The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-16
JOHN DREW BACK IN COMEDY.
EVERYBODY GLAD no SEE HIM
IN "TAPT4IN DfEPPE."
It's a Dainty Pia, Buii' Around a Lo>ab'e
ScaIawaE. but with Just a sanron
Ttpgr In His Moral Complexion when
'Twrrc Better We're Not There.

John Drew effected his temperance
last night at the Herald square Theatre,
acting with his accustomed lightness oil
,oucb and gayetv of spirits the chief role
IL, , comedy entitled Captain Dieppe,
written bv Anthony Hope and Harrison
Rhodes. The story is, as many readers
know. one of the dainticst of Mr. Hopes
felicitons short tales and occupies lar less
time and space in its literary than in IFS
dramatic form.
Ncycrt hclcss il bears expansion excel
lentlv, except in the last act in winch the
expansion has been TOO generous, ana IL
provided last night a cheerful and agreeable
evenings entertainment for a gathering OF
considerable size, including many OF the
most popular actors and actresses now IN
town.
MIR, Drew has been in need recently OF a
light comedy role similar to those IN wiloh
he made his fame in the course OF ms career
as member of Augtstin Days company
He has been made To play altogether 100
many serious, not so say, lugubrlous parts
He has PLAYED fem WE'LL and a, times with
hiRh dist inc,ion for he is an intelligent ACTOR
n master of the technics of his profession,
and an fist of ripe experience and ieilned
sympahies.
Nevertheless his best friends have al
WAYS felt that his finest field was That OF
light comedy, and that since the death
of Lester Wallack there was no other man
so qualified to occupy that field as ne Ills
excursions into the realms OF melodraina'
of poetic play and emotional drama nave
been watched with interest ana nave colh-
mend,d public appreciation. But his re-
turn to the field Of light comedy Will surely
be welcomed by his friends and admirers
which means by the town.
1t il a pity that there is false note IN the
actions OF the willy Captain Uepps: ne Is
cunning, a man of the world, the familiar
and valued deus er mdchind OF the modern
drama, and n lovable scaIawag; but he IL
a scalawag for all that. and when ne pays
himself what the French Government owes
him by approprating as the price OF
his silence pocket book which he has just
seen a scamp take from the person OF an
insensble officer of the secret service, he
treads heavily upon our senSlDll'les ana
makes us wish that Heaven had made nm
honest.
To be sure, he gives the pocketbook back
afterward to the detectives wife, -but minus
the IS COZ francs he paid the blackmaller,
and 80 we canno. help feeling that he had
a saffron cast in his moral complexion.
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