The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-11-16


Scotch settler, mistreated his wife
who left him and afterwald kille'
herself, leaving with him al beautiful
girl child. The daughter has COLDER
hair like her mothers, and for this
her father hates her, believing thai
her mother was faithless am 2 wan
ton. He takes her to the CanAaaan
woods, where he thinks there wiai De
no possibility of her seeing men and
going wrong, as he believes she would
if opportunity presented itself. Wm.
Mcdonald, an American engineer, who
is surveying in the Canadian forests,
sees the girl and desires her ruin for
the qualification of his passion. Jules
Beaurin. a straightforward young
French Canadian, who meets and
loves the girl, but with a higher, purer
love than that Of the American. The
latter induces her father to permit his
daughter, Hilda, to 90 with him to
America, to be placed under the care
OF his mother. The agreement is
overheard by Jules, who has discov-
cred that Mcdonald is the man who
wronged and deserted his sister. Jules
and Hilda run away to the hills and
are pursued by Mcdonald, who in the
end is killed in a hand-to-hand duel
with the French Canadian. This duel
is the final climax and Is one of the
most impressive eve seen on a local
stage. 1t is fought in the dark and
the audience is left in Ignorance Of
the outcome until the victor strikes
a match to gaze upon the face Of the
dead man as the final curtain falls.
An unusual feature of last nights
performance was the fact that the
curtain was forced up at least half a
dozen times before the audience
would leave the theater and even then
it departed with evident reluctance.
Andrew Robson, in the role of Jules
Beaurin, was as natural as his splen-
did art could make him and won the
hearts of his audience easily. His
love scene in the third act with Hilda
was true poetry, and his work
throughout was well nigh flawless.
Ben Lamar as Andrew McTavish
proved of the best readers Nash
vile has heard in some time. His
voice is deep and true and his concep-
ton of the part was portrayed almost
ideally. When he gave voice to his
lOngings to return to Scotland, his
own country, the audience paid him
the tribute of b~reathless attention,
followed by an outburst Of unrestrain-
enthusiasm-and it was well de-
served
Alfred Swenson's portrayal Of the
part of Mcdonald was all that could
have been desired. He was the cool
and calculating scoundrel, unaccus-
toned to being thwarted, and possess
ing the redeeming trait Of undoubted
courage. He was far from the con-
v~entional villain; he was Mcdonald. a
real character and true to that char.
acter in his every word, act and ges-
ture.
Lorle Palmer took the role of Uilda
ia an entirely satisfactory manner,
though after all 1t is unasse"tive and
little more than a ~"feeler" for the
rest. She is attractive and altogether
clever.
Louis Haines. as Geo. Huntley,
McDonald's assistant, was the light
touch needed, and he took advantage
Of the many excellent opportunities
the "fat' little part offered, mak.rs
his every entrance a most welcome
event. Conrad Cantzen. as B'Atiste
lie Grand, a Hudson Bay trader and
friend of Beaurin, was impressive,
the Canadian patois would
have been almost as easy to under.
stand as was his broken English.
THE Wolf is the best and most artis-
tic Offering that has been seen in
Nashville during the present season.
There will be two more performances
afternoon and tonight.