Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-02
How a French Dramatist
Turned Failure into Success

\ self and also to his actors, the au-
| dicncC shall have what tneN WAN,
| Simone shall forgive He sat M an
! night rewriting his third act amos,
| entirely. The new scenes were learnt
the next morning by the cast and re-
I esrsed in tho afternoon for the FIRST
public performance that evening. Inc
valuable house of Moliere can 40
quick work when necessary.
NJ, Brieux INDUCED IN no grumbing
over the adverse verdict of his flrst
audience "A play really begins TO eN-
ist," he says, only when there Is an
audience in the house. Tho public is
a collaboration whom the playwright
cannot do without. III spite of the
howls with which know my statement
will be received, one may say that the
public is always right, IL ! nave
written a play to make some SITUATION
20 down with a thousand spectators,
and 1t does not go down, all tnat
proves that I was wrong.
Whatever other dramatists may think
of Il. the box office will certainly APP
plaude this view.
WRIGHT rs DISCONTINUED.
Huntley Wright. who is once more
IN London after making long tour
in the United States In THE Dairy
naids,'' docs not seem to have gained
from his experience a high opinion
of American theatrical tastcs. For
charming opera like 'Neronique play
goers over there have no taste he
says. but Dead Mans Outlet dra-
ma, full of cowboys and reviewers,
and with the stage strewn with dead
Indians will draw the town The
principal difference to a London ac-
tor" he adds, lis that the New y ork
runs are shorter than at home, ana
the rest OF the time is devoted to tour
ing. Then comes the awful experience
of 'one-night stands. During my
Wanderings | met a well-known Ing
fish actress who had Just played forty
towns N forty nights. Mentioning
this to an American actor he SCORING
~ boosted that he himself had done 2OO
towns in as many nights
His American trip has made MI
Wright very tired, and II VIII take MN
some time to get over It. Like the
traditional Scotsman" he says, II eat
well: drink well and sleep Well but the
slightest reference to work seems pos
itively to paralyze me-
BACK TO GOOD OLD DAYS.
When Granville Barker gets back
from America he VIII fnd arrange
ments well advanced for the produce
ton of Bernard Shaw's new play,
Getting Married." at the Haymarket,
and. in fact il looks now as II We
should have regular series of We
drenne- Barker matineeS at the Hay
market like those in the good old days
at the Court theater before the man
ayers were tempted away to disaster at
the Savoy. And by the way, the fact
that the fine pointed sort of play that
made the Barker management famous
could succeed at the little Court ana
yet fail at the bigger Savoy was doubt
less responsible for Bankers decision
not to undertake the management of
tho National theater in New York on
the ground that It was too large for
anything except plays written as 1t
were, with a broadnbbed pen. a Sc
ries of Vldrenne- Barker matinees at
the Haymarket will lift the dropping
spirits of the disciples who have looked
to this management for the revival OF
the British drama. Frederick Harrt-
son, the lessee of the Haymarket, will
be a syInpathic associate OF We
drenne and Barker in this series.
Nothing has been given out as to what
Getting Married" is about, but Mr..
Vedrenne says it will be followed by
yet another brand new Shaw play. In
fact. il isn't likely that the author
would let anyone but Granville Barker
produce one of his plays in England.
John Galsworthy, author of THE Sill
yer Box" is another dramatist who
is holding back his latest play-and
friend who has seen it tells me 1t is
the best thing he has yet done-until
Barker can put it on for him some
where.