The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-13
new PLAYS FROM ENGLAND.
VIZ. HiRI'EY PRESENTS TWO M
PORTATIONS WIN Success.
- Cigarette Makers Romance and
"ROusct de iLs!c" We'll Received at
the Herald Sauare-PGthOs and Wild
HuniOr PieasinEiy Blended In Them

II is lust possible that If Martin Harvey
had first appeared in the double bill he
presented a, the Herald Square Theatre
Lar; night he might have been able to dis
pense with revival Of THE Only Way
a piece that no longer piques curiosity.
He made an excellent impression last night
and with a little prologue. -Rousct de
Isle" no captured entirely the su'lrages
Of his audience large one.
Plays Of the "Rouget d. liI" type
are not strangers 10 our boards. and Tx" Tie
short story in fiction usually achieve Sue
cess After seong the wretched garrett ~
the French offccr-composer who com
posed the "Marsei llni -e under vastly DIFF
forcnt circumstances. by the way, or el'e
history errs we recalled "Chatteit)n;
after seeing the unfortunate composer,
dandified but honorable to the last. We
recall Beau Brummel"
Freeman wills and Fitzmaurice King
are the authors of the pretty sentimental
romance woven about the great old pa
t~io,ic tune of France The material EN-
ployed is eleins ntary, but effective. Poor,
starving. the composer loves prima
donna His harsh landlord presses him
for the rent The landlords daughter is
the Little NeH Of this improbable tale
Deserted. so he thinks. and hungry, robbed
of his beloved fiddle, Rouoet dies with the
melody he composed throbbing in his
ears and the limelight on his wan, weary
features.
II made a hit Mr. Harvey and Miss de
Silva-the good tiny girl of the big. brutal
landlord being recalled many times
,In., h.,
prima donna-one really wishes TO know
what parted the lovers-and Fuller Mellish
the father.
Gift Of delicate notation and limited emo
'iona range His makeup vas conven-
tionally romantic rather than characteristic
of a musical composer.
The play that followed IL an adaptation
from Marion Crawford's We Unknown novel
II is called A Cigarette Makers Romance
and in three acts. W. are shown in the
central character one not altogether un-
was il Mr. Harvey's familiar method?
In both plays there j. the same episode.
A man starving who won't eat, man who
has seen better days"
Beau Brummel" again peers oyer the
adapters shoulder. Mr.. Charles Hannah.
An unfortunate Russia Count who has
lost the memory Of his name because Of
an accident. enjoys the singular delu-
sion that on every Wednesday his
friends will call for him and restore him
TO his exalted position in the aristocratic
world
Among alienists ammo sia is common
maladv Mr.. Crawford has not attempted
10 dive beneath the skin of hi- character,
giving us instead an old-fashioned COM
plication with a romantic figure in the per-
son Of Count Skdr,dtine the cigarette maker.
OF course he loves a cigarette girl, of course
the villain is a cousin Y no has usurped his
title.
II all svims along on the thrice creased
rails of goodly tradition and effective
curtains Nor can YOU critiCise an au-
dience for liking and applauding the heroic
girl who has her own locks shorn rather
than scl the hair of her dead mother or
is IL the dead hair of her mother, as they
say in good Olcndorfian'
Mr.. Harvey, courtly, dainty, with bad
memory and in worn, quaint clothes,
PLAYED with the utmost sincerity and skill.
His act endngs were capital. He received
much applause. So did Miss De Silva.
The parts were well apportoned among
the company, Mr.. Mellish enacting one of
his Characteristic roles with care.
Percy Ansiey was a furry Villain and
schmidt, an cx-barber and adept at cigar
etts rolling. WAS taken 10y Mr.. Haviland
The cost umcs Of 'ifty years ago in Munich
had rraisembi0nco Altogether, Mr.. Harvey
and his clever company were seen at their
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