The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-02
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"The Ministers Daughters,' q most elab- crate scenic production from the pen of Leonard Grover, d ive-act play with q prologue, opened three days engagement yesterday afternoon with matinee, and will also give . matinee on Wednesday. The play is very exciting and holds the feeling of the audience to the highest ten sion from start to finish. The story Is n most interesting one and the prologue DOT trays the house of the Drayton's in the country. The father, a minister. has re. gently died, leaving a wife and two daugh- ters, one totally blind, and with heavy mortgage on the farm. Oil has been dis covered in the vicinity. and the experts predict that the main springs are on the farm property. An interruptions New York speculator, who knows these facts and that Millte, the older daughter, will some time be the owner of the property, lures her away to New York, She eonsenting In the hope that she may thus earn. money enough to pay the mortgage on the farm. Act first portrays Millle singing in concert saloon on the Bowery, where her sister and her Irish lover finally find her. As they are about to take here away, "pal'' of her forgery they are committing, and he Is taken to prison, and the blind girl stolen from her sister. The next act portrays the prison and scenes surrounding 1t. The third act gives a most vivid picture of a pool room In which Millie's lover, John O'Maiey, wins $4,0o0 on a horse race which he pro poses to use to pay off the debt on the farm. The next act consists of three scenes, the most important of which Is. that of the Tetlow Oil Yards, where O'Malley is lured, robbed and locked lD the yard otfice- The place Is then get on fire. The whole yard Is in flames, Robin Is about to perish, when Millie dashes through the flames. breaks open the door, saves her lover, who is just In time to save the blind sister from heinz dashed to pieces by the oil-hoisters. In the last act they are all back on the farm. It is about to be sold The villains appear with tho stolen money, which by 2 clever piece of acting O'Malley recovers. they are arrested and the farm Is saved. Juliette de GrignOn, as "MilIle Drayton,' by her clever acting captivated her audience, as did Kathleen Barry as her ''blind sister" excellent: Robin oMalley, the Irish lad of fickle fortune. portrayed by Donald Meek, was true to life and showed clever work Clarence T. Piper. as Handsome Harry" was very good, as was Nat Lettingwell as Lyman Coykendall. May Noble was also worthy of especial notice. Performances repeated tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening. Popular prices prevail.
 A cargo full of African lions is a feature of the production of The Man Who Dared" by Howard Hall at the Grand opera house Thursday, Friday and Saturday, September 4, and S. The hero, a gentleman from France, when dared to the act by rival who desires to see him killed, enters the cage and kicking the lions who are spirited anil mals and have made much trouble, picks up glove and then retired. The play, five act melodrama, of which he is the author, has been the most suc- cessful he has ever produced, and has broken the records for attendance in many of the theaters in which it has been seen in this as well as all of last season.
 The drama is we'll put together, the incidents cleverly grouped and the lines strong and pertinent. Howard Hall assumes the character of the wronged count who seeks revenge. In the third act when wooing his own wife under his brothers name, she drops her glove containing a note, Paul Gira- deaux snatches it up and throws it into a cage of lions in zoo at Monte Car 10, daring the count to get it. With nonchalance, a silk hat on his head and a cigar in his mouth, the man actually goes into the cage and picks up the glove. There will be a matinee Satur- dav