The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-13
"A MESSAGE TO GARCIA" PRINCESS FEATURE TODAY
HILBERT HUBBARD'S IMMORTAL ESSAY PlCTURlzED INTO A
 WONDERFUL WAR DRAMA.
Cast of Characters.


 Dolores daughter of a Cuban family
 in sym athy with the insurgents ....
 ..-................- -..... .Mable Trunnelle Lieutenant Rowan U. $. A............
 t.-................. Robert Conness Jose. Dolores brother. Herbert Prior
 Capt Hernandez. Robert Keeerreis
 Capt. Sigsbee of the '. s. s. Maine ...-..........,.... .....-... Bradley sutton Emanuel Garcia, patriot and insureent leader ................ Charles sutton Mime. Gonzales. py................
 ...,............. Helen Strickland Capt. Gonzales ...... Biselow Coo. CT Before this countrys war with
 Spain, Cuba was bowed beneath the yoke of slavery Cuban insurgents
 under the leadership of Garcia, fought ! in vain to end the cruel oppression. | An appeal for help was made to tha United States The blowing up of the
 battleship Maine preciitated the Spanish-American War President Me 1 kinley's decision to aid Cuba was the message carried to Garcia.
 Like d bolt from the clear sky
 comes raid of Spanish soldiers on t1e little plantation ct Dolores father ! Father and b~otaer, attempting to pro feet their home. ar5 arrested and held
 for tral by cour martial Captain ! Hernandez listens to Dolores plea and smitten by her beauy promises 10 set ] them free His advances to her are interrupted by the sound of a rifle 1 rolley. Through the eu window Dolores sees her father fall before 1 firing squad She Wut hes for her ] chance. and as Hernandez draws near
 o her, lays him low with his own
 knife. Hurryine to the camp of Garcia ! In the Businesses of the Cuban noun l tains, she tells him of her act
 Political unrest finds the Maine anchored in the harbor of Havana. Jose Do,ores lritler hidine from the
 troops who have killed his father seeks revenge Prowling about. he enters q suoterranGan vaul5 where he { sees an officer exhibiting Go some vi. siJors the switches which control the mines laid in the harbor The officer and his friends depart and Jose throws i the switch which sends the Maine and 1 her sleeping crew to the bottom of l the sea.
 President Mckinley decides to aid Cuba Gatias whereabouts are un-
 known in the United States, and the pres.deu- seeks a man who can deliy-
 CT a message addressed General Gar cia, Somewhere in CGba' Of the many who are called. Lieutenant Ro- wan. alone, is chosen As soon as the message is handed him. he clicks hi- heels. sa,Jtes and if off, Don't stop him. cries the president "a man who asks no question, bU obeys orders, will deliver the messaae''
 Mme Gonzales, a spy in America. employed by the Spanish embassy is instructed to ascertain the attitude ot the United States government alter the sinking of the Maine Al the em hassy ball she discovers that Rowan ls sailing for Cuba with a message for Garcia. That message must never reach its destination" are her instruc- tions and so she follows Rowan ar ranging by wire for his arrest immedi | ately upon his arrival in Havana A soldier stopping near Dolores home drops a despatch addressed 10 1 Captain Gonzales. Nme. Gonzales husband, telling him that she has ar ranged for the Americans capture irantioally, Dolores rushes to Garcia with the news
 Rowan eludes the Spanish soldiers
 waiting to arrest him and escapes into
 the Cuban iuugles hotly pursued He 1 meets Dolores, explains his mission and is led toward Garcia under her guidance The pursuers gain upon ttgm and Dolores gives the man fina 1 instructions and sends him on alone | remaining herself to face the anish | soldiers and throw them off the trail Rowan delivers the message, bat on turning back finds the bufetriddied'
 ody of Dolores, mute testimony 5f liner great heroism
 l Back ia the barracks, and with war