Meller Drammer

Fred Carmichael

2 m., 4 f.

Int. or drapes.

Played with the asides and intensity inherent to the genre. A riotous evening for actors and audience. There's gloom in the Follansbee mansion since Rachel's grandchild disappeared. She's inconsolable. Then Faith Hopewell staggers in-- babe in arms-- and stays on as a maid. Rachel doesn't want to see another baby-- so Faith hides the child. Jimmy, the delivery boy, falls in love with Faith and Longfellow, the villain, tries kidnapping the child. He's foiled by Faith-- Jimmy's revealed as the missing son in law-- the baby to be the family heir-- and the villain gets amnesia and is sent to the Salvation Army to do good works.

FEE: $35 per performance. Songs of the Gay Nineties and Other Old Favorites, $7.50 Four Bars of 'Agit:' Incidental Music for Victorian and Edwardian Melodrama, $12.95