The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-05 00:00:00

(rani Cirtu

The Pr;nce and Princess of Wales.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with Prince
Albert Victor and Prince George, accompanied by
the Crown Prince of Denmark and the Duke of
Edinburgh, and attended by the lady and gentlemen
in waiting, returned to Marlborough-house last
evening from Titness-park.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Last evening a new petite comedy, entitled
" Doctor Davey," was produced here and meet with
the most genuine success. No preparatory parade
had been made relative to its being in preparation,
or had any great outlay been incurred in placing
it on the stage, so the highly favourable result was
achieved solely by the intrinsic merit of the work
and the great talent of the artists engaged in its
representation. " Doctor Davy "_is taken from a
one act French piece, entitled " Le Docteur Robin,"
but it has been so much altered, reconstructed, and
entirely rewritten, that it is fully entitled to be
called an original work. The plot is simple yet
compact and briefly related is as follows
The daughter of one Ebenezer Moleseye,
one of the flock of a dissenting shepherd, and a
feather dealer to boot, has, without the knowledge
of the said Ebenezer, been in company with her
aunt to Drury Lane Theatre to see Mr. Garrick
perform Romeo, and such is fascination of the per-
formance that Mary Moleseye conceives a romantic
attachment for the actor. The lady after having
visited the theatre thinks of nothing but the melt-
ing tenderness of Romeo as exemplified by Garrick,
and her accepted lover, Arthur Quillet, is almost
forgotten. The father discovering the secret, is
greatly annoyed that his daughter, above all people
in the world, should fall in love with an actor-manf
and, as a natural consequence, reviles the theatre
and actors, who he looks upon as idle, ill-disposed
and worthless personages. Arthur Quillet, not
knowing the cause of Mary's melancholy, obtains 3
ticket to take her to the playhouse, and informs the
father of the fact. The dissenting Ebenezer tells
the young man that the theatre is the cause of all
his daughter's unhappiness, which Arthur doubts.
He defends the stage and actors, Mr. Garrick espe-
cially. The father, in order to test the character
which Garrick has received from Arthur, writes t°
him, telling him his daughter's state of mind, little
expecting that such a backslider as the actor innst
be will take notice of his communication. .Garrickf
however, visits Moleseye's house, and finding th
prejudice of the father as deeply rooted as ignorance
can make it, sets about putting things in order.
He first works upon the feelings of Moleseye,
by vividly describing the feelings of a mother wile
sees her child in a position of imminent danger'
Moleseye is so overcome with the story that hcie
stoutly refuses to believe it to be but acting, an
fearing that a man who can so command the tear
and smiles of human nature may in his turn fall
love with Mary, refuses to allow him to see his
his daughter. Garrick, however, animated with the,
kindest feeling determines to cure the romantic gir
of her passion, and he accordingly obtains an inter-
view with her disguised as Doctor Davy. Admirahlle
made up as an antiquated gossipping old man, 11
converses with the maiden, telling her how er do;
lous all the stuff she has heard upou
stage is. That Romeo, after he. has 03
lowed the poison for the love of Juliet, always
goes home to enjoy his supper, that the Ghost iii
" Hamlet" had better have gone straight at onc oft
his son and told him all about his troubles wit-h,.
bothering other people with them; and that Macbet u e
could not have seen daggers in the air -without Pi,
had taken too much whisky. Mary listens to a!
this in silence, but finally gives vent to her adiniral.ile
tion of the divine inspirations of Shakspere, and th
result is Garrick, in his delight, throws off the Wio
and coat of Doctor Davy, when she at once rec°g-
nises him m the great actor. Garrick, to prevot
failure of his plan, again resorts to acting, and see;
ing the brandy bottle of the godly Ebenezer on th
table, begins to pay his devotion to it, le:
stead of, as Mary imagined, breathing Pes...
sages of love into her but too impatient she
The difference between Garrick in his cups off GI,
stage, and Garrick as Romeo on the stage, is Vet,
that Mary soon thinks of the coldness with welot
she has treated her lover Arthur. He arrives 13/..,0
opportunely to hear Mary make a warm declarative
in his favour, but all is nearly spoiled by Wiesele,
expressing his surprise at the whole matter, esl)ls
cially as the bottle was empty. The cute, however' dao
been complete. Mary's love returns to Arthur, aedea
thanks for the happy termination are being aw3roer-
to Dr. Davy, the curtain descends. To Mr', the
mann Vezin, who sustained the part of Garrick'
0.
most unqualified praise is justly due. liei.every
pletely took the audience by surprise, as but been
few present imagined that the actor who had oot
hitherto cast for somewhat small and uninar cl ro
parts at this theatre was possessed of such greet the
undoubted genius. His first triumph vis. ito
ih
describing the perilous position of the little ch the
Moleseye. The feather-dealer's eye was 11°0 by
only one by a great many that was moisten wilt
the deep pathos and feeling with which the ieee3l3lo
was related by Mr. Vezin. When the dim° its
and the flower, the child is supposed to have
aeve,
b
little hand, is the only thing that dropped fromueor,
the entire audience seemed to rejoice with Ehe4ihti
and gave vent to their admiration of the great I,llio
of the actor by the loudest applause. Then, agei3dreo.gf
disguise for Doctor Davy, was most complete 410;
voice, walk, and manner, all were successfully oci
from the audience, as well as Mary M°lesel;
finally the assumed intoxication of the actor toped
effort on the part of Mr. Vezin, which at onceile oracle
him as an artiste of the first ability. Miss P. poll
acted very prettily as Mary, and Mr. D' 400
made a capital Moleseye. At the termine"
the piece the applause was universal, and on tlioe.were
tain again rising the whole of the perforine_le
discovered on the stage ; but the audielauta 141.'
not thus to be contented, and it was not 011 ,0
Vezin had singly acknowledged the aPPlew
acting had elicited that silence was restorecli;9.
We heartily congratulate Mr. Vezin
collie
success ; he has bided his time, but it has
.ast.