New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-25
UALLlCR'S THEATER.
CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE.


erjoyed succes- N London, az we perceive by the
joprpals there Additional ro-ty afforded in the
fact at the hero and heroine of the novelty
eroly personated by Mr.. James Anderson, we known
to theatrical fsrne, add recertIy again from En-
gland to this country and BY Miss Ages Esworthy,
likewise from Eng land-a fresh claimant for public IA
voI here, il be her first appearance IL America
rev pay is q ferious undert king 10 this eighth
user - the nineteenth certur when already sO much
geuu. talcit and ceverness have been bestowed On
the fatcatiOns Of los the define atoms Of characters
and the CONSTRUCTION OF language due both 1t perhaps
is wrong to look for utter originality in the formation OF
dot az much to expect 10 discover new con-
tinebt Tie Of contingencies and possibilities
in the drama have been explored that an islet OF
novelty is the most that /. to be hoped for Inc
Eaiural the mp IDotura and the subnaural loving,
hating, living, d, ing-g"lGg 70 Abraham bosom OF
the devil in every guise and vehice-'hese have all
been so mulituoinously winnow and ursted 10 t1e
mioneth cegrce of irppap abty, that Blessed is tue
man who can inyen. ne - plot, OF even situation,
for play.
IL the work in hand eanro ray there is any
thing absolutely new but there is not little that is
interesting. Practically speaking, the play vas sue
cess. The applause was vehement at times, aud at
the close the principal actors enjoyed an ovation
when, by the way, Nj. Anderson Acknowledged him.
self the author Of the piece.
The play depended for its success on the situations
and not the language, the latter beng commonplace
throughout. The plot il briefly this: DIANA the beau-
ffu, Duchess Of Nairre Miss Elsworthy) the daugh-
ter Of n Scottish chief IN, whom the politics OF the
fines had carried to France is reigIng toast at Yer
| ssjles. She is widow her husbaud-a man much
| older than herseli-hGvrg considerably died. She
has a steward, Leslie (Dyott), @ Scotchman, duly
tusty and brage. Among her suitors is Edgar DunOs
Andersonl n sincere romantic lover, whom the other
suors she is equally colo toward, vaIny cndeavor
to nvegle into scheme, TO punish her for her a-
| difference to them all This romantic genlemans
N Their waits on the Duchs aud imPores her to save
hie life by accepting his hand aid thus save him from
| Heaven knows what, his passion being so desper-
| ate The Duchess has received letter
in which Dunos entreas her to look from her bicony
at u, midnight her palace on the evening being de-
voted to ball. and she agrees to do so at the moment
| the Youths mother is preeent with her and thus IN
fact not to drive him desperation. As she makes
the signal from the balcony shot is heard is from
the suicidal land Of the French Werter, Duno.s, and
bis body is brought in he having died all for love.
| Act H. reveals the Dnches, in n chateau in Brit
tany, and among her peighbors the Marquis de Man
oily Sohen), who had been of the rejected suit
ors aid with them bad medated constantly to be re-
venged on her for her rejection of their noble claims
The grandioe characters are relieved here by the IT,
teiieclion of Cleinence Miss Gannon), a peasant.
| woman who sells eggs and milk; and the greatest
ham we wish some actors of greater professions is
that they would study the naturalness Of Miss Cannon
as shown in her little bit of a part. Clenence
alludes to the fact Of solitary" living in
| a tower in the neighborhood-the said solitary "
! (qutry, hermit ?? being very handsome young man,
This solitary youth turns out to be Henri DunOis An
derson) who had come thther, under the wing of the
| rejected sutors to win, by hook or by crook, the
Duchess heart and rcven what he had been taught
to believe the injury done him by her conduct which
had suited in the selfmurder of his brother aud the
! consequent death of his mother with broken heart.
The suitors and their set pretend to be banditt, and
waylay the Duchess while on hunting party. Henri
DunOis rushing from his old tower attacks them with
gun and pistol rescues the lady and feigns to have
| received wound in return. He is brought,
| supfosttiously bleeding and wounded, to her
chateau, and she is all gratitude; and during
| his convalescePce there, she falls in love
with bim-he perSonating a nobleman who for
| certain had sought the solitude named She
fiji ally declares her love for bin, and then he spuns
| her, revealing to her his true name and curtain is
| drawn which Discovers that the plotters at supper
table with women had secretly been witnesses of
the declaration and shout of triumph proceeds from
these rejected suors at the expense of the Duchess.
The latter is at first overcome, but rail- ing her spirits
assumes the defiant tone; and shows letter fran the
dy ing mother of Henri Dunois exculpating her from
any leviy trihing with the affection Of Edgar Du-
nois and any part in the induction to bis suicide. This
expose leads to a duel-the e and the blow being
given by Henri Dunos to the Marquis de Marclly-
and an elaborate duel with swords is fought between
the two, ending with the fall Of the Marquis.
Act III brings us back TO Versailles. Leslie is in
his laboratory, berg an amateur chemist, and con-
cociing the deadest of posons for secretion in ring
which the Duchess desired. She gets the ring; and
| then enters the scheme of her vengeance She
| obtains from the Duke De Richieu, promotions for
Henri Dunos-who is lieutenant in the nsvy-first
| that Of captain and then that of commander of a
feet with the order of Chevaer; and in return sends
the Duke her portrait with the promise of her hand
| AT an interview with Henri Dunois she places the
brevet on his hand and the order round his neck and
informs him then that her vengeance for the wrongs
he had done her is to be communication she has
the paper the closing sentences of the letter of
his mother, which, at its first partial perusal she
did not allow him TO read-discovtI ring that he
| Henri is not noby born, but is the
Of hurtsmau whe had ingenously substituted him
for genuine infant who had died, and thus pNlmed
him off as a rghtful twin TO the deceased Edgar the
suicide. Henri, on hearing this shows much mag
nanmity and humility tina the Duchess rele nts toward
him; but il is too late. Rche,eu 10 claim her
hare, and then the Duchess puts the poisoned rug to
her lips al fals-not dead for Leslie had simply pre-
1a1 to Y,p in he nj date fD