New-York tribune., 1902-03-20
Mr.. PHILLIPS TRAGEDY.
\ POETIC STORY FROM DANTE AND
BOCCACCIO SET INTO ORA
MATIC ACTION

ten and produced within three years and with
TWO Of them running al the best known
West End theatres under the most artistic stage
mana cement. the strOIling player OF Mr. Ben
sons company and the i'll paid tutor and coach
OF a military examining school needs 70 be
protected against the temptations Of Overpro-
duction and the adulatiOn of friends. Success
III commanding the patronage Of actor man
ayers has come so quickly that he is in danger
Of appealing too often for recognition as an
artist with high ideals and noble ambition bent
upon eIevating the literature OF the stage The
text Of Ulysses in which much OF The verse
Hmps and in which Homeric simplicity and
Greek ideas Of religion and fate are sacrificed
needlessiy for theatrical effect and the require
ments Of stage management Is a proof OF the
urgency Of the literary playwrights peril The
afectatioEs of a group Of partisans. who have
prerna turely hailed the coming of another
Shakespeare and with dogmatc perversity have
decreed that his plays are classical masterpieces
are another source Of danger, although MI
Phillips is himself a modest man, with tuiI
sense of the limitations and imperfectons Of his
art H IS a poet with a practical acquaintance
with the business OF the stage derived from ms
provincial tours with Mr Benson when ne
played the Ghost in Hamlet" and other sub
ordinate parts, but he lacks the ShakespeaTlan
genius for ina ginatiou. Characterization. artls-
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pieces may come in due time, If the acting man
ayers do not bait him TOO eagerly with com
missions but AT present his real distinction -
that Of supplying the theatres with a higher
order Of drama Of a superior literary form ana
genuine poetic spirit.
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three plays In the order Of production IS me
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