New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-26

Whatever It's faults, the institution
n marriage works well enough to de-
serve Justice at the hands OF the play
WRIGHT II does not get ii. On the
stage Of France marriage is expressed
in terms Of farce by slamming DOORS OF
in terms Of serious drama by scene
in which a woman is dragged into
bedroom. Yet, at that, it fares much
worse than in England. 1t takes Sir
Henry Arthur Jones TO write those
scenes in which the old friend Of the
family sweeps away marital unhappi-
ness By advising the husband TO take
her out and buy her a good dinner
You may have whatever moment OF
"Peter Pan" you like, but for us the
finest passage in the play occurs in the
fourth act, on board the pirate ship.
II is that moment when Wendy ex-
claims to Michael Nicholas Darling,
who is on the point of dispatching
nitrate. isn't this terrible?" and the
smallest Of the Darlings replies, as ne
wines the blood from his cutlass' i
like it. like it very much"
There is certainly more than one way
10 play any gwen character. AT the
least. a part may be played effectively
i'm two distinct manners, and in some
cases there might be as many as Ten
adequate interpretations. we nave
specifically in mind the performance OIL
II. P. Carter as Captain Hook IN refer
pan We are told that the Hook OF
Ernest Lawford was something entltely
different. but. for all Of that, the per-
formsnce Of Carter is a delightful one.
IN Barrie said in his instructions to
the actors in Peter Pam: The actors
in fairy play should feel that II was
written by a child in all earnestness'
and that they are children playing It IN
the same spirit -
Possibly Mr. Barrie meant that. If
so Carter has had the courage 70 as
regard the instruction. his HOOK IS
consciously a burlesque. Even child,
we think. would realize that the Dark
Of this pirate was ever so much worse
+bar his bite. 1t is a decidedly anus
inc performance. Ernest Lawtord, we
understand, was quite sinister as HOOK
We don't think we should Ike TINS
quite so we'll and We are almost certain
that children would not have Hook TOO
terrible. IL would be no tun TO see
such a figure IN your dreams at night
if Won could not feel that down at
heart he was a more or less honest
fellow.
The stage In recent years has almost
abandoned plays about newspapers.
Fortunately the movies have taken up
the work Of letting the great public
know the life that is lived by journal
lists. newspapermen and society editors.
The latest newspaper film is happily
named "The Power Of Publicity The
sketch Of its plot which has been sent
60 us is as follows:
EDNA Morris, the daughter Of a
banker. Is left penniless when her
father dies from the shock upon learn
ing that his cashier has decamped with
the banks funds She secures q posi-
ton as assistant 20 Nelma Tolliver, edi-
tor Of the woman's page on the News,
and whose brother is owner and editor
of the paper One night Edna, dressed
as boy, hides IN a room and over
hears the conversation Of some polit-
ieal crooks. She is discovered, but
manages 20 escape with her scoop
Toliver. the editor, admires her cour-
age and asks her 70 become his boss
Tor life"
10 see. strange 20 US that such a
commonplace little story should be
made into q play. Things like that hap
pen in our Office almost every day.
A good title means ever so much. II
was only the other day that man
fairly ran into the lobby OF the Thirty
ninth Street Theatre and, waving $40
BIN 40 the box Office man, exclaimed,
"Give me FIVE tickets for the 'Unfas-
tened Woman"
According % theatrical geometry
when the third side Of the triangle is
removed. there remain two parallel
lines which never meet.