The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-07
THE COST OF W0oLLEY.
ADJUSTMENTS.
Lost "a Hours at the Academy Of
Muafc.

Music.
Lost "a Hours" was the medium by
which Mr.. Robert Hiliiard and an excel
lent company entertained a large audi
enee for almost three hours last evening.
On the bills Lost "A Hours is described
as "a comedy in three acts, by W. A.
TIemayne and Logan Fuller and its
plot is an old familiar one. .Diek Swift
a New York broker. is married to a
Mildred asDora Copperfield sort of a girl.
Previous to his marriage he had cut a
pretty wide swarth with a dashing widow,
Mrs. Bertha Dacre. a woman of the
world. His wife goes away to visit some
FRIENDS and Dick goes sspainting"-the
town in the good old ~ante-nuptial way.
through the negligence of a maid he
sleeps all day and thus loses twenty
our hours. He has a some financial
transactions with Mrs. Dacre whereby a
note of his gets into the hands of Solo
mon Goidstein, a money broker Mrs
Dacre calls upon Swift during his wife's
absence. and in the conversation which
follows the widow brings up irresistible
memories of the past. and the wife comes
in just as the widow throws her arms
about Dicks neck and kisses him. OF
course there must be some explanation,
and on the spu of the moment Swift
tells his wife that the woman is his long
lost sister, who years before had married
a Chicago pork dealer, and from that
time been considered as dead to the fam
and the Swift family had forgiven Ber-
tina and taken her back to their arms.
Upon this brilliant lie." az Swift calls
it, hangs the play. Dick has a brother,
a theological student, whe of course
knows the woman is not his sister. and
has daily catch-as-catch can matches
with his conscience over whether he
should not tell the entire story to the
confiding wife. In order to- prevent that
Bertha and Dick conspire to place him
in a compromising position with Susan
Mrs. Swift's maid, and his sense of his
fall keeps him silent. Finally 1t appears
that Bertha is the wife of Goldstein,
who had taken her from behind the coun-
ter of a small fancy store, dressed her up
In silks and satins and sent her out into
society to decoy customers to his
money loaning establishment. Goldsteln
claims his bride. Dick makes a clean
breast OF it all n every thing ends
happily as of yore. In his moments of
contrition Swift talks to his wife of
men in a way which would warrant
every woman in the audience in the
belief that every married man Is a rake
and libertine, whose sole mission in life
is to abuse the confidence. of his wife,
wrong her upon the slightest provoca-
ton, while Bertha Dacre when rebelling
against the cruel fate which makes her
the decoy is very plain spoken about the
world of which she claims to be a woman.
Mr.. Robert Hilliard, as Dick Swift, acted
the part well. He does not give you the
he thought more of his clothes and
personal appearance than he did of his
art. The. best man in the cast, however,
was MI. Theodore Babcock, who took the
student. He played the part with a
ddelity that was simply charming.
Mr. Cecil Butler made the best of the
pax OF Adoiphus Smiley, the false friend,
and Harry Rogers, as Solomon Goldstein,
the money broker, won much applause.
Miss Ffolliott Paget, as Mrs. Bertha
Dacre. was grand, both in her acting and
| stage presence. Miss Stella Kenny was
THE pretty, foolish, ov~erconfident, fearful
dtt1e goose of a wife to Dick. and Miss
Miss Sydney C0wlel and Miss Eleanor
Gray. as the Mrs. and Mary Churcnill
the charity concert promoters, and the
friends of David, were exceedingly conn
Lost "a Hours will be given at the
Academy remainder of the week with
she usual matinees-
Lyric Theatre. Hohoken.
michael Strogof,s one of Jules vernc's
excellent stories, was presented on the
stage Of the Lyric Theatre, Hoboken, last
night. before a large sized audience. This
| beautiful picture Of Russian life is gwen
in i've acts, with a host of new features
/ attached. The story deals with one Of
| the numerous campaigns which the Rus
| sian soldiers waged against the Tartar
I hordes. IT opens with a scene in Mos
! COW. Michael Strogoff the hero. IS an
| imperial messenger of the Car. He is
! sent to- the Tartar camp with a message,
arrested and held as q spy. His mother,
who has shared the hardships with her