The Frances Boss Dramatic Company.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 60, 7 September 1895, Page 2

The Frances Boss Dramatic Company.

On Monday next, the 9tb, the above company will appoar, in the Assembly Rooms, in Petit's sensational drama, " Queen's Evidence." The first act opens with Medland's cottage, a happy home, and a loving wife and mother. Medland is a railway booking clerk, and unfortunately has mixed himself up with two unscrupulous villians, " Isaacs " (the Jew) and Matthew Thornton, an old lover of Mrs Medland. These two worthies are connected with a gang of coin* ers, and during Medland's absence they, with a duplicate key, manage to secrete a quantity of bad money in his desk. Thornton then makes his last appeal to Mrs Medland to fly with him, and he will save her husband from ruin. She pretends to yield, in order to keep Thornton engaged till tho return of her husband, who has gone shooting. Medland at this juncture appears ou the scene and tires on Thornton, but the'vrife has jumped between them and receives the discharge in her oyes. The second act introduces the Old Lock, a very pretty mechanical scene, into which lock Thornton vainly ondeavours to draw Mrs Medlaud by leaving the gates open, through overhearing a conversation between the boy (now Arthur Sydney) and his mother. The boy finds a most incriminating letter from Thornton to the Jew (which Isaacs has lost), proving Mcd« land's innocence and their guilt. The mother manages to secret this letter, and on her return across the lock falls in. Medland, who has returned to the neighborhood, under the alias of Stanfield, plunges in and rescues her. Medland reveals his identtiy to her, but dare not openly acknowledge his name. The last act sees Mrs Medland's eyesight restored and a happy reunion between husband and wife. The J,ew tu,rns "Queen's evidence,' ! and Thornton, n.ow completely at bay, makes a wild rush from the house, but is shot in mistake by a laborer whom lie has hired to shoot the Jew.