Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1901 — “The Price of Peace” at McVicker’s. [ARTICLE]

“The Price of Peace” at McVicker’s.

Jacob Litt’s wonderful production of the Drury Lane spectacular melodrama, “The Price of Peace,” is now being presented at McVicker’s Theatre. The play tells a powerful story of English life, political and social, and it is so gorgeously set, costumed and acted that it has been a revelation to theatre-goers in Chicago. Nothing so magnificent has been seen there in the line of melodrama. The play is in thirteen scenes; there are more than forty actors with speaking parts; three hundred supernumeraries dressed in the most fashionable garments fill the big scenes, and more than a hundred stage hands are required to shift the scenery and look after the electric lights. One of the sensational incidents of the play occnrß in the last act. The villian, Marcus Benton, has inveigled the Baroness Blanco and her maid. Mary Vine, on board his steam yacht, the “Marigold.” There Benton tells the Baroness that he means to keep the little girl as she knows too much of his past. The Baroness declares she will save the child and just as Benton is threatening her a big steamer crashes into the yacht and the boat begins to sink. The scene is so arranged the upper deck and the cabin are both seen and in the cabin Benton has a fearful struggle with his Chinese servant, a man whom he had wronged, the Chinaman finally pinuing his master down on a couch as the boiler of the yacht explodes and the two men disappear in the waves. The Baroness and Mary climb into the rigging of the yacht and are rescued by a small boat in which there are friends who have seen the collision from the shore. The scene is positively thrilling and every night gets half a dozen curtain calls.

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