New-York tribune., 1913-12-24

/ THE Secret y PLAY Translated from
The French of Henri Bernstein.
TIE CAST.
! C--e.ar. G.on.'rt. t................ Basil Gu
/ Chor'I, poufg TGIIi. .......-. kon'rt Warwick
9 F1eguh ............. John y. BraWI
d Gabrielle Jann.Iot. ............ Frances starr
/ Hcrriet', Dura-d ....... ... Marguerite Leslie
Ha-rle, otis Dcllcnbqugi
Marie. ................... Beatrice Rolnhaid
"The Secret" the most recent work OF
the French playwright, Henri Bernstein
was presented in English at the BelascC
/ Theatre last evening The Thief
Samson" THE Whlrlwind' and others
Of Mr.. Bernstein's plays. have been char,
acterizcd more l'y their effectiveness as
| theatre machines than by any nourish-
ment they might supply to an American
audience. The new play. which displays
| q rather more pretentious psychology
perhaps than the others is also harder
machine TO run. It calls for nicer work
and finish from the players, particularly
/ I'm the principal part and at the same
J time its appeal 10 the American taste Is
even less direct than the others. at least
I than such a play as The Thief"
/ The theme is a woman's jealousy, not
directed against any one person. but
against all those about her who appeared
! TO he happy. She could not bear TO sec
any one happy unless she were a part OF
/ that happiness And when she was not
she left nothing undone 10 destroy their
content and leave them stranded and mis-
/ cradle The thing was stronger than she
sort Of disease. which did not prevent
4 her loving her husband. living with him III
perfect happiness for years, and being re-
rarded by every one az rather partlcu-
larly charming, as well as honest and
outspoken.
f Their. doubtless are such persons In the
world. as the world is large and varie-
/ gated place. but it can scarcely be said
that they are typical. The spectator =
interest ~ Gabrielle Jaunelot Is not there
+ fore a. k,cr as IL might otherwise be II
. Gaoricllts were met with every day. II
4 ~ only fair 10 recall here. however. that
Americans are more insistent that people
IN plays she'll be the sort Of people they
! would like 10 meet at home and that a
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logically and with an interesting deXteri,y
aud finish
This Nj Bernstein certainly does N
The Secret 10 is very Frcnch-not IN
tho obvious sense of the amount Of time
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moaning ana "'J'''
Gabrielle, when Is suppoSed ~ "o''''' '''
audience 10 SoI' "I d"'' 'o''"'' ~
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talk that had gone before IL SCENE" 'as'
evening, lamentauon rathef lohs drh"i'
out
When Ih' secret was III ''"''u =,
French at the bouHes-i al 'iS''lS '"''
Mhrch il was ""'u '''"'
lucky little theatre had 'eastu u "
'bouifc' 10 become f"iIs''H' i"c '''"''
were near specimens WI"
Bernstein's COURAGE III u"''I'e " NAN : "
womans mcahhtsS 'n' "
play. Th'y 'ou'" nov Sa' ''''ue" .,,,
originality III co''io'''''h .,,,,,,
psycholoElcal dHd'l '''' -.
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