The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-01 00:00:00

ADELPIII 771E.4 771 E.

Last night a drama in three acts, freely translated
from the French by Mr. B. Webster, jun., entitled
" Eve," was produced with much success. The
principal part in the piece is supported by Mr. B.
Webster, and the novelty of seeing this favourite
actor in a new part drew a very brilliant and
crowded audience. Eve, the heroine of the
drama, is the young wife of Hugh Wollaston,
a solicitor, whose sentimentality has brought
about a carelessness of the duties of hom3, aad
who is in continual danger of lending too indulgent
an ear to the unlawful addresses,of a young bar-
rister who importunes her to elope wiei him to a
foreign land. Though ever seemingly on the
verge of falling a victim to his villany, she is pre-
served from so fatal a sin in some degree through
the influence of a female relative, who watches over
her with the fondest solicitude, but mainly through
the magnanimity of her husband, who, inA3ad of
reproaching or thwarting her, coalidea in her
to the last, and makes an irresistible
appeal to her sense of dignity and duty.
The great part in the piece is that of the husband,
and as Mr. Webster warmed in the part he in-
creased the intensity of his acting. In the second
act, where the discovery of the secret of his wife's
indifference is discovered, he gave the audience a
taste of his great qualities as an actor, and this fee ling
he gradually intensified until, in the con 3luding act, he
rose to sach a high standard of ex3ellaacc that
this, his last new part, in ty fairly b 3 placed
side by side vith that of Triplet in " Masks and
Faces," which has been acknowledged by all to be
one of the finest specimens of dramatic art ever
seen on the metropolitan stage. Mr. H.
Neville, as the lover, looked the beau ideal
of a lady killer, and sustained his part
with much excellence. Miss Furtado, as Eve, threw
much intensity into the character, and Mrs. H.
Mellon, as the good and true wife of a retired
tradesman, carried the audience with her by the
warmth and geniality of her acting. Little Miss
Lillie Lee, a child about six or seven years old,
acted with extraordinary talent, and there was not
a lady in the house but who envied Mr. 'Webster the
privilege of kissing her for her pretty impersona-
tion. The piece was received with loud applause,
and will doubtless attract the playgoers to the
Adelphi for a considerable time.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7 his Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

DISORDERLIES.— Mr. John Wilkirson, gentleman, of
the Junior United Service Club, Regent-street, and de-
scribed as in her Majesty's service, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt with being drunk and disorderly in the
Haymarket.
From the evidence of police-constable Smith, 188 0, it
appeared that he saw the defendant in the Haymarket
about half-past one that morning in a state of intoxica-
tion, and surrounded by a number of low characters. He
tried to get the dofendaut away, and as he refused to go
he took him to the station.

The defendant was fined ss. or four days.
Mr. George Crosby Brooks, surgeon, of Nc. 30, Vic-
toria-park-road, Hackney, and Mr. Brinck, a tailor, of
Panton-street, were fined 10s, each for being drunk and
disorderly, and fighting together in Tiohborne-street.