Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 1, Number 4, March 1990 Page: 105
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The Glory Days of the Stafford Opera House
Orphans, were much more melodramatic than today's
productions. The Two Orphans, which was performed in
the Stafford Opera House on November 20, 1890, was
written by Adolphe D'Ennery and Eugene Cormon and
translated from the original French by N. Hart Jackson.
It is the story of two beautiful young girls,
Henriette and Louise, who, after being orphaned, journey to
Paris and encounter all sorts of misadventures. Henriette
becomes separated from Louise, who is blind, through a
series of machinations engineered by the Marquis de
Presles. She is rescued from the Marquis, whose intentions
are purely venereal, by Chevalier Maurice de Vaudrey. De
Vaudrey is the nephew of the minister of police, the Count
de Linieres. The count's wife, the Countess Diane de
Linieres, has for many years kept secret the fact that she had
had a child before her marriage. De Vaudrey learned the
secret from his mother and because he will not reveal it to
the count, de Linieres has him imprisoned. He also arrests
Henriette, to whom de Vaudrey has by this time proposed
marriage.
Louise meanwhile has been taken in by a family
who quite consciously beg for a living. They see Louise's
affliction as a real advantage in their profession and she is
made to sing on the streets for whatever money passersby
will give her. Unable to escape despite the continued good
will of a crippled member of the family, she grows increas-
ingly despondent and threatens to starve herself to death.
Meanwhile, Henriette is saved from exile by the intervention
of another prisoner, Marianne, whom the two orphans
talked out of committing suicide in the first act. Marianne
takes Henriette's place on the roster of exiles so that she
may start a new life outside France.
Picard, the valet to de Vaudrey, who has princi-
pally been a figure of comedy up until this point, now arises
to lead his master, Henriette, and a band of policemen to the
home of the beggars. Together, though not without some
further peril for Henriette, they rescue Louise, who has
turned out to be the Countess' long lost daughter. The play105
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