New-York tribune., 1870-11-15
TIE DRAMA.
TIE RAPPAREE At SIBLO's.


Mr.. BOucieault, with his tnseled, tawdry.
stagecarpenteT dramas, manufactured for COwes and
market" II getting TO be very tedious. IL used 10 Ia
thought-and there a time when even Mr Bouccauit
appeared think-that certain simple, obvious oement
airy merits essential to work Of literary art that
play, for example, II presented as claiming Intellectual
attention. ought TO be written in good En-
glish ought to portray probable clrcumstanc"s
acting upon possible characters, ought to deIneats
human emotion arising out Of natural causes and
ought, finally, TO present experience whether real OF
ideal in rational forms We live In progressive ago.
however, and the people who held and acted upon thoss
principles have mostly passed away The prevalent doo
trine is-and il has Mr. Boucicag for ia promnens
representatiye-that pearls must not he cast before
swine that public intelligence IL. ss the Algebra says
an unknown quantity" that popular taste only
appreciates trash, and cOyes only what 10
eppreciates that In order 70 De suoce%'W
IL Is necessary write down" to the populace and in
one word that talent should consider society a. mob Of
idiots worthy merely be tOyed with "a peeunary
nrov The resut OF this doctrine every thinker knows
II ia n,ncerity In the mind Of the literary worker and
rubbish in the production Of his pen That result wa4
signaIIy exempAed last night in the drama Of " ms
Rapparee," at Nibo's Garden Anything 80 Dad' from
the hand Of q pretending to bo h"r
ary artist, we have never seen. Other dramatisi''
in the Irish line have exhibited steep inbeeity Mr
Bouccauts is mountainous 1t Is the faulty OF an aps
man 1t il cut and dried fooshness. The story OF Inc
Rapparee" silly. The chief incidents In the working
out OF 1t impossible. The characters are utterly
devoid Of interesting quality The language bald All
the hackneyed stage properties that have been worn ous
IN tho service OF tho Hlbernian Muse, arc con
oreoated In this drama, and " shot upon tbs
audience-as from the tail-board OF dirtcart There
Ia an heroic patriot in the piece, who heaIs !o' "
ragamufins carrying poles with scythes tied on then'
and who wants to berate Ireland, and To marry tb'
daughter of one Of his enemies. There Is faithful
ady IN riSh
There "a scoundrel who would mako ssusages OF his
own grandmother, and eat them too, 10 the further
ance OF his schemes Of lust and greed-a fat fun
gus OF rascaity, by the way no! Wholly
without q sort OF parallel IN this ago OF
wonders and therefore admissible. And there are ee
capes by fire. and escapes by water and escapes thas
could not have been made by anything-and there Is
climax such only dyspepsia could have devised ava
only delrium could accept. In brief, The Rappiree
is an Irish Stew OF commOnplaces and twadde such ~
only demoraized cook could dish up for the Victims o'
cheap boarding house. and such only the appetite ot
theatrc ostrich could pesceaby digest The piece wa
put on the stage OF Nbos Garden with excellent scenery
which must have cost a good deal OF money and 1t VIZ
acted by clever people, who struggled with its nonsenr
and made the utmost (brayey) that they could Of IA
puerility Mr.. Frank Mayo acted the hero. Rodtr'A
OMalIey Clara Jennings, actress whose intuihons
are Just and whose method ia sngulary neat clean
clear and free from extravaganza acted the heroine
Grace OHdra Mr. Shewell personated the malignant
Ulricktype OF monster that never existed outside ID
an Irish drama. Mr. Mark Smith personated Gen@a
Ginekel, and was more out OF place In all
his brilliant professional life Mr.. Hamilton acted Tia
French officer Duguesne and was mt French at ALL nos
ANYTHING else speak Of Mr. Alex. Fitzgerald appcsref
az COL OHara and looked TO disappear in the sae.
or any character would have beon relief To oSerta1od
endurance. Mr. vining Bowers-an excent low comod-
ian tried in vain TO be funny the Coto Doctor Ant
Miss Virginia Buchanan, a. Idfrice, ran aD0ut tDe
Irish In lace satin and tempest, win Deautpi
shoulders CONNIE endable alacrity. So OF the bed
lines the piece nicely spoken by lr Bruton 80
Conner Roe. To TASTE indeed, he was a notably
excellent feature In this remarkable representation
The orchestra, led by Signor Opcrtt, took q iiyet
part in the dramatic proceedings or the occasion
and. In addition 10 copiOus music there was hberd
supply OF incidental thunder. The bro soeua.
which closed the second act this Is one OF tbs
pieces by the way, which might have fifteen acts 20
well as three the best OF the kind can cmoin-
and the carpenters deserve great deal OF credit Or
fact they and the scenepainters for the who's
Of this prepOsterOus and dranI
This fe-scene received tn the utmost enthusiast
The rest of the piece fell dead upon tie auditory, r
was only recognized TO be laughed at Perhaps the f1'
tna this Of his genius has been made ts
theme OF aughter to New York audience may servo q
a valuable hint its gifted author that those old ieas
OF genuine art which Sheridan and Colman illustrated
and 10 which the author or The Colleen BaWH. shi
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