New-York tribune., 1910-10-02

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thew were not frightened, but they were
half out of their lives But IL was silly
10 be frightened, because. as they discoV-
cred when TyItyI turned the diamond
again. there are no dead, and when the
graves opened only flowers came out, dew
sparkled. with bees humming among them
The Blue Bird ought to be found in the
Kingdom of the Future, you say. because
happiness Is to come by and by. and
everything in the Kingdom Of the Future
is beautifully blue. TyItyl and Mytyl went
there to see. They saw first or all the
little children who were waiting 10 Dc
born. and who were 10 become wonderfui
inventors and musicians, and arcnitects'
and artists and just ordinary folks LOADS
of them go off to earth every little Whlie,
20 off through the opal doors some OF
them no doubt, by the time they are oorh
forget the ideas they started with, OF psI
haps the ideas are whacked OUT Oh tneiiI
Anyhow. It looks like that when they gro"
ND here. doesn't it? Tyltyl ana Aytyi
came out through the back door, OF soi'S
where Time, who is the elevator super
intendent wouldn't let them out by the
front wsy. He shook his scythe at them
He might have swung It through their
legs ~ he had known what they had done
Or, rather, what Light had done for Lish''
who was with them on this Seeing-the-
Future excursion. had caught the Blus
Bird. and had hidden il under her cloak
When TyItyl and MytyI woke up at
home in the Woodcutter's cottage Cnr1st-
mas morning they looked immediately TOT
Light. and for the Blue Bird. and the
Fairy BeryIune. Light was coming through
the windows. Just as always, and In the D'ru-
s4f-
cage was Tyftyrs turtle dove ~nich was
blue as everybody knows. and Madame
BerIingot their neighbor, came In looking
almost exactly as old Fairy Beryiune did
on her first visit. Madame Berlingot SAID
her little daughter was i'll TyItyI sent
little got-daughter his blue bird, his
turtle dove. and right away the little
Rerlingot got into the seventh, or twelfth
or seventv-seventh heaven Of delight, for
ehe came into the roorl-whoosh--a well
as could be, bringing the blue turtle dove
In her arms And then. what do you
think? No sooner had TyItyl undertake.
+o show her how 10 feed the bird than
away flew the dove. Yes, out OF doors
Gone. Then TyItyI said he would catch
the bird again That was very kind o'
him. but he didn't do IL. He came doWr
10 the footrghts and asked the audience
| TO return the bird IL It should fly that way
I'VE need him for our happiness later on,
| said he.
Now wasn't this pretty dish 10 set De-
| fore the Sovereign Public Saturday night
at the beginning of The New Theatre
| second season? IL may be that some folks
| will care less for this performance oi
Maeterlinck's play than for the book Of
| the play itself. The latter has charms
which stage managers and carpenters and
painters and dancers can't disturb. Thfs
| pIav Is not quite so well presented as
/ Sister Beatrice" was. And then, o.
| course, it has no Miss Matthtson- Be
sides. the nagement omitted one OF
Maeterlincks most interesting and sig
nificant scenes, the scene in the forest
But Maeterlinck had given them permis-
| sion to omit it if they wished TO do so. II
| is a pity they wished TO omit it. because
| so much meaning IS cast away along witt
| IT, Perhaps they were a little bit afraid
| Of it. afraid that they couldn't do II as II
ought TO be done If that's the case the
| theatre world isn't such wonderful WORD
| as it's supposed TO be, and those wonder
| fuI resources of The New Theatre, about
which everybody has heard so much, may
be-weII. you know. Perhaps IL was
! thought that the Sovereign Public wouldn't
understand the scene in the forest, or that
the actors couldn't play it. II so. those
| are fears to sorrow for
There are some stuffy persons who will
need to have the symbolism of THE Blue
! Bird explained to them; they will need to
| be told that Ty1tyl and Myty1 typify the
| soul OF man searching the universe for the
answer to the great enigma of life: that
| there is soul in everything. and that pos
| session. which man regards as the guar
antee of happiness, always dlsappoints
| him: that Life isn't at all what we think
! it. nor Death: and that-but why go into
| all this? You don't belong 10 the stuffy
people. Besides Won can read Maeter-
Iinck's ''BIue Bird"
some Of the acting is very good. first
no doubt, that OF Mr.. Cecil Yapp as the
| Cat Mr. Yapp and Miss Noretti might
! and Mr. Robert Cummings CTime) were the
best of all as TO acting and speaking. But
wher It came to speaking Miss Patricia
| ColIinge spoke as we'll as any OF them
/ She was the Blue Child. Seldom. indeed
| is a large part spoken so we'll as was this
small one. Mr.. Wendell. as the Dog. earned
special mention
If in some scenes the Atmosphere was
| missing, the Illusion far TO seek. the cause
may have been due 20 poverty of inven-
tion on somebody's part. not on Master-
linck's part. by any means There were
two or three old-fashioned front scenes
that grated on whatever imagination the
spectator carried with him. and AZ least
twice the scenic effort fell so far short of
possibility and expectation that the effect
was disappointing in the midnight
garden of the blue birds and in the King
dom of the Future. But allowances may
have TO be made because water. not the
Soul of Water as gracefully portrayed by
Miss Valentine, but the earthly. material.
Croton-body of II, drowned some scenery
a week ago.
The appearance OF the theatre IS some
what improved by the toning down OF the
rather garish decorations OF the pro-
sceniun1. The new season opened with every
indication of increased interest in the work
of this always interesting house.
A. ".