The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-20
NeWs Of the Green
Room and Foyer
Some of the More Important Doings
Of These, Our Actors.
ENGLISH APPROVAL NEEDFUL
Without 1t the American Artist Will
Struggle in Vain for Eminencc in the
Theatrical World-News and Cos.
sip About Local Fayorites.


The old cry that no actor who has NOT
the seal of English approval can win
success in this country has apain benn
raised. So worthy an artist as mlia
Arthur is quoted i'm the Mirror as saw
ing: THE road to success TODAY lies
by way of London. If get n GOOD mart
there and make a success of il the
American managers will then find narts
for me, too. Since nv success forr
years ago at the Union Souare in "The
Black Mask" | have never had n part
that gave me an opportunitv. | have
received numerous offers this season.
but none that / cold accent. couldn't
take a step backward. In London /
may get a chance" Miss Arthur has
some reason for her claim. There is
ported actors do much better here than
they might if American actors would
only follow English methods in a great
er or less degree Nym Crinkle, who
knows as much about the American
stage as anyone, says this is at the bot
tom of the whole matter. He declares
that we have as good, if not better tal.
ent in this country as can be founi in
England, but says that American play,
ers are too impatient for immediate
success to do the plodding that polshes
the art of the Englishmen and makes
them more acceptable To the theater
gocrS. His conclusion, based in just
such premise as that formulated by
Miss Arthur is: zone thing appears
TO me to be inevitable if we make no
room for actors who would rather he
great in the end than successful at ta~
beginning. If we have no universities
or art In our theater and no applied
! Iublic sentiment of Il stimulative kind
Out tSide the theage, we shall continue
! TO Rave accidents Instead of artists, AMI
| the time Will come when America VIII
be the harvest-fiell for foreigners whJ
succeed in bringing us what We could
not develop and diu not care to encOur-
age within ourselves
The basis OF Crinkles argument Is
that there are plenty of actors here who
are the equal of English actors in every
| way. lie cites these particular in
| stances: 1T isn't ability altogether
that IS needed, but system and patience
| ana opportunity Mr.. Manshelds
Rlcnafd was a great deal better dra-
| matlc performance than Mr.. Wlllarus
| Hamlet. Ills old roue in "A Partisan
]
| am llnpefsonatlon as Mr.. lrNing's LOUIS
| NJ. Mrs. Chanfrau was at her best
/ quite as good an actress as Mrs. Ken
dal Joseph Holland and wilton Lack
| aye are the equals IN most ana the su-
| perlor IN many roles. OF the English ac
tors that come TO us, Ada Rehan mas
less temperament Dut more NltaIity
tnan Ellen Terry. Julia Arthur with
dlScfetloh ana Soud judgment, can
ecllpSe any melodiamatlc actress VINO
mas come To us recently from England
cara MOTIFS at her start was as huch
OF a phenomenon as i'uSe' put she never
had the patience 10 become as huch OF
cal as Coqueiin, put not as ambitious
Mr.. Gilbert saw Galatea only win I'm,
aglhatlon, uhtll Mary Anderson played
II, ana theh ne recosilzeu ms WORK win
MS eyes. When Mr., Tefrlss got out
from Mr.. hNing's wing and came here,
some OF our actors TOOK all his prestige
away IN ms own company. You can
not contemplate Marlowe and Vain
wright ana Sengman ana Julia Arthur
without understanding at once that
they are III art lor immediate returns
ana are huStllhg. wilton Lackaye al
most iheIlts the term jon lot Tor MS
caprlcious industry, ana YET there is no
better equipped Well-dlSciplined intelll
gehce on our boards. 1t Is doubtful II
these actors nave any desire TO be
great III the accepted sense oi acclaim,
ana YET all Oh theih are greater IN nat
ural Ilhess ana uuctlle dramatic slfts
than irving was When ne was playing
lhelr grades OF character IN stock COM
panies., IL would be dlillcult To ilnd on
ana lndefatlgable student in his profess
sion than Mr.. Sothern. But Mr. Soth-
ern seems to be unable to rise above a
dead level OF la-da-da plays in which
herolsm must smell ol Rotten ROW
me magnitude OF the operations un-
dertaken by Abbey, Schoeifel d Grau is
sun more remarkable than the vast and
varied business on Whlch Charl"S IRON
man is engaged. some figures lately
given out by Mr.. Abbey are astonish-
llS' lie states lilat curing PERIOD ol
year tie spectacle america cost $loO''
wv anu Sieai"d ca ood p'olt ~ lile il'tilase'
hieHt ol S'oo'VuV. 1t was an aIIhosl com
Plr'e l"huig Will l'i"''urru ,r, uui lilS III,
winter III New I"Ih' me receipts Us! ol
tne lINi'iS ioui laS' @ season were $,-o''
ooo' ol Wi'lcIl @Ol'ioo were taheii III uur'
ing tWo-W1'hs eiEasehleht Ill Sai
Francisco lhe caplIal OF the Iar Wes'
mas an III reputation among other the'
alrlcal managers nut u pelleVes IN Ap
pey' lor on anotner occasion san frah
CISCO spent $4o'Ojo IN Two weeks To sec
Saran berhnarut' y sun betttr reeort
IS hela py Boston Whlch paid A3'SS'
Tor hihe performance by the Slea'
trench woman. Mr.. Abbey says ina
he mas paid $l,OOO,OOO apiece to Saral
Befhhardt ana Adellha iattl. lie tooF
IN something over $l'oOO'OOO during th'
last grand opera season It Is als'
stated that under her present contrac
with Abbey, Schoelfel " Grau, Lilliar
Russell receives Sl,5Oo "A week. Thes'
are almost incredible figures, Bu
Henry II. Abbey does not eXaggerat'
any matters relating to his business
and this statement, the Buffalo Express
thinks, may be accepted as authorita
tive.