The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-24
rEW YORK March 23.-There
ii are times when it is diff
Y cult TO contain oneself
,;Ihi, bocon,iD, hounds

EW lOhh IudIcn Eo,--- mere
are times when it is diff
" cult TO contain oneself
within becoming bounds
Tba present moment is one of them,
for ! have just come from the in
suguration of the Little Treatre
When, after two years of endeavor
IN the best and of some achieve
meut of the highest order, tho New
Tbeater project was abandoned, it
vas admitted everywhere that
Winthrop Ames had been hopeless
T ly handicapped by the proportions
OF the auditorium. The Little Thea
tYe is his answer. It is consider
sbIy smaller than any in New
York, being without balconies or
boxes, and seating little less than
three hundred persons. In this, it
Berlin and that of Gertrude Kings
ton, in London; but none of those
smsll plavhouSes is rival IN the
natter OF sheer beauty.
With the exception of the New
Thester, now the Century, nothing
hslf so handsome of the sort is
visible in this country. OF, indeed,
in Europe. For in its plan and
T. furnishing the incest taste has held
A The hand of opulence. Passing
I through the red-brick, tea house
| like exterior, with It's green shut
iers and white door, one enters
mall. ideally proportioned Colonial
lcunge,--l quite refuse to use so
brusque and general a word as
flobby.f - At one side is a vast
fireplace, before which Gouverneur
Morris and Alexander Hamilton
might have smoked their pipes;
11d, on another wall,-as the only
relief from the white panelling,-
q large stretch of old Italian bro
eade, rich with the flaming colors
| of The South,
TSlIE auditorium is ak-panelled
y about third way up, above
which hang tapestries copied from
design by Jacques Tessier of the
g0belln works, made about l710,
With medallions after Boucher The
steepy inclined floor Insures
clear view from every chair and
the absence of balconies allows a
low enough proscenium arch to ere
ate better illusion Of ordinary in
tcrlors than is possible on any
other stage. In short, the ideal
theater Tor intimate drama has
been constructed. and IT has been
Decorated with the utmost beauty
that can still subordinate itself TO
the interests of the play. How
ever, there Is something even more
ausplciouS about the new and dar.
lne enterprise than suitability and
charm Of setting. The best drama
nevcr has and never viii appear to
the greater bulk Of playgoers:
Ehat chance did Franz Dals ever
that ''tells story2' so by max
Iug Just room enough for the pub
he capable of apprecinting his
presentations, with no balconies TO
yawn with wondering vacancy, Mr..
Ames has supplied the sane and
Proper counterweieht for the mo-
non-pieture theaters.
EHHE inaugural play WAS first
presented before m invited
sudieDce. quite the most notable
ever assembled in New York. With
memories of assembages at the
Sew Theater, at the Opera, to cele,
ufate the visits Of Sir Henry Irv-
ing and Ellen Terry, and on such
0ccasions. statement of the sort
'eems far too sweeping, until one
pauses to consider that, while quite
many leading citizens and fore
most visitors have been OF such
Ntnerlngs in this instance they
psny.
as one scanned the little audi
'vlium one not merely saw In
ssefy seat parsonage, in Lltera-
~ie. Society or the Arts, but one
saW no one else, John Ga]esworthy,
ys'ed halfway back. had come to
nmeriea to see the presentation of
as latest play, 1.-The Pigeon and
,eh an author could not have
.ouhd fault with it. The perform
spee was superb, If Pamela Gay
saorle, Sidney Valentine and
TANK Reicher were more notice
soly admira BILE than their sssoci'
i,.l' Va" ldcJ suOUln uOI Uc uNci
~oSed that their opportunities
sle much better For Louise Sey-
Ionr, A, M. Botsford, Thomas
ouoen. Walter Howe and Arthur
lily did almost all that could be
seomplished with their parts; and
zen Russ Wbytal curbed his habit
tue sort Of overacting that
'ouscs the utmost admiration
'"ong the ignorant.
A ALL means read "The
Pigeon.' | offer that ad-
u Ior several reasons. In the
t,s; piace, even should you board
s,s 'a and hurry to New York to
rs;, ~ yon would find your trip in
nos tor every scat for the first
eu,tsih mad been sold before the
,oo nam rose on the premiere, Then,
Ia Should rather have You read
Fitbt was WAS published simultaneously
dena, tue first performance than
brt brttona t,' On my description. Nothing
Sn,he us she poorest idea Of the comedy
epnsa ea pc given without copious
}Irs,sa. for its value lies en-
blSs outside its story. This ia
n nin SIcn as it is. is but skeleton
on;r;nnIch hang John Galsworthy
,iora ,ionsoas, observations and couclu.
MA CT me manner is that Of Ber