The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-17
OJINNH 8

RI the simplest form Of the NOV
ing picture play Is blessed
with a plot? There must be some
story ar the interest Of the spec
tator who sees hut does not hear would
b. altogether gone within a short
iime-so o in fact. as he discovered
that there was no connecting thread Of
narrative. Yet the story as an in
;'.rnl part Of the play Of the day
t'en.s TO be OF no Importance to the
Gramatist. on the other hand. play
Nrigh,s seem contemptuous OF it.
George Broadhurst in What Money
Cannot Buy" at least showed his
customary respect for the fiction Of
the play at the F'orty-eighth Street
Theatre. even II it is plainly developed
with less suspense thar he expected.
But there is at all events an attempt
at story for which the public Is crate
ful, The dramatist Of the day appar-
emily thinks thai ii is beneath his dig
r'ty To trouble himself about mere
fiction, That lies dangerously mar the
nethcrland of melodrama. Yet With all
IT, poetry and its profound observa-
lion Of life. it Is doubtful IL Romeo
and Juliet would have survived for
80 many years without the engrossing
frE apA % tl, n,tliAnnas fhrntlDhnlf
the centuries in the two overs Of rival
houses.
Louis .Anspacher in The Unchas-
tened Woman" has c%ontented himself
with drawing a study in s~elfshness.
But il is doubtful IL the character OF
me heroine in the piece al the Thirty
ninth Street Theatre is equal to filling
three acts. She is momentarily inter-
estinc IN the first act. she is engross-
inc n that part Of the second act in
which she refuses Ia make a social
equa. Of her husbands mistress, and
th"rc is nothing Of importance in all
'"h' NII' N''N III Nllt llhdl dtl ShSNpA
in those last minutes in which she
manages To let the group assembled in
the mode, tenement know in just what
relation the revenue inspector stood
G.grluc 50 many years to her husband.
TIE playing Of Emily stevens in all
these separate scenes was brilliant
What a Stcphdnic de Morrirdrt she
You'd he, even II she were to look ten
years too Young for that engrossins
adventureSs.
So Mr.. Anspacher ignores fiction to
devote himself to character. There
m eht have been some value in con
trastihg the wife. of the young archi-
l"gt with the selfish woman Of fashion.
Had she been domestic and gone on
tuiiing bread and butter like Char
!ottr, there would have been a rival
hi,osether different from his execu-
I've writer Of editorials who had stirred
w enough discussion 10 affect the
Value Of Southern industrial stocks.
Judging by the luncheon scene in the
second act. home was not made happy
|"r linn. Certainly there might rave
been enough domesticity to have in
tur"i at least warm food and less
Emphasis on the influence OF her so
t~laIis'ic editorials. There would have
been greater dramatic value In such
4 contrast.
In Herman Scheffauer's play, which
Is ca ed now The Bargain there II
phe dramatic situation which takes
The piece in "A measure out Of the cate
Cor Of plays Of character only. The
youthful son in the work at the
Cenody Theatr has mlsled the Jews
Daughter, and since the son Of the
family has gotten away with about
ZOO" Of the firms money h bargain
Is opposed, To 'et the money stand
ist ust t~hc'snduci'on is the suggestion
d the Christian father.
fi'hably 1t WAS this situation which