Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16

and passports and uses the means
necessary to substitute herself for the
injured girl. Hester goes to England,
where her deception succeeds admir-
ably. She is established in her new
life and is known as Zira. She gains
the domestic affection and is loved by
the son of the house. The rightful
claimant to all this comfort and hap
piness turns up suddenly, having re-
covered from her wound. OF course
at the end of the play everything turns
out very much after the fashion that
the average theatergoer would have it,
with Zira in the arms of her lover,
while the other woman succeeds to her
lawful rights The meeting of the two
women in the third act is one of the
most powerful dramatic situations that
has ever been devised by any play
wright, and as it will be played by Miss
Gordon and Miss Harrington it is ex-
pected to prove one of the strongest
pieces of emotional acting that the
Belasco stage has ever known.
BURBANK-"TheE Eternal Three" a
new play by Frederick Eldridge and
Reed Heustis, will be the Burbank at
traction for the week beginning with
the matinee Sunday. This bears all the
marks of a dramatic event of unusual
Importance, aside from the fact that
the Burbank management is going to
extreme lengths to make 1t a splendid
production, for it promises to be some-
thing more than mere local success.
From the readings and rehearsals of
the play all who have had an oppor-
tunity to judge of It's merits declare 1t
to be as strong and vital as any
American drama of recent years.
The central character of the play is
Agnes Deplaine, a role which will be
enacted by Marjorie Rambeau. She
and her younger sister Cora (Grace
Travers) are left orphans and Agnes, in
order to send her sister through coll
lege, takes in dodgers. Four of these
Joe Brenner (Howard ScotD, Larry
Forrest David Laudau), Charlie Cot
ton David M. Hartford), and Horatio
Lark (Peter Laang)-hecome deeply de-
voted to her, but she evades all over
lures of love until the arrival of a
young man by the name of Rand Cor
nell "a. Byron Beasley). They fall in
love and all arrangements are made
for the wedding. Cora is to come home
for the event and her brilliant appear
ance dazzleS Rand, who shows his adj
miration openly. She welcomes his at
tentions and Agnes discovers them
making love. She then insists that
Cora shall take her place at the altar,
and Cora accepts the sacrifice willing
ly. Agnes still loves Rand, however,
and her one idea and hope is his hap
piness. Her friends, the dodgers, en-
deavor in many ways to show her
Rand's unworthiness, but she still
cherishes him in her mind as an ideal.
Finally the honeymooners return and
the play reaches conclusion as sur
prising as it is satisfactory to all con-
cerned. 1t is free from all the COM
monplaces of the traditional love story,
the strength of character of the elder
sister giving the theme great dignity
throughout.
EMPIRE-The second production of
the Girton stock company at the En-
pire theater will be Hal Reid's melo-
drama. "a Woman's Revenge" or la
Belle Marie" which will open for one
week with the usual matinee today.
This is one of the most successful mel
odramas ever written and while it is
Of a sensational nature, the thrills are
furnished by spectacular scenice eftects
and big situations rather than by gun
play and bullets
The scenes of the play are laid in a
small New England town and in New