Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1915-04-28
May, :,
SENIOR CLASS PLAY NEXT FRI
DAY EVENING. --'

The senior class of the Manches
ter high school will give their class
play on Friday evening Of this week
The play, is entitled, "The Lady OF
Lyons" and the following Is short
synopsis of the play: ,A&s E,ttE
; In the year 1895 there resided in
Lyons family by the name OF
Deschappelles. Monsieur Deschappel
les had become recently wealthy
through a silk trade and his success
had put into the heart of his wife
aristocratic and ambitious notions
They had but one child, Pauline, a
young lady of surprising charm and
loveliness, and their greatest ambi-
tion is that she should marry a
prince or at least, a person who had
some claim to title. Among the
lmany suitors who had been rejected
lis one wealthy Monsieur Beauseant
who. If his deceased father had not
been deprived of his title during the
IRevolution would have been
Marquis. - -#
Enraged with his indignity Mon
sieur Beauseant seeks method of
humbling the proud beauty OF Ly-
ons, Pauline" On journey to his
home in the country, he with one OF
his friends, a Monsieur CLAWS, hears
Of young countryman, Claude Mel
,notte, who worships Pauline Deschap-
|pelles at a distance. They then plot
to disguise this young man as a
prince and pursuade him to 60 to
her home and WOO her under the IT,
tie OF the Prince of Como. Melnotte
is successful in his suit, but because
of his extravagance Beauseant and
CLAWS insist that the marriage take
place at once, that the prince may
be dethroned and that Pauline may
be humbled. :#&.7 q ~. y
Melnotte marries Pauline and takes
her to the home OF his mother where
the artifice is revealed. Beauseant
takes occasion to call upon Pauline
here in this humble place and gloats
over the misery, he has caused, and
in the excitement of his triumph in
suits her from which the strong arm
Of her husband saves her. Melnotte
then tells Pauline that she sail that
night be under his mothers care.
sleep in peace and safety and in the
morning will restore her to her ia
ther, pure and unsullied as he had
received her. He writes to the
mother and father and in the morn
ing awaits their arrival After plac-
ing in their hands a full confession
of the fraud, he rids them Of his
presence forever by departing to en-
ter the army. & Ss!
i, Two years and q half elapse be
fore the. next scene. During this
time M. sDeschappelles loses all his !.
money and Claude Melnotte-i Is raised !
to the position OF Colonel the
French army. Beauseant has, negoti-
ated with M. Deschappelles for the
hand of Pauline in payment for the
large sum of money which was nee
essary to prevent the bankruptcy of
the latter Colonel Damas, Madame
Deschappelles cousin, learns of this.
intended marriage and brings Claude,
disguised with military clothes, mus
tache, and sunburn to the Deschap-
pelles and introduces him to Pauline.
as Colonel Morier, friend OF Mel
notte. Pauline eagerly appeals to
him to bear to Claude her undying
love and to tell the reason she Is
making the sacrifice of all earthly
Just as the contract Is:
to be signed Melnotte tears it to
pieces and offers twice the sum Of
and in that act discloses his
Beauseant retires, defeated
and enraged; Pauline regains her
husband, the merchant is restored
to his position and Madame Deschap-
pelles admits, "A Colonel and a hero,
Well, that's something" .. ..r@
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