Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17
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snNnnN. July BERNARD Shaw

ONION, July Bernard shaw
And the; censor have beer at 1t |
ner,in. Like cat and dog they
IL never cone within arms length
rithout trying to maui each other. Or
.atber. Shaw does the mauling while
ttbe censor is compelled to sit down
nnder ii. shaw's latest grievance is
mat his persistent foe has refused to
,icense little skit called Press CUT
i,inrs q written for the Women's suf-
frage Society.
IN a chat had with him on the
,,n,nt he resolutely insisted that the
king was at the bottom of all the
trouble. There may be just a grain
a. justification for the charge mas
much as the lord chamberlain holds
his@oiilce by right, solely and wholly,
Of hts majesty. And to my personal
knowledge the latter has for some con-,
siderable time past displayed n very
deep interest in all that affects our
stage, which he is determined to keep
as clean and wholesome as possible.
This time, however, Shaw Is not ac-
cI,sed of, immortality. but OF endeayor-2
Ing to cariatllre Balfour, Asquith and
Lord Kitchener. Two OF his charac-
ters are named, respectively, Balsquith
and Kitchener but as Shaw remarked
10 me, lone might travesty either, but
how are you going to cariature mkt TX:
IRE of both ~, The controversy has mad;
the usual result of giving Shaw a
splendid advertisement while his piece
ID to be played at two private per
formances, for which anybondy can Sc.
cure mi invitation at the modest price
Of s5.a5.
1t is not always the unexpected that
happens Occasionally its opposite.
,.tte expccted,n is given an innings. OF
tho truth of this We have Just had con-
elusive proof During the past few
weeks everybody has been talking
about the possibility of establishing a
real repertory theater In London.
Charles Frohman rushed into the arena
with his own pet scheme for something
Of the. kind, while Herbert Trench,
poet and visionary followed close on on
his heels with n similar project TO pe
carried out at the. Haymarket. Trencil,
as stated some time ago, Is a Gull
tured man of letters and an enthu-
siastic supporter OF the drama, but ne
has no practical experience or the
stage and after all. you can't run
theater on theories, however promising
,they may be, Win any liopc " s s'AAo y,
ing a profit at the end of the year liz
has two millionaires behind him, one
OF whom is Lord Howard de walden
an ambitious playwright who has pro
duced one or two poetical plays on Ms
own account.
The idea was to present new Edece'
on the first three evenings Oh IN.
week. reserving the other three 10
what Trench describes as his ION
run play" There We're to be cons .1ltsin
changes of program and all sorts o
experiments We're to be made. All thl
looked pleasant enough on paper an
was most Justify applauded by the DIS
ciplcs of the advanced school, Fer
sonally, I should be delighted to Sc
any scheme OF the kind succeed. !
would help to encourage young au
thors; it would give employment TO q
increased number of actors, IT Woul
serve to vitalze the theater general!
Rut from the outset have never pee
blind to the enormous difficulties a.
tached to such a project; difticultle
connected with authors. with tickt
sneculators, or, as we term them her
"fhe Bond Street libraries, and, aboN
and beyond all, with the public itself.
slowly but surely the seriousness
the obstacles In his way has been TORI
ed on Herbert Trench's notice and tn
week the climax was reached. In