The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-05-05

IN AND AROUN D 4 HE CITY.
New Peoples Theatre. ].

In AMI. ~ MUM III nk I'll I /.
New Peoples Theatre.
After weeks Of preparation, M .nager
Sterling produces the greatest Irish
drama ever written. A complete PIANO
ramio view Of the beauty spots of Old
Ireland, is presented in the many chang
ing scenes which have come fresh from
the brush Of Arthur Hurtt, no less than
five sets being used in the last act alone.
The "Soggarlh" has never been produced
in this city, and has been secured ut great
expense by special arrangement with
Oliver Doud Byron. II differs in many
details from the conventional Irish
drama, inasmuch as there is strong So
ciety element running through the acts
alternated with wild scenes amongst the
Irish peasantry.
The opening act shows picturesque
bit Of the Earl OF Glenmore's estate in
County Kildare, on the birthday of young
Neil Mcclure, tenant OF the Earl of
Glenmvre, and bro her of the Soggarth,
who have fallen from afluence to poverty;
and feeling his position keenly, young
Neil gives vent to bitter words against the
owner of the soil, who draws his rent from
his tenantry and spends it abroad leaving
a grasping, miserly agent, Silas Crane, to
embittar his tenants by his nard dealing.
An eviction is ordered by Crane, and
Neil calls on the disaffected peasantry,
excited over real and imaginary wrongs,
to wreak vengeance on the overseer, who
is seized and horse whipped just as the
Earl returns to his house. Seeing his
overseer attacked, he defends him, and
angry words follow between the Earl and
Neil, and he bids him leave his farm for
ever. Mad W tn anger, Neil and the
peasantry turn upon the Earl who they
believe has oppressed them and ground
them down, and are about to kill him,
when the climax of splendid act is |
reached, by Father Mcclure, the Sog-
garth, placing the Earl under the protec
ton of the Church, after meeting has
been arranged between the Earl aud Neil
to wipe out the insult applied to each !
other.
The following act represents the rent
day, when the tenantry cannot pay, and
are loud and bitter in their words to the
Earl. Silas Crane, the overseer meets
Neil Mcclure in lonely glen by moon
light and kills him, and is quickly fol |
lowed by the Earl who discovers the body |
and goes to obtain assistance, leaving his |
flask and hunting whip, which Crane
emears with the blood of his victim as
evidence against Lord Glenmore, who In !
his ride for assistance is thrown from his
horse and badly injured, thus making it
appear that there has been terrible
combat. The whole of the peasant1y rise
90 masse and attack Glenmore Castle,
but the Earl is saved by the prompt &C.
tion of his friend, base Maj or DeBrett,
who orders his soldiers out and cowed the
peasantry. In the mean time the COW.
ardly Silas Crane, has, under the seal OF
confession, revealed to Father Mcclure
that he is the murderer. A coroner's jury
brings in a verdict of wilful murder
against Earl Glenmore, and he is i'm
prisoned. The danger Glenmore is in.
and the secret he bears, weigh heavily
upon the Soggarth, who cannot reveal
the secret confded to him as priest,
even though the Earl may be sentenced
to death. He walks out in the moon.
light to the scene of the murder aud finds
Crane there, dragged by an irresistible
rover to the scene of his crime. Haunted
a,1d terror stricken he tells the story of
the murder to the Soggarth, as man to
man, and With one bound the priest has
him by the throat, crying ''you have
SPOKEN to me as man. to man, you have
unsealed my lips and they shall charge
YOU with murder" aud he drags him of
to the court room. The scene IS terribly
intense, and following on dramatic situa,
tions it is a climax which brings down
the house. All through the piece the
liveliest comedy prevails, and songs are
freely interspersed while the rich and
racy comedy scenes are being played.
The scenery and piece are deserving OF
special attention, all being entirely new
The Postal Cafe Tragedy.
The tragic shooting OF Vivian Castle,
Tuesday evening has occasioned consld-
arah]e comment. Mrs, Scott Blake, the |
aolorod ,xroman wife of the proprietor OF |