The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-06

Clay Clement will open his engage
ment of four nights and matinee at
the Metropolitan tonight, presenting
his idyllic story of the American South,
''rhe New Dominion which will be
repeated at the closing performance
Wednesday evening. Monday and
Tuesday evenings and Wednesday
matinee Mr.. Clement will present his
new success, "a Southern Gentleman"
The popular star is supported by the
best company he has ever brought to
this city, including such well-known
names as Mrs. Clay Clement (Karra
Kerwyn), Phosa McAllister Nell Nc
Even, Gertrude O'Malley, Jeffrey Viii
lams, H. S. Duffield, w. B. Mack, T. r.
O'Malley, Chas. Mason, George Dowd
ard Charles Young.
Clay Clement has been known for
many years as a careful and clever
actor, but in the study and execution
of a new kind of German character he
has earned the distinction now of being
a star. 1.-The New Dominion" still more
adding to his credit, in his own play,
and its dialogue of a quite exceptional
ly witty and pointed character. The
plot is very simple, the characters real
ly carrying the interest and carrying
1t so well that every act seems to be
followed with increasing attention 1t
is a quiet picture of life in Virginia,
and it's situations are presented in
subdued and natural key There is
nothing denonstratively dramatic.
The hero's loVe-making is quaint and
unconventional; his tumble of German
and English is not of the confusing
kind, for it has the feature of educa-
ton, ard only his occasional German
idiom suggests the usual type.
Briefly the story OF the play is as
follows: In the prologue Lieut.. Thomp-
son is forced to fight a duel with
Backyard, Philip Durand. Lieut..
Joseph Carroll, of the Confederate
army, acts as the second of Lieut..
Thompson. The latter does not fire
at his enemy, and is deliberately shot
down by him. His last request to his
friend is that the truth concerning his
death be kept a secret from his wife,
who has just become the mother of a
little girl.
The action of the play proper begins
twenty-five years later. Carroll Is now
Gen. Carroll, a courtly old man, a
recluSe and a scholar. whose thoughts
are given much to ancient PHILOSOPHERS.
Durand is on the scene, the avowed
lover of Miss Arzella Thompson, the
daughter of the man he murdered.
The girl, although betrothed to Dur
and, is really In love with Gen Car
roll. In time Gen. Carroll discovers
the Identity or Durand, and Miss
Thompson learns the true story of her
fathers death and that Gen. Carroll
loves her. The love that he once bore
for the mother before she married
Thompson, is now laid at the feet of
the daughter.
Mr. Clement, as Gen. Carroll, adds
another to his gallery of successes.
The beautiful lines for which Mr.. Gle
ment's plays are noted, receive an
additional charm from his rendering
of them.
Mrs. Clement, as Miss Arzella
Thompson, has a difficult emotional
part to portray, and succeed most ad-
mirably.
The cast for 1.-The New Dominion Is:
Baron Franz Victor Won Hohen-
stuaffen ...............,.. Mr.. Clay Clement
Norman Edgar Randolph. E. Mr.. H, 8. Dufield
Marshall Boner -. MIR. jeffrey D. Williams
Chas. McVeigh. .............Mr. VIM. B. Mack
Napoleon Randolph, negro serv-
ant $500. .,......... MT. Thos. +. OMalley
Miss Flora May Randolph. ...... Miss Nellie
Miss Flora May Randolph
Miss Nellie McEwan
Mrs Randolph ..... Miss Phosa McAllister
Martha, a mountain girl
Miss Gertrude O'Malley
Mrs. Josephine Dulaney. :. Mrs. Clay Clement
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