New-York tribune., 1920-05-01
British Press
Scores Attack
On Miss Taylor
Breaking Up of Perform
ance Laid to Sinn Fein
Plot and Feeling Against
Actresses From q. S.
Star to Resume Play
Overwhelmed With Mes.
sages of Sympathy and
Apologized To by Papers
From e T,ibune's European B,reou
Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune

FROM e 1,ibnne's European Bureom
Copyright 1920. New York Tribune,Inc
LONDON, April 30.-Laurette Tay-
lor's unique experience at the Garrick
Theater last night, when rowdies
stopped the performance Of zone Night
in Rome" in the second act, assumed
the proportions of an international in
cident in the press to-day, which prints
long accounts and explanations of the
demonstration.
Miss Taylor was so shaken by the
unkind reception she got that she has
gone to the country to rest until next
Monday, when new attempt will be
maoe to produce the play.
The explanations Of tho riot that
began in the gallery range from a
declaration that it was Sim Fem
demonstration to statement that tn Q
rowdles were objecting to the appear
ance of an American actress on the
English stage in play written by an
American (J. Harley Manners, Miss
iaylor's' husbandD and produced with
American stagehands.
q. b. Cochrane, who presented the
result Of an organized plot inspired bv
enc man, and that the fact that the
drop curtain interfered with the vision
OF some of the spectators in the gal
lery had nothing to do with the Incl
dent. Cochrane said he believed he
knew the man who started the demon
stratlon, personal enemy, but he
mentioned no names.
Newspapers Make ApoIogies
Miss Taylor was overwhelmed to -day
with messages of sympathy and conf
dence. Many Of the newspapers apollo
glze to her and insist that the incident
did not in any way reflect British opin-
ion. Cyril Maude, Gerald du Maurier
Robert Lorraine and many other British
actors and actresses called on Miss
Taylor or wrote to her.
The suggestion that it was a Sim
Fein plot to stir up feeling in the
United States over the reception by
Engllshmen of American stage efforts
IS secuted by the press. The Evening
News" says the motive behind the dis
order is as much of a mystery as were
THE Murders of the Rue Morgue.o The
| newspaper adds:
1T has been suggested that the dis
turbance was an anti-American out
break. This is nonsense. London
audiences have always welcomed good
/ players, whatever their country, and
Miss Taylor is one of the most popular
figures on the London stage"
The Westminster Gazette" and "The
Evening Standard" say the riot had
been organized in advance. The forIne,
says:
"To continue to rag the play after a
personal appeal had been made by Miss
| Taylor, for whom London audiences
have the greatest affection, was an act
of gross discourtesy. We hope wher
the play is again produced, and defects
have been rectifed meanwhile, thai
| there will be no repetition of the dis
turbance and that Miss Taylor's future
audiences will compensate her for the
distress which this episode must have
caused her to feel"
Instigated by Germans
LONDON, April 80 (By The Assoc,-
ated Press).-One of the teories I'D.
vanced to explain the breaking up OF
the Thursday night performance ot
"One Night in Rome" is that it was
instigated by Germans, because of Mr.
| Cochrane's refusals to produce Ger
man plays or music, or to allow Ger
mans to enter his theater.
One play manager said it might have
been due to remark of Miss Taylor
| in America, after her return from play
| ing "Peg O. My Heart" in London. She
had been much upset by the German
air raids and was quoted in American
newspapers as saying she was glad to
get away from "that dreadful England
Still another theory is that the