New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-14

night
Fred Terry played Bcnodck the other
day at Stratford -on-Avon He did nor
know his lines" says one account He
remarked to a friend: II now know
what it il like TO be an understudy. I
cannot imagine myself TO be a principaI
| so i'll do i know my part" And in
short speech, made after the curtain had
| fallen, ne referred to the slight massa.
cres" he had made Of the text, adding:
Il tried to avoid them. but you frightened
me-" Again. after expressing his delight
at the reception. he went on to observe:
1T is strange: ! treat your poet badly
end YOU thank me-" Fortunately he hac
brought down his own prompter. What
| would have happened had q stranger
| held the book will never be known.
What? More Shaw? G.. 3. OF course
has written a forty-two page preface e
the Englished edition OF Three Play
bv Brieux" The three plays are Ma.
ternity," THE Three Daughters Of NJ
Dupont" and Damaged Goods" Il
Brieux helped? one wonders.
And now that the English critics are
calling Ethel Irving "a great actress
perhaps some Broadway manager viii
consider her after she returns from
Australia to the 81. Jamess.
Although Mr.. Kyrle Bellew has gone
or is going. abroad. he appears to have
forgotten that he was to sail in 1900
ton tramp fitted as floating theatre
for a play producing voyage down tn
Gold Coast. 1t is inconsderate Of a staI
rot TO live up to his picturesque para
graphing. even when he is not responsible
for the inky outbursts.
Molnar's play. THE Guardsman,' which
| in adaptation is known As playing WIN
Fire" is said to be promised for New
York next season. a we'll known crit
writes Of it:
I'VE are asked TO believe that villa
and she an actress. could be passionaten
made love to by her own husband an
not detect him under his silver helmet
red cavalry coat and white jacket, hi
black wig, his false mustache, and
above all. his remodelled nose. W.
might. possibly, have accepted every
thing but the nose A 'madeup nose
in the close contact Of ordinary life, II
really quite inadmissible. We are asked
in q romantic comedy 10 believe in THIS
and IT is asking too much"
: Lydia Yavorska princess BariatinsSy)
has been feted by the New Vagaoond
Club. Mrs Patrick Campbell presided
Said Nine Yavorska: I'VE Bohemians
are all worshippers Of the beautiful
, that is the link between us-and the
, worship involves at once a great privi-
lege and a great responsibility. We must
not mind II people fling at us the old
, taunt Of the artistic temperament nor
must we take II amiss II the majority OF
| the world calls us mad. We are, In truth,
, a little mad Ordinary objects Of ambi-
4. ton do not appeal to US. We wish to lit
, I'D our eyes to the hills; we watch the
snow mountains on the horizon. AND
that is thing which the world does not
; understand AS 1 am speaking ABOUT
beauty, can not point to the name or
Mrs. Patrick Campbell? She has always
I been the incarnation of poetic beauty In
the heroines whom she has created
| Paula Tanqueray, for instance?
, Gerald du Maurier, speaking at the
sixty sixth annual dinner of the Royal
General Theatrical Fund, wished the
stage was a profession in the fullest
sense of the word. He wished actors and
actresses had TO PASS certain examina-
tons and be awarded a certificate OF
merit before they could apply TO man.
ager for an engagement To his mind,
the actor or actress should be able, ac-
cording to the examiners, 10 speak in a
dozen different ways-wth a refined
and educated accent, in a provincial and
colonial way, in the various dialects OF
their country and the broken English or
foreigners They should be able 10 move
about naturally in sundry fashions. They
should learn 20 speak blank verse and
rhymed verse with music and with
meaning. They should have a fairly in
innate knowledge of the manners and
customs of the different periods of tie
history of their own nation. An actor 10
be an artist should have an accurate
knowledge of the great masters OF the
painting, sculpture and music Of the
world; he should neglect no opportunity
Of going into every form Of society from
the highest to the lowest. BY that Tina
probably. the actor would be so old thaS
, he would have TO come on that fund'
Then out OF these skilled workmen ana
women would spring artists, individuai
people with Just that little more, and
oh. how much it is" The public would
find them out. and make them the lead
ers; and then just occasionally Il queer
creature would spring up with no tech
nique. unskilled with no voice, with no
looks, with no intelligence, buS just
genius, and you would have your Prince
of Denmark.
Miss Valli-Valli. it seems, will not re-
turn to New York next autumn. She mas
a years engagement COR is IL one for two
years0 in London.
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