The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-28
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a large scale. the whole thing is not
| impressive. The vaudeville features
| that fill out the bill are made up of
old material and the big tank is used
| for spectacular effect, but the whole
| thing is done in what seems a cheap
way after the lavish extravaganza to
which we are accustomed in the Hip
podrome. The new policy of the house
may possibly attract very cheap pub
lie, but II does not seem likely that
this form of entertainment can sur
vivc long In big house whose reputa-
tion has been achieved by doing the
very biggest things in the most lavish
style possible.
Play For Riddles.
Alice in Wonderland" has come to
the Booth after successful exhibition
in other cities. This stage version is
: made by Alice GerstenberC and con-
veys to the theater in most faithful
! fashion the quaint child fanCies made
world famous by Lewis Carroll. who
in fact was a Cambridge professor of
abstruse mathematics. a favorite of
Queen Victoria and whose real name
was Charles LutwidEe Dodgson. Taken
generally as humorous works, his
Alice in Wonderland" and Alice
, Through the Looking Glass" were
really remarkable studies in child psy-
choloGy, which have been approached
only by the similar accomplishment
shown in that fascinating play The
Poor Little Rich Girl"
Lovers of the Carroll classics may,
perhaps. be disappointed in this trans
| fer of their favorite works to the
4 stage because many of tn" delightful
| absurdities of the boo. ave to be
omitted entirely or los the hurry
of theatrical action. /; .cmarkabIe
though how much OF ,.., Eumor has
| been preserved and how. even uncon-
sciously to themselves, the specta-
| tors gain a sympathetic interest for
the little heroine in the confusion and
predicamentS of her dream fancies
| This is largely due to the unaffected
acting of the part or Alice by Vivian
! Tobin. All the members of the COM
| pany seem TO have caught the spirit
of the books and the performance pleases
the Erown-ups who have joyed in the
fancies OF 60 roll and ought to an
swer in a rational and entirely salts
| factory way the often propounded
question, TO what play may We safe
ly take our Children"
Chatter.
Tho two big theatrical interests
counter on each other with rival all
star" resurrcctions of old plays, both
TO be produced in the same week ono
gives us "Trilby' and the other "A
Celebrated Case"
Sir James NJ. Barrie and Gaby Des-
lys seem n strange combination 1t
occurs with last weeks production in
London of the hurlesque Rosy Ran
ture. the Pride of the Beauty Chorus"
by the author Of Peter Pan and The
Little Minister" with Ciaby Deslys in
I'll" title part
As Yet we have had no announce
mCnt of the first performance under
1F ia III
who were to establish a theatrical or
EaniZation to produce Irish plays as A
protest against the representation of
IN" Irish people made under Lady
GreGory's tour of the Abbey Players
from Dublin, giving The Playboy of
the Western world" and other pieces
IN It's repertorS. The first produce
have been romantic Irish opera en-
titled "Glendalough."
In London's dearth Of native product
owing 20 the absence of most of her
playwriGhts on war duty, our Ameri-
can success Seven Days" was given
"A production. but failed 20 appeal TO
British understanding.
The run OF moving picture in New
York seems to depend upon its catch.
ing something more than the regular
moving picture crowd. While the ordi-
nary houses have 10 change their pro-
grams weekly and daily The Birth
OF Nation" playing at regular the
alter prices twice a day including Sun
days; The Juggernaut," the big rail-
road smash-up film at the Vitagraph
and Sir Douglas Mawson's antarctic
pictures at Weber's are enjoying pro-
longed runs with the patronage com
ing largely from persons who rarely
go to the moving picture shows
Mr.. Montague Glass is ont in a
statement absolutely denying the
claims made for Mr.. Charles Klein
that the latter suggested the writing
of the Potash and Perlmutter" stories
which were the basis of the success
ful play of that name. Mr.. Glass saws
that the stories were written several
years before he ever knew Mr.. Klein.
All this does not seem to interfere
with the collaboration Of the two au-
thors in n new play TO be called Pot
ash and Perlmutter in Society," I
II marks curious shift of condi-
tons when two American authors find
II possible to make a successful first
production of PLAY In London in (
stead of In America. This has Just
happened in the case or He Dicn't
Want To Do It." farcIal comedy by !
Messrs. George Broadhurst and Walter |
Hackett. The change is further en-
phasized by the fact that the partic- /
ularly American farcial comedy, "Ex-
cuse Me" by Mr.. Rupert Hughes, mas
strongly caught the fancy of the Lon
don public.
From present appearances the pro- !
ducing managers seem to have regain
ed a little courage and Easter week
promises n continuous round OF new
productions in all lines of theatrical !
endeavor. Even the Princess is coming
IN -,,I
the chorus girls all having Individual
roles after the manner OF The Only
Girl"