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Show HUGH CONWAY'S GREAT JiOFEL. The Dramatization of ' "Called Back" by the Baldwin Theatre Thea-tre Company To-night. The Grismer-Davies company will give the initi tive perforr ianct' of their three night's engagement this evening, appearing appear-ing in what is generally conceded to be their great success, "Called Back." The deep interest which this great novel has created among the reading public will induce in-duce sufficient curiosity to see what skill and dramatic intensity the playwright has imparted to it, and" will have the effect ef-fect to crowd the Theatre on this occasion. occa-sion. Besides, the Baldwin company is recognized as a sterling one, and an artistic presentation may be relied upon. A synopsis of the leading incidents of the play shows that Gilbert Vaughn, a wealthy young Englishman Eng-lishman traveling in Italy, is temporarity blind through illness, and upon his recovery re-covery wanders out of his room in the evening unattended. Endeavoring to return re-turn he loses his way and enters a house which he takes to be his own, but which is the residence of one Generi,his nephew, Anthony Marche, and niece Pauline, and is also the rendes"ns of a band of politi- j cal intriguers, of which Generi is the leading apirit. Gilbert enters the room just at the time when one of the plotters, Macari, in a moment of anger, has stabbed stab-bed Anthony, and to hear Pauline's shriek as she falls to the floor in a dead faint. The conspirators are about to kill him, when, seeing that he is blind, they drug and leave him. In the next act Gilbert, who has recovered his sight, meets Pauline, and attracted by her beauty, falls in love with her and marries her after an acquaintance of but a few days. He soon discovers that she is not in possession of her faculties, and learns with horror that she is demented. The appearance of Macari in the scene,claim-ing scene,claim-ing to be Pauline's brother, and her violent aversion and excitement at the sight of him, gives Gilbert a clue to the cause of her loss of reason, which he follows up, going to Siberia to interview Generi, who has been exiled for some political offense through Macari 's treachery, treach-ery, and from whom he learns the truth. He returns to find Pauline restored to reason, and in time to witness Macari ' being led to execution as a communist. |