Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-11-22
THE SILVER KING.
The Story of Fascinating Play.

Next Saturday evening the Silver King Company will open an engage ment at the Opera-house. m
 The Silver King, an English melo- edrama, written by Messrs. Jones < Herman, and originally produced at the Princess Theater, London, No vember, 1882, where it is still on the boards. Nr. Wallack purchased from T. Henry French the American right to the play and produced it at his theater in New York City. where it had 8 run of 100 nights. The eom- pany that will produce it here is headed by MT. Carl A. Haswin, who has been playing it with great suc- cess. The authors of the play found their theme in the following lines from Tennyson. M@
 ''I hold truth from him who sings
 On oae clear harp in divers tones,
 That men may rise on stepping-ston
 Of their dead selves to higher things, ? These lines are highly suggestive of the despair, the hope, the triumph of q life time; of a strong moral struggle ending in the victory over man'sig ignoble self. How far the au- thors have succeeded in conceiving a character in whose life they could trace the poets theme is best told in the following synopsis of the drama:
 The curtain rises on "Wilfred Den- ver,' the hero of the play, who, im- poverished by losses on the turf, is seeking to drown his despair in drink.
 He is taunted in his misery by" "Geof- frey Ware, "a former suitor for his wife, and goaded to madness by Ware's sneers he threatens to kill him. Rushing after him he reaches Wares chambers and finds them occupied by a gang of burglars, headed by a swell cracksman, Capt. Skinner who uses his social posi- ton to obtain points for criminal en- terprises. Denver" is seized and chloroformed and soon after 'sWare' enters and in the struggle that en- sues, Skinner shoots him with "Denyer's" pistol. After the bur glars have left, "Denver'' slowly re- covers consciousness and gradually, as the effects of drink and chlorofOrm wear off, he recalls the purpose of his being there. Cropping for his hat, he touches s'Ware's" lifeless body, q ter. rible conviction is forced upon him that in his drunken frenzy he has full filled his threat. Concealing his re. volver, he rushes away, feeling him. self murderer and fugitive. In the second act he returns to his wife and makes a confession of his supposed crime, when she assists him tosa dis. guise and he departs for northern seaport. Before the train reaches its destination, Denver" jumps from il to avoid detection and in so doing meets with an accident and painfully makes his way to an inn, when ht learns the train he had jumped from had seollided with some wagons laden with petroleum and the cal from which he had departed was burnt, and so without fear of recog- milton he can more easily leave Eng land for the United States, his sup posed death having made him secure from pursuit. A few years are sup posed to elapse, and the curtain risei on Capt. Skinner" entertaining hIl companions at il villa, when .Nelli, Denver" wife of the fugitive, comei to plead that she may not be ejectet from her wretched home, because tn. rent is unpaid. Her request Il granted, but sskinDer,' finding ou' J who she is after she is gone. sendl = sss s se4e