Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-22
BelascO.

That there Is q difference between a
true gambler and a card sharp, that blue
blood will tell and that woman's in
stinct at times enables her to make at
first sight an infalible estimate of a
man are some of the thoughts that ap-
pear to run through Cameo Kirby a
new play by Booth Harrington aud Leon
Wilson. with Dustin Farnum in the title
role, given at the Belasco last even
ing The scene Of the play is laid in
Louisiana in 1882, first in New Orleans
and later on q plantation some miles from
the city.
In the first act the story is related of
how Col. Randall. Louisiana planter,
after selling his cotton up the river, falls
in with a card sharp, who gets him
drunk, wins al his money. the miniat nre
of his dead wife and the title to his plan
tation. The next morning when the
colonel realizes what he has done, he
takes his own life. While Col. Moreau,
the card sharp, is cheating the intoxicat-
ed planter, Cameo Kirby, who has the
professional gamblers peculiar code of
honor, enters the game and wins The
deed TO the plantation TO keep MORGAN
from getting II while the planter is IN
toxicated and thus bringing discredit on
the profession" Cameo Kirby makes
the deed over to the children of the plan
| ter. and Col Moreau. for revenge, shoots
him in the back and believes he has kill
ed him.
in New Orleans introduces himself tC
Miss Randall and her brother as the
avenger of their dead father, who is sup
posed to have been swindled by Cameo
Kirby.
The play opens as Col. Moreau is being
sllowered with gratitude by the famii y
Word is received that Cameo Kirby has
recovered and is in New Orleans. The
male members of the Randall family AMI
Col. Moreau vie with each other as to who
this point Larkin Bunce. Cameo Krby's
partner in the profession, arrives at the
house and informs Col. Moreau that
Kirby will await him in the morning in
The Oaks, a famous gambling dueling
ground. Il don't suppose / shall ever
have the pleasure OF seeing you again, SC
1 bid you goodbye says Bunce to
Moreau, being quite confident that the
colonel will never return from the encoun-
ter with Cameo Kirby.
Just before the colonel goes to the duel
ing ground Tom Randall induces him to
use his fathers pistol. the one he shot
himself with. Tom Randall follows the
colonel into the grove. When the colonel
is killed Tom Randall steals the pistol and
Cameo Kirby Is pursued by a posse for
having shot an unarmed man. In his
flight he eludes the mob by jumping
through an open window into room
where he finds '"Fhe General" the little
brother of Tom and Adele Randall. The
boy and he become friends at once. Later
Miss Adele enters the room and is imme-
diately convinced that the fugitive. is an
honorable man. She saves him from the
mob by declaring he is Col. Moreau and
| taking him In her carriage to the planta-
ton. Larktn Runce follows his partner
and tries to induce him to leave while
there is time. Kirby promises to do SO, but
cannot leave Miss Adele Randall, who
keeps asking him to stay. Neither a;
first knows the identity of the other.
Cameo Kirby is recognized by Group,
on old slave who Was once owned by
kirbys father. Louisiana gentleman
Later the others discover Kirby by the
canoes he wears. Miss Adele Randall,
in her grief and anger, refuses for a