Rock Island Argus., 1902-02-28
Starbucks Delights Audience at
Illinois Theatre Last
Night.
GIVEN BY A STRONG COMPANY
OstIer Joe Tonight and the TeIe-
phone Girl Twice To-
morrow.

with The StarbuckS, OpIe Reads
delightful romance of the Tennessee
highlands. Ii is new play, having
just recently been taken on tom
after IA successful introductory run
at the Dearborn theatre. Chicago
Several of the players i'm the first cast
are still interpreting their roles, and
the result is cities hereabout that
are included in the bookings of the
company are being visited by a com
pany of unusual excellence. such as
is rarely seen outside the big cities
For the play itself-well, those who
are acquainted with the authors
knowledge of the south and it's at
mosphere and his charming style of
putting things. and were not in the
audience last night, can best appre-
ciate themselves what they missed.
The plot is evolved around feud eX-
listing between the Starbuck and
Peters families. Lie Peters is smit-
ten with Jasper Starbuck's daughter,
Lou. His offers Of marriage are
spurned. both by the girl and her
parents. Lie seeks revenge. lie is
appointed deputy United States mar
shall after reminding Starbuck that
he is making bourbon contrary TO
law.
When his threat 70 turn the law on
StarbucIl for moonshining unless he
gives his daughter i'm marriage is un-
needed Peters demands $1,000 as hush
money. This is refused also. Peters,
as marshal. attempts To arrest Star
buck and is wounded almost unto
death. Starbuck. who was formerly
a union soldier. is brought before the
federal judge-who also fought on
the union side-at Nashville. The
prisoner denies that he made whisky
TO sell. claiming he turned out only
enough for the use of his family. and
that ne shot Peters only after the
officer had attempted to take his
life To satisfy an old grudge.
-Starbuck is set free and just as he
is le;ving the court room in walks
Tom Elliott. the Judges son. and Lou
Starbuck. They had become lovers
while Tom and his aunt were So
journing i'm the country near the star
bucks. Toms aunt becomes betroth-
ed To Jasper Starbuck's nephew. Jim,
the preacher. and the play ends hap
PLY for all except Lije Peters.
The love stories are pretty. while
there is nothing of the blood-and-
thunder sort about the play, as one
would suppose. The southern tenn
permanent is suggested throughout,
but there is no shooting or the like.
1t is a beautiful play-one that should
live for years. and one that will meet
warmer reception if il ever returns
to Rock Island. Howell Hansell was
Jasper Starbuck. Alice Leigh, Mar
garet Starbuck. his wife: Clara
Thropp. Lou Starbuck. his daughter;
John Il. Lockney, Jim Starbucl. his
nephew; Thomas Coleman. Lie
Peters: Richard Pittman. Tom FL
lott: Pauline Fletcher. Mrs. Mayfield.
his aunt: William Lightfoot Visscher.
Kintchin; William Dills; Laz Spencer;
Joseph w. Standish, Nose Blake;
Bert Harrison, Capt. johnson. L. ).
marshall; Fred McWhety. Foster,
deputy marshal. Mr.. Nisscher, who
played the coIored servant. an inn
portant part, by the way. has many
friends in the three cities. where he
is known mostly through his writings.
Hello Girl Tomorrow.
Tomorrow afternoon and evening
we are to have at the Illinois that ia
voHite and breezy musical comedy,
THE Telephone Girl" All the promi-
nent cities of the country have been
played during the past four seasons,
beginning with New York, where it
enjoyed a phenomenal run of over
three hundred nights. This season
New specialties have been infected,
new music as well, together with the
latest songs, new comical dialogue
and various other attractive features.
The Telephone Girl is i'm two acts.
Gustave Kerker's tuneful melodies
pervade them, and no more taking
music was ever written or evolved.
The book, too, by Hugh Morton, who
in collaboration with Mr.. Kerker, is
responsible for The Lady Slavey,"
I'm Gay New York" "The Belle of
New York" and numerous other high
ly successful Casino productions, is
bright and witty. AS it is alleged
that the company is the strongest the
play ever had. patrons of the Illinois
may look forward to considerable
DicdSuIt- L ne CoilpdnN - hCduCu ny
a big coterie of fun makers, singers
and dancers: Dave Lewis, Pearle
Hight. Marie Richmond, Annie Lloyd,
Ruby Kendall, Anna Conrad, Eliza
beth Goodall, Leona Amrose, Marion
Harland, Amy Thompson, Elsinore
Richfield, Linette Fiske. Grace Cor
don, Irene Young, Mildred Franklin,
Nadine Sidney, Eugene Wiener.
Charles r. Burrows. Charles Whyte,
Arthur Conrad and John j. Magee.
The Cowboy and the Lady.
One of the strongest organizations
on the road this season is the com
pany supporting S. Miller Kent in
The Cowboy and the Lady" which
will be presented at the Illinois Sun
day. Every member of the company
has appeared prominently in the sup