The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-29

Fate, in four acts, Kaleidoscope in
their multiplicity and variety of
scenes, is a melodrama charged with
a splendidly vital idea. The scene is
laid on the Nile and in the Soudan.
Over hundred players have been
gathered together for the acting Of
THE Fires of Fate" The cast in
cludes Hamilton Ravelle in the role
of Col. Cyril Egerton, Percy Waram
William Hawtrey, Hale Norcross. Ed
win Brandt, Helen Freeman, Ina Ham
mer and Grace Carlyle. The play
opens its story in the consulting room
of a London physician, DR.. James
Roden, who is about to avail himself
of long denied vacation in company
with his brother, the Rev Samuel
Roden. They intend to spend their
holidays in Egypt in a trip up the Nile.
DR.. Roden is as avowedly a material
list as his brother is spiritual in his
beliefs, and while discussing serious
questions they are interrupted by the
arrival of a patient, Colonel Egerton,
returned from service in the East with
the Bengal Lancers. In apparently
vigorous health, the Colonel, vaguely
bothered by a nervous disorder attri-
buted by him to a sabre stroke, sub
jects himself to a physical examina-
ton. At it's close EgertOn is bluntly
told by the doctor that at most he has
year to live, and between now and
then his disorder will take on the
course of a general physical decay
The man is bravery itself in the face
of the startling diagnosis, and calmly
chooses suicide instead of such an end
ing. Although the doctor is hardened
by years of similar scenes, he shrinks
at being a party to such grim
course. He holds out the bare hope
that there is one known instance Of
that precise nervous disorder having
been cured by a sudden shock and
further persuades the military man to
talk with his brother, the minister, be-
fore inevitably choosing death. This
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+ the spii.:c i wisdom Of one broth
e. as to TIE s.ial.tie, wisdom of ih,.
otter and 80 -: IS both that fr WI
live to face ti:n en-. I'ut'he.c ha ais
Ii Cmises to share w: tho T. their :. !
i6ay in the Ets. one passens:.'s
on board the Nile s7cas'er Turn out tn
be Miss Sa lie 4tG'.":s AL h"r aunt,
/, ON Boston. RI =" i;iN' bel. warped
that the Der.-,s g are making gu.,I Ia
excursions, d II they nevc:tils .e:s ,lsk
q picnic to III a" usi- T',k. by ;his
stage of the Nile rip Egerton has
admitted to himself his love for Sadie
Adams. She has become Interested in
him, but knows nothing of his fatal
malady, and he, with the thought Of
it constantly in his mind, is torn by
the agony of forbidding her and him
self a natural expression of their mu-
tual affection. Then suddenly the
party is surrounded by band of Der.
wishes, several members of the party
erton is struck down and left for dead,
but after his companions are carried
off he revives and is able to signal for
help The fragment of his. party, in
Gliding the woman he loves, is event
shock of the blow which cut him
down has affected the rare and not to
Fate will be given its first New York
production at the Liberty theater
Tuesday evening and there will be
matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
Following is the complete cast of
THE Fires of Fate"
Col. Cyril Egerton, D. S. .. (53rd
Bengal Lancers) Hamilton Ravelle
The Rev. Samuel Roden (Minister
of Clayview Congregational Church
Hackney VIM. Hawtrey
James Roden NJ D., F. r. c. S..
Edwin Brandt
MIR. Thomas Belmont (Of Dublin. :.
Percy c.. Waram
Mr. Cecil Brown (of London) $500.
Thomas Mills
Mr. Headingly Can American stu
dent .Ha Hale Norcross
Mons. Octave Fardet tof Paris -.
Ernest Perrin
Rudkin CDR Roden's butler) ......
Robert Reese
Abdulla Ca Dragoman) George Trader
Captain Jack Archer (Binbashi,
Egyptian Camel Corps) 1900.