The New York herald., 1873-12-18
A M U S E NJ E N T S.
The New Play at the Fifth Avenue
Theatre.

Mr.. Adolphe Belot's play, 'srhe Parrcide,r was
produced at the Fifth Avenue Theatre last night.
1t was success IN every sense, in the stage set
tings, the acting and the drama ITSELF The play IS
not comedy, and 1t is entirely free from all the
tants which are supposed to be inherent in French
comedy But il is full OF absorbing interest. and
even when IL Is most sensational II is not coarse.
The story may be very briefly and compactly told.
The mother OF Laurent Delissier, very dissipated
young man. Is murdered and the 'clewsr all IN.
dicate that the son was her murderer Indeed, he
is accused OF the crime by Pucherie, q companion
OF Nine. Delissler, to whom he had shown some
attentions, but had in the end forsaKen for
Emiienne Sucnapt, the daughter OF very
wealthy banker. IL is proved that on the very
evening OF the murder he has an angry interview
with his mother about 100000. which she has prom
sed TO give him to pay gambling debt. This
money was stolen at the time OF the murder one
OF his sleeve buttons was found at the garden wall
over which the murderer must have come and his
boots exactly fitted the foottracks beneath the
| window by which the house was entered. The
| wounds were inflicted by Laurent's dagger. The
| play is in six tableaux the curtain falling first
| upon the murder and the second time upon Lau-
rents arrest. The third tableau contains party
at the house of suchapt, the banker given
| through Nine. Suchapt's desire to show the
cSe concerns not the sucnaps It closes with the
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| announcement OF Laurent's acquitta-an alioi
| having been establlshed-and his appearance at
the house OF Suchapt where 'socetyn refuses TO
recognize HIM. Even Emery Suchapt, the spend
| thrift son of the banker and one OF Laurents for
mer friends, nlppantly expresses his dlsocliei In
the verdict. Only Emillenne will give him her
hand, and she only on condition that he finds the
! real assassin To this Laurent devotes his lie.
| The other tabeauX are concerned with this duty,
the fourth presenting view OF the greenroom
the real assassin. With him IS Lubin an old villain
VINO plans the crimes Dacolard executes These
| had fastened the crime OF Nine. DelisSier's
ASSASSINATION upon Laurent by making the
! cews which led TO his arrest 1t is need
| less to say that in the end justice tri-
play full OF Incidents and characters is to give
| each OF the actors only comparatively lew lines
| and little business. There 26 names in the
cast. Or these Miss Fanny Morant appears for
| few moments only in the FIRST tableau as Nine.
| Delssier, and in the third tableau Mr.. ID. Whiting
Louis James Emery Suchapt and the young
ladies' OF society play for very short time The
same Is substantially true OF Mr.. Charles Fisher
Dacolard. Mr. w. Davidge as Lubin and Mr.
| owen Fawcett as Regimbaut, and OF nearly
all the minor parts. Mr. George clarke as
the Detective, have the only parts Which run
completely through the play. Pnlcherie, the de.
serted one, is played by Mrs. Sara Jewett and
Emiienne, the bankers daughter, by Miss Minnie
CONWAY. In such a multitude OF characters and
creations there must necessarily be some bad act
which the success OF the piece depends was per-
feet would be nvidlous, II not impossible to par
ticularize. The scenery was exceedingly fine,
especially the bankers parlors in the third tableau.
AS matter OF course, the circus scene did not fail
to give slight taste of circus business.