Eight male, two female characters. Good leading part, genteel villain, Irish and negro character. Time of playing about two hours. While not distinctively a war-play its incidents are concerned with imaginary events of the Rebellion, and it is not unsuited to the needs of Grand Army Posts. Scenery, simple interiors and landscape drops, very easy camp scene. SYNOPSIS. ACT I. Capt. Oliphant's home in the North. An unfinished honeymoon. The call of duty. A wife's anguish. “My hand girt on the sword that will be raised against my father!” The rebel spy. THE STOLEN DESPATCHES. “He is Madge's father! Rather a thousand times my own disgrace, than be his executioner.” The penalty of silence. DISGRACED. ACT II. SCENE I. Irish and negro. Colored dentistry. SCENE II. The prison. A little story over a bottle of wine. “I understand. Good bye, old friend, and may Heaven bless you.” THE ESCAPE. A shot in the dark. “Now, my lady Madge, by fair or foul means you must be mine.” SCENE III. Dead to the world. A wife's devotion. “I must bear it all for Malcolm's sake.” A warning. “There is peril everywhere for friends of rebels.” A false knave. “To remain is certain death!” TO THE RESCUE. ACT III. SCENE I. The camp. “If I could only hear from Madge!” The flower girl. The price of a passport. “I pay it, but to only one.” Husband and wife. “What is this woman to you?” A conundrum whose answer is death. “For the love of Heaven, get me the pass!” THE DESERTER. SCENE II. The villain's suit renewed. “Why not; your husband no longer lives.” The lie in his teeth. Misunderstood. “Can you not trust your wife?” RECAPTURED. SCENE III. SENTENCED TO DEATH. “You will sometime know that Malcolm Oliphant died for another's crime—true to the Union—true to the last.” A REPRIEVE. The spy's death. “We have plotted together and die together.” REUNITED. A NEW IRISH DRAMA SHAMROCK AND ROSE, A Romantic Story of Irish Life during the Rebellion of '98, in four acts. By JOHN FITZGERALD MURPHY. Seven male and three female characters. Costumes and scenery not difficult. Every part a good one. A sure hit. Printed as played under the author's personal direction, at the Dudley St. Opera House, Boston, St. John's Hall, Boston, and the Newport Opera House. SYNOPSIS. ACT. I. Scene, Squire Fitzgerald's Home, in Wicklow. Rose's story of Desmond's arrival. Shaun Cary hears a bit of valuable news. Barney O'Brady meets an unexpected visitor and shows him the door. Ileen and Barney. The Fugitive. The arrival of the soldiers. Capt. Beck quarrels with the Squire. The defence. The murder. THE ARREST.