New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-01

mine on his literary 5y-rrcdrct-
If such thing had been suggested me meat
rical producer would have antedated the song OF
Tommy Atkins and replied ITS long way 10
Mddlesborough.'
Mr. Davis was hazy the other day about only
one thing He remembered coming from .he
mines straight TO New York. but he could not De
positive whether he had 81 or s. so in his pocket
when he arrived.
He was born in Bangor. Me. and therefore be-
lievcd that if it had been 81 DC the 80 cents
would nave made an indelible impression up'a
him. Also. the money would have lasted longer
lie did not know anybody. The money was soon
all gone. lie had the kind of time that large
healthy man usually has in big town full o.
food on which several middIemen mus make
profit if they would live. Middlemen were no'
liked IN the early Dos, either.
A. NJ Palmer saw merit in a play Mr. DAVIS
had written, and Mr.. Davis at his Suggestion
joined Nine. Janauscheks company where ne
played twelve parts for SIS week, or 81 %
part every thing Mr. Davis has done all his NE
being on a wholesale basis and that winter aS
a result, he wrote another play possessing more
merit
1t was problem" play.
Bat let US say more about IT, This is story
of success. He couldn't find a producer
lie had never meodramd. 4 manager
gave him a ticket TO one lie was twenty-five
years old when this happened, in 1895.
lie has since that time been compelled because
there was no way to increase the number o.
weeks in the year, to use six different names
when writing melodrama Eighteen years maze
passed since that manager asked Mr. DAVIS
whether he could write a melodrama' ana "''
Davis said he didn't know because he had never
tried
Sometimes he has used the name Of the sten0s'
rapher who Transcribed the play, sometimes 'ns
name Of the Office boy who told callers that W.
Davis could not be disturbed for an hour while
he wrote one.
Pittsburgh critic compHmented the pay
VIII Mr.. Davis had put the name Of me o".'
scrubwoman, pointing out how much oet'er :,
technique this playwright had proved her's"
than owen Davis, whom the critic dldn '"'
did lke-as you care to look at H. -
He has written about $50 plays most OF the"
melodramas of his Nellie. the Beautiful CloaN
Model" variety. At one time seventeen o.
plays were produced in season lasuhs
weeks. He has turned them out under eo"''~
TO deliver one play month.
Ana now ne mas landed on btoauN"9 49,
Mr.. Davis deyoutly hopes will be his last me,V.
dramatic Offering. The cast, headed oy w.
Mason is said to be the highest priced one 60
brought together for the purpose Of developer
the meodramatic thrill. -.
One night last week the audience Missed =,
orchestra between the second and third Se'''
because the music poor. but for decay
il thought the going up of the curtain
Genial, quiet spoken, utterly lacking ID 80
with long cherished dream TO reproduce ."
stage a picture from real life that VIII V a..
cepted by the theatregoing public and the -,
as worth while, Mr. Davis is waiting a. 90"
as he can the production at an early date o.
play which will show him in an entifeN
light to the world.
Can he do il?
He can if it is impossible