The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-30
IN THE DRAMATIC WORLD.
THE DRANATJZATION or CNDR4-
MATIC STORIES CONTINUES.
How Not to DO U-tmerican Actresses
should study Tone Production Just
- Singer-VOices Of Feminine
stars In the Metropolis Buses Casa
Reyerent BurIesaue Of "Everyman."

theat rical. this past ore Audrey OF m"
fair hair came To the Madison SQUARE;
the Circle reopeped its DOOR. and Mrs
Osborn gave her patrons a new thrill ol.
Thanksgiving evening
But il j. only the lull before the tornado
that will burst upon tn" town Tomorrow
night Two tremendous productions. MIR
Mansfclds and Mr. Beascos; the return
OF MIR and Mrs Nat Goodwin and Mr.
Willard; and a new comedy at the Irving
Place Theatre There's variety for the
carper-'
Israel Zangwil once declared that h"
Welcomed fiction from female pens be
cause Of the sclf-Ievaation. II was not
what the woman wrote that was interesting
object lively, but il was the consequent
exposure Of her own soul in the operation
that piqued the curiosity OF the English
novelist For example. Ne might ask why
all these girls, young and mature, furnish
us with 40 much blood .-pliing in their
pages with so many exhibitions OF splendid
m,isc,Ilarity and fierce listH l. II because
in the gray, dull lives n hard-working
penwoinen there il So little chance Tor a
free, vivid e.Cis7 enc". an .slstenc" full OF
color, adventure. roinanco'
Hist The forest il suflu~'d by mystic
green light Over the pah pursued by
Sir Bigbucque hang innumcrahl" branches;
foliage. tender. tough and tawnv. bars
the blue of heaven overhead no--o'er head,
from view. Lik" the nave Of some huge
cat hedral il the scene in front Of him. Anon
he hears the sound of the ChipmunQue
then a scream pune, yates the lazy languors
a. Ia, t-t,.. Ia IsAr a n
bucaue, peer of Pennsylvania, knight of
the Holy Empire Theatre, and Privv Pianist
TO the ruler of the realm. Is afoot. hack
ing his way through the underbrush The
screams he has heard are feminine. all. so
feminine Well he wuts their nature.
Some knavsh work il going on. Tru-ty
glaye Carves a tunnel before him and
falling on one mailed knee he baholds-Dies
srp'-the face and form of the lovely
Alice Won --.-. but we leave him until our
next.
Now, il is easy to note that wr1tir K like
the above i bound TO excite f. minnie
nerves of a certain order. excite and re-
liave them Hence the bookStalls are
stacked mountain high with this tinSel
stun II IL read al home and abroad. on
trains. in hotels, on steamers. aye. IN
lonely bedrooms. where the lamp trembles
as page after page l. scanned for "a climax.
l. it any wonder that Georgc Bernard
shaw puts novel reading in the same cate
CORY with dram drinking and opia;es for
famil use'
Ia-n obocssed by the idea that a novel
may e dumped on the boards with few
costumes. some gaudy 80 merry. plenty
Of dialogue and pretty situations, the enter
prising playwright SHIPS, pastes, boils
down and labels the immature work of
an enthusiastic girl whose knowledge of
life H. confined 10 the reading of Ouida.
Marie Coroli and few others To Dumas
she goes for her advent re,; for style, to
Corclli The compound il a pleasing one.
II sells. Money is made And then come.
the lure of the footlight, This, or some
thing analagou, to this, il the case OF
Audrey, which was produced al the
Madison Square last week
We have not read the original. We
confess TO having missed the Johnston
books altogether. And perhaps this il we'll,
for surely they must be better than the
plays. They could be hardly worse. Miss
Johnston has her grievance, too. so has
Eleanor Robson Ihi. Young actress,
whose personality il 50 sympathetic, has
little 10 do but regard the auditorium wist %
fully and move and speak with hvpnoti IT,
speech and gestures Her support l.
excellent But everything goes for
naught There II no skeleton, and without
SHELTON no structure, be- II never 80 grace
fully decorated. will endure. After much
bulging and sagging IN he first four tab
leaux really that title il a concession on
the part Of the librr'ti~'- the affair col
lapscs 20 earth The church scene does
the trick We hear tha the sermon was
written in by Harriet Ford Miss John
ston must feel now thai the darkest dra
matte criticism has silver lining Al least
she was not the author of that unfortunate
and futile address.
However. let il be said TO those who do
not AXE their theatre seriously that AN
drey" il pretty. is full of pretty speeches
costumes, bOnbon ml-crles, comic
preacher and dim"-nov"l halfbreed
Mr.. George Woodward, who plays the
preacher, Gideon Darden. deserves praise
for his careful realism There is some
Illusion To his imper~ous ion You believe
IN his thirst,
MISS Jbnll~lhN lltN a fOltdRlt across
seas who has also venturcd on the perluu,
path of dramati2mg a novel Mrs Hum
phry Wards -Elcauor" has been variou-ly
considered by the London critics A. Il
book IL Is weighted down by the peculiar
freight of Psychology 81 dear 10 this writer
Her men, lik" George Eliot, are stun 81
with spiritual sawdu~t, either they ar,
prigs or els" impossible monsters II i.
not n surprlS" To hear that Eleanor" Moves
ponderously across the boards Yo, il
is declared 10 possess the human quality
!, is credible in spots. Above all, il Is sin
cere and free from tricks theatric Mrs
Ward goes 10 life for her characters: il /,
her incidents that ring hollow. and fol
the reason that no booksh lady franco
by n comfortable English life can soc much
of the big world without her. Al best she
may peer through the windows 81 another
experience. This she did in an earlier
novel, which dealt in part with episode,
IN the Latin quarter. Julian Story. IN,
portrait painter, who happened to be- work,
ing on Mrs. Wards head AT The time Sh,
was writing the book, related 80 her tale,
of artistic Bohemia in Paris This wa.
transferred 20 her pages. with the con,e.
quont result lfclcSsnc-s Again W. re-.
pea 70 The ladies' who seek to portrav III,
on the stag" thai strenuous observation i,
worth NOR" than facilc invention. Con-