Under Two Flags (1901), a play by Paul M. Potter. [Garden Theatre, 135 perf.] Cigarette (Blanche Bates) is a spunky camp follower, or vivandière, in the bleak French‐occupied mountains of North Africa. To defend her country and win her man, she will even fight off a host of Bedouins or ride her horse Cochise through a dust storm in the Chellelah Gorge. Needless to say, she wins her sweetheart. Although other dramatizations of Ouida's novel had been touring the country for several years, this Charles Frohman– David Belasco production was the first to play in a major New York house.




