The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-22

must comprehensive sense, rs the pay
ger who appreciates every dramatic form,
who can laugh at the farce. relish the com.
edy, brood with sincere though not perma-
nent, melancholy over the tragedy. The
IDEAL play-gocr will want to be amused At
the theatcr but not always In the same
spirit. Amusement Is word usually EN-
ployed with narrow significance, Any oc.
cupation of the Sllnd Is an amusement II
1t be a diversion from the minds ordinary
business, To put 1t shortly, the ideal play
goer has one endowment IN the highest
| degree. He has the dramatic instinct al
most without limitation. He does not con
denim a play because 1t is serious because
| II Poee too deeply into motive. or because 1t
may introduce people that one ought not to
know. But when we turn from the ideal
We are greeted by certain interesting facts.
One is that the Ideal play.goer ! have ven.
events, If there Is such person he does
| not count as an infueihe in public opinion,
Jnlia Arthur, 1t is announced will short
y return Ia the footlights, after a ysar's
absence. she has an idea that the public
| is yearnIng to witness a sumptuous pro-
duction Of Twelfth Night" and proposes
to I'LL long-fet want by making the per
! Torrance a spectacle the like OF which has
| never yet been seen on the native stage
| 1t will even surpass Mansheld's Henry w.
| of last season.
! Miss Arthur's last appearance was in
| More Than Queen and Notwithstanding
| the fact that she scored success she de
termined TO relinQuish the honors OF the
stage for a less exciting existence In ner
| magnificent Boston home, for IL should he
mentioned Miss Arthur is the wife OF Ben
| jamin =. Cheney, n millionaire many times
over, who takes commcndable pride in hav-
| Ing everything she undertakes success
| and sees that this end is secured " prod
igal outlay Of cash can make 1t possible.
Nat c. Goodwin, in an address before the
Playgoers club of London, the other day,
discussed the so.called Invasion of England
by the American actors.
1t Is a well known fact that with but
one or two exceptions American players
who have gone over to London confident
In the belief that their English cousins
would patrpuize their efforts on scale OF
lberality. have been compelled to return
to their native land much wiser, ana IN
cidentally poorer
Mir Goodwin himself Is one Of the most
recent and notable examples Of the Amer
can actor who believed London was con
querabic; and with 4 play ny an English y
country. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott sci
about showing the Britishers what Ameri
cans regard as the real thing in art.
But for some unaccountable reason. thu
audiences were small. and. worse yet they
commenced 10 diminish in size steadily
after the first performance. although. me
cable reports Of the opening told OF th'
great artistic and financial triumph NJ th'
In his remarks before the Playgoers
| club MIR Goodwin said there was recip
iocity between the dramatic worlds o
America and England. and he believe.
| there would never he theatrical war VIII
Great Britain, where fair play and Gourtes'
ed that difference between the American
invasion NJ Great Britain and the British
invasion Of the United states was tha
actors often lost IT, He instanced man
rases from the time Of Macready tn date
, rEnglish actors generally return hom
laden with dollars" he said, while almos
I've of Forrest, who went home with onl
, the dead emblem n leaves, suggesting hi
, HT Mr. Goodwin said that several American
has lost hfavily On the London season
some $4,000 and others Sl25.OOp. On tina
point he asserted he could speak with az
lain, credit FOR his experlence; indeed. h
r wished he was less well Informed
! clyde Fitch's new play, The Girl an
/, The 1udre." seen for the AIRS, time las
. levenIng at the Lyceum theater. says ia
!. cr3,lc Of the New YORK Mail and Express
+ h in many ways the hest exponent Of tha
: srsmetist's versatile genius that be ha
= rIven US The best, because IT shows hn
c In sIl his STYLES, aud perhaps, roo In man
K az the yagarles Of his writing and of h
. dramatic construction.
r II mas many scenes Of that nlppan
e snart foolery which he knows how
{ make 80 entertaining; IL has one OF ~
S strong dramatic cllmaxes, managed VII
/ sdmIrabl6 stagecraft Il has novel II NJ
slwars quite plausible plot. and II has o.
snIsode which Is quite The most darir
Thich even Mr. Fitch has yet attempte
a. his play furnishes entertainment
! much more than ordinary merit even
!. ~ one point II did make the Lyceum aud
ence shift q BIT In their chairs and wo
der: What nextf
lientonianiac, or whatever one calls IN
r snyf Of person. who steals DIAMOND .
T. IRON, the mother Of the man to whom h
daUehter II betroih he'd and pawns o. A
daughter knows her mothers tennencie
q and the circumstantial evidence Is so siroi
thai She is convinced " her guilt TN
II comes Mr Fltchs, 20 say the least u
n usual scene. ...,, L..
- ,be bedroom Of mother and daughter; a
e they have retired. the daughter seppu