The Cairo bulletin., 1911-01-03
THE STORY Of MADAM X
Noted Drama by Henry w Savags
Which viii be Given at Opera
House Tuesday Night.

The story Of Madame X' t1el
great drama OF motneriove by Alex
ander Bison, which Henry w Say
age will offer at Cairo opera house
Tuesday with splendid company q
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
cnormity of her act, and in true con-
triton, begs forgiveness, But her
husband misunderstanding her mo-.
tiyes, drives her from the door. A
little afterward he ia made to nndef-
stand that he was in the first m
stance greatly at fault, and he de-
termines 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 drifte'
through the very cutters of the world.
Her husband has never succeeded In
finding her and she of course, knows
nothing of his change of heart toward
her In the endeayor 20 Forget her
distress and disgrace, she has taken
to not merely drink, but TO ether
taking as we'll Her vices have
wrecked her body almost TO the lase
extremity, while they have also be-
numbed her moral sense. There e.
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 tas.
sine becomes known returns 20
france. She hopes that she may get
ere glimpse Of the son before death
comes that she knows is so near. But
three gascals with whom she comes in
contact discover something of her his
tory and seek to make Matchmaking
capital out of it, When she finds this
out she is horrorstFicken at theI
thought that her boys happiness may
Do killed forever by Il knowledge Of
the infamy to which his mother has
come. She cannot prevent the be
trayal of the truth 10 her son in any
ether way SO she Kills the man
nbiaav ,ravnoneibIe
She is arrested and brought 10
trial In order to make sure that her
boy shall never know of her evil end
she maintains a most rigid silence
she will not tell her name, nor any-
thing about herself; she will no
make the slightest effort to defend
herself from the dread penalty Of her
act
Meanwhile, as the spectator is
shown, the son, Raymond, has grown
to mans estate and is about to begtuI
his career as an attorney at the bar
HIS father, now gray with years and
sorrow, is man of consequence, aud
secures for Raymond as the boys
fGst case--the assignment as counsel
for the defense in a murder trial that
is about to be held The accuses
person is unable 10 care for herself
and, in accordance with ;egal custom,
IS provided by the court with an at
torhey.
Then comes the great climax Of the
drama the trial AS may be guess
cd the SON has, all unwlttingly been
appointed to defend his own mothe
Madame X does not recognize the
boy, nor has he the least suspicion al
to her identity He has always sup
posed that his mother is dead Blu
the boy feels a strange, inexplicabe |
for the poor pathetic crea
ture in the prisoners dock, and he
makes mastery appeal for her. SIP
does he picture the de-
spair and distress OF his client; so
skillfully does he draw from little in |
cidents that have been brought out, !
the real reason why the killing was
done that the sympathetic jury ac
quits. tn the meantime the mother
has learned BY merest accident VINO
If " that stands there 50 paliantyt
hghting wash all the ardor Of Ills
Young heart her battle. One long
terrible cry of anguish escapes her
as she learns the truth-then she r.
lapse3 into the deathly lethargy tnat
has all along marked her course. She
knows that she Is fastapproaching the
great gulr and her one hope is that
she may reach it before her son dis
covers the truth
In the last few moments of the
play there comes the discovery by
Raymond OF all that has happened
his brief reunion with his mothers
in which at sorrows of
twenty years roll away from the poor
creature and then the finale. This
s the most pathetic scene OF all--ani
yet enc Of the most beautiful the !
tage has ever known