New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-25
STAGE NOTES
Concerning Plays and PLAYERS
Here and There.

1tTe dllu fiiefe.
Mr.. George ArIiss will bring 10 ArDe-,o,
L. " Parker's new play. the title Of wtf~s
/ IS not yet announced. Mr.. Parker has bao.
producing pageants for two or three years
But the pageant fad seems 20 be exhaus,-
| ing itself in England, and Mr. Parks-
chief Of the masters Of pageantry. has
gone to Switzerland TO resume playwritinz
/ A London paper says his new play wnf
/ be a comedy. with Disrae1 as its ehfAs
character. Attempts TO put the great O,
the stage. perilOUs as they are, are aIwav.
/ Interesting. II a census could be taken. II
would probably be found that the historical
| character TO figure In most plays Is Ma
poleon. with Charles I and Charles II in
attendance One has seen more than one
stage wellington and stage Nelson An
other statesman who has been put into a
play is PalmerstOn. but in his case he was
/ called by another name and transferred 70
a period not his own Among Lord Bea-
| cOnsheId's early works. BY the way, was a
tragedy AlaTcOs.' which was produced az
Astleys In 1868 and revived at the CRYSTAL
Palace in 1879. with Mr.. J. H. Barnes and
| Miss Louise Noodle in the cast"
Mr.. ArIiss has been telling a London re-
porter that he has mo fear OF the Ameri-
can public not taking 70 a play written
around an English politician. II II turns
out an interesting drama they will accept
IT. I assure you that the American people
take more interest in and know more about
our English celebrities. political, literary
and theatrical, than we English do.
| Besides, it will be quite a gorgeous pro-
duction. with scenes full Of ambassadors OF
all nations. and all that kind Of thing And
then. again, I think the character will be
found interesting from the Jewish stand
point, for the great minister's Jewish
not TO say Ortenta-points will by no means
/ be ignored -
Mr.. ArIiss. IT seems. is very anxious 70
play Nero. But not in any OF the Nero
| plays which have been seen in London. but
/ in a tragedy written by a brilliant Ameri-
can Journalist. George Edward Barton His
/ Nero is the most varied and most natural
one I have yet met No. I have not met
the EIizabethan Nero play by Field. nor
the Restoration one by Nat Lee.
"All the stage Neros I have met have
treated only what I might call the high
lights OF that strange personality TIE
Nero in Barton's play is more the inside, or
domestic. Nero: not merely Iurid OF melo-
dramatic
| Professor Brander Matthews and Mr.
| George ArIiss have, according to the same
interview, written a play which is to be
called What Shall II PROFIT The
main motive is a kind OF jameson raid,
| and it has a lot of stockholders IN IT, the
| chief character is a Jew, not pronOunced
| Jew of the usual stage type, but reals
: quiet, seIf-cOntained, strong, sane lsraelite-
This piece has a very strong scene, an
about a wonderful cipher
Gilbert Chesterton. in inky indignation.
/ scored" Sir Herbert Tree for extravagance
| and excessive realism. citing the solid ST.
yer goblets. uTns, etc, used IN Henry
VIII" But 1t turns out, OF course, that
these exquisite properties are made OF pa
pier mache-
If It be true that Edward Terry Is coming
to America. now that his theatre IN the
Strand has been given over to moving pct
ure shows. the following brief account OF
him from London may have some interest
for playgoers here. Edward Terry who IS
in no wav related 20 the family Of which
Ellen Terry is the most famous MEMBER
was born in 1874. and has been an actor
sfnca 1863 For ten years or so he was one
os the popular comedians at the Gaiey
under the MANAGEMENT Of John HOlllngs-
head. Nellie Farren, Kate Vaughan ana
E. w. Royce were in the same company
In 1887 he left the Gaiety and buriesqu7
and musical pieces and built a comedy tHe
atre to which he gave his name, on 1i0
other side of the street His great III was
as Dick PhenyI in PinerO's Sweet LaVeA-
der" This play ran nearly two year.
Mr.. Terry produced one or two e1he-
,iaces nv Pinero as In Chancery" and
x~fF7c~ az
trate-' but nothing approached the sue
cess Of ..Sxset Lavender" while the pieces
he obtained from less distinguished play
u,rtgbts were mostly poor. OF recent years
Mr. Terry has appeared but rarely az MS
ov-,, house. having been engaged in touring
and the theatre has, though occasionally
orc,,nied bv companies of note. been re-
ouentIv closed for months at tina AZ
an actor Mr.. Terry is best known 70 the
younger generation of playgOers oy MS
C,rabtree in Sir Herbert Trees recent r.
vival Of The School for Scandal hns
performance.
Ir yedrenne started his London season
teet Tuesday evening with William J.
Tocls.s four-act play THE Man from tne
Sea" 1t is quite mistake 20 suppose thS'
NJ Lorraine. who acted the leading part
gave an aeropIane performance between tHo
acts. although Mr. Vedrenne is somethihs
OF mOderniSt
why is it, asks a London critic VIZ
is IL that, with few exceptions, all the Hi0
and half the meaning are extracted IrOi"
modern French plays when they nave
passed through the hands OF the EnSISu
adapter? Some of them are, OF course >"
French that they are quite untransplal'-
able; I'm that case why waste time N Ol0
perilous task OF unrOOting them from thei-
native soil? But there are others, ana 10
Costaud des Epinettes' is surely case u
point, where by maintaining not Only IH0
French surroundings but giving the cen
trail characters their true French sisnll-
canoe. the chances Of acceptance at tne
hands of the English playgOer would 90
greatly improved. In lie COstaud Ee'
Epinettes Imra is a demi-nondaine, whOSo
possession Of compromising letters IS
danger and a menace. and against Wi0N.
the most desperate OF all measures are .
least plausibly necessary. In English ms
becomes a mild and moral bohemian, VIZ
not a thought of anything wrong. ard ls'.S-