The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-05
"THE CAVALIER" A SUCCESS
PRESENTED By JULIA MARLOUE
AND 4 STRONG COMPANY.

Initial Performance at ths Hyperion
Last Night Before an Immense audit
enee-Ihe Acting and the Play De-
lighted Evorybody-BeautifuI SOUTH
ern Romance.
Julia Marlowe's new play. The Cav
alier,' from George w. Cables south
ern romance. was produced for the
first time on any stage at the Hyperion
theater last night and is destined to be
immensely popular. 1t certainly de-
lighted everyone in the large audience
last night judging by the unanimity
and force of the applause. 1t has ev-
erything to make it popular with the
ater-goers of to-day. There is Amer
icanism in it and there is heart interest;
there is pathos, some times approach
ing the tragic, but plenty of light and
comedy to make the play as whole a
cheering and happy entertainment;
there is opportunity for the display of
Miss Marlowe's graces of personality
and equal scope for the talents of her
large and capable company. The
dramatiZation made by Paul Hester
and George Middleton preserves with
remarkable fidelity the charm of Mr..
Cables literary style and does not lose
the delicious atmosphere in which he
has enveloped his stories of the old
south. Miss MarloWe has never been
better fitted in a modern stage medium.
She is a beautiful picture in quaint
dresses of the period of the civil war,
and is called upon to sound almost ev-
cry note in the range of emotions. Her
portrait of the fascinating Charlotte
Durand seems certain to have enduring
popularity.
The curtain first rises on southern
home which is being used as headquar-
tiers by General Austin commanding
Austin's brigade of the Confederate
cavalry. The pretty girls of the family
are all excitement over the marriage
of their friend Charlotte Durand to
Captain Francis Oliver which is to oc-
cur on the morrow. Charlotte is the
acknowledged belle of the community,
beautiful high-spirited southern girl
who has turned the heads of many
men, but never maliciousy and only
because of her charm. vivacity and
goodness. Among her admirers are
Lieutenant Edgar Ferry, Confederate
officer, and Captain Robert JeWett, a
Union prisoner whom she has nursed
honlF fn ha foil Loo
of their love for her, and although it
appears that she is not without feel
ing of sentiment for one or the other, a
feeling which she herself hardly
realizes, she has plighted her troth to
Captain Oliver before he had been cap
tured by the Federals, and she is ready
to keep her word, fully believing she
loves him. There is a rehearsal of the
marriage ceremony full of comedy,
but not without its seriousness from
the fact that Lieutenant Perry plays
the part Of the bridegroom. After the
real ceremony and after the guests
have gone Charlotte is Mortified to find
out that Captain Oliver has come back
to Austin's brigade as Union spy, and
that he is a traitor to his cause. She
sends him away, but resolves to keep
his secret since he is her husband.
Months pass and Ferry and the rest
believe oliver to be dead, but Charlotte
suspects the truth. Her ever present
fear lest he return leads her to under
take dangerous missions into the Union
lines. She meets Ferry constantly but
hardly dares to acknowledge her love
for him even to herself. Then, while
she is at HaZlehurt with Ferry's
scouts, Captain Oliver is exchanged
back, saying that he has been sick in
Federal prison. His real motive is
to further the strategy of Captain
Jewett whose men surround the place.
Although Charlotte guesses his errand.
she cannot betray her husband to her
lover. Ferry has need of a man for a
dangerous errand, and Captain Oliver
volunteers to go, whilst Charlotte sus-
pecting treachery on his part but un-
certain of his errand hegs Ferry to
send someone else. They believe her
distress to be due to her love for him
and her fears for his safety. Charlotte
discovers after divers departure
that he is about to guide ambulances
through the Union lines, and that the
ambulances will conceal large
amount of money with which to pay
the Confederates. She leaves too late
to warn those with Oliver for he has
betrayed them into the Federal hands.
Learning that the ambuances are at
the Federal quarters. now at her aunt's
house she resolves that cost what it
will she must save the ambulances,
and in the midst of a dance she de-
ceives the Union soldiers completely.
The close of the war and the death of
Oliver remove all difficulties from the
path of her marriage to Ferry, and
subsequent happiness.
The climaXes of each act were so
strong and so superbly acted that Miss
MarloWe, Captain Francis Oliver
Drank Worthing) and Lieutenant Ed
gar Ferry (William Lewers) were re-
peatedly called before the curtain and
after the third act the enthusiasm was
unbounded. 1t was discovered that the
author, Mr.. Cable, who is the guest of
a professor of the university, was in
the audience and nothing but his pres
ence on the stage would suffice. He
gracefully acquiesced in the request
and though perceptibly very much en-
barrassed made a few appropriate re-
marks in which he thanked all most
heartily for their generous expression
of appreciation. The acting and the
play delighted everybody. 1t will be