Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1903 — “A BREAK FOR LIBERTY.” [ARTICLE]

“A BREAK FOR LIBERTY.”

Messrs. Jacobs and Underner have made an elaborate production of one of the latest successful melodramas ever written, “A Break for Liberty,” in which the scenes are laid in and around Pittsburg, and taking for the sabject the escapades of the late Biddle Brothers. The story of the piece is full of intense dramatic interest which will hold its audience from the rise of the curtain until the final termination of the fifth act of the play. To those that have followed the history of the Biddles from the time of their arrest in Pittsburg until their escape fiom the connty jail in that city, their struggle against great odds for life and liberty and their final capture and death, one can see at a glance the great possibilities for dramatic action.

The anthor has departed from the everyday melodrama where the villian, hero, heroine or someone else in the play must be shot every few minutes. It is true that in “A Break for Liberty” the play is not complete without the use of gunpower. What melodrama would be complete without it? The use of fire arms comes into legitimate play daring two of the scenes, the escape from the Pittsbnrg jail and the desperate battle which takes place in a blinding snow storm, between the officers of the law on one side, the Biddle Brothers and the warden’s wife on the other. Messrs. Jacobs and Underner have not stopped at expense for this production. Money has been spent freely and lavishly, and it can be stated without hesitation that a production will be furnished that will not be surpassed by any attraction playing the popular booses. The cast will be an exceptionally strong one, containing the names of artists that are well known to the theatre-going public, and willbe seen at Ellis opera house, Saturday, Oct. 31.