New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-12
AT the Sign of the Triangle


What sort of combination is that?" as ed
a man who read the Triang lie announcement last
week lust look at this, he continued. frank
Keenan,, Eddie Foy, Lillian Gish, Rozsika Dolly
Wilfred Lucas in another bill; Billie burke bruce
MacRae, Helen Ware Tully Marshall, Joe Web
er, Lew Fields in a third entertainment, and so
on What are thew trying to do2 Mix up the
traqedians and the comedians the buftoons and
the farceurs the light sentimental and the hlstor-
icalpastoral, the twinkletoes Of musical comedy
and the reverie Of the thinker?
No. the TRIANGLE FILM CORPORA
TON for the opening of its new policy at the
Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, beginning
Thursday evening, September Z3rd IS not trying
to tumble the talents of it's many stars nor the
diverse plavs which it will present
Let us illustrate what is being done by a
glance at stage history:
In the golden days, when Kemble and kean'
Macready and Mathews illumlned the stage pa
irons repaired to Covent Garden or Drury Lane
earlv in the evening" The bill was introduced by
= crrta;n raiser. There followed at about $50
P. Nj. the piece de resistance Of the evenlng-an
elaborate drama, some masterpiece OF ohake-
sneare or Sheridan or Knowles. Then a merry
farce or light afterpiece closed the varied enter
tainment of the evening.
Nobody thought the bill too long because every one
WAS nvieoed to see as much little of it as he wanted
80 The foDs in their sedan chairs came from White or
Almack's to while away couple OF hours looking at I'd
mund Kean as Shylock the Moor Mlady lett the dance
or the drawing room appear clock and laugh at
the farce.
Diverse forms of art do not interfere with each other
,vben shown separately and rudey commnged IN any
one NAV The experienced theatregoer loves them ALL IN
the Golden DAYS all offered to everybody Practcay
nightly Among the many misortunes ncioentai 10 inc
cline of stage art this falling away from OLD ideals Ohe
NAV one meter at sing gle theatre has become the rule
TRIANGLE PLAYS will change all that In single
evening patrons will be able to see:
A matinee favorte like Dustin Farnum in great love
NAV (this time an Alaskan story entitled Inc iron
Strain
The quaint and satiric comedian RAYMOND Hitchcock
- an unroarous farce My Valet (ike those famous
things that Charles Mathews did, supported by MABEL
Normand Mack Sennett and Fred Mace
DOUGLAS Fairbanks most energetic OF youthful heroes
in The amb wonderful adventure story OF the oouth-
west and of Mexico.
Each of the three entertainments complete IN ltsei
each in a different key the three harmonzng win each
other so that gay succeeds grave and laughter follows
And 50 with the combinations of the later weeks
pL Dollv will dance her way into the hearts or admir-
rs in Bohemian play the night that at another nDu
Fank Keenan, will reveal the strong emotionaism OF me
Co,d or that Eddie Foy will contribute his innumerabe
apes to the exploiting of "A Favorite Fool
Still again. Billie Burke is to shine in Scottish comedy
IN an evening when Tuly Marshall will also be seen IN
great crook DRAMA and later Weber and Fields some OF
ber characteristic antics will be fine to have the roman
tCsm Of Orrn Johnson in "DArtagnan foil to the
bumors Of De Wolf Hopper MIR Pickwick the tragic
mastery of Mae Marsh off the clever detective cunning
Of Iohn Emerson or the intrigue OF Frank Campeau'
The stage should mirror life. For the first time IN
recent stage history seems to be reverng to Its function
of portrayng life in the large
And it is the motion picture art the screen arr which
.L;-;o tb;e Griffith Sennett and lnce returning
TO one of the finest dramatic fashions OF the word-the
fashion of giving Interpretation OF not one but many
sides Of life in single evening.