The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1916-01-22
WONDERFUL STORY OF
1.-THE GALLEY SLAVE"


celebrated author Of the latest
William Fox success. The Galley
Slave, in which the seductive
Theba Bara is starred, never
wrote more successful or power
full drama than this. The follow
ing outline does not begin to do
Justice to this wonderful photo
drama
A party of Americans are "do
ing" the continent. At Venice
Sydney Norcott, an English ar.
tist. has a studio and he meets
and loves Cicely Blaine, the
American heiress. She loves him
and the two plight their troth.
The heiress IS lnsanely jealous of
her lover and Is shocked because
he has beautiful model, Fran
cesca, who has little ch,ld and
who has been cruelty deserted by
her husband, Antoine Brabaut.
The Baron de Bois also loves the
helress, proposes for her hand,
and is rejected. He retires from
the field to watch his opportu
nifty.
The second act opens IN a
scene in a hotel in Rome. The
American party is there. The
heiress has interview with Nor.
colt the day before they are to
get married and he tells her he
must make call across the
marsh. Scarcely has he gone
when the Baron appears, again
presses his love and is rejected.
As he leaves, Francesca, the
model and her child enter. At
sight OF the Baron. she clings to
him calling him her "husband," /"
"the father of her child" ,"etc. 1t
is true-he is Antoine, the poor
painter who had married her but
when he fell heir to title he de
serted her. On Francesca's
threatening to EXPOSE him, he
temporizes wit b her and agrees
to meet her "across the marsh"
the next day.
He leaves. Cicely enters and
recognizes the model and her
child and demands the reason
for her presence. Upon pledge
of secrecy francesca pouIs out
the tale Of her early love and
marriage and deaertion and begs
Clcely to help her by not receiv-
ing chin" The heiress, horror
stricken demands who "he'' Is
and is told ssyonr lover.' No
names are mentioned and poor
Francesca unaware of Norcott's
relations to Cicely imagines the
Baron is the accepted suitor.
Cicely of course thinks Norcott Ia
meant and she goes away at once
without any explanation.
She revenges herself by marry.
ing the Baron. After the mar.
risge Norcott enters her room by
a window and upbraids her for
her perfidy. Still at cross 'pur.
poses they give each other back
the portrait they had exchanged.
By accident, the facts come out.
Clcely learns that she has made a
dreadful mist axe and she swoons.
The wedding guests rush in and
find the bride in a private room
with a strange man who has her
portrait in jewelled frame in his
hand. The Baron orders his ar.
rest as q common thief. To save
the honor of the woman he loves
Norcott yields to the terrible stu
alton, is arrested, convicted and
to seven years's pen.
ance at the galleys.
He is on the eve of being sent
to Toulon. francesca who has
been so poor that she was forced
to steal food for her child is also
to be sent to the galleys. Cicely
tries to rescue Norcott against
his will by confessing him to be
her lover but he has to 60 any
way. The Baron who appears to
claim his wife, is confronted BY
who denounces him
and tells the whole story of their
early marriage.
The Baron says 1t IS all lie
and seems, as the husband of
Cicely, to have the right to claim
not only her fortune but her per-
son. Through the ingenuity OF
he American friends, the earlier
between the Baron and
France sea is definitely estab-
ished. Brabaut is forced to rec
,gnize and support Fran cesca as
his wife. Norcott is released
from his dreadful seIvitude and
ts tree to marry the girl he loves.
ELKS THEATRE, Tuesday,
Jan. 25th.