Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-12

IT ONDON. April 2s Its tradition
ally an III wind that blows no
L~ body good and the decided,
| luke-warm reception given I,
The Bond of Ninon.' with which Lee
iIa Ashwell opened her season at tn,
Savoy this week. makes il probabl,
that we shall soon have still another
play by that lucky American drama.
tist Michael Morton. This Is Bird.
of Passage" the adaptation of In,
French success Of the same name which
Morton made for Miss Ashweli while
she was appearing upder the Frohmar
management IN Leah Kleschna." and
which II has been announced from the
| first would be put on mt the Savoy IN
case the costume comedy by Clotilde
Graves with which the actress started
| operations failed TO catch on. Being
story Of anarchists and their trou-
bles, Birds OF Passage" should give
| Miss Ashwell an incomparably better
chance that she has at present and in
| cidentally the piece will attract still
| more attention to It's author, who al
ready Is much to the fore I'm theatrical
| matters on this side OF the water
His farce, THE Little Stranger
which was done for the hundredth
time at the Criterion recently, is still
going strong and likely to last the sea-
son out, and meanwhile, besides ar
ranging for its production IN the Unit
ed states, Morton has given Herr
Schontau, who Is really big gun in
the German dramatic world, permits
sion to make German adaptation OF
the piece which will be given in Berlin
next October. still another VIII be seen
IN Budapest, and In the meantime
Beerbohm Tree Is busy choosing the
cast and otherwise arranging for the
production OF Mortons version of THE
Newcomes," which Il Is now definitely
decided VIII be seen In London some
time during the present season.
So II seems there is more than a
chance that before long this American
playwright will be represented by no
less than three London productions, all
at the same time. which liz record
which no one except Shakespeare has
equalled up 10 the present, although
Mr.. Barrie came near II awhile ago.
This, however, does not complete tho
tale Of Michael Morton's luck. for stll
another adaptation which he finished
quite recently has been accepted by
London manager, and will be given
In the metropolis in the course
of few months. This will be called
IA q ct n
course pickpocket. who. however. at
the end Of the play, rises TO rather a
heroic hight. In Paris the piece ran
Tor two whole seasons and made no
end of money for it's author. Tristan
Bernard. The Daisy" Of the title, BY
the bye is not girl, but the old Eng
lish song. which IS used as a pass
word by the welshing fraternity Of the
race track, who hum II at the approach
of the police.
As for "Tho Bond OF Ninon." at the
Savoy, here Is rather witty piece.
written by a talented woman who has
done much good literary work. but
spoiled by a hackneyed and rather silly
plot. 1t Is, In fact, u queer mixture
of the elder and the younger Dumas as
represented by THE Three MuslIe-
tecrs" and Camille" and even an ex-
pensivc cast which included Henry
Amley and II. V. Esmond, and really
LUXURIOUS mounting. could not save it
from vigorous "booing" at the end
from the combined pit and gallery.
The "Ninon" Is the historical 'NinOn
dc rEnclos," whitewashed, however.
for stage purposes and her bond Is n
rather foolish written promise to love
the bearer" given by her to a youthful
admirer who doubts her fidelity But,
like five out OF every six pieces pro-
duced In this unlucky season. THE
Bond OF Niuon' has too few chances
OF success to call for lengthy descrip-
tloh, and Miss Ashwell, who is purely
an emotional actress and not q come
denne--despitc her conviction TO the
contrary--wlll do well TO abandon II
forthwith and turn to her Americans
made anarchist play.
AT last the author Of "Raffles" is to
see his own play, after apparently
about everyone In the United States
has seen II. There have been plans
afoot on several occasions to produce
the play In England. hut l believe one
reason why they have not come to
anything hitherto was the desire of
Kyrle Bellew to have the English pro-
duction held off until no could come
over and star I'm It. But the complete
and deserved failure of ]. NJ. Barrie's
Josephine" brings "Raffles' to the
front with a Jump TO al tho gap.
Probably before these lines are IN
print, 1t Will have been presented hero
with Gerald du Maulier IN the part
of "Raffles," the gentleman burglar.
The rest OF the cast IL also notable, in
Guiding Jessie Bateman as the hero
Inc. Dion Boucicault as the detective,
Laurence Irving as the low-down thief,
and Grahame Brown az Bunny" Mr..
Hornung is making good many
changes IN the play as produced IN the
United States. II II does anywhere
rear so well in England as Il did In
the United States, wa shall probably
see before long the dramatization of
Mr.. Hornung's "Strlngaree" stories, I'm
which the principal figure was an
Australian bushranger.
George Bernard Shaw is of an mn
commonly good-natured disposition.
otherwise he might be rather ANNOYED
with his pet actor and actress, Gran
vile Barker and Lillah Mccarthy. For
after appearing for weeks on end es
me nero and heroine respectively OF
Man ana Superman,' in which Mr.
shaw mas so many hard things TO saw
or the welded state these two stage
iolk nave Just gone and got married,
ana 30 II "G' b. 81 has not legitimate
cause Tor some small pIque, then no.
oody ever hadI But evidently Mr..