New-York tribune., 1909-11-07
NEW THEATRE OPEN
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managers with cheerful sous TO give us
the best plays well acted; 10 give us the
good old plays with which history and
tradition and the memory Of some OF
US associate the names OF great actors;
to give US the good new PLAYS, all the
more readily produced because of the
new spirit of better opportunity for the
stage and the audience" He continued:
Here can be found enjoyment which
leaves no bad taste in the mouth; here the
managers may snap their nnsers a. th1
sensational and meretriciOus. and here Tor
many and many n year shall be eXeTted 70
the full the beneflcent influence cf the
a@ctsu @ uI aIla ut'oh .he iliiIlHs, e"0 r. a. a
and the manners OF our people II IS
good cause bravely undertaken, ana tho
men who have espoused II are entitled 10
the hearty thanks Of all OF rs
And il Is being done in the right way:
Government endowed theatres suit old
World conditions, but not ours. The lnteTde-
pendence Of modern life COmpels constantly
more and mere interference by government
in our daily lives. but the less we have OF
II. where il is not necessary, the better.
Individual initiative. individual enterprise.
make for individual freedom and indepen-
dence Of character. and these are the true
and right American ways of getting things
done
After Senator Roots speech the cur
tain fell and the orchestra played NicO-
lai's overture. The Msrry Wives of
Windsor" Then the curtain rose again.
revealing the players grouped around the
bust OF Shakespeare. executed by GutzOn
Borglum Mr. Forbes-RObertson read TO
them Hamlet's address TO the players.
closing with the phrase. Go; make you
ready
Ir.eF h
semble again at 3 y. m. 10 witness
dress rehearsal of Antony and Cleo
patra." the first public performance Of
which will take place tomorrow night
THE GUESTS.
Among the guests seated on the stage
were Henry Mitchell MacCracken. chan
cellor Of New York University; Dr. Mich
olas Murray Butler, president OF Column
bia University; Woodrow Wilson, presi-
dent OF Princeton University; DIR. John
H. Finley. president of the College OF the
City Of New York; Joseph Fl. ChOate,
General Horace Porter, William Lyon
Phelps. professor OF English literature at
Yale University; Brander Matthews, DIR.
Felix Adler. William y. Howells, Hamil
ton w Mabie. Richard Watson Glider.
Thomas \. Edison. William Winter,
William Archer. the London critic; Pro
fessor Scheiling, of the University of
PENNSYLVANIA: George Pierce Baker,
professor OF English at Harvard Univer-
sitv: Professor II. Fairfield Osborn.
John Bigelow. Walter Damroseh, Peter
T. BARLOW. Major Henry Lee HigginsOn,
Of Boston. and A. +. Walkley, the Lon
don critic.
Others present were William n Van
derbiIt, president of the founders, and
Mrs Vanderbilt; Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence II.
Mackay. Mr. and Mrs. John Il. Drexel,
NJ. Orme Wilson. Mr.. and Mrs. stephen
II. Olin. Mrs John Mccullough, AIR. and
Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, Mr.. and Mrs.
Herbert l. Satterlee. Mrs. W. Pierson
Hamilton, Mrs. William +. Douglas. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles L. Alexander, Miss
Harriet and Miss Janetta Alexander,
Mrs. Whitney Warren, Mrs. Ernest
Jselin. Mrs Richard Irwin, Mr.. and Mrs.
George W. Perkins, Bishop and Mrs.
David III. Greer, Mrs. J. ]. Wysong, Mrs.
]. Gordon Douglas. Mrs. Lewis Quentin
Jones. William Rhinelander Stewart.
Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mrs. James W.
Markoe. Miss Dagmar Wetmore. Miss
SybiI Douglas. Miss Grace BigelOw, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Morton. Mr.. and Mrs.
Elbert II. Gary, Charles u. Wetmore.
Miss May Moulton, Henry Clews. Mr.
and Mrs. James B. Clews. Mrs Percy A.
Rockefeller, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Goadby
I.oew. Captain Philip VI. Lydig. Ashbel
H. Barney, Mrs. W. Is. Osgood Field.
Mrs Buchanan Winthrop. Miss Marie
winthrop. Mr.. and Mrs. Francis n.
Pendleton. Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hast
ings, Mr.. and Mrs. GOOdhue Livingston.
Mrs. Frederick Martin Davies. Mrs
Archibald :. Alexander. Mr.. and Mrs
William g. Rocker. Mrs. Samuel r.
Bertron, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, George
J. Gould. Frank Egerton Webb. Miss
Lucy Prelinghuy sen. Miss Jeanette GIL
der. +. Grand dHauteville and Mr. and
Mrs. otto II. Kahn.