The Washington herald., 1912-02-07
With the PLAYERS.

! AS Man Thinks" is likely to stir W
more controversy among theaterEoer,
than any other play OF the season. II 1,
essentially polemical and controversial
II has strong dramatic backbone ans
Il is excellently acted. Were Il merely q
nattledore and shuttlecock OF ideas. dId
the playwright speak TO his audience like
puipiteer or any oracle, the vaIue ~
the play, as a play. would be lost Han
ply, the dramatic fabric IS maintafned
m integrity from start to finish. ana 4
Pisy OF wnich Augustus Thomas may be
proud Is the result
The present theatrical season has as
suredly not been one Of the most sur
cessful In recent years, but there IS no
diminution for that reason in the an
parent gorgeousness of the business
workers in the theater In the matter ~
raiment and haberdashery In all its forms
Iney are as much the glass OF fashion as
ever. II has happened in previous sea
sons that these business men of the thea
ter are more striking in the elegance OF
Porous. ~
That is easy enough to Understand
when the potential value of a theater
ucket Is taken into consideration. one
OF them said yesterday. There are rnore
iree tickets to be distributed at some
urnes than at others and the theatricaI
men are likely TO be best dressed vrbep
business business in the theater is not good. Ger
% .ain ProVloers or clothes from overcoats
10 scarfs have made known to the tbe-
atrlcal men along the stretches OF Irnnor
broadway which shelter the theaters fbe
exact amount OF their wares which arc
70 De had Tor two tickets, for four and
IoT % NarloSs other numbers of seats. One
OF the best dressed men that was ever
knoWn IN New York box Office used 10
Iak I5 with greater feeling than anybody
ABOUT oeadheads, although he was
ments on Upper Broadway as the mos,
persistent OF all the sellers OF free tickets
for value received.
10 this day there are men who bar-
gain Tor what they Will receive for g.
seats which sometimes 20 to the scaInoTS
put are Just as often used for their own
pIeasure oy the persons who acquire
mem by purchase even IL they do NOT
go to speculators or the box office I"
Edmund Rostrand's Ia Princess T.o,,
taine," which will be acted in New Yorr |
oy Nine. Simone, has been announced
hltherto for America. It was 10 he |
among the plays acted by Eleanor RON
son IN her season at the Liberty The
ater, but the success OF "SaIomy Jane,
was such that the RosIrand drama was
never reached and Miss Robson retired
from the stage before she ever had tbel
opportunity to act IN Rostrand's love
tragedy. II demands a kind of art
wholly different from any previous ex-
libitions OF her medium made by the
french actress, Its text is recited best
n the melting femininity which Saranl
Sernhardt used to control so completeIy.
;he showed this lyric vein of her talents
or the last time in this country when
he acted at the Globe Theater last
une
Nine. Simone has made a greater popu-I
ar success in THE Return from Jerusa-I
em" than in any OF the other dramas
he acted in New York. Whether or NOT
his play would be interesting enough toI
AIRY the French actress through the
ountry next season as a star is a oues-
ion that has not so far been answered
nth sufficient positiveness by the recep-
on OF the play in New York As Mime. !
imone is unwearying IN her efforts 10
nd drama that will ultimately attract !
merican audiences as irresistibly as she I
esires and George Tyler is willing 70
Id the actress to achieve her ambitions,
ostrands drama will be the next mel ,
um Of her appearance. y