The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13

brutal OrientalIssn Of Henri herns.ein.
4 am surprised that "A dramatist like
Bernstein should no 20 well known IN
America and one Ut our hest playwright.
Henri Batailie, IL practically isnorrd
Your stage nagers. ! lsAlleve. brush
him aside with the single word immoral.
To me. and ] think sp"ak Tor a INA ,ortty
Of EurOpean playgOerA and Critics. there
~ nothing fundamentally immoral either
in HE la Femme Nue.. his Ia MaTuhe
NupitRle' or his Ia Scandalc. ah oi
which have leen uefllaed representation
here. lie u infinitely more moral than
Dumas iils ever Thought OF bs'ing He
tries tn underNtand life as u ~ lie rea-
SIMS that the human cTV,ature can i,e
guilty without being tad. Dumas would
not conceds such "a conclusion. The hiil
her OF Dumas. spoken by the injured
husband in la Femme Dc Claude. IL
one of the traditions 81 the French stage
of the latter half II the nlneteenth cen
fury. Bataille has refinement at pur-
pose and q delicACy 81 concept an thai
Bernstein absolutely lacks. Tie II prigi-
nal too and after all that u what counts.
Henri Bernstein II y direct pdpll ot
Dumas ills. hut whereas Dumas tres to
keep the attention II his audience 10y
situations dem, ting moral strength and
noble foTtitude BcInSl-in appeals hy
sheer brute strength. by physical prowe-s.
a. in the second act at The 1niet, as in
which has mot been produced here. Bern
stein has hampered himself N his late
work by initiating has own earlier pro-
duction In The Thief he gave the only
act I think known IN our stage which ~
carried along through "A powerful SCENE
and TAI AN effective climax with only two
people in IL iroln beginning to end I'm
IneCiiRtely the critics aid that he was
the only play wright who could do that
aud he has tried to repeat his sucC,-ss
again aud AGAIN.
Another II our play wrighI- absolutely
unknown here. one OG the NEST clever 1T
all IL Pierre ds Curel. a young writer
and memD.r ~ the French ariStocracy
who has gone far along the path which
cuts tradition AZ right angles. Many OF
his PLAYS are intended for the e,iifiCaiion
Of the priesthood and for philosophers
rather than the average th-atreRorr
Has la NeuVrlle ldole. which weS we'll
received. - practically the presentation
dramatically 81 the conflict betwe-n
science aud heart aud ends Ia the triumph
oI tho latter alter several interesting
scenes IN which doctor inoculate- with
the germ % cancer several Of hts ia
tisnts who are cOnsuInptives aud who
arr therefore hound To die anyway. He
believes that his devotion To -Cienc~
warrants this deed and IL il uoJ until
beautiful young girl whom he has thus
inOCilated becOmea cured Ot her original
mal.dy and he faces the truth that he
has made this frightful mistake with it,
xrue-ome Conse Iuencs that another side
% his nature IL aroused and the play
Roe& On to an artistic finish Al the
Theatre Antoine. where a play u rarely
accorded more than forty productions
this was gwen eighty times.
In another play he brought out the
spirit % anti-militarian, which - q very
strong factor in the political life ot to-day
- - q a. =.
Socialist party there has b'--n too great
glory given 10 the honor- Of war. too much
money spent by the Government for the
army and navy. II is q party whose
st r.nxth can hardly be estimated here.
where you have little need for such re-
volt Ia his play NJ. he tIrel shows the
life of a young army OftiCrr who. statiun-si
i'm Africa. refuses Ia obey the commands
Of hks superior and finally IN a personal
kills the Colonel uf h,- T-gi-
msnt. The telegram announcing the
deed - read aloud la the thamier ~
Dsputier by his father WHO - the Minis
ter IL War Commencing with this tragic
eDi..,ds. the play shows she sOlitArins,-a Of
the Young man, now an OutcaSt. the hor-
ror and humiliation he feels whenever
he comea Ivy chance In contact with any
Of the oficers q the army. the utter i'm
i'm a word. u his life IL was
a very auSiacious subject to pat "a the
Stage IN aho 49, NV - WV
present moment
sStjl another j. Ia Pile Savage.
showing the eHest 20 civilization on the
nature 81 a young GiTl. a veritahls savage.
taken in the Wilds u Africa 10y french
exploiting party and brought Ia France
with them and the enect on the Ie-inE,
Of the influences % art. science and the
social life He endeavor- 10 show IN this
that the evolut ion Of tho indtv id,lal -
inst the same A. the evolution II the rllce
aud that when you begin with religion
and lose u the state y worse than natur-
ally irreligIous one The teaching OF the
play resembles the ph ilO-ophy Of Jean
Jacques Rousseau closely
I'm Is.s Fossiles' The fus-ilsl a play |
hay,, found Americans are much Interested
IN. Dp Curel studies the functions to-day
Of aTistocTaCy In Our --lctety and shows
that ~ influence IL Ia all Intents and pur-
pose- over In the PLAY he brings about
cliuaG dlI. to the fact - a father and ss'u
b@ink in love with the same woman. In"
sOn. Earning it with horror. does not act
"a a man would ordinarily act i..cltI-s'
ths. first and supreme thiEg that occurs
to him ~ the honor Of the nAin". and Ia
pTe~erv. that name u ~ n,,c''saSlry Ia re-
sort to arbitrary action. THIS play vas
gwen A. the Coincide FRAN ais. and in It
the weird situation ocrurp ~ a SWINE TAX
ing place about the CoFp-e of "A man, the
reading Of the will being ia" cruS. Il.
tiarY played IN At and added 10 hts lan-
rels
L. N.rrisT disposss Of quickiy a. an 81
teTtain..T. but having pO real PHILOSOPHY
To teach. ro cult ~ inspire. -Ot oo,Ir-s thu
INSTRUMENTATION II tine iast act - very
amusing In the original III. n-Tp,Ds.
gos-. away With her lover and he s,ys"r -
eft behind. unqsls-tionablv that - she
artistic and natural termination ~ the
episode
.ucce..es they had achieved She warns
him 20 watch for the twelve pound look
ON the taca Uf his present wife, the hook
that will mean She ~ wondering how she