The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-25
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 .The Thief' Is the work of Henri
 Bernstein. . year ago . popular Par isian playwright, but since the produc- ton of 'sThe Thief" the most con- spiQ1ous anu most sought-after of present-day dramatic authors. 'The Thief is in three acts, and observes all the unises of time. place and inci- dents. It's story Is as follows:
 The voysins. husband and wife. are visiting M and Mime. Lagardes at their country. home. The Lagardes have a son. Fernand who Is .smitten with Mme Voysin and writes her the most ardent love letters. Nine Voysin, who is young and charming. and who loves. her husband with an unswerving smstorS assstass @ iikhtiy. a4s as sort sI of f romantic fiutter that will soon pass away. She Is good-natuied and good humored towards him.. but his atten- tions have made no impression upon her. Ee writes her love letters which he places under the pillow of her bed in her boudoir, and leaves them around in other places where he knows she will find them. This 1etter-writing leads him into iasssrlous difficuity upon
 which he has not reckoned. For Mme. Lagardes has had some money stolen from her bureau drawer and as 6 de- tective named zambault. who Is in the house masduerading as a friend of N.
 Lagardes, has seen Fernand quietly creeping .upathe stairs to the bedroom and has also seen him take something from the drawer in question. he openly accuses him of being the thief. It is known that Fernand has had an affair
 with a pretty actress, to whom he has
 made presents. and 1t looks as If he had stolen the money to meet the financial requirements of the Haison. The La- gardes are astonisheds at the revelation.
 They refuse to Believe the detective.
 He unfolds bit by bit his evidence.
 however, and the father Is at last con- vinced. He sends for his son. Fer nand has gone into the grounds to recover the letters he wrote Mime, Woy- sin. she having told him where he would find, them, unopened and unread. Mime. -Veysin volunteers to go after Fernand when the father demands his presence. She returns in moment with. him. To the amusement of every body but the detective. Fernand eon- fesses his guilt. His father furious at the young mans disgrace, decides to send him away for a period to distant country, wnere he can earn and repay shis stolen money. Of course. Fornand Is not the thief. The discovery of the real cuIprit and the boys exculpation comes later on. Meanwhile, hfs preparations for ban- ishment proceed. Mime. ~Eoysin's nice kindly talk in which she told him how futile his passion for Ter was, as she loved her husband too dearly to care for anybody else, has not had the effect of quenching. or in any way subduing, his love for her. The relations bee tween husband and wife become pain fully strained and continue so until the moment set for Fernand's depart ure. At this point disclosures are made that put an astonishing but sat- isfactory complexion upon all the ctr- cumsfances, and the dramatist is per mitted to carry his story to a happy conclusion. In the great principal roles of "The Thief" will be seen Charles Dalton. Eefbery Kelcey, and Effe Shannon. They will be assisted by Arthur Lawrence Cecil Owns and Edith Blair.