New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-06
RACHEL As ADRIENNE.

less attractive By assuming perhaps the mos inter-
es,ipp character OF the modern French stage.
SCRIBE As A DRAMATIsT.
Fr,e Scribe one Of the authors # Adrienpe is still
alive and we trust may still lnser in this vale many
wears TO add many more plays to his already aftuent
rerertory. II is difficult and may be esteemed al
most indicate enter upon the deneaon OF the char
acier of cotcuporary especially a. Serbs has oeen
eyderty marked by Providence to become himself
the Providence Of composers in want OF text OF man
ayers in want of plays and of actors in want OF GER
tain specal parts. We honor Scribe for his Industry
and the industry of the many ananueI ses he employs
Lopez &c Vega, the abundant Spanish dramatist,
wrote il i. confidently assorted five hundred dramas
Alexander Hardy, who was the founder OF the FIRST
regular Paris theater wrote play IN the space OF twe
ty.four hours He touched something about two hun
dred but they have passed into oblivion They fret
ted however, their little hour, and hetted 1t well
The p,obsblity is that Alexander Dumas, as vel as
Scribe. will exceed both Lopez and Hardy, II not
in guam ity least in quality But yet their tate VIII
be the same They, too, will fret their hour and pass
awav Few dramstists ever live long except those
who set out with the fixed purpose to elevate their
audiences mDgling nirth as Tar rs possible with no
Bile admoption. But whee the object with SCRIBE and
his colleagues is simply, without reference 10 mgher
purpose to amuse their lease OF favor with the pubc
all expire the moment higher class OF dramausS
and yaudeviss appeal to higher taste ana
chaster code OF dramatic ethics For this reason such
healthy dramas as those of Time Works Wonders
and old Heads and Young Hearts OF Douglas Jer'
rod and Bourcicaut are likely to v" Longer 'Ho
eorced conventions of Dumas ard of SCRIBE AS lar as
the American and English stage is concerned. 1t has
been already too polluted by sickly tIansations,
o,J INIT Qf n sClOOl
alien TO the character ard habits of the people,
can only live on suiieIance until such time
as America produces men to write for the
American stage, AID England for the English
stage. Scribe however, is genius in his own way.
He s1ts thoughts to vaudeviles, just 'as Julien
seta notes 70 symphonies. Both mon give passing
ole azure TO the hour and TO be thought OF accord
ingly. a good number Of Scribes plays-as those Of
AdrienHe-are partly got up by friends. An admra-
be PLAN In literature, in business great results can
only be realized quickly by the modern idea OF asso
citation. We see almost We might almost soy, all the
eminent mercantile and financial houses carried on By
an association Of partners. 1t IS an arrangement IN
harmony with the arrangement OF nature, which gives
TO one qualities the other has not, and by blending
them together for great purpose great results may
he achieved. The same holds good in literature One
has imagination and poetic power, the other expert
ence and practical aptitude the one erudition and
scholarship the other luency Of dction and fertility
of fancy. By thus uniting, great good is done Aud
most certainly in France the idea is practically carried
out TO the satisfaction Of all engaged.
SYNOPSIS.
Adrienpe is in love with young man who nitro
duces himself to her as solder seryng under 'ho
banner of Maurice of Sa1Ony but who turns uot 70 DO
the Gallant Maurice himself Gallant rs Maurice was
in the service of Mars, be was still more gallant IN Tue
service of Venus and on his return TO rams ne iound
not ONLY Adrienne, the actress receiving MN WIN
TRANSPORTS of ioy but aso ladies Of rank and foremost
among them the PTincegs OF BonlloD, whose passion
for him was so intense that she at once painted LOT
teG-fte converse ion. The husband Oh the rrlhces7
who stroye intimdate the Regent OF France as wen
a. he could in pretending love for Alchemy az wen
as for women had for mistress at that ume Ma ne
Duchos Atriennes rival on the stage W
late he had given her many w s91eh' % snug u
little house. The Princess winked at her nus
bands infdelty for obvious reasons, but as sne was
wont 20 remark TO Ler pet Able AMI TO other intimate
fri41 de- she facilitated her husbands hsson a. Ms
Duclos was completely under he influence and through
her she mace her husband Go anything she chpse
while che would with great dlieulty ma ahotnGi mn
tres for Der husband who would show 20 huch 90 my
IN the wishes of biz wife, IL IS necessary 20 un
Ms bsnnv harmony between wife and concubiue 70
or1er 10 Conceive how il came 10 pass that IN nj ne
Duclos's house the meeting WIN hef Lo'ei LOG
place. BY singular COINCIDENCE tnc III
- ~. connection with her rivs made him take special
interest 10 her reaGnas of poetry. Happily Tbs Prn-
cess sliru.d into a lii,lc room, but Maurice was OF
c0urse oGtecod The Prince introduced HIN 10 Ndri-
e.re Her a. enlistment finding her lover I" De Inc
Gallant ION OF the King OF Poland, the rtno"hed M1a
r,e Of Sa1ny can be better iance1 taah defci..ou'
Marx tins sccls; IL ore Of great eGctcinthi ~ hau
~, actually conf 20 AGncnnc the TASK oil hciphs
he Prince. out OF Der Dcrapc. Ihis TASK AHfehho
performs wah great msgnonimiiy' hgt mol "tuou'
lie I,tl. AbLr who a.colnpaI icd The Prnec sndeav-
',,ry IN ,iud ont who tho woman Ia. Hoo u must DO
oI1 that TIC ABB has be- troubled for Tho hat couple
~ hour with al intense anxiety about tha worry
uornap. NJ l. ma! about any woinHn to whom Maurice
mnk.s oyo and he spuit 81 tho plot ~ tha' inc IN
c,,r WIS tho very prfrOn Who save him thN '"i''n,'
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Nautirr tho may BE- Induced tn rvooiNn WITH iaF'' IA,
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