New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-26

sr John Hare's complaint. that the stage
has too long been the Cinderella OF the
arts. applied up 90 ten wears ago with Pc
caliar force 70 Yale University. which
s-lonc 81 The larger American universities
had no student dramatics. But n applies
no Longer, Tor in the b-sf period Of a dec
ade Yale Las forged ahead in q dramatic
Nav.
The Yale plays are never the mere comic
opera affairs which content 50 many OF
the colleges but the students each year Sc
lect Tor representation pays worth while
ne students I'm selecting play Insist that
measure up 10 q double standard--it
must he OF significance IN the history %
the stage and % must be good entertain
merit This latter point h never sighted.
because the Yale Dramatic Association
wants 10 atrract large audiences and at
tract them on its own merits. To do tins
O. must entertain.
This year the Yale boys VII give Dion
E2ucicauiJs brilliant comedy London A.
surance' and viii appear IN q az the
M'aldorf-Astoria on Monday and Tuesday
evenings and Tuesday afternoon. January
3 and T. This play. 80 dear 20 The hearts
80 older PLAY oers. was 30 b. seen not in
frequently On New York some twelve years
aEo al DAVIS Theatre. With Ada Rehaa
a. Lady Gay spanker.
Yale feels that Il should be revived be-
cause 4 Is typical ~ tho English speak
ing stage az the eos and so's-the days OF
Boucicault. Douglas Jerroid. Tom" Tay-
Tor. Tom" Robertson ard BulWer Lytton.
the elder Sothern ard Lester Nallack-
the 'pslmy" DAYS. II was period when
something % the wondrous charm % the
-es, o.d comedies was caught by tho drama
modelled IN the style OF Sheridan and Gold
smith. and IL Is. IN fact. Ina between
tbo brilliant artificial Sheridan school %
comedy and the more natural and symps-
-hstic Robertson school IL has the better
qualities ~ each, and perhaps there lies
me reason Tor the attractiveness which
London Assurance has always had for
the public In Boucicauit's comedy SIR
fiarcourt COurtly is q reminder OF such
Characters as Lord Ogieby OF the older
o needles, while blLn Max HarksVay and
LADY Cay Sparker have a more modern
rcuch-ro-e soul and less glitter.
Like nearly all rhe best OF the real old
romsdieE. London Assurance" vas the
lrk ~ q young man. Il vas Boucicauit's
rrsr PLAY, and he Vas only twenty years
cd vhen n vas produced. March 4. gSsl ~
Convent Garden Theatre. Note TIE re-
-el.e.s1cs there IN The matter Cf youth 10
orher playWrights % note. AL 90 Con-
e-evc's plays were written before he was
twenty-five. Fsrquhar wrote The Cen
slant Couple" m twenty-five. Vsnburgh
grated The Relapse when q young en-
--gI. and Sheridan Wrote The School FOR
scandal" now revived 81 The New Thea
rr-. 90 the aEe OF tWenty-six- Yet al these
plays were che result - painstskiug effort
Assure nee for Boucicault had haunted
-he theatres ~ London Tor some time be
FORE MS maiden eff0rt was produced.
Lester Wsllack recounts an ms memoirs
how De was behind the scenes al the Hay
market ore night while Bulwe- Lyitol =
Money" was running. when a theatrical
gossip rushed m with the news An enor-
nous lit az Convent Garden; the third act
is over and r. r. tremendous II the other
rvo acts g in the same way T. Is an i'm
rIeusc CO.