New-York tribune., 1912-04-05
A 13-YEAR-OLD D|SRAEL|
"AH-Kid" Performance To Be
Given at WaIIaCk'S Theatre.
REHEARSALS UNDER WAY
Youngsters Will Drive Big Actors
TO the Wall When They
Give Play.

4 big scare started rumbing along the
Rialto Yesterday soon after the first re-
hearsal was called for the "all-kd' per-
formance OF "Disraeli,' which is TO be
! given as benefit at Wallack's Theatre on
April %. The rehearsal had not been un-
der way longer than an hour before the
! news began TO sift out from the secluded
| upstaire TRY out" room at the Century
! Theatre that there would soon be no
more jobs for grown-up actors The twenty
! Disraeli-ites who have been picked TO sp-
near in one of the biggest events OF the
season. and who range IN years from fVe
! TO thirteen so easily outstrip in enthusi-
asu intensity Of expression and gladness
OF spirit any creature burdcncd with ma
turity that It was at once decided to do
awav hereafter with the expensive and
satisfactory casts OF twenty, thirty. forty
and fifty year olds and substitute for them
the five-year class and on up TO the com
pletely developed type of thirteen.
! Djsraeli himself the crafty statesman or
oui,t Wit and iron will, is to be portrayed
nv Master George Tobn, whose thirteen
wears of experience in this colorful life
soem ,o have fitted him admirably to
D,cture in walk gesture, facial expression
q q
! Of the diplomat
Than thor. is Madeleine Cheffo, who
n,avs the plotting Mrs Travers. MISS
Madeleine, who Is t"eiNe ""e'
.,,Lot b.r staee experience had BEEN passed
hoth arms conidentially through 'ha' VI
-. ;r,or,tever and said Of herself dis
paragingly: >.o,or,,or,s
Child in The Blue Bird but IL was ho'
much OF an acting part. THIS Is 'he oe''
mart | have had so far There ~ ele"'
deal to express in the lines
rs # going to be fun? pursued hei
ouestoner. forgetting TO speak seriously
about the artistic side OF IL
"Packsr" cried Mrs. Travers dancing up
and down enthusiastically
IIou, fev grown-ups could have stopped
ui,, such elastic ease to the intellectual
level Of her interviewer
An the members of the all-kid cast are
nrofessionals and many are descended tro"
nrc fessionaIs The gentleman VINO play
Rascot. when asked his name replied VIII
remarkable clarity OF dicuon that ne was
Patrick I.auncelot Ross, five years oid' aho
sor Of the holder OF the same part IN the
cast now playing "Disraen at "al'a'N
younp Mr. Ross announces MIS-. lraNeT'
md others who call on LORD bea'ohsleiu
Nc wears a serious, almost "orricu eA'
n,,ssIou No doubt he has too much tom
norameut 10 allow happy dlsposluon' fo'
, whom asked If he had any other means o.
..Ir.exprcssion than acting replied mat M
bad-hc could draw Cinnamon.
ro,ia,nbc David Ross when questioned
,T
lao was the only one on the east that die
original work.
"Th. other fellows and the girls, he cx.
rlainod. have been 10 see the play ano
,h,y arc only copying what the actors ther'
did don't do that, you see. 90 u my
own way"
When the stage director soon atteT cor
,cc,ed the method of the ONLY oriS'ha
actor" the corrected one Uinkcd kho"'"sl'
-. nts copddant on the side lines as "ne
should say:
".you see it's only tho commonplace tha'
oo,s Real talent is only recognized oy 'h'
elect" hin,
Although ''Disrael" is not play In "hlc'
All the characters could appropriately spear
siuplc Anglo-SaXon English the el'S"'
nbr,sing and the sometimes coIIlp"cd''u
.ord. give no trouble 10 the supple toheued
nlsvcrs Suez H. the only stckcr. The sue
canal forming the great turning polh' "
,h, uIot. is referred TO frequently.
"Nhv do YOU al say HooeH;' inquire"
tho puzzlcd stage director once. PLEASE
v.hcn that uord comes ~. all 81 YOU. thlhH
.ol. Great lie :. and Nc piA grtphl'aIN
lv.,ycd . msu-aizc lctter IN the alI.
] NitL that single exception w nav VA