New-York tribune., 1915-02-22
THE new IDEA
IN STAGECRAFT
II, Granville Barker and
His CollaboratOrS at
WallaCk'S.
THEIR PRODUCTIONS
AS WORKS OF ART
hssien and Color in "A Mid
>ammer Nights Dream
and Other Plays.
R, ROYAL CORTISSOZ.

IN By kOl Al NoKi ISSUE.
y .-,..-...- recently received from
..... ,.-lo, 90 .o,r.d,r his
a' r,.-,--,. -.
productions "8.iaoA .'''" PIC
..-.s' ro.r' 90 view raises az the out
.-.--o...rc -olrt In criticism.
60. -. g.. ..u.r.,t,. ~ AZ.
10 "o'N '-'
,.ssed a.'or q preliminary separation
G. JOS various constituents i"No s.
nary vs'er 'r.' compartments. l.
,rcc. were nccc'd .' is SGpPileo IN Ih'N
rery instance. mere IS an eNnioinon
O.. the Lh-cl '5.eTE TOT me oehV"'
CT The Arts u." O.. hIs'4,G -. OF lre
ffs.C.s made Pr. Nslmau .thtneo"'
Albert Eo.ner,.o.r ana honei r: Jones
N- various plays 20 MI. parker rep
tr.r-r Tho lraW.1ES. as draw ngs,
t.-r . rr.,... .-'tycst. BJt really TO
rr-.t... Oh, r..Ur that may be in
= +tn one mus. ... carried out on the
! sage .ar ideas they indicate and
tsre -.r u.s. reckon with thc play
,-f s. that .. rn.cs. The picture
sr. n. A.. regarded .a dry light, de-
facl,. from the Fundamental. purpose
i ,i the dramat.st That klnd o. picture
kAcss 90 be done on canvas or on
81 Tho .cs' Of 're producer lies in
s ar .'r +o strike 3 perfect balance
ss'vcrr two issues that arc, indeed,
-,er5rrcr.er'.
Ho mus. tcTl..o the spectator with
,,s picture. as = picture. and yet pre-
terrc .ho dramatic Illusion. all life and
,.~ospnerc. which is what the specta-
.o- is there for. D, is an old ideal.
vt,rb even visited. we dare say, the
.rso,rs,.o~s a. those earlier actors in
r-errc and England whose resources.
I, tho r,rtor.aI sense. were so psthet-
,.,Uy Slim And save for Wagner
rhtsa stage conventions included
rvsic or a new significance. the "p.on-
ssrs" In this field have no. been as in
rep'.ye a. it ,s now the fashion 20 con
oder -hcm There is. no doubt. a gulf
between the designs OF men like Cor
don Craig. Bakst and the other new
types, and the sort Of thing that salts
Sto T.sygocrs ten years ago. but II
does not necessarily imply that tne
rev men nave created new tneatrlcaI
dom. They are dlherent' 20 De sure.
sB1t are they right! have they got al
f'he root or the matter? II ls a large
question, but we get a nttie lght on
{ s. Nallacks. s.
. The production OF the niue trencn
piece. The Man Who Married DUMP
Wife for which Mr.. Jones MADE the
,<'s'Fns, rs perfect. mere the ldea OF
l. pictorial treatment OF stage thlngS
sight easily enough be regSrdso aS
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