New-York tribune., 1912-07-14
NEW PLAY BY J. NJ. BARRIE
TMee-Act Production To Be Pre-
sented by Frohman.
FOR AMERICA
Work of English Authors To Be
Seen Here the Coming Season
Premiere for Chicago.
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act play by Sir A. w. PinerC and George
Bernard Shaw, it is announced that ne
also will write a three-act play when
Is 10 be produced by Charles Frohman
in February. This will be the first long
n,ay by the author of What Every
Woman Knows" in four years. 1t would
have been ready sooner except for Mr.
Frohmans idea of triple bill, which Is
TO be presented first.
Mr.. Frohman also will produce this
fall the highly successful French com
edy Primrose" which had run of 10
nights at the Comedie F'rancaise, and
comedy from the Athenee Theatre
Paris, adapted by Cosmo Gordon-Lennox
and called The Heart Decides" He
will produce here Her Left Shoulder
which Klaw & Erlanger are to take 10
America.
Mr. Frohman will produce In America
the coming season plays by the follow
ing English authors: c. Haddon Cham
bers James 3. Fagan, Sir a. W. Pinero
w. Somerset Vaughan, Alfred Sutro,
Hubert Henry Davies, George Bernard
Shaw and J. NJ. Barrie. Mr.. Chambers
has retired to a cottage on the Thames
Mr.. Frohman. He has already produced
this summer a short three-act comedy
which is a satire on melodrama. The
play was written in a week and ii is
understood that It will be presented first
In America.
Mr.. Frohman, who is indisposed, sailed
from Liverpool to-day on the Maure-
tania for New York.
Moffatt's "a Scrape Of the PEN"
Graham Moffatt's new play, A Scrape
OF the Pen" will be produced on SepteTn-
Der at the Comedy Theatre Moffatt
himself will play one of the principal
parts-that of the old farmer who is
always trying TO explain present day
happenings by reference TO the old
Testament. Mrs. Moffatt will have
part, while Miss Jean Alvin is TO be the
heroine.
George c. Tyler is taking an English
company to America for Mcdonald
Eastings's play, The New Sin" The
company will go directly to Chicago,
where it opens on September Il at
Powers's Theatre. This is the first time
that an English company has had an
American premiere in Chicago. Mr.. Tyler
said yesterday that Chicago is Il big
city, with just as good a right TO the
first sight Of a new play as New York
w. A. Brady is arranging with Ar
thur Collins 10 take TO New York The
Drury Lane production The Whip" and
the pantomime "'Op o My Thumb Mr..
Collins and the Shuberts are TO be asso-
ciated with Mr. Brady in the American
productions.
Mr.. Collins practically has decided on
September 12 for the opening Of Every
woman" at Drury Lane. Stephen Phil
lips has adapted the play to London, and
in the Drury Lane version Piccalllly
Circus is substituted for Broadway. Ger
responding changes have been made in
the other scenes Alexandra Carlisle
will be in the title role: Kate Rorkc will
appear as Truth. Gladys Cooper as
Beauty. Clara Reck as Vice, Fred Lewis
as Wealth and Wifred Douthtt as Pas
sion.
Lechmere Worrall is writing Two
plays for American production, comedy
and a children's play.
Submarine on the STAGE.
The submarine has been adapted to
the theatre and appears in n jne-act
variety sketch at the Palladium. 1t IS
called Submarine FL" The audience
can see the inside Of submarine which
has a commander, a second officer and
crew, as we'll as all the appropriate
apparatus-periscope, water tight doors,
telephone etc.-complete. When about
to launch a torpedo the boat strikes
wreck and goes TO the bottom. The sit
uation apparently is hopeless, but Just
before the air supply IS exhausted help
comes from above and the vessel rises TO
the surface.
Alfred Butt, who engineered the COM
mand variety performance at the Palace
Theatre, says OF the future Of variety:
Il am quite sure of one thing-that we
must have a perfectly clean and clever
entertainment. II is just as easy TO be
clever by being clean as 1t seems to be
clever by being unclean. The sooner
actors realize this the better for them
selves and the music halls.
MY experience has proved to me that
nrpQpnt
ances without offensiveness or yulgarty.
We are improving in the mental calibre
of our audiences all the time, and the
elimination Of the offensive and the un-
slightly IS going steadily on IN music
halls. We must insist on this If we are
to make the halls family institutions,
which they must become to survive. The
time of what is known in America as
advanced vaudeville has arrived"
Concert Season a Failure.
The London concert season just ended
is described as one Of the worst on rec
ord. Certainly it is true that the best
known artists frequently appeared be-
fore almost empty houses Yet this Is
only a repetition of experiences Of re-
cent years. Daniel Mayer, the we'll
known concert agent, says:
Il quite agree that the English people
do not support music as they should.
One reason for this, in my opinions. is
the raising of the standard Of music
halls. To appreciate the best form Of
music requires some study and thought.
and people now seem to prefer Willing
away an hour and half in a music
hall to listening TO serious music. 1t
also is a fact that people who can well
afford to pay for seats at concert 70