The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-09-17


atre. designed as a Coincide Ameri-
caine. will be ready to open its doors
to the public. The best in dramatic
literature. rogether with good music,
is to be offered to that portion of the
public believed to be a substantial
proportion-to which the meretricious
but readily salable show" of the
Eeriod does not appeal
The New Theater" has been built
in a day by wealthy New Workers.
Everyone should wish it as long
life as Rome. which not built in a
day. enjoyed. We have, unfortunate
lily, no brilliant galaxy of players avail
able for the Interpretation of the
classics. but if the public demand for
| stage with an elevated tone proves
sufficient the situation will doubtless
develop. in time, a sufficient supply
of capable actors and actresses. There
are now at least a few who can be
lrelied upon to do no violence to the
characters assigned to them, and
there is no reason why the plays pre-
sented should not Immediately fill the
much discussed long felt want"
E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe
are the most widely known person
ages of the stage who are listed
among those who will be seen in the
New Theater." Among the younger,
and less prominent, aspirants for hon
ors there are several who give prom
Use of developing satisfactorily Time
will be divided between the classics,
the best of modern plays and opera
comiuue. A formula of one-third
Shakespeare, one-third opera and one
third plays of the period is favored
by the director. The Metropolitan
Opera Company will furnish the must
cal ingredient, presenting the lighter
loperas of Mazart, Donizetti and 9TH
lers. Era Diavolo" will be revived,
and Geraldine Farrar and Alessandro
lBonci will be heard in it. Nine.
Gadsh is to sing "Versiegelt," one
act opera by Leo Blech, and the opera
LILA File de Madame Angot' is to be
revived Raoul Laparra's Spanish
opera La Habanera" is to be intro
lduced to American audiences. Mas
lsenet's "Manon," MoZart's Marriage
of Figaro" and Leroux lie Chlml'
tneau" are among the operas prom
Used.
| Of course Sheridan will be given
room upon the boards along with
Shakespeare and modern American
English and Continental dramatists
will not be neglected.
Director Winthrop Amos is quoted
lby the New York Times as follows:
1.-THE New Theater is designed tc
J stand to American dramatic enter
prises in something the same posi-
: ton as the Coincide does in France
In France there are many experiment
tai theaters, and the Coincide wei
) Icomes the plays which they expert
Iment with and which turn out tt
have an approved value. For IN
i stance do not think an institution
! like the New Theater or the nation
} al theater of any foreign country
would be the first to produce lDsen
/ lint it would accept him after hi
work had been tried out in the LITTLE
experimental houses. The New
lTheater should try to combine wisel!
I the Office of experimentation ant
! standardizing. Such an institution
l should not play fads.
5 zone thing, so far as possible, tn
New Theater should never DO. l
r should never play bad play. y
t course Judgment may fall now ant
then. A play to be done by the New
ITheater should certainly have som
literary merit-and something mucl
ImOre, Inc Unusual PAouuSSAS -
1.-THE standard productions, withou
! ever reaching faddism, should g
hand in hand from the very inceI
ton of the institution. This can D
Y done, believe, owing to the elast
city of the repertoire system, whicf
Though expensive in operation, pei
mits the performing of many types
s Ilengthening the runs OF those whlc
i lappeal to a wider public, withou
/ crowding out the others which appea
), to smaller number of people. TO
Il instance, one of the Hauptmann play
;, might be offered without croWdln
e out other pieces which might be NOR
J generally appreciated. Like the SUI
p sidized theaters abroad, the Ne'
S Tbeater should keep alive the classi
l. drama, especially in English, whlc
# practically spells Shakespeare.