The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-09
LOPOKOVA STARS
IN ONE ACT PLAY
Washington Square Folk Give
Four Comedies at Band
box Theatre.
"~OvERTONES" A NOVELTY

The group Of ambitious and aesthetic
young folk who banded themselves to-
gethcr under the name OF the Washing
ton Square Players and started out last
season to produce plays for the purpose
Of "stimulatins"--to quote themsclves--
a developing new and artistic meth
DDS OF acting, producing and writing for
tho American stage" last night demon
strated again that they could do some
thing much more Of moment than slim
ulating the stage.
Briefly the Washington Square Play
ers again brought forth Miss Lydia
lopokova to tho fo%otlights to be looked
ut and listened to. And looking at Miss
l.opokova and listening to her newly
made In America pronunciation Is beau
tifully stimulating to tn. American audi
cnce. which needs stimulation moro than
the stage and Is more grateful too.
"Whims.' by Alfred de Musset. and
translated by Ralph Roeder, was the one
act play In which Miss Lopokova wa
seen last night at tho Bandbox Theatre
In East Fifty-sevcnth ST Get. and In addi-
ton to 'Whims' which was tho last
piaylet on tho bill, the Washington
square Players presented for the first
time in America three other compare
tive comedies" as the programme had
II.
These we're LITERATURE" an Austrian
sketch by Arthur Schnitzlcr and trans
lated by Elsie Plaut "O%vcrtones.' Amer
lean, by Alice Gcrstciber,, "A Chicago
playwright ut. who did an ".iliee in Won
dcrland'' version seen here last season :.
The Honorable Lover" translated from
tho Italian of Roberto Bracco by Ralph
Roeler, and finally de Musse''s
"Nhims.' The Washington Square en-
thusiasts. owing 70 the very nature Of
their efforts. always run the risk of be-
ing accused OF lotliiesS AS to the brew.
but II the new dill ut the BaudboN last
night Is characteristic of what they in
tend to attempt during the COMING season
,h~estregoers need not avoid the Handbook
through fear Of being cast mo that
solemn gloom with which Broadway
associates the output Of the pale high
brow.
There were laughs aplenty throughout
tho entire bill. In fact. comparative
farce" would have been nearer the truth
than comparative comedy on tn" pro-
gramme. Literature" the opening play.
Is an echo of another one act effort by
Schnitzler. called The Literary Sense"
which Miss katherine Grey played N
the Madison square Theatre about "a
decade ago. literature" Is threaded
with lines smart enough To arouse hearty
laughter, and II was capubly acted by
Miss Helen Wesley. Miss Jean TRANCE.
Robert Strange and Frank Conroy.
Tn American "Overtones'' which fol-
lows might hay" been called. 20 steal Il
.it,r from the ,omic draughtsmau III
We Said What We Think" Margaret,
particularly we'll lone by Miss Grace
Griswold. told Harriet ,Miss Agnes Nc
carthy) what she wanted Hurrict to
hear, and vice versa. but lust back OF
each Of The ladies all tho time we're
their real selves. played by the Misses
Josephine \. Meyer ancd Noel IIaddon.
who smoke right out in meeting what
the ladies thought.
Er,tcco and his translator had made
his "~iiOuurabie Lover" seem honorable,
even II lie was amusingly somewhat .ss-
honorable, AS presented by Frank Con-
| roy. Assisting the d~!shonurible lover al
least 20 appear honorable We're tho
Misses Florence EGlright and Josephine
4. Meyer and Edward J. Bllautinc and
James Ter,ell.
Alfred dc MusSct's Wins" in which
Miss Wesley, Waiter Frank and
Ralph Eoedcr assisted Miss ~Lopoko>a.
caused an irrcver.nt person close 10
THE SvN man to remark that AK
should have got Georgia coltan 10 pull
this Nttle pe,e o' his together to get
moro action Nevertheless "NhimS'
was charmiugly produced. Ecsldcs
Miss IIopokova was on tho stage nost
81 the time. which always IS reason
enough for any production.