New-York tribune., 1880-02-15
A NEW AND STRIKING PL4Y.
A TrUE STORY ON mr. STAGE.


From Paris DispaicA 10 The Lo,don gines
The first representation OF lie NaDab, u
comedy IN five acts adapt'd om NJ AlpdOhs, Ddudets
novel of The same NAME Dy NJ. Pierre ar, gwen
tnis evening at the Vaudeue. The noye has been one
Of greatest successes ~ late years ana do not
think | am wrOng in predicting considerable success
also To its dramatic adaptation The play ". Pierre
Eizear has produced, with the cooperation OF ~ Al
phonse Dauuet and VI. GondDet, Is exceptionally orig
inal stir,Dg and powerful, and deeply mpresscs the
spectator as truthful picture. ihe heros name ~
known everybody His history. slightly embel ishcd
by the authors Dagnation Is page OF contemporary
history need not be very cid TO nave scen the
living prototype OF the nnoI tuuate NabAb OF the Naude
vile.
Tine piece Il entirely o. pictures Of the exist
ence o who, becoming rapidly rich. fell prey TO
all the Adventures that arm Paris, TO interested
1atteror- TO the women who pass their ycs In sqneez
inC from the folly OF some and the vice of others
The Nsbab got rich In Tunis says the pleon realty u
was in Fgypi-and he came 10 Paris with the ambilon
OF cutting figure here. His hOuse became the rendez
the patronage OF Ihe Due Morabat1s OF the Due de
Morny he became a candidate for the Chamber was
elected and was uEseated causing sensation ana even
scandal. He accused OF having formerly piled an
unavoidable trade, crime was made out oil the money
recklessy engaged In suspicious concerns anu MS STAR
denly grew DIM and disappeared lnpentaby from the
horizon. The piece In It's five ableaus. exhibits the
hopes the rine, the horrible fail OF the Nabab II
he for II Is taken from life, and imagi
ALL at least yerg nearly ALL that passes IN the Nabab
has haPpensd The osocl 0d 81 that Tss Ta
that real GeusOuin chastsed Journalist who wrote
nfamOu articles against his beneiIcior as III The play
auashed his election. IL Is his groundwork OF fact
when makes the comedy eIciling but differs IN one
point from novel. In the latter the Due de Mora Is
brought the sCene but IN the play,
though constantly concerned, he does not eT.
pear. His name passport 10 all
VINO make capital out OF him, but he disap
pears IN the penumate scene, which very striking
one This s tne snechamber OF the apartment IN which
the President OF Tue Corps Legslatf IL dying Proplo
come aud 90, anxious curious, tax OF hm and await
news of hs condition. Suddenly the visitors bell g1yes
nye rings, the sentrys pike strides the steps outside
every body behind the scene the eIcep
tional visitor thus announced. " Who Ia ~" II Is
be Then IL all with Mora" Such Ia the few
erIsh whispering. The public guess who tho visitor Is
A. pOleon III. coming To the deahbed Of the Due de
Morny few seconds later man appears at The door,
ana A. asked, How he a. and replrs, lie is dead"
N Is striking delneation Of the apugee OF the Second
Enpire when OF ITS leading and bOdest promoters
-uddeuIy disappeared. 1he star OF the hspoieons ap
p.ars from that moment 10 pae. WITH the Duo de
Mony the unprecedented fortune OF the NapoleOns
seems 10 perish. All this - powerfully suggested 10y
ibis auechamber, close by which II expiring The m
snired OF the Second Empire. Not less effective IL the
last act Gensouns old mother arrives TO witness
,ha efrie sitting where the election annued The
leading actors showed much talent