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SATFTCDAY, 60TOBER 28, 1010 !XT WEEK: SKINNER IN "MISTER ANTONIO" AT THE BROAD "FOLLIES AT THE FORRE! lis Proteus "Isn't Scared I By His Roles ft They Include Ghosts rand Scarce ows and Other Creatures tV one rmaln, the many Changs and ." -while an -aamiraDie aescripuon or ' single-role actor would bo th worst In tho world for George Hnasell, who kslsrlnff with such rare unction the part V. .... ... w i - INA, CLAIRE, MIMIC AND SUCCESSOR TO CISSIE LOFTUS A ir vy lender In "The atrl From Dra all." at the Lyric Theater The dramatic re porter, when he penetrated the scctilc caverns at Broad and Cherry streets, already knew the actor for a g o n 1 1 e man of m m viiw-j?: t. ffiil v n i 1 1 (I k ilia ny )ocni icm Qermnn In "The High Cost ot L o v I n g," his stodgy Honor able George In ccles of ned Gap" and hla quasl-fantas- nondescrlpt In "Hands Upt" But he rcely expected to meet-a person who had everything nerore we looiugnta irom scarecrow In "The Wizard -or Ox" to Ohot of Hamlet's rather, nnd from vtd Harum" to Stephano In "The Tern- It was almost shocking to learn that . rich protean talents hadn't been more cly Illuminated before. , ('Mr. Hassell Is, besides, a theatrical Hy. He has read much, traveled, studied land monstrosities and Is so replete with "conv that even the most retentive bin might quail at the" task of transmit- all his taking Ideas and suggestions KMd Impressions. While the chorus ladles humming ana rutting about and gen- lly getting under foot, Mr. Hassell fixed reporter wun nis large, amiable eye I spoke somewhat as follows: . "I have two great sorrows In life. One 1 that I ve never had a proper chance to 1 Dickens's characters In the theater. The Is that the physicians have debarred from the king of Indoor sports. No for me the festive flagon, tho cheer- cocktail or the hilarious highball. My lth wouldn't stand that kind of amuse- nt, so from Interior decoration I have hed to exterior. Behold In me, sir, a ater In oils. My 'school'7 I should Impressionistic. I take, for example, a oral scene with n chastely classic pump I the middle 'Oh, what a grand tree I' re- Its a friend. Saying nothing to him. I tptltlously dab a bit of green on. nnd t my artistic conscience. I have trans- ned an angel Into a browsing cow. nnd L lyrical lane into a purling brook with less ut1e than It takes me to discuss It." At i point, several chorus ladles who were rten'ng In" betrayed signs of fainting. ned Mr. Hassell. being a humanitarian. Uanged titer subject back to Charles of J Hill. "Seriously. I am hipped on the subject r Dickens," said he, with reol appreciation t a master In his voice. "Walt till ydu see he Highway of Life.' the dramatization t 'David Copperfleld,' which was done at bRM Majesty's In London, but which hasn't ems he e. Mlcawber: what apart! I would v given half of my life's hlnhwav in hv 4oe It." Mr. Hassell struck an attitude IWfgestlng most amusingly "the remains of 1 mien lower" in that Immortal volume. Or Chadbandl Exuding oil and the odor toast" Here he expanded, beamed aiily and took on the aroma of self- clous sanctity, 1 ! "Why doh't VOU ret Knm nn n n1n a, Dickens novel properly nnd piny In lt7" wa asKca. xno actor didn't seem to wak most of such ndantattnnx wrA m,.. l'uI' but expressed himself as always In- mini ana aieri lor such a part. He n't have many kind words for musical wedy, but the. topic brought him around ' bis theory of clowns and acbwnlncr. "I m to this present role fresh from The ""par ne added, "and I Just play rkel as If he were Stephano. Plavera tOO apt to treat Shakegnenrenn fnnt Wently. They forget that nonsense Is iLsllllllllllllLsllllllllifflBltin'aHHftLsllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli SLslilllBALsllLsllllllllllllitLslllllllllllllllllllllllllH v. B HHjJHbLsII& rTtBH IK KKaiKL. tKbKKBRBBEBlBfKKK f .hLIH Here is tho original Jane Cowl, of "Common Cmy," now nt the Gnrrick. not for an age, but nil tlmo.' I don't see why "Begone, thou malapert I' shouldn't be voiced In the same eln as 'Getout, you bloody Idiot I' Facial play, though. Is h'ghly Important In broad comedy. I consider one of the neatest compliments I ever got was the opinion that I could look like a re tiring turtle. As to make up, that's largely a matter of mood. Large mood, large eye brows: repressed mood, repressed wrinkles and so forth. "I've acted pretty much everywhere ' Africa, Australia, England where I was born and America. I've done every con ceivable sort of part In stock, musical shows, tragedy nnd comedy. My versa tility got Its hardest twist In Plttsneld. Mass., where I went to fill a week's en gagement and stayed about n year. It was a queer company, composed of lots ot Broadwny actors who came there, liked the social atmosphero and stayed. We H'erally acted everything. By the way, I began as a 'heavy.'" Mr. Hassell gave the final flourish to his interview of surprises when he said he'd begun his career In the British army. He got a bullet In the chest In the Boer War. But what's a bullet more or less to a man who has a straw man and. David Harum, a Mlcawber and four thousand other char acters rolled up In his head? B. D. On Their Way Frances Starr will begin a- 'limited en gagement at tho Broad Street Theatre Monday, November 27, Vhen she will bo seen In -her new play, "Little Lady In Blue," a comedy with Its scenes laid In France and England In the year of 1!20. The play "presents somo pictures of the gruff old seadogs Svho helped Nelson make England supreme on tho seas." Miss Starr has tho rolo o, a young English girl who has been a governess, but who plays the adventuress In order to get hold of some money with which to lighten her poxcrty. The Knickerbocker, In West Philadelphia, la on the Job with an announcement of the frst local production of "Tho Home With out Children," by Robert McLaughlin, for tho week of November 6, Of course, "Old Home Week" will be celebrated. EVIDENCE FROM "COMMON CLAY" Here is Miss Clniro's "Follies" vcr sion of Fnrrnr's Cnrmcn. It is nn unennny impersonation nml con trasts widely with tho parody at the right. And litre Is the imitation bf Misj Cowl, as it will be seen nt the Forrest. Ed Wynn, Wko Soon Passes . to L ync m "P assm gSh 11 ow Ev4 miL I was born in Philadelphia, November 9, 1886. Played violin at children's concert at Academy of Music when ten years of age. At fourteen" years of age was one of the founders of the Bal- bazoo Theatrical Organization, now an annual event in the city. At fifteen years of age started taking Wharton Courso at University of Pennsyl vania. At sixteen years of age tan awnjrfrom homo and joined traveling repertoire company for $12 per week. Thurber, Nasher Company 1 10-20-30. With it twenty-seven weeks. Stranded at Bangor, Maine, Wynn played in eleven different shows a week matinee every day but Monday. Played piano in the hotel and took up collection to get money to go home. nrr ot-nrm ommn mnnt Via tinned jierainwroto frio own vaudeville act, Wynn and Lewis. Jack Lewis is now in vaudeville doing monologues. , Been on tho stage fourteen years and wrpte all my own teaterial, such as dialogues and songs, etc. . At seventeen years of age went on vaudeville stage, where I nained for eleven years, playing a different act each year except ing the use of "The Funny Hat." v L , , . Wrote all my parts and now working on material for "Passing Show oM917." Will be thirty years old ninth of November un I'miaaeipmaj , Son of Joseph Leopold, retired hat manufacturer. , Am negotiating with Mr. Harry Perry to send my acts and writings to England and Australia. ,,,.,.,, u Am writing book, "Oritjcizing urjtics ssoi. jurainaut;;. ': Am writinc book. "Just Plain Nut." Married Miss Hilda Keenan, who made Wg hit as Aggie, in "Within the Law." MJs Keenan is the daughter of Frank Keenan, e eminent ctor. tliKtev HLMfUttMl''iBliillllllllHK79liW I SBBBBBBBBBBBBBB'HtffcBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBlHTSlBV' . On July 27 last son was born, named wer granddad, ''Frank Kewan Wynn." Will appear in two screen produc ttona next July, of my own writing. Have signed ith ShiiberU for Bxt fte years. My -first ap- Pranee pro-fssionall.y Smith'! Tlaft. r. BridMMi. (Vmn.. Aumiat 8, 19u2 Lord PennfoftQft to -Mra. Jack f I I I , , ipi II II JJcfn7 tho two rrndal bits 0 dialogue, th ftrtt from act two 0 "Common Clay" at the Oarrick, the second rom net three, by tcnfcA the audience and the people of the play learn that the lawyer. Judge Filson, ha been crost-examlntna his own (llrpltl- mate daughter. Judge Filson (UelatltiK the story ot n youthful Indiscretion) I asked her to marry me. She refused. She said she wouk bo wrecking my life. And then she did what women can so damned well she sacrificed herself. The next day she was found floating down the river. Just bo- klow the city. Mr, Fullerton And what of the child? Judge Filson It was never born. She mailed me this note: "When you get this note, Sam, I'll be dead. I won't pull you down with mo, and I hope you'll take tho chance I am giving you to go up. Now, don't act like a fool nnd gie the thing away. It will be too late to do any good, I want to repay you for being straight with me, nnd this Is the best way I know how. Good-by. Dolly Montrose. V, &. I want you to go to tho top." '' Judge Filson Let me ask the witness a question. Mrs. Neal, have Joihnny good renson for declining to tell me who this girl's .father and mother were? Mrs. Ncnl I don't know who they were that Is Judge Filson Don't know who either of them was7 Mrs. NeolI knew her mother. Judge Filson And have you a good reti son for not telling who Bho was? Mrs. Neal I've promised not ta and I've kept my word so far. That child herself thought up to now that I was her mother. As I nm a Christian woman, I have tried to be a mother to her. Judge Filson May It please the court, I will not press thLi woman any further. I am sure had you been her mother her career would have been different. Hut you can't expect much of those who come of a bad lot. Mrs. Neal She didn't come of no bad tot, sho didn't. Somo might call her mother bad, but her father was one ot the biggest men In this town. Judge Filson1 Well, he ought to be hero right now. Where Is he? Mrst. Neal Judge, your honor, I don't know 'who he was. Nobody knows. He don't een know himself. Judge Filson What? Mrs. Neal It was this way I'm going to tell It all and she loved him and didn't want anything to stand tn his way. "If 1 tell him what'a happened he'll want to marry me," she Bays, "to set It right, and that will bo ruin to him. Nothln' must stand In his way," she said.' "He mustn't even know that the child was born." Bho wouldn't tell me who the man was, and I don't know to this day, but she said I had to help her to help him. And I took the baby, and I said, "I'll help you, Dolly," "I want that 'kid' to be1 educated and reared as though nothing had ever happened," she aid. Judge Filson Dolly t Mrs. Neal That was her name, lawyer She was a woman of the town they called her Dolly Montrose. And the next day they found her body floating down the river. She didn't want to stand In the man's way, and she didn't want either him or the child to be In each other's wny Hut you enn't say, lawyer, that the child enmo ot any bad lot. Men like you m'ght cult her mother bad, but her father was ono of the biggest men In tho town. Hut thnt ain't salng he'll bo any bigger or better than Dolly Montrose In tho kingdom came. FROM THE WASHING TON SQUARE PLAYERS The list of plays to bo presented by the Washington Saunre Players, of New York, a tho i.lttle Theater, this city, beginning Not ember 6, Includes "Kugenlcilly Spenk Ing," by lMuard Goodman; "Literature." by Arthur -Schnluler, flrst glcn hero by Mrs. Jay's company In tho same playhouse: "In April," by lloso I'ustor Stokcn, and "Helena's Husband." by Philip Mocllcr. These pieces will bo produced Monday, Tuesday nnd Wednesday nights. On Thursday, FrliUiy and Saturiliy eve nli.gs, and nt both mMlnees, Thursday nnd Saturday, tho bill will lie: "A Hear," by Arton Tchekhov; "A Hoadhouse In Arden," by Philip Moeller; "Interior," by Maurlcq Maeterlinck, and "Pierre Potclln," a fit tcenth century farce. OTIS SKINNER ON DICTION AND THE STAGE Alia NazimoYfc' For Photoplay, But Not Movie Star of Brenon War Brides" Praises In tensity of Screen j r''ilC I'm M iA iBBBBlr lk E&iSBBBBBBBBBBBK 4u - .1 , 1.1 mi... 1 With Otis Skinner returning, nftcr many n relatively long absence, to tho city that Is his home. It Is Interesting to recall sundry wise words on better Hngllsh for the stage uttered by him within tho hcarltig of a New York nowepnper man. 'The stage has n far moro suptle In fluence over our notions tr. in the class room or the personnel of business Institu tion"," raid Mr Skinner, who will nppear at the llroiul Monday. "Particularly do wo go to the theater nt Iho Impressionable, hnblt-formlng age, predisposed to admlro what wo seo nnd hear Admiration soon turns to imitation and Imitation to adoption of the specfth and manner of tho model. 'Thti has been notlceablo In tho rank and file of my own profession. I recall how prono the members of Sir Henry Irvlng'a company wcro to tako on suggestions ot tho eccentric delivery ot their chief Law rence nnrrctt's company was strongly Im bued with tho pcdantlo elocution ot the star nnd tho membcra of John McCul lough's support were nenrly all llttlo Mc CultoughH. During tho height of Ada Ilehnn'H popularity nt Daly's theater, It was nlwnys amusing to hear young women both on nnd oft the staco Imitating the Hehnn drawl. 'The dramatic art ot England and America suffers from want of standard, especially ns regards Its pronunciation and enunciation. It Is not bo with tho stage In France nnd Germany. In those countries tho spoken language Is to bo heard In Its perfection from thn stages of tho lending theaters, nnd foreign Btudents of the nntlvo tongues nre sent to llBten to plnyn to nt tune their cars to correctness. This Is, alaa! not the condition with us. Slovenliness, whllo not the rule, Is too often found, nnd provincialism obtrudes painfully at times. "I believe," houevor, wo are bettering the speech of our American actors and wo nre tlndlng that many of them aro not past ocal euro. "In school nnd collcgo much can bo ac complished for tho purity of ntago Hngllsh. What would be of nlue would bo speech classes that would havp for part of their work tho criticism of the manner of actors In high school plays that aro produced on 10 Htages of urlous clues, l-'ouuy singo Itatlon, Instead 01 ueing a menace oy Ing n model, would become 11 norrinie tffjMSye tnrougn me ueiccuon ui ua im- purines, iiio youui. urmi:n wuiu m.t.u,. tho faultH In class with Imitations and ex amples after an ctenlng at tho piny, "I.Ike the botany nnd geology classes that are Bent among tho plants and rocks, tjie students of the spoken, word rovld 6ml examples anionic the best nnd the wjrt ot actors nnd public speakers. Speech experts should be the tcachem nt such clauses and form a part of tho faculty of every college In America. "And think of the stimulus to the actor, when he knew that a largo group ot young nnd eager critics Is attending his perform nnces to pass upon his enunciation." entertainments) slnco September 30, It Is Interesting to dip Into tho statistic at and Juggle a bit with dlxry figures. "Where do they nil come from?" asks the Hippo drome visitor, nnd you will have to look elsewhere than on this page for the answer. On November 27 tho Hippodrome cele brated Its 100th performance with a record of 517,400 patrons up to tfiat time. On January 25 the 200th performance was reached 1,011,400 was the attendance fig ure, Tho 400th performance, reached on JMny 19, brought tho figure to 2.021,100. For eight months tho average dally attend ance was moro than 10.00Q persons. In other words, the aggregate nttendance this season has been ns large ns the entire population of Manhattan borough as large ns the poulntlon of Berlin, Paris, Chicago, Toklo, Vienna or Pctrogradj as large as Philadelphia and Moscow put together. Last season "Chin-Chin," In Us second season, succeeded In rolling up nn attend ance toll ot n llttlo over a million. This year's grand Hippodrome total Is 2 118.110. "Hen-Hur" played two years In n New York thentcr Seating less than 3000 people to something under 1,000,000 patrons. "Amer Icn," the spectacle which occupied the Au ditorium of Chicago during the World's Fair, broko all attendance records up to that tlmo by playing to 350,000 patrons In five months. Mnudo Adams presented "Jeanne d'Arc" at tho Stadium In Oakland, Cab, to 60,000 peoplo In three performances, But nothing npproachjng the history ot the Hip podrome run this season has over been recorded. Here and There The fifth dramatic season of the Chicago Little Theater was recently opened with Allan Monkhouso's "Mary IJroome," a play familiar tp readers of tho printed drama. It was the flrst American presentation of thf piece. The St. Lou's Llttlo Playhouse opens for tht, season on November 15, with John Galsworthy's "Joy." Tho thentcr has a setting capacity of 2E0. Frltzl Schorr will shortly star In a musical piny, called "Husbands Guaranteed." ' It's an adaptation from the German. Lee Kugcl's comedy, "Old Lady No. 31," Is to have n New York booking, Rachel Crothers dramatized It from tho novel of tho same name. (The following detente 0 motion U from an Interview cith Alia Nattmtm, who held out aoalrut them for a lenf Hut, finally giving in to the pertuatlon Her bert Urenon, who van prnent tut umiwh tar in a film vtrtion of "War SrUet," 'Mr. Urenon alto directed the WtlMam Ftm facie, 'M Daughter of the Oodt," now at tin Cheitnut' Street Opera lloute.) It used to be that when a player so tor forgot the dlgnlly ot the theatrical pre teuton as to appear In a motion pletwe, t friends would gather In little groups a speak of Vie Incident In hushed tones an4 with grave expressions. You 1 almost ex pected them to send wreaths of Immer- - telles to the dear departed. It wasn't "done." It was as terrible a faux pas m wearing satin slippers with a riding habit. Those daring pioneers were almost ostra clxed from rctpcctable theatrical society, and when their financial success was erl-' denced by the possession of An homes and automobiles, these gains were looked upon by the superior "legitimates" as badges ot their shame and downfall It was under stood that no one would "go Into (he mov ies" except :o make money. Nor could one blame the lofty critic ot those days for their attitude. Intrinsi cally the pictures produced then were net artistic. The plots were crude, th photography mediocre and glaring Incon sistencies appeared constantly. The sincere artist could not but shudder at the thought ot being seen in such productions. But whose was the fault? The men and women who were doing their best to evolve a new art with what material they could obtain or the more talented ones who refused ta tend their aid? Personally I do not feel that there Is any blame to be attached to either. The world of art, like the worll of commerce, develops In all directions be cause of the diversity ot Individual am bition and taste. Here, then. Is substantial proof of the vitality ot this new art that tn addition to nil the other difficulties which anything new must encounter It has had to face and over come, not mere apathy, but distrust from those who should have been most sym pathetic and helpful, oven If they felt no desire to Join In the movement toward creating a new medium of expression. Be neath this opposition, possibly, there was a touch ot antagonism, not unmixed yrlth vacuo fear, that here was a new ana dangerous competitor, overbidding th spoken drama In salaries, underselling It in output and Imperiling Its standards. They may have felt that the playgolng public, witnessing these cheap and trashy enter tainments, would become satisfied with something less7 than the stage Itself could give and no longer be willing to play, as In the past, for tho best plays offered by tho greatest players and producers. That fear has been destroyed by the history of the last few years. Good plays are In aa great demand as ever. Those pioneer days are now past. Thla la proved, not In the great mass ot movlnK pictures we see, but In the flashes of ge nius which show what can lo done when true artists devote themselves sincerely to creative work. On the speaking stage thero have always been more bad plays than good ones, but no one ever argued from thla that the drama was a failure. We must always Judge an art by Its best examples, not by Its worst, nor eveh Its second beet. Each art must represent a distinctive form of expression. Sculpture speaks through form, painting by form and color, muslo In sound, poetry In rhythmic words. But what Is the essential thing which the moving picture does which cannot be done at well or better by the drama? My an swer would "be: Intensity. The photo drama, eliminates from the story everything ,but the fundamentals. There Is no dialogue, except for brief explanatory sentence. Nothing Is told but the essential part of tho story, and so the photo drama haa found Its forte In EMPHASIS. A LA TOM DALY Otis Skinner, who returns to Phila delphia via the Broad next. Mon day, has exchanged tho volublo beggar of "Kismet" for the equally volublo organ grinder of uootli Tnrkington's new 'play, "Mister Antonio." FIGURES DON'T LIE FOR DILLINGHAM The famous dictum about "figures lying" cannot bo "pulled" on Charles Dillingham, producer of the New York Hippodrome show and of "Hip, Hip, Hooray I" now nt tho Metropolitan Concerning the former entertainment, which closed Its run In New York city during tho week, wo nre Indebted to a New York newspaper for this: Since the Hippodrome has a capacity of CS74 and has been playing twelve times weekly (exclusUe of the HuridaV evening WHERE METRO SHOOTS ITS CELLULOID 4r?A" tsssssssssssssssT MMLflssf KttttK ' iSSBLi tofSBP'yTT IBB B rB hA TiVrEvl9ViHHpkMKMM ViWftHi j SfPCSS ' MMltg 1 PygRb lassBJiPIBrBr-sC" sk VstlsSailV IBff .ssssH WtmW lli.ssVHli.sssslw B?PsssH fe Beingf a Rkymed Review of "A Daugkter bf tke.Gods A (luuiti of u lonwr uf Un Kulft Metro atudtu, win r tin ilimtu n u.o fio-u vuiu is, Ui jntnlu Uie m mux Ledger pruu- ntuki, "Phil and Doiphuw." Work will un within the uixt furtuighl Tho largo dressmaking bills of wives Their thrifty husbands oft regret; And ladies throw away their lives A'planning not to go in debt Sartorially; suggestion drives Tho thought homo: 'Why not apo Annette?" Miss Kcllcrmann, in other words, i She's playing at tho Opera House In a movie filled with gnomes and birds; Perhaps tho cast has got a mouse Somewhere concealed within its herds Of humans, witches, cats and cows. . Wearing a sad and filmy smile, And little else, I'm forced to add, The diver moves midst scenes of guile; A foreign ruler, old and bad, . Pursues her many a weary mile - Pcdcstrianism seems his fad. Wis hindly, young adopted son, . The hro of this talc, Is also hept upon tho run , i To save Annette; ho doesn't fail'., j''- '' To ball things up (this taUes the bun) When armored in a suit of mail. Tin dues the eirl a deadly thrust, . J.,, J 7it Itnr in tho nitv timlL 4& , tfr irl ,. IU - .w V"J w"- -.iHa. 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