The Washington herald., 1921-09-25
VIEW STAGE OFFERINGS OF THE LATE SEPTEMBER THEATER
The Case of Shipman
BY EARLE DORSEY.

18th his latest play "n the Mountains undergoing
w crucihxon in the public prints the Hon Shpman
authOra wet to the erratc Louis Mann, becomes
almost without effort the subject of the morning
To embrace the econde English of sport writer's Ship
man about due In years written three
Paysa failures the time apparently has arrived
West" clearly regarded flashes in the pan.
Furthermore his latest play an the Mountains
unmiskabe signs of mere stage hakery that fresh en-
coagent has been given theory Shipman himself
incapable of writing play and invariably colaboaes
genus In other words shipman worked
On whole however l do not incline to such pesmistc
In believe PLAYWRIGHT to be
ha BY The Unwrten Chapter In the Mountains" by his
dearly beloved though late lamend First Furthermore
so interchangeable student of life outside the
ona that only total idiocy his part would dspe the belief
that within the five he will contribute something genuine
value TO the the natye theateI
West and the subsequent failure
have eopav small relation 0 to the maR
qee2 d @ 10 ond dnGE Gs. H psSTaz with it @ its
on o ss @ the the for the failure Of
first went on MS way rejoicing
sGERIENDLY ENEMIES offspring the sharp spur of
Shan' ambition to aITe joined with his conception of
100 per ent An APean The issue then stake vital
success piHi and still
md s % & Badg po sRS gave e4e h dessnr s E5i I
Rs B a dep S s cup and
% Hs f lad sVs By p sssy s STAGES
% F 5 aG Es % b1s s 19te s.9e @
that Shpman react psychoogicaiy to the royalties
z rolled him from these plays He did
mstakabe fashion, for unless have judged wrongly
meant to Spman thing the opportunity experiment
with this and that dramatic theore andreater ALTO have
ether willing outward experiments
other words Shpman dramatiaue with
Broadway willing to foot the bill
and bD mot the I place .t to hss the dsas concept
To shinan justice uisOc attempt to prove that
the failure may have been one and
t e S ] ex29'on @ may " have nav been another but it was
in syntheszng and hardening the Shpman technique T
csp Wss me written RHrs
ame when Al n Woods WAS undergoing vvalmseng species
The Unwtten Chapter Shpman play which was
usually of sbpman most outstandnr e fm was ,T "
but for all that the chief blame for must laid to
for work through S6pSyan foDs rv Mo sd
gratitude through something he had done in the past
CO fFst PosvctOry experiment. second bit of racial
- brings US the Mountains py pi oTsd s sbDPs H
the teeth Of all the papers believes will financially
tanS was written first for Louis Mann and Ship
6as sn S Too msan hnnr wa,
factor in the first shpman Friendly Enemies nor he
Mann him to- %ann 1S desire sG ot 6 5Ge for
though hat 'f the snn of The Un
what secondary In the latest Shpmn play Mountains this
:o%S5f iG .Ts 5si sd rs: son
zaton so grotesque and artificial that all b
ing theme is practically lost "' unOe''S
Such Shpmans record since his big triumph record
clOgged with the twin factors gratitude one thor
ough pisiseworthy but apparently deadly achievement. It
all this EXPERIMENTATION and debt paying The mere obyea
this credit side Of fpionsISy the iedS in that
HGwexe5 & there is reason to believe that shpman finished
tells of play the wOodshda play written for no ons a
Specifically devoted to the EXPOSITION of an % play snsy and
that be expected reveal developed view Of TN
with genuine interest " H'' a"a"e'