The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-30
TWO NEW PLAYS OF FUN,
AND A THIRD THAT'S 4 FRESH YER
SION or IN OLD ONE.

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THE Ne" nom'n'oh Emily bancker In
81. Maur's - "i'oree Cnre'' from ssrdon'
Roland Reed brought n new play into the Har.
lem end OF tho city last night. Mr.. Reed Is o
comedian with quite sufficient talent to warrant
him in leading q company of his own, and in
taking the dominant role in q piece. THE
Wrong Mr.. Wright" is n farce by George
II, Broadhurst, whose ideas OF humor are
fresh and original enough to Justify his
writing OF fun for stage use. A rich
and generous Californian. robbed by an
-u,,oroc ofFers az O0O for tho f,Oitivo criminal
and then tries to save tho owar money by
making Sst tho So capture sOae n q. old p me learns eon, that tho tho
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"sou under the assumed name Of Wright
hrntinr tho thief at that resort
hun'l"k Tho u ,~us,
young woman VINO Ii q professional Dc
Iicye that the Numbered man ia tho Murderer
Thcse two become enamored Of each other. Tho
eject ON the man ia to opon his heart, loosen his
nurse strings. and make n ioIly old how Of him.
The woman ia distracted between her desire for
the reward and her liking for the suppo.cd
thief. A nephew and a niece of bis arc in the
Qualifications. So is a silly English nobleman.
who pays court To n maid servant masoueradinq
ns her wealthy mistress. SO are a sanotimonious
hvpocrite and his old maiden sister. An army
oaacer md N bellbov comp,ete tho act NJ char.
acters. or caricatures. and It ia an extrnyapant
.eries of bappeniprs that they au,ire in.
The audience laughed long and heartily Mt
.'The Wrong Mr.. Wright. I" and an a. muat bc
written down as having served it's foolish vet
harmless PURPOSE. Mr.. Reed acted bis mart
much as the late John I. RAYMOND or the pres.
emit William H. Crane would have PLAYED It. He
was droll. buovant- and comioal. with n manner
not partlSulariy arIful, ana ne was All the while
sm ! M asr s1 an IN e esScm nnxtS Mnirn s,s u.u ,b mo.
seem 10 uemianu % eApSSt nhS'nins else man
speech between acts and thSt Was no un-
Th 10 impe nsSro inl,s shS s senS and aS Mar inMss GPpss
Denico., who. as tho ifrisky maidservant. CON:
thouLSu a ea nn5 ,, Sesir nnn Sn nns = Aooe'
Charles coote' ana other competen's'
Sardou's "Divorcons" has been acted in vari-
Gus forms in New York before last night. but
@tre then was the first adaptation of tho piece
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the types that eontrasted Win the Americans
were most important IN the action OF "A
OF the play Is called. These two were Cyprienne
ana 'ds'm'r. inc lover. me "iie was an Eng
lish woman Of title and the lover retained the
nationality that Sardou gave him. These two
isures IN inc pia! are ior OBVIOUS reasons
never made OF the same race as the
ras, NJ ths rarsonsoes In tbs vsr;o,s
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adaptations. iheE would nj INTO no echeme
that was not French. So when Herman Merivale
fo,nded 1.-The oueen's Proctor" nm saraop'a
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comedy ne made ooth the Wlfe ana tho lover
Italian. There was no place, for them among
English surroundings or English people.
The play that Mr.. Merivale made ives edniira-
bic in its way, not as an adaptation Of the orig
inal work-which II was not intended to be-
hut as an Ers.ieh use Of Sardou's idee. Mr. St
Mnur, who wro.c"A Divorce Cure" has chung
to the sequence OF scenes in the original. but he
has brought the ri4y. down to a really compre-
hensible 1cve. that is several pegs below the
French drama. and very different from the Eng
lIish comedy so recently seen here at the Bi3ou.
II is broadly farcicLL. Every point Is thrown
into such relief that the last man in the last row
may not be amused. but 1t is not because every
situation is not made plain, and put, more
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