Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-12
COMPANY G IN DRAMA.

sS6 st Will Soon Give d First Class Produc- tion of .The Girl ILeft Behind Me"
 Company lG, e. N. C.. will produce 1.-The Girl I Left Behind Me- Polls theater on Monday andaTuesday even ings, April 2 and 23. The scene is laId at Port Kennion, an army outpost in the Blackfort county, Montana. Kate, the daughter of General Ken nion, in command of the post, is soon to be married to Lieutenant Morton Parlow, whom she has accepted out of gratitude for q brave att he has not committed, but has received credit for. The girl really loves Lieutenant Ed gar Hawkesworth.
 1t is in the eve of the Fourth of July and ball in honor of the day has been organized by tlle women of the post. The festivities are interrupted by ru- mors of trouble with neighboring In dians. narty is sent out headed Sbv Parlow and HaWkeswortI. Through cowardice and neglect of the former. three men lose their lives. Parlow begs abiectlv for mercy, offering to give up Kate if Hawkeswortll, who loves her, will Keep silence as to his perfidy Be fore the latter consents Parlow finds It possible to fix the guilt upon his rival.
 The danger of an uprising of the Indians becomes more evident. and all is excitement. Hawkesworth tells Kate that as she believes him guilty of cowardice. lie is going to give his life to slave off the evil hour a little. and he asks her to promise that if he IS brought back to the camp dyine. she will let him die with the words
 love va'l! ringing in his ears. He cannot believe that such girl loves s'ach q man as he knows Parlow to be. Kate refuses with indignant yehe- mence. She is Parlow's promised wife.
 There is q call for. a volunteer to go for help to the next post. The man will have one. chance in fifty of escap- ing alive. Hawkesworth accents the commission, and as Kate hnckles the dispatch box to his breast she says to him. T love yoi1.''
 The next scene is the great one of the play. It is night. The Indians have surrounded the fort. and their dread war songs are heard in the dis tance. At dawn the onslaught is ex- pected. If. help does not reach the stoclSade by sunrise all is over with the handful Of men. the women and inc children. A last appeal is made by General Kennion to the Indian chieftain. who refuses to listen or to promise immunity for the women and children in case of surrender
 The Indian chants grow louder and louder, and the light begins to break i in the east. Kate makes her father promise that when the last gleam of hone fades he will kill her. She prays while the battle rages outside. Gen. eral Kennion appears to tell her thai l the horr has come. He is about to shoot, when the bugles of the rescuine
 corps are heard and the soldiers rllsh 1 in. s'The Girl Left Behind Me- Is lone of the best dramas yet produced
 by American playwrights, if not. the
 best, and has had remarkable sue
 cess.
 It is produced in Waterbury with tIe special permission of Charles Froh. man. under the direction of Thomas NJ Freney and Thontas F Lawlor
 Grace X. Cross. a graduate of the Elm
 erson school of oratory of Boston, will play Kate Thomas F. Devine. prin cipal of the Bank street school. will
 apnear as General Kennion. Kate's father, while Dr John D. Frenev will
 internret the role. of I.ieiltanap' l Hawkeswortll. The others of the oast
 are experienced amateur playars
 Nessers Freney md Lawlor starnf
 "Shenandea and made such an iIsl
 pression that there Is little doubt TT 0arding their success with Relasco a''f Fyle's "The Girl Left Behind Me"