The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-07
NEW FRENCH COMEDY
AT LYCEUM PLEASES
"Thc Beautiful Adventures"
Chief situation Retained
in English Version.
TROIMtN STAR PRESENTED
Play Well Acted and Laughable
throughout, With Little
Excuse for Bushes.
The Beautiful Adventure" the Lyceum
Theatre.

Returning travellers have spoken with
enthusiasm ~ a play they saw in Paris
called ia Belle Aventure." Returning
travellers are likely TO speak with enthu-
sasm OF the plays they saw in Paris only
10 b. rather astonished when these foreign
masterpieces which have been imported,
translated. adapted. expanded and fuml-
gated are finally brought to the footlights
IN condition for the American market
There is likely 10 be disappointment. The
New York version often corresponds in
few details to the original. This is not
however fault Of The Beautiful Nd
venture which Charles Frohman pro-
durei on Saturday night at the Lyceum
Theatre. In It's most important feature
the play remains the same as II was in
rars
r de- Flcrs and A. de Cailavet who
nigh, be the Meilhac and Halevy OF their
day = they touched somewhat deeper emo
tons AID cared To make their stories and
CHARACTER, stand IN a somewhat closer
relation To- the day and the place. de-
vsei 10 LA Belle Aventure," which had
long period Of popularity in Paris. a
sN'''4, usc ~ a situation which has
served ~ earlier plays, notably 10 Voy-
suggested IN Others
A Young woman finds on the eve OF her
Welding that she cannot tolerate the
prospect Of lifc with the methodical
s'rp.e'or 20 whom her aunt has trcacher-
dusy be,rothcd her ~ this eminenty
psychological moment her lover returns
from Vienna. leaving his duties as secre-
ilry OF the French Embassy there TO
discover how life ls going with the girl
he loves In her wedding gown. with
ne guests awaiting her. the wedding
bells ringing and the room white with the
wedding flowers she runs away with her
old lover - take refuge with her grand
mother m the home she has prepared for
her and the husband she was expected 10
marry.
The Important situation.
Second act Village home to which the
old lady has come She is more than so,
bit takes tho trip to welcome her favorite
GRANDDAUGHTER and her husband. The two
fugltives arrive one IL the grand
daughter and presumably 80 an is the
husband she has ,ust married. II is the
belief Of the old lady that sprig of
rosemary on the threshold OF the bridal
chamber means that a son will he the first
o':a- uow family. Tn re is supper. Some
conversation follows.
There .s delicate love scene between
the 'Vo thus mistaken for man and wife
Nh,r tie granddaughter goes into the roo n
set apar. for the pair the man stretches
IN an armchair while she bundles him NJ
IN comforter Midnight strikes. Candle
In hand grandmothers enters. Twelve
o'clock is the time FOR the planting Of the
rosemary. II g. taken from the drawer
NJ the sdehodrd. carried carefully across
Tho room 20 the important door ant
sFr.HKlod on the threshold
on the return journey the armchair 4
The supposed husband intervenes Indig
nan,,y grandmother recognizes the mar
she had supposed on the other side Of the
rosemary decorated door. Indignantly sh'
summons her Granddaughter and admin
listers a lecture.
T. was this situation reached with tn
end ~ the second act that made the com
"fy popular In Paris. Doubtless Their
were other reasons for It's success. Tn
workmanship - the play Is delicate am
really IN" It's class Is genuine comed'
with scarcely note Of farce, which Is no
sounded nv tho actors and not hy N
r'lywrghts There Is some delightful
Characterization tn the grandmother, wh'
thought Louis Pallippe the creates
monarch France ever knew. for under hi
reign she had the pink checks, the blu
ewes and the cur's ~ sixteen whereas IN
republic had brought her only rheumatism
Bud old arc.