New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-24
IN THE LONDON THEATRES
George Broadhurst's Play The
Price" Well Received.
FANNIE WARD IN BIG ROLE
Bunty Pulls the Strings .
Closes at the Haymarket
After 500 Performances.
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London. Nov. 2S.-Another Ameri-
can play opened here this week when
George Broadhurst's latest output,
"The Price" was produced at the Aid
wych Theatre. OF course it is well
| known I'm New York that Mr.. Broad
bursts treatment of the social prob
! lem is essentially vulgar. He Is I'M
| able 10 leave anything TO the imagina-
| ton of the audience, but insists on
setting forth in the minutest details
complete history Of his characters Of
! more or less iniquitous past, and the
more unpleasant it is the more pleas
ure he seems to take in displaying the
details.
However, London sensibilities are APP
parently no more tender than those OF
New York, and Thursdays audience
listened with breathless interest while
Miss Fannie Ward. or, rather, Ethel
Toscani. admitted the truthfulness OF
the description OF her doings with her
former employer. Hence ii may be
supposed that Mr.. Broadhurst is about
TO win more fame-of kind.
On Tuesday night there was an open
ing Of a different kind, when a triple
bill by w j. Locke, Lord Dunhany
and Stanley Houghton took the place
OF "Bunty Pulls the Strings at the
Haymarket. after the Scotch comedy
had run for 500 performances. Mr..
Locke and Lord Dunhany contribute
one-ect sketches, the first being one OF
the adventures of Aristlde PuJo!i, the
other a poetic fantasy called The
Golden Dome" the scene Of which "
laid in a mythical kingdom before the
fall Of Babylon. II shows q curious
blend OF the dainty and the super
human.
Stanley Houghtons comedy IL again
hid in Manchester and IL a fine and
agreeable play, not so original and
daring perhaps as "Hindle Wakes"
not at all daring I'm fact, but demon
strating the obvious and revealing the
we'll known II carries the simple
moral that boys will be boys and girls
girls and the INDIGESTION OF parents
who refuse TO admit this truth simply
have to be told lies and IN the end
have 10 give way; but Mr.. Houghton
freshens IL all up by a simple. straight
forward way Of putting II and con-
triyes 70 get a greet deal OF amuse-
ment from an old story.
Tho oldest actor and by many years
oldest actor-manager, passed away
yesterday at the Charterhcuse in the
person OF Joseph Arnold Cave, who
last month celebrated his eighty-ninth
birthday He had boon on the stage
for almost eighty years. His first ap-
pearance was at the age OF nine, es
Tom Thumb in a burlesque at a little
theatre on the Edgeware Road, then
called tho Pavilion, aftervard the
Marylebone now the West London
Theatre. At sixteen he became the
champion clog dancer OF England, ana
later blossomed into actor-manase-
ment at the Victoria Theatre, "Old
VIC" OF Waterloo road. in It's palmiest
days devoted 10 the presentation or
highly colored villany and virtue. He
was also well known sixty years ago
at the Greenwich Theatre, the I'm
perial, the Elephant and Castle and
the Ahambra. He was elected mem
Der Of tho Charterhouse In 1908.
Martin Harvey, whose promised re-
yival OF The Tanning Of tho Shrsw,'
done I'm conjunction with william Poel,
is being actively pushed forward, has
lately acquired two new plays. Tho
first is Edward Knoblauch's comedy.
"The Faun," originally produced by
william Faversham In America. where
II enjoyed a fairy prosperous run.
The Faun" viii be presented by Mr.
Harvey during his London season next
Bpring His second acquisition Is
poetic drama by Laurence Binyon. II
IL based on the Arthurlan legend OF
Lancelot and Guinevarc, and it's main
interest Lies in the development OF their
story. In the autumn Of next year Mr.
Harvey takes his company 10 America
to present "Edipus Rex" In New York
and a few OF the larger clties in the
United States.
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