The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-25
The New Plays This Week

fatuation for a lover much her junior,
Yes. but dear fool" consolngly an.
swers the other acceptable and more
mature and candid sutton. Here lies
the significance of the title Mr.. Esmond
has given to his latest play. IT is q
comedy in three acts with its scenes laid
in rural England. a few performances
OF the piece We're given in Edinburgh.
where the manuscript was finished. just
prior 10 the date Mr.. Esmond had
chosen for bringing his London Cri-
ter'on Theatre company to America.
Eva Moore will play the dear fool.
Mr.. Esmond has the role Of Sir Egbrrt
M0ieHcM. Others in the cast are Es-
tella Despa, Marion Courtney. Con-
stance Groves and Jessannne New
comhe. The men, outside OF Mr.. Es-
mond. are Leslie Banks, Fred Grove
and Harry Ashford.
The Welsh play Change" to be seen
at the Booth Theatre Tuesday has al.
ready established itself in London as
the unique drama produced In a decade.
Joseph NJ. Weber brought the attraction
here intact from the Haymarket Thea
tire.
The play is by J. q. Francis. who won
the $500 prize offered by Lord Howard
de Walden for the best Welsh play II
wa selected from list OF manuscripts
which numbered 500. At the time OF its
production N London rumor was cur
rent that the play had been engaged for
America, but the name Of the States
producer was withheld from the press
The Welsh Players are West End
actors who happen TO be Welsh and who
gave Il performance Of the London
Stage Society of Change" at the Hay
market Theatre.
Change" is not a play Of place-it 10
primarily play Of its time. Price and
his wife. an honest. God fearing and
thrifty couple. have spent their lives in
bringing up and giving the advantages
~ an education to their three sons. The
setting Is that of "a Golfers cottage In
Glamorgan village and the story is d
simple one but powerfully told.
Change" however, while the story Of
a GOLFERS family living in a simple
Glamorgan village, is, according To the
London criticisms, one of the most pow
erful plays that have been seen for some
time. The conflict arises between the
struggle Of the old and the new. AS the
Welsh cling to the old perhaps more
tenaciously than any other people, tho
effect of progress" on home life IL an
absorbing study.
"Majolikc." "A new comedy by Leo
Walther Stein and Ludwig Heller, will
he acted at the Irving Place Theatre
on Wednesday night. 1t has been highly
successful in Germany.
The new five play bill at the Princess
Theatre will De seen on Thursday eve
ming. The management has ordered
three complete mechanical and scenic
rchearsals for the stage director and
the working force alone to take place
at the unusual hour of midnight after
the principal rehearsals have been
hnshed-on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday. The new Princess pro-
gramme will he of unusual diversity
and interest. Lawrence Rising's scenic,
observation car mclodramatic farce 1T
Can BE Done" will have a parallel
for unusualness in a play II exactly
opposite nature, THE Fountain" an
exotic Of Paris life by G. NJ 5. Nickel
Ian, William A. Brady han procured
from London an exceptionally interest
ing comedy by the late Stanley Hough-
ton. 1t is entitled "Phipps," From the
Grand Guignol comes a rollicking mod
ern French comedy, THE Neglected
Lady" The necessary Princess Punch"
IL provided by a dramatic thriller Of
great power. May Buckley is con-
spicuous among the newcomers to the
Princess players, and Willcttc Kcrshaw
returns to the east after two months
absence. The new productions are be-
ing made solely under the direction Of
Holbrook Blinn, who will play several
parts.