The sun., 1916-02-07
PROPER SCHOOL OF
ACTING DEMANDED
Miss Grace GriswOld DcplOrcs
Disappearance Of Old Time
Stock Companies.
LEE SHUBERT OPTIMISTIC

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"rhcre is no rrearer need in the
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than that OF proper school or acting.
The disappearance of the old time stock
companies. with their extensive roper
torres, the substitution of the long run,
the necessary time limit production of
the commercial theatre with the insist
ence upon 'typc.' have left the rising
generation OF players without funda-
mental training OF any kind.
"a school To moot present day COM
ditions should not be of the conservatory
type. since thcre is little TO conserve and
nothing established in a living art. when
IL come. to mc,hod TO standardize art
ia TO s,eriIize n There are underlying
princinlcs OF rroa. value 10 learn There
ara traditional .vays of doing things
which are also imnor+an, IN know. hut
not chat ,h.y ,,a,. n. .do,,.d rash.r
adantad 10 tho ,rdtyiJ,.I ,,,r,.r ana
the snccial occasion Above al, ,hcrs
.houia n. ornor,uri,, ,or dasiy nrac,ic."
loo Sb,hor, ,-,s ,o.,i,r o,,,,,,s,,c
vssterd,v and dIsno,ed ~ ,eg,.d ,ns
movies w,,h =, more or loss ami,hle
,,sIo,, .as .,o,'isa - - ia.,
s.,e, ,.,rs H.. said
..r. Sa,, f.. 49,, ,ho .,o,.o,, dr,,,,
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,"'' a''eI Se's''' w "'"l' WI "Se "'t
! 'e''' III CONSEQUENCE 'n E''h''I P"7t ".
tne 'Ur"auS anu n'N''E ol ''e S,'e,'.
u'a''a' "s"'" '"'"e wv" ''S own, Wv
| not mean l" say 'na' 'ne mo. 'hs p,'-
| ture mas de'erloeted or 'hat the PUBIC
| has lost interest in II, but that II mas
| become as cfnlcal or rlcturcS as IL mas
1 always been OF the spoken drama
| Three wears ago II appeared that me
| moving picture had come as blight
| to the spoken drama and that the lat
| ter would vanish from the race or the
earth That dramatic producers were
| alarmed and disconcerted is to state the
| case mildly. At ,ha, time the public he d
not had time to discriminate as to the
value OF tho pictures presented hut with
| the Introduction OF several really i'm
| portan, feature films IL grew weary OF
| the less artistic products When the
ouhli, took time 10 think its only inter-
es, was in the bir pict,re play with
,ner,, I, sbor, the moving pic,ure had
IN go through the same fire OF criticism
-
| "a. a.. ,.,-o, - o,,, Mau-ico bas
| - -, /, a., .>tn,,vo, Nr and
| ~. ,''.i,,s >io,,,o, 40 N,urice and
waI,on IN dancing circles
| NJ, Sa,,,ai, OH, bas r.,ur,ed IA tho
s,ay. IN "Eatinlsa" has increased the
ase III y" .nn ro,, m,. "a. ac,,is;,,on
l,"po. s'','.. ,,, ~ " ,.,,inh 81, ,n her s,,gors
S ;,,,,',, -, "pac,,o,y 90 -
,'e - -. -, ~, ali ,h. h,,,,or
~ ',y, ,i,, % 80, w. ,,,,ds 70 tho ,,usic, Al
, Gu, ~, ,ha Enr,y'f 'fourth s,ree, Theatre
py 49, a,I,. ,awcor,er To tho cast
~ Sa,,d,tn ;ornd /, So easy tn return
70 ,ho s,avc 40 a nrira donna Of opere. a
hoca,,,o sGa rad never during her retire
-. aa'',i 20 s,,,d,. ,,'Jer Georr.
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,.i pa,i.,,,, hoe ,,,., had An onar,
t. ,. loo Iy.hor ana Ar,bur
,,,,,a ,.,., ,,,,,,,d.,i,r ,,bctb.r b.r
a,'a,s as , L,,lrr will he diminished
,,.,,,oh ,his nc,ossf,v Miss Rowland
,as,ar,iay announced that She would
- - A., apnear,nre a, tho Palace
Thea,re n.x, Monday. She will have her
o.,.bnstr, rondu,.,or hor own rianis,
in Earl Carroll and her own songs. Bu,
-, ,,1i.r,.a
| Iuci,Ie Watson. who seems while 70.
citing Amelle Riyes's hrigh, lines in
..rhn I.ar Narket'' a, the Eoo,h Thea.
,re 10 ne a woman with a sense Of hu,
NOR mus, in private life be very df.
feren, She saws she is going to write
hook and makes the announcement
boldly in these words:
you know that old verse Of Gelet'
Burgess's that tells about everybodS
writing plays nowadays. starting ou
; something like this. The laundress ano