New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-19
Stage Novelties
. eeyAN MRS. PANKHURsT JOSEPH HIS BRETHREN SARAH
M" eeeNuARpT THE HALLS Mr.. eALsWoRTHY, MR. BERNARD
SHAW
Copyright. 1915 by q. W. smalley.)
London, September %.

will begin by admitting mere mas
"a theatrical novelty in England
pee. orable 20 Mr.. Bryan's appearance
00 .rerica as a circus star. or that
" .hle has given us particulars day
U" law The press Of England and the
.,,ent has rung with It, English
W. rsad OF it with puzzled incredu-
Nv They cannot understand. they can
al, believe, that an American Sec
90 NJ state, the First Cabinet Min
n the United States, should be
- himself out in rivalry with
,Jors and bareback riders; 1t is
,srefaced. Mr.. Bryan's apologies
W. been cabled with the rest, and
"..s hurt him and us as much as the
=, FOR which ne apologies. His con-
...roes about his money affairs, his
.o.n preference of his private interest
nuh,ic duty, his indiscretions OF
...,s his lack OF dignity and decency,
-. such that no comment is adequate
che offence; and here they make
or not many in public.
Mr. Bryan thinks all the criticism at
,.u. Is malicious or partisan. sup
no.s he cannot understand why his
oountrymen object to seeing great
'a.ar ~ state behave like a mounte-
80, II he were a Republican and
,,nloratist instead of the Democrat
IA neophyte in foreign affairs he is, l
.nou,d say exactly the same thing. /
.hould say, as 1 do now, that he has
thought his Office and his country and
h,nself into contempt abroad. His
.orduct Is as unpatriotic as it is un-
d,gn,fed. He may despise European
o,,,n,on. but then why is he Foreign
Minister And why does the President
,ol.rat. It? Is he content to have an
acrobat at the head Of his Cabinet?
The real objection to Mr.. Bryan IS
not 80 much his excursions into these
eoysry regions as his return from
them 10 the State Department. A
licked door would meet the case. or
vbv will not The New York World
.,larse its handsome offer? 1t cannot
really wish that the Secretary OF state
should be a pensioner on its bounty,
but If a little more money would In
duce him to retire into private life
there must be many besides the public
,O,rited editor Of The World" who
would contribute to that end according
10 their means.
Next to Mr.. Bryan. Mrs. Pankhurst
who, IL an old story here, viii be a
novelty TO you should the immigration
authorities allow her TO land, as hope
they will. For Mrs. Pankhurst here In
England has done one great public SER
vice. and might do another IN the
United States. She has put back
woman suffrage for generation: II
not forever. She has given the English
an object lesson in the rule OF women
rhs outrases she has counselled and
l.it others to commit have served as
A measure of her capacity f,r political
leadership. Even women admit their
nferiority to men in one respect. Ihey
are not our equals in physical FORCE
and II is the domain of physical force
that Mrs Pankhurst and her militants
have chosen as the field of battle.
They seem really to believe that they
can frighten a great race into the sur
render of the franchise BY a policy ot
ANNOYANCE. Their new evangel Is an
evangel of window-smashing and
house-burning and letter burning and
insult 10 Ministers and attempts 10
suppress free speech. Never has there
been so stupid a policy. Mrs. fanK-
hurst is under sentence Of three years
imprisonment for melting TO the COM
mission of these offences. She has cs-
capped and proposes 10 preach her Cos
pei to us in America. She is a con-
victed criminal and in no sense po-
ltical criminal. Arson or melting 10
arson is not yet recognized as a method
Of politics. There will be no protest
from England if this woman is deport-
Cd ss an undesirable alien. Nor Would
there be II she were sent 10 Mattea-
van.
must apologize 10 Sir Herbert Tree
for giving precedence to Mr.. Bryan ara
Mrs. Pankhurst Nobody ought TO ne
put before him as a competitor in bla-
tant publicity. and certainly not now
when he may boast that he is the nrst
English manager 10 turn the Bible into
a playbook The argument against
Biblical plays is not. to my mind'
canonieal or ecclesiastical, or the ar9u-
ment Of irreyerence. 1t is the argu-
ment impos@ibility. The story CT
Joseph, for example. which the British
public is now invited 10 behold at His
halesty's Theatre, is not in the nrst
place essentially dramatic. 1t is narra-
i've, and ii is told in the Bible with a
majestic simplicity impossible to trans
Ter to the stage.
No attempt is now made TO present
II In that way The primitive Oriental
sm Of the original has disappeared.
Inc pastoral life has become life OF
pictorial and scenic splendor. 1t Is a
spectacle. and the production Of specta-
Sles Is business out of which Sir
heroert Tree has made a reputation
quite overshadowing whatever reputa-
uon he has acquired as an actor. Why