The St. Louis Republic., 1904-07-31

an arrow is shot through the walls with
a message for him-the last of many
and he knows that Yo-San has lied to
him. AS she says farewell. her father
enters and surprises the outlaw and his
daughter
The disgrace, as he sees It, is go tre
mendous that there is but one way-the
death of them all. This he at once under
takes to accomplish. He is about to strike
off the head of his daughter. expecting
that Kara will follow, and he follow ka-
ra. but the latter interposes to protect
Yo-San. At this moment is heard the
proclamation of the price on Karas head
and the arrival of Zakhuris new musket-
men surrounding the house. The Prince
bids Kara to go to this more certain
death, and leaves to kill himself. first
pronouncing his daughter an outcast.
After a brief farewell, Kara goes, and
the combat without is heard. Yo-San
plunges her fists through the pagoda and
what she sees makes her sink to the
floor. The fight ends and there is silence.
Then Tonda-Topji, the nephew of the ter
rible Zakhuri and fiance of Yo-San. is
heard singing frivolous songs outside of
Yo-San's shoji.
He tells her that he has come to claim
her promise to ratify her betrothal by
marriage as soon as he shall have taken
the invincible outlaw.
As evidence of the fact that he has TAX
en- him. Tonda-Tonji tosses into her pa
CODA the bloody sleeve of Kara's coat.
flowers and her promise back into the
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to her face. drops to the floor.
In the third act. Yo-San goes to Yak
kuri to beg for Kara's life
Zakkuri offers her the life of Kara IL
she will betray his ten men to him. She
refuses. His way of overcoming her re-
fusal is to have Kara marched to the
execution. Yo-San refuses until they lead
him down to the torture chamber. and
she looking down the trap. see. the hor-
rors below. Then she surrenders the
names of Karas ten men. and Kara is
set free. In the last act. Kara wanders
back to the haunt Of his men.
Kara leads a forlorn hope against the
War Minister'S musketmen, and Yo-San
is left alone with the goddess of mercy.
The fight with the musketmen of Zak-
kuri goes against Kara, and as he is
the edge Of the first celestial heaven Yo-
San dies, and after being punished for a
time she passes to the mystic River of
Souls, and across to the first heaven with
the grim ferryman, crying still to Kara.
The river is passed The blackness be-
comes gray. Beyond are the white and
purple lights of the first heaven.
Now she hears Kara answer her cry
through the dark mists. her black robes
changing to white as they drop from her
when she reaches the edge of heaven.
On the uttermost edge of the first
heaven stands Kara, with his arms out
stretched. Countless voices of children
burst into a chant and she is restored to
Kara for all eternity.
Zelma Rawlston. who is playing the
double role of a grizette and an up-to-date
young man in the Delmar Garden "Louisi-
ana" is admittedly capital male In
personator.
In order to make the impersonations alb
solutely correct, Miss Rawlston stops at
no trouble or inconvenience and has even
sacrificed a luxuriant head of hair.
1.-The wig is the thing that always gives
woman away" she declares, "and I'll
have none Of it."
This fact is known to most of Miss
Rawlston's intimate acquaintances. but
not to the profession generally. One Of the
persons who was not familiar to Miss
Rawlston's manner of making up early in
the season was Mr.. r. A. Roberts, who
staged the Delmar 'Louisiana." On the
night of the first dress rehearsal Mr..
Roberts had dress parade and inspec-
ton Of every member of the company and
passed such criticism upon them as he
deemed best to improve their general ap-
pearance. Miss Rawlston. made up as
Bobby Oxford, was inspected among the