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Motion Picture N e n' s
Stage setting and the characters appearing in the prologue for "'Way D onm East,'' playing a two weeks' engagement at the Brooklyn Mark
Strand theatre
Original Prologue Written by Knoblock
" Three Musketeers " Presentation Number at New York
Lyric by Noted Author
A PROLOGUE written by Edward Knoblock is being used most successfully at each performance of the " The Three Musketeers " now playing at the Lyric theatre, New York, under the direction of Joseph L. Plunkett.
Mr. Knoblock's effort is in verse, and he has concentrated in it the spirit of romance, its theme, and its atmosphere. His reputation in letters as an internationally successful dramatist and author, gives Air. Knoblock's lines particular signiiicance. The text of the prologue is as follows :
Out of the shadows of the past
As from a faded tapestry Of Time's procession slow and vast
I step to bid you bear with me ; The while your fancy I engage
To look upon another age.
An age, when on the human tide The plumed wave of chivalry
Rose to its summit, sweeping wide Across a Nation's mighty sea ;
France never shone a brighter power Than in this high, romantic hour!
Louis the Thirteenth reigned as King, And by his side the gentle Queen
Smiled softly as the sun in spring L'pon a people, all serene.
Yet stay ! What is yon fiery cloud That o'er the heavens casts a shroud?
The Cardinal's red mantle sets
Aflame the court and country wide.
And vile Intrigue spreads out its nets To tangle monarchs in their pride.
The Queen of pure, untarnished name Is threatened with eternal shame !
Lo ! From the South of sunny France There rides a champion, keen as steel.
Whose courage snatches every chance To make the boldest plotter kneel ;
'Tis D'Artagnan of dauntless youth, Straight stabs his blade, defending truth.
Rare honor and reward are his !
But best, the friendship tendered him By Athos, Porthos, Aramis,
Which fills his fortune to the brim : —
And shall endure while life doth run With '■ One for all and all for one!"
So follow me to France of old.
To fiery days when hearts beat high,
When blood was young, and hate was bold. When sword crossed sword to dare and die.
For love and honor gloried then. ^^'hen life was life, and men were men !
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