New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-15
LONDON CRITICS TURN
Suddenly Change the Tone Of
Comments on "Everywoman.v
CALL IT "AMERICAN" PLAY
Writers Also Inconsistent in
Treatment of Girl in the Taxi,
and Maude's New Play.
by Cable 10 The Trihnno

London, Sept. 14.-Now that Every.
woman" has been produced and ,ho
London critics have discovered tho,
while 1t offers a fine opportunity -
display costumes and stage spectacle.
and probably Will prove attractive 70
certain class of theatregoers and viii
have a long. successful run, its philo..
ophy is half baked, its morality Of IN.
cheapest and its style a conglolner,,.
OF verse prose and blank verse, and an
poor, It is amusing to find them seal.
ing in every way to hide facts thsv
have heretofore been only too anxiou.
to publish.
For weeks the London papers we,.
full Of explanations Of how Browne an
Englishman, went TO America NM
they speak Of the American moral,tv
play and of Browne as an American
There is seldom any indication that
Browne knew England except by hear.
say, while several carefully explain
that the play had to be revised by an
English writer. Phillips, in order thu,
Its American language might be under.
stood by the English public.
The play has been very expensiys,
staged. and seems certain Of succss,
and It is a pity. they say, 1t should b
such a poor thing intrinsicaIly. M
The dramatic writer's at the SAM
time are making a similar display ot
themselves over two other plays. Whso
The Girl In the Taxi" was produced
last week It was agreed that it was
vulgar show for the benefit Of weak
minded people who like TO be titiyatsd
by the public display of more or less
embryo immortality.
Advance notices are now appearing Of
Cyril Maude's new play. The little
cafe in which the scene is laid Is In
Paris. The story is that OF a waiter IN
a cheap restaurant who inheris a
fortune, but his employer learns OF the
inheritance before the waiter and
makes a contract with him for long
term, with the forfeit Of q large sum il
either breaks the contract. The next
day the waiter Is told OF his inheri.
tance. He continues to be "A waiter by
day, while at night he leads a gay life
in risque cafes. The chief scenes Of the
play show life In all-night restaurants.
hA
The Girl in the Taxi for pandering TO
a low moral tone are anticipating with
delight Maude's play. which, they say.
is bound to be a feast of humor on ac-
count Of the very scenes deplored in
THE Girl in the Taxi
Sarah Bernhardt. who comes 10 Eng
land on Monday. has been correcting
in advance statements as to her age in
connection with the tribute il Is
planned to give her by English adj
mirers. IL has been published that she
Will have her sixty-ninth birthday in
october, while here. Bernhard SAYS
that AT her age she can't give time
even one year. She wants II published
that she is in fact only sixty-eight
Max Reinhardt will return TO London
I'm October 70 produce at the Palace
what is described by Alfred Butt as a
series OF Kaleidoscope pictures treated
I'm a manner novel to English people.
Reinhardt IL now in Vienna to present
the spectacle miracle which he pro-
duced at the Olympia last year.
Lorraine will produce new Shaw
play on his return from America. The
name has not yet been decided on.