The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-25
THE STAGE HERE and ABROAD
CLYDE FITCH'S NEW PLAY TO BE
HEARD TONIGHT.

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Aforementioned a. TON Pinch"
Lest We forget-to-night at the Savoy,
Clara Bloodgood in Clyde Fitchs new
play. The Girl With the Green Eyes
Usually the most hopeless theatrical
period OF the season-the' production Of Mr..
Fitch's piece, though II robs us Of our
Christmas at home. makes this red-letter
week. Mr.. Willard has settled down to his
repertory, and on the West Side the popping
81 revolvers punctuates the adventures OF
the Biddlee-with what horror the use Of
that sacred name will be rec eived in Phila-
deiphial Hence the prem ore at the Savoy
tonight rescues the week from its duh
record. and at the came time il will ease
the plethora OF FIRST nights NJ It Monday.
The chances are that Mr.. Franklin Fyles's
version Of Tolstoy's Resurrection" will
zee the light here before the Tree-Morton
production which Mr.. Hammerstein con-
templates. 1t cannot be denied that the
Partisan dramatization failed to make
money. And Mr.. Hammerstein simply
smiled the other night when he was asked
about that u 500 week offer to Mrs. Potter.
You will excuse while l go compose a
sonata. he remarked. Il am no philan-
thropist.' Then the sound of music was
heard in his studio, That sonata was
being taken hot on the griddle.
Mr.. David Belasco ia TO produce .Resur-
rection" for Mr.. Fyles. and a costly one it
will be. The date OF the production and
the theatre are still secrets. Mr.. Charles
Frohman was associated with Mr.. Belasco
in the deal and without making any wild
guesses We may surmse that one Of his
theatres will be utilized. There il to he no
clange in this scheme even if Mr.. Ham
IN ,rstein imports the Paris translation.
Mr. Churton Collins protests in the
National Rerrer against the kind Of criti-
cism which tends TO make Shakespeare
almost rs mythical as Homer He selects
Titus Andronicus' to expose his thesis:
First. because it compreh ensively illus
rates the methods employed by these
iconoclasts for the attainment OF their
paradoxic purposes. their indifference
10 evidence, to probability, to reason:
secondly. because 1t illustrates how easily
and lightly a baseless theory passes by
dint of mere repetition into an article Of
belief: and thirdly. because an assumption
OF the spuriousness Of this play affects
very materially the important question of
shakespeare early education and the de-
vrlopment of his genius All Of which
has the familiar pugnacious ring OF this
critic.
Mae. erlinck's two new plays were written
for Martin Harvey, and Mr. W. B. yeats's
new drama Is called -Where There is Moth
ing which title has a distinct favor Of
lbeen. The story is a compound of revo-
lrrionary ideas and beautiful verbal music,
Mr.. Yeats uses q motive that once appeared
in n 1T story, the survival Of the pagan
or, rather the recr,,deecence Of pagan
worship among purely Christian believers.
Admirers Of the pure poet In MIR. Yeats's
work will be interested in this play.
Der Arme Heinrich Gerhart Haupt-
mann's new hve-act drama-produced at
the Demsches Theater, Berlin, Dec. O.
has for its theme an idea recalling Sentas
sacrifice IN Wagner's Flying Dutchrnan.-
The story Is founded on an old German
legend and he play Is written In verse.
Some critics sav that Hauptmann has sur
passed The Sunken Bell in his Imaginative
flights. BE this as it may, the outline Of
the plot seems somewhat depressing A
wealthy nobleman suffers from mysterious
disease. He is told that only the sacrifice
Of . maden's blood can effect a cure He
1nds one In the person OF poor foresters
daughter She Is Is years old and has
long loved the ailiug Count. He Is her ideal
man.
Indignantly he. rejects the prc q red
life However, she will not be d. MED
ieepite the fact that he thrusts her from
his presence. Later, thinking that she Is
dead, that her spirit summons him. he I'll.
lows her 70 the doctor. There the fatal
knife Is uplifted. Suddenly the man rishes
in and rescues this particularly obeessed
young woman, for behold he Is cured! Her
love has accomplished the miracle; love
II the congueror because Of her unselfish-
ness. Thi. Il tho main theme. We can easily
fancy the poetic treatment OF Hauptmann
and the wealth Of delicate details he has
invented to make the romance palatable>
1t has been translated into English.
Another Francesca da Rimini-! This
time II u by Signor Cesareo, q well-known
dramatic author In Rome. His version ia
think highly Of Stephen Philips's play
criticism-sDante dissolved in mucilage.
This gentleman hath a pretty wit. When
he runs across d Annunzio and utters such
eptRrams something stronger than mucilage
will be split
Novelli the most versatile, II not the
most powerful, Of the modern Italian actors,
Il playing Nerone in Rome with much sue
cess The play is by Cossa and il idealizes
the character q the artistic Emperor. We
have seen Novelli and his company in a
realistic drama by Praga and win not soon
forget the actors painful assumption Of
paralysis.
Mr.. Hall Game in arriving in England &C.
tually denied his resemblance to Shake
speare. But no one ever saw this alleged
resemblance.
Gabrielle D'Annunzio has bequeathed his
skull to Cornell University.
Funny things occasionally happen in
English theatres. Several weeks ago at
the opera house. Leicester, a lot OF fresh
water crayhsh got away from a fairy grotto
back Of the dress circle One nervous
gentleman complained that he saw large
creatures moving In the passageways
The majority OF theatregoers over here
wouldn't stop long to analy7e what they
saw after such a creepy experience.
Matinees at all the theatres to-day
There is q rumor that Manager c. B
Dillingham; may take the lease Of Mrs
Osborns Playhouse. Her managerial con.
nection with the establishment ceases
Saturday night She Wishes neither con.
dolenoes nor gratulations-though the
latter would be to the point.
The original title OF Mrs. Langtry's play
written in conjunction with j. Hartley