New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-13
PRAISE NAME Of T|MBy ARNOLD BENNETT HERE
EnoIish Playwright and Author
Thinks He'll Like America.
MANY ON THE LUSITANIA
Forbes Robertson Also Comes
for 80, O0O-MiIe Tour in THE
Passing of Third Floor Back.

Arnold Bennett. The English playwright
and author. felt confident last night wnen
M, set foot f1r the first time on American
soil that no was going 20 Ike America
The T.usitania brought him here long
after dark. and he did not see much m Inc
city. but he was greeted down the bay hv
his American publisher and representatives
from American weekly publications. who
informed him Of points OF interest he could
not see.
Indeed. no." said Mr.. Bennett when
asked n he was COINS 70 lecture. "I should
say not. I am here merely to sec things. /
hardly think I should lecture for five thou
sand pounds IN evening
Mr. Bennett. who is the author OF twenty
plays. including "The Great Adventure
and The Honeymoon" was born In Eng
land fortv-four years ago. Bur he does not
Ike London. IIe went 10 Paris eight years
ago for a three day visit and remained
there until recently. He thinks tho EnSIis1
players are too slow Zoo delivering thor
lines and that the plays on the English
stage drag numerically.
II is quite different iu Paris, he said
There Mr. Bennett declared. he attended
the performance Of a lltera! translation OF
King Lear" and found the French players
got through with the performance M two
and one-haIf hours. "In London he said,
the same performance would have dragged
through three days"
Mr.. Bennett thinks plays are much easier
TO write than works of fiction. 1T takes
fewer words 90 write a play he said. and,
really. any one with an eye for situations
and stage effects and a knowledge of stage
technique can write play. The same per-
son could not probably write q novel
j. F0rbas-Robertson the actor. who viii
make a ao.g03-mile tour Of the United States
I'm The Passing Of the Third Floor Back,
was passenger on the Lusitania. Tie was
accompanied by Percy Burton his man
ager.
MY tour will he a long and a hard one
said the actor. .'but I am ready for H. /
look forward TO visiting San Francisco dur
ing the weeks Of Christmas and New
Years. To is twenty-sx years since / have
been to the Coast And, strangely enough,
Mrs Mary Anderson de Navarro vii. be In
this country when my tour begins. / was
a member Of her company when b visited
the Goa 80 over "a quarter of century ago.
Mr. ortes-Robertsou Will return to this
country IN 1913 with repertory. including
Hamlet" Julius Cesar" "Ohello.' THE
Merchant OF Venice and Klplngs 1.-THE
Light That Failed"
Also IN the big Cuuarder was Mason
Peters. partner of Tex Richard. with
whom he purchased 10000 acres of graz
ing land fin Paraguay Mr.. Peters. who
left the city on February IS, on the steam
ship Vasari for Buenos Ayrcs. accompanied
by NJ Rickard. travelled 21ln miles
through South America. he will return 20
Buenos Ayres iu February with one hum
dred American cattIemen from Texas Ari-
IONA and the Dakotas TO care for the
herds. Mr.. Peters also is TO build a ne"
railway between Argentina and Chill across
the Andes.
Among others ON the LHsi,ania were
Percy Grant DR. Woods Hutchinson. a.
Mitchell lines. Mr.. and Mrs. ogden Mills.
Mrs Lillian ~ orr S,anis.aus stang
Mrs r. HAYES Trowtridge, +. o. l.. Rob
arts. Mr.. and Mrs. Montague Glass and
General and Mrs Thomas r. James.