Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-08-25
THE "SOciAL TRusT.o
It Is on the Boards of a Theater at
 San Francisco.

AooAeu lof production or the .Soe1aI Trust appeared for the first time on any stage last night at the Columbia thea ter in this city.
 ''The Social Trust" is a new play written especially for the Frawley com pany by the two well known authors, Hillary Bell and Ramsay Morris It is q comedy drama, the story of which is founded upon the incidents connected With the downfall of the famous Cord age Trust. The leading role will be en- trusted to such actors as Wilton Lack aye, Louise Thorndyke Bouccicault, Blanche l.. Bates and others For this production special scenery and stage ef- fects have been gotten up and it is prob able that the play will soon be taken to New York for an extended run. The story of the play is as follows:
 The handspring of the dramatic &C., ton Is the marriage of Roderick Brew ster to Lillian Cornell The former is New Yorker of social distinction and the head of the Paper Trust corpora ton into which he has invetgled large number of fashionable men and women He has utilized all his funds in the scheme and has reached point where he must raise more In this emergency he decides to propose for the hand of Lillian Cornell, supposedly wealthy girl who Is quite we'll aware not only to love him, but has bestowed her affee- tions on Charlie King, young author. Furthermore, he himself is in love with Mrs. Hallock. wife of the originator of the Paper Trust. He has staunch ally, however, ill Mrs. Norton, Lillian aunt, woman of unlimited means, whose ambition in life is social success, who has come from California to achieve that success in New York and London and who means to utilize brilliant match for her neice as steppingstone to her own ends. She suggests Brew ster's proposal to Lillian and is met with prompt declination.
 Then she brings forward some un- pleasant facts, which compel the girl, unwilling though she be, to sacrific her self and accept Brewster. Then comes a period of married life, where husband and wife. while living under the same roof, are as far apart as strangers. Eventually climax is reached i'll the affairs of the Paper Trust where some valuable securities are hypothecated by Brewster, who risks his wife's dowery in his schemes, which must be re- deemed by q certain day or the head of the trust will find themselves on the way to prison. At this point Mrs. Hal lock- wife of the originator of the Paper Trust, is about to give ball, and sends 8 card of invitation to it to Lillian through her husband, Brewster Lil- han. knowing the relationship between her husband and Mrs. Hallock, whom she has never met, refuses to accept tn invitation, her action bringing about powerful scene between husband and wife. On t',e night of the ball, how ever, Lillian to the amazement of her friends, appears at Mrs. Hallock's.
 A sensation is produced by striking scene between Brewster's wife and Mrs. Hallock, brought about by the latter thanking Lillian for accepting the invi- tation to the ball Lillian brings con- fusion to the woman, who has tried to humiliate her. by announcing that the envelope handed her by her husband and which he supposed held the card of invitation contained in reality note from Mrs Halloek informing him that unless he forced his wife to appear at the ball he should never enter her (Mrs. Halock 's) presence again.
 The last act, which IS in the whole dramatic, and which occurs in Brew ster's library at 1 o'clock in the morn ing, directly after the ball, shows his frantic endeayors to force money from Mrs. Morton through an attempt at blackmailing his wife's character. Mrs Morton stands firm, refusing to believe ill of Lillian. The one person who can sustain his charge and who knows that Lillian is innocent, although he unwit- tingly fell into the trap laid for her, is dragged into the scene After much diplomatic hedging and equivocating she finally, when pinned down, utters deliberate lie and saves Lillian Almost the same moment Hallock discovers note written by his wife to Brewster and mad with jealousy and rage he shoots the lat ter dead.
 
 Five Men Relieved Drowned.