Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-28

EXkkScXH All htiAtt uags
day. May 2, will be interested
IN a snort resume of the play.
The American consul at Dreiberr
capital 41hrenstein. is Arthur Car.
michael he IS hopelessly IN love viii
Princess Hildegarde. daughter OF The
grand duke. The princess has only re.
Gently been returned by gypsies who had
Kept her in bondage for a number OF
years. The regent OF Jugendheit hoping
10 end feud between the two countries
proposes marriage between young KinE
Frederick and the Princess Hildegarie
The grand duke objects to the ALLIANCES
as he has always suspected Il was the
ruler OF JugendheIt who was instru.
mental In stealing the princess. In the
meantime King Frederick Is masquer-
aiding In Ehrenstein as a young vintner
and has fallen In love with Gretchen. the
goose girl. and after many trials, wherein
the princess befriends Gretchen, 1t turns
out that man named Griimbach, who
has returned from America recognizes
by the aid OF a locket aHdS chain that
Gretchen is really the real princess. as
he was in the plot with. the gypsles and
Count Horbeck. who is the real father
Of Princess Hildegarde. to substitute one
for the other. The young king marr.es
Gretchen and she is proclaimed the prin-
cess and Hildegarde goes TO America
with Carmichael and her banished
father. O.. o.
There Is a, great deal Of good comedy
in the play which occurs around the
character Of Frau Bauer, the proprietress
Of the tavern known. as the Black
Eagle" situated in tho Krumerweg or
Crooked Way in Dreiberg As she is SUP
posed to be well-to-do she Is much sought
after. hence some good comedy situations
have BEEN introduced by the -dramatist.
.
Margaret Illington comes to the Bsyd
theater on May g.. 10 and II ingher most
successful play, "Rindling," by Charles
Kenyon, under the management OF Ed
ward J. Bowes.
The story Of the play has TO do with
Maggie Schultz, an inmate OF a tenement
in the lower East Side. New York She
is an Intelligent though uneducated
young woman. the wife Of a stevedore.
In her burns that greatest of all human
instincts, the desire for motherhood. Her
husband, Heinrich Schultz, has attended
Cooper union. with the result that he con-
cludes that children born to parents liv-
ing amid their surroundings would be
little less than criminal. He instllls this
idea into the mind Of Maggie, but the
desire for a child is strong within her.
When she discovers that she Is to be-
come a mother she fears to tell Helm
rieh,- and as their source Of revenue Is
limited. she decides to obtain money by
theft so that she and her husband may
go west and settle On the free lands OF
Wyoming. where. she has been told, chill
dren grow strong and happiness awaits
them lis
Maggie has been in the employ Of some
rich friends. and from them she steals.
First f. is only some baby ribbons and
little. things In the manner Of clothing
and trinkets, then she steals q diamond
brooch, which she pavns for. enough
money to pay. their, transportation TO the
west. She Is found out. and the scenes
which follow the disclosure afford Miss
Ellington her opportunities for the oes
work she has done In her brilliant career.
Miss Ellington viii be surrounded by
the same excellent company Of players
as during her engagement at Days the
alter, New York, and tae cort theater.
Chicago.
Robert T Haines. an actor Of national
reputation. will be the headline attraction
at the orpheum this week. He VIII have
the leading role in one act play called
The Coward which is a production Of
George Broadhurst, the well known play
wright. Mr.. Haines has had the male