Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-21
Critics Divided
irs Opinion on
IS. S. Tendcity'
Hines Likes NeU broadway
Play and So Does the
Public.
OTHER RIALTO NEWS
BY DIXIE HINES.

by OlNlE T1INE0s
NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-The Theater
Guild not infrequently manages to
blend the artistic with the popular"
and in "He, The One Who Gets
Slapped" by Leonard Andreyev, skill
fully staged and acted by a cast Of
considerable proportions and evident
sympathy, they have done this thing
1t Is a play of mixed lightness and
drabness. He is a cultured gentlemen
who seeks the companionship of circus
people in order to forget his disappoint-
ments. Life has slapped him and he
becomes a clown, to be slapped by 9TH
ers that the great multitude may laugh.
He does not contemplate that he shall
again be made the buffet of fate by
falling in love with the pretty circus
girl, nor anticipate the end OF this TO
nance when he and the girl of his love
pass away together. From the rise to
the fall Of the curtain there are many
! brilliantly acted scenes, although in the
role of the clown Richard Bennett is
far less effective than he has been In
several recent productions, and little
Margola Gilmore, who has launched her
self as a prime favorite in New York,
lends attractiveness to the role Of the
girl If she does not at all times meet
the histrionic requirements.
Frank Relcher and Louis Calvert give
strength and authority to two important
roles, and there are so many other
names on the program-in the main well
cast-that It is safer to throw a bou-
quet that may be divided between them
rather than to particularise. II is re
ally brilliant play, as evidenced by the
fact that many of the most astute New
York managers, to whom 1t was sub
mltted, predicted Gre failure If ever It
was produced. 1t is splendidly mounted.
and though II is not without rs faults,
they are inconspicuous compared to It's
many excellent qualities.
TO SETTLE The ARGUMENT
YOU WILL HAVE TO SEE 1T.
When Augustin Duncan produced ''T'hs
S. 8. Tenacity" which. when all is said
and done, Is one Of the notable stage
triumphs Of the son. he was accorded
dividend press opinion. There were
those Ike Charles Darrton on the after
/ noon edition Of The World, for instance
WHO found all It's charm and brilliance
and said so in unmistakable words,
while Louis De Foe, who Yields the pen
of the dramatic department on the morn
ing edition of the same paper, found
in Il nothing to commend and much to
condemn.
There was the veteran Evening Post
who found 1t trash, and there was The
Globe who raised It in dnstinted Ian
guage So when all the reviews were IN,
and realising that the play had but one
fault and that its brevity, Mr.. Duncan
played a Joke on the critics by present
ing as a curtain raiser TO the main play.
St John Ervine's satire, The Critics"
which dealt with just such a condition.
But the wise men Of Broadway de-
tected in some OF the speeches Of the
players bodily excerps from some of the
critical reviews aimed against The s. \.
Tenacity," and THE Critics'-the play,
not the writers-became one OF the OBJ
jects Of hilarity OF the week. 1t IS an
exquisite little satire, and we'll is It
played by Augustin Duncan, j. NJ Ker-
rigan, George Gaul, Tom Powers, Claude
Cooper, Henry Handon and others.
And in the meanwhile, The S. s. Ten
acity" which one critic said was the
stanchest ship that has come to this
port In many a year. and another said 1t
was futile. sorbid and inept, continues
TO attract attention and evidences of ap
probation.
HEBREW-IRIsH COMEDY
Is PRODUCED ON BROADWAY.
Rosa Machree." the Hebrew-Irish
comedy, written by Edward E. Rose and