The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-24
METROPOLITAN
AT Piney Ridge"

In offering cat Piney RIDGE as
this week s bill at the Metropolitan
theater, Mr.. Ferris is catering to pop
Ilar taste, and the way this old favorlte
will be produced cannot fail but
please the plays many friends and be
a revelation to those who see~it for the
first time. -
cat Piney Ridge is a domestic
melodrama of the higher order: Its
scenes are laid in the suburbs of Chat
. tanooga and in the nearby mountains
It, characters are typical of sunny
Tennessee and include several interest
ing colored types as well as some pic
turesque mountain products and few
members of the southern arlstocracy,
whose quaint colloquilisms and charm
ing hospitality breathe the spirit for
which Dixie land is famed in song and
story. It's story bristles with excit-
ling incident and dramatic climaxes
and embodies a charming love story.
The play was written by DAVID X.
Higgins and was first produced n, New
York where it Immediately won lasting
public favor.
Like "Puddenhead Wilson, the
blot of cat Piney RIDGE is based
mon the exchange of two babies-one
,oored and one white-by Dagmar,
-4~,n octoroon. The white lad. who is
eallv the son of Colonel Briarson,
Sllicu III Jn6 civil wal, Slo"o W
rood in the mountains. He is known
IS Jack Rose and becomes a wealthy
nountaineer. The colored boy is
brought up as Mark Briarson, inherfs
he late colonel's estate, is cashier of
Colonel behring's bank, and when the
,lav opens has laid all his plans to
y marry Azalie Deering. =..> sE'' :
In the first act Jack Rose, some of
whose money has been deposited in
colonel behring's bank, appears on the
)eering plantation and falls in love
With Azalie. Thru his kind heart and
rue manliness he wins the girl s love.
In the second act Jack and Azalie
hedge their troth and their engage
nent is about to be announced. to 6
- 'artN of friends, when Mark Briarso1
nd Dagmar brand him as colored
ack denies the charges and promises
prove Mark s story untrue. Ii
his act Zeb Lane, a meuntaineer from
'inev Ridge appears, and is made tt
elieve that Jack Rose is. the autho
his daughter Cindy's ruin whel
}riarson is really the guilty man
- n sight. but Cindv appears Just in tim
save her friend without denouncin!
er lover, in a dramatic scene tina
lakes most effective "curtain.
In the third act the scene shifts t.
he picturesque Tennessee mountains
ne home Of Ieh Lane and Cindy. Th
lountaineer friends of the girl hav
worn to avenge her wrong and kill he
etrayer whom they still believe to b
old friend. Jack Rose.
Jack. appears. and narrowly escape
cling shot He meets Mark Briarsor
HON be denounees. and dramati
:ene follows Jack cannot convinc
ape and his followers Of his innocenc
atil finally GindYssis forced to tel
,hieh Of. the men is guilty but no
4til Mark has made a dash for libert
I'D she4thinks he, is safe.
- Rose has bought the old Briarso
iantatfon and it.. is there that tn
enc of%the fourth and last act is lai,
ie hasssgiven up trying to prove h
God is untainted since Cindy who
ne only one who can give positive ev
'ance thru her child bearing marks Z
9lored blood has gone insane after tt
ght at Piney Ridge. There is
iodby love scene between Jack an
- .ndy who leave the house togethe
A.iaTson and Dagmar appear in scare
some money Mark had left hidde