Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-11-30

MILESIONES: n fIay -ASeSe
Bv Arnold Bennett and EdwaTd
Knoblauch. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
@VHE traveller reports that his fort
night in London last spring
was quite too short a time to
permit the seeing of Mile
stones" since the play was
taking the town and bookings for ad-
mission had to be made weeks ahead. One
reads il, therefore. in the SAVIOR OF It's
guaranteed success much as if he him
self, were part of the crowd that packs
it's houses and Gaps applause. And the
play is. without doubt. something to see
Not a grand spectacle. like Lofts new
drama, but nevertheless an engaging
and picturesque invention. 1t is built on
contrasts. In an eventful and significant
era, generation is set off against genera
ton in sharp realistic opposltions y
quarter of a century separates these mile
stones. The first one is set at the year
1860 The next at 1885. And the last one
at 1912. or thereabout. The mere stage
business of this plan makes for pictur-
esque drama. The play moves through its
half century by the divergent aims and
ardors of three generations. wherein the
youthful innovator of the first becomes
the mature conservator of the second. and
the obstructiOnist of the third, wherein
youth brimmed with daring and adven-
ture Is ever at odds with cautious and inn
mobile age The story of the play Is
about the familiar things of life, about
love and marriage and material pros
perity- Upon these elements are focused
the changed, and changing, attitudes of
modernism attitudes toward filial duty.
and womanly behavior, and wifely con-
duct. toward the new economics and in
dustry. The drama holds to the channel
of plausbility. The situations are the
ones to be expected. The people behave
themselves much like those of similar cir
cumstance ON the other side of the cur
tain. The movement is spirited and CO.
herent such as alert folks working in the
open give to the conduct of their affairs.
This is neither comedy nor satire, but
rather concentrate pages of human his
tory selected and bound together for one
of the conspicuously good uses of the
stage
Horace Annesley Nachcll. New
York: George II. Doran Company.
mother clever play drawn from cur
rent life. This one, too, unqualified
success of the London stage Not so
wide Of reach as 'Milestones." nor so
concerned with the broad common as
poets of human nature ''Jelf's'' is not
withsrtandnS. play that possesses
human substance and genuine dramatic
rarts- Its plot has root and stem. flower
and fruit. These come along through
tine and conferred action, in their proper
order and season. Its characters are par
jcularly well drawn, each with a per-
sonality of its own, clean-cut and indi-
vidual. Its wit-when IL is not humor-
IL Enthusiastically good. abundant too. but
under perfect control. The story is that
"f young California ranchman who
suddenly finds himself the legally consti-
tuted head OF All cd and substantial Lon
IN han lrTruy TaIf
agement of this institution in the face of
its precedents and traditions as we'll as
MS management of himse f through the
supreme test of friendship and the vicis-
Situdes of wavering courtshp. make a
web over which all sorts of gay and
graceful threads of incident and person.
ality trail captivatingly. \ delight
fully fresh bit of comedy.
CREDITORS. PARIAH. Plays by Au-
gust Strindbers. Translated from
the Swedish. with an introduction
nv Edwin BJorkman New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
Strindberg is an old hand at the task
which he assigns himself in Creditors"
Here. all over again. he demonstrates his
favorite proposition. that woman is hope
.essly inferior to man. that she is directly
in debt to him for any feeble glimmerings
of intelligence that she may show. As
Tor the virtues with which she is COM
monty accredited. these do not exist in
the reckonings of this embittered esoist.
10 make this unini stakably plain, the
author furnishes the heroine of this
drama with two husbands-one in pos
session 80 to say, the other but recently
dispossessed- Both enthuia sticaIlv sun
port the authors contention. In the alb
Sence OF the lady the two come together
and Use up the play in itemizine their
respective accounts against her, each
dehnlnS the powers and capabilities
which she has wanton'y absorbed from
m about the last minute the wom-
IN returns, apparently for no other pur-