New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04
Scotch Theatre i'm New York?
Ave. Says Duncan N1acd0ugall

And in reply to a question as TO why. ...o.,
70 his viewpoint, the drama was turtle, h.tsNt.
thar other arts and industries, Mr. NaeSov..s
said:
81 will tell you why the artists Of the tb.,,..
are the last of the artists 70 come up 70 A..
Ever considered that their implements ara q.
most expensive Of all? And include all III. !,
penses OF all the other artists put together,
"The actor-producer needs an expensive hail.
ing: must scour the world for the real pav. 1.
ready 70: a hungry company Of players; tow ao,.
panters and material; robers-sometimes sDsll.,
robbers and material; a clerical and mechanics
staff.
"Most other artists can equip themselves for IA
and have something portable to show.
"The actcr-pro6ucer with working rep.,.,,
scheme needs $4,000 and to be a born econonis
TO boot. Tyler spent $4,000 on one play ALA.
The Garden Of Paradise and the angel with a.
flaming sword turned him out with barely a 5
leaf. Let Tyler take a leaf out Of the book
Stanislawsky, the actor-manager Of Moscow.
think I have made clear what we want On O,
technical side.
1--WE will produce plays by Scottish and ses.
tish-American dramatists.
I'VE will produce plays By American or 9th.
dramatists on the Scottish people In word
we will specialize on the Scottish and Scottish
american play.
at is also the intention OF the Scottish Th.s,r.
Of America to specialize on the American FOLK
play. as we'll as on the Scottish folk play
$50 far, certain folk groups in America h,v.
only been caricatured in the American th.str.
Yet America is the big foster-nother Of all Ii.
folk of all the nations, and these folk cry aloud
for sympathetic treatment in the theatre. Il i,
m I the proverbal Scot abroad 70 draw then
The company will be mainly, if not altogether
Scottish or Scottish American out We are opes
to produce all other plays from our own pOin. q
view.
"As to subjects, we are as broad and as round
as the globe We expect our dramatsts to tsu
down the fourth wall and lift the lid OF all Il,
dramatic corners of human life and allow %.s
thing more than a peep inside: 70 take the iii,
stenographers in the city, the petty CLERKS, L,
man of affairs, the man with the hoe and the rss
axe, the laborers everywhere the man with idssi
the man without ideals, and the man who trisa
serve God and mammon at one time; show Us he
crooks in Jail and the crooks in Wall Street; Ii,
factories the shops, the exchanges, the streets
the mines; the ins-and-outs Of senates and COZ
crosses and courts; the presidents, the kings, ii,
queens, the princes, the prncesses, the officials
high and low; the drama of the white, the black
the red and the yellow houses.
"People want the dramatic inside Of things 10
day, to the very letter, well to the spirit
them. Roughly, that is the new technique We
want to know, dramatically, through the theatre
what we cannot know so well through any Othsl
form. And, in the end it is the simplest, plsnst
nearest, everyday, homely things that men an:
women like best. In art, n life. Like children
again. The thrills are there. | sometimes thin
that they are there only"
Asked the minimum amount of capital require.
Mr.. Macdougall said $4,000. A number Of SEQ.
tish-Amercan business and professional men sn
interested, and they are hopeful of making up d,
amount soon.
81 am firmly convinced" added Mr.. MacdOugal
chat the need of these days is the cheap theatre
And the intimate theatre. By intimate theatre
do not mean a small theatre, but friendla
theatre Where the artists work for the crowd
and with the crowd; not at them. Il should sea-
about twelve hundred persons. No seat IN To
house should be more than so cents Befon
many months these new theatres will exist a.
over America.
81 look to the East Side Of New York-to III
quick witted, broad minded jew. wink IS al
good as a nod. The Jew lately created the i0h
drama of the German cities. | take of my hat "
him here.
"Also"-and Mr.. Macdougal lapsed into ne
Scottish dialect for the first time since his I'M"
ton of the minister-"to my ain strenuous oritna
Scot-the intellectual, perferyid, classic Scot
1t was time to part. The writer tried TO on''
his thanks and best wishes in Scotch, and islea
"Guid efternoon," said Mr. Macdougall in ds
ect that is born. not made, land wi a. the sD'
luck in the wurrld!"