The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-27
THE DRAMA
Mary Roberts Rinehs rt's Three Broadway Successes-Revi,al of Macbeth"
 Other News.
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written so easily that l can pick up one of my books and read it with enjoyment, without recalling how l had been put to it to write it. I have managed to keep Spanish Love out of my mind, so that it struck me as new The day the manu- script in it's final form left my desk | went with my family to New Mexico, for was in very poor health at the time. and there recuperated by being lost to the world. I never attended .any rehear- sals of Spanish Love"
 Mrs. Rinehart is the mother of three boys. They are almost grown now. They are very, very proud of their talented mother, and interested in everything from her pen.
 Usually in the past by the time 8 play of mine has been presented l have grown stale from it, just as though 1 had been sitting at bedside with sick patient. So this is all the more en- joyable for me, particularly as l can watch the plays through the eyes of my three boys They know the ending or The Bat for instance, but they're just as keenly interested in it's course of ac- tion as though they had just run into the play declared Mrs. Rinehart, who also says that the World war has changed her, idea of plays. It has shown her the graver issues of life, and has made humorous writing less attractive. How ever her splendid sense of humor per meates everything she writes, and l think we would not have it otherwise.
 It may be added that her plays con tinue successfully. two are still on Broad way and the other playing in Boston.
 The much heralded revival of Mac beth" took place last week at the Ap- polio theatre in New York.
 Arthur Hopkins was the producer, Doh dpSipnpd the sets, Lionel Barrymore played Macbeth and Julia Arthur was Lady Macbeth-all of which sounds exceedingly interesting but it appears the production is many many steps in advance of anything att tempted heretofore. For instance, there is little or nothing in scenery or cos tune to suggest time or place, and all of the acting takes place upon raised platform in center of the stage! Can you imagine such presentation of the Shakespearean play? Those reviewing the play seem a bit in doubt as to whether New York likes the innovation or not It is intimated that MT. Jones scenic tricks" get in the way of MT Barrymore's "workmanlilke, but by no means distinguished" performance as Macbeth.
 News reported from London bears the intelligence that Lord Dunsany. the dis tinguished poet and playwright, has been arrested by British authorities on ae- count of quantities of shotguns and other firearms discovered in Dunsany' 8 castle in Londonderry. He is the nephew of Sir Horace Plunkett. Ills name and ancestry are reputed to be the third oldest in Irish history. Dunsany was captain in the Royal Inniskilling Guards. He fought in the South Afri- can campaign, also in the World war, being wounded in the latter.
 Recent news is to the effect that John and Ethel of the Barrymores will appear together in play this spring. Both of these players are re- covering from illness, Ethel Barry more having discontinued work after the Chicago engagement of Deciasse / and her brother has been taking rest cure at the order of physicians. But listenl It develops that the play in " hich these notables are to appear was written by Mrs. John Barrymore, who writes under the name of Michael Strange. The name of the play IS "C1aire de Lune." This arrangement it is given out, will no wise enterfere with MT. Barrymore's Hamlet ven