Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-01
WOMEN As WRITER'S,
Female Dramatists rnlk Of Their
Dramatic Work


Dramatic Work
New York, Jan. g. what have the
women dramatists % say tu the man
ugcnul estimate of then work as print
ed In the RcvOrd-Herald OF Dec 20?
DramatIsts male and female, are apt
to be hither- and-you tolk IN ms
widespread republic of ours. While
New ork is the great producing cen-
ter for plays. not many see their very
INST public presentation here, although
here the author meets the manager
here the actors are engaged the seem
cry painted. costumes mad" ana the
play rchcnrsed Ana the event proved
that many Of the ladies' whose written
work for the stage has compelled ap-
pause were as yariously out Of town
ana ou the wing az amy equal number
Of men pluyWrights could be-.
Mrs. Madeleine Luccttc ltyley Is In
England bringing out more plays.
Martha Morton Who is I'm private life
Mrs Herman tonlmIm has deserted
her splendid home near the Riverside
drive for the winter tonic Of Atlantic
City. as the result of oyerWork,
There" says Mr. conNcim my wife
Is resting from work of every desert
ton. under her doctors orders. | am
sure she would have much To say on a
matter so dear TO her IL II were prudent
TO bring Ii to her attention" Miss
Cheenleaf sutherland is In Boston.
But there are always, however some
important people left in town like
New York. and, naturally when found
,f they are women Jhey are gener-
ally rot HVerso TO giving tbeir Views
on topic that interests them. Mrs
Burton Harrison. Mrs LOttie Blair
Parker. Miss Marguerite Merngton and
Miss jeanette b Glider We're found
and without ado took to the inquiry
kindly. Mrs. Frances ilOdrson Bur
nett who has had real and great sue
cca8rs i'm the theatcr ohligiugly land
ed from nm Atlantic liner n time e
say sonc very pertinent things
What these ladies have 10 say Is Civ
en- below. and whether they meet the
managerial criticisms 10 whole or IN
part. they one and all profess sense
uf encouragement ana renewed belief
| In their sex and themselves as pui'
vcyors uf plays all OF which is graft
! fyng TO observe. and they do not APP
! pear To envy the mate writer's a bit
Their sex. &c it does show H. their plays
has, they believe, It's advantages Place
| aux danes
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett 50
| long distinguished as novelist WHOSE
! Little Lord Fauntleroy ia remember
! I'd as one OF The most charming of chill
dren's plays. ana whose Lady 81
! Quality" when concerted into a drama
made a play unusually strong and cnec
tive, rs familiar enough with the dif
ferences between qualities necessary
for a good story and those required fol
a stage production 70 make what SHE
SAYS ON the subject OF women dramat
lists NJ interest
TT had not occurred TO me TO draw
comparison between men aud Womel
| writer's OF plays This question OF seq
! Is one that never enters into my APP
| probation of books and dramas. As
| said when giving a lecture not long ag
| i'm London. 10 me vice aud virtue haV
no sex. That a play Is good becauS
woman wrote 1t, but might have beer
better had It been conceived and exc
culed by q man, ig a point Of view
nov tl iullNlNflf W - 40 N'iA GO 'i''
! write good plays.
NJ seems to me that Charles Froh
man. when he says a good play Is
good play, 1t has no SEX expresses m
views exactly, and the differences h
points out are the only ones that eN
list between the man and woman play
wright. 4 WOmans point of View dt
fers naturally from mans. Her yisio
IL more limited consequently when por
traying the character OF man she wi
draw man as she knows him-a wa
mans man-and may pad ont the char
acter as her Imagination prompts Tha
is where she is liable 10 make mistakes
mistakes of which she is wholly uncon
scious, but which VIII DE all to appar
ent to man,
I'm writing a story there Is no linn
to time and scene of action, and you
stage manager Is the great human im
agination. with a play there are cen
tain restrictions 10 be observed. an
unless these are constantly kept befol
your mind you are apt to fan into yer
bad errors.
The authorship Of THE Unwelcom
| Mrs. Hatch" was pretty thorough
settled in the controversy before th