New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-12
P AY THE Gull TY MAN. MAY CAUSE CHANGE IN CODE OF LAWS
Production Will Call Attention to Sad Case
Of Legitimate Children, for the Ameliora-
ton Of Whose Condition Bill Will
Be Introduced at Albany.

In order to restrict the performance 10
those who are sincerely interested in the
work IL has been agreed to confine at.
tendance to members of the sociological
fund of the Medical Review Of Re-
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THE PLAY.
"The Guilty Man" opens with a fare
we'll supper given by Christian Lescuyef
70 his friends after having spent several
wears in Paris studying law. Those pres.
, ent are Perrinette Forgeat, his friend
Francois Donadieu. a sculptor, and He
loise Marian. The dinner receives an
added impetus through the arrival OF two
musicians. Lescuyer explains to Dom
adieu that he Is only leaving Paris and
Perrinette because the stern sense Of
duty demands that he take up his
career"
The two guests, with sense OF the oc.
casion, leave. Perrinette, after consider.
able hesitation, finally makes Lescuyef
understand that she is TO become Z
mother. He is Mortified. and translates
such an event coming to pass as an ir.
retrievable blow against his future, but
with a desire to escape immediate ~.
snonstbility he promises that he will pro.
vide for and ultimately acknowledge her
and the child. He asks her 10 leave for
| a little while as he has an appointment
with a friend In moving scene she
takes temporary farewell.
After she has gone Lescuyer writes
short note to Perrinette, incloses some
money and leaves, never TO return Per.
rinette enters. expecting 10 spend last
hour with him. She finds his letter but
before she has time TO plan course Of
| action DR.. Berlier comes in.
Perrinette explains that Lescuyer has
gone; the doctor reads the note, and &
question or two suffice to explain her cen.
dition to him. He refuses to help her,
whereat she pictures 10 him all the pos.
sible miseries OF unhallowed motherhood
and Illegal childhood. The curtain falls
on her prayer for relief.
THE SECOND ACT.
The second act is twenty-three ysan
later, at the ancestral home OF Christian
Lescuyer. A short scene between Louise,
a bright, pretty girl Of nineteen, maid G
the house. and Justine. another servant
establishes the air OF depression hanging
over the house, etc. Lescuyer and hs
friend Laparge enter presently. Lescuy.
er is beyond his years in appearance He
admits to Laparge how miserable Is his
life. and how his conscience has been
hurting him ever since Perrnette an
nounced the birth of his boy-whom she
named Christian Forgeat, at the same
time that he married another woman.
They leave, as Laparge finds he cannot
stay. Louise sees some one in the gar
den. She calls, and a young man. tall
poorly dressed, with a quiet manner.
| comes TO the window. He tells OF an IN
successful search for work. Louise sat-
isles his hunger with food from the
luncheon table set Tor Laparge. She sends
the youth on his way. elctlng from him
the information that he is Christian For
geat.
Lescuyer returns and is very angry 70
learn that a beggar. "a criminal from the
Reform School," has been In the house
Louise pleads for him and repeats the
name he has given her. Lescuyer Is cleo
trified, and is about to run after the boy
when Justine comes from Nine. Lescly
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