The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17
Irish Comedy Drama at Cordray's.

Manager French. of Cordrnys, with character
istic policy, has provided change in the enter
tainment this week that will be highly appre-
ciated by every patron OF the theater Melo-
drama and society drama have been supplanted
by a sparkling comedy drama of Irish material
aud authorship. The piece is racy, witty and
humorous. The characters are cleverly and
truthfully drawn, snd ths story is told with
dramatic force and literary ability. The plot is
laid in Ireland. In the stormy days of 9S. when
an Intellectual attempt was ma ie by the United
Irishmen TO break the English yoke. One of
the principal movers Of the uprising was Fergus
Mccarthy, who forfeited fortune and liberty it.
self in that forlorn hope for Irish freedom.
fugitive In hiding, hunted by red-coets who fol-
lowed his trail with the persistence OF sleuth
hounds he barely escaped capture by pushing
off from the shores of his beloved land in
small boat under cover OF an unusually dark
night Boarding luggsr in the o fhng be set
sail Tor that bourne OF the oppressed the soil of
freedom America He leis behind, in the care
OF an old servant OF the family. his only child,
girl only three weeks old. His wife had died at
its birth. more from the torture endured at the
thought OF beloved husband IN peril than from
tho nancs Of labor Lord and Lady Desmond
had their country mansion in the vicinity OF
the late home OF the McCarthys. and Lady Des-
popi gave birth TO n stillborn child on thu
night that Mccarthy succeeded in Guiding his
vigilaut pursuers. For several weeks after the
was despaired OF Fearing the shock that would
result should she. on recdiuing consciousness.
discover her child dead, aer husband, Lord
Desmond, with the consent Of the nurse OF the
Mccarthy child, exchanged the latter Tor the
dead heiress 20 the Desmond estates. And so
the deserted daughter OF the exiled Mccarthy
was reared IS the child AMI heiress of
the aristocrstic pesmonds. Years rolled
by and Blanche Desmond, beautiful
and accomplished, had hundreds o!
admirers at her feet Among these was Her
rick Wolfe, an Englishmaa OF shady ante
codents and possessed of vindicttve mind and
answering purpose. He paid suit to the fair
Blanche bu; the sunbeam OF Desmond Court
could find nothing in her sinister admirer that
would bear comparison with candid and manly
Robert Trevelyn. Fergus Mccarthy, who tor
nearly twenty years had pincd for LOOK al his
native shore, returned at this time under an IS
surned name He wss aware of the position his
daughter occupied. having been advised by tAe
woman in whose care he had placed her when
an infant Wolfe, through the treaehery OF one
OF MeCarthy's associates in the rebellion OF -,
learned the secret OF the exile's relationship 10
Blanche Desmond. Under the penalty OF imTue-
,fia-e Gcuunciation 10 the authorities. MCCARTHY
WAS compelled 20 demand his child from the
Desmouds He called on that family and wGs
invited 10 become member of i: rather than 70
,esr sway the oniy object that made Il bTlsAi
during the decaying years Of its noble heads.
Alter this interview AeCazthys purpose was