Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-20
GERALD DU MAURlER Sue
cEEDS AS AN ACTOR
APPEARS AS LITTLE BILLEED
Gets He start First Through He
Fathers Name, but Soon Shows
That He ls Fully
Capable
cnhle 10 rhe 1Iernld.

Special Cable TO The Herald.
LONDON, Aug. 1s.--Gerald Du Maui
rier's recent selection to succeed Cyril
Maude at the Haymarket is another
feather in the cap of this comparative
ly youthful actor, who is a notable ex-
ception to the rule that the son OF a
great man must needs be mediocrity.
OF course young Du Maurier owed
his first engagement, which was by
Beerbohm Tree, chiefly to the fact that
his father was the famous cartoonist
and author of "Trilby" but from the
first the son showed that he was able
to stand on his own legs. Appropriate
ly enough, his debut with Tree was
made as Little Billie and his success
full work soon led to his engagement by
Charles Frohman, whom he now Is
leaving.
Du Maurier made distinct hit In
THE Admirable Crichton" as the young
aristocrat whose head had to be fire.
quently immersed in pail of water,
and improved his reputation still more
by really exceptional acting as the son
In Little Mary" In fact, j. M. Bar
rie wanted young Du Maurier's services
right along.
At the Haymarket Du Maurier will
be seen first in "The Love PATH" the
new American comedy by c. M. S. Nc
Lellan. He has got to be so great a
man now that almost every one has
forgotten that he is his fathers son.
Barrie Not to Visit America
]. M. Barrie has said that the report
that ne was about to visit the United
States Is a mistake. In reply to writ
ten inquiry--Mr Barrie objetcs to in
terviews-the author replies:
II am not going to America this
year, though I once thought of doing
so.'
That distinguished poet, John David
son, harbors an uncommon grievance
against theatrical managers. He is an
cry over being regarded by the public
az an unsuccessful playwright--or at
best as q "one play man"-notwith-
standing the fact that none of the sew
eral plays of which he is the author
membered that Mr.. Davidson made the
English adaptation Of Pour la Cour-
onne," which Forbes Robertson gave
over here and which also was per-
formed in the United States.
1.-The success of this play" says Da-
wilson, attracted the attention Of
managers to the adapter, but no one
as yet thought of giving me a commits
sion for an original play. An adapta-
ton Of mine had succeeded, or seemed
to succeed, therefore I was to be an
adapter.
1T is by my adaptation my ability
as a playwright has been tested, and 1t
is upon their failure have been con-
demned, while my own plays. God
frida,' Sells the Man and Knight Of
the Maypole remain unproduced."
Another Chance for Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is to be given
another chance in London next fall.
Arthur Bourchier, who must have
made a barrel Of money out THE
Walls of Jericho" Is going to risk los
ing some of it by putting on a revival
of 1.-THE Merchant of Venice" In which
he and his wife, Violet Vanbrugh, will
play the principal parts.
There are few more capable character
actors than Bourchier on the stage at
present and his Jew should be a strik-
ing figure, but 1t takes G. really sem
sationaI production Of any of Shakes
peare's plays to draw the London pub
lie nowadays.