The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-06

FOR an actress TO do Juliet,
Kosalind and Parthenia on three successive
evenings, and do them well, is an achievement
that speaks we'll for her future his,ri-
onie destiny. Miss Gale is prettv
woman, intelligent beyond her wears.
and she possesses a voice of rare pover and
sweetness. She reads her lines with penetrating
power, and even the immortal Shakespeare takes
on newer meanings beneath her fine elocution.
Creston Clarke, the leading man, has in him all
the elements OF capability. He looks and acts
In many instances like his distinguished uncle.
Edwin Booth. The whole company was mag.
nihcent- Bobby Gaylor, in "sport McAllister,"
drew his own clientele and the gallery was
especially well pleased. "In His Power" drew
big houses at Cordray's This week Stuart
Robson will appear at the Seattle opera-house
In "The Henrietta" on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday evenings. At Cordrays will be given
the old reliable "Streets of New York." with the
excellent cast of last week.
Robson In "rhe Henrietta"
The coming of Stuart Robson to the Seattle
opera house next Thursday, Friday and sa,ur.
day nights is an event of more than Ordinary i'm
portance. Besides the high standing of the
comedian, the play of "The Henrietta" is one
which has aroused high degree of interest
wherever produced. Wall street men and their
methods have figured in plays before, but they
have never been as skillfully treated az in Bron-
son Howarn's comedy. The author has blended
stocks and sentiment and humor with rare
skill. Ho has written play which does more
than deal with complications OF plot and laugh.
able situation. "The Henrietta" is a satire.
brightly and wittily written, and possesses a
serious vein for effective dramatic interest.
1.-THE tape of the ticker" it has been remarked,
"may be said to be the thread of the story.
About that paper ribbon is woven a narrative of
love and avarice." Nicholas Vanalstyne Is the
most successful and daring operator on ''the
street." He rules the market, and uses his
power to "bull'' the stock of the "Hen.
rietta Mining Company" in which he
is deeply interested. He is also
interested in handsome young widow, whose
charms have made q remarkable impression
upon fashionable pastor, a clergyman who
breaches against gambling and specializing in
stocks. The name OF the mine 10 the cause of
home laughable misunderstandings all around
The difficulties are increased by the fact that
"the big deal" which is being made in the stock
may be ruined If the true facts are given
to the women. The scheme, however, il
threatened in an entirely different direction.
Vanalstyne's elder son is ambitious to be the
leader OF Wall street. and to obtain his own
ends resorts to treachery, and forms q compact
with the leaders OF the "bears'' to ruin his
father. He also accuses his brother of betraying
girl whom he himself has led astray, and the
brother rests guilty because the real cul.
prit has devoted wife, In the
absence OF Vanalstyne, ST., the son raids the
Henrietta stock and brings about a panic, in the
midst OF which the father returns, but 1t 10 too
late for him to stem the tide and he leaves his
office ruined man, but not until he has learned
the perfidy Of his son. The panic, however, is
suddenly turned through the efforts of an old
clerk and the money of the youngest of the Van.
alstyne family, Berthe, the character played by
Dlf. Iii A.
"streets of New York" at Cordray's.
The Cordray company will appear this week
in the interesting drama entitled, "The Streets
of New York" The mounting OF the play is
excellent The story of the drama In az fol-
lows:
Gideon Bloodgood, a banker of New York
city, and q thoroughly unprincipled manipu-
lator, is on the verge OF financial ruin, and is
about to leave the city for Europe secretly in
order to escape the depositors. He has sufficient
on hand to prevent himself and daughter, Aida,
from any fear OF poverty, and OF this sum he
intends defrauding his creditors. The bank
has closed for the day and he Is seated in his
private Office, when one OF his clerks informs
him that an old gentleman wishes to see him
The stranger is Captain Fairweather, who is
about to start on a long voyage, and who Is
anxious to place in safekeeping, for his wife
and two young children, the sum OF 100000
He requests Bloodgood to receive the money
as a special deposit The latter, with
rascaily Intentions, consents, and a receipt
10 given the captain for the money.
The transaction is witnessed by . clerk named
Badger, who has been aware for some time of
the insolvent condition of Bloodgook's bank
On the departure of the unsuspecting captain
Badger accuses his employer of villainy. and
a compromise is effected by the payment to
Badger of a share of the plumber. An hour or
80 after this Captain Fairweather returns to the
bank in an excited state of mind and
demands the return of his money,
giving as his reason that he heard rumors on the
streets concerning the soundness OF the bank
Bloodgood refuses, on the ground that it Is after
banking hours, and advises his visitor to call
on the morrow. Fairweather, whose sole care
is for the future of his helpless wife and chill
dren grows still more excited and demands i'm
mediate restitution. The banker finally con-
sents, and is engaged In counting out the money
when Fairweather is stricken with apopleIy
He dies within few moments and the
banker conceives the idea of keeping
the money and denying all knowledge
OF its owner. Badger steps in for his share
and the body OF the dead man is removed from
the bank and placed on public street, not,
however. before the crafty clerk has distracted
from tho pocket of the dead man the receipt OF
deposit Twenty years roll by and Bloodgood is
one 0. New York's most influential men, hnsn-
eially. His daughter Aida is beautiful and
ambitious, and vainly tries TO resch the best
social circle. Mrs. Fairweather and her two
children, Paul and Lucy. have hard struggle
for bread in the big city. Time. the revealer OF
ali secrets, leads to the discovery OF Bloodgood's
fraud, and the widow and her children are re-
stored to siiuence aud happiness The cast is
as follows.
Badger ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS r. E French
gideon Bloocgood. .......-.-. LoEl!nel 'onnstois
Marx Livingstone Francis Powers
Mr.. Puffy ........................J. II. Bunny
Captain Fairweathert Dsvid Firer
Paul Fairweather
Dan Puffy Jean Neiner
Edward Ed IL. Felt
Lucy Fairwesther .......... Miss Beatrice Lieb
Aida Bloodgood. Miss Loyola y common
Mrs. Fairweather Miss Eva Earle French
Mrs. Puffy. Miss Margaret Marshall
NEWS OF THE STAGE.
Henry Guy Carleton, author OF "The Lions
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