The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-16
ANfU>EMENTs.
The Frawiey stock Company Wins
High Favor I'm Captain >wift.''

High Favor I'm captain swift
The Frawley stock company Is again
IN Seattle. and opened at the Seattle
theatre last evening In Captain Swift"
the romantic drama In four acts by
Haddon Chambers The audience. while
not very large, was decidedly apprecia-
tive and after each act the curtain calls
were numerous. AT the termination of
the third act the enthusiasm reached
such pitch that the curtain was rang
zap five times. and the last time Mr.
F'rawley made a little speech in which
he said that himself and company were
glad to get hack TO Seattle and that the
Kindness and enthusiasm of the people
here were warmly appreciated by each
individual member of the company.
The play last evening was excelIently
portrayed aud Mr.. Frawley as Mr.. Wild
ing, the adventarer. formerly Captain
Swift. the Australian highwayman won
the hearts OF the audience. While his
was the leading part the other members
Of the company were equally good Miss
Jennie Remark. as Mrs Seahrook: Belle
Archer. as Mabel Seahrook: w D.
Blackman. as Henry Seabrook: George
W Leslie. as MIR Gardiner a Queens
land squRtter: Charles King as the vii
famous servant. II. $ Dufieid. as Mr.
Seahrook, an English county gentleman,
Blanche l.. Bates as Stella Darbisher:
the others who played minor characters.
won undivided applause.
As viii So remembered the play Is one
that ahounds with thrilling climaxes. and
furnishes excellent opportunities for ro-
matte power. while at the same time
there Is an underlying vein OF humor
that acts AS salt in faEorinR the whole
As the play develops Il Is brought ont
that beautiful girl Is deceived into
mock marriage and her daceiVer after
wards deserts her The anair is kept a
secret and whcu q son IS born he Is
placed Ia the hands 81 strangers who
were uuAcquainfed with his parentage
Tho mother rnarries and after a Lapse OF
many years the FIRST scene opens in her
home. with a grown daughter an i'm
petuUHs son ana q loving gray-haired
husband. Nr. Seahrook. The old gentle
man g. rescued from death tn a runaway
ny q handsome daring but tuperturHa BILE
Young mar OF mysterious fnien whom
he invites 10 his home The Young man
calls and later falls Ia love with hts
hosts niece it DEVELOPS that he IS the
notorious Captain Swift of Australia On
the occasion OF his VISIT Mrs Seahro.ak
pegceivss fhat he is the image 81 the
man who in years gone by she believed
was her husband. and later she racog-
uiEes atm as her own son. she boy she
had deserted AMI east uran strangers
10 maintain she cannot contain che -
cret ara tells hlra her story. Detectives
follow him 70 London he - betrayed hv
g servant who had been his foster father
ana he shoots himself 60 escape arrest
ana in order ;o forever blot frcu memory
that be has q mother whom he cannot
ciRi1u wtthaIt running her TIE plot Is
VivtsIy bus 1clica;eiy worked and makes
a taktES plaN
The company IS thts ;fme Hlung an en-
ragefnruf of eight tsys. appearing again
yhls eycains tu Caste tAe society eor7-
ctv. by Tom Robertson. THIS all De-
repeated Friday Might We ues,4av and
SATURDAY nights "Esgnerslfa'- vyfN Ne
produced Thursday &n-f saturday nights
Captain SWift" NIL again be given ana
Monday ans Tuesday nights. ~ next
week '-Three Hats FRENCH farce com
ely. VII Pa tac btli