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gXT WEEK : WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED," BY THE STAGEhSOCIETY, AT LITTLE tttMH!
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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
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Playahop,' Which Gomes Out of the Universit
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By LANGDON
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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V T Curletnn
. 'Ihtixtire rrlehni
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DetectlxfH (,iifitt( linilpr. nTHntn
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. '")
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- manager and the small town rnaju
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Unly in one particular are the tas
of their publics identical andtl
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