The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-20
PLAY BILLS THIS WEEK
ROLAND REED AND "UNDER THE
RED ROBE. COMING TO ENGLIsHs.
Grand stock Company Opens with a
Love"-Park and Empire.

Englishs will have two nights of Roland
Reed this week. opening with his new play,
THE Voyagers," by Madeline Lucatte
Ryley. and for Tuesday night giving Reeds
revival of his successful old comedy THE
Woman Halter" with which he made the
most of his fortune nearly ten years ago.
1t was also in THE Woman Halter that
Reeds leading woman Isidore Rush, the
admired Of all theater goers. made her de-
but. For the last half of the week. begin
ming Thanksgiving matinee, Under the Red
Robe" with William Morris and Frances
Gaunt in leading roles, will be the attrac-
tion at Englishs, after two years of pros
porous engagements in other cities.
In Mrs. Ryley's ''The Voyagers" Roland
Reed is said to have something different
from his past successes to offer. The au-
thor has taken the mistaken identity sub
Ject and is said to have given it an original
and highly amusing treatment There is
q DR.. Bodkin on a globe-trotting tour. He
bears a remarkable likeness to an alleged
famous explorer, Jerome Watkins, for
whom he is so frequently mistaken that life
becomes an unpleasant series of daily ex-
plantations. In San Francisco DR.. Bodkin
meets his old friend, George Ferrier, and is
taken to a banquet given in honor of the ex-
plorer. Terrier takes advantage of DIR.
Bodkin's close resemblance to Watkins to
announce secretly that Bodl.tl is a, modest
brother of the explorer Wa tl.ins. travelling
under the name of Bodkin. Later on in the
play Ferrier accompanies his friend to
Honolulu, where the real explorer resides,
and here Bodkin is taken for Watkins even
By the family of the EXPLORE. and the bur-
dens are heaped on him in the latest farci-
cal fashion. Special opportunities are said
TO be offered for picturesque scenic effects
In the Honolulu act, where a Hawaiian
plantation is pictured. Roland Reed plays
the much-abused DR.. Bodkin and Miss Rush
has the role of a niece of the real explorer.
The other members of Mr.. Reeds company
are said to be happily cast. They include
Alethea Luce. Mrs. Annie Myers, Sheridan
Upper, Robert Cotton. Charles Lothian, L.
y. Hicks, Lynn Pratt, Julian Reed and
James Douglas. being practically the same
company that has appeared so well in Mr..
Reeds plays during the past fve years.
Tt has been two years since the dramati-
zation of Stanley Weymans "Under the
Red Robe started on it's successful New
York run. The play continued to be so pop
nlar that as dramatic performance it sur
passed THE Prisoner of Zenda,' both hav-
ing been dramatized by Edward Rose, the
successful English adapter. Under the
Red Robe" made such a hit that it was bur-
makers, Weber & Fields under the title of
1.-THE Red Globe The play is said to fol-
low the historic incidents treated in Stanley
Weyman's book. the character of Richelieu
being made one of the important roles, and
affording opportunities equal almost to the
leading character of Gil de Berauit, Richie
ueuS guardSman. In the first act Paris IS
shown in ferment of revolt against the
tyranny of Richelieu, who has earned the
special detestation of the gallants of France
by the severity of his edicts against duel
ing. The cardinal passes Zaton's gaming
house while Gil de Berault is at cards with
young Englishman, Sir Thomas Brunt
Brunt accuses De Berault of playing with
marked cards and throws the pack in his
face whereupon ensueS duel in which the
Englshman is badly wounded. Richelieu
enters and grants De Berault his life on con-
dition that he play the spy to snare Henri
de Cocheforet, powerful ally of the rebels,
and bring him prisoner to his palace. In
the second act Berault is carrying out his
mission in the Chateau de Cocheforet
Henri'S sister Renee is entertaining De Ber-
auIt as a friend of her brother and falls in
love with him. In the third act is Sc
Quence of exciting episodes incidental to the
hiding and escape of De Cocheforet and the
mental conflict OF De Berault, ending with
the release of De Cocheforet by De Berauit
the spy sending his prisoner south to the
Pyrenees, which mean, meant for Ir, him freedom ltl,
ward road to Paris, to Richelieu and death.
The final act shows the fall of Richelieu in
his magnificent palace, empty now of all the
in the splendid desert of a corridor-Gil de
Berault, who has come to announce that he
too, has betrayed the cardinals trust and
failed him in his extremity. The cardinal
IS furious at first and condemns the re-
ipentant spy to confinement during the
Kings pleasure, a sentence which, to a man
of Beraults caliber, is worse than death.
This is but one more ruse of the willy pc
tentate of the red robe. The lovers find
that the continent is only to Cocheforet,
and that a future of happiness is secured
for them by the clemency and power of the
cardinal. Many characters are introduced,
and q large company, with much special
scenery, is necessary for the production