The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-18
LOuDON'S DRAMATIC Pam
CHINESE ACTRESS tND A
RUSSIAN PRINCESS SEEN,

Theatre soon 10 Begin Operaltsr.
LoSpos. Dec. i0.-This week drtrrua,,,
fare has brought out the -intellsctua,. in
force. On Sunday evening tho STAG.
Society began its performances and lonr
haired men in dress suits OF extraordi aar,,
cut and simply coiffed women in dJlbbahs
gathered at the Aldwych Theatre and
chatted between the acts Of the surrass
movement and Tolstoy. OF national
theatress and the Greek drama.
! The play was John Masefields tragedy
OF -Pompey the Great which has recently
been published. but had not been seen upon
the stage before. Mr.. Massiield has a peou.
liar style in writing. He always usss
short sentences and sometimes leave.
them unfinished. The effect aimed AT !.
realism. OF course seven peopI. ont Of
! ten do leave their sentences unfinished
but the style is often exasperating To IN.
nearer and equally Nd to the reader
In -Pompey the Great Mr.. Ma--fsld
employs this style to a certain cNt.ut
His dialogue Ia cut up into crisp phrases
and short sentences. There is very Iitti.
rhetoric. though here and there ar-
speeches OF force.
To Mr.. Massfisld Pompev is not a terri
flying figure. but rather u pathetic one.
The weaknesses and PROSECUTIONS whlch
Roman history records he showed IN th.
latter part Of his life are to Mr.. MaseR.ld
due TO his nobility Of character. A.. has
the tragic virtue Of crediting Others with
his own fine qualities. He cannot heIi.v-
Caesar will fight him or advance on Rome.
because Of their old friendship; he cannot
believe that the young Egyptian kiap
PtoLsmy will forget all he owes him vet
both betray him.
The piece was very well staged and
adeq uately acted. Herbert Grimwood
"a Pompsv and Miss Jean Sterling dr. HI.
wife. Cornsiid. were excellent. but soms
of the other players seemed to find difh-
Guilty in speaking MIR. Masefisld's linse
They yearned to declaim and i'll concsasd
their yearning The result was srti-
ficiality where simplicity should have been
the keynote.
At the Little Theatre on Monday eve
ming Miss Gertrude Kingston introduced
Mime. Chung. a dainty little Chinese ac-
tress. to- London audiences. Mime Chung
played in The Dragon of Wrath. a min
iaturs tragedy founded on Chinese
legend
A Princess is wooed by two suitors.
who fight for her heart. The taller IA
the conqL eror and after the combat h.
asks the de feated sutton to remain Tor the
marriage festival. This festival h the
most interesting part Of the entertain
ment. with lantern procession and az
traordinary dancing with convoutsd
ribbons and beautiful color effects de-
signed by Miss LOie Fuller who Is really
Nine. Chung's tour
The second act shows the Prince AMI
Princess after several years Of happy
married life Suddenly upon the -c-r-
comes the defeated sutton. He has nsvsr
forgotten the Princess. and all the.
years his wrath and jealousy have besn
He tries tn abduct her and
she loses her life while endeavoring to
protect her husband
Or Thursday afternoon at the sam-
Princess Bariatinrky. the Russian Sarah
Bernhardt." played a one act drama
Rosamund. by John Pollock. and the
first act Of a comedy. The Career 81
by Prince Bariatin-ky The
latter piece is famous in Russia and 10
clever satire on the manners and morals
of that country
II is the smart thing TO GO ~ these
Thursday afternoons at the Lin 10 Theatre.
and Miss Andrews. who Is managing
hem as she has managed tn. same ,or
~ thing in Paris. has made more OF
success OF them than she dared To hop-
society women have fiocked to h.. -calIss-
rir-. a. they are called. and listened
wisely to lectures and PLAYS in French
Igta. has al
-Saloms. pushed by Mr.. Beecham ant
legged for bv all he musicians in I'm gland
was finally permitted bv the censor 10
De- seen AT Covent Garden. hut after he
mad given his consent he seemed 10 he
n a state Of panic and kept insisting upon
,utting and pruning and bowdlerizing
and expurgat ing the libretto till the op@ra
given was almost travesty upon ths
original. Not only did he cut out The head
d John the Baptist. but he insisted that
omitted, so for head" the singers read
blood while S1iome kissed an empty
ray. All through the opera similar
Methods Were employed. till Sdioms
night as well have been Mary Ann for
III the similarity she bore to the woman
Who inspired Orcar Wilde and Strauss
The House Divided a four act pi~r'
W Alfred Lewis. vas Even az th. Qussan.
Theatre on Friday afternoon II proved
q be meiange Of love. politics and
nance. with "A little too much Of all ihr'f
/ great deal OF pruning and cutting would
~ needed before the play could have
my sort Of run. for il in far TOO long and
90 complcat ed as IL now stands, though
here ara many clever situai ions and lines u
N il An able cast had been gathered
oget her 90 play il. but even a well dis
,o~ed audience tired Of the piece bsfofs
ne last art had dragged to an end.
London = new variety theatre when
ejoices i'm the classic title Of tn. Palladium
= almost completed and il To open y.
ioors the day after Christmas. BosmS
Day. IL IL the biggest house Of it, kind
u Great Britain and IL To produce rnin-
ure Of variety and legitimat" wors
Music halls ard variety theaire- are -
much more s1cce~sfIt in London fhsh
he regular playhou-es that possibly
here IL room for one more
IL il quite true that plays AMI actors
rom America rarely succeed on I'M.
idle. Decorating clemen'in", when
anne here with cast part American. par
En- glish. and opened only a week or :"
Igo. u to close before another fnr'ui en-
md it's fate IL only that OF many "'h-r.
u different period The san" -'ri ~
hing doe- not follow I'm Amer an va
iety sketches however. Th"v ar" ~
.rest demand. Mr. and Mr. N'"l"-.