The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-12
OUT AND ABOUT.


The dramatization of 1.-THE Gadfy,"
which admirers Of that now famous
novel have been anticipating this fall,
is likely to be limited to the opening
performance in New York next Mon
day. The lawyers of Mrs. voynich, the
author, have the injunction papers all
drawn UP and ready to spring. Both
author and management feel them
selves aggrieved.
1t seems that when Stuart Robson's
management and Mrs. Voynich first
came to terms in regard to the produce
ton of THE Gadfy," the agreement
was that nothing was to be altered in
the authors dramatization without her
consent. Later Mrs. Voynich agreed to
work to meet the demands of the stage,
and now both she and the management
are anxious to know what constitutes
reasonable changes.
Mrs. Voynich maintains that the play,
| If not rewritten, has undergone such
| material change at the hands of the
management, that she would rather it
We're not produced at all, and she has
| declined to consent to the proposed
changes, insisting that they quite de-
| stroyed the spirit of her play. An in
stance of the changes to which she
objects is the case of the gypsy girl
who, upon the discovery that the Cad
fly loves another, collects his jewels
and other gifts and makes off with
them. There the author leaves her, but
the management makes the gypsy go
off with the intention of getting him
arrested. out of revenge. Again, the
''love business" which, as every read
er of the novel will recall, is intro
duced only toward the close is intro
duced early in the play by the manage
ment Mrs. Voynich hates Hall Game
and Anthony Hope, whom she accuses
Of condescending to cheap methods in
order to obtain success. She has a high
ideal of art and thinks that the pro-
posed changes are all in the line Of
cheap melodramatic effects, and that
they reduce her play to ordinary clap
trap.
So much for the authors version Of
the affair. The management on it's side
AYERS that the play. as Mrs Voynfch
wrote it, is incapable of productions;
that she has shown an entire ignorance
Of stage entrances and exits and has
no idea of the technical requirements
of the stage. Beside they claim that
the play is numbered up with historical
illusions that are incomprehensible, eX-
cept to the student.
If the affair comes into court, as it is
hoped it may, it will be an interesting
question as to what constitutes 'reas-
enable changes" If that point can be
settled, both manger and playwright
will be benefited. The whole affair Is
singularly like that which forms the
plot of Mr.. HowelTs ''The Story Of
Play"
Prince Michel Cantacuzene of Rus
STA, Miss Grants fiance, is said to be
small of stature and of rather a sandy
complexion, with a close cropped,
sharp-pointed Van Dyke beard. He
has remarkably small hands and feet,
and possesses an easy, affable manner
that, taken with his command of Eng
lish and his democratic ways, have
in Newport People who do not care
generally for nobility pronounce the
prince a capital fellow, so Newport
feels pretty safe in seeing him carry
Miss Grant off. 1t is not every time
that prince is a gentleman.
The announcement is made by MFR.
Sauerguell, business manager of the
Kneisel quartet, that owing to sickness
and by the advice Of his physician, Otto
Roth has resigned his position on the
quartet to the great regret Of his for
mer companions. His place will be ta-
ken by Karl Ondricek.
The city of Worcester is represented
in who's who in America" by 49,
names. and Worcester county by TWEEN
ty. The two lists are as follows: Will
liam Fl. Bartlett, Edmund Mills Barton,
George Frisbie Hoar Joseph Henry
Walker, Thomas Conoin Menden-
hail. Caroline Van Dusen Chenoweth,
George Me1len Curtis. William Her
bert Perry Faunce. Oscar Fay Adams,
John Howard Jewett, Walter Appleton
Clark, Thomas James Conaty, Fay Da-
Wis, Horace Davis, John Chandler Ban
croft Davis. Alice Morse Earle, John
r. Thayer William S. Walker. ]. Geo.
Kelley, Leonard p. Kinncutt, Helen
Mary Knowlton, David Brainerd Perry,
Clifford Richardson. Charles Addison
Russell, Mary Rebecca Foster Gilman,
Andrew Haswell Green John Green,
Ellen Day Hale, Granville Stanley Hall.
Edward Henry Hall, Edward Everett
Hale, Isabel F. Hapgood. w. r. Hunt
ington. Austin Barclay Fletcher, Men
don; Lemuel Conant Grosvenor, Pax
tom Albert Hardness, Mendon Edwin
Crawford Hewett, Sutton; James Rip
ley Wellman Hitchcock, Fftchburg;
Franklin Pierce Rice, Marlboro; Will
liam Ball Rice, Hudson; Mary Lowe
Dickinson, Fitchburg; Eben Sumner
Draper, Hopedale; William Franklin
Draper, Hopedale; Theodore Willis
Fisher, Westboro; William Durham
Snow, Webster; George Montague
Wheeler, Grafton; Herbert Baker
Whitney, Leominster; Clara Barton,
Oxford; William rockingham Brad