Show I JEAN VALJEAN ON THE STAGE I I Special Correspondence Conn May H B HAt BAt At the opera house here to tonight night Wilton Lackaye ap reared for tor the first time on any nn stage In he character of ot JeanIn The Law and the ow own n dramatization of ot Victor Jetor Hugos luos LA The Tho play not only marks the first effort to 10 condense this great poem of ot civilization Into one drama drilma former Cormer having dealt only with episodes od or Individuals but It I has probably given glnn to 10 th stage one ole of or the plays produced for tor year arl M It certainly Mr Ir a I magnificent opportunity for rt t e display of o his genius ns us n character actor Fur Further ther the than this Mr Ir play pia demonstrate the fact tae that the great power of Victor Hugo WOI In knowing how to create rente lift 11 planted on firm and Ild ground characters that are alive and ready for action They Tiey mot mo through his book not as Incomprehensible stiff automatons but hii as IA men full rull of ot health vigor and alo nature no tUr lie Il pitched heroes Into the open bat battlefield of or real 1111 life 11 He I hurled them against nall t the most formidable of ot tP placed thom them In a hand han to hand encounter with wih chance misfortune or death 1 h And 10 It I la I In Ih conflicts that l t character Is tempered In 11 trials that their souls expand l pallI The fhe Law and the Man U I the ro romance 1 mance maneI of the Ihl people It I Is the agony aOI of ot the despair 11 on 01 which a I world orl presses pre el and to which I i sublime poet pt has hal given 11 n nn n language like ikI unto that of Job Iob him himself self It I Is IA romanticism Introduced lurl It Itlo I lo to politics The play pia resembles a mir mirror 11 that a I torrent this torrent Is IH tho nineteenth century Mr 11 play pia opens nt nn Inn Innon on Iho outskirts of or Path Iah where Fan friends and their lovers arc lie din In Ing announces announce that this Is the tl anniversary of or the birth of nr her daughter Colette lo et She Is I congratulated ed Tho Ih scene AI nf to 10 the of the Ih Bishop Jean IJ InIN I lodged for the night and l with the silver plate of tho bishop He Il Is I by b Javert I and brought back The bishop de declares te clares clarel h he gave the the plate and says o s ou have forgotten the can They are worth This ends end tha Iho prologue Tho three cenes of ot the list nt act show the office of ot the tho mayor 1101 of ot Meme known as lS M I Madeleine who Is 18 Jean Valjean ilch Ich honored by hy reason of ot his hil dis discovery Ils covery cor of or a process 1 of oC making artificial Jet and Ind loved for tor his Javert now chief of or police tries to III take Fall t ne old and consumptive to prison The mayor 1001 orders her release The next two show how the scenes ex exterior I pf pt the tho Court of oC Assizes ami thi thicourt 1 court room at Arras 1118 where nn UI Inno Innocent 1111 cent ent man Is tried convicted sen sentenced Se to the galley gallas for tor lre for tor th the crimes of ot Jean Valjean The prisoner Id I Identified by b Javert Jaert und uld three con convicts from Crom the galleys at ft Toulon foulon Chen 1 lu und an IK Jean Valjean The situation following Is 18 tremendous The mayor of ot Memo Iem seat eat seated ed II the trial judge arises and 1111 proclaims the Innocence of ft the convict convicted ed oll man and II declares that he la Is Valjean The second act opens with lh the death of nC In the hospital of ot lol I tho arrest of Valjean nelll by h Javert ann ami his hil escape t lal through room lom of or I Simple The he next scene shown n I room In II the Inn of ot tho and plotting of oC the th conspirators to get Hel the I wealth of ot and to In brinK bring Fan 1111 tines daughter rosette Co etl Into their pow power er p The act closes with wih Marina avowal of oC love loe for tor Tho third net take I place In 11 garden Tho next Is I the mast t thrilling and an exciting net act of HIP play pIny the barricade ade In of nr Paris the of or his hil rescue by Valjean and a 11 their escape through the rent s of or Purls The rw la t act alt opens with wih the wedding breakfast of Cosette and ends I with the d th of ot Jean Valjean The rho play pIa Is produced on a I scale by hy A The hc cast Ia t of or The he LAW and md tho Iho Man Includes more morl than ln 30 speaking parts partA the main characters aside from that tha t tot of ot Jean ara assumed A as ns fol tol follows lows Javert hy h Walter Marlus by h Christie bv h Luke Mine 1 ler by ty I Jennie by h Josephine Sherwood Phillips and by hy |