Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-08
FLASHES FROM wSTARS"

FLASHES FROM STARS"
Sir James NJ Barrie, the English novelist
and playwright, will spend month in Amer
tea, and will visit many cities. This is not, as
has been stated, Sir James first visit to Amer
lea, but his second He first came to America
in 1896. One night in September Of that year
he went to the Empire Theatre where Maude
Adams was acting Rosemary" with John
Drew. The next morning he visited Charles
Frohman, to whom he said:
"If you will let me have Miss Adams serv-
ices 1 will write play for her within year"
And he wrote THE Little Minister"
LAS to the war" said Barrie, II believe
America as a whole feels what England feels
that this is necessary war against militar-
ism. Every country has been armng, and
loaded guns always go off sooner or later. The
issue involved is clear-cut as the cause
which brought it about-whether soldiers or
citzens are to rule Europe.
But there is one distinction that should be
made in stating the causes for war; namely,
that the Kaiser is entirely to blame. This is
less than fair. The Kaiser was a young man
in 1870, when the war spirit seized Germany.
The Kaiser is the product not the cause of
Germany's militarstlc system. There can be
no peace, and end to the present war, un-
less one side is thoroughly beaten"
A. H. Woods has put Willard Macks play,
"Kick In" into rehearsal with cast that in
cludes John Barrymore, Jane Grey, Forrest
Winant. Annie Mack Berlein and Elita Proctor
Otis Marjorie Rambeau. in private life Mrs.
Mack. was to have played the leading femi-
nine role, but she has given it up and has been
daJ b,yM CSreNy ia at
ing the play
Frank Wilstach was for many years the schol-
arly and sapent advance agent for Sothern and
Marlowe Mr.. Wistach is now press agent for
"The Folles of 1914" The advantages of her
aiding such show are humorously described by
Mr. wilstach:
II rejoice that I have escaped from the thral-
dom of Shakespeare; that I carrying
the coors for The Passing Show of 1914 With
a Bard of Avon troupe there no chance for
language. and one had to be as serious as
taxes. solemn a King five-franc piece.
or stupid as a hound chasing an iron deer Now.
all is unrestrained.
when discussing Shakespeare you can't very
well refer to him the blthesome, bubbling
bard, the whrling wizard of words but
ah! how easy and how nice it is when you have
cal language is grand. Richard LaGaliene talks
a whole lot about beautiful words but give
me alterations and adjectlves and jaw-break-
ers.
"If one cannot have the use of all the figures
of speech. how can one achieve the fltdity and
hexibllity OF expression that will excite atten-
ton, pique interest and accelerate curiosityP
Let me write the adjectives in advance and
don't care who pens the criticisms.
Language without adtectives would be like
a soup house without soup rivers without fish.
a forest without trees, or the air without birds
Life without adjectives. trees. birds and soup
would be unbearable"
1t is said that many actors are not good
Judges of what they can do, Nat Goodwin,
one Of Americas most brilliant comedians,
for instance. to play shylock. And
after he had played it he met a friend.
did you see me shylock the other even
ng?" asked Mr.. Goodwin.
Il there" the friend replied. but I /
couldn't you Shyock."
So it is. The comedian yearns for tragedy. !
The tragedian believes he would win fame
md fortune a comedian.
Madame Nazimova. who returned to this
country last week TO begin rehearsals in a plav
written by b. Macdonald Hastings. had much
o say about the war and its results in a sort
II renaissance OF art.
"out of this great strife a new order OF
hlngs Is to coma" she declared There will
20 new forms of government and the GREATEST
reedom of thought. Since progress was nos
ibls under the old system, think Of the prog
ess that will be possible under the new.