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Show "UUITS." The New Sensational Drama, Its Plot and Argument. The following plot, and argument of Mr. Johnson's new sensational drama, to be presented Friday night .it the theatre, on the occasion of Mr. Vinson's benefit will give a go;xl idea ot its character: The drama opens in the office of Mr. Allan, a speculative banker of Xew York, where we are introduced to the hero of tho piece, Mr. Robert Thorn, hisaonior clerk. Mr. Allan having received a large amount ot money from Mr. Morton to bo invested invest-ed in stooktf, hears from Mr. Jenkins, a lawyer, of the death of Morton and they together resolve to appropriate the accumulated fundB, thereby de-fraudinthewidow de-fraudinthewidow and daughter and leaving them penniless. Thorn, being in the secret of the deposit, is a necessary tool to the villains and ap parently complies, but resolves to watch tho pair and eventually foil their plans. He substitutes fictitious checks for the originals, which the villains destroy and think themselves secure in tbeir schemes. in the second scene we become acquainted witli one ol the low comedy elements of the drama, in the person of Joe Dor key, one of the New York "b'hoys,'' who, together with his sister Jane, are deeply interested in the Mortou family.; Jenkins interviews Mrs. Morton and her daughter Clara, and persuades them to allow him to destroy the only evidence of the original kde-poaits, kde-poaits, but is foiled by the interference interfer-ence of Dorkey. The second act finds us at Newport. Hero the hero meets Clara Morton in attendance on Mrs. Allan, wile of tho Banker,! who is desperately enamored of Thorn, butj he, preferring the honest love of the girl to the wicked pasdion of the woman wo-man of the world, provokes her Airy and she resolves' on his ruin. The villians, Mndigan and Anderson, lay the pUns for the destruction of Thorn. Scene third brings before us Ebenezer Joaiah Longbow, a yermonter, with a blrung pu&ijon fur snort oard' playing, play-ing, 'and a wonderful speculative faculty fac-ulty of converting pork intocaBl,,who "bucks at the tiger" without any satisfactory sat-isfactory results. In the third act Olara, having incurred the enmity of Mrs. Allan, is homeless in the streets of Newport, and accidentally finds shelter in the house qf Madigau, the i villiau, where Thorn, through the influence in-fluence of Anderson, is conveyed, drugged, robbed, and the house tired to conceal the crime; but the timely, arrival of Longbow rescues (he hevoj and heroine from the burning buila-'1 ing, In act four we find the lierow o has discovered in his lady-love the daughter of the wronged Mrs, SJ- tpn umlcr tin-est for; tho supposed arson'oi' Madigah's hou.se, the charge being preferred by Mrs. Allan. He is placed ipider examination, and, is ;c-. jjnittcd through the evidence of Long bow and the confession of Mrs. Allen. Act five opeus in the saloon of a magnificent mag-nificent gambling establish mout, where Longbow proves, though a novice at faro, he is an adept af'short keards." Thorn, having met Ander-feon Ander-feon alter a lapse ofa year; deierniinoa q rccoxev ne papcrs-stoleri'from'hirh on tho night ot the fire; tolloft's him to the counting-house of Allon, Jenkins Jen-kins ifc Co., and arrests the three worthies. Our lioro, having fulfilled; his vow of restitution to the wronged, acknowledges his love to Clara, and in the midst of hU many friends, shows Tint whethur it bo (it the frame of card Or at tin; gutne of lif-jyou attind, " You will tlnd that fortung favors only liin Who holds t) winning jiauU. |