Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-16
Entertainments.
HYPERION.


 An audience that represented New Ha- ven's best and most fashionable plsy-goers filled the Hyperion last night. The oc- casion was the first appearance in this oity of Rose and Charles Coghlan in Sardou's fine old play, Diplomacy" MT. Coghlan playing the part of Henry Blesuclerc, in which old theater-goers will remember Lester Wsllack. Perhaps it would be well to recall the main points of the play.
 There are two brothers, Julian and army officer, young and impulsive, the other perfect type of the man of the world at forty, cool, cautious aud diplo- matic. The elder brother came on to Monte Carlo only to learn that Julian is paying marked attention to the daughter of 8 certain Marquis de Rio Fares, a woman of doubtful reputation, who is suspected of secret dealings with the Russian police. Before Henry can interfere the engage ment between the young people is sn- nounced, and ss the young lady is charm ing he decides to put 8 good face on in the matter. Now there is certain Countess Zioka at Monte Carlo, who had once nursed Julian back to life from 8 severe ill., ness, and who is madly jealous of this new attachment. She is spy of the Russian secret police through a certain Baron Stein, an interruptions old scoundrel. At the opening of the play Count Orloff, @ Russian exile, has deter mined to become disguised, to offer his services on the field of battle. Before leaving he calls on the marquise and her fro hra IIa hau shaven off his beard to escape detection and gives the latter his portrait taken as he now is, incidentally mentioning the route he will take. The adventures calls on Dora, incidentally learns from her this route and about the photograph, and com munioates it to Stein. Orlof is immedi- ately arrested upon his arrival and thrown into prison.
 The next act finds Captain Beauclerc married. On the very wedding day Orloff, having effected his release, comes to Paris and calls on his old friend Julian. In the course of this call he, not knowing who the bride is yet, congratulates Julian on hay | ing escaped from the clutches of those two l and her daughter. The wife enters and he | sees his mistake, and in one of the finest scenes ever written the two brothers de- mand an explanation. Orloff begs to be let off, but when compelled tells | of his Russian arrest, of his be- trayal by the two women, and proves his statements by swearing that he saw in | Russia the picture which had caused his | arrest. It was the one he had given to Dora with his own handwriting on it. and | 8 few words of her own underneath. From the betrayed husband, the outraged love of the wife under suspicion, the crafty un- scrupulousness of the adventures, and the cool, self f-contained generalship of the de voted elder brother, who tricks the Count ess Zicks into 8 public confession of hei guilt. The curtain descends on a fallen and humiliated woman, and the happiness of the lovers who had been torn apart by her jealous rage.
 As Henry Beauclerc Mir. Charles Coghlar
 was the very personihcation of ease and
 grace and power and brotherly sympathy
 This superb artist rang the changes on tn,
 character until 1t seemed as if he mus
 reach soon the end of his resources, snl
 yet there was always something held il
 reserve. If he could be said to have don
 one thing better than another it was wheI he stood by and watched the scene bstweel Orloff and his brother, breaking in whel
 1t had progressed as far ss he thought
 ought. This Is an sctor's greatest test, |
 be on the stage, doing nothing and to do
 well.
 ; Miss Coghlan's Zicka, from the moment e ] her proud entrance to the time when sh stands crushed and broken at the oloss , never once lowers the tone of her pei formanoe. It Is a marvel of well-coI
 ceived art, of long-sustained effort an
 splendid elocution. As Dora, Miss Ma
 tinot equals the star. It would be hard , f imagine more dainty or elear-cut pc
 formance, or one which more quickly go, to the heart. Mir. John T. Sullivan !. Julian, Frederick Robinson as 0rloff ar
 Robert Fischer as Baron Stein, all show. r themselves.artists of the first order, wortl # of longer mention. But in so excelle IT @ company one has to stop somewhere. V MT. Richard Mansfeld's appearance u