The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
BERNARD SHAW Is
 NOT AN FRESHMAN
Rostand Family Very Active
 Theatrically
CRANE AND BROOKS
Actor and Manager Early Associated Together Have Renewed Their Associations - Mary Ander-
 sOn Theatre Is no More
By JAMES GRANT rHURsToN

By JAMES GRANT THURST0N
 New York, October 21.-(Special.)- There is a very general impression that Benard Shaw is the great Irish dramatist Of the day, which is a mighty mistaken idea As a matter of fact MT, Shaw barring the incident that he was born ir Ireland has little of the real Iris., about him and his work can hardly be chased as Irish in any real sense.
 We are to have this season some real Irish plays, played by real Irish players For this we are indebted to Mir Will, liam Yeats, who may be fairly called the father of the modern Irish drama ana the leading play writer of the Green Isle
 His plays are realistic. not in the gen. erally understood meaning of that much abused word. They deal with every day people in an every day way The al- leged Irish humor of the vaudeville stage is missing and the characters are made to speak real English. There is not hint of snobbery or melodrama or sen timentality: and, above all, not the slightest attempt to write smart or intelligent" dialogue. It is as near re- production of human everyday life as the stage can get.
 Those of Yeasts' plays which l have been privileged to read are well woath read ing Whether they will appeal to the somewhat vitiated. American theatrical taste when presented on the stage is an- other question. The experiment is well worth trying and there are enough patri- otic Irishmen in this city to make sure that the experiment. even if it fails, will not be too expensive.
 The theatrical activity of the Rostand family continues unabated Madame Ed mond Rostand and her older son, Maurice, having penned material and filial odes to each other, collaborated in a comedy which is said to be pretty and is to be brought out short1y-"Un Bon Petit Diable,' taken from La Couleur dc Rose, a childrens story by Madame De Segur. But this was mere trife which exhausted but particle of young Mau- rice's energy. He can exclaim, "Paulo maiora sanemus," and he can say so in double sense. After the pretty come dy he has started on a heroic drama in verse. The subject is almost equal to his energy-Napoleon. The father, Ed mond Rostand, wrote 'L'Aiglon:" the son. Maurice Rostand. is content with nothing less than the Little Corporal him. self
 I wrote the other day of the failure of the Folies Bergere. Henry B. Harris ar- nounces that the estaurant-pa yhouse will in the future be known as the Full tan theatre. Mechanics are converting it into a regular theatre. The tables chairs and other evidences of a restaurant are being taken out and a new inclined floor is being laid. Within a fortnigh, orchetra seats will be installed to make ready for the opening, which will take place about October 30.
 Robert Edeson, fin Gelett Burgess new satircal farce. ''The Cave Man." will be the opening attraction.
 NJ. Ivan CIustino, the new ballet mas ter at the Opera, Paris, who comes from the Russian Imperial theatre in has resolved to abolish the traditional short gauge ballet skirt, re- placing it by the longer skirt popular ized in Paris and London by the Rus sian dancers.
 William H. Crane, the actor. has re- turned to the management of Joseph Brooks, after an interval of 10 years. thus renewing an association formed 35 years ago, when Mir. and Mrs. Crane were first married and were appearing
  MT. Brooks had just become a theatrical in Memphis. Tenn.
 Since then both men have arisen to positions of power, one IS a player and the other as a manager. There never was break in their friendship. In recent years they have met each sum. mer at Carlsbad.
 MT. Brooks first played" Robson and Crane in a chain of theatres in the middle west and south, controlled by Brooks & Dixon, the first theatrical syndicate in the United States. He later presented the two stars in "The Com ady of Errors" and then in "The Merry Wives of Windsor Then came "The Henrietta" the first of the comedies of the modern school
 When Crane and Robson separated Mir. Brooks and MT. Crane joined for tunes, producing "The Senator" His Wife's Father" "A Fool of Fortune" "A Virginia Courtship," and other plays.
 MT Crane went with Charles Froh- man 10 years ago to play David Harum. He has been wlth Mir. Frohman ever since. He returned from abroad a few days ago. MT Brooks met him at their club and the old business rela tions were renewed.
 Sir Charles Wyndham, who is con- sidered the wealthiest actor manager in Great Britain, was destined by his father for the medical profession.
 Truly hattuck's hobby is to collect automobile horns. At her country home on Long Island 1t is said she has an assortment sufficiently great to make Wagnerian concert pale with envy.