Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1912 — McVickers Reopens Saturday In “The Littlest Rebel.” [ARTICLE]

McVickers Reopens Saturday In “The Littlest Rebel.”

The big scene in “The Littlest Rebel,” the Dustin Barnum success which begins an engagement of three weeks at McVicker’s Theatre, Chicago, Saturday evening, August 17th, has to do with the visit of Captain Cary, the Confederate soldier, to his Virginia home. His once stately mansion is in ashes, his wife is dead, the one remaining servant is missing and his little daughter, the little rebel, is keeping a.weary vigil for her parent, who crawls through the Union lines occasionally to bring her food. When he arrives in a sad plight, he finds the little one with her doll and taking her on his knee, teaches her to tell her first lie. “Would General Lee want me to tell a lie?” she asks innocently. “Yes, just this once. Sometime he will tell you so himself,” replies her father, and sle learns that she is to tell the Union officer who will enter the house shortly, that her father was there, but has left by the road that goes past the blackberry bushes and the well. This she does when Colonel (Morrison appears on the scene and orders her to open (he door. Her father, in the meantime, has crawled into the loft of the shed that is his daughter's habitation. Dustin Farnum is the most talked of actor on the American stage and in' the role of the Northern officer he is picturesque, sympathetic and forceful. Diminutive Mary Miles Minter as “Virgie”, the little rebel, will linger long in the memory of theatre goers, especially the ladies and children. * - “The Littlest Rebel” is heartily recommended as one of the best and most convincing plays yet presented. Matinees will be given Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a special matinee Labor Day.