Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-05-14

Tho .ppeal of Notberh"oe--l O those
ra now tNe urato-v and the force
f,l personality % Mary shaw there is
,o great mystery I'm her wonderful vic
.o-y a few Years ago. when she fought
10 wa. from coast 20 coast in the
much discussed George Bernard shaw
rlay Mrs Warren's Profession
Nf+ss shaw sincerely believes that the
hsst method Of eradtcatlng an eNll IS
20 .sst upon il the greatest light pos
sibIs but in an interview Miss Shaw
recently gave she stated that follow
frg the outbreak of publicity on tn.
ruitiaI presentation, il was sense or
,'1o+he-hood tina, finally won the battle
Motherhood sweeps everything else
aside-and [ know, because ! am my
elf a mother, she said. Ihat N Vas
Warren's Profession throughout the
country. in spite of storm OF critl-
ism coming mostly from men. was
even arrested, as you probably recall.
after the first New York performance,
ha- the modern voice denoting progress
PREVAILED over blue laws and | was
freed
But II was the sense of motherhood
That really won As the head of the
drama department Of the Federated
Womens Clubs I spoke TO members OF
these clubs in each city They gam
pointed out that Mrs. Warren was
acting as only a mother could act. the
appeal struck home Immediately and
the women never made a serious OBJ
lection TO the play
billie Burke-Nost Washing onians
are doubtless unaware that Billie
Burke calls Washington her home
town Many a hotel register through
out this country is said to bear mute
witness 70 this fact.
This Titian-haired artist first saw the
light Of day in the old Burke mansion
which still stands in the 1900 block of
Connecticut avenue Miss Burke's
mother died shortly after her birth,
and as her father was on the road most
of the time with a circus. she was
reared in the family of her uncle, the
late Mai. Matthew Burke, who served
his country in the civil war and upon
The plains of the west. Billie was edu-
Gated in this city, and her father passed
10 the great beyond years before she
ever thought of grease paint or the
footIi ghts-
Whenever Miss Burke visits Wash
Ington. il is said, she calls upon her old
yolored nanny. who lives here, and
regularly provides for her maintenance.
Limitations of the Stage.-Much
might be said upon the subject of the
limitations of the s,age. 1t is small
world with only three walls and an In
different ceiling a window a door or
t'ro. maybe as many as six doors, II
the modern farce is TO be produced.
Wtthal a small confined circle SO init
mate by virtue of its having only three
wallis instead of four that Of late the
theaters have been built with a small
caps city in order that the auditors may
be in closer touch with the players.
The pulling down Of one wall did not
secure quite the intimacy desired with
the modern play of few chara cters
Where there is mob, thousand
vavs are devised for its exit. but with
bur three or four pla yers il is the most
difficult thing in the world TO get them
and of the stage. The auditor is so
intimately acquainted with them. He
watches their every move. And here
We have the limitations of the stage.
The playwright has not had the broad
field Of the novelist or the story writ
-. until the coming Of the photoplay
As N the roye1. the cut ba OK is she
thing IN the photoplay. This is tue
trick Of dropping character in the
midst % a situation, rushing back 20
~ earlier event and taking up another
set Of characters Such thing could
uDt he done in the legitimate drama
one would have TO tear down the wood
work ard the iron and the steel But
with the "cCt-bsck' the Limitations are
fewer
Then came The Birth Of a Nation"
And here the stage is linirless infinite
There is no woodwork. steel, no
ron The travail OF whole world
being reborn is shown within three
walls