New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-20
IN THE LONDON THEATRES
"Cap and Bells, "by New Author,
Contains Good Dialogue.
"THE HARBOR WATCH" NEXT
Puccini Considering Kipling's
THE Light That Failed as
Subject for Opera.
lRr cnhle 10 The tribune. !

London. April t9-Some of the
brightest dialogue London has heard
i'm a political play for years enlivens
the clever three-act comedy. The cap
and Bells" produced by Ethel War
wick at the Little Theatre on Thursday.
The work is the maiden dramatic eff
fort of Robert Nansittart, who LETT
Eton to go straight into the diplomatic
service. Joining the British Embassy in
Paris. and who is now in The Foreign
| Office. London. He has already to ms
credit several popular books
The play is concerned with the pol
itics of strikes and with questions con-
corning the principles of the LABOR
members in the House Of Lords as wei
IS in the House of Commons, AS pre-
scented by Mr.. Vansittart these sub
iects seem To make the greatest run III
the world At present the play Is per-
hans trife talky and needs polishing
ND but il met with a gratifying recep-
ton from an unusually intelligent audi
ence.
Godfrey Teare played the part OF an
almost impossibly sober-minded young
Ia Dor leader. who. because OF his CON
victions is really as much tyrant as
the titled people he scores in mover
rhrase. THE peers and the peeraSe' or
six centuries of theft.
Dialogue Is Sparkling.
Ethel Warwick as Lady Clare and
Maud Milett as the mother Lazy
Chiselhlrst. an American who mas
married into the British nobility. finally
persuade the young labor leader 10
swallow his socialistic convictions ana
also $1,000 a year and three thousand
acres of land
Az has been said. the dialogue is the
best part of the play. II has All the
sparkle of the best kind of drawing
room conversation. All the parts are
lin exceedingly capable hands, Frederick
Kerr and Eric Maturn figuring IN the
cast in addition TO the others named.
"Goodby. Frank: Goodby. Ernest
with Frank Tinncy. its author closed a
ten weeks season tonight At tho VIC
tor,a Palace. Tinncy caught on won
dorfully in London in this dialogue; IN
fact. he has been one Of the greatest
music hall sensations Of the last two
seasons. Clarice Maync. England s
pet boy" who appears at the London
Opera House revue tonight used
Frank Tlnncv and Ethel Levey among
her limitations.
Giacomo Puccini came especially
from Pisa this week to see Forbes-Rob-
ertson i'm the dramatization Of kiping
story. The Light that Failed The
composer is considering the play as
subject for the librctto Of his next op-
era.
Another item OF interest in connec-
ton with the Forbes Robertson fare
well" performances is the announce
ment that William Faversham Will play
lago 10 Forbes Robertson's othello
later in the season.
The Draconian laws OF the British
censorship are meeting with strong OPP
position nowadays. motion IN the
House OF Commons in favor of its abo-
lition passed without division this
week. British public opinion is
strongly against the prevailing cen
sorship. and this sentiment is well re-
Elected i'm the editorials which appeared
/ I'm the London papers on the day fol-
lowing the action taken by the Com
mons. II begins to look as II the cen
sorship were doomed
AS 10 Smoking in Theatres.
Sir Arthur Pinero. in an interview on
why the music halls are taking away
the business of the legitimate houses,
urges that smoking be allowed In the
theatres.
"Of course. the proposal viii be -e-
ceived 10y many with cry Of horror. |
shall hear a lot about the degradation
of the stage and the drama, but where
does the degradation of the drama
come in? If | sit opposite picture by
Raphael with pipe i'm my mouth |
am not degrading the picture. The
! charming bllf-d'l plhA = VI NY iii'"'
Barrie have lost none Of their quality
by being performed before smoking
audiences in the variety theatres"
The West End managers will meet
soon to discuss the question of smoking
in their houses.
"The Harbor Watch" the first play
from Rudyard Kipling's pen, will see
the light on Tuesday next at the Roy
atty. The full cast is as follows:
Emanuel pyccroft. X. N.......A. - Murray
! Edws ri Glass. r. ". l.. I........G. 4. fully
Albert Bashford. Il .Lawford Davidson
william Ags. .............. II Lane Bsylln
corporal Walters. n. NJ. l.. l. W. L. Warde
Jenny Blashford ......... Miss Marjorie Day
George Bernard Shaw has become "A
motorcycle enthusiast. AMI the dram
atist is now known 10 early pedestrians
as "'rhe Fiend of Hampstead Heath"
| Shaw, with his gray hair and gray
| beard, dressed i'm gray and his motor
cycle enamelled gray, rides in the gray
dawn and shoots about the roads and
paths of the Heath like the wrath of a
morning mist.
POINCARE PARD0NS BANDIT
Dieudonne, Automobile Crimi-
nal. Escapes GuillOtine.