The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-24
WITH RISING STARS
Some Of New Plays Brought
Out This Season.
THE WAY OF The WORLD"
Clyde Fitch'8 Often Rejected
Play a Great Success
THE WAY OF The WORLD"


Diin1ui OF new situations, despite the
hackneyed wall from noveiists and play
WrShts. that nothing under the sun is
new says the New York World.
They are not the situations Of the play
wright however. clyde Fitch has given
US no new characters in 'She Way OF the
World The wife, who is neglected fo1
politics or lesser causes, made her debut.
on and of the stage. a great many cen
t0sles ago-her first setting being proba
lnoiy in the Garden Of Eden. The hus-
band who leaves her and expects she win
sly put" is a stupid and short-siehte6
N this twentieth century as his father
Adam WIS before centuries began.
And the soothing, sympatbetic vHls,,
VINO knows good opportunity when he
sees H. Is so familiar that we have ceased
Gazing him hard names. and regard him
merely as type that works overtime in
real and stage life.
Yet al these characters come n re Ir,,
new beings in The Way of the Eorld,,-
hot because they 90 anything other stare
PEOPLE haven't oone, but because thew do
II as stage people never before have dons
giving rs a picture so normal in word
aiiu movement so actual in every detail.
mat IL Is as real as the instances that
nave entered into our own lives.
So the eyes Of Us weep. and the baar+ 80
Is IS made glad. Tor this is a practical
age, ana We are reaIists.
Midsummer Nights Dreams v-i+v, -o,..
ca flowers and tinselled fairies do not
interest us The manager who gets our
dollars must put before US the scenes and
incidents Of our waking hours-nust give
US portrayal of the things we've seen or
done or felt for ourselves, and in the
FiVidness Of his portrayal make US re-
member.
me women who win our applause must
be something more than imaginary be-
lnss with wands and gilt gauze. We've
never met or known this sort. and most
OF us don't wan- to know them.
The Twentieth Century notion Of art
has nothing 10 do with the IMAGINARY. II
rests on basis where art and nature
"-eno-Whlch is human nature, reveloped.
80 we want reel women and real men to
portray 20 us real life We want women
VINO have lived and loved 10 give US living.
loving parts; We want women in smart
1iocAs TO show as women Of the world:
women equipped with good lives, bright
eyes and keen appreciation for humor. to
give US wit; and women whose own lives
have not stamped out the knowledge Of
now good woman would be have under
certain circumstances, to make real and
vivid the portrayal of a loyal wife.
And given all these characters, equip
ped by actual environment to be natural
II their parts upon the stage, our realistic |
craving cries for more
We would co away with props" and !
have our people act in real scenes from /
hie-in rooms that might really be lived /
H. with haEgings of velvet, not of paint; /
Uith statuarE OF marble. rot Of plaster: !
with carpets into which correctly slipper
81 feet may sink. instead Of painted |
boards: with desks ana tables that are
real. not made Of papier-mache. and with
flowers net made OF paper or wax. but
fresh cut and dewy, whose scent gets over
the fooUishts and helps make a real
Illusion real.
All this and more is given in THE Way
of the World There never before was
a play presented that reached so nearly
the acme Of realism.
From she bric-a-brac and paintings. the
sofa cushions and doylies TO the perfect
ntdns OF each one for his or her part. all
thiags conduce TO realism and natural
Ross
Elsie De Wolfe. who in 1.-THE Way of
the World" makes her debut as a star. is
in reality a wei born and wcll-bred wo-
ineni SO it doesn't require a great deal of
acting for her TO behave like one on the
I
y thout the least dramatic effort. calls
her husband dear without the least os-
ntaton. bids him good-by when he pass
Is oT the stage from the left center on his
way to neglect her. with inexpress lille
s earning thar strikes an answering chord
n matinee girI's hearts. and firts as des-
atrately ana deuciously with his best
friend as il she moved in the best set
Bliss DE Nolfe's Mrs Croydon is a
character with whom we are all familiar.
and Miss DE Wolfe presents her To MS just
l-c the Mrs. Croydens en- our visiting
ists
Through series OF irving circumstanc-
IS she doesn't set stately nor have hyster-
cs When the villain who for a year has
ymrathiaed with her loneliness, tells her
be- loves her and bess her 20 lee. she
ooks panied and tells him be isn't the
uan she Thought he was and then she
DOESN'T rart nor tear her hair She just 4
acre throws him down with such a SD
'erb air thar The whole audience is WIFI
ler heart ara hand.
For there are three things the limo
.ently airtalous young married woman In S
society VIII n0r tolerate I'm subject
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