The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-28

don't hurry what's the use, VIC have
plenty OF time feeling How different 1t
is here The moment / leave the steamer
something withiE me urges me on faster
and faster. 10 do things to so places.
Ii is a nervous. cNhiiafaunS Evelih5
which takes possession Of one before one
Is aware. 7 little dreamed when I was
little girl in Rockiand, Ne, that
would some day be able 10 describe this
difference from personal experience, for
London then seemed so very far away
that 7 thought I would never see H. Lon
don is becoming more popular with tour
/ lists than II used % be. / remember
when strangers would spend "a few days
/ i'm London and then hurry on 60 Paris,
/ but i'm the majority of instances IL is
now lust the other way You can't know
the people Of Paris as you can the peo-
I PIE of London.
What Of the American actress in Lon
dom"
she IS popular very, very popular
and is becoming more 50 every season
AmCricen women are better received than
are the men. There arc 50 many of
them who come to London, at least once
a wear, that It seems quite homelike,
Are the English genuinely fond or the
atmospheric American play: ! qucrlcd
IN their hearts I do not believe they
are, laushinsly answered Miss Elliott
They say they are and they viii 60 70
see such PLAYS out of curiosity. but that
is an. Yet 'AriZnna' was a big success
so was secret Service and 'Sherlock
Holmes As a rule. the typical American
play is hard for an Englishrl2n to m-
dorstand.'
Mr.. Robertson interrupted al this point
fsz
strange actors and by strange phrases
/ The Englishman is rather peculiar IN hi.
attachment for stage favoritcs- II h
/ likes a player. ne wants To see him yca'
after year. American actors come ovci
one season, and when they return som,
years after. they wonder why n0 one goe'
10 sec them. London playgoers viii con
/ sent TO be bored by q bad play rather
/ than neglect a good actor. on the CON
trary. they frequently spuTn an excellent
drama when interpreted by an unknown
player. American rlaywrights make tht
mistake too often Of giving Us dialogue
llopIete with Americauisms. and then they
wonder why Eugiishmen don't grasp tns
humOr OF something which they cannot
possibly understand. since they are mol
living in America. where such localisnls
/ are q part OF daily life"
/ Yes, that is it, added Miss Elliott
That expresses il perfectly WheI
! English ploya are brought TO this couutrs
/ they ore invariably not successful Unles;
/ they are adapted Tor American comprc
heusion. The Dictator was another hug,
/ success. Eleanor Rooson's play ais,
/ pleased She has become quite a fav0Titf
MANY unexpected things have happened
since / first went To London with siste
/ in 1850 10 play Nudge with her H. Tn
Cowboy and the Lady, said Miss Ii
/ lott. Yes. 7 was the original Nudge
/ We followed that play with An American
/ Citizen and then Mr. Goodwin and ms
sister came home and left me behind {,
/ appear As the heroine In The Royal Fam
( lis and later as-thc inseuuo in Rober
Marshalrs play. His EXccllcncy the Gov
{ cTnOT. ] Was the original ingenuc iT
/ Lady HaywoTth's Experiment Then
Then said Mr.. Robertson, in q know
/ ing way, she became my leading lady
/ PLAYING Ophelia Judith in The Devil
/ Disciple and other big roles Her julie
Us the best work Of all I hope she WI
/ play il Tor You sCmc DAY. She did excel
lcntly I'm Mice and Men and In ''Th.
Light That Failed but she is an idea
{ Juliet
And snail We see you as Bomc02"
Mr.. Robertson shook his head sadly an,
[ wisely
II wish it might be So " he replied 'bu
! realize the limitation of years"
Then these two went forth into the sun
shine for daily rehcarsslS are being he'll,
preparatory 10 the New York opening
I which VIII occur very shortly.
New York. October y