Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-12-17

rF the word revue Is to retain. in
it's American application, some
thing of the original sense in
which it is employed abroad-that
is to say, a review of current
events in burlesque-George Cohan
must be credited with having caught
the idea rather better than the stage
contributors who have essayed the
same enterprise and ended in creating
little more than what would be termed
in Paris (Ky.) 'laigcheaux." The Conan
Revue selects its topics from the view
point of the world of Broadway. where
the latest theatrical success is mat
ter of deep concern. Gradually an i'm
preston has been permitted to per-
meate the continent west of Jersey
City that New York comprises two
really great thoroughfares - Wall
street. for use by day. and Broadway.
for the relief of the tired business
man whose fatigue has resulted large
ly from an effort to keep track of his
enormous profits in munition stocks
The plays which recently have had
more or less extensive runs are re-
viewed in the Conan entertainment
with briskness which makes some
of them seem even better subjects for
humorous treatment than the prob
lematic seriousness which first gave
practical stagecraft asserts itself even
in an entertainment of the extrava-
CANA type and gives the frivolities
an element of consistent purpose.
agreeable as il is unusual
In contrast to the iridescent IRE
sponsibility of travesty at the New
National came bit of character study
SO humanity sincere that it might have
stepped out of a Dickens book Abou
Ben AGhem sounded the keynote of
this play The Brat when he said:
Write me as one who loved his fel-
low men" 1t is love of fellow man
which pervades this little story of a
street waif that somehow claims kim
ship in the ina gination with Tiny Tim
and the Christmas Carol" or Little
10 in BLEAK House. The brat has
ideals of her own, and ideas, too, in
dependent of the constraint of con-
ventional education. The author, who
takes her into the home of his fam
lily that he may study her. develops
her intellectual side and stimulates
her ambition Perhaps the brat. after
the last act. in the seclusion of her
mountain home, to which she follows
the man she loves, may while away
some hours in writing a play. II she
does it will be pretty much the sort
of play which has SO charmingly in
play replete with frank analysis of
character such as only feminine in
tuition and freedom from academic |
thraldom could create. The work il |
forth superior to plot ingenuity in |
enlisting the sympathies of an audi |
ence. |
The vitality which single character can !
convey was illustrated by George Arliss in /
''Disrael." The drama incidents with |
which this eminent figure was so cleverly |
surrounded sink into obscurity as its vital
presence is recalled 1t is the art of
Interesting a subject. nor SO subtly ex-
pressed 1.-The Professors Love Story"
finds Mr.. Arliss engaged in perpetuating |
work well worth while 1t was one of
the most attractive plays in E. s. Will |
lard's repertory. and a play with a simple |
character so well conceived that it has the |
vigor of real humanity. 1t would be |
delight to many who attend the theater |
to see Mr.. Arliss go even further along |
the way which Willard explored and af- !
ford another glimpse of Tom Pinch por- /
trayed as Arliss could undoubtedly por-
tray it. with the sympathy of the artist
and the skill of the craftsman.
7 Again the moving picture depdopE{faSEst
s right to a place in the legitfmate the.
2ter. million dollars worth soE-magI
Aificance is announced in "A Da&shfer Of
2he Gods" Annette Kellermann has sue
Eeeded in figuring in every style of en-
tertainment from the purely athletic ex- |
hibition to music and dancing with a |
touch of drama. She is now perpetuated |
upon that scroll of Immortality, the NOV |
Ing picture film. and may be revealed to |
the gaze of an admiring posterity that |
will seek in vain through musty tones |
for lifelike glfmpses Of Ristori or Char |
lotte Cushman
PHILANDER JOHNSON.