'fnfwwpt (, ' ...... v ' .AA T-f fJ 4" - ...I """VW, 1 EVENING LEDClEPHILADEIiPmX, SATUJIDi, FEBRTJAlSY 17, 1917 ' V'WBr .'' .. '! k. VS'.TJI "" " L - ' 1. ' " ' U ' mHMmh gXT WEEK : WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED," BY THE STAGEhSOCIETY, AT LITTLE tttMH! LLl. I Putting the Dramatic MAKING DIMINUTIVE DRAMA Measuring a Theatre ''Ray1' Into Thackeray How to Fit the Novelist for the Calciijm, 'by the Man Who Adapted ."Major PendenniV and "Vanity Fair" for the Statfe !, by Inch d B ncnes an rami 'Tl Playahop,' Which Gomes Out of the Universit 1C D 1 : t ?u.. :- n i- ui m. bit 11 ay a v aiiiat jlo mivi t un t-'iu au ir. T', Loni on Gray Matter Y m "1!''T "TJ!??py7 m. K. By LANGDON . . ..! a I ahok aiiAiioh ilratnn 14 frlHAl.IVKl"v I I" """"J t..n.i . ". Wi I Itlie, providing you nave two mums ! bundnt admiration for hltn and limitless flme. vvlth one o menu tuiiiiiiuuiurn i m well supplied i not nul, " we" wltn i the other I suppose no writer can be much .. Dimmit to dramatlie tlian Thackeiay .-possibly the late Henry Jnmeu. though I doubt It hut In talking ns I am requested lo do I roust In order to lie understood, 1:1 ...i, little bit back to the great iic ellpt himself and speak In general of il-mniti- Mtlon. a subject little undevn d In m r ' ... tinie I or lllr ititi if. iii.il uiv inui raturnl thing' foi nmil plaj v '.k'.Mk d iln 1. -i in lell their own story, but to ilrnma- t'te somebody's else Thin comes with n kind 01 SHOCK I' ill" iimui nun- . iui- Filch. i'lnerO. Wlnchell Smith. Srr'be and ill modern playwright originate their own But take the history of the last three hundred or two thouand years nnd ou villi find a different tale. There Is some thing In the playwright which makes him i a rood story teller and something In the .torv teller which Is apt to make him an unmmmonlv bad playwright I admit theie are and have been exception", but few My own feeling Is that the story teller nd the playwright are more deeply divided In their temperament and gifts than the painter In color from the sculptor In stone But In considering this whole Interesting, leductlve question of fhn dramatization of other's men's stories we must remember that there .Is a fashion In shoit stories The ihort slors of Hoccacclo was not an episode, not one scene not a little' bit of life. It was a whole compendium of life. . Whether comedy or tragedy It was or intended to he ininething which had mass and weight and was In Itself a whole The modem short Hory Is a scene It's n slip of life, one scene of a pla a slice. If ;.nu like, hut the he. pinning and end are not there There aie del'ghtful exceptions tn this rule, but 011 the whole our short story Is a chance hap pening which takes place In a few hours tnd Is over with and the short stories of Boccaccio, of Margaiet of Navarre, of Fainter or of the other old fellows are truly a kind of summing up of certain great life forces In their Interaction on each other AH this Is done In five or ten pages, and, ns one Brltton savs there you are. And so the modern short slory Is seldom dramatized, tut In a life deoted to the stage I have never known mote thnn Ave veara to 1 ass without a dramatization of the storj of Cinderella Ho T make my point' And now to the Immediate mutter of In terest Dramatizing ' Cinderella' ir one thing, but dramatizing a great diffuse nnd eomplex classic t another and Tiiiickeiav's novels, or. or least. "Vanity Fair" nnd "Pendennls." are gieat classic it Is a perilous game at best. In the flist place HENNERY AND H ( -PBBBBBBBBBBBBiy J' fV ft . Henry Lewis has his own ideas as to the necessary accessories for his sport car, a high-powered, rakish craft, and just before he left New York, where he had been playing in "Follow Me," he posed for Paul Brown, official artist of the Shubert forces. This "feministic" sketch illustrates, the comedian and a group of Anna Held girls, who, he contends, are the most necessary adjuncts for motoring. Ih lovers of Thackeray, nmonK whom t hope I maj- count myself, are exceptionally ell read In their be!oed master and very quick Indeed to take offense If -.011 cnnlt what they like or build In something they don't like, or In any way, nccnrilliiK tn their Ideas, fall to do Justice to their beloved author I sjmpathlze with their point of view I merely say that thej make the rme perilous. If "I'endennls" weie .in un known novel written and published as now, but unknown what an easy task the pl.i wrlghti would hae. Lovcis of Thackeray It Is who make his dramatization difficult. The nlawvrlclit must remember that thev Ji . . r ji. . . j, . in caibi. iney numDcr possiuiy inuy iiw i-i I cent of tho audience eery nlsht, but they K; are far more to be regarded than their numbers "seem to warrant. They must not k feared, but neither' must thev be" out faced. The manager's business Is to fear I ,The playwright who Is not unconcerned nd bold and Indifferent and careless of consequences and In love with his own Ideas and resolved to have his say, and full of belief In himself the playwright who w not ll of this had best Immediately go and be a manager, or plough the soil Easier tasks, both. No fear therefore, of the Thackerayans :k on the contrary, every regard ror mem, J every consideration and the desire in pleas- o juuiocu IT Jilcwur MlCill. rfim j v ...... not too often repeat that they mako the me difficult For example, 'Tendennls " Vhat In .ho world shall the playwright do with all tho narrative style, this engaging disconnectedness, this way of telling n story which belongs so personally to Thackeray, Which has such oualltv? And then the ,i .further consideration that every classic Is a whole Just as a crystal or a diamond Is a whole, nnd yet the playwright must take this perfection, melt It, remold and make It over Into anotHeivmedlum. The great point p Jo be observed here Is: He respects It too ft, much at his peril 1 In Thackeray he should respect the main thing and this main thing cnaracter Thackeray's English, his style, his tone, is atmosphere these can't be rendered. Then again, his method of story-telling. He wanders In his narration, goes backward nd forward, does what pleases him, and, n short, he weaves a very complicated web Of thnilPht fAAllrt. IM .aa IT, la i Of all T--n- . ", -.. .- .. -. .. f. 1 ". Awibimn wruers, ine loosest m ma. """ius one or his charms, to be sure. There are InnP 1are nt Mm. vnri 1e. 1 ?Jiee' frequent changes o' space In short. "v.o mings which characterize the ouyssy Just as much as they do 'Tendennls" and . "Becky Sham i, . "re ,s ,tm another hurdle which im p.1,Jrw'lht must leap boldly over, and """ Is the dreadful plot which Thackeray Jjwe Into a part of Tendennls." My feel ,"i are warm upon this subject. I have Edisonian Epigrams on the Movies' Status Why can't there bo more team work? The five-reel play is a fad. Exhibitors condemned school shows Joo hastily. People 'don't like to be educated by force. F2ftiort picture grand opera a V invention,. ., MITCHELL now for many months hated, and still hate, I'1.8 dreadful melodramatic plot which Thackeray Injected into ono of England's greatest claes cs t refer tn the t.inf uhlrh concerns the Amory family ; the plot which J has to do with Amory the convict nnd with ' the C hevaller Strong, and so on and so on AU the readers of Thaekera will re call It Immediately Why. I nsk. did that I great writer Introduce Into Ms most charm. Ing work this exiiiuagant melodramat c antiquated, ridiculous pixrile plot I 11111 inn aior.i- in in rlt ne t me ndrninntle nntlaunte.l and r'.l't nl i .1 h-impeiltig mm ntlioi v nt aril .iliove all ngiees with a erv greit wrier v limn I inn irlad to hae mi nn side -tuimelv Thackeray himself From sucli study of tho noiel as ' 1 was of course oblige I to make I early came to the conclusion that he had In vented that plot In order to rlial Olckens where ticken himself wns. let me sav most misguided Having startod out with this plan In view, Thpckeray succeeded merrily up to a certain point In the story, where, as the lilot developed It began to hamper him weigh him down, worry him, mako him heavy, necessitate explanations and reduce him, In short, to every kind of misery which can fall upon the unhnppv writer of ro mance The proof of this Is the Inst third or fourth of tho no. el He vvillhes under It nt tunes and at times he neglects it com pletely Then nt the end he throws It ah- I solutely to the winds, Indeed his gesture Is more emphatic than this, he throws the plot on the Moor nnd dances upon It Hut what Is a playwright tn dn with 11 plot that so sickened and handicapped the novelist " One thing Is sure. lie must Ignore It com pletely or he will find himself wallowing In melodrama nnd cursed in ever Intelligent pla.v gnei There are In 'VVanltv Fair' abnut a hun-dted-ndd characters, nnd I suppose there nie ill told, not les than nine plas Theie are certainly Die In I'endennls " Wh it Is that povel In Its eence" Tho life histnrv of a young man twenty ears of sout'i distinguished, gifted, gay, rather worldl.v but genetnus hearted young fellow In the pla.v ono omits of necessity a world of de lightful things So In the end the plaj. comes to be simply Arthur Pendennls's love affairs the adventures of Arthur Tenden ills wall Uniily, Fanny. Blanche, l.aurn Ills love affairs 'his troubles, pretty serious ones, and how his wltlj and worldly, astute suave old uncle makes his trouhles worse or pulls him completely out of them I came earl to tho conclusion that the only way to write a play of the novel which would satlsf.v, hy which I mean give pleasure, to the American publcl. would he to use Aithur Pendennls's love nrfaits In connection with. Major I'endennls as his mentir Most men have love affairs, HIS CHICKENS few have mentors The play Is the major taking care of his wild young nepnew trvlng to make him marry for nionev and not succeeding, and his failure shocks him lo that degree that he nearly sees innocence and goodness as more deslinble things than money In Thnckera the old gentleman goes far In his reformation Ho almost falls In love with Laura she reads tho Dlble to him. I spared Broadway the un wonted scene. Dut there Is another side to the Major's character, nnd here we come down to the present day Hero Is Major Pendennls I am now referring to tho man In the novel, not the play Whnt Is the great es sential thing about the Major apart fiom his woildllness' I will give it to you In one word duty. The word duty means some thing to him. It doesn't mean ten per cent of life It means the whole 100 per cent Duly Is the god he worships, although that Is not exactly the phrase that the good gentleman would use In describing IiIh at tention to principle Can we, In the midst of our superinduced, self-wi ought chaos, In the throes of racial rebirth which will neces sarily last for at least three centuries can we gnln anything from the Major's Ideas of duty as a kind ofgnd? V Wmx : dT'- ."''" V ,A mill i ""-f s ( gm :l 'mm$ irsk JKKrmSm; W i'M A -"mHI .&Mk :i .vffek 8flrr w flL4DBb2i M in'fc'.. S u VlmWMm mmWmw mm . - .. ."'rTs'V.rX'T.KTSW.Wi.. -.'-N -"-wj.,- ta- -..-.- y-r -. - - - .w.w .. ww.WWww "- " " - ww. n.. ,u,, .A.A.wutfA t ' . ert rt f, Vf-ornw,vtr tfn h rt ii w u ,, ,, ... . I t Photo bv Ohnppllt This is "The Playahop" in its entirety. This theatie, which has been described as "satchel art," is attracting much attention from those who are interested in the new movement to restore simplicity and dignity to stagecraft. t.S'oi to r.i li rs Thr ttor nf IVhiI of the ' un " will I- nhfn In tenartn form tn I lit npwupMper iim wrfK A new m-pnu rli will he ptibttnhed f hi h S.it.iriH Hi-ml th ntor here ihen iuP how tin- fllrri tor hn nrrlil out the . Instrtic tlnrn .ml hplopeil th motton-pleturp niniiin iiuiii tiiM m 1'iuiriii til iiif nnHioii 1'niui- hnuce Mhowlnv I'url of tlm Arm " ('AST T O Adftm . . . Pearl lure- 'nlnnel Dore Major Hrpnt Hertlm Jtonn Toko The Silent Mcmce Itnlph KMIntil . . ivarl UMte V T Curletnn . 'Ihtixtire rrlehni ... . furle Van T Ttiiu nnoto DetectlxfH (,iifitt( linilpr. nTHntn itUt. t pun ovt; Subtitle OrderU daiua who loea Pearl Itaro lint who I huh per ted bv her of beliiB Amerlcn'a enmv The Hllent Menace, learns of an appolntrrtent Sceno t (Hire tlbran l Open on forepround of Malor Itrr nt l table reading lettet Kx prese fur Show foreground of nortlered doorw i Portiere iealthll open and Adam la seen watchlnt Brent Pull ait Major Hreni tarta to tear letter hear aom one comliiff hastllv pla e hilf of bttei in portfolio other half rtror unnoticed to th tloo- Adim entir Btent pretend roolne pl It up portfolio exit Scen " (Ire tud ) Peirl cornea Into studv fiom hallwa Sents herself mar mirror 'aKPW u'' 'nO Scene a (Dare llhrary ) 1 oresrounrt of Adam IlaatlK atnop plrk up half of letter l and reads Insert r loe forrnround last pise of letttr- 'so nu wilt come tn vnv nnurttupnt I at on nnd we talk oer cut little affair j with Pearl I tare po not fall ni" ot With ne HnUTlTA Contlnulnc prelou foreRround Adim tlnfahe reidlns letttr . Sreti tfpire siu-B Porenround of lVarl with book happt ns to lower book and Bare Into mirror Staria and lonttnue to aze with In I tereat Show forepround of mirror. In It fora around of dim can be seen In llbrari think for a moment hh letter on floor b table so i Brent will think h dropped it Adams then . exit out of foreuround Kulr set Pearl rlsis iieniittifs uen nnurn i -hi u i u iimu j i Seen. J M.lbrnr I Pearl itiinfK in plrks up letter, reiuli InsTt short flush rnreKrouiitl letter ns before Show foreBrouml nf 1'enrl tlnlshlnt reHillns letler Spokun title-- Sa Merlha Uonn nnd Alim will talk over his little affiilr with, reari' Mie. Is furious She- thlliUs this Is mere. IndlR n.illnn but It is ieall Jenlnusv r,ir despite nor Kusplclons of Ail.inis he Is beginning tu be fond of him Sho lieltiites then lios litter nn floor uhero phe found It IVarl exits Into ImtlM.O K.ule nut , , ,. Sublltle Bertha llnnn who possenslns the loiket Hnd (otupromUliuc photograph, holdH Major Hunt In her power ena u (llnudolr of ftrrtha npnrtment I Open on forcKrnun'ntif Ilerth.Ts picture before mirror The door of the mom seen In mirror--opens nnd Ilrent enters Sho asks him uhy ho has mine He speaks , , Spolieu title "I kiinn that nil you unlit of me Is mune How 111111 li will o take for the lorkef ' roreground nf two llerthi hair closes eves In piln. then turns on lilm and answers spoken title ' Will vnu not believe that ths onlv reason I hold tu ou is lrausu I love sou' i nntluulne previous forenrounil. at Merthn s words Ilrent leaves unbellevabl) Subtitle llelermlned 10 Kel In th bottom of th mvsterlous affair I'earl has followed her father's orders . . . . snenn 7 Klutsldo rterthn s apartment house ) Taxi drives up Adam" opens donr Puis .lilver Adairss disappears nround sldo of apart ment house r.arlrs taxi drives Into rdcture. Pearl ceta nut Tells taxi to wait Hastily exits after Adams Sren(, K (Harden In rear of apartment house.) Foreground of Adams outside of Bertha's win dow Hears altercation In room, listens S(.en 11 (Boudoir of Bertha's apnrtment ) Brent demandlnB Ineket seizes Bertha Knre Kroum! of Adams hearing tluht h llshtly vaults In through window- Ilrent Is taklnc otket from Jlertha Adams conies vaulting; In window lib, uulck rlean blow floors Brent Brent furious, leaps lo his faet and makes for Adams. Foreground of tho two bv window Brent naihes Adnms Brent happens tn look over Adims's shoulder out window Sceno 111 (Bear of apartment house seen throueh window ) rorearound of Tearl comlnit stealthily Into sceno and standing outside vvln- ' "subtitle Brent fears tn be found In Bertha's apartment by the s-lrl he Is endeavoring' to Sceno It (Boudoir of Iirthn's apartment.) Foreground of Brent and Adams by window. Full set Without a word Brent runs from tho apartment. Adams and Bertha naze, after him In wonder. . . Scene. 1- (Bear of apartment ) Foreground - -A' GLIMPSE OF "THE GIRLIES' "Pearl of trie Army Mr III W. MM ONM.1.1. ifimrlu h .i;ouor, nii(Ki;TT si:it. uthor of "1h Iron I'low ' ' llr ShleliHnit ShHrlow etc pitnurcrji uv patiik KPI.0IH; XII "The Porelirn Alliance " tPopyrlieht. 1011 hv (luy W McConnrll ) of Pnrl utandn en Bomeithlnn, utealthllj look Into itiitow Kreno 13 (Boudoir of Bertha k apartniAtit Adami nnd Berthti sizlnc at eaoh other a hit dum founded The?i InuKh Adam apeaku a hatiy word nt Bertha nnd exltn hi en H (Rear of apirtment hou ) Fore n-round of Pvnrl looking In window. IlfMtatr Deride to follow Adam Kxlta acene t one IS Hfrio of ainrtment houne ) Adjmf omen Into picture dlaappenrc behind UrR' huh Korep.rou.nrt of penri sho gafep about reRltterlnff she itoea not know whero Adam hit Bone Then aho looka ttff In dire Hon of hiding plrtfo behind vihlrh Adam illaapix'ard and tui m IlnKtllv leap Into hiding Kull aet Hllent Menac hi bnrk to audience anil Peirl- omen out of hldlnir place behind which Adam disappeared, and oVlta When h in none Pearl follow a , Subtitle After an hour a trnlliiiir Sene tfl (I"nd of harf motorboat In picture ) Mlent Menace comes In kceplnt back Khnn rnrrrniin,l nf TMnrl s'tm off iint-Heil auuience ueis into moiorDoat Maria on iuoka about Ilooer row boat run to tt t limb In row a off Scene IT (Main eahln In tramp steamer' fore Inn Alliance asemlled Silent Men ice tnmea In and trrceia them keeping hi back to audience Scene IS (Sld of stciimer tep leadlnp to (r j pPnrl stenlthlh rows Into picture Tie lowboat and atealthllv Koes up step Scene Id (Cabin Client Men.uo speak inv in Korln Alllapre Spoken title- ' In rhe da we will meet at colon Our submarine 7. A await ou at Bar (able Inlet at 10 n'elocU I will go down in nH uteamer which Is toaded with ammunition -rh. Amerlcjn lleet I tn the Pai Iflt on Kridsx oxt i wm detrov the canal ' Pull set The nueni .Menace; uninii'-n piichhiiik iui iuiimc Hi" i all nod understandins Nxit hceno tiecK i reari nearinu men corning hides KoteUn Alllnnco and Silent Menacw come THIS MIXTURE WILL MAKE YOUR HOME LIVELIER "Hlanny" Wheeler ami "Hilly" Bartlett, n (.'cording to tho author nf "Fair and Warmer." who h.ie boon left nt home li their lesppctUct marital partners to pam the tnenlritf alone, decide to Ret e.en and arou the Jealousy of their spouses Neither of them haH eer tasted aleohollr beverage's, Kr they decide that the will drink a cock tall In older to keep awake until the wan dering ones return ' Blllv ' doesn't know how to mako one, but Blanche remember that she once saw her husband. Jackie mix a cocktail. This Is what Hhe put In tho shaker, a concoction that would make n. union bartender shudder, selecting the In gredlents, mostly by the color of the bottles 1 Whisky. 2 Italian Vermouth 3 French Vermouth 4 EUBart gin. 5 Absinthe 6 Apple brandy. 7 Sherry wine 8 Apricot brandy. 9 Peach brandy. 10 Creme Yvelte 11 Creme de Menthe. 12 Forbidden fruit. GAMBOL" WHICH BRINGS A BIT OF i VA.S "aaA .A vvi to tp leading to water Silent Menace, bid other Rood b and the go down oer rail Poresrmind of Peurl She stealthlb exit out of hiding pline Pull set Makes for the cabin Sceno l--(('abln Pearl come In- looks around mne oer to door of captain state room PoreRround of door of stateroom at one side Open and man's hand shows Pore ground of Pearl he turns back, then stares nt of foreground wonderlnr Open dlaphriRm further till Adim Is seen standlnr close behind t'earl Sn is wondrrtruiK ll smtle and answer spoken title-- pear lady I am doing the nam thine ou are J have been watching till ship for two dajn nnd secretly climbed uboatd here an hour ago " Continuing previous fore ground Peart re(ritern that sho does not be lle him Por a long tlmo she has suspected hirn of heltiB the Silent Menaco and now ah Is sure ho Is Thev both register they hear somo one comtng With n qultk movement Adams pushes Pearl Into stateroom out of which he i a me llatllv lock door Then dodge Into opposite stateroom and nolselesslv close door as en p tu In comes in Close diaphragm Subtil 1h An hour later Step" JJ (Petri a stateroom ) Pearl much worried 'irle door but finds it locked Turns uwa A she docs so door opens and Adam appears Speaks Spoken title 'If we get separated you hao authorities foltow this ship I will attend tn the Corel ku Alllani e and their submarine ' Fore ground of the two Pearl gazes at Adam sua plc!ou! Aril ms gare back at her for h moment tn silence then iinahlo to restrain him self take her tn his arms and kisses her Pearl pushes awaj Adam stands with honed head lieglng her pardon Parte out Subtitle Pearl does not trust her strange L lover and decides to make doubly sine that the sunmarine uno r-oreign -Alliance, are taxen reari discover a candle in neck of bottle, also paper and pencil Pearl takes andle and bottle paper nnd pencil sits down hastily writes lnert foreground of paper on screen Klve hundred dollars reward to whoever delivers thl mte I cforo Hi tonight Wednesday, Colonel it ir- Vhl'"rt'n Brratks (or nearest Oovern merit authority Submarine awaits Porelgn Alllatue at ilarstable tniet at in tonight llav it taken Pl-JAHU PMIII Cnntlnnlna nrev Ion sr ne Pci rl out 'ni Into tier k of bottle, stick candle. In neck ties roth around bottle to mat- uit it t atue opeo poriPOie inrUSIH IMtlllo oi i Scene LM (Water nlnrualil lump s 1 .Hue- itnttle l s-en 'o t'-d ' Sreny H4 (Pearl's stateroom ) Pearl atarta. literi looks throuah porthole. f Scene -." (Shore taken through porthole Si. I I' S n JH (JUir 01 lii ) Whip in ieen to Ik m ' in or ono (."lime tllHpiirnRm SctMiP 27 (Second rler locAtton ) open dldphraem on flihrmpn tn rowhoat One luuu 1 u ulnul m ireloui cfn flihermB row to lot(li i-ppii it itiu tiui nnlf itf.At li t i 1 - r rontlnulntr ireIou scene one fisherman point off eno 2 IMfr lmatlnu lirihratfmpd view (if Ooernrnent i ultfi Ht-ene 2'tiS(oni rlr location ) Foi cround two fishermen Thfj pick up tnflr ouih and start to row out of picture in direction 'f cutter Subtitle At Hfirfstahle. Inlet Pcen 30 iVcck of submarine. Z-3 Fore tirou'id nf KoreUn .Mil nice arriving at ub marine In rowhoat anrl RfJlnc down connlnK tower. I iceim 31 (Inside submarine ) Foreign f a unities arriving i-oregrouna or Bailor m periscope Looks tnto periscope and starts Looks iiRaln Foreground of periscope Goern tnnt cutter can be ecn nwlftly movlnff toward submarine Full set Sailor hast 11 v crte out In nlarm 5eral rush to periscope (Jeneral pxcltemfnt Scen 32 (Cutter ) Foreground of officer gMnsr sharp commands to speed up. Looks oft tmouKh lHS8 Hubtltlr--The end of the ForclBn Alliance (In thrllllnc seen the (lovernment cutter uc cedi In striking the submarine with a shell Seen 33 (Inside submarine ) Sanw is lrtually rilled with nater. Foreign Alliance anl crew strugBlIng about. Close diaphragm Hcene 34 (Pearl'R Htateroom on tramp steamer Adams comes tn shutting door be hind hirn I'earl demands to know why ho did not go to hae the submarine captured He answers Spoken title "I itaed on the ship because ou were on Iwnrd and the Hllent Menace. It Is morn Important to take him than the Foreign A 11 tame " Full net IVarl backs awav from him, then bitterly indicates that be. Adams, l tho Silent Menace Ho laugh Itles and in dlcates that I'earl look through keyhole Scene 3ft (Cabin seen through kehole ) Fore ground of Silent Menace and captain of schooner In conference Scene 3d (Tearl's stateroom ) Foreground of Pearl and Adnms Pearl r!es and gase at Adams tn wonder He smiles Fade tnto end Ing as per previous chapters NED WAYBUKNISM TO KEITH'S ST I OKNTS at tho University of Peiml nnla have started a dramatic laboratory to And out what' wronjr with the drama and soo If they can't eolo a distinctly form of producing plas. The laboratory la "Tho ),Iashop,' n di minutive theatre that excels Stuart Wal ker's Portmanteau Theatre In compact nes. Inasmuch aa It can nhnot he car ried In a satchel. The scenery, floorlm?. curtain and everything else neceaty can ho carted around In two trunks. "The Plajshop" represents the gmwrth of Ideas by students who feel that pla maklnR up what is called the American drama are not really distinctive or dif ferent from plaja of any other country This Is the gap thev nro trying to plus to make forms of productions nnd the pro ductions themsehe typical of America and not of any place where the chorus can como out in the third act and shout some thing or other about the "moon' or "coon" or "baboons." George K Kenrnev, nenlor In the Arts Department, Is originator of the Idea Rear ney, who directed the production of "The Comedy of I.rrora" in conjunction with the Shakespearean tercentenary last year and who is also directing the great Masque on American Diama to he presented thi spring at tho University, planned "Tho IMayshop" with tho levv to do eloping ultimately a new art of thetheatre. "We fxpect to reach our aim." ho said, "hy producltibT play in which new or old forms are used, such as the pantomime, clown interlocutors, shadowgraphs and the Oreek chorus We hope to encourage original treatment of plays nnd students alone will be nsked to contribute their dramatic bits ' Simplicity, Kearney explained, would be the ideal of his theatre. There will bo no footlights, and Intimacv between the audi ence and tho actors will be promoted by JUST A BIT amssstsassiusis BSD ifBLWajsgfMtsLWMIit--T- "4 1 i - 'isiwrmBirWiffT llliiiiiiiiMiWiiM ?m s7ljatf3'BHHBlMttaflKJhSsHa s , iH xne new vox mm comedies are evidently bent on out-kcystoning the Keystones for comic thrills. Here is a merry bit of detail from "The Brainstorm," with Billio Mason. means or sters leading to the. stace "Xo bewildering scenery will be In evidence," ho said, "as scenery cannot take the place of an Indifferent pla, nor can It substitute frr an Edwin Forrest. There should bo a ripping out of the theatre from the Kilt fiame In which It has been placed In the past " Rehearsals for plays to be presented In 'The Playshop " which Is on view In Its diminutive entirety at tho exhibit on Amer ican drama In the Hnle Hulldlng, will soon be started The first bill will consist of four one-act plays, Man." a morality play hy George V Kearney j "Doctor Mlralile," by K O Connor; "The Great God Hull," hy Robert E. Splller, and another to be se lected, provided they are chosen by Dr T P O'Bolger, of the University faculty, who Is supervising the selection of the plas Percy Winter has been engaged to coach . . ' .,v". the productions, which will he first presented?? at a prUate performance In the latter part'V of March. Tho theatre Just fits. tho audVnl torlum of the Phllomathean Society at tbt '&a tnheisltv. tn which hetonir the student .( yfl liontrltin 1.. t. .! ,.! tl.-.. ...Ill I.. .-. . ", ihljl sented tho different bills from time to time. Cpfl Xegotlatlotm nro heltiff made, however, 'or'iJK a tour, nnd several society women have 9-p'dj ""I"" iiuu me I rut (ivrw ui I HO UlcaLWO $ with the Idea of ImMng "Tho Playahop",,' set up In thrlr ballrooms for nn evenlng'g fK2i nntfrtalnmeiit D. W 8- i-Qt GOLDEN WEDDING FOR EBERLES; TftEIR RECORD A golden weddlnir anniversary In the the '' nlrlcal profession Is nomewhat of a ratJiy. Ml nnd Mrn H. A. Kberle, of the "Little Women" company reached this Important jnllostone In their wedded life today. The company will celrhrate the event. Mr and Mrs. niierle have each passed tho allotted three score nnd ten of year and have been actixely emplojed upon the MnKe for more than sixty years. Mr. Kberle " has been playing Mr. Lawrence and Mrs. Kberle Aunt March In "Little Women" almost ulnce Its first production. Some of the companies and productions In which this old couple have appeareJ ale as follows Charlotte Cushninn. In "Homeo and Ju liet," "(3uy Mannerlnic" nnd "Henry VIII": In stock with A W Jackson, Winter Oar den, fv'ew York ; In stock under direction of William Steward, Kclwln Hooth and J, Sleeper Clark, nt Winter Garden, New York ; with Charley Wheatley, nt Nlblo'a riarden, New York . In stock with Georue 4, Wood, nroadnay Theatre, New York; In slock with John Hates, National Theatre, Cincinnati, O , In stock with Greenwald Urothers, Galveston, Tex. ; In stock with Harry Everett, Troy, N Y. ; In stock with John Albaugh, Albany, N, X, : with Joseph Jefferson In "Rip" nnd as Tnckleton In "Cricket on the Hearth." OF FUN '"TV"' - MUSICAL COMEDY'S BIG BID FOR FAVOR There have been many miniature musi cal comedies produced In audevllle since this style of entertainment found a place In the make-up of the variety show, but nothing of the kind, It Is said, has equaled i ne i.iriies liamnol." which will be shown f' to I'hilailelphlans next week at Keith's. ' w, I'ctwiim ionize now mucn money !v ran be spent on a production of this kind. 3 Some of the Broadway revues aond Mr musical pioductlons run Into hundreds of 3fj thousands of dollar.s. but these productions"'! fJ are num. up especially to last one, twrt nnd three years, and are made over In, various ways so that the producer Is sura to 'get Ills money's worth out of the piece If It Is at all successful In making one nf these shows for vaudeville, It Is entirely different Only a certain number of weeks can bo played, because there are compara tively few first-class vaudeville hotises In , "i'x this country which can afford to play an p3 act of this kind. "The Girlies' Gambol" was staeed br rsed Wnjbuin, who Is now in London pre- '!5 imrincr nn apt for nresentntlnn thr In . 1. the mus'le halls, Wayburn Is recognixed ,r$t3 musical Fhows In the world and his stage b Hted theatrical history on two hemispheres," ' 8 Tommy Gray, an author known to both s vauaeMiie ana uramn, supplied tne OJa- .'k logue. le. The lvrlr.s nr. h- liene RuMr hn if u Is lesponslblc for large portions of several f.jJ editions of .legfeld's Follies, and who ls'i3 also one of the best known song writer i lit Ametlca The muslo Is by Lew HlrseH's)!S and Dave .Stamper, two of the foremostV"! composers oi ugni musio inis country nasi' q produced, and the scenery was as palhted' by .j the celebrated Viennese artist, Urban. A big outlay of money was made befor these WaUiurn girls began their gambol' , before the footlights, for thousands of doWr i lars had to be spent on costumes and seeds' ery and a good company had to be en gaged. The fact that such well-kiowMi ".1 favorites as .-iiargarei.ivwg ana nenx am Icr, who have the principal roles: Paul' Frawley, Hazel Moran. Jtlchard DeMM and Lulu Swan were secured to present "The Gambol," shows that the management spared no expense. '") Scnne'tt. Please Write 'A rpiIE problem of, the metropolitan - manager and the small town rnaju QKer is by no means the saaMrf Unly in one particular are the tas of their publics identical andtl is in me lunuamentai in at. ma th difference between Brute.-' man---ine power, ana tneye laugn. . u jtothapft.- .'A! S -fa ??J- -. - Tl V tft-ttSiM
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