Show v A Son Sari of f the People P eop L to Strong Melodrama New Ne York Herald erald f 4 Used as ns Mr John Mason IK is lo iu the applause of Now ow York playgoers goers ho he U could not but bo be J gratified and satisfied with the thc Rree Ing log given to him hint last lant night by hr h an audience which filled tilled the he I New theater to hear him liim and nn his corn pang pan In Mr Sophus play playA A Son of the People It was an nn au an well worth pleasing too and the play had hall not more than fairly star ed cd before the man or woman so careless as to cough earned the re roo of all the tb others They wanted nothing to interrupt the In ln Interest terest wi wl h which the were watching unfolding of o the lIte Danish authors love story stor of oC tho the days das of the French revo reTO revolution revo revolution lution JuU n Yet In spite of that tense tenseness tenseness ness more than once he ho audience au was so stirred as to break brenk Into tho the action of tie tee play with such applause that Mr r Mason Iason could almost not nol quite be forgiven for pausing to bow how his acknowledgment as ns he did once Tho The stirring story of A Son of the tho People Is already familiar to Herald readers but hut Mr Ir ns presentation of a colonel of o n a republican regiment of volunteers ready to sacrifice his honor for his love and then to give Ie up 1111 his life Ilfe for his honor made mad one on think more kindly kInd I of the citizens of 1703 1793 than titan have hae some somo of the of those unhappy days In France But DIt then thon Mr 11 George Faw Fawcett celt cell as one ODe of the tho fanatical citizen commissioners who delighted in rushing rush rushing ing In all nil aristocrats to the tho knife drew drewa a different picture of oC the republican As a weak and vacillating emigre cowardly enough when put to tho the test leal to lee flee from rom his bride of an hour Mr Walter Halo earned better praise than the character of his part permit permitted ted tod had hud a most difficult part as the high hiSh born and high spirited daughter of an aristocrat who learned within an hour of her marriage that her titled husband was an nn arrant and unworthy coward It was a part easy to overdo but Jut Miss made no rio such error and anel she site fairly f won wan her division of honors with Mr Mason Inson Miss Ivy hy Troutman was a most faithful and onel fitting maid for Cor such sucha a n 1 mistress and Indeed all the com company company pany helped to make A son of the People a play that Mr Michaelis need not regret having written and andone andone one olle that promises to Interest all who I are arC wise enough to 10 go to lo hear It It |