New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08

who portrays the role Of the spinster
sister, is we'll acquainted with the type
OF French woman she impersonates-
Having spent several years in the very
heart of France. she is quite qualified
to express her views as to the sincerity
Of Brieux's latest dramatic effort
The Americans in France is one
of the very few plays dealing with
French peasant life that gives natu-
raj viewpoint and true account of tina,
particular phase of existence" Miss
we are under the impression that
France is accurately represented by
Paris and that therefore the entire
nation is merry whirl of gayety. Few
Americans can grasp the fact that the
great part of that nation, in fact mora
than SO per cent, is composed of re-
ligious, honest, plain peasants who
would rather die than WAIVER from,
their rigid conventions. And, speaking
about their conventions, can say
from association with them that hera
IN America we hardly know the mean
ing of that word in comparison with
the French peasants understanding
of it.
"The French country women are
solid. fine, wholesome types, dametri-
cally opposite to the kind that popu-
late the cabarets and amusement
places of Paris. These women gladly
observe the stern conventions that
have been handed down to them and
which have become tradition. When
the American doughboys were IN
France they did not meet this truly
representative group. just the same as
the traveller coming to this country
does not usually come in contact with
hn 0f Av,,o
where all worthwhile precepts are con-
stantly and whole heartedly Observed
in the West" hef continued. I'VE be-
lieve they would prefer to see the
musical productions using such splen-
did old song numbers as the George NJ.
Cohan productions of several years ago
contained and such beautiful ballads
as Albert Won Tilzer used to write. In
our recent productions in Kansas City
we found that my song numbers which
really. carried a thought were applaud
ed twice as earnestly and as long as
those flippant pieces had constructed
without devoting serious thought and
any reasonable length of time to them.
II don't want to talk politics be
cause it isn't my business especially,
but 1 think in the recent selection in
Chicago and San Francisco of two men
by the two parties who are known to
be sound, slow thinking, hard headed
business men, who will not leap at
conclusions and who will not be figura-
lively sending up fireworks from the
White House throughout their tenure
of office. the people have shown where
their feelings lie and what kind of an
administration they want.
ut is the same with their forms OF
entertainment. The men and women
who have been content to 60 to the the
alter and sit through two hours of non
sense now have settled back to their
right minds and are going to demand
something better.
THE theatrical producer who thinks
he can give the public third-rate show
at first-rate prices from now on is fool
ish. The people are going to begin boy
cotting them. And you can't blame
them. The war was good excuse for
lot of industries to apologize and say
their employees had left them and they
Couldn't do better.
Mr.. DENIM has written several song
numbers for Broadway productions IN
the last few seasons, and is preparing
a half-dozen more to be introduced in
the fall and next winter.