The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-28

cities may grow of an American actress
Is shown In the case of Madge Leasing.
She Is still a beloved soubrette in the
capital OF Germany. She was n popular
performer in the old afterpieces which
used to close the variety programme at
Roster & Balls old theatre In West
Twenty-third street.
Atlantic City has Just seen Wanted
1000" with results which are said to
have been satisfactory to the public
and thus indirectly to the managers.
Its author was not named. The story
OF the farce concerns an old man who
borrows money from a bank when In q
financial panic. He takes 1t without the
knowledge Of his directors and when the
time for payment comes cannot get
enough on his securities to replace the
amount. He confides his trouble to his
devoted son, who plans suicide In order
that his father may collect a policy on
his life. The situation Is finally met by
this young mans fiancee. who suggests
that IL the old man will write a play
dealing with this state Of affairs she
will be able to sell II to q theatrical
producer she seems to know. The play
is acted up to the end OF the last but
over the money. as ne says he would
I feel like murderer II he allowed Ernest
Glendenning. who plays the part. to
kill himself for the need Of that amount
| OF money to save his father in the
play. Russ Whytal.
This Is said to be the plot OF the
new farce. But somehow IL seems i'm
possible to convince ourselves that this
| Is all OF It. There must be something
more somewhere.
As this information Is supplied by
Miss Yeager herself. It must be reliable
so far as II relates to the lady. It's
authenticity rather than any thrilling
interest in the facts 1t relates has led
to lite appearance here:
probably one of the most novel plays
that will see the light OF day on Broad
way next season will be one that is as
yet nameless and OF which Edith
Yeager. the actress. Is the author. The
demand for the original, for the new,
has caused Miss Yeager. who will be
represented by two plays in next
seasons productions. to go far afeld
| from the theatre for her subject
"The central character in Miss
Yeager's nameless play is a one armed
/
the character been drawn. however, that
his influence is felt throughout and the
plot evolves around him. This is the
first time that ono armed man has
been dramatized as the main figure of
| q whole play
1T was the authors intention at first
TO have the character appear, but as she
would not be satisfied with any of the
necessary mskeshifts that would natu-
rally follow the use of such a character
she decided not TO have the man appear.
THE other play of Miss Yeager's
which is scheduled for fall production Ii
Sugar in three acts. which William A.
Brady plans to put on. That also Is a
comedy dealing with a novel subject"
There may never have been a play
with a one armed man In It who really
was not IN II but there was once q play
with one legged man in II. It was
called Peter Stuyvesant" and ne was
the man that appeared. W. II. Crane
did appear in It. but infreauently. No.
body acted In It often anywhere. /,
was a fiivver.
London has a new "Tiindle Wakes. >
Nobody called II another DOLLS House.
VI although that was the charge mad,
against the Lancashire play. "Lov,
3 Cheats" was merely called a seconc
"Hindle Wakes" and the public let 1
go at that. Yet there Is not reall,
much resemblance between the tw,
dramas. Basil Dean wrote this lates
variation on the theme Of the youny
girl who loves too WE'LL the boy WIN
!, does not want to marry her afterwar
and the father who thinks he ought &c
2 In "Hindle Wakes" the girl refuses hin
}. and IN the new play the young bounde
2 argues out what unhappiness such
e marriage would cause all hands. He 1
e Of a much more exalted social statio
d than the woman he has wronged. I
o was Of course Miss Horniman's com
o pany that produced the play. She 1
e ever undismayed.
,. 1t is interesting to see from the Am
- herst magazine what was done wit
the money from the Clyde Fitch func
=, the account reads: 1.-THE income Of tn
a Clyde Fitch fund. which is to be use
r for the furtherance OF the study {
l. English literature and dramatic art an
ID literature. was this year devoted to tn
W remuneration Of an eminent lecture
Il William Butler Yeats. the Irish poet an
ID manager, who has done so much for III
drama Of his own land. and ranks en-
nent among the most modern writer's {
~ verse. His first lecture was given O
IN Friday, March 49, only two DAYS afts
l. the close OF Prof Taft's course. He spok
er Of the permanent and universal eemen,
e. of poetry and the drama holding a brl,
al for the natural and unsophisticated. I
L the second lecture. given on Monda,
n March 10, he spoke OF the modern tren
40 in art. especially modern lyric poetry
~ and was largely reminiscential OF II
" generation Of emotional debauchees
"a the naughty '90s whose work.
virile judgment, seems a sort OF d,
49, natured poetry. The third, given @
40 Thursday, March 49, had for subje,
az The Theatre and Beauty and spoke
~ certain modern effects in staging ar
N scenery derived from the painters sen.
in OF artistic values--a subject on which
A. being painter as we'll as poet cou
ye speak with discrimination and apprecis
or ton. All OF Mr.. Yeats's lectures wei
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