II almost equal to those achieved by him in
The Lyons Mail" Clay Clement has appeared
Ia the leading role frequently and his work has
received very hat,ering notices from the press
Inc pubic VIII, therefore hail with pleasure his
appearance as Fabien del Franchi and Louis del
franehi in Seattle, and more especially as it
wiz De MS last appearance for some consider
sole time to come. The closing week of Miss
Agnes Rose Lane. the charming and talented
young actress who has sustained the position Of
leading lady to this excellent company with
sucn success and winning grace, win be oc-
cupleo by her In the role of Emile de Lespare, q
character which will suit her admirably The
plot Is laid in Corsica and Paris at
tne close OF the first half of the pres
ent century. The events of the first and
second acts ara supposed to occur contempor-
aneously, fact which theater-goers should
remember in order to thoroughly understand
the oramatlst FaDien del Franchi and Louis
Gel Franchi are twin brothers, so exactly alike
In stature, figure and facial aspect as to be in
olsungulshable. Born, like the Siamese twins,
with an attachment uniting their bodies, they
were each subject to whatever impression pro-
duced its effect on the other. This singular
psychological effect was not disturbed when the
attachment was severed by the surgeons knife,
ana We md them at manhood still subject to
that extraordinary telepathy which has 80 often
puzzled the students of mental and anatomical
science Not only this, but, by an oath of agree
ment entered into by ancestors of the Franchi
family 800 years before, if one of the brothers
should meet death, by natural or other causes,
the dead was bound TO appear to the living and
slate not only thes manner and cause of death
out show the very persons who committed the
crime, in case death resulted from violence
The brothers live happily with their mother on
the old family estate in Corsica until Emile de
Lespare, daughter of the French general COM
manding in Corsica, appears on a visit to her
father Fabien and Louis both fall in love
with this high-born beauty, and each tries to
hide the fact from the other Fabien finally
conquers his passion and allows Louis to sup
pose that he has no other than friendly regard
1or Emile. She returns to Paris and Louis
follows shortly afterwards, to study law In the
same city. Here he learns that the object of his
auection is the wife of another man, the captain
OF French man-of-war. The captain 10
introduced to Louis and offers him all
the hospitality due an old-time friend.
Louis absents himself from the house, because
ne cannot conquer his love for Emile, and on
oeing asked By the captain to explain his cold
ness he informs him of the love he bears for his
wife. Soon after the captain leaves on voyage
ana commends his wife to the care of Louis.
The latter performs the sacred trust with chival-
rous honor and incurs the hatred of Mons.
chateau Renaud, boastful roue who marks
Emile for his prey. This finally results in q
duel, during which Louis is fatally wounded
and dies on the field. At the instant of his re-
ce1ving the wound and at the moment of his
death, the mysterious link binding him to his
brother Fabien is manifested, and he appears be-
fore the latter, together with the scene of the
duel and all its actors. Fabien sets out at once
Tor Paris to meet the slayer OF his brother. He
accidentally meets him on the very spot in the
forest OF Fontainbleau, where Louis received his
death wound and insists on their fighting with
swords then and there. They fight, and the cur
tain falls with Renaud a corpse and the appari-
ton OF the dead Louis in the back ground. The
drama is preceded by the one act farce entitled
my Neighbor's Wife," an exceedingly laugh
able medley of comical situation, wit and hui
NOR. The casts are as follows: