The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-12
A WEEK OF FIRST NIGHTS
NEW PLAYS PRODUCED At
THE LONDON THEATRES.

Ih9w season Waftn Harvey -
Richard 90. RsNhals % Old Pays.
LONDON. May 81 A week Of interesting
first nights has succeeded the deArth Of
new plays Of the preceding fortnight.
n. b. Irving and Martin Harvey oon-
nictsd In the date Of their productions,
both choosing last Saturday night Mr.
Irving gave two plays from the French.
Judge Not and Robert Macaire. az the
Queens Theatre. while Mr. Harvey por-
trayed Richard III at the Lyceum.
Mr. lrving's first play. Judge Not. :
was one Of NJ. Antoines favoritss in the
days when the Theatrs Antoine was
under his management. For some years
George Alexander had the English rights
OF the piece. which he finally ceded % Mr..
Irving
Judge Not il one Of those psyche
logical and pathological dramas that
Paris loves. a. well a. a play with
purpose. the purpose being an
attack on the methods OF Cross-quss-
tioning persons suspected Of crime
which prevail In France A Judge has
been bsatsn to death The Magistrate
conducting the Investigation finds letters
among the dead mans papers that show
that he had q mistress. He concludes
that the woman's husband committed
the murder Husband aud wife are
brought before the Magistrate and are
remOrselssNly Questioned
The husband knows nothing % his
Wifss intrigue. but there h y great deal
Of eircumatantial evidence against him.
The wife 10 hOrrifled At the position IN
which her husband stands. and to rave
him oonfesses her unfaithfulness. The
discovery Of the murderer seems - far
on a. ever. but two lives have been
ruined.
Then step by step the lawyer repre-
sentinz the woman and a doctor elicit
the truth. The examining Magistrate
Ia the murderer. He IL an epileptic. lgnO-
rant az his own condition and knows
nothing % the crime he has committed.
bat gradually he himself realizes that
there is no doubt of HE guilt. Realizing
the truth he falls In a A.. His future.
the doctor aays, IL the asylum.
Robert Macairs- seemed an old fash
ionsd. fantastic melodFAmA to bother
much about in these days 81 theatrical
realism. Mr. Irving used the Fechtsr
version 81 the piece and was alternately
CAV and sinister az the accomplished
rogue Robert. 4 young sister % Mrs.
IrvinRs. Miss Gladys Baird. made her
debut in a small part.
The I.yceum Theatre IL now the home 81
Shakespeare at cut prices. with plays q
Han Game and the like inteEpersed. The
Richard Martin Harvey presented there
was an idealized and much heautihed
Richard. whose hump was scarcely visl-
bic. whose handsome face was dellcately
thin and Interestingly pale. WIN was
picturesque and sympathetic, nothing
like the UNPLEASANT fellow Sir Henry
Irving and Richard Mansfield made him.
In fact h. was the Richard not d shake
spaare hut n Mr. Harvey
Monday night the Irish players from
the Dublin Theatre opened their London
se.son a. the Court Theatre. They were
grestsd bV a handful Of people in he
staIa. q sprinklinG in the dress circle,
and fair 20 AND cutlery
More eeliahtful than ever was their
Irish humor IN -HyRcinth Halvey. lady
Gragory's new COMEDY. HydctHh has
come 10 Gloon a. sanitlrys inspector with
a bundle Of testimonials from his native
village 20 show what fne fellow he u
His neighbors were ANXIOUS 20 get nd
Of him and with Irish eloquence spread
themselves in AoWery descriptions Of his
upright character
We spa~dily finds himself regarded a.
A model in his new home. He must lodge
with the parish priest and opposite the
Dolica barracks Tie must serve ~ q
noble example 20 the youth q the town.
Now HvaefgiA b far from wishing 70 act
like A saint and decides 20 commit all
manner Of Offences 60 rid Gloon 81 IL good
opinion % him He rohs butcher OF
sheen and the church Of poor box, but the
butcher looks upon him a. benefactor
because the meat was not fresh and the
church theft IL attributed 20 a lad NJ had
chsyaoter deSpjts ali HvaeiRh's eROrts
10 prove that he himself h the offender.
40 the curtain falls on the model young
man being carried on unwillingly % take
the chair AZ lecture on The Agricultural
Poor
-Hyacinth Halvsy- sent the audisnce
home M rood laughing humor. which was
An excellent thing. a. Il followed a play
by thu late J. NJ Synge which even the
exquisite art 81 these players coph not
make interesting -Deirdre Of the soT-
rows was Synge's last work and was leit
uniniahed Il 10 based on an old Irish
legend ~ the Paolo and Francesca type.
Deirdrs is loved by an old King and u
cent cloigtered by him till she II old enough
10 he his wife Despite his eforts she has
met A youth. Naisi. the Kings nephew.
and she runs away with him rather than
we'd the King. For seven years the lovers
hide hi hills and woods I'LL az last they
are hidden 20 appear before the monarch.
Nafsi IL slain by the Kings orders and
Deirdrc stabs herself
The tragedy h full u beautiful and
poetic lines descriptive Of dawn and sun
act OF flowers and ferns. of the joys Of
Young love and the dreary loneliness %
IA AZ. but nevertheless Il was mOnotO-
nous and dull A. acted.
Az the Remington Theatre on Monday
O. X. Sims's melOdrama -komany Rye
va revival. tuesday eyening Lewis
Waller producsd another play LA which
he appaarsd a. a handsome prince Of dis
repute. an irresistible lover, dashing
soldier and a light pursed gentlemAn OF
fortune. and this time Of Spain. The
pisce woven about this hero was Gerald
An Maurier's version OF Don CRsar de
Bazan.' which IL the third version 81 the
Dlay made In England. Mr.. du Maurier
has instituted several changes In the cOn-
str,ictiOn Of the original and his play h
quicker and brighten than its predeces-
AZ a production Don CRsaT- out
nagnanta any pageant Il beats All its
own records easily. and h a spectacls
Of rich cOlors. Of gay dances. clAahing
sworda and wariike m9rchSs.