The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-03-06
The Review of
The RiaItO
BY Dixie Hines)

| this country and his own Nippon into
closer artistic relation, and to this. end
seeks to establish in Tokyo an English
/ speaking theatre, and in New York
one in which the language shall be
Japanese. From Japan he will bring
| the best Japanese dramatic and must
cal artists, and to Japan he will send
from here the same class of artists
and of the highest distinction.
| The scheme is to be inaugurated by
| Mr.. Itow his summer when he will
| take an American company to Japan
to present the Noh dramas, the histor-
zeal and native drama of that coun-
try. The members of this company
will all be Americans, Americans who
| have been drilled into the history of
| this quaint drama and who are now
acting in these dramas in New York.
They have newly zoned the theatre
cal district of New York for traffic,
and now most of the streets are "one
way" streets during theatre hours.
Ivan Bankoff, the Greenwich Village
| F'ollies dancer, was trying to reach the
Shubert theatre in time for his cue,
and mistook the direction of one of
| the zoned streets until he was held
| up by a policeman.
"WIhadder. you mean driving east,
don't you know this is "a one-way
street," he demanded.
sure, Mr.. Bankoff responded, 81
am going only one way"
The book of the week.
New York, the theatrical center of
the world, has more than 60 first-class
dramatic playhouses, and opens this
year seven more, but of this whole
number not one encourages the pro-
duction of the short play. No maya
zine could be run without the short
story, and yet play producers, for
some reason, have long encouraged the
belief that there is no demand for the
one-act play, in spite of the fact that
publishers are bringing them out an
nuaily and they are proving as enter
tanning as they are popular. The lat
est is Fifty Contemporary One-Act
Plays" edited by Frank Shay and
Pierre Loving, (Stewart &, Kidd com
pany, CincinnatD and here, within at
tractive covers, may be found the best
short plays of the contemporary stage,
the selections being made from the
stages of every country, where the
drama prospers. 1t is a work of in
valuable reference, fascinating in its
selection and indispensable to every
theatrical library, of which, il is
worthy of comment there is a fast
growing number. In this book the i'm
portant short plays, produced in the
main by the select little" theatre
companies of the United States, but
the regular stage OF other countries,
are fully printed. 1t is interesting to
study the dramaturgy of the several
nations contributing, ranging from
Austrian to Yiddish, and highly graf
flying that the United States meas
ures up to the highest standard, both
from a literary and dramatic point
The short play some day will share
the program honors with the long play
it, indeed, it does not enjoy a home
of it's own. Until that time, however.
drama lovers must be content to en-
joy this contribution only through the
printed pages, and the Stewart & Kidd
publication now ranks among the
leaders.
Sonia Seroval the dancer, who takes
a capitalistic interest in the Vestoff-
Serova school of Russian dancing, suf-
fered from an aching molar. She was
seriously considering a dentist visit
and had visions of anesthetics.
Did you ever take chloroform?" she
inquired of one of the assistants in
the academy.
NO" she replied promptly. Gan
you teach it?'
Avery Hopwood, who is pushing
Shakespeare himself for the number
an actor on Broadway.
"That was a funny break in the
Times this morning, wasn't it?" he
demanded.
IT don't know. What's the story?"
'They sang Romeo and Juliet" at
the opera house last night and the
everybody knows Shakespeare is the
man."
With the advent of Mitnitzky to the
ranks of Russian violinists, visitors TO
this country from the foreign musical
centers, the United States may now
claim more Russian violinists than
Russia herself. Mr.. Mitnitzky, like so
many brilliant artists, sought harbor
here because of the uncertain state of
affairs in his unhappy country. He
tells. like others, of the hardships of
artists who are not under bolshevist
control and each bears out what the
American musicians know, that there
is no room in Russia for any artists of
sensitiveness or independence.
Mr.. Mitnitzky made his American
debut a few weeks ago with brilliant
success. This week he is playing again
at Carnegie hall in New York, and
then will follow the train of the art
lists across the continent.
Blythe Sherwood. that brilliant feni1-