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Show " 'Twixt Axe and Ckown". This is the title of the historical drama to be presented to-night. The subject is one of more than ordinary interest, resting upon that period of English history when (he two daughter's of Henry VIII Mary and Elizabeth played such an important part, not only in shaping the destinies of Britain, but of the whole world. The play shows the rivalry between ihc half sisters, Mary and Elizabeth, each in time a queen, for the affection of Edward Courtenay, EarlofDevon, the "White Hose" a nd last descendant of the royal roy-al house of York, who was confined ! from twelve to twenty-seven years of age, with his father, a prisoner in the; Tower, and released by Mary on her accession ac-cession to the throne. The common voice assigned him as a husband to tfie Lady Elizabeth ; and it was the object of the party that favored Queen Mary's marriage with Philip of Spain and his succession to the crown after hev death, headed by Renard, the Spanish envoy, as well as of the Romish Church j party, headed by Gardiner, Bishop of; Winchester, to compass the death of both Elizabeth and Courtenay. Hence the title of the play ' 'Twixt Axe and Crown. ' ' The perils in which both were thus involved, their imprisonment imprison-ment in the Tower, and Elizabeth's narrow escape from the block form the principal matter of the drama. Miss Bose Evans appears as Elizabeth, and Miss Adams as her half-sister, Queen Mary. j |