The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-30
NOVEMBER aO eo

of the man who took advantage of her innocence, her triumph, and the pros pect of a peace and happiness for her all go to make up a pretty, unaffected and direct play. Interspersed with the strongest portion of the play there is a comedy side, which brings out the characters of New England village. There is first the farmers yard, with the expanse of meadows and grazing land beyond the road, a great barn in which Is stored the food for the cattle, sheep and horses.
 The second act disclose the sitting room in the farm house with it's wide hearth and comfortable looking easy chairs. In the third act the famous snow stotm Is shown. The scene is laid in the interior of the kitchen and supper is nearly ready. Outside the STOW whirls and flies in exact imitation of natures convulsions, while the red glow from the stove, the hustle and preparation for the meal and the in- coming of visitors, make the scene breath warmth and pleasure.
 The fourth and last act shows a typ jcal sugar camp in New England forest in the winter time. These scenes give opportunity for pretentious scenic fleets and they have been taken ad- vantage of to the limit of stage craft. The snow storm especially is the most realistic effect of the kind ever pro- duced.
 The entire big cast and elaborate production utilized in all the metro politan runs will be seen here.
 Glorious Betsy"
 Mary Mannering, whose wonanly charm and beauty, coupled with her unquestioned talent have firmly estab- lished her as a favorite with playgoers of this city, will be seen at the Fly perion Friday and Saturday, with mat inee Saturday December and '.
 This new play has for its central figure that radiant belle of yesterday, Betsy Patterson, whose beauty and ambition made for her one of the most remarkable careers ever maintained by an American woman. From the posit- ion of a Baltimore belle, whose wit, pride and rather daring independence made her the admiring comment of all fashionable society in America, she sprang suddenly into international mo- tice by her marriage with Jerome Bon, aparte, the brother of Napoleon, just at the time when he was declared em- peror of the French.
 In writing Glorious Betsy" its au- thor does not go into the darker side of Betsy's life, but deals with the days when her name was the toast of every gathering of note from Baltimore to New Orleans. It takes us back to the old Sweet Springs of Virginia, when that resort was the gathering place for the best in wealth and culture and beauty of which America could boast. It Is at the Springs that Betsy first meets Captain Bonaparte, who, weary of the endless round of entertainment and adulation he had received as the guest of the American nation, has tra- veled to this out of the way resort in cognito and for whatever romantic ad- | venture might appeal to youth of nineteen, full of high spirits and away l from restraint"
 i Jerome becomes infatuated with the reigning belle, Betsy Patterson, and ! manages to have himself employed i during her stay there to give her les i sons in French. Betsy becomes in- , tensely interested in her tutor, but her pride and ambition fight against &C., ! knowedging that she could love @ ! man in such an inferior position. She coquettes with him, however, as she does with half dozen others Betsy leaves the Springs ignorant of Je- rome's true personality, deeply offend ed with him because of his refusal to accompany her party to Baltimore
 where great preparations are being made for the reception of Captain Bon |, aparte. It is here at an elaborate fete
 given in hls honor that Betsy first dis. -l covers that her tutor and the mucf talked of brother of Napoleon are one t Previous to this discovery her pridt |. overcome by the wooing of her suppos
 ed tutor, Betsy has confessed her lov, for him.
 l They are betrothed and the rest o r the play deals with the efforts of Ma 8 poleon's agents to prevent their mar t riage; their fruitless voyage to France f where Napoleon refused to allow Bet n sy and the final happy triumph of tn g lovers.