The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-21
FIR. Dooley on Theatres.

Fiction is now transferred promptly to
to the stage and theatrical enterprise
was never so great. The books as much
the thing now as the play. Every novel
that has met with any measurable de-
gree or popularity in the last few years
and some that have not-are to find their
way to the stage this season, and the
announcements of the managers read like
the publishers catalogue.
Mr.. Dooley notes this tendency, and
thus discourses to Hennessy on the mod
ern American stage:
TIL way to write a play is FIR to take
book an write it over hind end fore
most. They're putin all books on tn
stage nowadays. Foxs Book iv Martyrs
mas been done into a three-act farce
comedy, anil be projooced be Della Fox.
tn author, mex summer. Webster's On
abridge Ditchnry' will be brought out
as society dhrama with eight hundred
th0usan char ackters. TIL 'Constitu-
ton iv tn United States "a farce) be
Willum Mckinley is runnin to packed
houses with tn cillybrated thradeeian
Aggynaldoo as tn villain. In tn six
teenth scene iv tn last act they'se a
naygur lynchin'. James H. Wilson tn
author iv Silo an Ensilage, a story FIR
boys, is dhramatizin his cillybrated wur-
ruk an will follow it with a dramatic
version iv Sugar Beet Culture, a farm
play. TIL Familiar Lies iv Ii Hung
Chang is EXPECTED to do we'll in tn prov
inces, an Hostetter's Almanac has all
dates filled. l understand tn Bibleu
be ready FIR tn stage undher tn direction
iv Einstein an Opperman befure tn first
iv tn year. Some changes have been
niciss'ry FIR to adapt it to stage purposes.
/ see be tn pa-apers. TIL authors has
become convinced that Adam an Eve
must be carrid through tn whole play,
so they have considerably lessened tn
time between tn creation an tn flood
an have made Adam an English noble
man with a shady past, an tn Divvle a
Frrinch count in love with Eve. They're
rescued be Noah, tn faithful boatman,
who has comic naygur SON."
81 see be tn pa-apers TIL stage is go
in to tn dogs what with it's Sappho's
an tn like iv that said Mr.. Hennessy
well, it isn't what it used to be-"
/ said Mr.. Dooley, 'in tn days whin twas
tn purpose iv tn hero to save TIL hon
est girl firm tn clutches iv tn villain in
time to go out with him an have a shell
iv beer at tn Dutchman's downstairs.
In tn plays nowadays tn hero is more
Nv a villain thin tn villain himsilf. He's
tn sort iv man that we used TO heave
pawn sthones at whin he come out iv
TIL stage dure iv tn Halstead Sthreer
Opry House. To be be hero we've first
got to be an Englshman, an as if that
wasn't bad enough we've gCis to have COM
mitted as NANNY crimes as tn late H.
H. Holmes If he'd been BORN in Eng
land he'd be hero. Ye marry a woman
who swears an drinks an bets on tn
races an we quarrel with her. TIL r-rest
Nv tn play is made up iv har-rd cracks
be all tn char ackters at each others
morals. This is called repartee be tn
larned an Hogan. Repartee is where
] say, 'Ye stole a horse and We say,
But think iv ye'er wife, In Ar-rchy
R-road it's disordherly conduct. Theyse
another play on where a man r-runs off
with a woman that's no better thin she
ought to be. He bates her an she mar
ries a burglar. Another wan is about a
lady that ates dinner with a German.
He bites her an she hits him with a
cabbage. Thin they'se a play about an
English gintleman iv tn old school who
thries to make girl write a letther FIR
him, an if she don't he'll tell on her. He
doesn't tell an so he's rewarded with tn
love iv tn heroine. an honest English
girl out FIR tn money.
"Nobody's marrid in tn modern play,
Hinnissy, an that's a good thing, too,
FIR amy wan that got marrid wud have
tn worst iv it. In tn oil times tn Ia ads
that announces what's goin' to happen in
tn first act, always promised We happy
marredge in tn end an as ivrybody's
lookin' FIR a happy marredge, that held
tn aujeence. Now We know that the hero
with tn wretched past is goin to elope
with tn drunken lady an tn plcy is
goin' to end with tn couples prettily di-
vorced in tn centher iv tn stage IT'S
called real life. an mebbe that's what it
is. but FIR me 1 don't want to see real
life on tn stage. I can see that amy
day What want is FIR tn spotless gin
tleman to saw tn la-ad with tn sigareet
into two-be-fours an marry tn lady that
doesn't drink much while tn aujeence
is putin on their coats
"Why don't they play Shakspere amy
more?" Mr.. Hennessy asked.
Il understand" said Mr. Dooley, that
they're goin' to dramatic Shakspere
whin tn dhramatizer gifts through with
tn Report iv tn Sinsus Department FIR
1899 1907"