New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-18
A NEW CATCH QUESTION.
PLAYS YOU HAVE SEEN ACTED
THEN COUNT THEM Up.

Here is new question to inAict on your help
less friends after you have asked them where the
Book OF Hezektah is and who wrote BE good
sweet maid. and let who VIII be clever" Ask
them how many OF Shakespeare's PLAYS they
have seen on the stage They must answer by
guess, not stopping 10 count up. That is lust
the point After they have guessed let them
count up and see how near they came You
might Try II yourself before you read any fur
Their. You VIII find that most persons If they
are theatregoers viii guess far too few
This fact was discovered recently In the
course Of a discussion OF the subject occas.oned
by Mr. MansheIds production Of the seldom
played King Henry '" One person present.
who cherishes fond ambition 10 see every one
Of ShakesPea-e's dramas on the stage and con-
sequently keeps account Of how many he has
seen. said that this made his twenty-fcurth
Another. who pretends To no such object. said
that he thought that he had seen half dozen
or so. When the list was read over 70 hin, II
proved that he had seen eighteen Another
who has been q constant attendant al theatres
Tor the last thirty five or forty years, said that
he thought that he must have seen ten II
proved tnat ne had seen tweDty-uine
AS there are only thirty-seven in all this NAV
count as pretty good record. It is probable
mat TINS man has missed scarcely anything
which has been played il New York in the last
thirty years and therefore his exact list may
PEI be lPters5ting THIS is II: Hamlet. Mac
Merchant Of Venice" AS You Like II" a
Midsummer Nights Dream" The Tanning Of
Measure" AIS Well That Ends Well" 'Corio-
Ianus." King Lear" Loves Labor's Lost"
Two GeLtlemen Of Verona" The Comedy Of
patra," The Winters Tale" King John"
King Richard Il" King Henry w. Part I;
ing Henry Henri w.. W. King Richard III" King
Tempest" Much Ado About NoThinr,.
. !Wel1Ih Night He thought that he had seen
AIS Well That Ends Well" but was not sure
This is pretty good list, and the plays which
are not contained in it are not likely often 10
be seen by anybody. There are only eight Of
them King Henry w. Part II the three
Tinon Of Athens" "Pericles. Prince of Tyre
ana "Troilus and Cressda." Both "Tirnou" and
land within short time and Richard Mans
field has long had 'Timon" in his mind thonph
he has not YET got quite SO far as TO PLAY IN
americans who have seen the less usual pIavs
OF Shakespeare within the last few wears az
indebted TO AugustIn Daily for many Of their
opportunities though other managers and actors
have helped good deal. One of MT Taly,s
most important productions Of this sort was ~
course, The Tanning Of the Shrev .. WIZ -
produced this play II had been so long knnI+ ne
the stage only in its abbreviated form called
hatharlne and Petruchio" that 1t had been al
most forgotten that the whole MAY ~ "a
eepttble of stage setting. The Nerrv w.
OF WINDSOR was also for time little head
~ eIi,s On MI DaIy stage. although it be-
William II. Crane and Beerhohr1 to an aliu
Ptayed II mere. 10 say nothing of the opers "a
a oa,cIta Nights Dream is scarcely to be
counted among the unusual plays FOR fl has
rad several productions OF late and ro-,ra aaS
= making tour with 1t this season 7, &c
! .g uIne since anybody but Mr. Daily ha. n,f
~ tempest Two Gentlemen of Verona" ana
country ''"se IN TINS
There have been two recent productions =,
me me, nrst part Of King Henry w. by Miss
9 g Marlowe and Beerbohm Tree, two of
hihg Henry VIII" by Sir Henry Tr,,,ng
5 ana Nine ModJeska and two OF "Cvrbaes
me by Nine. Mod1eska and Miss Ma1pare,
Mather. Miss Mary Anderson closed bsr
5 T career IN this country with The Winters
Aale- and Mrs James Brown Potter favora5