Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-05-11
MY LADY DARRELL
AtCamSron Hall, Two Nights,
May 16 and IL.

My Lady Darrell. drama in -four acts
hv the great playwright, Joseph Le-
Brant, which will be presented at Cam |
eron Hall next Thursday and Friday |
nights, May 16 and 18th, for the joint
benefit Of the college y. NJ. {. a. and
the Rodgers fund, promises TO he All
event of unusual interest. The scenes OF
the play are laid in England near the
Scottish border In the first three acts
and Changes to London in the fourth.
The time is the present. The play teens
with dramatic situations and offers a
fine scope for emotional and heavy act
ING. while the comedy and character
parts are equally effective.
Among the latter, Mrs. J.. r. {. SPen-
Ger will play the part OF Mother Grips
This character is an old bag and the &c
complice Of Count Jurs in his abduction
of the heorine. She rules over a colony
of male factors whose headquarters are
at times in the vaults Of an old Abbey,
and in London they occupy cellar call
ed THE Beggars Paradise" 1t is H.
these scenes that the melo-dramatic and
humorous situations occur. Viola
Vaughan ia IN the hands Of Miss Rosa
Emory who ably sustains the role of
genteel heavy character and an adven-
turess who likewise is associated with
Count Jura in his nefarious schememes
at the castle Of Lord Darrell, where they
both arc guests.
The heorine Alice Paisey. afterwards
Countess Darrell, who is abducted and
about whom the whole story revolves
is well portra we'd by Miss Virginia Braith-
waite. Martha Palsy who lords il ov-
er her hen-pecked husband, and Lady
Darrell society woman, and Kate
CIipps an emotional part are in tho
very capable hands of Miss Mary Nc
Nair, Miss Gou Henley and LiSs Lucils
Foster. respectively.
The character Of Lord Roy Darrel
which is the central figure Of the play
will be played by Mr.. K. F. Saunders
Lord Darrell IN order to save the hOnoi
Of family is forced into n strang,
marriage, after having been indifferent
to his wife for several months, he onl,
realizes her charms at the moment wher
she is snatched away by the schemes O
a treacherous friend. The search O
Lord Darrell for his wife, culminatin,
in err recovery aud the retribution O
the william is enacted in such n manne
as TO bring out the great possibilities 70
emotional and heavy acting
The character of George Vaughan
alias Count Jura is that Of a socia
highwaymen. masqurading as an Italian
Count, he imposes himself upon LORI
Darrell. abuses his hospitality by falling
in love with his wife and abducting heI
His diabo'ical schemes In the castle c
Lord Darrell is shared by his sister Viol
Vaughn, by whose aid the robbery an
abduction is accomplished. This all In
portant character Of gentleman an
scoundrei is IN the hands of Mr.. w.
Wilkinson who plays the part with r,
markable skill and grace. 1t IS safe L
say that the audience will be charme,
with the gentleman's rendition OF thi
most difficult role.
The part OF Joseph Palsy, characte
comedy. is admirably portrayed wit
much humor by T. B. Smith. The part
OF Armstrong Dale. Sir Godfrey Rawdor
Capt Lionel Wyndham and Job Tro
tiers, are ably upheld by Messrs. II. E. |
Wilson. A. c. Smith, Peachy Spence
aud John Hundley. respectively. Fac
one of the parts affords a fine scope f
acting and are we'll portrayed by Il
gentlemen in whose hands they are c
trusted. Toby Bruce, a villianous vag
bond is in the hands of a young ms
who plays the part very well, as is al
Dalton, the sergeant of police.
The stage management will be in Z
hands of Mr.. ". A. Maddox.
The Dramatie Club has received a We
gathering offer from Hampton, and W
probably visit the Grab City"
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