The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-26

had prepared very carefully Tor the
ordeal; but the rehearsing seemed 10
have been lax generally. Important
actors were unsteady. Lines were
mangled and cues were tangled. But
Grace delivered in good condition
new, unstilted, numerous and sentiment
tai Lady Teazle. OF course, the New
Theatre won't let THE School Tor
Scandal" go at that.
There is no disposition to jeer at
the New Theatre for its fiasco In
the haste to create a repertory, and
to crafty the stockholders desire for
something new each week, ne
Schoofe for Scandal was put on UNI
prepaped. Grace George was all ready
with her Lady Teazle. though. and
so, under the accidental circumstances.
she became unexpectedly the same as
a visiting star actress supported by
the stock of this big concern. getting
therefore nearly all the praise that
accompanies the abundant, though
kindly censure. Many young actresses
have made grievous moral sacrifices
to get an upward start on the stage.
Fortunate Miss George. soon after
emerging from dramatic school.
married a manager. Billy Brady by
familiar name and q venturesome
hustler by practice, and he promoted
her devotedly, resolutely, very expen-
sively and with but slow, tedious ad-
vance. Even this distinction with
Lady Teazle has. as l said, cost thous-
ands through the laying-off OF her
own company; but 1t will be a paying
investment
It is wrong to measure dramatic
thing by a cash standard of value
nj A. prfpanG
orally do it. Away back when Loie
Fuller's patented illusion of flaming
skirts without any fire made her dances
a marvel there was q simultaneous at
tempt to render H. Rider Haggard'i
thousand-years-old woman burn spec
tacularly In q stage version Of "she.
If the device of a seemily blazing dan
Ger could have been used by David Be
lasco in his outfit for the actress Of
She's the play wouldn't nave been
fzzle that left scarcely a spark be-
hind.
AND my 'serpentine' dance woult
have died so that the Haggard melo
drama might live said Miss Fuller
when the subject was recalled to hel
after a view of her renewal of bare
foot dancing.
what would have been the differ
ence to your" I asked; "and art"
I'VE won't discuss the loss or gail
in art" she broke in, but the differ
ence to me would nave been NOR
thousands of dollars than you'd readil!
| believe.
Charles Frohman was with Davi'
Belasco in that "She" venture, befor'
either had got under Roadway. AM
they didn't feel like offering more
than $500 4 week for the Loie Fulle
way of making "She" fare up like
bonfire of flufy stun soaked in ben
zine. So Loie kept 1t for herself
| has lived many years in luxury witt
| the money made with 1t in few, an
now has utilized again the sockles
dancing fad.
Wnv that "reminiscences? Desperate
| He does In three seconds what would b
the making of a three-hours melo
drama He plunges head foremos
from q dizzy height, strikes still In
verted on q narrow, nearly perpendicu
lar slide. comes to an abruptly upwar
| turn that fiings him through the al
| in two somersaults and lands him Of
a soft spot. That's the latest loop
the-ioop variant. On catching m
breath, after skipping some hear
beats, I wished that the blamed foe
1 belonged to me. Can't you see hir
posing for the hero OF romance o
the Rockies at the brink OF the Colo
RADIO canyon, while the villain is NAL
treating the heroine away down below
He plunges just as I've told, glide
| down the smooth rock till he hits
bunch of bushes, hurties whirling 4
nidair, smashes the sooundrel and hug
the girl. Curtain calls7 A dozen
score-and long life and prosperity t
the play. Desperate with the patente
apparatus of his feat, however, Xix
Loie's, may enrich him quickly-if h
doesn't break his neck. can't to-
you how much he's paid at the Hippo
drome.
Lake Again I'm Use.
Dramatic use Is made In "A Trip I
Japan" at the Hippodrome, howeve
of a dozen Jap warriors and as man
Amazonian girls marching right dow
till out Of sight in a lake. When thi
biggest theatre on earth was opened
its tank of real water made river 70
Northern and Southern soldiers
fight for a ford on swimming horses
later It became an Asiatic pool for wa
elephants to go into; but after sewers
years It looked as though ingenuity ha
been exhausted in utilizing 1t; yet her
again 1t amazea Christmas people.
Is disclosed as a sylvan pond wit
| pleasure boats on IT and foliaged shore