Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02

EARV be soen no more in stock after
MI this season. because, according
to the present outlook she is
NSZZyIN to star in play called Tess
49, of the Storm Country" a
u.-,",a icing written by Rupert Hughes
from the novel of the name by Grace
Miller White.
One writes probably because theat-
rical futures are, as Miss Lang says, IA
gamble, more uncertain even than the
wheat pit and with respect to theatrical
predictions and announcements the only
certain thing is that same uncertainty
attached"
But this much is sure at all events
The novel, according to unanimous YER
dict tells story which is full of dramatic
incident and which appears to be highly
available as the bnsis of d play; MIR
Hughes is quite competent playwright;
Miss Lang has the refusal of the part
and the desire to play it, contracts have
been signed and the manuscript of the
play will be in Miss Lang's hands in two
months, from now. Then if the part turns
out as expected, and if all other contin-
gencies are similarly obviated, plans will
be matured for the production of the piece
in the fall.
1t Is an interesting girl which Miss
Lang will probably depict. Tess of the
new novel is the daughter of a fisherman
living on the shores of New York lake.
q girl who may be termed an elemental
character, but nev ertheless one of some
novel and well defined attributes
The story, BADLY told. centers round
her relations with Cornell university
student and her struggles in behalf of her
father, who is uspected-unjustly, of
course-of murder, This theme is not
in essence altogether new-substitute Yale
for Cornell and read husband instead of
father and one has Mr.. Kleln's Third
Degree" But except for this bare frame
work all is different. New wine-to
change the metaphor abruptly--is poured
into the old bottle and Tess in no wise
resembles Annie Jeffres any more than
she does that other Tess of Yorkshire
habitat, of whose grief-racked road
Thomas Hardy told.
Just what and how many parts of the
novel Mr. Hughes will incorporate In
his dramatic version is not safely to be
predicted, but it Ices seem likely thai
he will use the incident of the baby's
adoption, Tess's Cornell lover has a sis
ter involved with another student who
perishes in fraternity house fire, al
incident which the novel writes took froM
the destruction of the Chi Psi house a
Ithaca in the fan of 1906. This bring;
her baby into the world fatherless anC
with the mother shamed, If the fact o.
birth be learned, The child is taken b!
Tess to the lakeside shack, where sh'
has her lonely home Her father is il
Jail awaiting trial.
Suspicion follows the appearance in he
home OF the waif But it is not for thi
that the fisher-girl utters a strange an'
awesome prayer for the baby's death; /
is because she believes the infant woul'
be happier dead. Moreover, Tess has some
where gained the idea that fervent oft
repeated prayer will gain favorabl
answer no matter what may be wishe
and prayed for.
This adoption of the child reaps 1t
natural harvest. Her lover ignorant tina
the child is his own sisters, suspects Tess
So does the attorney, also in love with tn
girl, and about TO assume charge of he
father's apparently hopeless case. So doe
her lovers father a clergyman Of mario,
vision. This worthys interest in the girl
quickened by still another reason. The Ian
where Tess's cabin stands was squatted o
by her father and the minister's attempt