THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3404, 8 January 1890, Page 2

THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.

;; Tho following is tho plot of the iiolioraian Girl which is to bo produced at the Theatre Royal to-night

by the Seymour-WalshelCompaiiy ;- Count Arnheih, floyal to the Austrian Empire,, entertains certain guests at his castle, where they raise ; tho 'National Standard- above 'the'": Emperor's statute, the Count mean-, while extolling a Boldior's Jifo,_ : . The guests depart for the .chase,.without,..„ him, his daughter, Arline, a child six years old, : with her; riuree./ji TiiAbpajsj-au \ exiled Polish rebel, enters seeking' refuge, which he finds in the com l \ pany of a tribe of passing gipsies, who disguise him. by order of their () leader : Devilshoof,' just in time'to.' escape his pursuers. The huntsmen, with Flouestbih, a foolish nephew of Count Arnheim, return in termor with thej .'tidings ', that , Arline liij attacked by a stag ;fl'haddeuß rushes V, to her assistance, andrestoros her unhurt to the Count, whose gratitude, induces him to invite the apparent gipsy to join the feast ;of rejoicing.' • At this feast Araheim proposes the Emperor's health, which is .declined ,' boldly by Thaddeus, whose life is in danger for this, aot,: but he is pro-, i protected by the Count; Devilshoof, however, who has shared -the republican onthusiasm of Tluddeus, is arrested and confined in the castle. Ho escapes, and is seen by!the ( distracted company bearing awayin' his", arms. Arline, whoßO abduction i suggests his revenge, In Aot 2, twelve years havo been passed in ■; sorrow'by the Count, the gipsies' are stationed at Presburg ready, for a fair, led still by Devilshoof, who catches and: robs, trlorestein, ,an incautious intruder; the Gipsy Qoeeh ; howevel',. commands the,restoration of his property; i)ovil6hoof obeys, but reserves a'diamond.medallion for, ' himself, Arlino, 'reared'among the gipsies, and tended gently byj'fhaddtus, wakes from a sleep, and relates a strango dream, which. Thaddeua knows is retrospective, She asks tlio : history of her birth, which, he hesitates to relate fearing lest her love

should leave bim.. The Gipsy Queen, who also loves Thaddous now irritates Arline into jealousy, whereupon Tlmddeua implores her to marry him. Their betrothal is witnessed by the <|L tribe, whouowset out"for the fair, i ';,' Here Arlino attracts hosts of admirers, amongst them Florestain, who suddenly recognises his medallion on . Arlino's neck, where it Lias been I A cunningly placed by the Gipsy Queen. *|\ In spite of Thaddeus and the tribe, she is seized and conveyed to the Count's castle. Here an accident' reveals to (be father that the prisoner is 'his eliild. Thaddeus implores Arline (Act 8), in a secret interview hub. ts desert him, but tho Count " : ' spurns the supposed vagabond; when, Thaddeus declares himself and Amheim is induced to give his daughter to the noblo exile. At the feast in their honour, the Gipßy Queen with Devilsboof attempts Arlino's life, but tho gipsy divertß the shot which strikes her who aimed it. The festival-'' ■ ') proceeds to.oommomorate the happy fortunes of the Biheraion Girl. The ' ! scene is laid in Presburg and' its : neighborhood, ShockiDgStoryofthe Sea. The horrible suspicions which have been entertained for Bomo time about the wreck ,of tho/British steamer : ;, J Earnmoor, have been confirmed by 'rfjk (he statements of oneof (ho sui'viyors. Loder says:—"The only food we had . for the first fourteen days we wero in the boat was flying fish and a few raw small seabirds,. which were divided! among eleven ra'en( J On'thesixteen'th" : '■ day Davis caught me by tho throat, : and made a : dash at my head i with : ; a: ■,; ■;;. •..', knife. When Daviß began to cut mo some one caiight hold of him : others ~;;';{ , shoutod,'Kill him, we want some- , ; thing to eat. 1 It seems that Plagge, ,'i , : Davis, and others had decided that I ~, ,; should die-1 snrpose, being pretty .;:..■; , fat, I looked inviting.'!Phgge';.was ; i,'i, ' placed on tho watoh that bight; he waß/.. misaing next morning. No one saw him go overboard. On.tho seventeenth day Robinson la; down to sleep; when , they tried to call him they found him J dead." 1 Tho narrative admits that the ■ , men ate portions of this body, and ' : threw tho rest into the sea. The story . continues:—"Two days after Robin- —i' • f son's death Engineer Hunt died; bis { body was also cut up, ( In about threo j Jnvs tho limba and feet of all began to' \j. j Bwoll'j'several havo Bitice brokon w,, out in 'u«iy'' ; BoreV,!f we, think 'V . as a consequence of our unnatural food. The Jiarnuioor: foundered in a- ~ cyclone on September sth off Turks ■ t Island, Eleven vessels passed the .; lifeboat, which drifted helplessly until: ft ' it was pioked up oQ'Chiib Hatteras,'.' # I Witb regard to Engineer Hunt, of steamship Earnmoor, whose body was j cut up and eaten by his comrades, a , correspondent writes that his name Was Thomas Hunt, aged 22, fourth son of Mr Edward Hunt, engi- , ueer, 84, Forns'Street, Puvoiisi Road,; '' '.' ' B, The three sons, Georgo, Edward, 3 and Thomas, have beeu brought up , to engineering by their father, and , have all been shipwrecked within ' \ three years, George went down in the steamship Alice, bound from Riga ; . in 1887. Edward nearly lost his life. . in a gilo beforo Alexandria, when ' half the cargo of timber was burnt to koep flio engines going, Thomas . Hunt went with his brother Edward ■'■ •' ' I for his first voyage in tbo steamship * f Minnesota to America, and after j joined as third engineer tho ship Earnmoor, r ' :—: '. ■. \