The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
GOOD PLAYS HARD TO FIND,
SUCCESSES FEW-HOME
BRED AUTHORS RUSHED.

BRED AUTHORS RUSHED.
ono Manager Says Thst II 10 Almost I'm.
noasibie to FIT the STARE New and On
vlth Good Material The Drsmstlzec
Novel May Prove the Only Recourse.
II observe that several more new theatres
are being built In New York. said a theatri.
cal manager o few days ago, 'but I haven't
yet noticed that any mi has discovered
Q new. playwright capable Of increasing
materially the crop Of fairly good plays.
Unless some playwright Is discovered
quickly there viii DO q famine the coming
season.
-only to-day I had tonotfy q woman star
who has been looking for a play that tho
search seemed hopeless, and abe has there.
fore postponed her starring tour q year,
Another prominent leading woman who
has been popular with Broadway audiences
for years was on the verge OF starring
this season, but couldn't find a play. She
told her managers that she preferred to con.
tinue as o Leading woman instead OF starring
In q poor play.
1Where are tho plays a-ooming from
then1 The London crop Of last year wac
q failure. Only n notable success was
produced by Pinero. and that In due course
Of time We shall see.
BARRIE hasn't turned out anything
for this year as yet and he may be expected
to contribute at least one good play. but then
all his plays for the next five year have
already been sold to Charles Frohman. and
outside managers cannot get a look-in on
hts works until about 1911. That Is too
long q time TO wait.
Henry Arthur Jones has written one play
that hasn't yet beer produced, but even II
he writes another that likewise is preempted
by Frohman, who gets all his plays for tho
next Eve years.
Robert Marshall, Haddon Chambers
and Sydney Grundy haven't written suc-
cssses in tho last two years, and as London
always sees their plays first New York can
hope for little from them.
Bernard Shaw has several plays that
have never been produced In America,
and they might prove worth while II only
some one could get Shaw In a dark alley
and hit him over the head with a ssndbag.
One of the best plays Is Captain Brass
bounds Conversion,' o being played IN
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