The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-09-30
sroRY OF MADAME X
Henry w. savage's Drama at Opera
House October 3.

House October 3.
The story Of Madame X" the
great drama Of mother-love by Alex
andre Bisson, which Henry W. Saw
age will offer at Bennington Opera
House. Monday, October 3. with a
sp endid company of sixty persons, is
exceedingly simple.
A young woman of weak, rather
than evil character, is led from her
husband by an INSCRIPTIONS man.
She deserts her boy of two years
also Later she awakens to the enor-
nifty of her act, and in true contrit-
ion, begs forgiveness. But her hus-
band misunderstanding her motives, |
drives her from the door. A little |
afterward he is made to understand |
/ that he was in the first instance |
greatly at fault and he determines to
pardon his wife and bring her back.
This is shown in the prologue, and
then the action shifts to the drama
proper,-twenty years later. The
woman, in blank despair has drifted
through the very cutters ofthe world.
Her husband has never succeeded ia
/
nothing of his change of heart tow
ard her. I'm the endeavOr to forget
her distress and disgrace, she has Ia
ken to not merely drink, but to ether
taking as well. Her vices have
wrecked her body almost to the last
extremity, while they have also be-
numbed her moral sense. There re-
mains only the one redeeming ele-
ment in her soul,-her love for the
boy whom she has not seen for a
score Of years,
In this condition Madame X Gas
she becomes known returns to
France. She homes that she may get
one glimpse of the son before tho
death comes that she knows is SO
near But three rascals with whom
she comes in contact discover some
thing Of her history and seek to
make blackmailing capital out of it..
When she finds this out she Is hor-
$ rorstricken at the thought that her
7 boys happiness may be killed for
$ ever by a knowledge of the infamy
; to which his mother has come. She
s cannot prevent the betrayal of the
y truth to her son in any other way, so
J. she kills the man chiefly responsible.
i She is arrested and brought to tri-
al In order 10 make sure that her
n boy shall never know of her evil end
d she maintains a most rigid silence
q She vii not tell her name, nor any.
\ thing about herself, she will not
v make the slightest effort to defend
a. herself from the dread penalty OF
e her act
t. Meanwhile, as the spectator Is
81 shown, the son. Raymond has grown
IF TO mans estate and Is about to be
x gin his career as an attorney at the
r bar. His father, now gray with years
n and sorrow, is a man of consequence
s. and secures for Raymond-as th'
d. boys first case-the assignment al
counsel for the defense in a murde
trial that is about to be held, Tn,
accused person is unable to care 70
"a herself and in accordance with lega
~ custom. is provided by the court witt
~ an attorney
y. Then comes the great climax of tn
III dramatic trial. AS may be guess
C. ed. the son has. all unwlttingly, bee
III appointed to defend his own mother
or Madame X does not recognize tn
eu boy. nor has he the least suspicio
or as to her identity. He has Away
10 supposed that his mother Is deat
' nr' 70 bog foe . strange, ileLpli'
ne able sympathy for the poor. patheti
creature IN the prisoners dock, an
he makes a mastery appeal for he
So powerfully does he picture tn
despair and distress OF his client; s
skillfully does he draw from little Il
cdents that have been brought GU
The real reason why the killing va
p" done that the sympathetic jury a
ne quite. In the meantime the moth,
so has learned by merest accident wi
CT n is that stands there so valiant
ey fighting with all the ardor OF h
eu young heart her battle One lon
. terrible cry OF anguish escapes HI
~ as she learns the truth-then she r
ns lapses into the deathly lethargy TIL
W has. all along marked her course. 81
-, knows that she Is fast approachir
,~ the great gulf and her one hope
that she may reach Il before her SC
.do discovers who she Is.
e. In the last few moments Of the pli
ar. there comes the discovery by Ra
an. mond Of all that has happened. h
,er brief reunion with his mother
ac. moment IN which all the sorrows
nm. twenty years roll away from the POI
or. creature-and then the finale. TIL
be Is the most pathetic scene of all.
and yet one OF the most beautiful Il
stage has ever known.