New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-15
|NCUBAT|NC A PLAY
American PIaygoers Hatch
Composite Dramatic Egg.
MEET AT HOTEL AST0R
Result of Cola boration Will Be
Staged in Public When
Fully Pledged.

The American playgoers in harmonious
cola boration laid and hatched a compo-
site dramatic egg last night at the Hotel
Aston When the result is fully fedgef
a $ a play it will be produced before the
public When the playgoers had assem-
bled and their minds had been soothed by
music the business Of the evening was
begun. Several suggestions were offered
that did not evoke much response before
Frank Ferguson. playwright. offered
crisis that was discussed with consid-
cradle ardor.
Mrs James Madison Bass. president OF
the society. introduced Luther b. An
thony. editor of The Dramatist" and
chairman of the playwriting committee.
as chairman. who propounded the rules
a. follows. Select crisis; devise plot;
focus the fundamental emotion involved.
and empha size the moral contained in the
plot. Mr. Anthony explained that play
was an island of Incidents surrounded on
all sides by a notion of its own. The in
cidents. he said. must involve funda-
mental emotion OF mankind.
This is tremendous task for our
incubator, and I hope We have no cold
storage eggs" said Mr. Anthony "WiIl
somebody think of crisis
At the outset the proposition was laid
down that the realistic school is the only
permanent school, because it appeals to
the emotions. which is the only factor
i'm which We are all alike When several
eggs that We're preferred had come under
suspicion. Mr. Ferguson took the floor
and launched his crisis in these terms:
"A woman is married to a society man
who has become gambler Their
daughter is brought home from a con-
vent critically IN The mother cannot
account for her condition until her hus-
band tells her that he visited the girl at
the convent and told her that she must
marry certain roue to save him from
going 10 jail as q forger The mother
says. no. You have ruined my life. and
! have done everything so far TO keep up
appearances. but YOU shall not ruin the
life OF our daughter "
The company was then requested to put
itself into an appropriate Subconscious
state and dream the solution but little
delay was required before a female voice
piped up:
"Scnd the husband to Jail 90
I'VE shall have 10 fix this situation up
by arousng sympathy for the man." an
Swcrcd q deep bass voice. "Of course, If
he really is q worthless wretch he should
go to Jail"
y suggest that the mother should really
boz n love with the drinking husband
began another man
40. no. ho doesn't drink. be- CANDLES"
put In another
II ann trying 10 give YOU tn' modern
woman" protested Mr Ferguson "anG
he Is giving us the old tag who says: on.
love husband. He has done wrong. but
be brings home the milk bottle. and III
forgive him lie is the drtiest cad on
the face Of the earth. How can she for
! give him. Now what Is she going 10 do?
\ woman: Let her take that girl
! abroad"
YES. but you've got to deal with the
man. she loved him once. He must have
been decent when she married him. They
have lived together seventeen or eighteen
years They have a daughter nineteen
wears old.
This play is not exciting enough for
an American audience, said new man
collaboration. The woman should love the
rou@ and clope with him 10 save her
daughter
Alfred Brown finally pointed ont that
the argument vas drifting away from the
Original proposition lie said that tho
contest must not boz between the mother
and the daughter for The roua. but be-
tween the husband and wife, ana that no.
body had SO far suggested any way Of
enlistius sympathy i'm behalf of the nus
band
Amouc the coilaborators. whether they
participated actively in the discussion IT
simply lent IT coun,euance. were John DE
Wit Warner. Ben Greet, Charles Ram
kennedy Edwin Markham Rabbi Silver
man. Belle Ganski. Grace Colburn Mrs.
David Mason. Miss Marchenicl Bass.
Myra - Martin. Dr Wellington MaSsee
and Lotto Blair Parker, author Of Way
Down East