New-York tribune., 1911-04-30
STAGE NOTES
Concerning Plays and Players
Here and There.

MISS DOTS hR3Dt. WiioSt fNNNNS" '
DECORATING Clementine" was enc OF the
most notable episodes Of the London WIN
fer season. is no longer one of Charles
Frohman's players. She was ohered the
leading part i'm Arnold Benefits new COM
ody. THE Honeymoon, which Nedrenne
and Eadie are to produce in June at the
Royalty Theatre London, but a hrm OF
American managers persuaded her to ac-
oept a contract for several years DURATION
and under their auspices she viii appear IN
New York next autumn. Meanwhile Miss
Keane will be one Of the members OF the
"all star" cast in the revival Of The
Lights o. London" which will be presented
at the Lyric Theatre tomorrow night.
Miss Hornfnan. whose experience makes
her an authority declares il to be quite
delusion that running a repertory theatre
requires great wealth. 1T only requires as
much money as in any ordinary mans do
rnestic arraneements would cover motor
car. maid for his wife. good cook and
the obvious result, six weeks every year al
NiarienbaA or Carlsbad" This is somewhat
vague. but it clearly rules out the neces-
sitv for a milliouaires pocket. AS TO
London. the sooner il gets a repertory
theatre the better II is not 10 he got ny
carving round the hat in the provinces,
hut BY some rich man or woman setting 10
work and doing It, not starting with high
falutn talk, which makes the ordinary
man and woman feel that the aim is only
gigantic freak theatre
Sir Herbert Tree. who has enriched the
London hoardngs by many handsome
picture posters. notably those advertising
Henry VIII" has reproduced LandseerS
painting of a scena from "A Midsummer
Nights Dream" as a poster for his forth
coming revival of that play This cele-
brated work was painted by Sir Edwin
Landseer in 1851 for the great engineer
Isambard Kingdom Brunei, who commits
stoned various artists TO execute a series
OF pictures Illuminating Shakespeare. Al
ter the death OF Brunei it was sold at
Christies on April %, 1864, for $3.50, the
purchaser being the late Earl BrownioW.
II subsequently came into the possession of
Sir Cuthbert Quilter. from whom it vas
bought two years ago by Henry Lowen-
field. who has given Sir Herbert Tree per-
mission 10 reproduce it.
jerome K Jerome. whose Passing of the
Third Floor Back is one of the leading
successes Of recent years, has written
play for the VedrenneE Eade management
in London. It is called The Master OF
Mrs. Chivers'
As long ago as 1874, George Henry Lewes
wrote as follows
The critical pit, filed with playgoers who
were familiar with fine acting and had
trained judgments. has disappeared. In its
mace there is a mass of amusementseek-
cr. not without a nucleus of intelligent
epcctators but Of this nucleus only small
minority has any accurate idea of what
constitutes good art.
and vet the last sentence OF that very
essay nailed the rising Of Henry Irving
and the crowds that were going TO his
Hamlet and Othello,
Nj. Hawtrey will find in history more
than once the rising Of the tragedian az
time when tragedy seemed dead. The case
Of Rachel is OF course. famous one
This girl Of seventeen" wrote one of her
critics has made Racine and Corneille
live again" Sarah Bernhard achieved the
same feat. as Irving did here for Shakes
Teare And the tragic actor will assuredly
come again and conquer again. for he re-
spends TO an absolute necessity of the gen
eral heart I may be mistaken, but be-
lieve we have one acting i'm LondCn al this
very moment. I know nothing Of him per-
sonally, and have never seen him in private
life: and therefore / am not lOg-rolling
for a friend or even an acquaintance. But
would give a good deal 10 see him as
shylock Iago. or Richard III. and par
ticularly as Shylock. ] refer to Mr.. }.
Fisher White-H. NJ. W, in Pall-Man
Gazette.
George Bernard Shaw says: The theatre
cannot give pleasure 1t defeats its very
purpose If IL does not take you outside
OF yourself. II may sometimes. and in
deed. often does. give one sensations which
~ far from pleasant, which may even be
In the last degree horrifying and terrible
The function OF the theatre is TO stir peo
pie, TO make them think, TO make them
suffer"
Pineros latest play, Preserving M
Panmure'' ran a little less than three
months at the Comedy Theatre. London.
Again a court scene This time in the
latest English comedy. "A Butterfly on
the Wheel" 1t seems TO partake more OF
court than Of comedy; 10 be more real
istic". than interesting Lawyers like it
because at is so true" 10 the professional
life they know. Audiences. however, DO
not look 10 the stage for instruction in the
processes of cross-oxanination. one of the
authors Of the play is a lawyer. Would
not a scene i'm a boiler factory go well in
Broadway? There must be some aspiring
boiler maker who can construct IT.
Janet Achurch is once more playing in
"a Dolls House" this time with Lydia
Yaylsska They say the latter IS coming
20 New York next season.
Mrs. Langtry is appearing in melo-
drama Mrs Patrick Campbell in light
comedy&
The New-York Tribune. IN is article on
the opening Of the new theatre built for
Grace George i'm New York by William a.
Brady. has these significant words, TO
which all the world Of theatrcgotrs VIII
lend an earnest Amen
"Sir. Brady is 10 bc congratulated upon
the successful opening Of the PlayhOuSe'
and ne should be thanked publicly iOr the
good sense and good taste he has shown
IN the printed programme which ne gives
10 his audience a simple. Iour page pro-
lrammo. typoHraphically neat, ana Nol"
of advertising and other cNtidheous n,al-
ter lie has shown that what The New
Theatre could do IN this direction any other
Theatre can 90 n its management chooses.
There Is no getting away from the fact
that the theatre programme OF the unc j.
an Inconvenience, nuisance ana It sore
test of patience On recent issue OF
Detroit ITOgraElmc the necessary lnfOrma-