St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-04
"1TAVOURNEEN."
a New and Pleasing Play by Il
Strong Company.

a New and Pleasing Play by Il
Strong Company.
The pretty romantic comedy, Ma
vourneen," Will BE- the attraction at the
Metropolitan opera house for four nights
and Wednesday matinee. beginning to-
night. This is one of, Augustus Pitou's
plays and the one w. j. Scanlan played
in when suddenly afflicted after the
Christmas nights performance, after
having had a run Of over 100 nights. SO
many poor plays have been sprung uTon
the patient public this season that a new
play and a good play like "Alavour-
neen' is a subject for congratuiation,
not enly to the author but to the theater-
gOerS as well.
"Mayourneen" deals with romantic
tale of the eighteenth century in Ire
land. John and Torrance DWyer are
brothers, living near Dublin in the old
country. John WoOS and wins the
daughter of a member Of the Irish no
biity, and brings his wife and her Sis
ter on visit with him to his mple
country home in Imnishshannon. While
there Torrance becomes enamOred Of
Lady May Tyrrell, the sister OF his
brothers wife. who reciprOcateS his at
the lovers are. however, rudely inter
rdpted by the young lady's sister, who,
disdaining the rustic simplicity Of her
husbands family, and their abode, and
desiring that her sister should marry
a Capt Marchmont, abruptly brings
the visit to an end, on the eve of a
merry-making arranged by the Dryers
in honor Of Johns visit, and proceeds to
go back to Dublin in huff, without her
husband. who remains to entertain the
invited guests. On their way to Dublin
Lady May is abducted through The in
Strumentality Of the captain, who had
made arrangements to marry heI
against her will, but is opportunity
rescued by Torrance before the mar
riage is effected. Ten years elapse before
the next scene, where we find that Lady
May, not having heard from her lover.
in despair is about to consent to a
marriage with the captain. Torrance,
who has meanwhile been fighting in the
Continental army in America, returns
and hears of the approaching marriage,
discovers that the captain is married t.
a wife whom he deserted, and succeeds
III unmaskiug his yillainy and regaining
his sweetheart.
All the new and original songs will be
Torrance Dwyer, is not so eXuberantly
Irish as Mi. Seaman in his interpreta-
ton of the character, but his presence
and his pathos are all that the occasion
demands, especially in the songs written
by Mr.. Seaman. A voice of uncommon
sweetness, volume and accuracy united
with fervOr of expression, enables him tC
sway the emotional part of the audience
as he sings The Old Countrie." The
frigid hauteur of Lady Caroline Dryer
is we'll expressed by Florence Foster
The scenery is above the average OF
stage settings. The ruin in the Dunn
mountains is a beautiful piece of wood
land perspective, with a gray waterfall
in the misty distance. The view OF
Days club house has been produced
from an old picture. Only one wing of
the parliament house is visible, and the
houses in the distance, with their SHARP
gables, are characteristic of the domi
ciiary architecture Of the period-1774
1884. The costumes worn in the piece
are simply gorgeous and very becoming
10 the members OF this very strong com
pany.