New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

Charles B. Cochran, the Anglo
American theatrical magnate, whose
activities have made him a familiar
personality on both sides of the At
lantic, is in New York for brief stay
and is at the ST. Regis Hotel.
His cosmopolitan experiences have
developed a singular personality. His
keen, quick, sure business methods are
typicaly American. The externas,
formaitics, insistence on the nicetiesN
of intercourse are essentially English.
He outdoes the most pronounced in the
punctiliousness with which he insists
both the visitor and himself. "On the
the fraction of dot" best expresses
the tlmellness of Mr.. Cochran.
man of breeding and intelligence;
handsome in his approaching middle age;
large, but with a healthy, well trained
appearance; glowing with vibrant
energy, he looks one straight in the eye
with pair of penetrating dark eyes,
smiles cordially, and grasps your hand
with n mannerly but forceful grip.
You realize that you have had an en-
couraging handshake
10 understand Mr.. Cochran best one
should know at least the outline of his
career. He was born in England and
came to this country as a youth, having
had thorough preliminary education
in few years had transformed the
entire populated expansc of the United
States and Canada.
Joining the company of Richard
Mansfield in u minor capacity, he was
recognized by that eXacting PERSONAL
lty as the man he wanted for private
secretary. During the last twelve years
OF Mansfelds career, Cochran was
Mansfield second self, and the init
mate association gave the younger
Cochran the full benefit of the accumu-
lated knowledge of the older man.
After the death of Mansfield, Cochran
went to London and quickly attracted
attention by the energy of his activi-
tles. it was evident that much ambi-
ton, power to conceive and execute
ana determination to accomplish had
for years been bottled up in the per-
sonaity of the perfect secretary to
Richard Mansfield.
No matter how proud he is Of his con-
nectIon with the Carpenter contract,
a large part of the ondcavors of this
American-trained Englishman has been
devoted to the better things of the
theater
i consider Richard Mansfield the
greatest Snowman America has ever
produced in his own way" said Mr.
Cochran. "Mansfeld surpassed p. r
barnum, magnificent Snowman as he
was. rs much as Abraham Lincoln tow
cred over his predecessors in handling
Jne acute national questions which he
mad to face as they left them to him.
"Barnum played with the great mass
Of unthinking people; Mansfield man man
ipulated to his own ends-the scholarlv
and profound. He utilized the tricks
OF publicity to attract audiences and
ssucceeded IN winning a large mass of
the educated, intelligent people of the
country.
parallel with Mansfield we have that
other great Snowman David Belasco.
ne mas mad fuller play to his creative
genius than Mansfield by tie very es
sehtlai TACT that his endeavors have
covered wider range than those of the
latter. These two men have been
closely related to the Intellectual ad.
vance Of the stage. "0
We now have in the indiyiduali+v
ambitions and creative abilities of Iohn
murray Anderson a genius of similar
equipment in that magnificent girt Of
sshowmanshp which was Barnum's and
Mansheld's and is preeminentlv Re-
lasco's. ''''''N''''S DE-
"Mr. Anderson has sounded the first
new note IN stage productions in
twenty years. He is distinctly original
IN MS creative work and is the equal
OF Gordon Craig and Max Reinhardt.
although his productions are KEYED in
similar forms of color lighting and
ngure sequences they are in no wav
Identical with these ether rodernists
ahu s possess greater essence of artis-
NC entertalnment. His standard of
sage decoratlon differs radically from
that of Mr.. Belasco.
land, and we feel he belongs as mnch
10 London as he does to New York. He
at at one time worked with Sir Herbert
Tree, playing in his London companies
and working in Sir Herbert's school of
the theater for two years.
MI Anderson's English premiere on