The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05

A1J M tE - ~ I7|G or
THE first gun Of the theatre season
will be fred tomorrow night at
Atlantic City when A. II Woods
produces new play. HE Comes
Tn Smiling" Douglas Fairbanks is the
star Of the play. which is from the Hun
garian by Byron OnGley and Emil Nitray.
The piece is described "a a motor comedy
in four cylinders which ia taking some
thing for granted after all. There may
not be enough motor power in 1t TO last
a week Mr. Woods will bring the play
to New Yorl, in tho near future.
Managers are wondering now what is
10 be the success Of the coming year
'What will be the Potash and Perlmutter.
the Within the Law" they are fond Of
asking one another nowadays One
American play which has been acted all
winter in Boston has been generally ac-
cepted as the answer 70 this question in
one case OF the others there is less GER
tainty The infallible George Cohan
makes one hopeful that In The Miracle
Man he may do something equal TO
Seven Keys 10 Baldpate," although il
ia only Mr. Cohan's habit of success that
makes one optimistic on the subject. In
any less expert hands this novel would
not seem promising material.
There Is one certain thing, however
about the successes of the coming winter.
They are TO come from our native authors
and not from Europe There is no great
sensation in any Of the theatres Of
London. Paris or Berlin. Reinhardt 8
Shake peariin revivals have been the
sensation Of the year in Berlin. while
second 10 that was Bernard Shaw's -Pyg-
malion' That we shall have here later
with Mrs Campbell, and il seems possible
to estimate with some certainty the ex-
tent % which IL will be praised here
At all events. whatever the play ia and
whoever the fortunate manager may be
who gets it. the place of its origin ia going
TO be the United States Of America.
The Strand Theatre seems different
from all the other regular playhouses
in which moving pictures are shown.
In most Of the theatres the audiences
are so small that the mere layman won
ders Why the management takes the
trouble 70 offer entertainment which
makes such slight appeal to the public
4 handful of spectators sitting in the
half lit gloom stare In drowsy apathy
At the films revealed tn them. This il
sufficiently depressing in itself to deprive
the spectators Of the right state of mind
IN which to enjoy moving pictures of any
Kind
The scenes OF 'Germania' revealed on
the films last week were interesting as the
revelation Of the first of the series OF OPP
eras which the Casa Ricordi will put
on The pictures were remarkable wher
the episodes of the Battle of Leipsic
we're reached, the interiors we're moi
equally good and those in which Ma
roleon was displayed seemed especially
poor. Hut the battle views were wonder
'ul NJ course H. would have been o.
lnestimable advantage had the specta
tors had some knowledge OF the why
and wherefore OF what they were wit
Messing Something that might have col
Iated the romance Of Rico and Lore anC
Vorsm and shown it's relation to tn
fortunes 81 the great Napoleon would
have added TO the views spirit which
thew altogether lacked. But the moving
lN~'"' hiit lFetNi l'lN Htfui-Nl W "
that drama IN their display OF their pic
lures is Of no importance.
The manner Of exhibiting Aims Mt tn
STRAND Theatre Is within itself an art
that none OF the other moving picture
playhouses seems TO have mastered, |
indeed they are not indifferent to il. Las
week there were the rumbles OF war whel
The battle Of Leipsio ragged before tn,
eyes and cannon doomed in their ear
as the spectators saw the smoke OF pow
Ger on the films. The German nationa
airs on which Baron Franchetti drew 70
hls score TO the opera of "Germania' wer
sung during the scenes in the Tugend
bund and at other times in the progress
~ the story, There ia always an or
chestrl or an organ accompaniment T.
the pictures. The Strand Theatre /,
indeed different from those that invit
the public into their gloomy spaces.
Nothing strikes the audiences un
familiar with vaudeville so strongly a.
the racket which always prevails at on
al these performances. There is an un
usual clatter from the beginning OF tn
Performance until the end The mus
Is foTissimo, the actors shout at tn
lop OF their lungs whether they are speak
Ing or singing, and the din Ia incessant
Whether or not this II regarded as a
attractive element OF the performance
y Ia not po-sibl" IN say Rrt il ia at al
events never missing
The growth Of the so-called cabaret
ut hotels and restaurants has ha
The effect Of bringing to the vaudevill
stage performers who are somewha