New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03
THE WEEKS BILL.
John DreU Opens Season at the
Empire Theatre.
MARIE WAINWRIGHT.


The Empire Theatre will begin its thirteenth sea-
son tomorrow evening with John Drew in
comedy by Augustus Thomas. entitled de Ian
cey.' Mr.. Drew will have the role of New-York
who goes in for all the pleasures of the fash
1onabe world and who is fair sample of the polish
and cleverness of the men of that class. The play
III In three acts. Mr.. Drew's leading woman is Miss
Margaret Dale
DIR. Elliott and James De Lancey members OF
the Baychester Hunt Club. Some years before the
opening of the play one of the runs OF the club
Or. Elliott had jumped his horse into flower bed
OF q nursery grounds. which the fox had gone,
and he had fallen off In his fall he frightened a
little girl in wooden shoes. who was working in
the flower beds To reassure her. the doctor talked
30 the girl, and casually kissed her. Years after
he became the accepted sutton Of Miss Jacqueline
MARBLE. friend Of De Lanceys, and confessed tina.
the only girl TO whom he had ever given a senti-
mental thought the gardeners little daughter
whom he had once kissed.
At the opening of the play Elliott and Jacque-
line doubt whether they suited to each other.
De Lalcey tries to convince them that they are
He requests the doctors permission to make toT
maj announcement OF Iie Eng ~ ,5 80,
the nursery. and Elliott comes to the hothouse to
meets the gardeners daughter. now a young
ans s e to be Is osensy
leave order for roses. but really to have last
has a preferences over her fancee Again the run is
near the nursery and this time through g the break
carried by. his companion into the hothbcse. He
confesses his love for JacGueline, and the two
couples change partners for life
The Lyceum regular will begin Wednes-
day next with n. c. Goodwin in Beauty and the
Barge" a comedy by W. W. Jacobs and Louis
N Parker The story concerns the daughter of
Major Srnedley, who lives on the shore OF the
Thames. The major has determined that Ethel
shall marry Herbert Manners, about to return from
abroad Ethel is equally resolved not to have
,1-AOn her
turns up a young lieutenant in the navy named
Seton Boyne who makes love to her Ethel decides
to run away to London and take to the stage. and
q captain whose affa6iiity is always getting him
s only s to Msior smedIeys elderly maid MIS-
Baldwin but TO the wife of the p ropresod OF me
the play In the last act the barge Is seen at
. Part of the captain of the barge
NJ The regular season at the Madison Square The
atre Will begin tomorrow night with The Prince
Chap" three-act play by Edward Peple. The
Prince Chap" is the first play wherein the evolu-
fton Of a stage character has been shown from in
fancy to womanhood requiring in its interpreta-
ton three actresses.
.aTbs Prince Chap" shows the tenderness dis
played by poor sculptor for girl Of five, named
Claudia who was left orphan in his care. and
whose future depends entirely upon his bounty.
The child comes between him and the woman he
loves. and IN deciding between the two he sacri-
fees the love of his betrothed by the responsibility
he has assumed
The first act opens In apartment in the studio
Of William Peyton. a young American sculptor,
who is struggling in London
Mrs. Errington. mother Of Claudia formerly
celebrated model is dying from hunger and ex-
oosrre when she goes TO Peyton and begs him TO
take the child. Peyton consents ana the woman
dies.
While Claudia IS being put TO bed she asks Pey-
ton to tell her a story. and he rectes tale of a
prince and Princess Alicia chapter out of his
own life. He refers TO the prince "a poor
chap" The child asks: rs prince a chap" and
from this inquiry the play has derived its
Three years elapse between the first and second
acts Peytou prospers. He has learned TO love
Claudia as If she were his child. Alice Tray
from America, calls upon Peyton. questions him
about Claudia, and believes him to be the child's
Gather After the Christmas tree has been dressed
. parcel arrives 1t contains present for Claudia
and package for Peyton. In the package are his
returned letters.
lapse of ten years shows Claudia at the begin
ming OF the third act as an attractive young woman
Of eighteen She is devoted to her fosterfather
he L. her. Their life is OF perfect happiness
Claudia finds that her liking for Peyton has deve-
oped into a stronger affection. She overhears Alice
repeatfo Peyton the reason why she rejected him.
and. believing that Feyton still loves Alice, Claudia
makes UP her mind to leave home. In the act Of
doing 90 she meets Peyton face to face. He finds
the sad little note of parting which she has left
Tor him. and In reading 1t awakens to realization