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Show The Parish Priest'' is the title of a play now beMng performed at the Park theatre, Boston, by Mr. Daniel Sully and his company. com-pany. It is from the pen of a voung but already successful dramatist, Mr. Daniel L. Hart, and is altogether one of the most clean and wholesome pictures of life ever put on the American stage. Mo.'e than one clever playwright has essayed to portray por-tray the village priest, but Mr. Hart it may be confidently stated, is the first Who has given us a true picture of 'the father" as he is seen by his Hock and bv as manv others as take the trouble to look with, eyes free from prejudice. Mr. Sully's "Father Wheelan," parish priest of a little lit-tle mining town in Pennsylvania, is his people's friend, adviser and peacemaker, such as may bo found in thousands all over the country. He is severe against wrong, but patient with the wrong-doer, leading him from the crooked -paths of sin to the straight way of truth. He does not preach at his people, but to them and that with infinite kindness and unfailing good humor. Ho is witty, as an Irish priest should be. but his darts never rankle, ran-kle, anel he knows how to laugh down folly fol-ly as well as to p-Ji meanness and falsehood false-hood to sh'ame. - |