New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-09
PLAYS BOOM IN PARIS.
Mile Ceniat the Cause Of the Trouble at the Coincide
Appears in Sensational Playa Sufragette
Drama by Donnay Produced

to the highest social person to be Eot.
Papa is banker and automobile MANI
facturcr who used To run a dirty little
bar and coffee counter I'm Marseilles.
Mamma is hendish old schemer, who
used TO teach Lucienue at the age of six.
90 srot nobility at smart beach resorts
and apparently accidentally annoy those
persons or u some childish way attract
their attention or interest. so that blythe
way conversation might lead TO acquaint-
auces who would come i1 well Tor The
girl's marriage fifteen years later. Luci-
,uue herself isn't much of anything CA
ccpt .Jeune file
a Young N Lehman. OK a banking
family, too. wants TO marry Lucicnnc.
His mother wants him TO. moreover.
which doesn't please Nine. Borel-Borci.
whose notion Of success in marrying
daughters is thal q marriage got without
overcomiue serious opposition is not a
first rate marriage So mamma lays her
traps for ono Duo de- Biscaye al idiot.
animal fellow who s related 10 the reign
ing house OF Austria-HunSary. The due
has a her designs on Lucicnne, whom
he'd Ike 10 set as a smart, rich boursc-
Disc mistress. Lucienne knows that.
and tells mamma about IT, An right,
saws the mother "go ahead; let him Sc
duce you and well make him marry you'
trust TO MS for that"
L.ucienne gets angry then and runs Of
10 see a young chap named jacques T"s-
sier, the son Of tailor. who is head over
heels iu love with her Now. Jacques.
who isn't at all that kind of person,
actually does seduce the young woman
when she shows up at his furnished room
When she returns home. later in tho
afternoon. Lucienne let's her mother get
the story out Of her. jacques calls. Papa
forgives him, announces marriage Tor
right away. and gives the children lot
of money. while mamma. crestiallen but
defiant. telephones the snubbed Lehmanns
that Lucicuue is engaged TO re Baron
Tcssier. The authors make a great
point out of Lucienne's total Indifference
to the tailor's son. She doesn't love him
any more than she does young VI. Leh-
mann or the bleary duke. Apparently
she uses Jacques only to get away from
her family and to put an end TO their
bargaining and climbing.
The piece has been uproariously re-
coiyed and will doubtless be one of the
most successful plays of the season. In
general the critics think little of IT, but
/ that does moi matter nowadays with the
French public to the same degree that 1t
used 10. Mile. G6nat is excellent in her
part. but not extraordinary in any way.
"Sylla." the Roman drama in verse by
Alfred Mortier is praised as remarkable
of its kind. which is. generally, the SORT
of thing Steven Phillips has done in
English. Ii Is ably acted and we'll staged.
The critics have little to say of the
sunragette play 10y Maurice Donnay. Les
Eclaireuses,' which they saw on a closed
/ special-for-critics first night. II appears
TO be more humorous than NJ. Brieux $
fierce Femme Seule" and IN better grace
generally. Another week will bring out
larger opinions Of it, Mile. Martin,
/ garthe. thc actress, who succeeded Mime
Simone I'm 1.-The Return from Jerusalem
when the latter lett Paris for New York
! naa a. Important part in the play.
4 number Of incidents worth relating
have marked the week At the Colonnc
symphony concerts Pablo Casals, 4 cello
SOLOS who had been engaged to pla,
/ Dvorak's corcertc. considered himself in
suited because NJ Picrne, OF the orches
! ira. criticised the concerto as a whole
making some remarks nj the expense o
! its musical value. Whcreupon NJ. Casal
| refused TO play in the concerts for which
| he had contracted. and the symptom,
organization Is now going to sue him TO
damages in the courts.