Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1898-10-14 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.  LANCASTER.  WONDERFUL PLAICES AT THE ATH EN ..1: I: M It is a thrilling uie,odr.iiiiti which is being played at the At heincnin t his week. It is ent it!, d -Between the Lights.- and its author is Edward Lotman'. It runs on conventional lilies', ami it is highly seasoned with almost blood-curdling epitaxlea. Of course, it It. a story et wronged innocence and perjured villainy. Lastly on there so a gory murder. The real striker of the fatal blow is undetected. and 'Maple is ijirown upon • perfectly innocent man. ClrcUnl•dalives are too ninth for him, and he has to fiv. Then the vil, lain, left in the possession of the atom% hatches and matures further plots. He has an insatiable appetite for raiwality, and is seemingly never happier than when plotting. lif et-nose. there se a woman in the case—a woman who is lovely and triottul. who is betrothed to the hero and behoves in his innocence, and who to foully slid wickedly plotted against by the arch-villain of the play. Then there are the eudowary aide characters—the amusing drunkard. who falls into the clutches of the villam anti helps him in his fell designs: the gay slavey anti the honest man she loves; the Uhttplitolla police inspector, who is never at a into Mr • melt; and on on. And thus the play progretwea. Vito anti villainy stalk triumphant through the first few acts, and the waled prosper like the green tiny tree. Or.sionally. the rascal seems as though be were about to have a reverse. and a chance aromas to optm for the honest folk to COllle by their own. But it to hopeless—the villain has the upper hand. anti with remorse's.°a shift he crushes all who cross his path. In the end Nemexis overtakes him. It is midnight. The woman he has betooled baulks him. He murders her. She Calls. Ile finds blood upon his hands. The midnight chimes strike out. His solitude, his deed S Mood, his troubled conscience, overpower him. In a line frenzy he declares aloud the story of all ho villainy. Concealed in the roont are the police inspector and every member of the party. 'They overhear his mime...ion, rush out and arrest him. Then doss the curtain blithely fall Upon nee defeated, virtue t I,IIIIIOIMA , and patience and suffering rewarded. So far the story. Now for the scenic details. These are wonderful. In on' scene we have Waterloo docks by night. The dock bridge airings open and the yacht containing the hero escaping from his pursue. passee out into the blackness of the night. In another we have the interior of an ironworke—realotic beyond anything ever seen in Lancaster. A great steam hammer falls with ponderous thud upon a red hot ingot; a hurlmmtal engine works merrily away: two great furnaces open their doors and the lurid flames within light up the strange surroundings, then men pull from out of them white-hot ingots, witch are placed upon bogies and carried aeroea the stage. the metal spluttering with heat and giving off a real white vapour. Honestly, it is a wonderfully realnaie wane, and we do not vromier that Ike audience have loudly cheered it eveiv evening. It mirks the wonderful strides made in recent years in the science or art of stageoraft. Speaking generally, the play is well produced. and the various players are sufficiently well aormainted with it to know how to make it run smoothly and effectively. A