Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
Belasco.

Madame X" will be offered next week
at the Belasco Theater by the original New
York company with all the scenery and
effects used during the long run at the
New Amsterdam and Lyric theaters.
Henry w. Savage has assembled a strong
cast for the presentation.
The story Of the play is simple. Floriot.
deputy attorney of Paris, is unhappy
because his wife, the mother of his boy,
Raymond, four years OF age. has DESERT
ed him. fleeing from her home with her
lover. The boy falls i'll, and when at
deaths door the mother comes back to
her old home, and, because of her love
for her child, pleads for forgiveness. At
first F1oriot is inclined to forgive and re-
store her to her child, but when he learns
from her lips that her, lover. with whom
she fed, is dead. he believes that Is the
reason she has returned to him. and he
drives her in fury from his house. Later
he repents and tries to find her. but with
out success. Twenty years pass by and
during all that time Jacqueline, the wife.
has not been heard from, and Floriot be-
lieves her dead. Raymond, the son, grown
to manhood, is also lawyer and Is ready
to try his first case.
There arrives at Bordeaux from South
America a strange pair, who take lodgings
In a cheap hotel 1t Is JacQueline, fallen
low, a victim Of drink, dissipation and
drugs, and Laroque. an oft-convicted jail
bird and felon. who has just been released
from prison. Jacqueline is q mere shad-
ow of her former self. Her beauty is
gone, she is in poverty and her only re-
lief is found in drinking ether, which
makes her forget the past. Jacqueline
has never forgiven Floriot, but she loves
Raymond. and when she overhears the
plan of Laroque and two wiley knaves to
bring dishonor upon the name OF Florio
she demands of Laroque that he abandon
it. This he refuses to do, but instead bull
lies her and goads her on until, in des-
peration she. shoots him through the
heart. The servants rush in, but she
makes no attempt to escape, merely ad-
hitting that she killed Laroque. She abb
solutely refuses to speak a word either In
explanation or for the information of the
police. AS she will not tell her name IL is
entered upon the police blotter as Mad
anne k When the day of her trial
comes the court appoints a young lawyer
to defend her. This choice fails upon
Raymond. For nearly an hour the au-
son, who does not know that his client is
his mother, is pleading for her life and
the, evidence is being presented To the
judge and jury. The cast includes Doro-
williams, Robert Patton Gibbs. w: III.
Denny, Harry c. Bradley and Cecil Kern.
The Academy.
Preston Gibson's romantic play, The
Turning Point with scenes laid in Al
exandria, Va, and New York. comes to
the Academy for the week beginning to-
morrow night. II was originally pro-
duced last spring at the Hackett Theater
i'm New York The author is a Washing
ton writer, whose old home is in the
section of Virginia which he has selected
for the opening scenes.
The members of the cast are Harold
Vosburgh, Jack Drummer, George Sinclair,
Daniel Lawlor, Miss Lora Rogers. Miss
Mary f. Cunard, MISS Blanche sweet ana
acts and the incidents are represented as
taking place in the years 1910 and 1g14.
Brent Breckenridge, the young hero,
through reverses. was obliged to sell the
home of his ancestors to New York
capitalist Coal In abundance has been
found on the property, unknown to Breck
enridge. and Ferguson, the capitalist,
forms a company to mine it, The stock
has been placed on the market, and glow
ing tales are told of the prospects OF
profits. Among those who invest I'm the
stock are Mrs. Anderson and her daugh-
ter Aline. A part of the plan is to induce
Breckenridge to dispose OF an additional
strip of land at a sacrifice to allow Fer
guson's company to obtain a roadway for
conveying the coal from the mines to the
railway yards
auainted and on one occasion the young
woman's life is saved by Breckenridge.
Aline learns from Brent that Ferguson
has offered him 81 900 for his valuable
right of way. Upon her advice, he de-
cides to go to New York and form his
own company instead Of selling. An
follows because she mis-
understands his feelings toward Barbara,
a protege of Brent's.
The young Virginian attracts the at
tention of Wall street. and hts success Is
assured. Anne's fortune Is about to be
swallowed up, and to save the reputa-
ton Of her mother, who has used trust
funds, she agrees to marry Ferguson.
are made concerning his re-
Iations with the little girl Barbara.
finally compels Ferguson to
return the money he has obtained from
his victims. the little Virginia girl ap-
pears on the scene TO offer explanations.
and everything ends happily.
Chase's.
Chase's this week presents as the lead
fnE attraction of the program Alice
Lloyd, the famous English singing come
dienne. She will sing her greatest lyric
hits, Splash Me-" Mr.. Cupid" Three
Ages of Women "Lovelight." ship
Alloy" and What Are You Getting At
Eh?" The added attraction will be Clara
Belle Jerome, late OF the Frank Daniels
with William Seymour