Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-11-12
"A CONVICT'S
DAUGHTER"
To Be Given a. Grand Opening OF the
Newly Equipped Stage By
Local Talent
UNDER AUSPICES OF I.O.O.F.LODCE
Miss Verna Warde Will Offer Some
thing New and Pleasing In
Specialties

The new scenery at the l.. ".
o. f. hall will soon be completed
and the house will be formally
opened next Friday evening Nov.
10, by an exceptional cast of nome
talent uudsr the direction of Mes
srs. Mcclellan and Tonkin, late of
the Ruth Craven Co. The play
has been carefully rebealsed and
performance equal to most and
superior to many professional shows
will be given. Every detail in
scene equipment will be aarrled
out and the scenery is all new and
with the exception of one set fur
nished the Loyal Friend last night,
this will be the first chance to see
il. This play is given Ms a benefit
to help the lodge TO pay for the
new improvements which will
make this the best equipped stage
between Devils Lake, N. D. and
Spokane, Kalispell and Standpoint
not excepted. Mr.. Mcclellan, who
has done the work certainly has pro-
ven himself an artist, and the lodge
and pnplic undoubtedly feel CRATE
full for the satisfaction of long
needed improvement.
"A Coavicts Daughter" is one of
the old standard plays adopted in
1888 by John Arthur Frazer from
the old play of Jarcruse, the Jugg-
Ter, but very much modernizes and
improved upon. 1t tells the story
OF man sent to prison for bis
brothers crime, of his escape and
in order to hide his identity he be-
comes a common tramp, He has
a daughter born to him shortly
after his conviction, who he has
never seen and whom has been
adopted by wealthy southern
banker and wife. At the time OF
the opening of the play she is Is
years old and her father arrives al
their home as beggar after
fourteen years of penal servitude
and four years of wandering. The
bankers manager recognizes him
as an escaped convict and in order
to humble the pride of the daughter
forces him to claim her or return
to solitary confinement which the
outcast does, rot knowing it is his
own daughter, but ever with the
hope of yet outwiting his persecu'
tor. The convict later discovers
her to be his own daughter ano
disowns her before witnesses in
order to protect her name and is
taken back to prison, where ht
sgain escapes, after which his bro
Their confesses the crime and he il
pardoned. He returns to the bank
er's home after two years and agar
thwarts the Williams plan, when hi
is again trying to force the CIR
to marry him by the threatened
disgrace of her guardian.
The play is of deep heart inter
est, but a liberal sprinkling o
comedy is furnished by the tramp
also Sadie. the lively waiting maid
The characters are we'll suited t
their respective parts and the re
hearsels have been thorough an,
4, exacting and the success of the Pc
, Torrance lie assured, Mrs. G. A
D Elliott will be seen in the It'll
!. role; Mrs. Belle Bishop as til
motherly bankers wife: Mis-
Phoebe Boileau as the waiting mai
I Rhuben Boileau as the bank
0 manager: Earl Garrett as the bar
A ker: Fred Tonkin as the youn
Q diplomat. in love with the CIR
!, Edward Mcclellan as the warde
: of the penitentary and Lee MeClr
Ian ~ the convict, This q pla