Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-12-21

knce at the Fifth Avenue theater. Tho
authorship seems to be shrouded In doubt
One report has it that tho piece was orig
inally French, that it was Englished by
MorvyA Dallas and then re-Englished by
Sedley Brown. After SO much work q
good play would not unnnturnlly be expect
ed. But it did not materialize, for 1t is
truck and nonsense from beginning to
end, with only enough GASES here and
there to mako the contemplation Of tho
hopeless desert Of language, and not re-
markablo language ut that, painfully
dreary.
The story deals with the adventures Of
a girl, supposed to have been born out Of
wed}ock, who is apprenticed to a circus
man and taught to ride, etc. She Is taken
away later and literally provided for by
money lending uncle, who sedulously
conccals his identity. She earns Il good
deal Of money by giving riding lessons to
the families Of the neighborhood, but is Of
course not received as their social equal.
This fact tho ingenious creature deeply
lamcnts. She is beloved by three men,
two of them with honorable Intentions
The third, who isn't built on the honor
able plan, proves to be her father, SO he
is soon disposed of. Of the remaining two
one is of course thoroughly good and
other is, equally Of course, thoroughly bad
and intensely dcspiscd by the object OF his
affections. The villain threatens to pro-
vent tho wedding Of her sister by reveal
ing the secret of her birth, and thus forces
the female riding teacher, who has also
taken up the study of medicine, into a
promise Of marriage.
The hero has lcft-stage heroes always
run away when their presence IS most
necessary-and the villain starts to town
to procure the marriage certificate, using
the heroine's vicious horse, Bullfincb, who
sonsibly spills his bad rider. The female
amateur doctor now has tho opportunity
to save the life of the man whom she
hates, and whose wife she has promised
to be. For a moment she hesitates. That
is tho prcrogative of a heroine. Then she
decides to do her de-u-ty. After a timo
the villain learns Of this 'noblc' act, and
the sister having meanwhile been mar
ried, and his power having disappeared, he
turns over certain papers, which prove
that she is entitled to the proud namo of
Blackmoro and a lot Of other things. This
is tho story Of 1.-The Coming Woman" us
well as it con be traced by the average
auditor.
In what is, I suppose, intended to be
the character which suggests the title OF
the play the horsey, -be-up-to-
date ex-circus performer, Miss Carrie
Turner, is not seen at her best. In fact she
is morely nearly seen at her worst. The
part is not congenial one and gives this
really excellent actress little or DO oppor-
tunity to show New Workers. OF what she
is capable. 1t is said that 1.-The Coming
Woman will be shclvod at once and
Tho Crust of Society," put on in its
stead. Miss Turner in that play ought to
succeed admirably, for the principal role
fits her style Of work to T.
Palmer Cox's Brownies arc dclighting
largo audiences at tho Fourteenth Street
thcater. Children arc llocking there by
hundreds, and most parents arc glad OF
tho rycuco tbnc ofTpro,l RI 600 tha Snactncla