The herald., 1897-10-31

day evening, November Sd, for
four nights and Saturday mat
inee. The company interpreting the
play, which is a dramatigation by Ed
ward Rose of Stanley Weyman's thrill
ling novel Under the Red Robe" is a
uniformly good one, including such well
known players as Mary Hampton, Will
liam Morris. Giles Shine. William Far
mum and some twenty others.
This is one of the most successful plays
Mr. Frohman has ever directed. and il
earned upwards of $4,000 for him ir
New York the past season. Mr.. Rost
has succeeded in transferring the char
acters in all their fullness of interest
/ from the Imprinted page to the stage, ant
J has also carried thither the charming
atmosphere which surrounds the peo-
| pie in the book. The characters per-
fectly fit the members of the company tC
whom they have been allotted and the
result is finished performance which
has drawn the most liberal praise from
the critics wherever the play has been
presented thus far this season. Sc
strong is the demand for Under the
Red Robe" in New York that Mr.. Froh-
man intends to present it again there
this season for an extended run. "Un-
der the Red Robe" has done fully as
large business ION the road" as it did in
New York. The story deals with the
time when the great Cardinal Richelieu
was in the height of his power and held
the lives of almost all the French citi-
zens in his grasp. The hero, Gil de
Berault, is sent on a spying mission by
the cardinal and ordered to bring one
of the French rebels before that worthy
prisoner. But Gil contrives to fall in
love with the rebel's sister and he re-
turns to the cardinal and tells him he
cannot do his bidding, albeit knowing
that his own life will be the forfeit.
But, Renee de Cocheforet, Gils sweet
heart and sister of the man he was sent
to capture, has herself paid visit to
the great cardinal and pleaded for her
lovers liberty, which after a succession
of stirring scenes is granted and the
lovers are happily united. William
Morris, an excellent actor with an at
tractive stage presence, plays the part
of the hero, and Mary Hampton that of
the heroine. The sword duel in the
play between the hero and an adversary
seen on a stage. Mr.. Morris superb
work in this has caused him to take rank
with the best romantic actors.
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BURBANK Advance
Announcement Commencing tomor-
row night another of William Gillettes
great successes will be put on at the
Burbank by the Broadway Theater
company, "All the Comforts of Home"
a companion piece of Gillette's famous
play, 1.-The Private Secretary"
The chief characters are Mr. Theo-
dore Bender Harry D. Blakemore), an
elderly, henpecked husband, in whom
the fires of youth are not yet extinct
and who considers the meeting with a
real live actress the acme of earthly
bliss; Mr.. Alfred Hastings Maurice
Drew the scapegrace nephew who is
left in charge of his uncle's house and
who proceeds to rent out the rooms to
all kinds and conditions of people,
thereby getting into no end of trouble
and affording a vest amount of amuse-
ment. Harry F. Adams will assume the
character of the uncle, Mr.. Egbert Pet
tibone, an elderly gentleman with an ex-
tremely jealous disposition and young
and pretty wife, with whom he imagines
every man she speaks to is trying to
make love. The part of the wife, Rosa
belle Pettibone, will be taken by Ida
Banning. Nan Miffiin comes on as
Josephine Bender, the wife of Theodore,
and the way she looks after him shows
that she is pretty well acquainted with
the weakness of her other half. Marie
Blossom for this occasion will be a
blossom of another sort; she will be just
boy, Tom McDow, protege of Alfred
Hastings. Helen Henry will be Evange-
line Bender, the charming daughter of
the Benders, and with whom Alfred the
nephew rashly falls in love. Guy Bates
Post will be seen as Christopher Dab
ney, broken down music teacher.
Maurice OConnor as Judson Langhorne.
Charles P. Clary as Victor Smythe, who