The age-herald., 1901-09-08

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Seth Igoe ...... MT. Alfred Harvey Hiram Smith .... MT. Charles T. Manning Si Lemon ........ ........M MT. Ed l.. Norton June ........ Miss lneZ Barlow Sue Eudaly .............. Miss Alma Powell Samantha Hankins. Miss Sarah Cameron Beleena Kicker ........ Miss Carrie White Cindy Tutewiler .... Miss Georgie Wilson Nell Tutewiler ...... Miss Elinor Westcott Lucy Bascom ........ Little Edna
 The scenes of ''Blue Jeans" are laid in the suburbs of Rising Sun, Ind. Perry Bascom, a young man of means, has a saw mill. Cindy and Jacob Tutewiler, homespun neighbors of Bascom. finding their modest home lonely since their son Jim and daughter Nell have gone to New York city to make their way In the world, adopt waif from the poorhouse known as June. She is diamond in the rough and turns out to be their own dead daughter Lucy's child by Bascom's uncle. with whom she had. eloped. Perry Bas- com is running for office, and Col. Henry Clay Risener of Rising Sun Is booming his campaign. The handsome young mill owner gets smitten with the charms of Sue Eudaly, formerly snake charmer In a circus He loses the election but wins Sue, and honestly but secretly marries her. She Is passionate, fiery and jealous. Bascom finds out that she has been mar ried before to one Richard White and that there is no record of her husbands death. Knowing that she has committed bigamy he leaves her. He then falls in love with June, his cousin, at first mis- takenly believed to be his sister, and marries her. Sue, still madly in love with him, thirsts for revenge and finds han dy ally in Bascom's saw mill foreman, Ben Boone, who was her devoted lover before Bascom ever saw her. June Is not told at first of her husbands former mar riage to Sue. She finds 1t out in time and there are some stormy meetings between the two women.
 Ben Boone's opportunity comes one day in the mill when the hands have gone to vote. He knocks Bascom senseless and places him on the frame so that he will be sawed apart in a short time. June is locked in the office. She batters down the door and gets out just in time to save her husband. After a trial for attempted murder Boone is acquitted by Bascom's testimony to the effect that Ben acted in sef-defense. He gets away in search of Sues husband, Dick White, and Is un- successful. Three years pass before he returns, to find himself father and June the only one who still has faith in him. It is Christmas day, and 1t brings Sues husband, Richard White, alias Emerson Duckshooter, who really Is Jim Tutewiler, a New York minstrel and a runaway son of Cindy and Jacob Tutewiler. He de- nounces Sue and restores peace.
 As the action progresses the village band, a male chorus of country folk and a calf (to be served up at barbecue) are effectively introduced. The marriage of Colonel Risener to the widow, Saman- tha Hankins. one of June's old friends, is a humorous episode, heightened by the antics of the widows son Isaac at the dinner table scene in Bascoms house. Much amusement is also afforded in the final scene by old Tutewiler's discovery. that his daughter Nellie Is a leading lady in New York theatre instead of New York society's leading lady, and that his son has become negro minstrel in the city of New York instead of a minister of the gospel, as he fondly supposed.
 The Great Mortimer Quartette furnishes the music during the progress of the play. The scenery has been painted here in Bir- mingham and the Auditorium has been improved in many ways.