Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-25

telling dialogue Is concerned, the GramaE- lc poct-i. c, Inc man endowed with the power to imagine plot and portray charac- ter-is born, not made. PinerO is born dramatist His training as an actor sharp ened his literary faculties and turned them in the right direction. With com prehensive knowledge of stage require ments, modern society, the public pulse and the artistic world, gifted with imagi- nation and a keen sense of bumOr to match his sentiment, the author of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray' is easily tho foremost dramatist of tho English stage
 A good second is certainly to be found in Henry Arthur Jones, who, hand icapped with tho disadvantage of starting rather as a literary man than as q play wright, has been fortunate of lato years in the movement in favor of plays of liter ary character. Liko PinCrn, Henry Arthur Jones started in the racc for dramatic authorship with a curtain raiser, A Cler ical Error, " accepted and produced by MT. Wilson Barrett in the earlier days of his London management A Clerical Error" led to "Chnttcrton, auI to collaboration with practical craftsmen in Henry Her mann and Wilson Barrett in The Silver King and ''CIaudiun. It was under stood that in this union of tal0nts Henry Arthur Jones supplied the central idea and the dialogue, Hermann tn" plot and those incidents that suggested mechanism designed for the theatrical cffect-in short
 the samC sort of partnership that existed | between David BrlaSco and the late Henry De Mile Collaboration Is, however q ditf- cult web to diScntangle. Mir. Wilson Bar rctt has in his possession to this day the manuscript uf d Henry Arthur Jones play never produced. hut which the vogue of Hp llityiif Ttn Q TEN mi on the hnNrd> were it onco licked into shapr" t"r rro,luctioa
 Henry Arthur JunlS was fortunate in | coming into touch with tho middle class public "o carly in his career, not only 1 through tno plays produced at the Prin- cess theatvr. but tho drama of Saints and sinners. which, originally brought out at the Vaudeville, enjoyed correspond | ing success It the Madison SQuaro theatCr, | New York. Associated with the rise of F..
 $. Willard's fortunes, ho provided "Ju- dah' and The Middlcman" for that paying star, and himself embarked up on the tr,1lt!rd waters of theatrical man ! agemcnt. His style up tu that period was far less pointed and punECnt than ono would have any reason 10 expect from his plays of the past year or so, ' Tho Case of , RcbClliOus susan, " The MaSQuCraderS' and The BaIble shop" Henry Arthur Jones indeed seemed destined 10 end his career as the drlmatist of the upper mid
 f+e class par excellence, with concessions | to tho prevailing sentiments of pititCs and l gallery gudS, when suddenly, ever in touch | with tho times he VrCrVd around into t:..S
 semiarIstOCratiC atmusphCre of TEt Bau- l ble shop" went hcadlOn2 :uID the DOT
 trayal uf thc upper Cipc;Gs III The NasQucr-
 aders" and f':riy outdid the author of
 'Franr:iion OI his own ground in The | CaSr ot HrhvIliouS susan. Tho public -wh,thvr in stalls or Pit-wAntcdp piquant
 revelations, and they should have them
 Daring indrrd k The MasQucradcrS, :" supplied tO the same stage that presented
 Tho Second Mrs. Tanqucray," and the l Criterion and Chuy!CS WyndhaIn havc sel- | dom enjoyed such d high order uf venture 1 sonno them r~, brilliantly treated. as those
 of Tho BIuh!r shop and Tho Case of l RCbelliOuS susan"
 Henry Arthur Jones is slender, tawny l haired and bearded. with tho physique of
 the true poet; delicate features and an ex-
 prcssion uf mingled scnSitivCnCSS and en-
 ergy. He is alikc impulsivc-hc has been
 seen tN rise in his place and turn and hiss
 the pittitCS as they were hOoting some
 other authors play.
 PinCro is an expert at stage direction.
 He is undoubtedly. as the author of The
 Second Mrs, TanquCray" alone, the first
 of contcmpUr9reOuS English dramatistS. l Then tv,mcs Henry Arthur Jones. with
 that facilc writer of dialoGae, Sydney