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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2752, 5 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

How is this for melodrama? In (‘The Children of the Strand,’ 2 which is bv Henry Sundermann, and’ the_ first of that author’s plays to be admitted to the Kaiser’s Theatre, Berlin, where i-fc was (presented recently, the theme is an nnusnal and daring one to make the base of a successful play. The scene is laid' in the fourteenth century among the Baltic pirates. The story has to do with a -woman, who lo.vcs her husband s brother, and who is also the murderer of her father. The conclusion of “Arsoue Lupin” is similar to the effective finish of that other detective play “Raffles.” In the last act Lupin eludes the detectives bv holding them between floors m an elevator while he In the baggage-car beneath disguises himself before the audience as the chief of police and then walks out of the place, leaving the pursuers suspended in the air.