The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-17

klltie ........ ........ Miss Hattie Waters Rertie ............... Miss Etta Montrose.
 Act l. Tim Best's taxdermist shop, sdcT New New; Act II. Tom Rests Turkish smoking par
 Act III. Tim Best's home. New York City.
 This comedy, it's original songs and me chanlcal efects, are fully protected by copyright
 If the demand for tickets is large enough, the merchants will arrange for a matinee also.
 The music was written expressly for this production by Messrs. Henry J. Savers (who met the merchants com mittee), Tom LeMack and Frederick Dana. The music program arranged by Mir. Jesse Williams; scenery special ly painted for this production by John A. Thompson; mechanical effects and properties by Lawrence J. Sheehan and John Williams.
 STORY OF THE PLAY.
 The story of "The Good MT. Best" is one of complications, misrepresenta- tions and misunderstandings Maxi milan Juarez O'Keefe, a wealthy Gu ban-Irishman-a character new to the stage-has been literally providing for his twin nephews, Tom Best and Tim Best. With the regular remittances which O'Keefe has sent from Cuba to his nephews in New York he has also sent threat to the effect that if either of them marries he will immediately stop the allowance. O'Keefe's marital experiences have made him bitter. His wife eloped with a Scotchman, and his second attempt at matrimony ended In a breach of promise suit Tom Best has not only disobeyed his uncle by contracting secret marriage with the very woman who sued O'Keefe for breach of promise in Cuba, but has also deceived his uncle by concealing the fact of the death of his brother, Tim whose allowance he has regularly re- ceived and as regularly spent. This is the condition of affairs when O'Keefe suddenly announces that he will visit New York for the purpose of getting his daughter Bessie married to a man he has himself selected for her. Tom, fearing to tell the truth. decides to i'm personate both Tim and Tom, not such a difficult task, as they were twins.
 In the first act Tom represents him. self as Tim, the proprietor of taxi- dermist shop and an inventor. He re- ceives and deceives his uncle after trying five minutes in which he vainly attempts to make Tim's stupid servant, Gretchen, believe that it was Tom and not Tim, whom she saw buried. Ev- erythng is going we'll for Tom until his wife, Isabelle, is recognized >by O'Keefe as the woman who sued him for breach of promise. Angry, he de- mands to know what she is doing In Tim's shop. While Tom is trying to invent a plausible lie Isabelle's broth CT Dick, whom Tom does not know, appears upon the scene and claims Is abelle as his wife. Tom for a moment is delighted but subsequently, becomes furiously jealous as he sees Dick and his wife making love and acting as If they were man and wife. O'Keefe, not knowing Isabelle is Toms wife, arouses Ton1's anger to fury by limiting that he knew Isabelle in Cuba and that he knew nothing good of her.
 Bessie O'Keefe's daughter, refuses to marry Marmaduke Mush, the man he has selected for her, but finally pre- tends to consent. Marmaduke Mush arrives on the scene and O'Keefe be- comes so disgusted with his dudish
 
 dress and manner that he is just as much opposed to the marriage as at first he was determined upon its taking place. Bessie, although in love with Duck avows that she will marry no one but Marmaduke. O'Keefe's plans to separate them, but the author by the use of a stuffed bear in the taxi dermist's shop, contrives in very amusing manner to bring them to- gether again. Toms lies are sinking him deeper and deeper in a sea of diff entities. when an actress named Mar celle appears upon the scene and claims Tom as her husband, she having mar rled Tim Best, who, not being The Good Mir Best" he is commonly re- ported to be, had given his brother Tom's name at the marriage ceremony. Tom, of course, having represented