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Show Hooley's "Love and Law." The legend, '-The villain still pursues her," belongs to Mr.. Nobles it is a part of hij belongings. "The villain still pursues pur-sues her" means, or did until recently mean, that the villain of exaggerated romance was still, in the person of Mr. Nobles, in furious pursuit of th human j race, liierelore, when Mr. Nobles announced an-nounced a new play the public regarded it as only a new manifestation of the villain, and his changes of text a mere Miltonian vagary in the line of pursuit. "Love and Law" is a long step forward in the field of melodrama. Mr. Nobles has in its preparation left behind his own identity. lie has, indeed, invested his work with more or real dramatic incident and power than we have observed in anything any-thing appealing to favor this season. "Love and Law," .is an' ingenious ingeni-ous work. Its plot is well conceived, intricate, but yet worked out with great skill. There are many excellent characters, and all are deftly wrought. A lost estate, the rightful heir'of which is a blackguard ; a grandchild, stolen by Italian Ital-ian street singers, who, succeed to the estate ; a wealthy lady, who, having married the villain, "is under a cloud, but yet anxious to do right ; a wittv Irish lawyer, law-yer, who, in the person of Mr. Nobles, brings all this out of the darkness of crime into the light of truth, furnish the materials mater-ials of the play. To Mr. Nobles and his excellent company is intrusted the work of revealing the spirit and truth of the conception. The house was crowded, and no new production was ever better received. The leading people, were recalled re-called again and again. Mr. Nobles and Miss Dollie Nobles were recalled half a dozen times. The second act was especially especi-ally strong, and at the close of that, which portrayed the scene in the Italian par-done's par-done's den, and the rescue of Ritta, of course, by Mr. Nobles, the applause was terrific. |