The Washington herald., 1920-10-23
WOMEN WAKEN
LONDON DRAMA.
Miss Hoey Clever andPretty
Actress-Manager at the
Duke of York's.
THREE NEW PLAYS
Miss Ethel Irving One Of
England's Finest Emo
tional Actresses.
By HUGH DRYDEN.
(Washington Hcrald-Cross Atlantic
Service, Special Cable DispatchD

(washington Hcrald-Cross Atlantic
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London, Oct. %. - Miss Iris
Hoey, one of our new actress
managers" clever and pretty, will
produce her first play at the Duke
OF York's in the middle of October.
Another actress, Miss Ethel Irv-
ing, is producing a dramatic ver-
sion of La Tosca" at the Aldwych.
Miss Irving, who is no relation to
the late Sir Henry. is one of Eng
lands finest emotional actresses.
Another lady-manager is Miss
Marie Lohr, who is by no means
new to the game. She is to exer-
| else Every Woman's Privilege" at
| the Globe.
The Crossing" new play of
London life by Algernon Blackwood
and Bertram Forsyth. is the second
managerial venture of Donald
Calthrop, whose first, THE Young
Person in Pink" has been one of
the big successes of the season
The Crossing" will De seen at the
Comedy Theater about the end Of
this month.
Other New Productions.
Other new productions in pros-
pect are Might Out" at the Winter
Garden, and The Naughty Princess"
at the Adelphi, both under the aus
pices of Messrs. Grossmith and Lau-
rillard.
few waaks a1o m oozix,oz ;s,,
controversy ragged among London
managers over the vexed question:
Should We have German plays?"
The new play at the Kingsway The
ater, The Daisy" answers that
question very emphatically in the
negative.
Done into English and given a
London setting by Osmond Shilling
ford and A. L. Ellis, The Daisy"
was originally written by Friedrich
Molnar, a Teuton author of repute
in his own country. 1t is the last
word in weirdness. depression and
morbidity-a mixture of lurid melo-
drama, sordid crime and supernat-
ural "creepiness." A young seal
lywag who treats his young wife
atrociously is caught in an attempt
ed highway robbery and commits
suicide. You see him before the
"other world" tribunal where sui
cides are judged. He is condemned
to fourteen years Punishment. at
the end of which period you see
him at the door of the home of
his wife and daughter. by whom
he is received as a complete stran-
ger. That is all.
This queer play was saved from
utter fOolishness by the admirable
acting of Miss Mary Merrall as the
wife. She struck the genuine hu-
man note that ilumined the gloomy
and bewildering shadows of the
piece.
"A Pair of Skies" the American
farce by Edward Peple, which
briefly mentioned in a recent letter
as being tried on the dog" in the
provinces, has now been brought to
London, and is at the Queens The
ater. 1t gets many laughs, but
little commendation from the critics.
That Spain has a drama of it's
own is being brought to the notice
of the British play goer-who per-
haps has heard of Lopes de Vega
and Echegaray-by the manage
ment of the Everyman Theater, a
new ''repertory" venture started in
the cultured suburb of Golders
Green. Its first play is THE Bonds
of Interest" by Jacinto Benavente,
a rollicking comedy on the time
honored lines of Figaro" and the
character of Leporello in Don Clio
vanni." It is all good fun without
a vestige of reality.
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