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Howard Gould. supported by one of
Daniel Frohman's companies, will appear
at the Metropolitan opera house tonight,
presenting for the first time in this city,
the play which has made such a success
In New York, "a Colonial Girl"
"a Colonial Girl" is the joint work Of
Grace l. Furniss and Abby Sage Rich
srdson. 1t is a comedy constructed upon
romantic times, and is laid in tho revo-
lutionary period in old New York AS is
natural to a story Of that time, there are
occasional scenes in which the military
figure, although 1t is in no sense war
drama. Godfrey Remsen, a young Amer
ican, returns from England to find him
self heir to his unCle's wealth and home.
He also finds that his sweetheart has
married a rich English nobleman. He
meets in a romantic fashion a simple,
young country girl whom he rescues from
the brutality OF some registering soldiers
In despair at the perf1dy OF his fiancee,
and pleased and amused by the winsom-
ness and beauty OF his young protege. he
proposes marriage and with a girls love
OF romance and in the belief that her
lover is a penniless young soldier, she
consents to an immediate union. Coming
20 his home, she g rudely shaken out Of
her dream by the disclosure that her
husband is the rich Mr.. Remsen. The
sweetheart, on account of whose unfaith-
fulness Godfrey has been driven into the
marriage, appears, and, in her fury and
disappointment, poisons the young bride
mind, and separates her in sympathy
from the young hero she was beginning
to adore. Then follows a succession Of
dramatic climaxes in which Godfrey Is
accused of being a spy of Gen. Washing
ton, his flight and pursuit, and his re-
turn in the disguise of a foppish English
officer, just in time to save his wife, who
has been decoyed to the house by a roue
intent upon compromising her. Then fol-
lows a duel, the officer Is wounded, and
Remsen is rescued by his friends just In
the nick Of time.
The story, coupled with the handsome
stage settings, which are interiors of old
colonial houses, makes the play one Of
promise.
The PRODUCTION Is said to be the same
ip every detail as when played at the
New York theater. Several weeks were
spent in careful rehearsals, under the per-
sonal supervision of Daniel Frohman, in
order to be assured that none of the
original stage business should be omitted
This will insure a production Identical in
every respect with the one given in New
York during the first long run of the play
at The Lyceum. The cast:
Godfrey Remsen, young American
Howard Gould
Jack Osborn. also an American
Sir Henry Danvers, English off,
G ea IN an He% 0d Servant deToted Harris
Col. Cartere{t 28d foot. Chas. &. Brandt
Capt. Beufort. 23d foot Duncan Harris
Lieut. Percy. 18th Light Dragons
George belong
Francis Moore
Lieut.. Eaton, 10th foot. H. F. GetcheIl
Sergeant Noakes.. ..........G. w. Lynch
Dark, Barton I Drew
Watts, mason ............ Edward Prince
Liberty Boy ........ ......Daniel Dickers
M4 adI H ssfab Ketetas @ GF2Ge Freeman
Helen King Russell
Lady Judith Danvers, Godfreys
cousin, married to Sir Henry
Danvers. ..................... Eleanor Carr
The engagement is for the entire week
The g is in receipt, from Charles
Frohman, Of two Of the handsomest
souvenirs yet gotten out in honor of any
theatrical attraction. The Maude Adams
calendar for 1900 is a handsome six-sheet
wall calendar, backed with heavy board,
and with a frontispiece showing the fair
actress head and face, as pictured by
Ernest Haskell. Each of the calendar
leaves has above the months a dainty
portrait of the actress in character from
the brush of c. Allen Gilbert. Appro-
pirate to the dying of the year. and the
century In December, next the last leaf,
shows Juliet on her bier
Even daintier than the calendar is the
''acting edition" Of Romeo and Juliet,
pretttly bound and illustrated, as is the
calendar, by Messrs. Haskell and Gilbert 1t
contains the lines and stage directions as
the play is presented by Miss Adams, the
cast which presented the tragedy at the
Empire theater May last, and is daintily
illustrated with portraits of the star and
scenes in the play. Both are published
by r. II. Russell